Codex Processing Agricultural Facility

Agricultural Facility

The Agricultural Facility is an indoor farm. Crops, bushes, sugar cane, pumpkins, nether wart and even trees grow in planter beds on its floor, up to eight times as fast as outside, and a harvest bridge under the roof brings in what is ripe. The plants grow inside the beds, never as blocks in the world, so the facility works in any dimension and at any light level.

How it works

1. Seeds and saplings come in through the Item Input Port into the nine input slots. Once a second, every empty bed takes one that suits it.
2. All planted beds grow at once, stage by stage, as long as there is energy (and water for plants that need it).
3. A harvest bridge drives to the nearest ripe bed and harvests it. One seed of the harvest goes straight back into the bed.
4. The harvest goes into the twelve output slots, from where pipes take it through the Item Output Port.

Building

Shown size: 9 wide, 4 high, 9 deep (adjustable: Width 5–17, Height 4–6, Depth 5–17).

One example of many: within the rules on this page, size and arrangement are up to you; the Build Projector shows the plan in every allowed size.

	Key	Block	Count
	A	Industrial Casing	203
	D	Planter Bed	49
	B	Industrial Sight Glass	13
	F	Grow Light	4
	H	Energy Input Hatch (Tier 2)	1
	G	Fluid Input Port	1
	I	Harvest Bridge Drive	1
	C	Item Input Port	1
	E	Item Output Port	1
	0	Agricultural Facility Controller	1

Step by step

Each picture adds one layer, from the bottom up; the newest layer is bright. The controller wall faces you on the left.

Step 1: Layer 1

Parts in this step: Industrial Casing (A) ×81

Step 2: Layer 2

Parts in this step: Planter Bed (D) ×49, Industrial Casing (A) ×21, Industrial Sight Glass (B) ×6, Agricultural Facility Controller (0) ×1, Energy Input Hatch (Tier 2) (H) ×1, Fluid Input Port (G) ×1, Item Input Port (C) ×1, Item Output Port (E) ×1

Step 3: Layer 3

Parts in this step: Industrial Casing (A) ×24, Industrial Sight Glass (B) ×7, Harvest Bridge Drive (I) ×1

Step 4: Layer 4

Parts in this step: Industrial Casing (A) ×77, Grow Light (F) ×4

Rules

• Size: 5 to 17 wide, 4 to 6 high, 5 to 17 deep. The facility finds its size by itself, starting from the block behind the controller.
• Edges and corners: only Industrial Casing.
• Walls, floor and roof: Industrial Casing, Industrial Sight Glass, Grow Lights, Harvest Bridge Drives, ports and the controller.
• Inside: beds only on the lowest layer of the inside (they may cover all of it); everything above them is air.
• Needed: at least one bed.
• Grow Lights: at least one for every 16 beds (started), in the walls or the roof.
• Harvest Bridge Drives: at least one, and at most one for every 64 beds (started). Every drive runs its own bridge.
• Energy Input Hatches: up to 4.
• Controller: in a wall face (not on an edge), front facing out, with the inside directly behind it.
• Ports: Item Input Port (seeds, saplings and fertilizer in), Item Output Port (harvest out), Fluid Input Port (water) and Energy Input Hatches. Every port works only on its outer face.

The beds

Bed	What grows on it
Planter Bed	crops, bushes, stems and trees
Nether Planter Bed	plants in the block tag qnet:beds/soul_sand (nether wart)
Desert Planter Bed	plants in the block tag qnet:beds/sand (cactus, sugar cane)

A seed only goes into a bed of the right kind; mix the beds for a mixed farm.

What grows

• Crops with growth stages (wheat, carrots, potatoes, beetroot and the crops of other mods): harvested ripe, one seed is replanted.
• Bushes such as sweet berries: they stay planted and grow back.
• Columns such as sugar cane and cactus: they stay planted.
• Stems (pumpkin, melon and the stems of other mods): no free spot next to the stem is needed. Once the stem is grown, the fruit grows on the bed itself, from small to ripe; the bridge takes the fruit and the stem stays.
• Trees: the saplings of the growth profiles (oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark oak, mangrove, cherry). A tree grows for a fixed time and gives logs, sticks, saplings and more; one sapling is replanted.

Plants are found the same way as by the Farming Station. A data pack can add more with crop rules and with growth profiles in data/<namespace>/qnet/growth_profile/: a profile sets the growth chance and the water need of a plant, or the time and the yield of a tree.

Growth

• Every stage takes as long on average as it would outside at the normal random tick speed, divided by the growth speed. Outside, a crop moves on a stage on one random tick in three, a bush on one in five, a column on one in sixteen; profiles can change that (nether wart grows slower).
• The growth speed is set with the - and + buttons: ×1 to ×8. It applies to all beds.
• Plants that need water use 20 mB for every finished stage. Plants on soul sand, cactus and profiles without water need none. A plant that needs water does not grow on an empty tank.
• The water tank holds 32,000 mB and only takes water.

Energy

Every growing bed uses energy in every tick; ripe and empty beds use none. All growing beds grow together, only when the buffer holds enough for all of them; otherwise nothing grows in that tick. The energy grows faster than the speed:

Growth	×1	×2	×3	×4	×5	×6	×7	×8
E per tick and bed	50	157	308	496	718	971	1,253	1,563

At ×1 a bed uses 50 E/t; at ×8 it grows 8 times as fast for 31.25 times the energy. The buffer holds 2,000,000 E.

Important

The example needs more than its hatch The 49 beds of the example use 2,450 E per tick at ×1; its tier 2 hatch lets in 8,000 E/t, enough up to ×2. With a smaller hatch the beds grow only in some ticks. For ×8 use tier 4 (512,000 E/t) or several tier 3 hatches.

The harvest bridge

• A bridge drives to the nearest ripe bed (3 ticks for every block of distance) and harvests it in 0.5 seconds. Two bridges never go for the same bed.
• The yield is what the ripe plant would drop when broken; trees give the results of their growth profile.
• One seed (or sapling) of the yield goes back into the bed. If the yield has none, the bed is left empty.
• Fertilizer: with Bio Fertilizer in its slot, every harvest uses one and gives a 25 % chance for one more of each product (never of the seed). The chance comes in a fixed rhythm: exactly every fourth harvest of that product.
• When the harvest does not fit into the outputs, the bridge waits at the bed.

The screen

• Bars for energy and water.
• Nine input slots, the fertilizer slot and twelve output slots.
• The status line, the bed line ("12 of 49 beds planted, 3 ripe") and the growth line with its - and + buttons ("Growth x2 (… E/t per bed)": the speed and the energy of one growing bed).

What the status line says

Status	Meaning
Growing	The facility runs.
Waiting for energy	The buffer holds less than the growing beds need; nothing grows.
No water	A plant that needs water waits for the tank.
Output full – take the products out	A bridge cannot put its harvest into the outputs.

Automation

• Pipes put seeds, saplings and Bio Fertilizer in through the Item Input Port, and water through the Fluid Input Port. Only items that grow in a bed (or fertilizer) are accepted.
• Items can only be taken out of the output slots.
• A Grid Monitor can pause the facility.

Error messages

Message	What to do
The controller must sit in a wall, front facing out	Put the controller into a wall face, front outwards, with the inside behind it.
Structure too small (…) / Structure too large or not closed near …	Keep to the sizes in the rules and close every wall.
Wrong block at … (expected: Industrial Casing)	Only Industrial Casing on edges and corners.
Wrong block at … (expected: Air, Planter bed (any kind))	Only beds or air on the lowest layer of the inside.
Wrong block at … (expected: Air)	Nothing above the beds.
Missing parts: Grow Light ×…	Add Grow Lights: one for every started 16 beds.
Missing parts: Harvest Bridge Drive ×1	Put a Harvest Bridge Drive into a wall.
Missing parts: bed ×1	Put at least one bed on the floor.
Too many ports of one kind	At most 4 Energy Input Hatches, and at most one Harvest Bridge Drive for every started 64 beds.
Port not allowed here	Only item ports, the Fluid Input Port and Energy Input Hatches work.

Breaking it

If a wall block breaks, the plants stay in the beds' memory and grow on once the facility forms again. If you break the controller, the slots drop and every planted bed gives back its seed; what grew is lost.

In the world

The plants stand in the beds with their real look and grow stage by stage. The carriage of the harvest bridge glides under the roof to the ripe beds, and while the beds grow with water a fine mist falls below it.

Building the controller and the beds

			→ Agricultural Facility Controller

Dirt	Dirt	Dirt	→ Planter Bed
Planks		Planks

Tip

Speed costs more than room 8 times the speed costs 31.25 times the energy. If you have the room, a larger facility at a lower speed gives the same harvest for far less energy.