Mfr tree farms and boilers

[Dmyster]

Hey guys so I was wondering ?

I'm running a tree from using mfr and so far I'm powering a 2x2x4 hp boiler from a silver upgraded tree farm! I use the wood for charcoal by splitting it and just burning it up in a furnace using wood for the fuel and the charcoal then it goes straight into a boiler so I believe this is very inefficient ?

I would love to know how many boilers you can support and how you go about managing your wood from your farm ? I'm looking to power 4 or more 36 hp boilers if that is possible ? I can do way more so if you can tell me how to then that would be great

 

[Riuga]

3x3 with fertilizer .

6+ boilers theoretically.

 

[PierceSG]

Currently using MFR Planter and Harvester, each upgraded with a tin upgrade to service a 9x9 jungle tree farm without a Fertilizer. Feeding the wood into an induction furnace which transfer the charcoal into a DSU which is then transferring the charcoal out to support my 2 36HP Steam boilers. Still seeing the DSU having and gaining surplus. I'm using tesseracts for all those item and liquid transferring needs. I'm also using the steam consumer> energy bridge> mv producer> MFE> Induction Furnace for turning my wood into charcoal. Right now, it is fast enough to handle my 9x9 jungle farm.

 

[namiasdf]

Use some of the charcoal to produce charcoal once you get that going. Burning wood for charcoal is a lot less efficient materials wise.

 

[Dmyster]

Haha see I'm very early game ( 3 days in ) and I was wondering then I have so much steam left over from my boiler that I could just run 2 induction furnaces and then 1 fertilizer ? how does that sound ?

 

[whythisname]

The most efficient way to turn your wood into Charcoal is with a Coke Oven, as you don't have to burn anything in those to make Charcoal and you even get Creosote as a byproduct which can also be burned. The problem? It's very slow. You'll need a lot of them if you want to have a stable power supply from them and considering it's a multiblock it will take a lot of space as well.

 

[PierceSG]

Talking about boilers, is there any point in outputting the steam into storage?

 

[Seraph089]

Talking about boilers, is there any point in outputting the steam into storage?

Couldn't hurt to have a tank of steam just in case the boiler goes down. I've never tried it to see how long it would last, but it would keep some power going for a little while.

 

[Dmyster]

I honestly don't think so because when you start a boiler then I'm sure you have a renewable fuel to run it 24/7 so that means that you will always have steam !

Maybe if you need a burst of power ?

 

[Dmyster]

But yes the coal coke oven idea is nice but on a server it is not very practical ? But I really like the idea of creosote oil for fuel as well !!

Do you guys use the sapplings as well ?

 

[PierceSG]

I usually get too much saplings so I usually feed the excess to my bioreactor for backup fuel source.

 

[Dmyster]

What is more efficient for the extra sapplings ? Bioreactor or the fermenter ? I'm thinking of powering a separate boiler with these sapplings !

 

[Hydra]

I would love to know how many boilers you can support and how you go about managing your wood from your farm ?

Depends on if you have a steady supply of cow poop for your fertilizers. With poop you can support loads of boilers with a single farm. Without it's a lot slower (probably about 1.5 36HP boilers, rough guesstimate). The output of farms with fertilizer is pretty rediculous.

 

[Dmyster]

So if I had a breeder with some sewers and a composter then a fertilizer ? Iv had this setup before and it works well but I am guessing I would need the fastest a harvester could be ? In order to keep up ?

 

[namiasdf]

I will be storing my steam, because I am routing my excess but that excess is variable. My only continuous MJ consumption process is my lava production. That's already been done with combustion engines (less efficient), but it's a legacy process for my base and I'm not going to bother changing it. It works, all 160 combustion engines working 'round the clock.

 

[Dmyster]

Wow how long have you had the world ? 160 WOW !! I just started and my single boiler produces waay to much power for my needs and I don't even use it all !! I just don't do anything with the excess until I get liquiducts

 

[namiasdf]

If you build things in modules, getting to really high numbers becomes quite easy. Each module consists of 40 engines, so every time I feel like vamping things up, I add another 40 engine module.

This is a hint about design. If you allow your system space to grow as your base grows, you will find that you may never get bored. I have plans for another 80, if and if I get all my other dumb projects done. >_>.

 

[Dmyster]

Lol see I only concentrate on one thing at a time ! That's why I have a room to fill 6 boilers so I definitely have room to expand !

 

[namiasdf]

I do the same thing too though, that doesn't mean you cannot plan ahead.

 

[Dmyster]

No ways lol if I even dare to start 2 things at once ! One will always fall to the side no matter what ! Being a admin also makes doing things and concentrating on my own things very hard when little kids don't know how to make something or want a cc turtle to build their whole house !