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dragonherald

[Solved] Irrigation

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Hey, it is currently late fall of my first ever TFC game ad I was running some numbers for the spring which will be my first ever planting season. The wiki gave me a lot of useful information and I used it to calculate my crop yields for all my food bearing crops which will be 83.5 pounds. I was wondering if this would be enough for one season? Two, how do I irrigate an inland farm if I don't have the special steel buckets to transport the water source blocks? I read over the wiki and it gave me the impression I only had those wood buckets for transporting water to barrels and the red and blue steel buckets for lava and water specifically. Can I still make vanilla buckets(using the new smithing system), and can I make these buckets out of copper? The wiki only goes over using red and blue steel while ignoring other metals completely.

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Every player is different in their play-style, so there is really no way to guarantee whether or not 83.5 pounds of food will be enough for you to eat or not. Your level of activity will determine how hungry you get, and depending on how you store or preserve the amount of that food that decays away before you eat it will be very different.

 

There is no way to irrigate farmland wherever you want starting out. You must make your farms next to where fresh water has naturally generated, or create your farms away from naturally generated freshwater, and accept that they will not grow as fast. There are no vanilla buckets or copper buckets. There is no way to move source blocks until you've reached colored steel. The buckets listed on the wiki (Wood, Red Steel, Blue Steel) are the only buckets in the game.

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i think what i did for my farm (next to the ocean) is clear enought land for sorce blocks to form where i wanted and then filled in the dirt where the crops go

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If you can find a local water source near your base, you can channel water to it on a downhill slope.

 

Basically dig a trench from the water until it stops flowing.  At the last block where the water flows, dig down 1 block and the water should start flowing again from that point.  Dig a second trench and repeat until you reach you close to your base.  Each trench does mean your farm will need to be dug 1 z-level down, so you may end up having to move earth to fill the 'pit' your farm is dug in.

 

If the only nearby water is salt water, use a sluice in the first trench.  Salt water can feed a sluice, but fresh water comes out.

 

Alternatively, I believe crops still grow without a water source, just slower.  Pretty sure Kittychanley posted that in a forum someplace, but can't locate it right now.  If your growing season is long enough, that may work for you.

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If the only nearby water is salt water, use a sluice in the first trench.  Salt water can feed a sluice, but fresh water comes out.

 

Could you please double check and confirm this is actually happening in your game? Sluices are supposed to create a water source of the same water that was feeding them, and the last time I checked it was working as intended and a sluice fed with salt water would create a salt water source block.

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Yes crops will grow without water. Also remember that your freshly farmland will only have full nutrients if you till grass. Tilled dirt does not have full, or I believe any, nutrients.

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