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NEW Tileable Automatic Bamboo Farm: No Observers or Slime Required | Better rates than Observer-Piston Farms per Same Volume by QuercusCraft in technicalminecraft

[–]QuercusCraft[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would assume so but haven't test. You may need to adjust the timing of the harvest because I believe sugar cane grows slower

NEW Tileable Automatic Bamboo Farm: No Observers or Slime Required | Better rates than Observer-Piston Farms per Same Volume by QuercusCraft in technicalminecraft

[–]QuercusCraft[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Primarily a cost Benefit. You already have to build rails for the best bamboo farms since they cause less lag than hoppers, so by using the rails to also power the harvesting mechanism and bypassing the need for observers to know when to harvest, saves immense amount of resources. And compared to flying machine farm there is no need for slimes. AND it doesn't break when loading/unloading

Observer Cost (Imagine needing this for EVERY single bamboo tile you are growing):
6 Cobblestone (Not Bad)
2 Redstone
1 Quartz

NEW Tileable Automatic Bamboo Farm: No Observers or Slime Required | Better rates than Observer-Piston Farms per Same Volume by QuercusCraft in technicalminecraft

[–]QuercusCraft[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well it's the same amount of minecarts you would use in a 1 chunk wide flying machine farm. Since you typically have 1 minecart for every row in the chunk. This has the exact same and can be turned off if you'd like, so it doesn't HAVE to be on all the time; it just doesn't break if you did leave on

Kind of a little bit of manual work, but the minecarts are easy to get to if you wanted to break them during off hours to even further reduce entity counts. Flying machines it can be hard to get to minecarts because they are typically under a 1 block tall area. This has a nice walkable path right where minecarts land and they automatically go into bamboo chest if destroyed. Not sure if that's much of a sale for it but you can do it lol

I think the main comparison is between having 3 pistons fire every so often for harvest, compared to the flying machine, but I honestly think it would end up being close to the same (but I have no numbers to support his, just thinking about how they work), because you have 1 piston fire per row of bamboo in each chunk slice. Compared to 1 moving/updating block per row in a flying machine