I have a lot of ideas oh my god this is the most annoying farm in the world not all of them amount to something but every once in a while one of them turns out to be pretty good i am the biggest this one didn’t turn out so well I have a migraine now turns out you can’t unload llamas by using mine carts and hoppers so when a subscriber asked me to do a tutorial on sugarcane farms it really got my brain going and that noisy bit at the start well that was one of the bad ideas Sometimes playing with the bad ideas helps you come up with the good ones so this is your standard sugarcane farm piston-powered farm it’s got observers and pistons blocks on the bottom and then a row blocks on the back of the pistons and redstone on top this is how i Learned to build these farms and in searching everything on youtube this is how most people build them as well the problem is they’re not very efficient let me show you why so sugarcane rose when the top block of the sugar cane is randomly ticked 16 times now you can Tell every time this piece of sugar cane is randomly ticked by the lights going off in the back once those lights have gone off 16 times the sugar cane grows at which point the top block the second one is the block that gets randomly ticked now on default tick speed This is a terribly painful process since you can wait forever for that light to go it takes on average 18 minutes for sugarcane to grow one block and 16. and there you go we get second block now you notice the light is not going off anymore and that’s because this block is now Ticking or getting randomly ticked now what does that have to do with efficiency well when you build your farm like this all of these blocks get ticked 16 times and they end up growing and then as they’re waiting to get ticked again another 16 times to grow up the third One of them will make it all the way to the top at which point that will cause all of the pistons to fire and harvest the crops starting the cycle all over again with the first block the problem is you get if you’re lucky all of the blocks on the piston row plus One extra block the one that made it high enough to trigger the observers so for eight plants just like this you would see eight pieces of sugar came from here and one from the top being a total of nine this block has been waiting 15 minutes to Grow one more and that’s 15 minutes of lost time if it’s harvested before it can grow so in order for it to be the most efficient farm possible you must harvest the blocks the second they grow this was a terribly bad idea so this bad idea Was me getting the pistons to fire and break the blocks as soon as the observer gets randomly picked which causes the block break but there’s a simpler way so what we need is instead of all of the pistons to fire at the same time we need them to fire individually and by Changing the wiring configuration on the back we can achieve that and the nice thing is is it works double-sided so you can put them back to back by placing a block out of the top of the observer and then a block for a piece of redstone dust at piston height Is the only change you need to make and that allows the piston that’s connected to the triggered observer to be the only one that fires okay so now we need to test this idea and this is exactly what i’m doing here so i built a standard farm on the left And i built the modified wiring version on the right and i planted 64 sugar cane all the way down i was so certain of this that i actually planted all the sugar cane on the original style farm first to give it a head start let’s go check the results So i did increase the tick speed rate we are running at 10 times of normal which is why we have such a large output for only 64 plants okay so the farm on the left is is the standard wire let’s see how much we’ve got after several hours of testing All right looks like we have 27 full stacks plus at least another half stack there all right now coming over to the farm on the right which is our newly wired farm which has been operating the same amount of time you can see we have one Two three four um 36 37 38 39 stacks and another 13 uh sugar king going and that’s been out of there so by just firing the single piston connected to the observer you end up getting a hundred percent of your harvest without any time wasted whereas if we let them fire in chunks Half of these plants will not have reached their full potential but will have spent many many minutes trying to grow there and that has a direct result on the final product okay to build this thing is pretty simple so you’re going to need a channel for Water which is one deep and then you’re going to need a collection system which is too deep so you can build a little one deep here and too deep here so you’re gonna put your minecart collection system down below right over that you’re gonna pop your Dirt then you’re gonna pop in some water and then you’re gonna pop two blocks just like this right over the water and on this first block here you’re going to pop your pistons come around the back here and pop your observers right on top of those pistons Pop blocks on the back of the observers and then redstone dust right there and then we’re going to come in and go ahead and plant your sugar cane and then cover this all up in glass et voila and there you go and don’t forget this is relevant for all piston-based farms bamboo kelp Sugar cane you name it a small update to your existing farm will increase your efficiency tenfold i’m aristotle saying good night if you like this video or any of my others please give me a like throw me a subscribe put some comments down there i love talking to you people good night Video Information
This video, titled ‘Highly Efficient Sugar Cane Farm | Updated Redstone | Minecraft Java 1.16.5’, was uploaded by Arystotle Gaming on 2021-01-28 15:00:05. It has garnered 166408 views and 5158 likes. The duration of the video is 00:06:51 or 411 seconds.
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