Easy, Compact Bamboo Farm Super Smelter! (Minecraft 1.20, 1.14+, Java)
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- Welcome back to Minecraft, for the People! This 64 furnace super smelter plows through items, won't break the bank, and is extremely compact! I built this farm in 1.19.2 but it's also compatible with Java versions 1.14+, including 1.20!
I had a lot of fun making this one, and as usual my videos take many days/weeks of time and effort, so please consider subscribing if you like this farm!
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00:00 Intro
00:36 How the Farm Works
02:21 Hopper Minecart Path
04:05 Storage Mechanics
06:29 Rotating the Farm
07:32 Bamboo Collection and Flying Machine
09:43 Other Smelters are Dumb
10:18 Materials List
11:09 Tutorial Intro: Bottom Half
15:15 Tutorial: Top Half and Flying Machine
16:43 Outro - Ігри
This is genius. The overflow that can be grabbed by the cart if needed is an insane game changer to a supersmelter system. I havent built one like this before and it works so fast.
Took so long to build but finally it's working after three days of grinding 😂 I absolutely love the design man and hasnt been heavy on lag, 1.20.4 and working like a charm 👌
I have been trying to design a smelter exactly like this for a very long time. Thank you so much this is amazing and very very efficient.
Glad you like it! I'm really happy with this design!
I definitely gonna use the storage system (where minecart stops while its still full) in my other farms! It's so smart 🤓
Freaking incredible dude!
Another excellent build. Thank you!
Tips for anyone else building this in survival:
1. Before first use, check the hoppers and furnaces for items that dropped into them during the build.
2. The ender chest is not necessary.
3. Smooth stone can be substituted with any other building block.
A bit of feedback
Some of the material counts are slightly off such as for rails. Items are missing from the material list including hopper minecart, chest minecart, and water buckets. There was no use of the signs from the material list during the build.
It is sometimes difficult to follow the build from the video (e.g. 12:49, 14:35, and 16:16 can barely see what is being placed).
Reference the "Rotating the Farm" section for more information when instructing to place the chests facing east at 11:10 or give another brief explanation why they must be facing a certain direction.
Thanks for your detailed feedback! I was not aware of the materials list, I think what happened was it was from a slightly different schematic accidentally. The signs are auto generated from the world download where they point out a few things on the farm. I should include them in the tutorial, thanks for reminding me to do this in the future.
Would it also be possible to note down the materials in the description for users to easily access it?@@potato_noir
@@a2_zhongbaode718 materials list is in the video already! It has its own chapter title
@@potato_noir Whoops thanks! I somehow missed it hahaha
Thanks for this design! Ive created it on an SMP I play on and it has been really helpful! The one flaw ive found for it, is just the reload times, but I am doing a build that requires a lot of smelting! One thing I did to help out was add an observer to one end to bounce the flying machine back to knock the bamboo floating on top of the remains!
Good to hear, and good idea! Yeah 2900 bamboo/hour will give around 725 smelted items in that time, so for really large smelting projects you might have to let it load up a bit first
Thanks for the tip with the observer 🙂 I did this and it definitely helps knock those stray bits down!
My minecard for the bamboo goes down immediately after starting it, so it wont collect any bamboo. Do you know how to fix that? :(
ive been having a problem with the switch on 14:40 , the minecart keeps going into the deposit and never going to collect. ive built everything like you have
thank you, works fine
Great build but I haven't been able to smelt things correctly. Whatever I am trying to smelt always ends up going to where the bamboo is supposed to get inputted and stuck in those hoppers. I am unsure how to fix this.
I understand much more restone logic and flying machine logic now, fun build
Glad you enjoyed it!
I've got a problem with the rail section of the hopper cart that you built at 12:44. In my case, the cart stops before going down and turning left on the first go. I've built evrything the same as you did, made sure every powered rail was turned on and even tried replacing some solid blocks with glass or slabs but nothing, but nothing worked. The cart remained stuck every time I tried to make it go. Any possible solutions?
Double check that the top rail track above is the correct length out. If it's too close to where the bottom rail goes up a block onto the hoppers the minecart will get stuck on the edge going down. Let me know if that wasn't the issue though
@@potato_noir Triple checked that. I've built everything exactly the same as in your video. I can't figure out what the issue is. The minecart can go up the first hopper line but gets stuck before going down. I'm losing my mind.
@@victorgc_ you should send a screenshot, either here or preferably in my discord if possible! Will be easier for me to see what's going on
@@potato_noir I'll see to it. Thanks, we'll be in contact!
I don't know what I'm doing wrong but the flying machine isnt't automated and stops a little after one half. Is it correct to start it by flipping one of the trap doors?
One question, does this also work on bedrock edition
Bro! I wouldn't be worried about slime vs honey blocks if you can build this masterpiece. In my opinion this isn't quite "early game" setup. 😅 10/10 👌
Fair enough haha! I've been stuck without a swamp for a while in some worlds, so I wanted to give the option to make it out of honey as well. Thanks!
Does the flying machine work if you replace the honey blocks with slime blocks?
@@jonnytapasgaming9730 I personally never have used honey blocks in this build so yes they will.
Perhaps I am missing something, but loading the bamboo into the furnaces is slow. That is, the minecart is often times not picking up any bamboo. I could easily see smelting out pacing supply of bamboo. Maybe the buffer chests will help mitigate such a shortage?
Cool design although I wouldn't consider it easy or compact.
Yes, the bamboo doesn't grow fast enough to keep up with the furnace array, but it fits the form factor nicely. You'd need to smelt more than around 10 stacks per hour continuously in order to run out of items, which is more than most players will need. Also the buffer chests do help if you have them filled up from AFKing as well
nice tutorial, only problem I have is that the chest minecart starts very slow that the first furnace always takes 2 items and the last furnace getting nothing. I built it with the schematica and facing east like you mentioned in the video.
Interesting, that's not been a problem I've encountered yet. You did get the powered rail powered right next to the first detector rail (before the corner), right?
What texture pack are you using? The grass blocks look amazing
I'm using one of the grass textures from vanillatweaks.net, the one that's not the full block but most of it!
Is there a way to add a double overflow in case the bamboo storage gets full. Say a trash can or send it to another machine for storage or use. Or how about a shut off so when it gets low on bamboo it doesn't let furnaces fill with smelting items so they dont clog the machine. Or would adding a bigger bamboo farm fix it from running out of bamboo.
You can go for pretty much any of those, they're possible! All of those issues are the reason I'm making a new version of this farm for 1.21. I have a preview of it in my "Kelp vs bamboo" video, you should take a look if you have the time
I will check it out. Thanks
This works great. very hard to follow in a lot of parts though. you should make another video going more Indepth so that some people can follow as they build. great work though!
The detector rail at 14:40 that sends the minecart down the side to deposit overflow doesn't work for me, no matter which configuration I have it in. Would you be able to explain? All of the hoppers are full, as is the minecart, but it never goes down the side to dump the overflow
Sure, it's a little hard to see, but there's a redstone signal strength of 15 running into the side of that comparator there (I do this with a lever on the underside of the block that also powers the rails on the cart's way up). What that does is it only gives an output from the detector rail whenever the cart is full and will switch the track then
You can see that bit at 14:37
Edit: after seeing another comment about this it may be a weird directional glitch? I'll test in creative soon to see, but I feel like comparator outputs from detector rails shouldn't be that broken. I'll check though
Hey, Im having a similar issue as well. Is your machine facing west or south? In creative the exact same design it does not work proplerly when facing west or south. It works fine north or east. Glitch in minecraft?
@@kevofromtheservo9052 I'm assuming you didn't forget the 15 level signal strength into the side of the comparator, right? I replied to OP's comment about that to be sure. If not (and it's built just like the video) I will definitely check into this as I was not aware of any glitch that does this
@@potato_noir Yeah I got the 15 level signal strenghth heading into the comparator. I think an easy fix is to actually invert the signal so the repeater which comes out of the block can be replaced with a redstone torch. This fixed my issue. I think the default state of the unpowered rail in is always in a certain direction / angle. Its an amazing furnace though, thanks for the design it works really well!
@@kevofromtheservo9052 good to hear, and thanks! My original farm is facing east, so if you rotate it 90 degrees some of the T rail intersections will flip and you'll have to "invert" that repeater into a torch and vice versa for the bottom detector station. I talk about this in the middle of the farm explanation, but it is a little hard to find. Sounds like you got it figured out though!
Hello Potato_noir i wish u wouldve made it a bit slower and more acurate like showing how many hoppers to go in one direction with arrows and the number or especially at the back with the stone a bit slower as i had to stop like 100 times and double check and i even play the vid at 0,5 speed since its overall toooooooooo fast. And maybe look at the material list cuz it said i dont need hopper minecart or chest minecart. Also maybe build it in first person so people generally can see what it should look like. Overall nice farm and most part is easy to build and very efficient keep it up :D
Thanks for the feedback! I've started slowing down my tutorials some based on a few people saying similar stuff. My materials lists used to be auto-generared by the litematica mod because it was much much easier for me that way, but I've been manually modifying them since this video. Glad you like the farm though and thanks for stopping by!
i just finished my build and just saw that u explained everything in the how it works part and how many rows im sorry :( i mostly skip them since i think that i know how it works so its my mistake. I have a question tho is there a way i dont have to press the levers on the flying machine. so it flys from a to b without anything pressing?
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@@ninjacake7221 it will fly automatically if the lever is unpowered! That's just a way of turning the flying machine off if you want to. You can do it from either side by powering that block (if the machine is there, it will send it to the other side and back once more before it stops)
@@potato_noir ok ty farm works perfectly ty for the good design
I built this in our 6 odd player server and its working great, a really good design! I think I am going to change the chest minecart to only release when it's contents equal 1 stack/64 items or 2 stacks/128 items, not sure which yet. I think that would be nicer to get a nice equal burn across all furnaces :-) The only thing I have noticed is that when priming with bamboo at the start, you can end up with the 1st furnaces the chest minecart goes over running out of fuel quick, as the bamboo hopper minecart reaches these last when filling/may not have topped it up much. I think once full up though, it won't be a problem 🙂 Thanks for the great design!
I should have said above but I am going to feed the chest minecart either from a chest/hopper above, then have it release when it gets to a full stack. I think I have done that before with a comparator and hopper, a bit like the track switching one 🙂I think that will work nice! May even feed some other minecart lines or water streams to it as well 🙂
@@stualoo Nice! I actually have a few designs for a station like that that I decided were a little clunky for the farm. If I remember to do it later today I can drop the schematic in here for you. There's a photo of it in a community post I made a while back too
@@stualoo Check my pinned comment, I dropped the link to the schematic for the chest/shulker unloader in there (and a few photos of it so that anyone without litematica could build it)
@@potato_noir cheers :-) I'll take a look! I am having a bit of a problem with the T junctions, as I built my farm, I think, pointing south. Everything works fine except the divert to overflow. I used the torch in place of the repeater to switch the track to be powered, so it pointed the right way (turns right to go under farm). When the farm is full and the minecart is full, the circuit is removing power to the rail fine to send it down the overflow line, but the next detector rail (exit of the overflow) instantly switches it back... making the minecart do a 180 and head back the other way, over the 1st detector rail and down the slope! If I put a normal track in place of the detector rail (exit of overflow), it diverts correctly in to storage, but obviously then can't get triggered to turn left. The default resting position of the track piece with no power is in the turned left, exiting the storage position... so I somehow need to remove the powered signal from the 1st detector to get it to switch........... but I am going crazy trying to figure it out 😀 If you fancy joining our server and having a look, you are most welcome 😆😆
@@stualoo Thanks for making me aware of this, you're completely right. Here's a screenshot of my quick fix for this. It's slightly more bulky but I got it working www.mediafire.com/view/sbvznlb4lriyi2q/2023-09-29_10.35.53.png/file
Hey I’m having problems with the flying machine. I press the lever but all that happens is the closest right trapdoor flips up. Is there anymore redstone that needs placed besides the two on the furnace and block left to it?
The lever is for stopping the flying machine as I talk about in the video, not starting it. The flying machine works by the observer seeing a bamboo growth, which sends a signal back and flips the trapdoor, which the other observer sees and starts the machine up
Great build, but I have a few issues.
the first furnace that get my semltable items right after the chest cart goes around the corner seems to get more items. also the bamboo distribution seems to be uneaven. standing in fort on the fartm, the furnaces to the right get more bamboo, getting less the more the cart travels to the left, where the first furnace that i was talking about gets the least amount. or that is because it gets more items to smelt. Any idea what might cause this?
For the smeltable items, I never had this issue but you could try adding an extra powered rail before the cart hits the furnaces so that it has more speed.
Sometimes if the bamboo cart doesn't pick up a full stack of items it can distribute them not perfectly evenly at first when it is filled up. Surprisingly in my testing, the disparity between furnaces on initial fill up was just a few blocks for lots of trips, so I let it be. You could add a system that prevents this, but it will further complicate the back redstone and rail system
@@potato_noir Thanks for your reply. As for the smelter cart, I figured out that I forgot the leaver under the initial powered rail, so now it works. And for the other problem, I guess Ill just let it collect enough bamboo. It should fill up the back furnaces once the front ones are filled up and once that is done it should work fine, right?
@@distructed1878 awesome, and yep! If you have any more issues, let me know
@@potato_noir there is actually an issue. the farm went good for a few days, but somehow i now have a problem, where the full minecart goes into storage when it comes down from the collection, instead of going back to distributing the bamboo and when it is empty it wants to go back to the furnaces instead of the storage. so I thought the t section rail is flipped, but it always goes back to the wrong turn. the hopper for the comparator has 64 bamboo in it. I build the farm West-East but I guess it is flipped 180 degrees from yours. could that be the issue?
Nevermind i think i found a solution. i replaces the redstone torch that should get turned off by that comparator with a block and a redstone, so i unflipped the signal. Works perfect now!
What shaders / txt packs you use? I love your grafics!
Thanks! I'm on a "enhanced vanilla" mod setup on Fabric (runs better than Optifine, and can do more). I'm using Sodium and iris mods to run the Complimentary shader pack on high graphics. The grass is from vanilla tweaks, and connected glass is from some random connected glass texture mod on fabric, not sure off the top of my head
@@potato_noir ty! 😊 I really appreciate it!
@@potato_noirwhen I first saw your grass texture I thought that it's moss block
Hello, I have an issue with the farm: the minecarft goes into the furnace array completely full with bamboo but it only loads one bamboo into each slot which doesn't last long enough to smelt a block. Do you have a possible solution?
Unfortunately you will have to manually take the smeltable items out of each furnace, then let it load bamboo for a while. When it runs out of bamboo, because it only smelts a quarter block, it can't refill again if there's an item to be smelted in the furnace. I'm working on a new super smelter for 1.21 right now that will fix this issue!
thx
Is there any way to connect a separate bamboo farm output to this smelter set up. Because I made a bigger bamboo farm beforehand and would love to use this smelter design but it's a little tricky changing it and improvising it.
Yes you definitely could! If I were you, I would have two separate carts: one to deliver items from your farm to the chests, and another separate cart to take the items out of the chests and deliver them to furnaces. The item delivery in this video is slightly flawed, so I'd recommend doing something similar to what I show in my latest video (about a better 1.21 smelter using crafted bamboo planks)
@@potato_noir I would love to use crafted planks, but the current server I am playing on can't use experimental features such as the crafter. What about the delivery system is flawed?
@@mateonamer2864 sorry, didn't realize it was the same person replying on both videos! Basically if this one fills up completely (which takes a little while), you'll have to manually send the cart back through as the full cart will be stuck above the chests and unable to get out initially.
You won't be able to build the crafter portion of my new design yet, but just use the item delivery cart and chest system on that video for your bamboo you already have. It won't have the overflow issue. If you need more build help it's much easier to talk in my discord where I have a space dedicated to questions like this!
@@potato_noir Thank you
Just to be clear, you CAN smelt more than one stack. Hold shift, then double click on the type of item you want to transfer and it will send all the stacks in your inventory into the chest minecart (I mention this briefly in the video, but it bears repeating).
Edit: In case anyone else wants it, here's a schematic and a few screenshots of an automatic shulker box/chest unloader that you can put instead of the simple one in the video. Be aware that you MUST use a minecart with hopper for this modification instead of a minecart with chest like in the video: www.mediafire.com/folder/zao8ylyppbk6y/Bamboo_Farm_Super_Smelter
Edit 2: If you built the farm North-South and are having issues flipping the T intersection that sends a full cart into storage, check out this screenshot for an easy fix: www.mediafire.com/view/sbvznlb4lriyi2q/2023-09-29_10.35.53.png/file
Edit 3: there's a mistake with the hopper with a comparator running out of it at the back of the farm--it should be a stack and 5 items in the hopper instead of just a stack! Otherwise there's a chance the cart will pass through with less than 64 items due to how the comparator reads. This should fix most of the issues with uneven filling after you have overflow items in the chests. Stay tuned as I have a better version of this farm coming out soon though!
Whenever i put more than one stack in the chest does not make it past the piston, any ideas?
Hm, the piston should retract when any items at all are in the minecart, regardless of number. Have you tested if it's working for just one stack? If you don't have the detector rail as the "diagonal" rail the cart rests on, you won't get any output from the comparator and the cart won't leave. I say this in that part of the tutorial, because I messed up that block accidentally
@@potato_noir Yes it is diagonal and 1 stack works perfectly fine, i can throw three stacks in and it will work but any more and the piston will stop the cart midway
@@trentmorris6821 just to make sure, you are on Java, right? I just checked the one on my testing world and it's working. Maybe try downloading that and/or the schematic and see what exactly might be different
Edit: also might want to make sure the rail next to it is a powered rail powered via a lever on the bottom of the block
@@potato_noir Im in java, I figured it out, i have to keep the powered rail on instead of having it be turned on via the detector rail, not sure if it was in the video, I appreciate it and the build, good work!
Now that I know about Litematica, I assume the linked schematic works there?
Yes, all of my videos contain schematic files in the description! You just drag and drop the .litematic file into your "schematics" folder once you install the mod, and you can load it up in game. The schematics folder is in your .minecraft folder next to saves, resoucepacks, etc.
Does it produce enough bamboo to smelt at full capacity continuously? Or does it depend on some down-time to re-stock? If so what is the maximum duty cycle (eg 1 hour smelting per 3 hours of bamboo growth)
Keep in mind that a x64 super smelter array can smelt through more than 23000 items per hour, which is just a TON of items. My farm makes just under 2,900 bamboo/h which would be around 725 items per hour, or 11.3 stacks/h (you can further calculate that cycle if you'd like).
I actually have an improved super smelter out now though for 1.21 which triples the smelted items rate and uses bamboo planks, which are a better fuel source in general once auto crafted from bamboo (gives an efficiency boost). You should check it out! It's currently my most recent video
I thought I built it the same way you did but it doesn't go collect the bamboo at all and the rail that is suppose to go to the bamboo just changes every time to go down to the furnaces
Okay I made it to where it does go get the bamboo, however now it wont even go to the overfill area and my setup looks like the exact same to me. idk what I did wrong
@@dylandavis9833 I have help channels in my discord where it would be much easier to diagnose what's wrong with a photo or video
is there a way to fill up all furnaces with bamboo while there is e.g. sand in them? bamboo isnt strong enough to smelt a sand to glas within one bamboo-item. So it just melts down the bamboo but it is "stuck" and doesnt produce anything, because as i said, one bamboo isnt powerful enough to smelt one sand.
Unfortunately not, but that's one of the reasons I made a better version of this farm with the crafter for 1.21 using bamboo planks! Before then you just have to keep an eye on how much bamboo you have in the farm and not smelt more than that
@@potato_noir Niceee! I have to check that out! Btw, gread Videos keep it up! :)
@@potato_noir Any idea of a time-frame for this build, or is there a schematic available?
@@cqm3ron video is in progress, I have one I'd like to get to first though!
great video!
All very well explained, thank you very much!
Hi just a feedback (partial) ! It would be awsome if you do this in survival so that players can actually see what is going on. I did the restone stuff correctly and somehow it doesn't work :v need to fix this might missed something. The transition is kinda annoying(?) too, or maybe just me.
will edit once done and is working :D
Edit: aight! its working tho i don't understand the logic with the redstone (first time working with this) will figure it out!
Ps: pls explain briefly next time so players can understand! Keep it up!
A few other people said the same thing, so I do that on all my new tutorials (see my bone meal farm, they've gotten much better). I always try to explain everything people need to understand how the farm works in the "how it works" section, so sometimes it's challenging to make them brief and still get all the knowledge people need in there, but I try my best. Glad you got it working!
fun fact.. it seems like it works perfectly when oriented south if uu horizontally mirror the entire build..
Huh, that's a great idea actually. Good to know!
Confirmed. Works flawlessly doing this
i built this but the minecart never really goes up to get the bamboo from the farm, kind of odd, does it matter that i put some bamboo i had on the overflow chests?
edit: built it facing da wrong way
It should be possible to get the farm working if you built it the wrong orientation. It requires a little more effort than just inverting the two comparator rail stations of I remember right though, but it's possible to fix without rebuilding everything
@@potato_noirtoo late I already rebuilt it xD
The Flying machine keeps breaking through the glass and the furnace gets taken with the flying machine instead of it staying put. Any help with that?
are you on bedrock ? i think furnaces getting pushed by pistons is a bedrock thing
As the other comment said, this isn't behavior that should be happening on Java. The farm was built for Java edition and won't work for bedrock as is, unfortunately. It wouldn't be impossible to get something similar working but it would require knowledge of bedrock redstone and some time
I'm in Java, and I'm using the modpack Better Minecraft. That would not affect the Redstone.
@@disliker7815 Not sure exactly what all is in there, but I would re-examine all those mods because I can guarantee that furnaces are immovable by slime in vanilla. It might possibly be some sort of parity mod in there somewhere
heya! great video, I really like your creations.
The bamboo farm flying machine broke after several irl weeks with it running fine - it's just stopped in the middle of the bamboo field. Think it's a fairly common problem with flying machine bamboo farms, so not a flaw in your design specifically. I'm guessing it's either a problem with bamboo growing immediately under the machine while it's moving interfering with it, or else it's a rare problem with unloading the machine while it's working (I have been unloading the chunks while the machine is running regularly and it's been fine, but maybe it's a "100% unload proof except when it isn't" situation!)
Wondering if you've come across this issue in your testing and have a solution? If it's the unload problem, I'll just end up chunkloading it I think. Apologies if you mention this in your video but it's been a while since I watched it!
At some point if I have time I might carpet tick warp it and deliberately load/unload the chunks and see if that breaks it... would be interesting to see if that is the problem.
Also do you have a discord server? If not it would be helpful for sharing images to diagnose farm design issues and stuff!
Thanks! I'm fairly certain that's from unloading/reloading the chunks, as I tick warped the farm a lot and never ran into the issue myself. I believe that's also a known "bug" for flying machines in general.
I don't specifically mention this in the tutorial, but you could power the levers up top before you leave the farm to make it stop running. As others have pointed out, it will be mildly more efficient if you make its path go down and back every time since it will scrape any items off the top of bamboo blocks as well. So really you only should need one lever--just power it before you go and the farm should stop until you get there again.
May not be the most elegant solution, but I'm not sure that a true fix for this exists. If someone does know a solution, feel free to post it though
Edit: also I'm planning a discord server right now, I'm just incredibly busy! It might take a few weeks. But it's in the works!
@@potato_noir thanks for the really quick response! I'm very happy to believe it's an unloading issue, I guess we'd not noticed it for a while because the machine triggers fairly irregularly so the chances it's running at the instant the chunks are unloaded are small. But it's in a high-traffic area of the server so it'll keep happening unless we chunkload it or a player sticks around while it's running I guess!
Re the stopping the farm before you leave it solution - I think this furnace array really shines when the time it's smelting is low compared to the time the bamboo farm is running. It's burning 64 bamboo every 2.5 seconds and it's not replenishing it that fast (can't remember the bamboo farm rates exactly but it would have to be like 100k/hr to keep up with that rate which would need a many times larger bamboo growing area). So if you stop the farm immediately after you finish smelting, you'll eventually run out of bamboo and throttle the furnaces unless you specifically afk the area with the farm running to replenish it. Assuming my maths is right? idk!
It's been great for us just left running in the background, keeps up with our usage just fine and even produces extra bamboo we can skim off the top of the overflow chests which is great, but this only works if it's running all the time the area is loaded. Unfortunately most of the time, people are just passing through or doing other things, so it ends up getting unloaded a lot. Think chunkloading it is the only real solution that works here, which isn't that big a deal because we built Emdy's WAIFU iron farm right next to the furnace array anyway and need to chunkload that so may as well do both at once! As a nice bonus chunkloading it should up the bamboo output considerably, might look into a way to increase the size of the overflow bamboo storage
Good luck with setting up the discord, will definitely join!
@@puns_and_ships cool, yeah chunk loading will solve all your problems. I love Ilmango's new 1.19+ chunk loader as I've had issues with boat types upon server restarts.
Yep, I definitely designed this with the intent to AFK periodically to refill rates if you don't have a loader. If you do AFK to fill up its reserves, the lever solution should work, but spawn chunks or in your case chunk loading is a much better solution. I'm also working on an overflow protection system as currently that's the only minor flaw of the farm (the full cart will get stuck above the chests when everything is full). Stay tuned for that as well if you'd like to upgrade. I'll probably put it in the pinned comment
@@potato_noir overflow protection sounds great!! Hadn't realised there was an overflow problem, guess we've always tapped off bamboo before it got that full, but coincidentally I was just working on a system to automatically tap off a few stacks of bamboo from each storage chest based off a comparator reading to send it off to a box loader... two birds one stone?
I'm also considering hooking up a "smart" chunkloader - when the observer for the flying machine fires, toggle the chunkloading on via a slime block line upwards, short delay while they turn on, then fire the flying machine, then toggle off when an observer sees the flying machine return to its station. Avoids having 24/7 chunkloading but prevents unloading while it's running
@@puns_and_ships yep, it's a very easy manual fix but might as well make it fully automatic!
Also that's a great idea and very lag friendly! I'll keep it in mind if I ever do an update video and give credit. Would be a nice option
My flying machine always stops at one end, how do i get it to go back? I'm sure I've done something wrong
If the lever is powered, the machine will stop once it gets to that side. Just make sure they're unpowered when you want the farm to run and you're good!
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Can i upgrade it? And how?
Is the ender chest just a detail, if I don’t have it it won’t affect the farm?
Nope, that's just a convenience option! The normal chest next to it is to dump your inventory while transferring smeltable items, so you might want that one, although you can get away with not having either
@@potato_noir Thank you so much for the quick reply, I am wanting to build one myself and was thinking about the materials needed
Can you pause the production of bamboo to stop items from piling up when the storage is full?
@@smashpotato340 you can, that's what the lever on the front/back of the farm is for, to stop the flying machine! I'm making a better version of this farm for 1.21 to fix a few issues like this though so stay tuned!
Why can I only load 3 stacks in the chest minecart? If I load more it gets stuck. Any solution please?
Try double checking that you have all the powered rails placed and turned on, it should be making the full lap every time even with more stacks
I missed a lever :)@@potato_noir
Going to build this soon, any updates? Myabe new vid on this work of art coming soon?
Only thing I can think of is the material list is just slightly off- the signs aren't needed (they're for info in the world download) and you'll need a hopper minecart and chest minecart on the list too. Other than that the farm is working perfectly still so probably won't make an update video unless something changes. Glad you like it!
@@potato_noir rodger, thanks man hyped to build, your design seems superior
So there's a problem with the bamboo burning out too fast before it can smelt anything.
It takes 4 bamboo to smelt one item, so in order to smelt anything, you need to let the cart deliver at least 4 bamboo to each furnace. I'd recommend afking at the farm for a few hours at least before smelting (it takes roughly 22ish hours to fully fill its reserves)
@@potato_noir ok thanks
my hopper minecart always gets stuck in the last water block??
That block on the end needs to be a non-transparent block and not glass, leaves, etc in order for the cart to bounce back I believe. Let me know if that wasn't the issue though
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Sometimes the bamboo in front of the observer won't grow? how would i fix that
It should always be growing if exposed to the sky. Sometimes it will be a little slower but it shouldn't ever be completely stopped. It should go pretty frequently on average
Works on bedrock?
does this work in bedrock? I see it's a java build but didn't know if the mechanics worked the same
I would be willing to bet no, although I don't know for sure. Sorry!
I just built it in survival on Bedrock Edition. I am having an issue though. Since we cannot hotkey all of a type of item into a chest minecart, we need to create a minecart loading system. I've come up with a way to do it using a hopper minecart that fills itself from a chest above it. The redstone logic sends the hopper minecart out once either the chest is empty, or the hopper minecart is full. The issue that I have run into is that the hopper minecaft with the smeltable items sometimes runs next to the hopper minecart delivering the bamboo and manages to snag some of it, so then the furnaces can end up with bamboo in the smelting slot. I am currently working on a system that uses a chest minecart that allows us to load it manually, sending it out once we are done loading. Let me know if you attempt to build it in Bedrock!
@@parkerlee7757 interesting mechanics, seems like the chest minecart would be a good simple option to get it done. I did come up with an alternate loader on Java to load shulkers into it, but it was a little too clunky. Wish I could be more help but I can't focus on bedrock at this time... Best of luck though, sounds like you've gotten the hang of things!
is there a way to get the xp output from the farm
After a while you could lock/break the hoppers underneath and then manually take the item out to get the accumulated xp, but honestly, if you can build this farm then you're probably better off just building a standard enderman XP farm instead for that purpose
Really nice, easy to build and cheap furnace array! I really like it. Perfect for your first base on a small server or in single player.
There are multiple ways this furnace array might fail, which I think is fine because that fits the design philosophy of keeping it simple. However there is one way the furnace array breaks, that I find rather unintuitive. If all the bamboo buffer chests and hoppers above are completely filled and the minecart has items left in it, it will never leave that part again and will never refill the furnaces again although there is plenty bamboo left. That is because the smart system moving the cart back and forth over the hoppers will never let it out again.
There are two easy ways of fixing that I have in mind. One is an override to the detection system that keeps the minecraft in that bamboo buffer part when the hopper of the first chest is completely filled. That will keep the cart moving around making sure the furnaces get refilled. The other one is to use two hopper minecarts. One for grabbing the bamboo from the farm and putting it into the buffer chests. And another one for distributing the bamboo from the buffer storage to the furnaces.
If you are interested I can show you my ideas just hit me up. Otherwise as I said really nice and simple design!
Really great analysis, and exactly how I feel about things too. My original idea was to go with a more simplistic/approachable design since the overflow stuck cart is really easy to manually reset, but I should have mentioned this in the video. In hindsight I think you and the other person who commented are right in that it needs overflow protection.
The way I'm thinking is to put lever powered dust into the side of the overflow comparator and switching it to subtract mode. This wouldn't be automatic exactly, but would be a good solution considering the manual input of items anyway. You would input your items to smelt, then go and throw the lever for a few seconds for the cart to go back through.
I just did some tinkering and I got a system using a chest comparator working as well, but the only downside of this is it doesn't let you store 5 more stacks in the hoppers as quickly. I think two separate hopper minecarts is likely the best way out of all of these, but I'd need to spend a few more minutes redesigning things
I am having problem with the second comparator system , even if the hopper minecart is full it will go on and never reach the storage system
Did you build the front of the farm facing east like in the tutorial? A few of the rail systems are directional and need slight modifications when not in this orientation
Also I have help channels in my discord where it would be easier to see what's wrong with a photo or video
thanks so much, i will try tomorrow
@@potato_noir WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE TO SAY THAT MORE THAN ONCE PROBABLY
i cant get the flying machine to work automatically, ive downloaded your world and it also doesnt work
What version are you in? The world download hasn't seen any changes and should be working. You can also hop into my discord and send photos/videos in the help channel, might be better to assist you there
@@potato_noir I’ve figured it out in your discord server thx
how many blocks is the farm tall in the height?
Not sure about the exact number of the top of my head, feel free to check the world download though. Probably like 15-20ish
nice even i could built it! DONT PUT ITEMS IN BEFORE THE BAMBOO IS FILLED at least some because ma whole thing clogged ``
How do you turn on the comparator (make it light up) at 14:35
I know you put something in the compostor but I don’t know how many
@@trumanvanhulzen1346I talk about it at that point of the video right there. You need one stack of items in the hopper which will give an output from that comparator and light it up
@@potato_noir okay thanks I was just pausing every second because I was following and it was really fast so I didn’t hear that
material list was wrong and you went a little fast imo
can build it in my basement or does it have to be exposed to the sun?
Bamboo just requires a light level of 9 or greater to grow! That's what the wiki says, so you could build it underground
thanks, one more question when you say build the chests facing east do you mean the front of the chest should face east or while putting the chest i should be facing east @@potato_noir
@@zdmnl4628 the front of the chests should be facing towards the east!
thank you so much i will start building it now!!
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Does this work on bedrock?
It wouldn't be impossible to get working on bedrock, but I unfortunately don't have the time available to make farms for both versions right now. There's almost certainly a few redstone differences so that it wouldn't work as is
Will this farm work on Bedrock 1.20?
I can't say for sure as there's a lot of redstone here, but if I had to bet I'd say probably not. I think the rails and rail redstone is likely different. You could play around in creative and possibly come up with a fix though
@@potato_noir Yeah it won't work on Bedrock, since water can break the rails. But still, some parts of the build can work.
HOW DOES THIS MAN NOT HAVE ATLEAST 100k?!
Not only does he explain how it works, he gives a tutorial in the video. top notch content right here folks
Someone gets it :D Thanks!!
Im consufed on the build the chests facing east?
Do i have to orient the entire build for that part to be facing east?
plz potato i must know!
@@poogs909 if you orient the build in the East-West cardinal direction, the T intersection rails will snap exactly as is shown in the tutorial. I talk about this some and how you can get around that issue if you want the farm to face North-South later on in the tutorial though
@@potato_noir thanks!
so hard to follow this tutorial. "2 lines of hoppers".. paus and counting everything.
Isn't this setup very laggy? 200+ hoppers sounds very bad
It can be without optimization mods or with a lot of lag around where you build it. If you can power the hoppers when not using the farm it will be much better though. I mentioned this in my 1.21 version of this farm showcase
I just built it in survival, works great, however I have some more notes for others who would like to build it as well. @@potato_noir
#1 The farm has a cooldown. If you try smelting stuff and furnaces have < 3 bamboo, the farm will soft lock itself. This is because smelting any item takes 4 bamboo, and the furnaces will consume the bamboo before it gets to smelt the item if it has < 4.
#2 This design specifically can smelt at most 16 stacks, then the cooldown mentioned in #1 applies.
These are not major drawbacks, just things I felt needed to be mentioned
@@brainofeu it will actually be able to smelt more than that at once if all the hoppers are full! 6 x 64 = 384 bamboo / 4 = 96 items per furnace, or 96 stacks total (and it should refill some in that time so you will even get a few more than that). Also my new 1.21 version uses bamboo crafted into planks to not soft lock itself when you smelt too many items! They are a much better fuel source
would it kill you to explain the block placement a little better
If you look at other comments saying similar things, you'd see that I actually changed my whole tutorial style to first person after this video because of feedback :)
@@potato_noir legend thanks man
can i automate the flying machine
It's already automated!
@@potato_noir oh ok thanks.
Just gave a headace tbh doesnt work still.
What sort of issues are you having? I can almost certainly help
For real man, i swear to god and Im an atheist, what's wrong with the camera movements + shaders, nightmare to count up the railing system... Good desing tho !
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