Well over a week old this post, but I needed some time to get my basics running.
I´m tring to get the MFR tree farm working now and feed a Boiler with it. But turns out it´s not as strong as I thoguht or I´m doing it wrong.
here my setup:
1 Harvester
1 Planter
1 Slug-boiler (damn poision/Hunger -_-)
1 Composer (filled by a 4x4 Sewer farm)
1 Fertilizer
2 Sawmills
3 Steam-Engines
tonts of BC pipes to connect all.
wood/Cobblestone conduits
- I just use 1 Oak Tree(thoguht it was enoguht).
- All the saplings go into planter and the overflow I just store.
- Logs go into sawmills (1 sawmill maybe enoguht)
- Planks go into the steam engines to power all machines.
- When engines are full with planks my plan was to feed a 36 HP boiler with it.
I think I aimed to high. But I was sure it would work since you said that you feed 4-5 Boilers with a 2x2 Jungel farm. Does it change that much? or should I turn the logs into charcoal instead of logs? Also the 3 engines keep up just barrly. I´m not sure if its the wooden conduits or something other.
Im probably missing something but I dont see why people use fertilizer, when you can just upgrade the size and let the sun be your 'fertilizer'. The upgrades are a small one time cost, vs producing fertilizer constantly for a single tree. I think I have almost 500K charcoal sitting in two DSUs at the moment, even after using charcoal to run all my ore processing and turtles for mining. Admittedly not a big operation, but i had 20 generators plus mining turtles, and didnt even run the tree farm 24/7 for quite awhile in the beginning. Oak trees also give you apples so its free food in the beginning and now I have about 30K applies stored up which i think ill make into fuel at some point.