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bmanfoley · Post by **bmanfoley** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 7:26 pm

I've loved a lot of the designs in this thread so far, so I thought I'd contribute.

I give you my compact, vertical cow breeding tower. It automatically breeds cows/mooshrooms and holds the babies in a very compact space until they reach adulthood, at which point they leave the device and you can process them however you please. I originally built this in my survival world, but I rebuilt it in creative so people could get a better look at the circuitry.

Pictures and information: http://imgur.com/a/IWimJ

World download: http://www.mediafire.com/?4gk2yvmakmrm0gc

Six · Post by **Six** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 10:49 pm

bmanfoley wrote:I've loved a lot of the designs in this thread so far, so I thought I'd contribute.

I give you my compact, vertical cow breeding tower. It automatically breeds cows/mooshrooms and holds the babies in a very compact space until they reach adulthood, at which point they leave the device and you can process them however you please. I originally built this in my survival world, but I rebuilt it in creative so people could get a better look at the circuitry.

Pictures and information: http://imgur.com/a/IWimJ

World download: http://www.mediafire.com/?4gk2yvmakmrm0gc

That is a really really cool. Super compact for an automated breeder, I like.

agentwiggles · Post by **agentwiggles** » Fri Jul 06, 2012 3:01 am

Six, I just built that soul bottler in creative to check it out, and I absolutely love that thing. Compact, quick, and it makes a nice series of rhythmic sounds!

SpaceGuyR · Post by **SpaceGuyR** » Fri Jul 06, 2012 4:54 am

A BUD arrays (couple types here) are a perfect early-game way to automatically detect sugar cane/hemp growing before anvil tech, sticky pistons or even diamonds. (the obsidian replacable by furnaces/chests) I'm currently using any of 7 sugar cane to trigger a harvest 28 sugar/28 hemp which works very quickly.

Yosuke · Post by **Yosuke** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 12:29 pm

Yet another melon/pumpkin farm

It uses a detector block to detect if a melon pumpkin has grown and if so, the signal powers a sticky piston which pushes the detector block and the melon.
The melon gets into a water stream and is collected in one hopper for the complete farm (as I really don't like farms where the things are not collected in exactly one hopper/chest/block dispenser).

Following items are needed per pumkin/melon (I don't count fences, water, glass):
2 redstone dust
1 repeater
1 sticky piston
1 detector block

Front:
You can barely see the glass in front of the farm (Battosays texture pack and connected textures).

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The hopper to collect the melons and pumpkins:

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Wiring:

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BTW: I am reading this forum since several month now, but this is my 1st post. I hope someone can use this design and please tell me if you think there is something which can be improoved or there may be problems with the design.

The great randomo · Post by **The great randomo** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 12:39 pm

That's a věry nice design man. I will definitely be using that in my world.

Post by **Battosay** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 1:07 pm

Oh, wow, you used the DB as the block pushing the melon/pumpkin, and it makes it a compact monostable as well. That's clever :)
Well done !

Elevatator · Post by **Elevatator** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 1:16 pm

I saw something like this around here. I just don´t know where.

darahalian · Post by **darahalian** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 3:41 pm

That's an awesome design for pushing the pumkins/melons off. I like it; nice and compact.

ada221 · Post by **ada221** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 4:24 pm

at first i saw only the detector block and thought "but there is nothing to push the melons off into the water" then i saw the pistons behind them and thought "OH MY GOSH YOU CAN DO THAT?" mind = blown

ive played since last august and im still learning new things about this mod every day

Yosuke · Post by **Yosuke** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 4:50 pm

ada221 wrote:ive played since last august and im still learning new things about this mod every day

Hehe, I also thought this some weeks ago while watching Battosays Let's Plays. In one of them I saw tables and thought: Tables? When have they been added? I haven't seen them in the Crafting Receipes Page on the vanilla Minecraft Wiki or on the Main Page of the BTW Wiki. After some tries I got to craft one. Afterwards I searched directly in the BTW Wiki and found it also. It looks like it was added really long time ago. I also noticed the alternate receipe for crafting Gears. I always used the much more complicated and far less efficient receipe with the sticks.

MoRmEnGiL · Post by **MoRmEnGiL** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 5:42 pm

Battosay wrote:Oh, wow, you used the DB as the block pushing the melon/pumpkin, and it makes it a compact monostable as well. That's clever :)
Well done !

http://sargunster.com/btwforum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4239

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Yosuke · Post by **Yosuke** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 6:19 pm

MoRmEnGiL wrote:http://sargunster.com/btwforum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4239

Oh, only few weeks ago the behaviour of this construction was different? In your video it reacted as clock. Now (in my farm) it only pushes and retracts once if a block occurs in front of it.

Edit: I checked the change logs. The behaviour changed with version 3.64 released on May 25, 2012. Pretty interresting.

ThatOneDude · Post by **ThatOneDude** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 7:56 pm

Small vine farm

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Did I mention that it's stackable, too?

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Six · Post by **Six** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 1:32 am

Yosuke wrote:Yet another melon/pumpkin farm

Wow, that is great. I'd seen the detector on piston before, but not with the wiring below like that, I love it. I'll be tearing down my setup from the first post in this thread and installing something like yours. Also if you're not aware, having the dirt on either side of the stem like you do should greatly increase the growth rate (probably double what mine was).

Yosuke · Post by **Yosuke** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 7:27 pm

Six wrote:
Yosuke wrote:Yet another melon/pumpkin farm
Wow, that is great. I'd seen the detector on piston before, but not with the wiring below like that, I love it. I'll be tearing down my setup from the first post in this thread and installing something like yours. Also if you're not aware, having the dirt on either side of the stem like you do should greatly increase the growth rate (probably double what mine was).

Of course I thought that the possibility to grow on 2 sides might effect the growth rate, but I think the growth rate will not double (I hope that it is better, but I would not expect more than a 10% improvement - but I don't know the code)

Thordan Ssoa · Post by **Thordan Ssoa** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 12:14 am

bmanfoley wrote:I've loved a lot of the designs in this thread so far, so I thought I'd contribute.

I give you my compact, vertical cow breeding tower. It automatically breeds cows/mooshrooms and holds the babies in a very compact space until they reach adulthood, at which point they leave the device and you can process them however you please. I originally built this in my survival world, but I rebuilt it in creative so people could get a better look at the circuitry.

Pictures and information: http://imgur.com/a/IWimJ

World download: http://www.mediafire.com/?4gk2yvmakmrm0gc

Tried using this, but for some reason the signal doesn't transfer up correctly. The first two torches change, and then the third doesn't respond before the second switches back.

bmanfoley · Post by **bmanfoley** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 8:20 am

Thordan Ssoa wrote:Tried using this, but for some reason the signal doesn't transfer up correctly. The first two torches change, and then the third doesn't respond before the second switches back.

Did you use the world download? If you just rebuilt it, you may have goofed something up with the pulse lengthening circuit, and I recommend you try the world download. If you were using the world download, then honestly I'm clueless as to why it's not working =/

Thordan Ssoa · Post by **Thordan Ssoa** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 1:20 pm

bmanfoley wrote: Did you use the world download? If you just rebuilt it, you may have goofed something up with the pulse lengthening circuit, and I recommend you try the world download. If you were using the world download, then honestly I'm clueless as to why it's not working =/

I downloaded the world now, and it does work. However, mine is build identically and doesn't for some reason. Strange.

Marasambala · Post by **Marasambala** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 7:13 pm

It's been said the redstone is glitchy in creative.....

Thordan Ssoa · Post by **Thordan Ssoa** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 10:05 pm

Marasambala wrote:It's been said the redstone is glitchy in creative.....

I didn't know that. Thanks.

Nekhs · Post by **Nekhs** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 3:46 pm

Yosuke wrote:Yet another melon/pumpkin farm

It uses a detector block to detect if a melon pumpkin has grown and if so, the signal powers a sticky piston which pushes the detector block and the melon.
The melon gets into a water stream and is collected in one hopper for the complete farm (as I really don't like farms where the things are not collected in exactly one hopper/chest/block dispenser).

Following items are needed per pumkin/melon (I don't count fences, water, glass):
2 redstone dust
1 repeater
1 sticky piston
1 detector block

Front:
You can barely see the glass in front of the farm (Battosays texture pack and connected textures).
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The hopper to collect the melons and pumpkins:
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Wiring:
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BTW: I am reading this forum since several month now, but this is my 1st post. I hope someone can use this design and please tell me if you think there is something which can be improoved or there may be problems with the design.

I just felt I had to post after a couple of ... months? of lurking.

This was exciting to me because I already had a farm like this set up, but manual, so the second I saw the automatic design I had to immediately go hunt down Lapis and make that thing. It works and that's one less lever in my world.

Thanks!

Arandia · Post by **Arandia** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 3:13 am

A Super Trivial Completely Automatic Wheat Farm

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The only catch is that you need a lot of bricks...

Grass planter has a chance of creating tall grass. When it does, the light beam is broken and the pistons collect whatever it was on the hoppers. Each hopper will only pass *grass* *seeds* (and not hemp seeds) because the entire damn thing (except for one slot) is filled up with bricks (the BD's and hoppers both). For priming, this requires that each hopper/BD combo has 1 stack + 1 of seeds to start with. All of the BD's run off of a very simple 5-clock; when the wheat is grown they pick it up, plant new wheat, and then spit it forward into a collection trough that you've created.

The other catch is that your seed-creation rate needs to be greater than your seed-consumption rate. Otherwise, your filters will eventually stop working and your garden will grow a few... weeds :-). You may actually need to add a second or third level of grass planters + pistons + lens to achieve this -- I have NOT done the timing analysis yet. Oh, and you will get shitloads of useless flowers too.

Deepsniper · Post by **Deepsniper** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 8:05 am

That my friend is genious!!!

Post by **Battosay** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 8:55 am

Given the growth rate of grass, and the drop rate of seeds from grass, you'd need more than two of three rows of planter to keep up the production of seeds, more like 5 or 10.
But that's an interesting idea :)

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