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When starting with crops, the player usually plants down Sugar Cane or other simple crops like Carrots, Potatoes or Glowflowers. The IC2 crop mechanics come into play for crops of all tiers, but after some crossbreeding time, higher tier crops will naturally appear and will often have unique mechanics. Many of them won't even grow to their last growth stage by themselves, so here are some things to remember. |
When starting with crops, the player usually plants down Sugar Cane or other simple crops like Carrots, Potatoes or Glowflowers. The IC2 crop mechanics come into play for crops of all tiers, but after some crossbreeding time, higher tier crops will naturally appear and will often have unique mechanics. Many of them won't even grow to their last growth stage by themselves, so here are some things to remember. |
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To start, many different crops need a specific block under them to reach their final growth stage. This is the case for almost all, if not all ore-related crops, and their outputs cannot be collected without that block, unless they are Oreberries. For highest efficiency, this block should not be placed right under the dirt block where the crop is: instead, |
To start, many different crops need a specific block under them to reach their final growth stage. This is the case for almost all, if not all ore-related crops, and their outputs cannot be collected without that block, unless they are Oreberries. For highest efficiency, this block should not be placed right under the dirt block where the crop is: instead, you will need to place this block within 4 tiles of the crop, with OreBerries as an example you can place it directly under the crops dirt block. This also works through stacks of crops. Allowing 2 nutrient crops to be stacked on top of each other. Usually, you can use a matching ore as a valid block, but the most reliable alternative is compressing 9 ingots of the material into a block. |
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If you don't place the correct block for those crops, you won't be able to collect them, but that doesn't mean they're useless! A lot of them can crossbreed at a lower growth stage, which means you can even do this on an automated farm, since they won't ever be harvested. This is a possible way to crossbreed up to the highest tiers without using blocks, although it takes longer to do it this way, simply by breaking the crops with a Spade right-click. Since crossbreeding is effectively random, you can stumble upon higher tier, more valuable crops this way. |
If you don't place the correct block for those crops, you won't be able to collect them, but that doesn't mean they're useless! A lot of them can crossbreed at a lower growth stage, which means you can even do this on an automated farm, since they won't ever be harvested. This is a possible way to crossbreed up to the highest tiers without using blocks, although it takes longer to do it this way, simply by breaking the crops with a Spade right-click. Since crossbreeding is effectively random, you can stumble upon higher tier, more valuable crops this way. |
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