You have to be more specific, what kind of auto farm are you wanting? Each one is done differently. A watermelon farm is made different from a mob farm for example.

For what resource? And which version of MC

ilmango is THE authority on tutorials for automated farms galore. On Java.

...but just harvesting with a button, without saying if it is mobdrops, wool, crops or whatever makes it hard to give a direct answer.

Make a redstone contraption that uses a torch to keep some pistons extended upwards, so that when you push the button the torch turns off a moment, lowering the pistons and releasing some water over the crops

oh same here!! iv been looking into this as well.. haven't found much

For what material?

What edition?

Check the Farms section:

https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials

All’s I know is, Wheat, Iron golem (for iron) and pumpkin or melon farm. Look around on YouTube, goodluck.

You have:wheat, pumpkin, melon, potato, carrot, shugar cane, cactus, bamboo, iron golem. Thats all i know.

Wool farm (just need to check the scissors now and then in the dispensers), chicken farm (cooked/non-cooked)

Can auto farm all crops either with villagers (wheat/carrots etc) or piston contraptions (sugarcane, melons etc). Cactus/bamboo you can do really fast 0 tick farms. You can make an automatic cobble generator using a tnt duper, a near automatic tree farm (have to plant saplings), automatic iron farm, flower farm. You can automate most hostile mob farms, such as a large generic one, ones from spawners, specialized ones like creepers/witches. Plenty of automatic farms and a lot of near automatic that require an afkable input.

I'd recommend looking up guides on youtube, especially Ilmango's. Hope this helps!

I think a small amount of manual tedium is essential for farming to feel like farming and not just a number crunching exercise, but I agree there is room for some level of automation.

With the introduction of the hopper there could be some kind of change where crops which reach a certain of ripeness automatically drop off and are free to be collected. You'd likely need to change your planter layout, but it's a fair trade off. Maybe a seed sprinkler which makes deposits into empty slots.

It shouldn't be automated to the point where you can be totally hands off, but between managing water, fertiliser, power, slow mixing time/space for tables, waiting around to grab saplings for clones, balancing ratios for colour berries you want etc etc there is a lot of friction for an ambitious solo who isn't just focusing on cloth.

That would be great. I run large scale farms as a solo almost every wipe. At least some automation would be great. Don't even mention something that would automatically harvest/clone plants.

That being said it's actually trivial to run a small farm for your own needs. 3...4 planters on your roof, 1 light, 3 catchers and ur good. Cloth and teas for free. Now with the recent addition of triangle planters and pots you can stuff an amazing amount of plants in any regular base.

You can run pretty much any half decent clones you find, minmaxing genetics is not needed if ur farming for your own needs. Like 2Y1G is enough.

Solo/duo here! I love setting up a planter or 2 in a corner of base. Its enough to just check in when getting home and gets me advanced teas easily. Zergs would abuse tf outta automation. Id love to see this as a mod on sdt servers though!

I play solo and have a little farm every wipe. In a 1x1 with bamboo shelves on 3 walls I can produce plenty of teas for me and extras to sell if I want. It isn't that tedious or hard to do. I don't think it needs automation. Just my opinion.

I don't think that makes a lot of sense. Most of the depth in farming is the process of getting clones and dedicating time to it. As a solo you can already make clones right off the wipe and then sell them without having to make a big farm

> But I feel this gives the ability for the average rust player to actually have teas or pies as farming right now is not worth the time/reasource sink compared to the regular grind

You can just buy them. Every time I play there's someone selling them for reasonable prices

I don't really keep track, but 2 or 3 per day if I play for about 3 hours. I'll usually go on for 20 minutes in the morning, plant a full crop. When I get home from work I harvest that and plant another full crop. That's done before I get off and I plant another batch to harvest in the morning. I could probably do many more if I wanted to. I easily fit the equivalent of 4 square planters in a 1x1 area. One planter on the floor, three bamboo shelves on all the walls with 3 pots on each. You could do more if you build half wall higher and put a triangle floor shelf and more pots instead of the planter box. I don't usually play more than 3 or 4 hours at a time. Weekdays it's less, weekends sometimes more.

What are these triangle-like things?

respectable avatar choice.

Are those smart observers that will only trigger a restone signal if it sees rich soil? If so, will it completely stop moving until it does see rich soil? Or will it just skip it without mining anything until it finds another rich soil? My guess is the first or it mines every block regardless?

Anyway I hope it works well but I don't trust gantry shafts. They break more often than any other method of movement in my experience. Still cool.

Planting is a one time thing, harvesting can be done by dupes. However if you disable harvesting, eventually the crops will sort of, fall off, and the plant grows more after. So yeah you can fully automate that if you take that into account

You cannot automate planting, but planting is only done once on creation of farm.

You cannot automate improvement of plant's growing by greenhouse (micronutrients), so plants will grow at normal speed

You cannot automate harvesting, so you must wait for 4 cycles until fruits falls by itself

Fertilization may be done by autosweepers, and necessary material can be delivered by conveyor

If plant needs some liquid, it must be planted into hydroponic tiles and liquid must be supplied by pipes

Ready fruits collected by same autosweepers and send away by conveyor

Temperature must be controlled somehow, to compensate temperature of liquid and fertilization material

Planting you could, but it's really too much of a hassle for a one time event, as the plants stay after harvesting. They self harvest a couple of cycles later than when dupes do it, 4 for most plants, 20 for arbor trees, and i think they do consume resources during that time, so especially for fast growing plants it's not recommended. But yes, you can lock the door behind you after planting and never come back if you have the resources in/out covered!

You can, if you can set up harvesting the plants fertilizer and set it up so they don’t get harvested by dupes. However, it takes a few days for the plants to self harvest when fully grown, and they still use resources in that time period.

I believe you can set up wild plant farms using pipes, but you’ll get less harvests for the trade off of not needing to provide plant food. Then just set the plants to not be harvested, and automate everything else.

in SO there’s a mutation that makes plants harvest themselves immediately.

Juicyfruit is the mutation they're referencing. Plants with that mutation will drop their produce and start regrowing immediately instead of the usual 4 days after maturing. The trade off is they require 25% more fertilizer. All mutated plants require 250 rads per cycle

Hold up, maybe this is a new technique

Yeah.. not fully automatic. both harvesting as an action (PULL THE LEVER KRONK!) and replanting require human interaction.

I'm now convinced that I need to build a bamboo powered fuel farm, hook that up to a villager powered potato farm, and have it fully output baked potatoes... just so you can see what "Fully Automated" really means.

not really automatic if you have to replant - a villager could do that

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Especially since it isn't fully automatic in the first place.

I’m officially naming if faph pronounced as faff

I like to have faps.

I haven't fiddled around with observers and crops, but would an observer underneath a farmland block detect when a crop gets harvested? I feel like there should be a way to set up a hopper minecart collection system to automatically go off when the crops get harvested.

Here's a thought: Make Hoppers to dump the crops into the chests. In my experience, hoppers are a priority, so any items entering their zone are sucked up and dumped into chests for easy grabbing. And it would also prevent said items from going behind other blocks.

99% sure there's a daylight sensor on his head, put a farming villager there and it's fully auto + replanting

You have to replant everything though, so it is just automatic harvesting, efficient only if you wait long enough that the crops are all fully grown. Which will be a bit with monobloc planting, since for some reason alternating rows of differing crops get better random ticking. Fine design though, simple, aesthetic, and saves you some of the labor.

Semi-automatic harvesting with manual planting. I refuse to call this anything more than quasi-automatic.

yup, full automatic requires villager slavery

me too tho honestly i think ill stick to using fortune 3 on my crops at least until im absolutely sure i have enough to solve world hunger

You still need to plant

Here is some things I’ve ran into and learned of from my testing…

So I don’t really know how auto crafters work in all honesty. When making it myself I ran into the issue of timing and getting the recipe in the right spots. I also ran into the problem of what happens when you don’t have gravel at the moment from the trades how do you stop the dirt from taking up the slots.

I’ve found the best way to place it is to have one coarse dirt be dispensed at a time cause you need your hand empty to use your shovel from off hand.

ofc if you did it the other way around it would work with the dirt in your off hand but if you do run out of gravel and aren’t producing the coarse dirt at the time you may use up all the dirt and not be able to put it back in your off hand.

A bonemeal based dirt farm like https://youtu.be/I2M4kAxqMWM is probably the easier approach.

I slow the timing of my auto crafting with a hopper clock. Etho hopper clock.

There was a cubicmetre video on farming dirt, he used stone > moss > podzol > dirt

You need to hoe the course dirt IIRC, Not a shovel ??