Keeping the crop matron fed?

    My crop matron seems to be going through an inordinate amount of supplies. I dropped a stack and a half of fertilizer in it, realized I forgot the hydration cells, and when I got back with the hydration cells the fertilizer was all used up.


    Will this behaviour be less gluttonous once I feed it enough supplies, or is there some way to slow it down?

    Well, yes, it uses at least one fertilizer for every crop thing in its range immediately.


    But even once they're all fertilized it goes though fertilizer stupidly fast. You need a pretty high output scrap generator to even think about keeping them fed for more than a couple hours.

    If you want to keep it fed at all do a skeleton farm for bones and use a few mining turtles as cobblestone generators for keeping the recycler fed. You can also use an autocrafting table to make the scrap.

    And so is the latest IC2 version. ;)
    And to my knowledge the bug has still not been fixed: as soon as the chunk with the Matron is unloaded and then loaded again, all crops in that area will be fertilized again, draining huge amounts on input.