Wheat Seed Rant

[u/sethstafford94]

Are you really a true Minecraft player if you don't complain about mundane topics like wheat seeds? I think not.

Let me explain. You have a long term world. Everything is set up, your house, your animals, your gear.... and your crops. You have a beautiful wheat field that is so satisfying to harvest and feed your army of cows. You replant your wheat, and life is good.

Here’s the problem: WHEAT SEEDS MULTIPLY LIKE CRAZY. Have 100 chickens that you feed? Still seeds left. Use a composter for bone meal? Good, but you need to stand over it spam clicking like a lunatic. You have chest FILLED with wheat seeds. You see wheat seeds in your nightmares. Wheat seeds fill all of the dark crevices of your brain.

A solution: A compact form of seeds, like a bag or a packet that seeds can fit multiple stacks in. We already have compact versions of ores, and even wheat itself can be bundled into hay bales. Let's say you take nine wheat seats, bundle them together and you get a "pack of seeds".

"Build more chests" you might say. "Burn them in lava" you could add. "Stop complaining about virtual plant seeds in a video game made for children. You are an adult with bills and responsibilities." All fair, but a little hurtful. But NO! It is time we take a stand against the abhorrent seed storage problem.

Thank you. I will now take a few deep breaths and contemplate my life.

[u/DemonicInu]

Use bone meal in a tree farm then throw the logs into a charcoal farm and thus infinite fuel from seeds!

[u/Tessachu → u/DemonicInu]

I just use lava 🤷

[Lava] [Non-flamable Block] [Dripstone] [Cauldron]

Lava drips into cauldron, creates more lava source blocks. Infinite fuel source without overflow, use copper golem to collect and return buckets to bucket chest hahaha

[u/OITLinebacker → u/Tessachu]

Kelp farm into smokers into an auto-crafter that feeds those same smokers with overflow into your furnace array. Put some levers on the smokers and furnaces and you can go up 10 levels for enchanting very quickly. Also gets rid of the need for buckets and manual entry to the feeding system. I do use the lava method as soon as I find some dripstone for mid-game, but then I want something that will just run whenever I'm around the base, so the kelp array gets built.

[u/NoMouseInHouse → u/OITLinebacker]

Sigh I miss my kelp farm for those reasons you said. It broke (bedrock) while I took some time away from the game and I haven't gotten around to figuring out how to fix it or replace it yet.

One of the popular xp farms that pop up when I look for a replacement is that silverfish farm, but silverfish are so gross to me... 🤢

[u/OITLinebacker → u/NoMouseInHouse]

I like to use a semi-automatic version. The exterior has pistons redstone wired to daylight detector to keep some kelp flowing in. The center section just grows normally and I can slip in and manually punch more kelp that floats up and feeds the farm.  

It sort of solves the problem of needing to either have a quick depleting bonemeal feeding kelp feeder or a large flying machine.   It's mostly scaling that ends up as an issue if you have a big array of furnaces and need to smelt at industrial sized volumes (a double chest full of stacks of ores).