Can't get my manual farms to work

[Marweinicus]

Hello!

I've recently started with the Multi-Farm Blocks but I can't get the manual farms to harvest my crops. My managed farms are working like a charm.

What I'm doing right now is placing a 4x4 manual farm with carrots. Water is being supplied by an Accumulator and the water tank is always full. There's a full stack of Fertilizer in the correct slot. I'm using an Intricate Circuit Board and it's said to manual and I've placed 4 Iron Electron Tubes in the designated slots (It shows up as Vegetables). Power is being supplied by Redstone Conduits, in the same manner as my managed farm.

My farm lay-out is, as mentioned, 4x4 and I've placed dirt in the pattern as shown on the wiki or how it's normally laid out if automated. There's enough water and my carrots are actually growing. When they're fully grown they don't get harvested and I can't figure it out why. I let them grow normally by waiting, and I also used Bonemeal but to no avail. I also placed a stack of carrots inside the actual farm, just to be sure, but there's no change.

If I'm doing something wrong and somebody could point me out to any errors, I'd be very grateful

 

[rhn]

The farms UI isn't showing any errors? usually theres a red tab on the right side if anything is wrong.
Are you using the control block? If so redstone signal needs to be OFF for the farm to run.
Did you remember to lay a layer of stone bricks, smooth sandstone etc under the farm area?
Is the farmland watered? It needs to be watered for the farm to recognise it. The farm itself will not automatically water the farmland. You need (4 will cover the entire farm) water sources to water the farmland.
And yes the vegetable farm needs a stack of the vegetable in the UI. You can fill the 5 other slots with cobble if you don't want it to fill all 6 slots up with carrots before starting to output.

 

[Tristam Izumi]

And if the advice rhn gave still doesn't make it work, if you post some screenshots of the farm layout and the farm interface, we might be able to spot the issues you're running into.

 

[Marweinicus]

Thanks for getting back to me guys. I'll look at it tomorrow. I'll check the Redstone signal and the redness on the right tab, because that's something that might have been my mistake.

 

[Marweinicus]

Actually I looked at tonight I looked closer at the tab on the right and it gave me the message that there was no soil (I don't know how I managed to miss that actually). I laid down an extra layer of bricks below the soon to be farmland and that seemed to be my problem! Problem solved, yay! Thanks guys, now to constructing