Fun fact, no other farming system is built expecting/demanding you constantly reset quarries. I do not want that. I actually am not even a fan of hands-free automatic mining, personally. That's my choice, but Forestry seems built around mandating I am constantly cutting a massive hole in a world on the off chance this chunk happens to have the right spawning conditions for apatite.
And again, why do I want this farm? It's more work than other farms. It's slower than other farms. It takes more energy than other farms. It has a higher resource cost than other farms. It requires more non-renewable inputs than other farms. It works on fewer things than other farms (although it is the only thing that works on forestry leaf drop products). I want it for exactly... seed oil, traditionally? Right?
Seriously. Please. Tell me why I'd use these farms over golems for anything but seed oil. I genuinely want to like them; I think they look cool and I love the tube+board design. I just think numerically and mechanically they are not awesome. And on my last server where I was deep into bees, I used seeds for seed oil from a 24x10 wheat farm run by golems. WIth no fertilization whatsoever. The output from that golem farm was enough for all my seed oil needs and them some.
Honestly, first tell me what I need to farm in the first place. I like the multiblock farms for the Orchard mechanics, because it makes rubber tree farms, gathering seed oil, and apple juice, much easier. Fire and forget simplicity. All in the same farm, even. Remember, you're not just getting one farm for your costs, you're getting four of them.
I very rarely bother with wheat except maybe in the very beginning. Carrots? Potatoes? Please, one small planting is enough to give me more than a full stack of the stuff. And it'll regrow LONG before I get close to being done with that stack. It isn't used in anything other than being eaten, or in certain Thaumcraft essences (for carrots particularly). It gives me zero incentive to stockpile swarms of it. Melons and Pumpkins? Same deal. I just don't use them often enough or in enough quantity to bother stockpiling. Reeds, I can see stockpiling. Paper is a continuously used resource in several mods. And a golem farm works quite well, indeed much better for that particular task.
Honestly enough? I see the managed tree farm useful primarily because of the additional biomass I get out of the saplings. But then, I'm also not interested in stockpiling a few thousand logs, either. Heck, look at DW20, he had to turn it off because it was about to overflow the upgraded barrel. That's way more wood than any one person, heck I'd even go so far as to say any one
server needs. Logs I see as a useless byproduct of the saplings. Anyone can get wood easy enough. Maximizing your biomass production, however, is somewhat more difficult.
But you don't lose anything for walking away but productivity on things you only need for more bees. This is the clever part of bees: the initial ramp up is an opt in and at the END when you have all the tools you need to fully automate, extrabees kicks in with endless awesome. That's why bees work so well; they rain riches on the faithful. The Forestry Multifarms rain pennies on the dogged.
I wouldn't go quite that far. And honestly, I think Extra Bees goes a bit too far on that. Sure, it's hours of headache and pain, but then you've obviated
all the farms, and the simple solution to any problem is 'a bee does it'. Not to mention mining, mob farming, and pretty much any other form of resource gathering. I fully expect a fertilizer bee in the next update.
This is not my experience, nor the experience of many people here. Apatite occurs in huge veins but is generally fairly rare. I found maybe 20 stacks then never found any again. It certainly DOESN'T spawn in deep layers.
Which is why I said it occurs in nearly every chunk high enough for it to spawn in. Also, who bothers with quarries anymore?
An area that is lit stays lit. It does not require continuous intervention. It might be hell to properly light it, but once done it's done.
Which still has nothing to do with the price of tea in china, unless you are attempting to make a correlation between automation of complex machinery and placing torches, which would be so stretched it would be like trying to fit Rosie O'donnel in a Size Zero spandex suit.
