Tractors, the coolest Extended Farming feature!
Tractors are very usefull machines while farming! They make big tasks like plowing your fields easy. Just craft yourself a tractor, fill it with coal and attach a plow. Then you drive over the field and watch the plow do all the hard work. Even though the tractor is a bit expensive, and definitly a mid-late game machine, it will revolutionize your farming experience!
Tractors, how do they work?
First of all you will have to craft yourself a tractor, just look below for recipes. After you have crafted yourself a tractor, simply place it down by right clicking. It will now remember you as the owner.
The tractor now only responds to you, and no other players, so there is no stealing other peoples tractors or attachments. To drive the tractor, you will have to add fuel to it. Simply right click while holding Bio-Fuel to add fuel. Now that it recognizes you, and has fuel, its time to start driving! To get on the tractor, you just right click the chair part. And you drive with the wasd keys and your mouse.
Every tractor also has its own little inventory, usefull for storing seeds and tools, but also your attachments.
Attachments:
With these items you can make your tractor do hard work for you.
The Plow:
As the name suggests, this attachment will make the tractor plow the field for you. This can save you a lot of time since you no longer have to right click each block with a hoe. To attach the plow, Shift+right click the back of the tractor while holding a plow. After plowing, you will have to take the plow of again, do so by shift+right clicking while holding a wrench. The plow will also remove tall grass during the plowing. Newly plowed soil will be a bit moist, so you have a little time to plant stuff before it turns back into dirt.
The Mowdeck:
The mowdeck is basicly a lawnmower. You can use it to easily get rid of tall grass and flowers. Just like the plow, it is attached by shift + right clicking. You can only have one attachment at the time, but they are easily switched out using the wrench.
The Tractor Sprinkler:
This is a more mobile version of a sprinkler. Just fill up the tractor with water by Shift+right clicking while holding a bucket of water, and attach the sprinkler to the tractor. When you drive across dry farmland it will water it and it stays wet for quite a while!
The Tractor Seeder:
Using this attachment, you can plant a lot of seeds really fast! The seeder can be used for all crops that don't require support blocks: Wheat, Potatoes, Carrots, Sugar Beets, Beets. Simply add some of the seeds/crops in the Tractor inventory, and drive over farmland with the seeder attached!
The Harvester:
Harvest all crops that don't require support blocks, by simply driving over them! It will drop the items, ready for you to pick them up. It will only harvest fully grown crops, not the ones that still need some time to get ready!
The tractor now only responds to you, and no other players, so there is no stealing other peoples tractors or attachments. To drive the tractor, you will have to add fuel to it. Simply right click while holding Bio-Fuel to add fuel. Now that it recognizes you, and has fuel, its time to start driving! To get on the tractor, you just right click the chair part. And you drive with the wasd keys and your mouse.
Every tractor also has its own little inventory, usefull for storing seeds and tools, but also your attachments.
Attachments:
With these items you can make your tractor do hard work for you.
The Plow:
As the name suggests, this attachment will make the tractor plow the field for you. This can save you a lot of time since you no longer have to right click each block with a hoe. To attach the plow, Shift+right click the back of the tractor while holding a plow. After plowing, you will have to take the plow of again, do so by shift+right clicking while holding a wrench. The plow will also remove tall grass during the plowing. Newly plowed soil will be a bit moist, so you have a little time to plant stuff before it turns back into dirt.
The Mowdeck:
The mowdeck is basicly a lawnmower. You can use it to easily get rid of tall grass and flowers. Just like the plow, it is attached by shift + right clicking. You can only have one attachment at the time, but they are easily switched out using the wrench.
The Tractor Sprinkler:
This is a more mobile version of a sprinkler. Just fill up the tractor with water by Shift+right clicking while holding a bucket of water, and attach the sprinkler to the tractor. When you drive across dry farmland it will water it and it stays wet for quite a while!
The Tractor Seeder:
Using this attachment, you can plant a lot of seeds really fast! The seeder can be used for all crops that don't require support blocks: Wheat, Potatoes, Carrots, Sugar Beets, Beets. Simply add some of the seeds/crops in the Tractor inventory, and drive over farmland with the seeder attached!
The Harvester:
Harvest all crops that don't require support blocks, by simply driving over them! It will drop the items, ready for you to pick them up. It will only harvest fully grown crops, not the ones that still need some time to get ready!
Crafting:
Enough chit-chat, lets take a look on how to make one:
You will need a bunch of parts to get a tractor:
Underneath are screenshots of all the recipes, so you better start mining iron :P
You will need a bunch of parts to get a tractor:
- 4 Wheels, crafted into 2 driveshafts
- A body
- An engine
- A chair
- A SteeringWheel
- A Chest
Underneath are screenshots of all the recipes, so you better start mining iron :P