How do you grow the plants in IC2 to make Redstone and Iron and stuff?

[Turtlicious]

I've been looking everywhere and I just don't understand how to do it.

[Sal Paradise]

Plants to make redstone and iron?? I think you got something wrong there... You can make all kind of things from uu-matter in ic2, look up the mass fabricator on the ic2-wiki, but that`s got nothing to do with plants whatsoever.

There are plantballs though, which can be used to get fuel, I never tried that, but thats on the ic2-wiki also...

[xSamsonx]

Yes you can. Im not sure how exacly, but it posible to crossbreed plants with ic2 farms to get all kinds of crazy plants:-)

[Sal Paradise]

Wow, you're right, has been a while since I've been on the ic2-wiki, is this

agriculture stuff new or did I just miss it?

I think I have seen the cropnalyzer thingy before, and wondered what it's for,

but I can't remember having seen most of the other stuff.

Hard to imagine I would have missed anything that's called "booze-barrel",

let alone "weed-ex", that one could be my nickname... ;)

[k0s]

lol WOW

i didnt know about that.

i have to do some reseach about that. god, i spend more time in wiki instead of MC figuring out all the exciting stuff!

[Pulse95]

I found out how to grow iron on my world, I won't tell you how either that's for you to find out I will give a hint though [High Growth rate; cropnalizer)

[MoJoCyAnIdE]

I do believe You can grow gold nuggets and iron (in some form) on ic2 crops, but I have no idea where you got redstone and uu matter from.

[DanielJin]

IC crops makes lots of things, from dyes, rubber, coffee, hops, to iron, gold, redstone.

Sadly no one has discovered a plant that makes diamond yet.

[warpspeed10]

Ok, since I'm one of the few people who actually share information about the crop system, here goes.

Every crop in tekkit (except flax) can be placed on an Industrial Craft crop stick. A crop stick needs to be placed on a farmland block (that's what dirt is when you till it). By using crop sticks, you will be able to achieve much hire gains from your crops as well as faster grow time. Advancing in this system can be frustrating at times, but in the end it is sooooooo much more rewarding than having a condenser poop out bread. Once you place your first crop stick down, just right click with a seed to plant it (Note: reeds on crop sticks only grow to one block tall, yet yield more than three reeds most of the time). What you want to do next is start growing another plant on a crop stick one over from your first. By this I mean you want a setup like this ||_|| notice the empty space between the crops.

Once both crops are fully grown, you want to place down a cross breeder. You make this by placing down a second crop stick on an already existing one instead of a seed. This cross breeder will have an 80% chance to grow one of the two parent crops, and a 20% chance to grow a completely random other crop.

OK, I've just realized at this point in typing that the information here would be better in it's own thread. Be on the lookout for a guide I post tomorrow with pictures, and a more advanced explanation.

[juress]

Yogscast Duncan: IC crops -

(part 1) - start by building recylcer

http://youtu.be/4jumn6cFNCA (moar - part2)

[MoJoCyAnIdE]

you need an iron block under the farmland with crossbreeding crops to make the iron plant, it drops iron bars, same with gold, except it drops nuggets.

[Jay?]

Interesting thought:

Does the goddess harvest band from EE function with IC2 crops?

[The_DarthMoogle]

Interesting thought:

Does the goddess harvest band from EE function with IC2 crops?

Tried. Doesn't plant seeds on pre-existing crop sticks, and doesn't accelerate growth.

I'm sure you could pester someone around here to make that functionality, though.

[warpspeed10]

Interesting thought:

Does the goddess harvest band from EE function with IC2 crops?

The harvest goddess band was introduced at a time when vanilla crop trampling was still in the game. As such it was given the ability to allow the wearer to walk on crops without fear of trampling. This same effect also applies to industrial craft crops.