Tree Eater Farm
Ladies and Gentlemen,
the new Tree Farm is now officially finished.
A few words of instruction:
The farm seems to work flawlessly with Birch, Spruce and Jungle trees.
Just do as the sign says, fill the dispenser with bonemeal if necessary and then plant a sapling on the dirt block. Actually you can do the planting afk, pick sapling, point cursor to dirt block and fix your right mouse button. The machine will continuously harvest trees until it runs out of bonemeal or you run out of saplings.
The wood blocks are collected in the neighboring bunker where they can be chopped conveniently later. Left of the planting spot there are 4 note players embedded in the ground that will play a chord each time a whole row of wood blocks has been assembled in the bunker.
Oak trees are a problem currently because from time to time a bigger one with branches grows. This will usually result in wood blocks remaining in the planting area as well as sandblocks in the trunk pusher being destroyed. Yesterday we also had the rare situation that one of the leaf destroyer pistons somehow got exchanged with one of the branch wood blocks.
So it is recommended to not use the Tree Eater with oak trees for now.
Also Gerdih's tree farm is much better suited for farming them as it prevents the ones with branches from growing and also the whole planting process is much faster there (although not afk capable..
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Troubleshooting
In case the machine somehow looses sand blocks in the trunk pusher mechanism it will not be able to push the trunk blocks all the way up to be pushed to the side by the pistons above.
In this case use the "sand access" lever to pull the dirt block to the side and place sand in the shaft.
On the left of the shaft you see birch plank blocks that indicate how high the sand has to be refilled. So it should look like this after refilling:
Don't fill in more sand than this or it will break the machine upon next activation.
When fiddling around with the machine it may happen that the BUD switch fires unintentionally for whatever reasons without an actual sapling present on the dirt block. The machine will then be in the state where it spams bonemeal endlessly. In this case you can use the manual state toggle button to put the machine back in the initial state.
When fiddling around with the machine it might also be a good idea to disable the BUD switch temporarily. This can be done with the lever on the far left labeled "Automatic Sapling and Tree detection".
Alright then... i whish you all happy tree farming.