Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-90.194.183.90-20130216112216

On the server I built this on, block breakers are banned so I needed to revise the design slightly. What I came up with is actually pretty much the same thing as the vanilla farm, but using the redstone cables, I was able to keep it compact - ignore the two outer streams of water and replace the breakers with normal pistons instead. Sometimes items get stuck, but the majority of it get sent down the water stream. Then I just put an obsidian pipe at the end of the middle stream and skipped ahead to the auto crafting table.

Additionally, I've not got a skeleton farm yet so while I build it, I changed the setup again for the wheat farm. I just added a lot of time to the water release delay so the wheat has about a day to grow (5 minutes, divided by three as I'm using all three outputs to minimise water-run time). It's far from efficient, which is why I'm working on a mob grinder now (which will live underneath all this stuff) using this design: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/File:MinimalFarm.png with a lava stream suspended over a water stream below, which will feed into a piping system, filtering out the bones into an automatic crafting table.

Other than that, this guide was very helpful in teaching me about the machines in Tekkit, so thank you very much. The pictures definitely helped, as sometimes I didn't quite understand your instructions (very new to Tekkit). I hope my comments above help other players with similar restrictions :) 