Problem with MFR tree farm

[Shakie666]

I must say, the amount of wood this thing is making is just ridiculous. I never understood why people are always so eager to nerf boilers, but now I dso: this thing can power several 36hp boilers for hardly any material investment (at least, hardly any compared to the amount of energy produced).

EDIT: I've hooked up another 36hp boiler to my wood production, and i've noticed another problem. I am pulling logs out of the log storage barrel with pipes and an autarchic gate. However, it doesn't pull them out quickly enough for two boilers. I tried placing a redstone energy cell next to the autarchic gate, but that had the opposite problem - I ended up with logs flying all over the place, even when the cell was only set to output 5mj/t. Is there a way to fine-tune the rate of log-pulling?

 

[Mash]

Yes.

Not gonna lie this farm is an absolute beast! After about an hour or so, i've got over 130 stacks of logs. Its a shame they're nerfing the heat value of plansk in the next update

Meh. Even if they do, it won't mean anything. I have 250k logs sitting in a DSU feeding a LP boiler. That's purely off of one farm. I plan on having at least three before I'm done with this map. They can nerf planks all they want, but I am never, ever going to have less than I need.[DOUBLEPOST=1368305224][/DOUBLEPOST]

I must say, the amount of wood this thing is making is just ridiculous. I never understood why people are always so eager to nerf boilers, but now I dso: this thing can power several 36hp boilers for hardly any material investment (at least, hardly any compared to the amount of energy produced).

EDIT: I've hooked up another 36hp boiler to my wood production, and i've noticed another problem. I am pulling logs out of the log storage barrel with pipes and an autarchic gate. However, it doesn't pull them out quickly enough for two boilers. I tried placing a redstone energy cell next to the autarchic gate, but that had the opposite problem - I ended up with logs flying all over the place, even when the cell was only set to output 5mj/t. Is there a way to fine-tune the rate of log-pulling?

RP2 filters? You can set the amount that they pull out each redstone pulse, and then further configure how often you want the pulse occurring with a timer. (Though I'm not sure if they work with a barrel. I'm leaning towards them not working.)

You could also use another pipe+gate if you're not already doing that.

I use Infinitubes for all of my transportation needs. It's not inherently in the modpack, but let me tell you, it is a wonderful mod. It entirely replaced RP2 for item transportation for me.

 

[Loufmier]

RP2 filters? You can set the amount that they pull out each redstone pulse, and then further configure how often you want the pulse occurring with a timer. (Though I'm not sure if they work with a barrel. I'm leaning towards them not working.)

they do work, you just need to attach them to the bottom of barrel

 

[Mash]

they do work, you just need to attach them to the bottom of barrel

Well, that works then.

 

[snooder]

I must say, the amount of wood this thing is making is just ridiculous. I never understood why people are always so eager to nerf boilers, but now I dso: this thing can power several 36hp boilers for hardly any material investment (at least, hardly any compared to the amount of energy produced).

EDIT: I've hooked up another 36hp boiler to my wood production, and i've noticed another problem. I am pulling logs out of the log storage barrel with pipes and an autarchic gate. However, it doesn't pull them out quickly enough for two boilers. I tried placing a redstone energy cell next to the autarchic gate, but that had the opposite problem - I ended up with logs flying all over the place, even when the cell was only set to output 5mj/t. Is there a way to fine-tune the rate of log-pulling?

Use Applied Energistics.

 

[Shakie666]

I've decided against using AE for now, since I've got a working setup that doesn't use power. I have another question though: is tree growth rate boosted by xychorium soil? I want to see how many boilers I can power with 1 farm.

 

[dtech100]

I'm using forestry item & energy tesseract connected to planter which sends sapling (bronze upgrade) - export bus from my main AE network and also from barrel from SC2 tree farm - golem FTW. I use the same tesseracts to harvester and wood logs, saplings and apples are sent to second AE network in powerplant - wood smelted to charcoal which power solid HP boilers (2 right now - 18 in future), saplings go to fermenters which biomass go to stills and next to iron tanks and powered to liquid HP boilers (2 right now - 18 in future). As a backup i have small SC2 tree farm which i can make bigger easily. Also i have thousands of wheat from golems & xycraft soil farm - about 10 soils for each block - i 'm wondering to add 30 soils to each block so wheat will grow in matter of 20 seconds. Also i checked that harvester can shear leaves which can be changed in fabricator (8 leaves) to plant balls which can be compressed in compresor and then go to fermenters - second way to get biomass. For the best production ratio in MFR tree farm i'm using 2 blocks difference between tree and xycraft soil in one farm (more leaves), in second farm i have 6x6 for wood logs. Xycraft soil eliminates the need of using fertilizer - which need bonemeal - but when you have skeleton farm you can do fertilizer because xycraft soil need 1 redstone, 4 stone bricks, 4 green xycraft which you must smelt, 1 iron and a 4 saplings. But then you won't have to worry about the need of automating fertilizer.

PS Xycraft soil can be used for vanilla trees - extra biomes aren't working good - some work but 2x2 trees aren't. I'm using oak wood beacuse you have apples which can make apple juice - more biomass from saplings and compressed plantballs, also good as food