"old" Forestry Farms

[JuliCash]

Hi,

does anyone know, if it is planned that the old Forestry-Farms are gonna be thrown out of the mod anytime?
because im working on a pretty large and complicated farm set-up..

thx

 

[war_kittens]

DW20 has stated that Sengir hasn't decided yet.

 

[Boomaholic]

I'm worried about the same thing. so just to be safe i'm in the process of changing my farms out to the new style.

 

[Golrith]

My personal thoughts are that the old style farms should be a tier 1 design, but have their processing abilities reduced. So they run a lot slower, have a smaller radius farm to manage. Good enough if you want basic supplies, but not good enough if you want to really go industrial with the farms, which the new multiblock things are for.

 

[WTFFFS]

That would be an excellent idea but balancing it would be difficult (also people would still ask for the basic farms to be "buffed"), vanilla farming styles are for that use really (you don't need anything other than a vanilla style farm unless you are going into automation) also recoding and then maintaining multiple overlapping farms would be more work for very little benefit for SirSengir which would slow development of Forestry as well as possibly any other mods he has a hand in developing so personally although the idea has merit my vote (even though we get no vote at all ) would be for no.

 

[eculc]

I would like if the new farms at least had an area close to that of the old farms. maybe not so for reed/cactus farms since IMO those were a lot bigger than they needed to be, but I can't help but feeling the new peatbog and tree farms are nothing short of a huge nerf.

 

[noah_wolfe]

I would like if the new farms at least had an area close to that of the old farms. maybe not so for reed/cactus farms since IMO those were a lot bigger than they needed to be, but I can't help but feeling the new peatbog and tree farms are nothing short of a huge nerf.

The old tree farm had 44 plantable slots, required several diamonds, etc. The smallest multifarm has ~72 plant blocks, and damn near 200 on the largest plot. If by nerf you mean made it bigger and better, then, sure.

 

[Carrington]

In one of the recent DW20 videos it's at least implied that Sengir is leaning towards removing them at some point in the future. So I would migrate to multifarms before the next update.

 

[Zjarek_S]

Honestly, I don't care about old Forestry farms, the new ones feel a lot better and also they added some significance to apatite, you could run forestry even with apatite generation disabled missing only on some stamps. However I'd be quite disappointed if the logger goes away. I started building semiautomatic tree farms based on loggers to help with treebreading (before new farms) and it is a lot of fun. They are also invaluable vs. jungle, fir, redwood or RP2 rubber trees. This is great block and I will surely miss it, all other old farm machines are just not very interesting.