Melon Farming

[Mason11987]

Fracture mentioned in another thread that Melons can be harvest AFK withour requiring replowing between growth. I was going to just PM him but I figured I'd start a new thread unless anyone had any input on this.

Is this possible? If so, how?

[M!C]

I think you're question was answered in said other thread.

[ilovekintoki]

Taking the limitation of needing farmsoil in consideration, the best thing I can think up is cycling a ring of soil with pistons. Given a large number of farmsoil, this should at least keep you going for a long time. Please note that this is all theorymon and as such I don't know if the wiring is feasible.

[M!C]

Taking the limitation of needing farmsoil in consideration, the best thing I can think up is cycling a ring of soil with pistons. Given a large number of farmsoil, this should at least keep you going for a long time. Please note that this is all theorymon and as such I don't know if the wiring is feasible.

Or use planters once they're available.

[Battosay]

Taking the limitation of needing farmsoil in consideration, the best thing I can think up is cycling a ring of soil with pistons. Given a large number of farmsoil, this should at least keep you going for a long time. Please note that this is all theorymon and as such I don't know if the wiring is feasible.

Yeah, it works :)
That's what I used in my test world, along with a BUD (cf Etho's vids ^^), and it works like a charm :)

[ilovekintoki]

Awesome. How efficient is it in terms of melon slices lost per round, would you reckon? I might be interested to build one myself, sounds like a fun project.

[Battosay]

No idea, I had no hopper to collect them ^^
But, from some very quick manual testing (cheating the melon block and placing it) I'd say you'll get 80-90%

[ilovekintoki]

Cool, I'll start the construction when I get some spare time.

Taking the limitation of needing farmsoil in consideration, the best thing I can think up is cycling a ring of soil with pistons. Given a large number of farmsoil, this should at least keep you going for a long time. Please note that this is all theorymon and as such I don't know if the wiring is feasible.

Or use planters once they're available.

Yup, that works too. I think it should be easy to convert the vMC version to an automated BTW version, just have to replace the soil with planters. Won't even need the ring that way.

[Fracture]

Only place where I've witnessed melons growing on dirt is SMP, so in retrospect it's likely a bug.