Rotarycraft - the mindblower and builds

[LothyZA]

That's because a harvester in shearing mode will never get any saplings.
My setup is one planter with two harvesters, the one shears leaves, the other doesn't. When a tree grows it's basically random which one gets to cut it. The setup works well for me.
Or you can always setup two separate tree farms.

Thanks for the quick reply!

I was actually thinking of 2 separate tree farms. 1 farm would basically just be there to collect as many saplings as possible and then pump the extra saplings into the other farm designed for sheering.

 

[OCP]

I actually am going the 2 tree farm route as well, one chopping and one for shearing. Need to expand the size of my shearing farm a bit but otherwise it seems to work. Also based on patch notes sugarcane should work as 'plant matter' And that is insanely easy to auto-farm on a large scale

 

[LothyZA]

So last night I setup a nice little farm of rubber saplings. With this I also setup a sprinkler and 2x fertilizer (mfr and RC), one using bonemeal (rc) and the other std fertilizer (2x sand, 1 apatite). I also used a cyclic assembler to constantly make fertilizer and set the pulveriser to make bone meal. Even with this setup I was unable to keep up with a single gasoline engine powering 1 fermenter making sludge...

what im gonna try next is fertilized dirt and if that doesn't work I was actually considering a line of sawmills, with a blower/hopper to pick up the leaves. What im not sure about is how to enchant the sawmill to always plant a sapling every time it cuts a tree down.

 

[dothrom]

If your farming saplings, I'd go with an MFR tree farm farming something like Sakura trees. They have TONS of leaves, and more leaves pretty much equal more saplings per tree. I used to use them in my MFR biofuel production.
I've not done enough testing on RoC sawmills.

As for the enchant, infinity I believe. And you enchant it by right clicking on the machine with the enchanted book.

 

[ljfa]

If your farming saplings, I'd go with an MFR tree farm farming something like Sakura trees. They have TONS of leaves, and more leaves pretty much equal more saplings per tree. I used to use them in my MFR biofuel production.

For tons of saplings which each produce tons of biomass you can breed Forestry trees

 

[malicious_bloke]

I tend to use rubber trees.

Because I really do need that much rubber

*creepy smile*

 

[dothrom]

There's no way to farm rubber with RoC is there? Every time I tried, the sawmill just stops working... Though I think I may have only tried MFR rubber trees.

 

[malicious_bloke]

There's no way to farm rubber with RoC is there? Every time I tried, the sawmill just stops working... Though I think I may have only tried MFR rubber trees.

tbh, i still use MFR for all my tree needs.

 

[dothrom]

tbh, i still use MFR for all my tree needs.

Yeah, but do you use MFR farms or RoC?

 

[OCP]

Yeah, but do you use MFR farms or RoC?

I use MFR for almost all farms, Im using RoC for canola is using fans/hoppers and steam engines. Need to expand it though a bit but currently getting more than I need over all.

Going to see about setting up some magic crops this week, especially for the more annoying ingredients like ender pearls.

 

[zemerick]

There's no way to farm rubber with RoC is there? Every time I tried, the sawmill just stops working... Though I think I may have only tried MFR rubber trees.

Only RoC, no.

If you have a newer version with the Centrifuge though, you can centrifuge bee combs to get it. ( It gets recipes straight from the Forestry centrifuge. )

Another way if you install EE3 is to use Magical Crops cow essence crops in a Fan farm. Cow essence makes 16 leather for just 8 essence. Then, each piece of leather with a minium stone gets you 2 sticky resin. Run that through the IC2 Extractor for 3 rubber per resin. In total that's 96 rubber from 8 essence.

Both of those barely use RoC, and I don't think any FTB pack can do either one natively, but that's the best I could think of. ( For the record, the second works really well. It's how I supplied my MAC with rubber for HV Solar Arrays. )

 

[LothyZA]

If your farming saplings, I'd go with an MFR tree farm farming something like Sakura trees. They have TONS of leaves, and more leaves pretty much equal more saplings per tree. I used to use them in my MFR biofuel production.
I've not done enough testing on RoC sawmills.

As for the enchant, infinity I believe. And you enchant it by right clicking on the machine with the enchanted book.

This was an amazing idea!!! i actually cant keep up, i managed to get about 20k leaves in about 15mins! and im only using the RoC fertilizer, i had to disable the MRF fertilizer

 

[dothrom]

This was an amazing idea!!! i actually cant keep up, i managed to get about 20k leaves in about 15mins! and im only using the RoC fertilizer, i had to disable the MRF fertilizer

Yeah... sakura+mfr harvester is nuts. And very very noisy. And considering i'm using a RoC for as much as possible, and Mekanism for the rest, you'd think I'd be used to noisy.

Only RoC, no.

If you have a newer version with the Centrifuge though, you can centrifuge bee combs to get it. ( It gets recipes straight from the Forestry centrifuge. )

Another way if you install EE3 is to use Magical Crops cow essence crops in a Fan farm. Cow essence makes 16 leather for just 8 essence. Then, each piece of leather with a minium stone gets you 2 sticky resin. Run that through the IC2 Extractor for 3 rubber per resin. In total that's 96 rubber from 8 essence.

Both of those barely use RoC, and I don't think any FTB pack can do either one natively, but that's the best I could think of. ( For the record, the second works really well. It's how I supplied my MAC with rubber for HV Solar Arrays. )

Aw well, looks like it will be a mekanism advanced solar and an energy cube hooked to mfr. Sadness, am fond of the RoC sawmills.

 

[zemerick]

...And very very noisy. And considering i'm using a RoC for as much as possible, and Mekanism for the rest, you'd think I'd be used to noisy...

4 words: Extra Utilities Sound Muffler

 

[dothrom]

4 words: Extra Utilities Sound Muffler

They've always been a bit buggy with the trees. As for the machines? Nope. 1) it looks lousy having sound mufflers all over the place. 2) I actually like the sound of machines. Do wish they had their own volume control though sometimes.

 

[zemerick]

They've always been a bit buggy with the trees. As for the machines? Nope. 1) it looks lousy having sound mufflers all over the place. 2) I actually like the sound of machines. Do wish they had their own volume control though sometimes.

Volume control would be amazing. I have to use one on fans, but I let most everything else run too. ( 8 fans gets REALLY loud. )

As for number one: Don't leave them in plain sight then. There's a million different ways to hide things.

 

[OCP]

iirc the machine sound can be modified in the config files

 

[LothyZA]

Yeah... sakura+mfr harvester is nuts. And very very noisy. And considering i'm using a RoC for as much as possible, and Mekanism for the rest, you'd think I'd be used to noisy.




Aw well, looks like it will be a mekanism advanced solar and an energy cube hooked to mfr. Sadness, am fond of the RoC sawmills.

Woke up this morning and logged on to see how the numbers were doin and needless to say I was pleasantly surprised. Had about 17k saplings and about 450k leaves! So tonight I can finally upscale my little operation and work towards jet fuel. This RoC mod has been a lot of fun and a great challenge, thumbs up to the creator!

 

[dothrom]

Woke up this morning and logged on to see how the numbers were doin and needless to say I was pleasantly surprised. Had about 17k saplings and about 450k leaves! So tonight I can finally upscale my little operation and work towards jet fuel. This RoC mod has been a lot of fun and a great challenge, thumbs up to the creator!

One of us!

 

[ljfa]

Yeah... sakura+mfr harvester is nuts. And very very noisy. And considering i'm using a RoC for as much as possible, and Mekanism for the rest, you'd think I'd be used to noisy.

You can disable the sound (and with it the particles) in the MFR config.

Woke up this morning and logged on to see how the numbers were doin and needless to say I was pleasantly surprised. Had about 17k saplings and about 450k leaves!

That's why I store leaves in a DSU