some problems with magical crops

[Nerdanel]

Oke been trying to set up a completly automated magical crops farm for the last couple of days but am starting to get the feeling it's impossible.
I've tried the most mentioned methods and the one with a combination of rotarycraft and the lilypads (since the watering can has been made unusable) looked good but for some reason the growthrate isn't really that high and the thing bugs out. I often am unable to plant accidentally destroyed plants because some invisible unbreakable block is in the way and ocasionnaly it's not even possible any more to tilt the ground it even got to a point where I couldn't place any blocks above the bugged part either but when it rained the raind didn't go through the empty space. (don't know if this happens at the magical crop side, original minecraft or rotarycraft side).
Also the speed needed for the fans seems to be higher now.
Iv' looked into the little thingie on the rail from one of the other mods but that's a bit to complex for me.
Any one any ideas? i'm not to good with redstone circuits so if possible I would like to avoid those

 

[Padfoote]

I've heard that RotaryCraft cannot automatically farm some Magical Crops due to either a constantly changing API or a lack of one, can't remember which. Honestly, I would manually farm them to avoid any potential issues.

 

[Nerdanel]

manually farming would be bordering on insane in the setup I want to try and build. might need to look in an alternate way of getting ores and so on then.

 

[Padfoote]

You have RotaryCraft installed, so setup some boring machines.

 

[Nerdanel]

could do that but was hoping to make the ores from a renewable source ah well i'll see if there are any other options.

 

[SynysterBear]

Use a MFR harvester if you can. Works perfectly.

 

[Nerdanel]

the harvester for some reason only seems to get me a boatload of seeds but none of the essences I don't completely get why since I thought the last notes on magical crops said that bug was fixed

 

[Padfoote]

the harvester for some reason only seems to get me a boatload of seeds but none of the essences I don't completely get why since I thought the last notes on magical crops said that bug was fixed

Doesn't mean that the mod pack is running the latest version though.

 

[ThatOneSlowking]

Laser Drills

 

[Nerdanel]

checked the version and it is running the latest. I'll try again tomorow in a new save to see if it moght be a corrupted save file

 

[SynysterBear]

I use harvesters. I haven't had any problems.

 

[trajing]

I use harvesters. I haven't had any problems.

Same.

 

[SynysterBear]

This is my set up
In a 9x9 area Lamp of growth, Sigil of Nature's Bounty, and Lilypad of Fertility and Fertilised Dirt and the Planter and the Harvester with a iron upgrade.

Lilypads around the outside, plant on the Fertilised Dirt. One block up use a the sigil of Natures Bounty and 2 Lamp of Growth.
All of these Items affect tick rate, in turn affecting how quickly plants grow.

I hook this up to a simple AE subsystem.

 

[Golrith]

Planter under your farm, and then an old fashioned piston water system to break the plants, on a timer. Just work out how long it takes for all the crops to max grow.
Vacuum Hopper(s) to pick up all the goodies.

That's what I'm doing in my game, minus the planter, vacuum hoppers and timer (don't have the resources )

 

[malgior]

oke got the planter and harvester to work (must have been something wrong with the map) but on thing hasn't dissapeared. Some patches on my field become unusable, you can't plant on it or even tilt the land.

 

[Vasa]

oke got the planter and harvester to work (must have been something wrong with the map) but on thing hasn't dissapeared. Some patches on my field become unusable, you can't plant on it or even tilt the land.

yea that happens to me sometimes,only solution is to break that block and place it again..