HELP NEEDED, how to make auto farms without forestry

[MysticPing]

Now when forestry has been removed how do you make automatic farms? The only was i found it that works(Altought it sucks and aint effective) Is to make 2 rows of wheat and put. pistons around and water inbetween. When the wheat is full grown you activate the pistons and the wheat flows in the water into a obsidian pipe.

-Sincerly an friendly tekkit user

[disconsented]

Deployer x2 and Block breaker.

Use the deployer to place seeds and the other to apply bonemeal. Use the Breaker to harvest.

[MysticPing]

Thanks! I'll try that for my coockie factory

[MysticPing]

It worked thanks!

[danidas]

Now that forestry is gone the best thing to do is to look up how to build mob system. Since your going to need a ton of bone meal for most of the efficient designs. Either find a skeleton spawner to convert to a mob trap or build a traditional dark room and find a way to deal with the other drops or use EE2 if your lazy. But if you had EE2 at your disposal than you would not need a farm since a condenser and collector will take care of your farming needs.

Along with bones you will also want to get a ton of spider eyes to make weedx if you ever want to play with IC2 crops. Which I recommend as it is far more rewarding then normal farming and can be used for all your non-standard crops. However it is a lot harder to automate and is purely luck based with what you get out of it for your hard work.

As for tree farms the best way would be to build a frame system to harvest them for you. Which for it to be efficient you will need a ton of bone meal to quickly grow the trees.

[AlphA]

Use a filler/builder one a large area of trees and have water streams or retrievers under the ground to suck in the result. Then use another builder to replant the saplings you get.

Easy-peasy

[ExXxodus]

You can always use block breakers and frames

[jorty]

You need something like this:

More at :http://s1067.photobucket.com/albums/u426/jorty85/

[danidas]

That is a cool design, I take it the bottom row is for seeds, middle for bonemeal, and top row is the block breakers to harvest. Which mean the wall slowly moves up and down planting, growing, and harvesting away as it goes. Nice wiring as well and I like your use of the traditional red stone as red power is over rated some times.

[CameraFan]

How is redpower overrated o.O? The alloy wires can do everything redstone can do and more.

[danidas]

It is over rated as it tends over compact and over simplify the red stone making it less impressive at times.

Why build a complex logic circuit when you can just make a single block to serve its function.

Don't get me wrong I love red power and find it to be awesome. However I tend to find traditional red stone setups or even hybrids of the 2 more impressive.

[subzerostig]

If you wanted a semi automatic tree farm, then check this out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOUkcURNwFs

It could be configured to be made automatic.

[jorty]

To be honest I used the vanilla redstone because I wasn't sure how do do way I wanted to do with red power, and i figured "if it works, why change it!"

And yes bottom row is seeds, middle is bone meal and top is block breakers to harvest.

Video is here: www.youtube.com/embed/hInHnUKFFAk