Still following this thread. Thanks for all the info, and if you find out something new, please share with the class.
There's talk the upcoming Forestry release will severely nerf Oak saplings -- so any suggestions for the best hybrid for those of us converting saplings into biomass/biofuel?
I run a SC farm which produces just enough logs for 2 x 36Hps plus saplings to biofuel for another 2 liquid boilers, so I may have to take both logs and sap into consideration. (Does an SC farm even handle non-vanilla trees?)
It's fact, not a rumor, but "severe" is in the eye of the beholder. Vanilla saplings (or extrabiomes, or whatever other mod adds saplings through the API) will generate a base 250mb each sapling. Current in 1.4.7 they generate 800mb.
If you are currently generating "just enough" biomass, then you will start being short, but I've personally never had a biomass generation that didn't over produce by a rather huge margin.
ANd no, SC farms do not as of 1.4.7 handle non vanilla trees. In fact, other than the forestry farms, no farm handles forestry saplings.
Ah, so your last statement says to me the only way I can get chestnuts or walnuts is by having an apatite supply?
Do you know if we'll be able to use SC2 or MFR once ftb goes to 1.5? Guess I'm sticking with melons for my seed oil production, for now at least..
No. You can grow the trees manually, let them sit (or hit the leaves with bonemeal), and chop them down. A turtle can be programmed to do it even.
But no automated farms.
I've seen nothing in the changelog of either SC or MFR to hint that they will start working with forestry saplings in 1.5, but haven't actually tested.
Where are your bees located? The first time I tried breeding Sipiri it was taking forever as well. I eventually decided that the leaves might be out of range given the height of Kapok & Meranti. After moving my apiaries up to a floating platform at leaf level, things went much quicker. On my current server, I planted the trees pretty close together, strapped on a jetpack, and just stuck the apiary & a flower pot on top of the center tree.
Are you 100% sure about this? This is the first time I've read anything like this. Just remember, that water bees have the slowest pollination (also called flowering) trait, so the base chance to even check for leaves is a measly 5%.Yes, only certain types of pollination work for tree breeding. If your bees have Lily Pad pollination (the default for Water bees) they won't interact with the trees. Bees that pollinate Flowers and Mushrooms both work; I haven't done any testing to see if anything else works though.
My understanding of this is, they didn't grow the trees with girths of 2x2 or 3x3, because for example with SC2, it plants single saplings, not a square which the trees need to grow. Multifarms however just lay down a large blanket of saplings, and thus this allows trees with larger girths to be autogrownAh, so your last statement says to me the only way I can get chestnuts or walnuts is by having an apatite supply? Do you know if we'll be able to use SC2 or MFR once ftb goes to 1.5? Guess I'm sticking with melons for my seed oil production, for now at least..
Dang..Nope, forestry does not care about any tree, save classic and it's own. Same results as trying to get an IC2 crop to comprehend an ingigo flower.
I'm about 95% sure. On SMP, I created a bunch of "super bees" which had largest territory, maximum flowering, etc. as a base. Then I gave one set "Magic Flowers" preference to create some Shimmerleaf & Cinderpearl and another set "Lily Pad" preference to generate some of those. I planted my trees nearby figuring to get started on some tree breeding at the same time; not a single leaf mutated in a couple (RL) days of activity. When I switched these bees over to "Mushroom" preference, tree breeding starting happening within a few minutes.Are you 100% sure about this? This is the first time I've read anything like this. Just remember, that water bees have the slowest pollination (also called flowering) trait, so the base chance to even check for leaves is a measly 5%.