MFR Tree Farm

[Exempt]

Hi Guys,

I'm trying to build an MFR tree farm. So far I have built a harvester and am about to complete the planter. I'm struggling however to find a simple guide on how to set up and use a tree farm to power a steam boiler. There are lots of video tutorials but they all seem to be based on having advanced items of one kind or another.

Could anyone help me with an example of an early game tree farm? No energy tesseracts or funky items, just engines, pipes and chests.

I just want to power a quarry from a simple mfr tree farm

Thanks for your patience.

edit - playing the FTB Infinity pack

 

[rhn]

This is the way I prefer to do it very early in the game:
Set up the Planter and Harvester.
Use some kind of item transport system which can be filtered(EnderIO conduits, Itemducts, ExU transfer nodes, whatever).
Put Saplings from the Harvester back into the Planter as first priority and then afterwards into a Barrel/Trashcan/whatever.
Put the wood from the Harvester into a powered furnace of some sort as first priority, then into a barrel/pipe home/whatever.
Take the Charcoal from the furnace and put it into some kind of Generator(s). ExU generators/TE Dynamos/IC2 Generators(match the furnace to the power type you choose!).
Connect the power output from Generator(s) to the Planter, Harvester and furnace. You might want to hook in a storage of some sort for some generators.

 

[desht]

Before making charcoal, check the fuel values of logs vs. planks vs. charcoal. It used to be the case, and it may still be, that sawmilling logs into 6 planks and burning those is more efficient than making charcoal and burning that.

 

[DeathOfTime]

This is the way I prefer to do it very early in the game:
Set up the Planter and Harvester.
Use some kind of item transport system which can be filtered(EnderIO conduits, Itemducts, ExU transfer nodes, whatever).
Put Saplings from the Harvester back into the Planter as first priority and then afterwards into a Barrel/Trashcan/whatever.
Put the wood from the Harvester into a powered furnace of some sort as first priority, then into a barrel/pipe home/whatever.
Take the Charcoal from the furnace and put it into some kind of Generator(s). ExU generators/TE Dynamos/IC2 Generators(match the furnace to the power type you choose!).
Connect the power output from Generator(s) to the Planter, Harvester and furnace. You might want to hook in a storage of some sort for some generators.

This is pretty much what I did last time. Had a Ender Quarry. It was in a Creatively Generated RF tools dimension that was there expressly for people to be able to mine it on the server. I wasn't at remote power yet. I did have a little remote capability. So decided to go with a charcoal farm to feed it.

I set the planter at priority 3 and filled all the slots except for one with torches to keep it from stockpiling saplings. I almost always set planters to not use up the complete stack. So there will always be something in that slot to keep other things from sneaking in somehow. The Furnace is Priority 2 to keep it from getting saplings its output goes to the brown channel. I use as many barrels as it takes to store all the products from the trees setting them all to priority 1. I put a trash can on the end of that line to catch the overflow on priority -1. The brown channel feeds into the a generator set to priority 3, a barrel set at priority 2, and a trash can at priority -1.

Though I think I might switch out the powered furnace for a Nether Furnace from tinkers. If they are available in the pack. Just to see how it would work. They do twice the number of operations for the fuel used. They don't usually cost more then what you can easily get with access to the nether. Then I would probably put it on the brown channel at priority 4. I would probably use drawers with void upgrades instead of the trash cans. Over all I think it would use less materials, and possibly be a little easier to set up.

I don't know the boiler setup. I do know, depending on the pack, they can take lots of fuel. It might be worth it to invest in the biggest pair of upgrades you can currently make for the planter and harvest. Might be useful to craft a MFR hammer as well. Not for sure of its exact name. When you hold it though it well show you the area of influence of the MFR machines in view. It includes the upgrades in that. Making it much easier to to see how much space it will take up. For me at lest this is true. I am always miscalculating it when I try to figure it up in my head.