Farming Guide

Farming in Cultivated Tech is almost the same as regular vanilla, with the only difference being the speed increases you can add and the new crops you can grow.

Normal Crops
You always want to grow your crops on Industrial Soil, as it will increase the speed at which the planted crop will grow. Since the tier 1 Sprinkler only does a 3x3 area, you generally don't want to use it for you main farms as the area is much to small. The tier 2 Sprinkler however is much better, as it will do a 7x7, meaning you can have a lot more crops being affected by both the Industrial Soil growth and the Sprinkler growth.

Remember that the Industrial Hemp and the Industrial Sugarcane both require 5 blocks of height to reach their maximum growth.

Scorch
The Scorch needs to be grown on lava hydrated Industrial Soil. You need to be careful around the plants, since they will damage any mobs or players that step on them. The Sprinkler will still work with the lava hydrated Industrial Soil, but since you're only growing the one crop, its more efficient to use the tier 1 Sprinkler.

Plus the brick design of the tier 1 Sprinkler ties in nicely with the Nether-esque theme.

Withered Brick
While not a crop, the Withered Brick can be a right pain to make, so I thought I'd chuck in a vanilla auto smelter design for anyone who doesn't feel like smelting the same thing 8 times manually (I know I don't).

Not something you'd go building straight up, since it requires a few hoppers and a comparator, the Auto Smelter is still a nice and convenient way to not have to worry about your brick smelting, while still being reasonably compact. You'd generally build it into or along a wall, since its a vertical design (as furnaces only accept inputs from the top). The input chest at the top is where you put your vanilla bricks, which then travel down the left row of furnaces. After reaching the bottom it triggers a comparator, which makes the dropper shoot the item into the glass above it, making it travel upwards into the chain of hoppers at the top. It then smelts it way back down the right hand side to finally end up in the output chest as Withered Brick.

The base of the auto smelter is depicted below, since its hard to see in the overall picture. It is important to note that the repeater has a delay on it, which is to ensure the item gets into the dropper before it gets powered.

The total resource cost of this design is:
 * 11x Hoppers
 * 1x Repeater
 * 1x Comparator
 * 2x Redstone Dust
 * 2x Chests
 * 8x Furnaces


 * A Stack of Glass (about 62)