I was lead to believe that you could increase the drops from a tree with sengir's tree breeding, but I am not figuring it out! Does anybody know if this is possible? I'd love to have a high yield apple farm with golem harvesters running the show.
Do you have a source for Apple Oaks giving more apples by default?
The other thing to remember is a Forestry farm will automatically treealyze saplings - so putting in vanilla oak trees will yield Oak Apple saplings.
Put an oak sapling in the treealyzer (or whatever they call it, I can never remember. It'll be the tool, not the block which is for ComputerCraft) and it will make it into an apple oak sapling which should get more apples.
You said put it in a treealyser, I said putting it in a forestry farm automatically treealysers it.
Except that even the smallest multiblock farm is way more expensive than a treealyzer
As an aside, I just planted and chopped down 64 apple oaks. Let's see how many apples that gives me.
Well if you build a multi farm just to get an Oak sapling to an Apple oak saplings then yer bonkers, if however you already have a multi-block farm .....
64 vanilla oaks yielded:
- 316 wood
- 162 saplings
- 12 apples
64 forestry apple oaks yielded:
- 288 wood
- 179 saplings
- 72 apples
Okay, while wood and sapling output are well within the expected random variance, there's a really strong indication that apple oaks do in fact have increased apple yield. The sample size is rather smallish with only 64 trees, but if Guswut saw the same then I have no reason to doubt him.