Efficient automatic chicken/cow breeder

[Irastolos]

Okay, I have an idea for an automatic chicken and cow breeder setup with an automatic wheat farm. There is just one problem, I can't figure out a way to get seeds to a feeder without starving my farm. I think it can be done with a turtle if I take half of the seeds from a chest and have it go to the feeder and take the other half to the farm. Is there anyway someone could guide me through on how to program the turtle to do that?

 

[abculatter_2]

... Explain your set-up more. Why can you not just use tubes?

 

[Irastolos]

Combine ejects seeds and wheat into two chests. One for seeds the other for wheat.

I use red stone engines to pump wheat into a barn for cows.


Now here My problem lies, if I pump seeds into the coop I have I can't pump enough seeds into the farm.

 

[zaekeon]

They eat the seeds?

 

[HeffronCM]

Chickens eat seeds to breed.

Use an autarchic gate on the seed chest, set to pump if inventory is full. You'll have a nice big buffer of seeds before anything goes to the chicken coop.

 

[Crouchingmoose]

Is it really breeding your after, or just more Chickens and Cows because a Soul Shard could be used to produce them both without cost any seeds or wheat upkeep.

 

[zilvarwolf]

It's probably easier to do chickens with a dispenser.

I did a vanilla style chicken farm (elevated platform, hole in the center, water at the corners, sign in the hole) with an obsidian pipe underneath. Pipe connects to a dispenser with a sequencer running every few seconds. The dispenser shot eggs into a wall. Got something like 150 chickens overnight...turned it off about that time and haven't needed to turn it back on since.

 

[Crouchingmoose]

It's probably easier to do chickens with a dispenser.

I did a vanilla style chicken farm (elevated platform, hole in the center, water at the corners, sign in the hole) with an obsidian pipe underneath. Pipe connects to a dispenser with a sequencer running every few seconds. The dispenser shot eggs into a wall. Got something like 150 chickens overnight...turned it off about that time and haven't needed to turn it back on since.

Except with my system, you dont have the lag of 150 chickens in 1 tiny little pen, but instead have them respawn as soo as they are killed.

 

[Lambert2191]

use golems. Your farm will never run out of seeds if you combine a smart straw golem with a wooden golem... get the wooden one to place into a relay, set the relay to feed your breeders and the excess to go into a chest.

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

I'm a huge fan of SoulShards for cows these days, to provide leather for all my books. Since I'm not really into enchanting all that much, I just drop them to their death on top of a transposer, although I suppose I could upgrade that to include a speedy wood golem if necessary.

 

[KhrFreak]

use rp tubes to send your seed where they need to go, they'll go to your farm first assuming it's closer on the line and once your farm is full they'll go to the next available inventory which i'm guessing is a feed station?

 

[Spikednate12]

You could also use Steve's carts, make a farm cart with fertilizer, hydrator, farmer, and some storage and engine of your choice. Then have it pass a cargo manager with a detector rail to empty/refill its inventories. I can't begin to tell you the stacks of seeds and wheat i get. Then pipe it into a chest or two chests (diamond pipe seperates) and use gates to pull from when they get low to the feeders.