I have this setup (elevated about 100 blocks above bedrock)
the floor is lvl 98
Could someone please help me figure out what I have wrong?
Need help with crossbreeding
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Can you state what the problem is? I don't see anything here except an overabundance of weeds, in that case apply weed-ex liberally about once every 1-3 hours on crop blocks with no crops in them
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You could increase crop height to max (255), keep watching your crops and do not use weed-ex , remove glowstone roof (crops grow faster if they have direct skylight) , move to swamp biome (crops also grow faster if they are in that biome, and grow slower if they are on icy/desert biomes).
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It looks a bit like your Crop-Matron is too high over the plants!?!
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It looks a bit like your Crop-Matron is too high over the plants!?!
Bingo!
Move crop matron down one block.
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And consider this -- the more reeds you have adjacent to each crossbreeder, the less likely it is that you will crossbreed anything but more reeds.
And do your reeds have a ludicrously growth stat? High-growth plants tend to spawn weeds at an alarming pace. (And i'm not sure how necessary it is to remove the glowstone -- those are considered transparent, like glass, so they shouldn't affect sunlight.)
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Bingo!
Move crop matron down one block.
Not quite, as it has been using the hydro cells and fertilizer, going through about 7 stacks of fertalizer overall. The cropmatrons aren't too high, and they are working properly.
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You are crossbreeding by planting crop blocks on crop blocks right? Because by the look of your setup it seems that weeds are growing 100% of the time, at worst my crops at ground level have gotten weeds 65-70% of the time
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You need to plant your reeds on the crop-sticks, not on plain ground, in addition then they won't grow higher than the "crop-block" (no need for the covers above).
Between two crop-planted reeds, put a cross-breading crop-stick (put two regular crop-sticks on one block, that will add horizontal sticks there).
Given some time, adjacent plants will cross-bread on the prepared block.
Have in mind that weeds can still grow on the cross-breading crop-sticks, and then spread to other crop-planted plants if left unattended for too long.
As the crop-sticks need to be put on farmland, you can put water source every 5th block between them (even reeds don't need to be next to water when planted on crop-sticks). -
Upon further inspection from this guy
QuoteYou need to plant your reeds on the crop-sticks, not on plain ground, in addition then they won't grow higher than the "crop-block" (no need for the covers above).
Are your reeds even on crop sticks?
