Can Apple Oak Sapling be used for Orchards?

[Tymewizard]

i had a aboretum running and somehow my saplings mutated into apple oak saplings. i was wondering if they are useful in orchards so i may use the apples to power my biogas engines. or will i be better off sticking with my tree farm. i love the idea of apple power im just wondering how many apples i will produce and if they are compataible with the orchard configuaration.

 

[Nakamura2828]

The same thing happened to me, and the Apple Oak saplings work perfectly fine. I've got quite a few barrels of apples right now, though I'm currently using a nearby oil-geyser→refinery→combustion-engine to power the farm, so I'm not sure how much surplus you would get with biogas.

 

[BlackFire]

actually, you can use apple juice in the fermentation process to get a 150% output of biomass. It would be better to use your apples that way than just strait into the engines.

 

[Tymewizard]

do certain sapling make more biomass?

 

[BlackFire]

No, just the standard 0.8 buckets worth with water.

 

[Tymewizard]

do u have a setup? i have one ill post a pic of soon

 

[MagusUnion]

Apple Oak Sapling can be used for planting and biomass... I'm pretty sure it's just a genome-type tree to assist in bee breeding

Keep in mind, however, that (unless it's been fixed) these saplings can't form into plantballs..
Which is a shame if you are trying to do the Plantball -> Dirt recipe...

 

[eculc]

the new multifarms convert saplings into forestry-saplings, so that they can't be bonemeal'd (which seems kind of silly IMO but whatever)