Auto Farmers

[KAfable]

Purpose Centralize discussion of the auto farming methods and tiering/organizing them based on the following:

• Speed
• Ease of automation
• Space
• Upkeep Cost/Energy

Tier 2

Multifarms (Forestry)

• upkeep is minimal energy, Fertilizer, Dirt (varies on configs), and water
• it cannot harvest modded crops in an Crop Farm
• best use early on is for Tree Farming and Sticky Resin, and vanilla farms (sugar cane, etc.)
• these are pretty real estate heavy, but I would like the player to make at least one for their earliest wood farm
• might get skipped over due to having vein miner
• good for Rubber, probably the biggest incentive to make one

Basic Greenhouse/Advanced Greenhouse (Calculator)

• Compatible with most modded crops actually, this do take a bit of space, and the output/powering method is very clunky (due to the amount of exposed faces they have)
• Can be sped up by gas lanterns
• seems to be limited to one crop per greenhouse, but they aren't that large
• seems to best the best early game way to handle easy food farming
• bad for melon/pumpkin farming due to the small space and auto replanting of any seeds

Piston/Block Breakers (Vanilla/Multiple mods)

• Mechanical Miners/AA Block Breakers make for very powerful melon farms (especially with worms) early on, need to decide if this is necessary, and how powerful it is with biodiesel from IE

Tier 3

Farmer(AA) WIP

• area based farmer like the Forestry multifarm, but all in one block, and doesn't need water/fertilizer inputs
• does not accelerate crop growth, slower/worse than the Advanced Greenhouse still, but is far simpler to set up

Farming Machine(Industrial Foregoing) WIP

Tier 4

Cloche (Immersive Engineering

• needs water, (optional fertilizer), energy, and one of the relevant seed - for some reason they tend to lag a bit, and this is something that is expected to be spammed by a lot of players, should investigate further Phytogenic Insolator
• needs phytogrow (different tiers have different levels of Crop Cloner
• WIP Aevitas Ritual / Green Light Prisms
• second form of Crop tile acceleration, first form were the greenhouse gas lanterns

Tier 5

Not sure if most farming is relevant at this point, but now can add specific blocks to speed up out of world farming with the Growth Crystals from Tiny Progressions - they will be heavily modified to increase growth ticks. Growth Crystal Tier 1 - 3 (Tiny Progressions

Tier 6

Horn of the Wild

• chances are this will have a 5x5 or 7x7 crafting grid recipe, I do think that a Horn of the Wild + fakeplayer is the fastest form of farming in the game, especially faster than any other farm when combined with the buffed up crystals
• they mystical agriculture seeds will be used for making large amounts of materials for singularities at this tier

[Minithra]

Sugarcane, Cactus, Melons and Pumpkins are farmable on massive scales using purely vanilla methods. Cactus can be done entirely passively, too. If they can be used as fuel for power, they probably will be.

I like the idea of relying on basic farming items like crops and wood/charcoal for the early game power, moving to processed items/liquids later on.

[KAfable]

The most dangerous of all the crops or fuels mentioned above is probably melons, since they can be both used for Ethanol and Plant oil to make Biodiesel. It's also the 2nd easiest mechanically to farm (cactus being the easiest to farm pure vanilla in my opinion), so overall I think only melons really need to be watched out for.

Melons also later on make for easy Mekanism biofuel for Ethlyene, good in Diesel Generators and Advanced Generators, so how easy it is to get melons at each tier matters more importantly than other crops.