Automating crops

[VoidEngineer]

I've been struggling with finding the right combination of mods to fully automate my crops. I've been trying to use the HG mod and S+ along with a Thatch N Fertilizer mod to do the following things:

1. Pick up all poop
2. Put all poop into compost bins
3. Pick up fertilizer from compost bins
4. Deliver the fertilizer to crops in a balanced fashion

No permutation of these mods seems to make this work. #3 and #4 seem to be where it all breaks. How are you guys wrangling this bit of logistics?

[skyguard]

if you use the HG High tek crop plots they make their own light, water and fertiliser without needing anything else.

[VoidEngineer]

Originally posted by skyguard:

if you use the HG High tek crop plots they make their own light, water and fertiliser without needing anything else.

Oh nice! I missed that in the mountain of 500,000 engrams. I'll definitely take that approach. Thanks!

[🦊 Hermit]

I don't know if anything has changed with S+ in recent updates, but in the old S+ the 'item collector' and 'farmer' structures dealt with all that without any extra help needed. The collector picked poop off the ground and put it in beetles or bins, the farmer took fert from them and placed it in the plots in a balanced manner. At most, all the player would have to do is drop a little thatch in the bins once in a while, or empty the beetle's inventory of oil to prevent it becoming overloaded.

On our server we've switched to using Super Structures, which keeps the old version of S+ functioning before all of these latest sweeping changes which the mod author brought in. And on there that loop runs fine. Has S+ made some big change to it somehow?

[zerassar]

S+ and SS will deliver fertiliser to the most needed structure first.

This is an issue when starting out with a bunch of empty structures though as technically they are all as needed as each other and so drain the farmer.

For initial setup... Use transfer tool to do a semi balanced transfer. Then the farmer takes over from there.

Bump the farmers inventory up from default to give it more of a buffer

[Green Odin]

Kracken better dinos can give you bigfoot farmers

[Beep]

Dino Storage v2 basically adds a better version of cryopods to the game which allows for a lot of automation. If you store "soul trapped" dinos in a soul storage unit, you can enable them to generate poop (and anything else they passively generate, such as eggs, wool, honey, achitina paste, and others). If you also add beetles to the storage, they can convert poop into fertilizer, and finally the storage can auto-deposit in nearby crop plots.

So basically it does a lot of neat things, including fully automating poop-to-plot.

[VoidEngineer]

Lots of useful info in here, guys. Thank you so much.

[Graf Schokola]

Use S+:

1. Pick up all poop (S+ Item Collector)
2. Put all poop into compost bins and Dung Beetle (S+ Item Collector)
3. Pick up fertilizer from compost bins and Dung Beetle (S+ Farmer)
4. Deliver the fertilizer to crops in a balanced fashion (S+ Farmer)
5a. Pick up crops (S+ Gardener)
5b. Pick up crops and deliver it to dedicated storage boxes (S+ Item Aggregator)