Automating Wool Farming

[Shevron]

I'm currently working on a project that needs a stupid amount of wool.

So I built a fence of reasonable size, threw in some sheep, gave them a breeder and a rancher from MFR and off we go.

They bred fine, and I now have a lot of sheep going around their business, and the rancher is shearing them fine.

The problem is, the sheep are taking an excruciatingly long time to regrow their wool, so I'm having like 20 minute gaps between shear cycles, and it's getting very frustrating.

Is there some gizmo that helps them regrow wool faster?

 

[RealSketch]

I don't think there is, just make sure you've got plenty of Grass everywhere so wherever they wonder they'll be able to consume it quickly.

 

[Shevron]

Ah ... so it's not helping that they are being farmed underground on stone floor huh?

 

[RealSketch]

Ah ... so it's not helping that they are being farmed underground on stone floor huh?

How would they regrow their fleece if there's no Grass blocks to consume?!

 

[PierceSG]

DartCraft? If you have the mod installed, having your sheeps immersed inside liquid force will make them regrow their wool insanely fast.

This trick also works if you are using the Force shear to get leather right off the cows, it helps with them regenerating their skin.

 

[Adonis0]

The gizmo that would help is a moving grass floor (only effective if you have enough sheep in your pen that will consume the grass faster than it is produced)

Basically you get a cycle of grass that goes from being underneath the sheep, to pushed sideways out of the pen, and down into an area with lots of grass blocks around to regrow the grass, which then is pushed up to underneath the sheep again.

 

[Shevron]

How would they regrow their fleece if there's no Grass blocks to consume?!

Well I didn't know!

Never bothered with mass-producing sheep before.

 

[Veggetossj]

DartCraft? If you have the mod installed, having your sheeps immersed inside liquid force will make them regrow their wool insanely fast.

This trick also works if you are using the Force shear to get leather right off the cows, it helps with them regenerating their skin.

Wont this drown them? Or you just let them swim in it?

 

[Adonis0]

Wont this drown them? Or you just let them swim in it?

Just let them swim in it

 

[Loufmier]

why not put sheep into autospawner in range of Well of suffering, and throw rancher for good measure?
since well of suffering takes a while too kill mobs, rancher should have enough time to sheer them before they die and with constant spawn of nee sheep regrowing wool shouldn't be the issue

 

[zilvarwolf]

If memory serves, I generated a ridiculous amount of cotton using cotton plants, 4 ars magica sigils of nature's bounty, and a harvester on my last Monster world.

 

[Shabazza]

You can also search a natual spider spawner or capture a spider with a reusable safari net and then spawn and harvest them in a dark room with MFR grinders around.
They will drop strings 24/7.
4 string = 1 Wool.

 

[PierceSG]

why not put sheep into autospawner in range of Well of suffering, and throw rancher for good measure?
since well of suffering takes a while too kill mobs, rancher should have enough time to sheer them before they die and with constant spawn of nee sheep regrowing wool shouldn't be the issue

You're an evil, evil man...
I like your style.

 

[Shevron]

Thanks all for the feedback.

I put down a 5x10 with 2 rangers and 2 breeders with a sprinkler in the middle, and they're making more than enough

 

[MacAisling]

No one has suggested Advanced Genetics? Give yourself the Wooly gene, then put shears in an autonomous activator and stand in front of it. I think B-Double-O did this to Pungence a while back. If I remember right, there is no down time to regrow.

 

[madnewmy]

You can use bedrock shears in autonomous activator if you have RoC, they are like fortune 3 on shearing

Also, I used a spider spawner to get wools from string

 

[steve g]

in monster, you can also do magical crops. grow spider essence for string to make wool, grow dye essence for the dyes to color it. dye essence has a recipe for every color in the game except white and brown, youll have to bone/cocoa farm those

 

[zilvarwolf]

in monster, you can also do magical crops. grow spider essence for string to make wool, grow dye essence for the dyes to color it. dye essence has a recipe for every color in the game except white and brown, youll have to bone/cocoa farm those

Oh? Did they add blue (lapis)? I don't remember it being available either.

 

[MigukNamja]

I have used cotton on steroids (i.e. throwing every growth speed-up modifier in the mod-pack at it) and I've also used Spider bees when I was trying to make everything use bees.

For stupid amounts of wool, it's hard to beat Harvescraft cotton in an MFR planter/harvest/fertilizer fed with fertilizer and whatever else you can throw at it (ExUt sprinklers, Thaumcraft Lamp of Growth, etc.,.)

 

[steve g]

Oh? Did they add blue (lapis)? I don't remember it being available either.

theres a crop for lapis, sorry forgot about that