This is just a bit of a pre video warning to say that in this video
I say the words piston and feed tape an awful. Lot. So just prepare yourself
So as you guys may not know recently on the Hermit craft server
I've been working on an absolutely massive sheep farm. Now this thing is going to built in the industrial district
And it is made up of 16 different modules each one of them is a piston feed tape that cycles around grass
Now the idea is simple the sheep eat the grass which turns it into dirt that is
Detected by the observer which sends a pulse through our piston feed tape that then cycles the grass around
So they have a fresh block of grass underneath now although. I really like this idea. I think it's absolutely awesome
I do feel like the one that I built on hermitcraft could do with a tiny bit of improvement
So I headed back off to the drawing board
I went into my redstone testing world, and I came up with a completely new design that is absolutely enormous
Now I guess the first obvious difference is the fact that this design does not use horizontal piston feed tapes instead
It uses slightly larger vertical piston feed tapes but
The main mechanics are exactly the same when the sheep eat the grass then it just switches around the piston feed tape and the sheep get
A new set of grass so they can eat it and it continues cycling around like that
but one of the main issues
With using a vertical piston feed tape is of course if you place a block on top of grass
then it turns back into
Dirt and when you have a piston feed tape that is vertical that means you have grass blocks on top of grass blocks
So I've had to do some extra piston action to make all of this function
So if you want to harvest wool from these guys all you have to do is walk up to them when they have the water dispensed,
You just hold down the right click button with your shears and as you can see we grabbed all of the wool
That's nice and simple. Now when we want to replenish their wool we just turn off the water and eventually one of them will
Decide to take a bite out of the grass underneath them and that will cycle through all of the grass and as you see it
Will fire through pushing that dirt across. Now the way that we stopped the grass from being destroyed inside the piston feed tape
is we move them at using pistons
You can see we've got the piston feed tape going around like this
And then we have these pistons right here which actually move the blocks across
Just as the piston feed tape fires
So when this thing cycles round these pistons extend which pushes the blocks across
Then the cycles round and then they get retracted back so that this grass can actually be replenished
It's a little complicated and it's very difficult to explain
But it works absolutely perfectly so now that we understand how all of the redstone works
And we've seen all of the redstone mechanics behind it. Does it actually function well as a wool farm.
Is it a good alternative to like your standard wool farms that you often see in people's bases
The short answer is yes, and no. The yes side is because it looks really really cool
And it's very simple to shear all of the sheep that you've got but the no side is this thing is massive
This thing is incredibly laggy, so if you built this thing inside your base
And you're on the server often that I think the people that run the server would probably be a little bit upset with you
But most importantly you can only have around about six sheep per color
If you have any more sheep than that then unfortunately
The cycle happens a little bit too quickly, and you end up with dirt coming back through the system
Which really does cause issues with efficiency because then of course you have to wait for the dirt to turn back into grass
So you can update so it moves all of the piston feed tape along once again, so you can continue the cycle
Basically it's a massive awesome looking slightly terrible wool farm.
Having said all of that, this was a really fun project to work on and
I'm really quite happy with the end product and of course there is a world download down in the description
for anyone who does want to check this thing out a little bit more detail just chuck it into your Minecraft world save folder and
Take a look around, see you all of the redstone mechanics and see what sort of frame rate you get
While this thing is up and running, but unfortunately ladies and gentleman that is all I've got time for today
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