Best crop for wax production

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Best crop for wax production

Postby NeoBasilisk » Thu Mar 31, 2016 7:58 am

I am assuming that the best crop for wax production is either carrots or beetroots, due to their fast growing speed. Some may say beetroots, because you get extra fodder for animals, but don't carrots have an extra growth stage, so wouldn't carrots produce more wax per harvest cycle than beetroots because of that?
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Re: Best crop for wax production

Postby Ukhata » Thu Mar 31, 2016 8:11 am

carrots is indeed better than beetroots for wax.
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Re: Best crop for wax production

Postby caasi117 » Thu Mar 31, 2016 12:06 pm

while carrots are the easiest, the best would be four trellis on one block, to build all of them and for the plants to grow might take a while it is far faster once that is done
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somthing like that but with only four hives
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Re: Best crop for wax production

Postby Ukhata » Thu Mar 31, 2016 2:03 pm

how the hell do you harvest the middle 2?
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Re: Best crop for wax production

Postby lachlaan » Thu Mar 31, 2016 2:10 pm

Their harvest position is pretty far off center. Had trouble with it being sideways harvesting and not from all directions, but that tightly packed you can harvest from the sides.
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Re: Best crop for wax production

Postby Redkat » Thu Mar 31, 2016 2:14 pm

I tried it and gave up. I couldnt make it work. Any tips on what I did wrong ? oh and how do you destroy the plant ?
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Re: Best crop for wax production

Postby lachlaan » Thu Mar 31, 2016 2:17 pm

No idea on destroying the plant, I believe that's an issue, and that the person that posted that farm only did it for the wax. Harvesting however is doable with that setup, just gotta rotate the same way and ctrl-place them as close as possible.
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Re: Best crop for wax production

Postby MagicManICT » Thu Mar 31, 2016 2:37 pm

I get you can harvest all 4 from the side on the outer most edges of a row, but how do you get to the ones inside that?

Also, not all trellis plants are sped up by having hives. With your description, I'm going to say it's not peas because they require replanting every harvest and have a relatively slow growing time, even under the hive. This leaves cucumbers and grapes. (Don't recall off top of my head if peppercorn is included.)

While this might be more compact than a carrot farm, I'm not finding numbers on the growth cycles and stages for the eligible trellis plants to say it actually produces more.

I'm just a lowly hermit, so I really don't have the need to save space or produce this much wax. I just am not seeing that the numbers add up to be better. If they do, then this is actually more efficient to feed livestock, too.
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Re: Best crop for wax production

Postby Redkat » Thu Mar 31, 2016 3:25 pm

from picture I can tell you its peppercorn
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Re: Best crop for wax production

Postby bolognaman » Thu Mar 31, 2016 4:04 pm

MagicManICT wrote:I get you can harvest all 4 from the side on the outer most edges of a row, but how do you get to the ones inside that?

http://a.pomf.cat/jlryzh.mp4
Make sure they're built in the right direction (the build sign faces towards the tile that you want to harvest from). Planting works the same way. I've also been told that you can fit 5 on a tile, but haven't tried it myself.
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