Endless Dirt?

[Daemonblue]

Regarding automating the moisteners, you can use 3 Routers from Factorization to automate any number of connected moisteners, so you could go from 1 to 100 moisteners and still only use 3 routers. What you do is pipe the items directly into the routers. For the wheat router have it insert wheat into slot 0 of only moisteners, for cobble/seeds have another router insert it into the top of only moisteners. For the third router set it to extract only moss stone/mycelium and mulch from any slot, of course only moisteners as well. These require some of the upgrades, such as the machine filter, item filter, ejector, and speed boost (probably some others as well, depends on the machines and what all you want), but once you have the system set up you can easily expand it without much difficulty. To add to this, it works extremely well with RP2 tubes. You can use the tubes to insert wheat and cobble into the two insertion routers and have the ejector deposit the mulch and moss stone/mycelium into a relay which will then dump the items into the RP2 tube network.

 

[Yeraze]

Regarding automating the moisteners, you can use 3 Routers from Factorization to automate any number of connected moisteners, so you could go from 1 to 100 moisteners and still only use 3 routers. What you do is pipe the items directly into the routers. For the wheat router have it insert wheat into slot 0 of only moisteners, for cobble/seeds have another router insert it into the top of only moisteners. For the third router set it to extract only moss stone/mycelium and mulch from any slot, of course only moisteners as well. These require some of the upgrades, such as the machine filter, item filter, ejector, and speed boost (probably some others as well, depends on the machines and what all you want), but once you have the system set up you can easily expand it without much difficulty. To add to this, it works extremely well with RP2 tubes. You can use the tubes to insert wheat and cobble into the two insertion routers and have the ejector deposit the mulch and moss stone/mycelium into a relay which will then dump the items into the RP2 tube network.

hrm.. I hadn't thought of using routers.. I'm still having difficulties wrapping my head around how those work. I've setup a few things successfully but they're one of those "incredibly power implies incredible complexity" blocks.. like the Sortron.

 

[Bluehorazon]

Well if you have a tree farm you will have tons of sapplings anyway. They can also be used for plantballs and be macerates back into dirt.

 

[Daemonblue]

Routers are one of those things that looks very complicated at first glance, but once you understand them they become incredibly easy. What makes them powerful is their upgrades, as the basic routers are effectively meh and can only really insert stuff slowly. One thing to note is that when you extract/eject based on north, south, east, or west pay attention to the color coding. There's a small colored bar on each side near the bottom that matches the color of the direction listed and that's what you have to match.

As for why you want to make it insert wheat into slot 0, slot 0 on the moistener is the top left input slot for the resource stash. When you insert wheat into it the wheat then gets put into the reservoir. Since the wheat is removed from slot 0, some more gets inserted into that slot until it is full, after which the Router will start holding up to a stack of wheat. What this means is that there is never more than 2 full stacks of wheat in the moistener, one stack being worked with, and one stack in the buffer. This means that the moistener will also never jam, which is something that can happen quite easily in both BC and RP networks if not done properly.

In one of my test worlds I had this set up on a single moistener and it produced a ton of mulch, but then I couldn't get my biomass to generate as fast as I would have liked.

 

[trunksbomb]

Simplest way I've found to automate a moistener is with Railcraft loaders and unloaders. One loader and one unloader per moistener and they're not picky about sides. You can use one cart and have it drop off wheat on one side, then loop around and pick up mulch/byproduct from the other. Easy peasy.