Minecraft - Sky Factory 4 - How to Build a Solar Farm for Wireless Energy

This Minecraft Sky Factory 4 tutorial shows how to build a Solar Farm and how to wireless transfer power from RF sources to other locations.
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[@caseyking8394]

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[@zephr0x]

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[@carcinogenecist2054]

Hii this post is ancient but I feel like commenting to give whoever sees this some advice! I make branching paths that start from hub points. Along these paths are 'rooms' of sorts for my stuff. Along one of these paths is the room for the portals and what not. Keep things that are going to be integral very close to your spawn point! Things that you frequent! I keep my smelter within arms reach for example. I also prioritize keeping my base organized. Keep things that belong together.. together! For example. One path leads to an agricultural section. I have a tower of crops, and a row of animals. This keeps me from needing to hunt for any of them because I know exactly where they should be! Also, Keep these paths you make OPEN at all times! Do not close one off! Open paths mean room to expand. ALWAYS leave room to expand. You can also plan ahead in some form or fashion, if youre a little freak like me youll have a whole fucking graph but im going to assume youre like, normal.

[@karlbrook8921]

I would’nt be anywhere in sky factory without you

[@evanmcdonald9725]

Very nice solar farm for upgrading and such. I copied your farm and put the gps onto my deep mob learning things which means I’ll have auto wither farming soon. Thanks man

[@OnlydravenGaming]

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[@OnlydravenGaming]

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[@kaden3098]

I love your videos! They have helped me out a lot. I was wondering if you had a video on advanced solar panels?

[@Juangogocharly]

It's the same thing, just one makes more than the other

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[@OnlydravenGaming]

Happy to help! 😊

[@grinmace4834]

Thanks dude! now i can make mechanical squizers!, also do you know what to do with silver blocks? i have acouple and they look nice but i need to ask what stuff u can use with them

[@stab456]

If you have two batteries next to each other, do you need an energy extraction cable for each or just one?

[@dripthanos5595]

although this could be technically SLIGHTLY more space efficient, flux networks is much faster, so i suggest using that over cyclic wireless power if possible

[@mrlauch1441]

Do the solars have to stay within the render distance so that the chunk charges or can the solars also be outside the charged chunks? Thanks in advance

[@Skullier]

Is there a range where power is unable to be a transferred after a certain distance?

[@hans-san457]

i have a question since im kinda new to this, is the energy battery required? does GPS Markering the energy node directly to the machinery work? or is the distribution of the energy more efficient if placed into a battery connected to the machinery

[@OnlydravenGaming]

Very often the batteries will make more power than is being used. The batteries are to power your things while it is night time. The solar only works during the day so the batteries charge up all day to work at night. Yes, you can GPS directly to most machines. The only reason I usually don't is cause that will take a lot more GPS and wireless nodes only have so many slots. That would make you need a lot more nodes as well.

[@Robotnik75XYZ]

How am I supposed to get graphite dust though because I need the manufactory with power inside it but I need the graphite dust to make the power source

[@bbadg3r368]

Can you make a video on how to upgrade solar panels

[@weirdude4260]

got a question: will it work with fluxducts

[@brennanpawley9237]

The fact that this video only has 7 likes angers me

[@redstoneddad3981]

I know you favor solar but as a novice I have to ask: What's the better system (solar, wind, thermal) and why? I use generators for pretty much everything and have a ton of them but I'd like to make things a bit more compact/efficient. Any help is greatly appreciated 😎

[@OnlydravenGaming]

Actually, a geothermal generator maxed on upgrades is the best early-mid until you can start making reactors.

[@redstoneddad3981]

@@OnlydravenGaming thank you, sry for late response I was watching your vids on "writing table" and going to other worlds (good god I'd kill for actual land again, lol). I automate pretty much anything I can (although mods are entirely new to me) and power consumption became an issue hence I started just using generators for everything (many machines have their own generators or small clumps use a centralized generator) and I'm guessing that adds to my lag (well that and having a ton of active devices) 😅

[@kleverich2000]

the power turns off every night and doesnt turn back on ever, what to i do to fix this? i cant get into my ME system without power

[@blank-nw3mc]

Without this videos I would s to ll be on petrified saplings, thank you

[@OnlydravenGaming]

Happy I could help!

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[@BoloYon]

Can the solar panels be connected right next to eachother? Thanks for the helpful video by the way, you definitely deserve more subscribers!

[@OnlydravenGaming]

Yes you can! I have them separated just to show it a little better.

[@BillSchultz70]

I'm curious why your solar farm has the solar panels apart from each other instead of having them next to each other and putting more in the same space.

[@Juangogocharly]

Because the extraction cable can just take from one at a time, so you would have to make more extraction cables which would still use space and waste materials

[@name-br2ys]

you are cool :)

[@DekaTechXtreme]

Can wireless solar power a diamond powered anvil? I seem to have difficulty making it work.

[@OnlydravenGaming]

Yes. I’d recommend powering a battery and then connecting it to the anvil. Some items cannot be powered directly from a wireless source.

[@adamcole4046]

Energy transfer nodes for me just dont work it just says that it has linked up to air

[@jimcalhoun361]

Sometimes in your videos you show the solar farm at night. Does this mean that the solar panels work at night too?

[@OnlydravenGaming]

They do not. That's why I recommend connecting them to batteries instead of connecting them directly to your machines because the battery will store power and help you have power throughout the night.

[@jimcalhoun361]

@@OnlydravenGaming Ok. The only real reason I asked was back when IC2 was new the solar power worked at night too.

[@thecurseizhere3993]

My world doesn’t turn into day how can i fix it i’ve tried commands but it didn’t work

[@braydenmilligan3656]

You probably will not see this but how do I connect this to my ME system

[@fablue629]

Is It possible to use solar panels with lava instead of sunlight. If you play the "Stoneblock map " of skyfactory 4 ?

[@OnlydravenGaming]

I do not believe so. They have to have sky access.

[@fablue629]

@@OnlydravenGaming To bad, thanks still for this fast answer and for all your good tutorials

[@JamesStansell]

In StoneBlock I created a similar farm to this but using the immersive engineering thermoelectric generator.

[@0DarkWolfSVK]

Is it necessary to put space between the solar panels? If so, why?

[@OnlydravenGaming]

It is not. You can have them touching. I had them separated in the tutorial just to better see how they can be connected.

[@0DarkWolfSVK]

@@OnlydravenGaming Awesome, thank you

[@junyedit]

how i do graphite dust

[@krapat8464]

how am I supposed to get graphite dust when i need energy for the manufactory to make it?

[@justaregularguy1728]

get a simple generator like combustion or culinary and that could be your early-game power source

[@Toast583]

@@justaregularguy1728 thanks you so much for this

[@validix3843]

I cant get graphite dust because I cant power my manufactory because I need my solar panel what do I do? Please answer

[@OnlydravenGaming]

You can use any of the simple generators to power it. A Combustable generator would be very easy to start with.

[@validix3843]

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[@jiggs7421]

I was just wondering about this😁

[@redstoneddad3981]

@@jiggs7421 lol I use generators for practically everything (I have lot of generators) but draven's vids have made me think wireless but now I dont know what system is best; solar, wind, thermal?

[@mikaylabeckwith3541]

Completely stuck on how to get quartz dust and sand dust

[@mkabele2053]

how can i do basic solar panel without graphite dust ???

[@mtdeeley]

graphite

[@phnxregen2131]

the item extraction cable wont connect to the solar panel... pls help.

[@OnlydravenGaming]

You would need to use energy extraction cables on the solar. Item cables only moves items. 😊

[@phnxregen2131]

thanks

[@jaykeblakk]

I've got a question. I've built a solar farm and it's pretty large. Around 20 Solar Panels. However, that is BARELY enough to give my PRC minimum power to run. The battery doesn't even charge. Why is this the case? You had 4 solar panels and 1 battery and it powered 3 things, and I have 20 solar panels and 1 battery and it BARELY powers the PRC. Any idea why this is?

[@OnlydravenGaming]

You can take multiples of that battery and place them in a crafting table, combining them into one. Each one increases the amount of power the batter can store, up into the 100 millions. :)

[@jaykeblakk]

@@OnlydravenGaming The issue isn't how much it can store. In fact, I have the whole thing set up to power the one battery, and all of the energy inside is being drawn away by the PRC entirely. The battery can't even charge. The energy is taken immediately and the battery can't charge at all.

[@OnlydravenGaming]

The larger battery will let it build up between uses which will help some. Are you using energy extraction cables to get the power from the solar? Did you click on them and turn their transfer capabilities to max?

[@jaykeblakk]

@@OnlydravenGaming I did, but each solar panel is producing like 20 units of power each. The battery receives like 500 because of the 20 individual solar panels, and then the PRC pulls it from the battery and immediately uses it. When I watched your video, the 3 things are powered by one battery AND that battery charged. It's the polar opposite of what I get.

[@-Monty97-]

Just a question how do I get the crushed coal?

[@OnlydravenGaming]

Place coal in a squeezer or mechanical squeezer.

[@iyadahmad3995]

my power is constantly cutting out and coming back on in the me terminal i dont know whats happeneing. Someone please help

[@OnlydravenGaming]

It may be that you're not generating enough power to run all the machines/processes that you have running.

[@iyadahmad3995]

@@OnlydravenGamingthe battery is full and the me system uses the energy. However it keeps cutting out. Could it be because I'm transferring alot of items?

[@OnlydravenGaming]

Mslm Xeno very likely. It might be too much for the system to process at once.

[@iyadahmad3995]

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[@johnhelton457]

I know more about diy from Avasva handbooks!

[@darianboyd2694]

How do you get crushed quartz

[@OnlydravenGaming]

You can get it by placing quartz in a crusher, manufactory, or grindstone.

[@darianboyd2694]

@@OnlydravenGaming it says in the grindstone I need nether quartz ore, I don't have the enchantment to do that

[@swiftpanda0188]

batterys dont work

[@hillarypoopyhead3550]

HOW DO YOU GET GRAPHITE DUST ;-,

[@OnlydravenGaming]

Crush coal and put it in a manufactory.

[@saronei]

That's the problem. Manufactory is powered with RF, so if you're at the point of literally having no power output at all, what do you do? Cause I've been looking for a newbie friendly tutorial for over an hour now and yet every single thing that the guide makers create to generate RF is made by stuff already powered by it. Where does it start?

[@467lachlan]

I'm so over going back and forth with you videos. This time I'm having to make graphite in a manufactory which needs power to begin with wtf