MAIN MENU     FRONT PAGE MISSION STATEMENT SINCLAIR'S FOUNDRY MINECRAFT IN THE ARCTIC REJECTLAND THE FUNGUSLANDS & OTHER WORLDS RESOURCE PACKS & WORLD DOWNLOADS OTHER LINKS       ASSOCIATED WEB PAGES     THE HAMMER OF RETRIBUTION OGG-CAST HAMMER OF RETRIBUTION PRODUCTIONS PERSONAL PAGES FROM DAYS OF YORE ZX SPECTRUM SECTION: PROGRAMS & VIDEOS COMP.SYS.SINCLAIR CRAP GAMES COMPETITION 2021 RICK DANGEROUS RESURRECTED PROJECT 12: FURRMURR SEYMOUR'S BREAD BIN     Project coordinates: X +160 : Y +66 : Z +131 Screenshots: 7 (+ 1 Sinclair) Date completed: 10 March 2015 Version: 1.8.3 Minecraft day completed: 2776 It's no good having a cow farm without also having a generous supply of wheat to feed them with. Fortunately, in 1.8, villagers harvest crops by themselves, and can be enslaved to do our bidding for us without complaint... as long as they're wearing the brown robes of a farmer. Finally, I've got round doing exactly that! After much research and testing in a Creative world, I concluded that wheat absolutely cannot be automatically farmed the same way as potatoes and carrots, when I was hoping to have three identical buildings for it. Automatic wheat farming also takes a lot of iron. And I do mean a lot. But, that's not going to worry me, is it? This farm has been updated: see Project 38: Furrmurr Seymour's Wheat & Beets. Typical production rate per hour: 158 wheat, 80 seeds See that? 75 hoppers, requiring 375 iron ingots and 75 chests (or, if you like, 150 logs). And the farmland can't be placed directly on top of that. Oh no. That would be far too cheap! First, we have to build another layer. 81 powered tracks (which requires gold and redstone), and 66 hopper minecarts. So that's another 660 iron ingots - for a total now of over a thousand - and 132 more logs for the chests. It requires a combination of a blanket of hopper minecarts under the farmland (8 of them will fit into 9 blocks) to suck up the wheat and seeds before the farmer grabs them both (and turns the wheat into bread, which I don't want) then the regular hoppers below that to pull the loot through and distribute it where it's wanted. So, the first field is planted and the first farmer is installed and working. So, guess what I'm going to do? Build another level with another thousand-and-a-bit iron ingots! It is done! Two thousand iron ingots (and then more for the hopper line that connects the two levels, and the one that siphons the loot away) - and I've got a wheat farm that churns it out at a rate rapid enough that I never have to worry about running out. Good job I've got the Foundry or this would have taken for ever! So here's the front view - it faces the other way to the cow farm, so the villagers are looking out to sea (which is actually just a big lake). I've styled it to look like... a big pencil, with hay bales incorporated into the corners so the hoppers linking the two floors are hidden. I've also installed iron doors at the back, so I can get in and re-stock the villagers with seeds if they run out. Or, alternatively, chain them up if the storage gets too full. Dedicated, as ever, to Seymour, who has now traded his Wild West hat for a piece of grass between his ample teeth. ZX Spectrum screenshot: Wild West Seymour (1992) Watch this game completed by Jamie Angus via the RZX Archive. What? You want another screenshot from Wild West Seymour? One that actually comes from in the game? Oh, all right, then. For anyone wondering why the lift had buttons marked "K" and "M", look at the position they're in on the keyboard. Kids these days raised on consoles probably wouldn't have any concept of using the computer keyboard to control a game, but in the 1980s, it was ubiquitous for those of us who didn't have a joystick. The usual keyboard controls were Q-A-O-P, but the mirror-image combination that was Z-X-K-M was the second most popular. Dizzy and Seymour games usually had no up/down control, but used Z and X for left and right.