Heya! I made a tree farm and I would like to show you all my setup. First of all, it doesn't use arboretums or multifarms or any of that stuff. Too much of a pain to replace the humus and dirt and stuff. Instead it uses Xychorium soil for super fast growth times and TONS of logs.
Mods used:
-Xycraft
-Factorization
-Redpower
-Forestry
-Thermal expansion
This kinda gives you a basic idea of what I'm going for here. Pretty much the xychorium soil can be stacked on top of one another to yield faster and faster growing trees. In my example I only have like 3 layers, but the more the better.
The logger has to be placed slightly above the xychorium soil to reach all the topmost branches.
The deployers are going to be placing the saplings.
The wiring will trigger the deployers constantly, making sure that the xychorium soil always has saplings growing on it
Vanilla wiring is also possible.
In this picture I had already installed the chests. Those double chests just serve to connect the deployers to a single network. This will be important for when the routers are put into place.
I just went with tubes because idk felt like it. The logger kinda acts oddly when you try to do other stuff with it. I voidpipe the apples and route the logs and saplings into seperate chests.
The routers are used to insert saplings into the deployers. The upgrades I used are two machine filters and one ejector.
It is now functional. Provide power to the logger and supply the router with saplings and it will start. I used wrath lamps to keep the trees from growing while I worked on it.
I added a second ring around the first since the logger still had some unused space available. Doing this increases the efficiency of your xychorium soil, but be careful about spacing. If oak saplings are used in the second ring logs will spawn outside of the reach of the logger. Instead use saplings from a tree that doesn't create branches.
Mods used:
-Xycraft
-Factorization
-Redpower
-Forestry
-Thermal expansion
The logger has to be placed slightly above the xychorium soil to reach all the topmost branches.
The deployers are going to be placing the saplings.
Vanilla wiring is also possible.
In this picture I had already installed the chests. Those double chests just serve to connect the deployers to a single network. This will be important for when the routers are put into place.