Rovers, welcome once again. I want to speak a bit on the subject of food. If you play survival mode you will find that food is integral to your success. If you keep yourself full on food, your health with regenerate after a fall or a fight.
If you band together with other players on a multiplayer server, you'll all need food. You don't want to have to sit around tending a farm all the time. You don't want to spend time harvesting entire fields. You want the final product so you can make some food. Then you can keep roving!
It is all about the roving.
It all starts with a field 8x8 or smaller. I usually go with an 8x8 lot because it takes an entire stack of seeds to plant and usually produces a full stack of wheat every harvest.
You then cut a channel down both sides and fill it with water. I then cover the irrigation ditches with half slabs so that you can walk gently into the field. Jumping will break wheat and un-till the ground beneath it.
You need an 8x8 or smaller field because the water will only irrigate 4 blocks away.
You then build enough pistons to reach across. Above the pistons, build a reservoir to hold some water. When the pistons are extended, they will hold the water up. You can see the red stone circuit that will activate the pistons. In this circuit you want that redstone to be active, flipping a lever should turn it off starting the water works.
The water will carry your harvest down to the from of the plot.
At the front of the plot, you need another channel. This will have water flowing down from the irrigation ditches. Somewhere in the middle break a path for the items to gather in.
This is what you want in that path. A hopper feeding into a line of droppers. At the top of the droppers, place your chest. Yet again, we need to feed this.red stone circuit so the droppers will feed the items up the tower.
To power the hoppers, just like with our furnace example, you'll want to build a clock circuit. Put two items in the hopper and watch for it to blink the circuit on and off rapidly. If it doesn't, reclaim the items and put them in the other hopper.
You can then run this directly to the droppers and alternate block - redstone torch - block to bring the power up the line of droppers.
Or you can run the clock into a block, and run back a circuit from the level that powers the pistons. then have the resulting power flow into the droppers. This would turn the droppers on only when you have the water running.
If you feel that 8x8 isn't big enough you can place multiple farms in a row and flow the collected goods into a single chest using a line of hoppers. Remember that pressing shift and clicking on the correct face of your target will direct the hopper's output correctly.
You can even have them all run off the same switch!
This is how the harvest works.
The only downside is you still have to manually plant the field. Even rovers have to do a little work sometimes...
But the gains are truly worth it.
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