Wood Farming Setup

[Star of Remphan]

I had been struggling with producing enough wood to turn to polymer and this is the pattern I came up with. It is producing more wood than I can process at the moment. It also doesn't seem to use up too much water since you are limiting the plots. There are enough bots to quickly water each plot during the trees growth phases without much delay. They will also travel to plots behind them to help. I'm sure less farmers could be used but I like how it works right now. You can easy scaling up vertically which is nice. Flat belts will feed to a sloped belt just fine FYI, so those gaps still connect and keeps everything flowing as it should.

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[Star of Remphan]

Scaling up
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Water Setup
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[Star of Remphan]

Abundant wood farming. Seems this layout fits the bill, especially with upgraded farmer bots.
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[Huperspace]

no wonder with only 2 plots per farm. One Bot can handle 8 or more.

[Star of Remphan]

Originally posted by Huperspace:

no wonder with only 2 plots per farm. One Bot can handle 8 or more.

Yeah, just takes way too long from planting to harvest letting them deal with anymore than that for wood. Since they can travel behind them to the other plots they kind of do double duty. I can produce up to 6-10k wood in a few hours.

Now with food I use more plots as colonists use so little it's not as important.

[Ryu.82]

At the moment I have six plots per wood farm. I had seven in a test farm before, but when I watched the bot I realized that it can´t take care of seven, one tree always got ignored and didn´t grow as fast as the others did.

With six plots the bot now can take care of all of them and they grow with roughly the same speed. Okay, if the bot has to cut and replant a tree that slows things down a bit, but not by much, so I think I will continue to go with six plots per wood farm, because it seems like the best ratio to me.

[Star of Remphan]

Originally posted by Ryu.82:

At the moment I have six plots per wood farm. I had seven in a test farm before, but when I watched the bot I realized that it can´t take care of seven, one tree always got ignored and didn´t grow as fast as the others did.

With six plots the bot now can take care of all of them and they grow with roughly the same speed. Okay, if the bot has to cut and replant a tree that slows things down a bit, but not by much, so I think I will continue to go with six plots per wood farm, because it seems like the best ratio to me.

Are you making 6 individual 2x2 plots or all of them attached? IF I just used a larger plot they won't consistently plant uniform and thus wasting a lot of 2x2 plots by planting say in the middle of 4 2x2 plot areas killing off the use of those 4 spots. I could try adding some more plots or reducing farms. Granted at this point I don't need anymore wood. I also didn't use any math to this decision other than fiddling with plots so I'm sure there are more efficient methods but the large plot areas were way to slow per one farmer for me.

I might make some rows with 3 4x4 plots. BUt not all of them to make sure it doesn't take more water than I can produce.

[Star of Remphan]

Not sure I'm seeing any noticeable increase in production making it all 4x4 plots. Well, besides using more water.

[Ryu.82]

Originally posted by Star of Remphan:

Are you making 6 individual 2x2 plots or all of them attached? IF I just used a larger plot they won't consistently plant uniform and thus wasting a lot of 2x2 plots by planting say in the middle of 4 2x2 plot areas killing off the use of those 4 spots. I could try adding some more plots or reducing farms. Granted at this point I don't need anymore wood. I also didn't use any math to this decision other than fiddling with plots so I'm sure there are more efficient methods but the large plot areas were way to slow per one farmer for me.

I might make some rows with 3 4x4 plots. BUt not all of them to make sure it doesn't take more water than I can produce.

I put six trees in the farm, then I make one 2x2 plot. Once the bot has planted the tree, I make the next one, and so on. This way I can place them as close together as possible, usually in two lines with three plots next to the farm, reducing the ground the bot has to cover as much as possible. And I make sure to leave enough space between the farms, so that the bots don´t go to the plots of others farms, since that would slow them down considerably.

And I have no idea if that is a good way of doing it, I didn´t use any math or something like that. Just saw on my first farm that out of the seven planted trees one wasn´t really taken care of and didn´t grow, so I reduced the number by one and now the bot is always busy with no downtime and it usually waters the trees shortly after they grow one step, which just seemed good to me, so I used it for my other farms as well.

And I don´t really care about the amount of water my farms need, or anything else in my colony. I have tanks to store 35K water, and they are always full. And should this change I can simply put down 12 or 24 more asteroid catchers on the top floor, tell them to go after ice, and send the ice into a few more ice crushers on the second floor to get more water, with more tanks to go for 60K or even 100K storage while I´m at it.

[nevryn]

I run 6x6 plots per tree farm, which should be 9 trees.. every so often the game glitches when planting and you can get anywhere from 5 to 9 trees per plot.
You also have to have farms in dedicated areas otherwise they cross plant, so for the most efficiency put 9 trees farms down in a 3x3 grid, the farmers then work across the farms, so that if there is nothing to do on their attached plot they will work on neighbouring plots if there is work to do. Note this appears to be the same for all farms and ranches.

[Rudal]

Originally posted by Huperspace:

no wonder with only 2 plots per farm. One Bot can handle 8 or more.

I have a tree farms set up as 10x6 and it feels everything up nicely.

[Ryu.82]

Originally posted by nevryn:

I run 6x6 plots per tree farm, which should be 9 trees.. every so often the game glitches when planting and you can get anywhere from 5 to 9 trees per plot.
You also have to have farms in dedicated areas otherwise they cross plant, so for the most efficiency put 9 trees farms down in a 3x3 grid, the farmers then work across the farms, so that if there is nothing to do on their attached plot they will work on neighbouring plots if there is work to do. Note this appears to be the same for all farms and ranches.

I don´t think that is a glitch, it is just the bot planting on any free plot big enough. If you happen to have more than 2x2 free, like 2x4, it can happen that it chooses to plant in the middle of the free plot, leaving two 1x2 plots free, that then can´t be used anymore for trees. That is why it is best to put the plots down one after another, waiting until the bot has planted, then putting down the next plot, so it always has only 2x2 plots it can choose to plant in.

[nevryn]

Originally posted by Ryu.82:

I don´t think that is a glitch, it is just the bot planting on any free plot big enough. If you happen to have more than 2x2 free, like 2x4, it can happen that it chooses to plant in the middle of the free plot, leaving two 1x2 plots free, that then can´t be used anymore for trees. That is why it is best to put the plots down one after another, waiting until the bot has planted, then putting down the next plot, so it always has only 2x2 plots it can choose to plant in.

No its a bug in the distribution algorithm.. plenty of other games get in correct.. and we've gone to great lengths in our bespoke software to ensure that a distribution in a rectangular box is even. A tree takes up a 2x2 plot thus a 6x6 should always be 9 trees..
An equivalent anology would be windows randomly moving a pane inside a frame everytime the window was opened..