How can I run my Boiler and steam engines indefinably?
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Well, there's several considerations. The perfect steve's cart treefarm needs to be just large enough for most of the trees to grow back, but not so large that the cart will keep cutting leaves without getting anywhere and topping up its inventory before it gets to the manager. My favorite shape is a 16x16, where the tracks make out the outline of the letter E. More would be pushing it.By efficient, do you mean space-efficient, or do you mean a layout that allows the cart to actually collect wood faster? My setup is a zig-zag with two blocks of dirt between each zig/zag. It's quite large and the cart never has to wait, it is constantly cutting and shuttling wood back to the manager.
For now I'm just going to rework my fueling setup and start piping the secondary output from the sawmill (sawdust) to a compressor, then to the fuel supply chest. Hopefully that added fuel will tip it back to a slight log surplus.
Also -- I have an absolute glut of saplings (over 1000 stacks). I don't have the space to set up a biofuel system, nor the time or desire to convert one of my boilers to liquid. So is there something sensible I can do with the saplings? I was thinking about using them to fuel a generator supplying EU to the dedicated sawdust compressor. Could also burn them in the (steam engine powering) sawmill. I wonder if that will even dent my supply
Yeah mine is E-shaped, or maybe it has a 4th horizontal bar... if so I'll cut back the size a bit. Thanks for explaining why that size is optimal.
Do you think putting a roof over the farm, 9 blocks above the level of the ground, would be helpful in minimizing the amount of foliage, and thus speeding up the cart? I saw that suggested somewhere regarding a manual tree farm. You could even put edges around the roof that hang down a few blocks to keep those sprawlers from spreading out so far...
Dunno, never considered that. This size usually grows 80% of the trees per cycle, so the cart has got enough time for the big trees as well. Besides, big trees = more wood in the same space + more saplings and apples for your fermenting.
One of the great things about Steve's Carts tree farms is that they're totally customizable. You can do them in a straight line, or a T-shape with a Wye track, an E shape to use space efficiently, or whatever you want. If you put the tracks close together you'll get more wood, or if you space them out you'll get more saplings and apples.
I usually put the tree farm a good distance away from my house (maybe on an island), then have the cart just roll over a bridge, through a tunnel into the house and dump off its load before rolling off again.
I usually put the tree farm a good distance away from my house (maybe on an island), then have the cart just roll over a bridge, through a tunnel into the house and dump off its load before rolling off again.
I used turtles on my last world and hauled the wood back with traincraft trains :3. It looked great!
Mothereffin choo-choo trail up to the mothereffin redwood forest on the mothereffin hill for the bloody win!