SciCraft 2: Starting To Build The Biggest Cactus Farm (Episode 12)

[@bluesillybeard]

Just casually starts building the biggest cactus farm in the entirety of Minecraft

[@Yasser-444]

ilmango 2% in progress: hmmm i decided to blew up everything and use a 3D printer instead

[@TravelingStacker]

How else would you start a build, if not casually?

[@ovencake523]

the scicraft cactus farm needs a name

[@natimorta_]

@@ovencake523 Sci Cactus

[@abtechgen2943]

@@natimorta_ cacraft

[@abottlecapsule2143]

When he opened the chests of smooth stone, I first thought that was the storage for the cactus farm. Quite funny to think about

[@riftdelash3937]

wow. theyve finally used that void perimeter lol after years

[@0x2A_]

My thought exactly as soon as I saw the thumbnail 😂

[@othem2227]

and it's epic

[@---li1oo]

I thought they’ll never use it😂

[@xenosmoke8915]

I remember them building this when Mumbo toured the server.

[@versatation6215]

Mango is undoubtedly the best example of German efficiency

[@TeeTeeNet]

Efficiency would be having parts of the farm working during construction

[@SivaExperiment]

more like how german engineering is the best in the would

[@shaydenprime275]

@TeeTeeNet That would cause lag and make constructing the farm harder

[@kaiohshin2322]

it took the entire world 6 years to defeat Germany, a country smaller than Texas - and they dare call it a victory

[@1SSJA]

@@shaydenprime275 thus through induction makin construction inefficient 5Head

[@SakuraRyokoMusic]

"In order to build the cactus farm, we need to make a clay farm, and to make they clay farm, we need a mud / dirt farm, and to make that, we also need a drip stone farm..." 😁

[@randallmwalker2776]

sciecract in a nutshell lol

[@luislebronaponte2737]

@@randallmwalker2776 T r u e

[@galoomba5559]

Actually the dripstone is needed to make clay from mud.

[@JasonAWilliams-IS]

Mango: We're going to build the cactus farm! Also Mango: We're not going to build the cactus farm!

[@rakshas1340]

Also Mango: We're going to 3d print the cactus farm!

[@tychovanleersum1377]

Hey mango, synchronizing 2 block streams can be done quite easily. If you run a clock that 0 ticks a normal piston every 8 ticks, you can 0 tick push a block in front of that piston using a sticky piston during any of those 8 ticks in the cycle. If you have 2 of these setups running on the same clock your block streams will be synced to the clock. You can then merge the two streams. I used this to split two 4-tick blockstreams into 4 synced 8-tick block streams.

[@fubbalo_]

This upload schedule is insane and you can trust I'll be here for every video, but I hope it isn't too stressful for you. The stuff you're doing constantly amazes me, and I can't wait to see this project done. Also, the new Skyblock series is awesome!

[@VatelFak]

Best and most accurate comment

[@randallmwalker2776]

ik, heavy upload schedules can wear people out real quick

[@lucassaueressig1411]

@@randallmwalker2776 crackmeth

[@fubbalo_]

I was just reading a comment by @Freighter 109, where they joked about using "a 3D printer instead", and it made me think. Would placing the sand be more efficient using a falling block 3D printer kind of thing? Unless I'm missing something, it could make the whole building process much faster.

[@theok7423]

It's amazing that you're not only doing this but consistently uploading skyblock as well. Keep up the great work!

[@joda7697]

Love that you put the logs of the rooted dirt farm to use now!

[@Federico-1]

I love clay farms. The drying racks are really aesthetically pleasing. It sucks that mojang can’t be bothered to add cool features most of the time even ones that would cost zero effort. But when they do add a fun mechanic to the game i really appreciate it.

[@dan.horrigan]

TL;DR; There is no such thing as zero-cost feature. Software development, contrary to what most think, is more than just slapping a few lines of code together and calling it good. Professional Software Developer here: There is no such thing in software development that "cost[s] zero effort." Sure, it may only take 5-10 minutes to get it working...but then you need to add automated tests, add it to your QA plan, add documentation (hopefully), and have other developers review your work. So, your 5-10 minute addition ends up being days of work, before it ever even gets merged. Then you're into the support/maintenance life cycle. Unless you planned for every edge case (which is nearly impossible), it's going to break something (probably right after the original author leaves the company😂). So, some dev is tasked with debugging, writing regression tests, and fixing the problem.

[@khiemgom]

@@dan.horrigan then its gonna get removed bc Microsoft said its not kid friendly and u cant do anything

[@Federico-1]

@@dan.horrigan removing ghost blocks is a good example of what you’re talking about and you’re totally right. A sci craft member told a mojang dev how to fix ghost blocks and it was a very simple fix. No downsides to removing ghost blocks but it took them a few years to actually do it. Somehow useless features get tons of development time but important qol changes just “don’t fit in their patch cycle” obviously i have different priorities than mojang. 😓 What i mean by zero cost changes is stuff u could change with a datapack like crafting recipes. It’s been over a decade and we have no renewable sand?? Just let us burn coral in a furnace at least. That is 100% zero effort. Most of the Mojang devs come from mod making. They don’t play survival so they really don’t care. That’s the impression i have at least i can’t claim to know what all of them think

[@tonywo2735]

I remember you building the perimeter wall, also remember you pick up the horse in the horse breeding place It has been such a long time, really happy to see the horsey still there

[@codonbyte]

You could split the logstream into many substreams and then push them into an area where burning netherrack sets them on fire. If you split up the logstream enough, you should be guaranteed to always burn up all the wood.

[@diabIok]

This cactus farm project is insane

[@royalgummyworm8131]

scicracktus farm

[@axialeaa]

You could use the log byproduct from the clay farm to fuel some charcoal generators, and smelt the clay balls into bricks

[@Murray02-m3c]

This is gonna be the greatest cactus. No. This will be the greatest farm in minecraft history

[@korok2619]

indeed it's a bit more than 1 cactus, even the greatest

[@JonnyLucca01]

You can connect up the storage area of the mud complex with the blockstream-switches and chunkloader to automatically redirect blockstreams in case one block you can get out of this complex fills up its storage. Automatically shutdown the farm and unload the area when the complete storage is filled up to free up server ressources. Additionally you could add 2no2names lag detector to automatically shutdown the farm in case the serverlag is taking overhand and free up ressources that way as well.

[@rubixtheslime]

"it's a bit strainful just to load a single layer" proceeds to still have better performance than I ever had

[@LunizIsGlacey]

Wow, can't wait for that awesome block farm. So many in one! I know it's not the centre focus of this video, but nevertheless, block farms always have a special spot in my heart.

[@vanderhooftamvl6587]

I love how you placed a few extra slabs just before saying the entire build probably has to be destroyed

[@sethjazz7262]

I always appreciate seeing the progress on your ideas

[@HelloIAmAnExist]

Scicraft grindset: Make a stone farm, powered by PIG SPAWNERS (just for the sake of it) and make a bamboo farm to smelt said stone to smooth stone, just because it's a pretty slab to have for the biggest cactus farm physically possible in Minecraft

[@TooHighRecords24]

I pray for everyone who reads this that whatever they are going through gets better, whatever they are suffering with or worrying about will be fine, and that everyone has a good day.

[@shottysteve]

ahhh thank you needed my fix

[@Greg_Blavet]

Nice ! I was just thinking of starting to build my own automated Clay Farm !

[@Junparidize]

recommendation: make a flying matching that requires 2 people. first person places the slabs while in the flying machine. second person uses a auto clicker to click on a note block to move the flying machine. on each side of the cactus farm, there is going to ba a machine that moves the flying machine a few blocks back.

[@slayer8780]

It would just be faster to have both people to be placing slabs

[@Purin1023]

I love that when faced with the prospect of collecting resources normally, he immediately shuts it down. Like "1 whole hour to farm dripstone by hand? No chance."

[@No-Me3]

Mojang: "They finished it? Ok, good. Pull the nerf lever on cactus exp."

[@markburningcandlehamilton1245]

Nooooo don’t jinx it

[@BarginsGalore]

Goodbye to them updating again

[@labakus7192]

In germany we don't say: "Wow, the biggest cactus farm", we say: "Geht so"

[@atomspalter2090]

Absolutely love this project!

[@mrtoast244]

Normal people using a void perimeter: "Now I can finally make the EoL farm!" SciCraft 2: *CACTUS*

[@oii_3768]

I don't think there is normal people with void perimeters.

[@Apersonl0l]

Empress of light farm? Sorry i have been watching too much Terraria

[@ClAddict]

@@Apersonl0l been working too much. To me EoL is End of Life. Though, knowing my Minecraft skills anything over the void would probably would be an EoL farm.

[@Just_a_random_username]

@@ClAddict EoL in Eol farm stands for End of Light because of the whole light suppresion of the farm incase you were wondering

[@tsviper]

Saying this with respect and admiration, you crazy!

[@ryanconners3048]

Very impressive not falling for the sunk cost fallacy

[@iggen]

Awesome to see all the good videos you are making! You are definitely my favorite youtuber :)

[@EVILBUNNY28]

Hmmm. that sounds like something for the bug tracker. Tamed mobs including horses and pets should be affected by beacon effects imo.

[@benjaminandersen3805]

Love the timelapse music

[@mitchelldavis2970]

For the holes that have to go through the slabs you might be able to use vertical flying machines to cut straight through them that way you know they perfectly line up

[@arir43]

Or just mine straight down through all the layers

[@ovencake523]

so how are they getting all the dark green dye for the cactus farm walls? did they build a cactus farm to build an even bigger cactus farm?

[@ficodecko]

I would place the cactus top down so you can refill from the falling while you plant below

[@larshabets6054]

I dont know why i keep watching this series even tho i havent played mc in 3years

[@racernatorde5318]

A machine that will automatically build almost all the cactus farm? And to think that is has only been like five years since you folks showed the first survival quarry. It's truly fasziniating how technology developed in minecraft's history

[@madman2572]

If you don't want to make an entire block stream and blast chamber for the 1.5klogs/hr, you could always just have something that catches the logs on fire.

[@spanishSpaniard]

I love that you can see that the moss farm is below a mangrove forest due to the water color 17:30.

[@Hacker1o1]

uhm

[@Federico-1]

It would be really cool to burn the wood instead. The massive 1.12 ice farm had big melting chambers for excess blocks, doing the same with fire could be really unique and fun. Waste if wood tho.

[@grapesandsand3816]

yeah, thats what i thought when he said the excess blocks are just wood

[@TeeTeeNet]

Make a small drip stone farm that runs while you build the rest of the farm. Spec the drip stone farm to gen 6k in the time you think it’ll take to build the rest. Need to do things in parallel, it’s the infrastructure for the construction phase, not the production phase.

[@malmiteria]

you should use fire to get rid of the logs you don't need, that could be a nice alternative for the tnt dupers

[@viviainusher4766]

Holy crap that was such a long time lapse of doing the same action over and over for literal hours like dang

[@garfieldismylove]

i was thinking you could just leave some lava around the trees and itll automatically burn the logs lmao but i guess this way is better for saving the wood

[@laur3nz39]

Finally a use for that void parameter!

[@bezzaboyo]

Wouldn't saving a version of the cactus farm schematic WITHOUT cactus improve the performance whilst loading it?

[@angeldchima7084]

Averrage minecraft gameplay Ep 12: We are going to the nether!! SciCraft: wE NeEd 2 MilLioN CacTus pEr HoUr

[@TravelingStacker]

I wonder if they'd write it all retarded like that too.

[@deathlake4967]

Loving the amount of content your releasing Ilmango

[@queenhart2473]

You guys should use dolphins grace and soulsand in the nether to get around really fast

[@YounesLayachi]

7:05 consider using the Login Protection mod or similar. All it does is make protect players during the login duration before they can act

[@fallbrookastro]

can’t wait to have a repeat of the blitz cactus farm

[@Zero-xb6ls]

I love how to only thing you get from this farm is cactus and the only things you can use that for is building and green dye but you’re still planning on making the biggest cactus farm in minecraft just because why not 😂

[@noah-vi1kq]

Probably not as efficient, but kinda creative: build a burn chamber for the logs instead. Like a conveyerbelt with lava next to it? But i guess they get extinguished when pushed, so burning would probably not happen fast enough to keep up with the trees, and be maybe even more laggy....? Its just a thought, maybe it inspires you to something

[@gabrielegiraldi6113]

Dear ilmango, to build the farm faster i thougth you can run several 3D printer at the same time. Great content as usual, keep it up!

[@ZyferscrollLP]

holy damn they doing it, nice bruder ^^

[@br88dy]

One of the farms of all time.

[@quintencabo]

This was so fun to watch!

[@jaffabeast]

Your timelapse music when building the cactus farm sounds like a remixed version of Sesame Street. 5:49

[@sethsmith2608]

when scicraft makes their "starter" cactus farm

[@patrick3168]

Ilmangos the kinda guy to spend 1500 hours for cactus

[@DemiG0D2K]

love the fact that they could have3 gone down another 60 blocks lol

[@professormelon8695]

Absolute madlad

[@danielcraft7342]

Ilmango you could use fire to get rid of the logs instead of more tnt

[@thegamingfrontier3079]

What just about to start the material gathering for the rooted dirt farm then this video came out!

[@grahamweaver4423]

"it's just over 10 million blocks to place, no big deal"

[@BrownR87]

Is there any way you could use a dispenser with flint&steel or next to lava to remove the logs? You won't get any wood from the farm, but it could solve the problem with minimal effort and space. For servers with fire tick on.

[@rodneydlouhy7409]

ilmango "18 month project". I bet it will be done in less than 8 months

[@1lucia]

If we ever find a new habitable planet we need the scicraft boys first so they can design the most efficient farms irl without anybody getting in their way

[@adiprimor1826]

I cant belive this guy he's mad(the rate he uploads)

[@AnimilesYT]

You should have a glitch guarantee. Like, if you lose all your stuff because of the internet cutting out or because of unpreventable lag (game freeze for a few seconds or server lag spike) then you should get your stuff back. If you activate a machine which makes your game lag and then you die, then that's on you. If you afk and you die, then that's on you. If you don't pay attention and jump in lava or in the void and you die, the that's on you. If you forget you took off your elytra and died, then that's on you. Even just dealing with the lost time of dying, getting your stuff back by "cheating" it in (or using a datapack or mod/plugin) and getting back to where you were is enough of a hindrance already. Getting a new set of gear ready and getting all the items you had in your inventory is just a pain and wasted time...

[@NOyaLzuMu]

it would seem that many of us have always had that itch to create an unreasonably large cactus farm

[@feschber]

Pushing the wood blocks into lava could also be a solution but I'm not sure how you would do it reliably

[@QuasarEE]

"The server spawned me in the void and I lost my god armor/soul speed pants" is usually something I would just restore my (or another person's on my server, at their request) player profile from a backup because of, because there's no controlling it and no fault of the player's. Major BS for the game to do that.😵‍💫

[@lukasm.1281]

I suggest trying to get a Record for that. "Biggest Cactus Farm in a Vanilla survival World"

[@reivax5335]

Sci is not vanilla but

[@vltir]

Nice to see your further progress on the rooted dirt farm. I’m currently working on such a farm as well. In my farm i did the effort of merging the blockstreams in a special way with small block storages and other stuff, so i can get 17.2k rooted dirt with a single 4gt blockstream.

[@TheBre]

Afterwards Ilmango - so i needed green dye and....

[@Yasser-444]

you know in your heart that it's not the maximum cactus farm can be built in a server since every player in the server has their own random ticking area

[@krysmun]

but for a single player to consistently AFK in, it will be. when it comes to farms involving multiple players, there really is no limit to the size, Except for the Server's Maximum player count limit, and of course the server hardware. So they don't tend to go for farms like that. they stick to what's still technically possible on a singleplayer world.

[@Yasser-444]

@@krysmun it still burns inside

[@noahford9605]

The only way to make it larger would be to build a whole other farm for another player to afk. And I would consider that 2 farms rather than 1. So yes this is the largest single cactus farm possible.

[@P3drinhuGam3r]

@ilmango jetpack on 17:25 ahahah gotcha

[@The14Some1]

Imango, why don't you consider withers to deal with extra logs?

[@ilmango]

too easy tbh

[@victoralander1398]

I was surprised that you didn't build a flying machine to make the platforms. Edit: you did it later in the video

[@filipDcve]

What about using fire to get rid of the extra wood block? Could it be done in a safe way? To avoid using tnt for it altogether

[@_BangDroid_]

People tell me Mangos are fruit but I'm to say Mango is a Beast!

[@olivergro7105]

Until this is built there will probably be an update that makes it so the farm won't work anymore

[@KaiWorld]

4:30 "18 months" off! my farm is safe

[@CoG3in1]

I am wondering where this project is now

[@aedrorwindrunner4172]

you can produce ten thousand wither skulls in an hour. what can I produce? TEN THOUSAND CACTUS!!!

[@cryochick9044]

til beacons go through slabs

[@koalaunknown]

Is it possible to just burn the logs?

[@heff0d468]

It's really a shame item shadowing got patched in this version. This project would benefit a lot from it. Maybe you end your buddies can figure out a way...

[@arcreehysteria9805]

i'm loving those scicraft episodes

[@connorwhite2745]

13:05 I can’t even make a redstone door

[@hiji0l]

About cactus farms i was building 1 but placing endrods is a pain. Is there a faster way than placing them normally?

[@মেহেদীহাসান-ষ৭গ]

I think rebinding your key to keyboard helps you place block faster. But the issue is how to move in sync with block placing. and the mod ilmango is using is client side mod.

[@nighteule]

@@মেহেদীহাসান-ষ৭গ It's called Tweakeroo btw :P

[@rayfx]

easy place mode in litematica

[@neelabhromukherjee6847]

These farms remind of some of the most insane base designs on 2b2t Speaking of 2b: Do you guys ever plan to use baritone to build a farm of this magnitude anytime in the future?

[@thepacific2933]

Probably not, they want to do stuff themselves.

[@sepiasmith5065]

that machine for "3D printing" the farm sounds so neat and perfectly SciCraft good job, person wait, why is he not "supposed" to use TNT duping? is it a new challenge for them or is it a logistical thing?

[@getsleep864]

They don't want to dupe things they don't have to

[@sepiasmith5065]

@@getsleep864 ah okay cool ty

[@gileswebinger8147]

If you don't care about the oak logs, could you put lava around the trees and allow fire to burn down all the trees?