who planted that ugly tree in my field
and who planted that sign there
and who planted that sign there
I have no idea where all the giant trees came from, but:
Something I cooked up on creative. I know I'm not the first guy to build a cactus farm, but this setup is about as compact as I can manage and completely modular. Each 12-cacti layer generates roughly one cacti per minute. Three generate about 30 every ten minutes. If I quadrupled the height or added three more quadrants, it'd be about two stacks of cacti in ten minutes, which should be more than sufficient.
Not only can't cacti grow past signs, but they won't get caught up in them either. Wall the thing off or build it underground to keep the stuff from spilling outside. Items will rarely if at all land on lower layers of cacti, so I'd say this is pretty much 99% efficient.
If anybody needs cacti, I'm going to build one of theses things adjacent to my tree farm at the exchange.
Something I cooked up on creative. I know I'm not the first guy to build a cactus farm, but this setup is about as compact as I can manage and completely modular. Each 12-cacti layer generates roughly one cacti per minute. Three generate about 30 every ten minutes. If I quadrupled the height or added three more quadrants, it'd be about two stacks of cacti in ten minutes, which should be more than sufficient.
Not only can't cacti grow past signs, but they won't get caught up in them either. Wall the thing off or build it underground to keep the stuff from spilling outside. Items will rarely if at all land on lower layers of cacti, so I'd say this is pretty much 99% efficient.
If anybody needs cacti, I'm going to build one of theses things adjacent to my tree farm at the exchange.
Why not use pistons instead? surely alot is lost in that setup from the drop falling on the bottom "sprout"unnamednewbie13 wrote:
I have no idea where all the giant trees came from, but:
Something I cooked up on creative. I know I'm not the first guy to build a cactus farm, but this setup is about as compact as I can manage and completely modular. Each 12-cacti layer generates roughly one cacti per minute. Three generate about 30 every ten minutes. If I quadrupled the height or added three more quadrants, it'd be about two stacks of cacti in ten minutes, which should be more than sufficient.
Not only can't cacti grow past signs, but they won't get caught up in them either. Wall the thing off or build it underground to keep the stuff from spilling outside. Items will rarely if at all land on lower layers of cacti, so I'd say this is pretty much 99% efficient.
If anybody needs cacti, I'm going to build one of theses things adjacent to my tree farm at the exchange.
Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me
Actually no. After thirty minutes, I ducked in and out of the configuration and only picked up three cacti.
If you wanted to prevent even that, you could stand the block of sand up on two or three blocks rather than one to be sure that any falling items will be sure to hit a solid block and fall straight down. That would add a lot of unnecessary bulk to the build, though.
Or you could try water down each of the holes to arrest lateral item-popping momentum, but that may just sometimes stop popping cacti on top of the very sprouts they sprung from.
If you wanted to prevent even that, you could stand the block of sand up on two or three blocks rather than one to be sure that any falling items will be sure to hit a solid block and fall straight down. That would add a lot of unnecessary bulk to the build, though.
Or you could try water down each of the holes to arrest lateral item-popping momentum, but that may just sometimes stop popping cacti on top of the very sprouts they sprung from.
I was talking about the sprout they break off fromunnamednewbie13 wrote:
Actually no. After thirty minutes, I ducked in and out of the configuration and only picked up three cacti.
If you wanted to prevent even that, you could stand the block of sand up on two or three blocks rather than one to be sure that any falling items will be sure to hit a solid block and fall straight down. That would add a lot of unnecessary bulk to the build, though.
Or you could try water down each of the holes to arrest lateral item-popping momentum, but that may just sometimes stop popping cacti on top of the very sprouts they sprung from.
EDIT: You only got 3 after 30 minutes? that sounds kinda impossibly bad?
Last edited by FloppY_ (2011-10-16 17:08:25)
Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me
*sigh*FloppY_ wrote:
I was talking about the sprout they break off from
EDIT: You only got 3 after 30 minutes? that sounds kinda impossibly bad?
Read again. I only got three cacti trapped within the honeycomb after thirty minutes. You were worried about that and I just said it wasn't a concern. The actual rate is as previously posted: thirty per ten minutes for thirty-six cactus sprouts.
oic misunderstood that sentance...
Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me
I did test something else though because of it. I tried dropping some items on top of cacti sprouts and had them disappear straight away. So very few are disappearing in that manner, bringing the efficiency is closer to about 80%. I watched them for a bit and most of them bumped into blocks and fell straight down. The ones that get caught up in the honeycomb are lost anyhow, regardless of whether they float on a corner or are lost in a cactus block.FloppY_ wrote:
oic misunderstood that sentance...
I'm still satisfied with the rate for the size of the thing.
LMFAO
Three layers of twenty-five auto-harvesting cacti, dropping towards current into receiver. They can't grow past signs, and signs won't catch cacti from above. Great synergy.
First two screenshots: from bench #4 - top view;
Second two screenshots: from bench #12 (sandstone room) - receiver pad (and status light...pretty much always on) and quantity picked up on random. Any odd cacti that may land on a lower cacti will be eaten, but this rarely happens.
So if anyone needs green, well, there you go.
First two screenshots: from bench #4 - top view;
Second two screenshots: from bench #12 (sandstone room) - receiver pad (and status light...pretty much always on) and quantity picked up on random. Any odd cacti that may land on a lower cacti will be eaten, but this rarely happens.
So if anyone needs green, well, there you go.
why cactus of all things
like the most useless resource in the whole game
like the most useless resource in the whole game
I wanted green and there may be a use for it later as well.
Also, whoever is plucking all my fence-post torches by the giant tree, PLEASE DON'T. If you're going to build something there, light it up. I just waded through a half a dozen creepers trying to restore it. Not fun.
The less surface/cave mobs that spawn around the exchange, the more efficient the mob trap and slime spawn rate will be.
Also, whoever is plucking all my fence-post torches by the giant tree, PLEASE DON'T. If you're going to build something there, light it up. I just waded through a half a dozen creepers trying to restore it. Not fun.
The less surface/cave mobs that spawn around the exchange, the more efficient the mob trap and slime spawn rate will be.
Fun with the redstone duplicator:
No...I am not summoning fire imps.
No...I am not summoning fire imps.
So i understand blowing up Vilhams tower wasn't a succes?Naturn wrote:
LMFAO
wut?unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Fun with the redstone duplicator:
No...I am not summoning fire imps.
Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me
no. It was a bit of a failure, it naturn had given us like 100 TNT we could have just filled the entire tower.Kampframmer wrote:
So i understand blowing up Vilhams tower wasn't a succes?Naturn wrote:
LMFAO
Naturn tried cartogragh_G it works quite well
minecraft is DOWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN D: D: D: D:
for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.
I like coming to this thread and seeing all the crazy things you guys spend hours building. Would never want to waste the time myself, but to each his own.
The shape of an eye in front of the ocean, digging for stones and throwing them against its window pane. Take it down dreamer, take it down deep. - Other Families
naturn, i harvested your wheat a few times for seeds for my own wheat farm, then replanted your's, I hope you dont mind!
for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.
There 6 stacks of seeds in the chest in front of my farm, feel free to take those if you still need them!Camm wrote:
naturn, i harvested your wheat a few times for seeds for my own wheat farm, then replanted your's, I hope you dont mind!
What to build next....
for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.
RTHKI wrote:
not trees
Utterly bored and lacking inspiration.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat