Testing 224: Farming! (continued)

[Stretchious]

@james

Allow Workbenches to be Sprayed.

Will you be allowing crafting tables to be sprayed as well?

[james]

@Stretchious

Will you be allowing crafting tables to be sprayed as well?

Yep. Anything else?

[Vurtadelic]

@james

Yep. Anything else?

Will we be able to tint our trousers?

[NerArth]

Mosaic, marble, refined gravel and wicker?

I understand that not being able to spray them may have to do with making them keep their value for their tint, though it won’t be any different from spraying 45 refined rock instead of spraying 50 finished mosaic, except I’ll have to use 5 more spray cans if I want to spray the finished result. The end result is the same.

[Mayumichi]

All the blocks and items, like the concept tease said? The only place I was planning on using the machine was on gleam. Especially after realising it’s more just for small accents in builds and you won’t be able to get even a smartstack of the correct colour pigment in your hands without enormous effort. Gleam was the main thing that could be used effectively in small quantities to give your build that extra flare. LEDs too, but they take their colour from gleam don’t they?

Concept Art: Tinting Machines + Sprays

Introducing concepts for the tinting system which will come with farming. After harvesting the right colours, you can process the items into a spray to colour your furniture blocks and crafted items either by hand or in bulk with the machine! [pigment_processor_02] [pigment_coater_04] Other versions [image] [shade_resin_processor_01]

[dave]

Testing updated again! @james will be along with release notes in a bit

[Jeffrotheswell]

so can someone tell me how to forge liquid collecting tools. I just want to prep for when the update hits.

[Venom]

Venerable gum on hammer, alex, or shovel i believe

[Jeffrotheswell]

coo l thanks

[Tagris]

@james

Yep. Anything else?

I hope this means gleam at one point ! It would be so nice to be able to have those cool accent colors in builds that currently aren’t around ! <3 fingers crossed for Dev approval haha

[Ratchel]

Can we paint mud?

[RedY3]

No, no white mud for you xD

[Ratchel]

Red why must you crush my dreams!

[majorvex]

We can paint tree timber & rock = natural blocks…therefore, we should be able to paint mud, gravel, ash, tangle, thorns, etc. (hey, trying doesn’t hurt lol)

[Ratchel]

This is all I want!

[majorvex]

A couple of questions:

1. Do natural, not-plotted resources/land effect our farms?

2. Do nearby beacon plots belonging to other players effect our farms?

If the answer if yes to either question…then this is going to open a whole 'nuther can of griefing worms.

If I build my farm & Jimmy comes along and decides to build a rock wall on his plot, next to my farm (with items that refuse to grow near rocks)…then my farm is essentially griefed.

If I have a farm in the middle of nowhere, with nearby rocks & water that my plants love…& Jimmy comes along one day & mines out all of the rocks & water that I couldn’t plot…then I log in & see a dead farm.

Some of the diagrams that people posted previously show resources several plots away effecting plant growth. This would mean that farmers would have to use a ton of plots/buffer plots to avoid issues with their farms

[Kal-El]

@majorvex

Some of the diagrams that people posted previously show resources several plots away effecting plant growth. This would mean that farmers would have to use a ton of plots/buffer plots to avoid issues with their farms

I think this is a really valid question and needs an answer but my experience is nothing more than 3 blocks away from the planted block will affect it. That still means what you have brought up could happen, but I think it is limited to the plot immediately adjacent to your build.

Maybe I can get someone on test around me to try it and see what happens.

[NerArth]

@majorvex

Some of the diagrams that people posted previously show resources several plots away effecting plant growth.

Could you please link to some evidence of this…?

Everything I’ve seen and tried in testing points to a very small radius where things will actually affect crops.

As Kal said:

@Kal-El

my experience is nothing more than 3 blocks away from the planted block will affect it. That still means what you have brought up could happen, but I think it is limited to the plot immediately adjacent to your build.

[majorvex]

I am asking because I’d like to know how much something that isn’t in our own beacon/plots will or will not effect our farms. I think it will be helpful to know so that we can decide where or how we will build our farms.

Testing 224: Farming!

Have you tried this in multi-layer? Would this 4 plot, 2 layer proposal work? Layer 1 being 3 blocks above ground, layer 2 being 6 blocks above ground. If it works it would allow 4 seeds per plot. [image]

Testing 224: Farming!

Not with the highest efficiency. In current setup each seed has 2 molds, 1 other foliage (3 occupied) and 21 empty air blocks. Changing anything on this setup takes efficiency down. You still get some results, with one additional block changed it still good, but i your pattern the seed in the middle has more than 10 additional blocks occupied. Roughly like this… red marked what is more than optimum and turns the efficiency down [image]

Testing 224: Farming!

Mould and Air. This is what I have done Green is foliage with berry seeds Purple is mould rest is air the “x” is showing are where the seed is affected (so its even overflowing the two plots) [image]