Producing biomass/more saplings

[schmru]

Hi, i was wondering, which tree has the best ratio bettwen saplings and time of growth or if i rephrase which tree is the best for producing saplings so that i can use them to produce biomass (later biofule)?

And also which farm is the best for this is it forestry (old or new) or something with trains from steves carts?

thanks for all the help

 

[Harros]

Well it depends In the newer versions of Steve's carts the woodcutter was nerfed it has different tiers of cutters the lowest tier is horrible while the best is similar to the galgadorian drill in terms of cost I think plus you need to make the cart and the rails while forestry multi lock farms require MJ,water and dirt so either way it comes down to personal preference and which mod versions you are using.

 

[schmru]

I don't care about the power usage, i just want to know how to get as many saplings as possible

 

[fiolot]

The answer would be tree breeding if you don't mind it may take a while.

 

[Malkuth]

Yes tree breeding.. But to use tree breeding you have to use forestry Farm Blocks.. Nothing else right now at least works with the Forestry Tree Breeding Trees.

 

[b0bst3r]

Steve Carts for MC 1.5.2 exotic addon farms forestry bred trees, tried it tested it.

 

[brujon]

If you're using 1.4.7, then treebreeding doesn't do much for you. You can get 3x Saplings but the bred trees from forestry are nitpicky on what can or can't harvest their saplings. Of course, they work with the newer multifarm, but i don't see much of a point tbh. Every sapling will still give you 0,8mB biomass in a fermenter, so meh. I like firs and redwoods, those massive 60+ block tall trees with massive canopys. They drop about a 2 stacks and change of saplings per tree. Mine them with turtles, collect all the saplings, all is golden. Steve's Carts farms with normal vanilla oaks is what most prefer, though, and i have to say it does work out great, i just like using turtles.

 

[RavynousHunter]

If you're running Ultimate 1.0.1, and don't mind tacking on an additional mod, PowerCraft's harvesters are beyond simple to use. I think all you need to make one is a dispenser, a piece of redstone, and a PC conveyor belt. Hit it with a redstone signal, and it'll send out a laser that chops down all vanilla trees and replants the saplings according to which kind was lopped: oaks will have one sapling placed per tree, and jungles will have a 2x2 area of saplings planted per tree, for example. You can even limit the range of the laser by placing stone brick (I think obsidian works, too, but stone brick's simpler to get) any distance in front of the harvester.

Hell, I managed to automate one completely using nothing but vanilla redstone, regular old turtles, and a single harvester working on jungle trees. Just place the turtles facing the saplings (and therefore, the resulting trees), put a piece of jungle wood in their first slot, and make (and run) a program with the following code:

while true do
  turtle.select( 1 )
  if ( turtle.compare() )
    restone.setOutput( "back", true )
    sleep( 0.5 )
    retstone.setOutput( "back", false )
  end
  sleep( 5 )
end

This tells the turtle to select slot #1 (the jungle log), compare it to the block in front of it, and if its the same as the item in the selected slot, to send a redstone pulse out the back. The 5-second delay at the end can be set to whatever you wish: lower for speedier harvesting (but more lag), or higher for slower harvesting, but with less lag.

After that, just run a wire (red alloy or regular old redstone, your choice) to the harvester, a chest on the back of it (the end with the black rectangle at the bottom), and...done. That's all you'd need to do. Fully automated, extremely easy to extend, and might even be able to best a SC tree farm in terms of speed and volume.

[ETA]

OH! Also, placement looks kinda like so...

    SS  SS  SS  SS  SS
CH  SS  SS  SS  SS  SS B
    T    T    T    T    T
 
C = Chest
H = Harvester
S = Sapling (Jungle sapling, in this example)
T = Turtle
B = Stone Brick block