Multifarm tree farm issue

[Bill Kirkland]

Ok.. So I am having trouble getting my tree farm to work with the new Big Dig setup. I had a tree farm in the old one, so I'm not new to them.

It is a simple oak tree multifarm used for harvesting saplings. Size is 4 X 4. I power it (plenty of power), added constant water supply, dirt, saplings and fertilizer to the correct slots. I made the grid for the trees out of stone bricks just as I had before in the old big-dig version. For whatever reason, it won't place any dirt, or plant trees. The farm looks right, however the GUI indicates that it is missing fertilizer. I added a stack of fertilizer (created from appetite and sand), however it just sits there.

Any ideas??

[xBlackBirD]

Had the exact same problem with forestry on my test world, are you using the 1.3.9 version?

[Bill Kirkland]

Yes, 1.3.9.

[AndelZla]

Hello, I can confirm that me and this happened. Miltifarm size of 5x5x4. All slots filled and I just fertilizer(blue) be losing a little side bar does not fill. Geakbox set on the north. Valve on top, hatch in the south. I wonder if it still depends on the position of the blocks.

[Bill Kirkland]

Some additional observations..

I have placed humus on the ground, planted trees manually (even though the multifarm is managed). Trees grow, but the farm won't harvest them. I'm running 4 biogas engines directly connected to the gearbox with golden conductive pipe. The farm is supplied in the correct locations with dirt, water, fertilizer and oak saplings. The fertilizer count continuously decreases 1 about every 2-3 seconds, but the usage bar to the right of it is blank. It never shows that it is being used.

All of this, and the farm simply doesn't seem to be working. The engines come on initially, the pipe shows current for about 10 or so seconds, then goes away and the engines stop as if no MJ is being requested by the farm.

WTF??

[Bill Kirkland]

Oh.. and I am using stone bricks for the planting surface at level 2 of the farm.

[Kalthas]

Dunno if they are messed up in Big Dig, but I know conductive pipes havn't been working in Tekkit and I *hear* they are borked currently. Try an energy conduit for transmitting power?

[Bill Kirkland]

I've tried redstone energy conduit with the same result.

[Nirreln]

Simple fix here, just to the OP game mode config in the forestry config folder and change the fertilizer time value, easy mode's is 2000 so maybe 10000 would be a good number.

[Kiwionrails]

I'm having a similar thing where i have a manual farm with stone bricks with dirt layed out and it is just sitting there doing nothing other than consuming a fertiliser every couple of seconds, yet still complaining that there is none....

Screenshot:

[jondonnis]

This is in 1.3.9

To fix this go into

C:UsersMeAppDataRoaming.technicbigdigconfigforestrygamemodes

Edit the OP.conf

and change (in the follow section below) the -1 that you'll see to 2000 as below.

#####################

# FARMS

#####################

# modifies the time a piece of fertilizer lasts in a farm.

farms.fertilizer.value=2000

Someone had packed it up with -1 causing the issue.

[colecken7]

Thank you jondonnis, took me forever to try and figure this out, finally working! Thank you so much!!!!

[THE GHOST]

I've tried this but I cant open the file because I don't have the software to open it and any software that could help costs money is there any other way?

[Belone]

I've tried this but I cant open the file because I don't have the software to open it and any software that could help costs money is there any other way?

If you're using Windows then use Notepad, if you're using Mac OS then use TextEdit.

[THE GHOST]

Its okay ive got it to work but thanks for the advise