Farming for Blockheads

## **Synopsis**

Farming for Blockheads adds a bunch of helpful items which make managing your animals and crops a bit more efficient.

## **The Market**

 The Market is a custom shop which has an endless supply of all of its goods. The trades are configurable and up to the modpack maker. In SkyFactory 4, here is a list of what you can buy:

* Seeds
* Melon Seeds
* Pumpkin Seeds
* Beetroot Seeds
* Chicken Seeds
* Cow Seeds
* Donkey Seeds
* Horse Seeds
* Llama Seeds
* Mooshroom Seeds
* Ocelot Seeds
* Parrot Seeds
* Pig Seeds
* Polar Bear Seeds
* Rabbit Seeds
* Sheep Seeds
* Villager Seeds
* Wolf Seeds
* Adèlie Penguin Seeds
* Carrot Seeds
* Potato Seeds
* Sugar Cane Seeds
* Apple Seeds
* Corn Seeds
* Cucumber Seeds
* Lettuce Seeds
* Pepper Seeds
* Rice Seeds
* Strawberry Seeds
* Tomato Seeds (XL)
* Tomato Seeds (Rustic)
* Chili Pepper Seeds
* Oak Sapling
* Spruce Sapling
* Birch Sapling
* Jungle Sapling
* Acacia Sapling
* Dark Oak Sapling
* Olive Sapling
* Ironwood Sapling
* Dandelion
* Poppy
* Blue Orchid
* Allium
* Azure Bluet
* Red Tulip
* Orange Tulip
* White Tulip
* Pink Tulip
* Oxeye Daisy
* Vanilla Flower
* Mushroom (brown)
* Mushroom (red)
* Raw Beef
* Cactus
* Raw Chicken
* Egg
* Feather
* Raw Mutton
* Raw Porkchop
* Rabbit’s Foot
* Rabbit Hide
* Raw Rabbit
* Grape Seeds
* Wildberry Bush
* Blood Orchid
* Aloe Vera
* Bee

## **Live Stock**

**Chicken Nests:**

 Place a Chicken Nest in with your chickens. It will automatically collect any eggs they lay within a small range. Each Chicken Nest can only hold 4 eggs at a time. Shift right click on a nest with an empty hand to take an egg out of the nest. Eggs can also be removed with hoppers.

**Feeding Troughs:**

 Feeding Troughs feed nearby animals. Place food in a Feeding Trough by right clicking on the trough with the food in hand. Shift right click on the trough with an empty hand to take the food out of the trough. The Feeding Trough will automatically feed all animals within a small range the food which it is holding if and only if the nearby animal can be bred with that food. This is essentially a method of having your livestock breed automatically off cooldown.

## **Farmland And Crops**

Farming for Blockheads adds three types of fertilizer:

**Red Fertilizer:** Speeds up crop growth

**Green Fertilizer:** Increases crop output

**Yellow Fertilizer:** Prevents trampling

To use any variant of fertilizer, right click on tilled farmland with the fertilizer in hand. While looking at farmland, you can tell what kind of fertilizer has been used on it by looking at the block ID of the block you are looking at. This will depend on your WAILA settings but if you have the default settings, you will see the following block IDs corresponding to the fertilized soil you are looking at at the top of your screen:

**Vanilla Farmland:** minecraft:farmland

**Farmland + Red Fertilizer:**

farmingforblockheads:fertilized\_farmland\_healthy

**Farmland + Green Fertilizer:**

farmingforblockheads:fertilized\_farmland\_rich

**Farmland + Yellow Fertilizer:**

farmingforblockheads:fertilized\_farmland\_stable

**Farmland + Red Fertilizer + Any Fertilizer:**

farmingforblockheads:fertilized\_farmland\_healthy\_stable

**Farmland + Green Fertilizer + Any Fertilizer:**

farmingforblockheads:fertilized\_farmland\_rich\_stable

If you fertilize farmland which has already been fertilized with Red or Green Fertilizer with any fertilizer, it will add the effect of the Yellow Fertilizer to the farmland. You can also use Yellow Fertilizer on farmland first and then add Red or Green fertilizer. You cannot add the effects of both Red and Green fertilizer to farmland.

**Tests:**

Reading the documentation to you is great and all but what does it all actually mean? Below are the results of some tests that I ran to determine which fertilizer is truly the BEST fertilizer.

**Test 1:  1 hour, 9x9 plot, harvested automatically using Cyclic Harvester**

Vanilla Plot: 75 wheat, 285 seeds

Red Plot: 238 wheat, 1083 seeds

Green Plot: 66 wheat, 215 seeds

Yellow Plot: 69 wheat, 257 seeds

Red Yellow Plot: 308 wheat, 1,144 seeds

Green Yellow Plot: 60 wheat, 223 seeds

**Conclusion of Test 1:**

1. Red Fertilizer increases crop growth to about 3x speed

2. Yellow Fertilizer does not affect crop growth at all

3. any benefits that Green Fertilizer has with regard to drop rates does not work while using the Cyclic Harvester to automatically harvest crops

**Test 2: Harvest a 9x9 Field of Full Grown Wheat with an Empty Hand**

Vanilla Plot: 79 wheat, 132 seeds

Red Plot: 80 wheat, 122 seeds

Green Plot: 160 wheat, 260 seeds

Yellow Plot: 80 wheat, 129 seeds

Red Yellow Plot: 80 wheat, 132 seeds

Green Yellow Plot: 159 wheat, 158 seeds

**Conclusion of Test 2:**

1. Red and Yellow Fertilizer have no significant effect on crop drop rates

2. Green Fertilizer’s drop rate bonus only applies when the crop is broken by a player

3. Green Fertilizer’s drop rate bonus is about 2x the vanilla drop rate

**Final Conclusion:**

Based on the information I found, you should always choose **Red Fertilizer.** This is especially true if you want to fully automate your farms because the bonus drop rate of Green Fertilize only applies when the player is the one to break the crops. Even if the player breaks the crops, my theorized rates of 3x growth rate vs 2x drop rate would mean that you still get more crops using Red Fertilizer, though you do have to harvest more often.

It should be noted that the tests I ran are not very extensive and do not have exceptionally accurate results. There are certainly small variations based on chance which would be resolved if I ran the tests 1000 times and took the average.