My Crazy Kelp Factory

[YellowGreenCraft]

I will have fuel till the end of time


This is one unit (i have 9 of them)



They work on this simple cactus timer



The furnace is connected to the silo storage with minecarts, there will be a second furnace as soon as i can figure out the how to rails it up



This is another viewpoint



The backside of the storage

Now i will be working on making it all pleasant for the eye and then we can tart smelting tons of netherrack

Thank you for watching

 

[Captain_Marko]

Oh my! I'm always amazed by the ingenuity of folks!

 

[Rosleen]

I am obsessed with your cactus timer!

 

[YellowGreenCraft]

That timer is great and super easy/cheap to build...

 

[Schematix]

Timers that make low impact farms are great I like automatic farms so I can set and forget, but I also don't like that automatic farms are pretty much always running. Slow activation cycles, like a block dropper timer or this cute cactus timer are great. I also hate how you have to make an industrial complex just to make villager stuff practical. I need more conveyor belts and inserters.

 

[Toonies]

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD HEAL UP, MAN!

Also, nice factory.

 

[EZWoodWorker]

Love the cactus timer. I guess the simple kelp farmI was planning is going to have to grow up.

 

[YellowGreenCraft]

Too bad, it is still not big enough to have a positive outcome the number of kelp blocks i have i use to smelt the kelps to make blocks from, it's a real bummer, also what i noticed is that a lot of kelp doesn't float to the top but just sits there and despawns.




I am now going to ad 9 more units this weekend, that is 270 kelp plants that should yield me a positive result in kelp blocks

 

[B01E]

You might not have turned the water blocks into source blocks. My tanks are 21 blocks tall, and I just added water from the top, but that made some of the items move down instead of up. But planting kelp all the way to the top by hand, makes all the water blocks into source block, and that made everything float to the top. My only problem is fish spawning in the tank, and the occasional drowned, but other than that, it works perfect.

 

[Gwydz]

Too bad, it is still not big enough to have a positive outcome the number of kelp blocks i have i use to smelt the kelps to make blocks from,
I am now going to ad 9 more units this weekend, that is 270 kelp plants that should yield me a positive result in kelp blocks

I was wondering what the return ratio was - it’s like plug-in electric cars, you have to burn coal to make the electricity...so what’s the net balance? Don’t get me wrong - I drive a Prius - but there is a ratio. Let me know if 270 plants yields positive results because I’d like to try the same thing.

 

[B01E]

I have 84 plants, and I get about a chestful of kelp per ~1,5 hours. I use 48 blocks (432 pieces) of kelp to burn 960 kelp, that turn into 106 blocks of kelp. So from 48 I get 106, a yield of 58 blocks each burn cycle.

But I have a 48 oven array to burn this. If I had a 2 oven auto system, I wouldn't bother with kelp, and just burn coal and wood.

 

[YellowGreenCraft]

I was wondering what the return ratio was - it’s like plug-in electric cars, you have to burn coal to make the electricity...so what’s the net balance? Don’t get me wrong - I drive a Prius - but there is a ratio. Let me know if 270 plants yields positive results because I’d like to try the same thing.

When you said i drive a Prius i immediately when to this