Forestry multiblock farm automation?

[spartanboy56]

so I am having a problem automating my multi farms and was wondering if anyone could give me some ideas. so far i have everything but the hummus input for tree farms automated. the multi farms don't work well with pnuematic tubes so then i have to use buildcraft pipes to feed it things...but as we all know, buildcraft pipes aren't the smartest pipes. so i dont feel like losing a bunch of hummus because the pipes just spill the items everywhere. is there anyway around this that anyone has figured out? any insight is much appreciated!

 

[silenos]

the humus input for RP2 tubes is on the north and south sides of the multiblock structure, just put a hatch there

 

[Spikednate12]

As stated above the hatch block is what allows for incoming/outgoing product flow. If you place one on the bottom with a pipe it'll auto eject as well. Buildcraft may be dumb but if you add some gates to them with some pipe wire they tend to work rather well.

 

[ItharianEngineering]

You should know that once forestry updates to 2.0.0.4+ the farm structure will use dirt and not humus and it uses the fertilizer in the structure to automatically turn it to humus as needed.

 

[spartanboy56]

awesome thanks guy! ill give it a go

 

[OmegaPython]

You should know that once forestry updates to 2.0.0.4+ the farm structure will use dirt and not humus and it uses the fertilizer in the structure to automatically turn it to humus as needed.

Now that is awesome.

 

[Xakthos]

Remember even though buildcraft pipes aren't 'smart' by themselves if you add gates and pipe wire to the route you have a lot of options.