Automating farms in Minecraft Create Mod – FTB Skies #3

We’re back in FTB skies and after harnessing the power of the wind last episode it’s time we put it to use today we improve our diet with a few automated Farms using Create we build a huge New Island in our floating Empire and upgrade our storage to deal with the

Influx of new items we’ll be getting from our Mega Factory owner on our way to the factories next episode how can you do this this is outrageous it’s unfair sorry I got a bit carried away there but we will at least sort out a storage Island however first off today

We’re going to deal with something nice and simple Oh my days okay not quite what I meant Oh I haven’t even got any ranged weapons I don’t blow up my base this is not a good start haha so as I was about to say we’re going to jump down this hole we’re going

To put on some armor because we’re smart we’re gonna grab a shield and we’re gonna deal with this problem Oh baby creeper no why are there baby creepers this is the worst foreign solved now we can actually Farm in peace I do have a loose plan up here for how things are going to work and it is of course going to be using Create we’re going to be automatically harvesting the

Crops and things that we plant up here and I think what I might actually do is just put down a few different fields and then maybe mix up the crops within those fields and we’re not even going to harvest everything because we still want it to look nice so I think the first

Thing I’m going to do is just Mark out where I want these fields to be so say for example that’s the center of one field we can have one that just sort of goes around this sort of way and what I might actually do is dig out the hole

Where I want the center of the field to be so we’ll have one field there we’ll have one field around here we’ll stick another one centered maybe about there so that’s going to be roughly this sort of size and I think we will put a fourth

One in here as well which once again is going to be roughly that sort of size so the bits I’m marking out size Wise It’s just what’s going to be harvested we are actually going to have these whole areas pretty much as filled and there’s going

To be crops everywhere I just need to know where the actual important ones are going going to be because as I say that’s what’s going to be Auto collected for us this is just the style however so what we need to do now is to get power

Over here so I need to dig a whole bunch of trenches and I need to take the power from this windmill here and get into these four separate locations and I think that should just about do it so this is the power that’s coming down from the windmill we’ve made sure to

Avoid the mob farm we kind of go out the back of the windmill and down and then we’re actually slowing it down again a little bit because well we did speed it up inside the windmill but I really like the cogs up there and I kind of want to

Keep them however we didn’t actually want the farm spinning around that fast in themselves so this should just about do it and then what I’ve done is I’ve just used shafts and gearboxes and it links up to each and every Farm location and of course if we wanted to we can

Easily add some more but now we need to get outside and actually build these Farms So in theory this should be fairly straightforward what I want to do is remove that and we should see our rotational power there it is so let’s get this up to the surface uh in fact we

Want it one lower than the surface and these Contraptions are going to be fairly simple so we’re just going to use a mechanical bearing there yeah and what we’re going to do is just build up a simple Contraption here I think we’re gonna put three Harvesters on each one

And then we need somewhere to store the items so I guess we might as well just put that on the edge here in fact I’m going to grab some barrels they’ll probably look a bit better there we go much better then we’ll stick a portable storage interface on there and then what

That means is if we go roughly is it there I think it should be there we’ll stick another interface there with an upgraded chest underneath it so what we’ve done is we actually took a chest we’ve wrapped it in Iron then we wrapped it in gold and that’s given us a much

Bigger chest which is going to be fine for now we will of course upgrade this storage at some points and then we put a shoot on the top and I think I think that should work I think that’s basically everything so right click the bearing with an empty hand so that

Should attach the structure in front of it and then if we tap that and right okay yeah we need we need the super glue of course we need the super glue so let’s actually glue the whole thing together we’ll glue that to that that to that and

That to that now hopefully this time it’ll actually work when we turn it on look at that beautiful and what that’s going to do is it’s gonna rotate round it will connect to this every time it spins and if it’s got stuff to drop off it will empty but basically these things

Are just going to Auto Harvest whatever’s in front of it so we can plant whatever crops we want and we can just collect them all in this chest but I’m going to turn it off for now because well we don’t have any water in the farm

And we don’t have any crops plus I need to build three more of these so yeah I think I’m gonna do that first actually let’s get the rest of these quickly built up it should only take a moment I’ve got all four of the farms in they

Seem to be spinning and doing their thing which is marvelous and you may notice I’ve actually made them a bit longer I realize I might as well make them four as the uh the storage thing was sticking out anyway but yeah I think that’s looking pretty good although we

Could do with some crops so we’ve got a bunch of seeds from sifting dirt so let’s see what we’ve actually got shall we so it looks like we have seven things we can plant at the moment so what I’m probably gonna do is put two on each

Field and then we’ll just fill up the last field with a bit of sugar cane which means I’m gonna need to add some more water I think I’m gonna turn these off while I plant and because I’m a smart smart I did actually put a kill

Switch in the middle here I’m just going to make sure it’s in the right place when I do it because otherwise when they turn back to solid blocks it will kill the rest of my crops and we don’t want that but we didn’t have quite enough seeds to fill everything up but we’ve

Got beetroot wheat and sugar cane so far in this field and over here we’ve got the berries we’ve got I can’t even what this one is I think this one’s flax yeah that one’s the flax then we’ve got tomatoes and we’ve got cabbages so we’re gonna need to find some more seeds at

Some point but for now I think we can turn this Farm on and we can replant more fields and expand the crops further as they get harvested let’s just hope it works systems on looks like it’s spinning rounds okay well we can’t get sugarcane that’s clearly not gonna work it looks like the

Rest are going to be absolutely fine so I guess with the sugar cane we can get it to work but we’ll have to do it slightly differently so with this one if I was to raise the Harvesters up by a block then it would just harvest the top

Level of the sugar cane and leave the bottom level brilliant and now when the sugarcane grows it should then get harvested that’s definitely a much better way of doing things over here so I’m going to take a bird’s eye view for a few minutes in free cam I’m going to

Let these fields do their thing let them collect some resources and then I can look at actually planting a few more and filling out some of these edges foreign Much better look at everything working we’ve got some walls in I’ve got the leaves down and over a bit of time we did manage to get enough seeds to sort of fill in the other bits as well and not only that we are collecting loads and loads of resources which are going

To come in very very handy although I have no idea what they are and if we have a look at this in free cam we can see how it’s all working and I just absolutely love this crate is so cool however the storage on this section is

Still very manual at the moment and I guess what we want to do is feed it all into a storage room but we don’t really have a proper storage room at the moment what we do have is a bunch of drawers and chests and things in this building

And and that’s about it but that’s just not good enough so what we’re going to do is we’re going to build another Island we’re gonna make it a nice big island this time probably at least two three times the size of these ones it it really does need to be quite big and

What we’re going to do is start off just by putting a small storage unit on it and eventually we are going to fill up the whole island with a factory and all the other bits and Bobs we need but essentially we just need a really big

Area where we can build things and as our Cobble has been producing look at that we’ve got 7 000 Cobble we’ve got 11 000 dirt and we’ve got yet 14 000 Stones so this has just been running the whole time and I suppose once we do get the storage actually into another building

Over here we can actually move this stuff indoors that’ll be nice because that stuff looks the right mess so I guess the rest of my day is going to be placing blocks but I did hear this really cool trick but if you go into a house like this and then close the door

Then when you open it again and run outside there’s an island down there look it worked there’s an island how cool is that so it is of course a couple of hours later but we have lots and lots of space here to build and the first thing we

Want to do is sort out our storage so for our initial plan for storage we are going to use storage drawers and I actually really like these ones they’re actually made of the mahogany so if we just quickly make up a few more I’ll show you what I mean so this is what

We’re going to be using and each one of these slots here will hold eight stacks of an item but they can also be upgraded so as they start to fill up we can upgrade them further but most importantly they have something called a drawer controller and that’s basically a

Box I can go up to and just dump my entire inventory in and it will automatically sort out into all the different slots that’s needed however the problem with this recipe is we’re going to need lots of quartz in fact we’re going to need 19 courts because we

Need one for this and of course we need some for the blocks of course as well and I don’t have access to courts currently however if we actually have a look here it looks like we can get some by crushing and this is going to be the

Easiest way for us we do have rotational power with the create mod and we’ve got a buttload of diorite from sifting dirt so this is going to be by far our easiest way to get Quartz which means we need to build some things to actually get that done the main part of that

Being to make crushing Wheels we actually need to do a massive recipe and to do that massive recipe we’re going to need lots of mechanical crafting stuff and the problems continue because for mechanical crafting we need brass casing for brass casing we of course need brass

And I don’t even know how we get brass copper zinc heated copper and zinc in that that’s that’s never going to happen oh my days okay maybe maybe we’re not gonna have a storage controller today oh this is sad I really wanted a storage controller fine well the game’s not

Going to let me have one so in that case what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna build up the drawers we’re going to build up storage anyway and I guess we’ll just have to leave a hole for the storage controller so we’re probably actually going to need the factory before we can

Go too far with the storage and actually automate it as much as we want to but that’s fine that’s not a problem for now we can at least get the build down and I think what I want to do is well although we’ve made a big island probably could

Be a little bit bigger I might make it a little bit bigger between episodes but for the storage area what I actually want to do is kind of hang it over the edge just to do something a little bit quirky and leave as much space as possible for the power station and the

Factory that we’re gonna need to put over there anyway that’s enough waffle for me I’m gonna grab a whole bunch of blocks and see if we can get something in here that we can then use for storage we’ll just start with a platform first which means we get to select a nice wood

To use and I have taken advantage of this space and I’ve harvested lots and lots of trees which I’ve been putting in the giant storage crates so we’ve got lots of wood to be working with so we should be absolutely fine for this platform and while I think of it

Something else we have access to is this which is a carpentry bench and I believe this works in a similar way to the glassblowing one yes look at this looks we’ve got access to lots of different wood types and so on I do Wonder does it

Do planks as well it does there’s a buttload of different planks this is very cool I’ve got down a basic platform and a frame of what I think I want to build and it looks a little bit weird and janky at the moment but it’s just a

Frame once we get the walls in hopefully it’ll make sense but we’re gonna have a little outside bit here with a small sort of lean two that we’re going to have a few of the workbenches in like that wood one over there and then in this section here we’re going to have

Our main storage going across this back wall and around the corners here so this is going to be sort of a bit of a compact storage room this one here is going to be a bit more open probably with a higher ceiling and then out here once again we’re going to have an

Outside area because I do have plans for this as well and that should give us plenty of storage at least to begin with and the good thing is I guess we can always go underground if we need to as well but what I need to do now is get in

Some walls and once again we’re going to be sticking with a similar palette so we’re going to be using Stone variants on the bottom layer here and then we’ll be using Oak and Mangrove for the walls and the roof at the top and hopefully this will get done fairly quickly it

Should come together fairly quickly I mean I know I’m doing right well it turns out I don’t have a clue what I’m doing and this has been taking forever but we are making some good progress we managed to get the roof on we’ve got the shape in and I really like how these

Walls have come out I was playing around with all the different brick types so much because I also built myself a masonry table which basically does the same thing as the wood and the glass blowing one but I do like how this building’s come out I have made a start

On the interior as well we’ll go to that in a minute but basically the main storage unit is all this bit here we’ve got the workshop sticking out the front here we’ve got an area here as well I did actually set up just a small water

Wheel beneath just to get a tiny bit of power just because well the side of the building looked a bit plain and I wanted some movement but we could also use that for sort of temporary devices as and when we need to but I also got a bit

Carried I just wanted to spam load of cogs on a wall so until we actually have a use for that space it’s the wall of cogs and I like it and over here I’ve just started putting in some of the storage so I’ve worked out where a whole

Bunch of drawers are gonna go and we’ve got plenty of space for expansion if we need more I decided not to put a top floor in for now there’s holes in the roof the roof’s all a bit janky and to be honest that’s mainly for a bit of

Better light during the day and then we’ve got the platform out the back here as well which I’ve done absolutely nothing with as yet but I do plan to do something with this area in future just probably not today so the next step is to get everything over here that I’ve

Been slashing up in boxes I mean that building there is just full of absolute rubbish and some really good stuff as well so I need to sort out what we want to keep and what we don’t this could take a while may have found a way to get

The storage controller because we can actually get Quartz from washing Soul Sand we need to get Soul Sand and I think I’ve worked out how so what we’re going to do is we’re going to sift some gravel to get all the resources we need to make a photogenic isolator and then

We need to give it some power so we’ll make a small generator load it up with coal and stick that around the back we’ll then add in some alternate some Damon said to leave it in the sun and eventually we’ll get some Demon fruit we’re then going to throw that on the

Floor and set fire to it which is going to give us this lovely wibbly wobbly flame and we’ll cook up some clay make some bricks and throw them in the fire that’s going to give us some nether brick what we can then do is the whole pillory thing again like we do with

Cobble and that’s going to give us an infinite supply of Netherrack we’ll then build up a fan system we’ll put some Netherrack in front we’ll set fire to it oh no wait that’s not gonna work of course that doesn’t make blue flame I need Soul Sand to make the blue flame to

Make the Soul Sand ah don’t panic I’ve got another plan so what we’re gonna do is we’re going to sift more gravel to get all the resources we need to make a crystallizer this time and then we’re gonna demote the photogenic isolator and steal all the power Meanwhile we’re

Gonna be sifting loads of sand to get some cold stuff which we’re then going to add to the crystallizer alongside a few buckets of water and then we’re gonna get caughts that way and there we go we’ve actually got some that thing was as slow as anything however that

Took literally like three minutes so I’m gonna need to find a way to speed this up with actually getting quartz now which is great because it means we can actually make our storage controller come here you can’t throw that away I’ve just realized I’m a bit of an idiot and

I only need four pieces of quartz in order to make a block which means we only need nine pieces in total but it has taken about 15 minutes just to get those first four so we’re still gonna be here a while I guess I’m gonna carry on

Sorting out my storage in the meantime and you’ll be pleased to know I think we’re actually done I even made this walkway look nice look I don’t want Jeff falling off when he’s commuting because apparently Jeff lives over here now he keeps just moving into my new houses and

Not even cleaned up all the mess that was out here but I mean the yard does still need a bit of tidying up and so on but inside look at this we have our storage sorted out so we’ve got all of our food over here with plenty of space

For expansion because I know there’s a lot of different food types I’m fairly sure Farmer’s Delight is in this model and I really do like that so you expect the kitchen at some point but I’ve got bulk storage here for all the items we’re gonna have lots and lots of we

Have our storage controller which well took forever but now we have it oh my days I’m so sorry I didn’t mean to punch you Mr Bat that was just unfortunate although why did it hurt me that’s weird and I also decided to make use of all of

These cogs that we have here and I’ve installed myself a lift and uh I really did want to use some create Redstone Wireless things but I can’t actually make them at the moment however thanks to a couple of Enderman I was able to make a transmitter here and I receive it

Up here which means I can stand on here flick this lever and down goes me lifts the problem is it doesn’t actually go anywhere at the moment it basically just goes down into the voids and and I I can’t do anything to get back up until

We get there it’s pointless but it’s fun and I love it that’s a really good start to that Island though and we’ve sorted our food today we’ve had a wonderful time and I’ve also cleared up all the mess that was out here and the plan was

To actually put those in here but I haven’t done so yet however we do have power going through this area and that just means that as we’re building next episode as I say I do want to build a factory but I’m fairly sure I’m probably gonna need to make a couple of other

Smaller Contraptions just to get us there and now we have the space for it which is marvelous I was that Loop be throwing stuff off the edge again why you do this to me why why