Steves carts treefarm - what components do I need?
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You might want to add a second engine to that. I usually add a compact solar engine and a basic coal engine. You're also going to need some internal storage so it can hold all the wood.
As far as laying out the farm, just make a rectangle using tracks. Make on of the tracks and advanced rail and put the cargo manager next to it so you can auto pull the material from the cart.
As far as laying out the farm, just make a rectangle using tracks. Make on of the tracks and advanced rail and put the cargo manager next to it so you can auto pull the material from the cart.
I use a solar engine and have a coal engine as backup, but I haven't had to use the coal engine, it's just there in case I decide to use it underground. If you disable both engines and leave the cart sitting on the track for a while before you re-enable the solar engine it will build up more than enough energy in the solar engine to keep going when it's under leaves.
I would suggest compact solar, coal engine, woodcutter, cleaning, internal storage. Do not bother with a fertilizer I have a tree farm that's 50x40 with 6 separate sets of track that supplies 6 hp solid fueled boilers and 2 hp liquid fueled boilers by itself. I could probably run a couple more boilers off that tree farm but I don't know what I'd use all that power on.
Agreed, Fertilizer is a waste. My treefarm maintains around 60 saplings, and that soon overloaded me with wood, saplings and apples within an hour.
Didn't think about the cleaner, although a slim chance of it collecting anything not related to the treefarm.
Didn't think about the cleaner, although a slim chance of it collecting anything not related to the treefarm.
It does collect random mob drops but that's easy enough to fix. The main reason for the cleaner was that for some reason my carts were leaving saplings and apples on the ground, presumably because they don't always shave the whole tree. So I made 6 new carts, removed the fertilizers, added the cleaners, and everything has gone fine, there are no entities on the ground now so lag is minimal. Quick note... don't forget to set your compact solar engine to 1 higher than your coal engine on the little priority settings. That way the solar runs when the cart isn't under leaves and when it is under leaves the coal engine starts.
You don't need a whole lot of storage space unless you let them run out of fuel. I'm speaking from experience as I've had one running for more than a week. Actually, I've had six separate tree farms running here is a pic from above.
None of these use a fertilizer, they all have the cleaning machine. Also, none of them has a compact solar engine because I have a boiler room down the stairs that produces far more than enough charcoal to keep this farm going indefinitely.
None of these use a fertilizer, they all have the cleaning machine. Also, none of them has a compact solar engine because I have a boiler room down the stairs that produces far more than enough charcoal to keep this farm going indefinitely.
I am trying to follow the video but I am at a loss what do I need to make to create the carts and such to start my auto tree farm?
I found the best way of finding out how they worked was to go into a creative world and play around with them. As a start I suggest you try the different hulls and engines with the tree farm attachment/module and some storage. You'll need a cargo manager and probably a cargo distributor, and an advanced detector rail. Then set up a track with dirt on each side (a circle works as a start) and set off your cart. This way you can work out the best things to add to your cart to suit your needs. Also this lets you mess with automation easily, with the cargo manager etc.