Multi-Block Farm Saplings Problem

[Ace_Of_Hearts]

Hi

First of all, I am still relatively new to FTB so its extremely possible that I am doing something silly but does anyone get an issue with Oak saplings and the multi-block farm?

I've got a large farm set up purely for Oak and its working fine - I'm getting a steady supply of apples, wood and saplings from it but the saplings seem to be giving me issues.

They don't seem to want to work with anything. I can store them in chests and they work when placed back in the farm or plant them manually but I cant use them in either a deep storage unit, a squeezer or a biomass generator. They just sit in the inventory or (as in the case of the deep storage unit) get spat out. I don't know if this is relevant but the saplings being generated by the farm are not normal vanilla saplings - its the forestry version and I don't have tree analyser yet.

Anyone got any suggestions please?

 

[namae]

Firstly you can turn saplings into biomass at fermenter, but you also need some fertilizer/mulch/compost and water/juice/something else. Secondly check the side of connected DSU and see if it set to input, otherwise they will pop up like everything else, although I'm not sure about this part, I never used DSU for forestry saplings.

 

[Omicron]

You're basically running into a cross-mod incompatibility here. MFR generally has issues with Forestry saplings because they have additional metadata (the genome information). The multifarm will convert any vanilla oak saplings it plants into Forestry apple oaks, which have a genome and, once grown, will drop more apple oak saplings. As a side effect, they give five times as many apples.

However, if you use Forestry's own machines, you can create biomass and ethanol from them just fine.

 

[MigukNamja]

What Omicron said. I have the same issue with Forestry saplings and MFR. The other mods and their storage tools like Factorization barrels and Extra Chests chests (ex. diamond chest) don't have a problem with Forestry saplings.

In my builds, I typically don't have a sapling storage issue. I try to convert them to biomass via a fermenter almost as soon as they come into my processing system. I have at most 5000 Forestry saplings at any given time. The reason is I try to convert them using apple juice and/or honey for the 1.5x boost, but will use water in a 2nd fermenter if I start to collect too many saplings. Getting just the right apple juice and honey to sapling ratio is not easy. Sure, I could over-drive with honey, but then I would collect too many honeydews and honeydrops. Meh.

Note the MFR DSUs only have a problem with Forestry saplings for the reason Omicron said : the extra genome info. DSUs work perfectly fine with mulch, honeydew/honeydrops, apples, etc.,.