I want to try to answer the most common questions I'm seeing here. I hope this helps people, and I'm sorry I forgot to include these details in the video itself. 1. I chose scarlet drills over tin drills because of personal habit. I'm used to using scarlet drills. Tin drills work just fine. 2. The conveyor belt/table saw system is specifically designed to avoid overflow. you'll never fill up your table saws this way, and you're making them at 4x the speed. 3. the electricity generator is there because the lever alone isn't enough to power everything, AND I want the table saws to continue to do their thing, even if I turn off the wood farm. The generator there allows me to flip the switch, disable the farm but continue to process planks. 4. This is the big one....why do I let the main root trunk grow before planting the other seeds? This is difficult without a visual aid, and I had a hard time making one in photoshop which is why I didn't have it in the video. Wood will grow up to 5 tiles away from the root along its trunk. Lets say I put down the side roots at the same time. Root 3 happens to grow a piece of wood that isn't connected to the main trunk yet, there's a 1 tile gap. We now have 2 trunks, and if they merge they are still 2 trunks. Seed 2 is trying to grow along the main trunk but it hits the trunk for seed 3 and it can't grow beyond that, so now seed 2 just stops growing. Having 1 trunk going down the entire length of the farm gives all the side roots a single trunk to grow down, guaranteeing they all spawn at the same spot and that they all continue to grow. 5. There is a bug that causes the trunks not to grow the full length. This is caused by stalagmites under the ground tiles. Dig up the ground, then dig up the offending stalagmite and replace the ground tiles. This should fix the issue.
@@ardeof ya tin drills didn't come to Core Keeper early access until about 6 months ago or so (give or take a few months). Before that scarlet drills were the only option. As such I tend to default to them.
Hmm, why not just plant one seed on every block, and block off the bottom? The seeds can't grow over each other, so every "first" wood will grow upwards. Then you could just place drills above the seeds (with one block of empty space in between for the wood to grow).
Hang on, are you saying the root seeds inbetween the trunks will ALSO contribute to the growth of the final block? >.> meaning that last block grows like...5x faster or something???
@johnnysmith5923 I believe that's what he is saying and is happening. If you watch the beginning of the video you can see how slow it was growing and getting harvested. Then later at the end you can see it growing and harvesting super fast. It's interesting and crazy
so been playing core keeper on gamepass me self an this game is taking over my social hours at an alarming rate thanks for putting out content that can help newer player like me self
Honestly this game is insanely addicting, I love that it combines so many aspects of some of my favorite games of all time. Farming feels somewhat like stardew but less tedious and more fast paced. The class based systems and gear feels kinda like terraria (mage, summoner, melee, ranged). And it even includes automation and farms like minecraft has (although not super similar mechanics wise)
I like this a lot more than Terraria. As a dad, I don't have the hours in me to go research into what the hell goes with what to make something/summon a boss. This game is a lot more linear, while also providing endless gameplay if I choose.
@@theunbearablebull Yeah I agree. The amount of times you have to open the Terraria wiki just to understand what the hell to do next or where to find something is super annoying. I love the game, but man, the creator should've made progression much clearer.
Love the video my man. Basically nobody else making content like this for CK atm. I’ve been watching your uploads like a hawk for more advanced tips and farms like this to see how things might have changed with 1.0. It’s all that technical and under the hood information but you break it down and make it accessible. Would love to see basic (and advanced if there’s scope for it) slime farms at some point soon. I’ve been toying with my own designs but I feel like they’re not as effective as they could be.
there are some bugs in mob farming right now. Im waiting for a patch or two before I do mob farm videos. I'd like them to get rid of the weird spawning glitches first.
So fun lil tip for anyone who doesn't know the roofing tool you can change how many tiles you hit out with R on the keyboard it makes punching holes easier.
if using too many tiles is too expensive when starting out, digging holes or laying sand tiles between the wood roots also manipulates where they grow without losing too much resources
@@DakonsMadhouseyou can plant the other seeds and just not water them until the main branch is fully grown. You don't have to do any breaking near your branches this way!
As someone who has played a ton of Stardew Valley, & just got into Core Keeper this weekend, the potential for automation in this game has me extremely excited.
If you are intending to use planks to generate money, I recommend making Gleam Wood Farms, as they seem to generate wood at a 50% faster rate than other woods, additionally, I find I love using Gleam wood floor tiles and walls in my base building, so that helps too.
Hey Madhouse 😎🤘 I've just started Core Keeper on Steam and I'm getting a couple friends in on it to. Your beginner video really helped us manage all the options in the beginning. I really appreciate the quality of your videos and look forward to viewing your whole library. +1 sub 🎅
thanks so much! there's tons out there but be sure to check if I have marked it as EA or not. If its EA I did it during early access and the info may not be as accurate anymore. I try to update my thumbnails when something is truly outdated though.
Thank you for making an updated version of this. I'm about to build a half-size version for regular wood and coral because that's all I have access to ATM. I don't have a ton of coral wood seeds just yet, so I'm curious: what happens to the seeds that drop on the plank side? Do they just get daisy-chained through the internal storages of the plank machine or does the arm not pick them up at all? Surely they don't get stuck in the arm and jam the machine up. I'll probably have it built and find out for myself before anyone answers but, hey, a comment for the algorithm lol
Man this is a great guide!! Gonna help me so much to max skills. Building mine without the plank addition for now due to not having a good Scarlett source yet
So in theory I could make this farm and instead of having every row regular wood I could do some rows reg wood, some coral wood and some gleam wood( with the ground under neat being the correct ground of course. ) So I could have a 3-in-1 wood farm. Right?
if you do it wide enough to use 3 drills per wood type, it will produce more wood than a single tablesaw can process. Which is kinda good because the wood stops growing when your like 250-300 block away but the saws will continue working through your ever increasing pile of wood.
I'm sure he'll probably explain this as well better later, but it essentially forces each individual starter root, running the length of your main branch to push to one spot at the drill bit. This means that each individual root starter adds one additional block to be calculated in to how many is broken at a time by the drill. It's doing the same thing as if you grew each individual root into a separate drill but by focusing it into into one point using the main branch you save a ton of space and makes automation much easier.
@DakonsMadhouse never sell yourself short, you do well to make quality content and always have a birth of knowledge on a variety of CK. As well, I think as the 1.0 gets steam, it will become a much more popular game, and I'm sure your content will be able to help a lot more people out.
Then I'm curious: why not use more roots for the rest of the areas that are normal wood (except of course the one before the drill)? And on that note: why have an empty alternating spot at the bottom? Are these required for optimal growth?
I like having the option. The treefarms are kinda maintenance free but it just feels more "realistic" to switch off a machine before doing maintenance instead of ripping out a generator or wiring :D also, there will be thousands of wood in your saws so maybe some times you just don't want to listen to the pulsing drills 🤷♂
The reason why the power was flickering is because it was running off the lever power and not the generator power until you connected the circuit. The lever doesn't provide the necessary power for the bigger drills
Thanks for this video (I know I said it before) - I modified mine a little to where I can turn off the planks if I only want wood. I just added a switch on the right and powered the carp tables and cranes with their own. Then I changed the conveyer belt on top to go all the way to left (I just use one storage chest for planks and wood) to the crane putting stuff in the chest. Then the conveyer above the wood on the left side (the 4 columns for wood instead of planks) go up instead of horizontal. I'd post a pic but YT is stupid and blocks it =D
Hmmm I probably should update my wood farm a bit. I have the three wood types feeding into a single conveyor line, sorted into saw tables and boxes but the single tablesaw per wood type can't really keep up and there's always thousands of wood backlogged in the saws. It's really not a problem, I just don't like how ineffective it is :D
Hey I know this might sound a little silly but if you do any future build guides would you be able to put a material list in the video description? I hate having to go to specific parts in the vid just to see exactly what I need haha. Great video though man I appreciate the work you put in to this project!
ya I'll do my best to remember. I searched to see if I had the wood farm already written somewhere but apparently I don't. If I get some time I'll try to update this description as well.
You can just expand the first one if you don't have enough resources for the hand and the drills, the wood will grow depend on the amount of seed between them.
Thank you for the video! I am new to Core Keeper and games like this in general but wouldn't it be more time efficient to funnel all of my wood farms' (let's say one farm for each type of wood) produce and the planks into one single chest?
sure can. if you have a boulder going, set up conveyors around it leading to a robot arm. then have a smelter behind that, then another robot arm and then a chest. And your ore will leave the boulder, travel to the arm, get moved into the smelter, then the finished bars get moved into the chest.
@@DakonsMadhouse love this and to add to it, you can daisy chain this (robot arm, smelter, robot arm, smelter...etc) for it to auto smelt every ore coming down the conveyor so that you dont have to separate the ore yourself. all finished bars will end up in the same chest at the end
@@paulcorbin4864 the only problem I have seen with multiple ores, so lets use gold and iron as example, the robot arm will try to pick it up and place it in whatever you have connected, meaning if it’s gold ore and you have a regular smelter than the ore just gets placed floating next to the regular smelter since gold ore can’t go in it.. workaround that I’ve found… Have the arms and smelters set up one behind another instead of side by side, so that the next arm will then pick up the piece of gold ore and place it in the smelter behind it(assuming you have the correct smelter for gold ore behind the second arm.) And if you have more than 2 ores being carried to smelters than make sure you have that many smelters set up one behind the other so nothing gets left floating. Example. (Think of it like an assembly line vertically not horizontal) Conveyer belt Arm Smelter (copper) Arm smelter(tin) Arm Smelter(iron) Arm Smelter(gold) The gold would get picked up by each arm and dropped behind until it reaches the correct smelter. Dnt have too long of a conveyer belt, or you’ll get a build up past the arms reach. Also the arm isn’t smart enough to just pick up a specific ore while letting the other ore pass it. Maybe this would work if you had arms set up on each side of the conveyer belt. I’m not sure If there’s some other way, I haven’t figured it out yet, and I guess wasted my time typing all of this lmao. 😅
@@carriejohnson4922 that's what I meant by daisy chaining them. I have a u shape at the end of my conveyor line. All ore falls into one block space and a robot arm picks it up and puts it into a smelter. If it can't go into the smelter then it gets picked up again and moved to the next smelter etc. until it gets smelted. The robot arms also grabs all bars out and tries to drop those into another smelter, they obviously don't get smelted again so they just pass by them so to speak until then all end up in the chest ready for me to grab
Cool video I am new player. Very helpful. One issue for me two of my columns won't continue growing for some reason... youtube won't let me post a picture, of course... Any ideas why those two stopped? I know they aren't going to grow because I've gone through 4 sets of other crops in this time. Maybe I need to dig those two up and replant? I replanted them and they grew 2 spots again and stopped :(
@@DakonsMadhouse I had no clue, posted on reddit who answered immediately, thankfully. Got my farm workign now it's really cool. I haven't killed the 3rd boss yet though so I don't have scarlet ore yet. But I just revealed the boss so gonna head that way. Meanwhile the wood will just pile up (no planks I just put the conveyer across all the drills for now) Thanks for the cool vids!
I think the wires were flashing because the lever doesn't generate enough power to power the red drills and by putting the wire under the lever it allows the generator to power them when the switch is on
I just found your videos after buying Core Keeper on the PS5. It has opened my eyes to the possibilities, you have amazing and well thought out videos. Keep them coming! 😊
why in the second stage of the advanced farm do I need to place root seeds in all the tiles? why not just on the ones close to the drill to make that part to grow faster?
you can use tin drills, I prefer scarlet because of habit. You dont want to place all the root seeds at the same time because you're trying to put all the roots onto the same trunk. If you let each root generate its own trunk as it moves toward the drill, it won't force spawn into the single spot you want it to for every root. Some roots just won't grow because another trunk is in the way.
this might be a bug in the game but I built 2 of the exact same farm you built, one for coral and the other for wood, waited for all the roots to grow the line of wood, then when I checked the coral grew just like normal but when I checked the wood, all of them grow as well except the first to from the right? replanted them didn't work, replaced all the dirt and it still doesn't work. the root itself grows to it's fullest but doesn't produce any wood
ya I've heard some people aren't getting full growth on roots which is weird. double check your ground tiles. wood can grow on most ground but some of them stop growth. For safety I like to just use dirt ground since everything grows on dirt.
I followed how you built it but the 4 pieces of wood in the middle will not grow 5 spaces they have stoped at 2 and 3 and will not grow any more how do you fix that?
check under the ground and see if there are any stalagmites down there. if so, dig those up with your shovel. should fix the issue. I became aware of this bug after I made the videos unfortunately.
Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Everything grows initially as it should, but the last 3 rows are the only ones that grow up more than a block or two. Every other row either won't grow at all, or only produces one or 2 logs. By the time the last 3 rows had been fully grown all the way to the drill, the other rows still hadn't moved beyond that. Everything is done exactly as the video shows.
I forgot to go into it but some ground types won't grow wood. To keep it simple I prefer to use dirt for normal wood, limestone/beach for coral and shimmering blocks for gleam wood.
@@DakonsMadhouse Yup that was with normal dirt. I picked everything up and replaced it too. I think it has something to do with the mods I have installed, saw a lot of people on Reddit saying the same. Gonna remove them and retry.
Not seeing anyone else asking this but is the drills not spitting out the wood behind them a common bug? Mine are just piling up in front of the drills, this isn't a huge issue as I can just run around and gather but something is wrong for sure.
I havent heard that bug happening before. I would recommend sending the devs a bug report. There used to be a link in the start menu...cant remember if its still there. Info is in the Discord also.
Hello Dakon, i was wondering if you had a video of a starter base that could get us to the end game? im not really creative when it comes to making bases.
I have a video showing off my early access base, but I don't have much when it comes to base building videos right now. I plan to make some eventually. Check out MysteryxMistry she might have some base building inspirations for you.
You can build a normal wood farm, but you won't have access to a lot of this stuff until you've progressed some. You can just build a room with roots planted and wood will grow everywhere, you'd just have to manually farm it. Once you are able, you can upgrade to something more efficient like this.
@@fi7959 Yeah ... I am a loooong ways off (have 2 whole lumps from random boxes)! Have yet to confront the first boss! Too busy doing mundane things like fishing & finding gear.
I still don't get it about why did you plant another 5 seeds in each row. Isn't the only wood that will get drilled is on the last one? If so the isn't 1 more seed at the end enough, and you just need to cover the other 4 with floor or something.
what happens is that every root on the side links up to the trunk in the middle and they all grow into the single open spot that gets drilled. They build up in a queue and when one breaks another root triggers its spawn and then another and then another.
I did the exact same thing with the wood farm and it's not breaking the wood. I need help, I tried everything and nothing is working. The drill is not breaking the wood and I left 1 space so the wood can grow on the empty spot. And I even blocked off the areas where I don't want the wood to go.
When i recreated the farm with coral and gleam wood some seeds refused to grow up, making the farms smaller each time, do you think there is a hard limit on tree seeds in an area?
not that I'm aware of. but gleamwood will only grow on crystal ground and coral will only grow on beach sand/limestone. Double check the ground tile its not growing on.
@@DakonsMadhousein my experience only the roots need to be on the special ground. All of my basic trees grow all over the place and don’t just stay within their specified ground
What is the best food ingredient to mix with a large mushroom? I want to cook it into something that I can eat at midgame/endgame and I have been holding on to it for a while.
You can only get the permanent health boost from it once, and combining it will not increase the bonus. This goes for all the permanent health increasing consumables.
It's just to make it half regular logs and half get turned into planks. If you don't want to automate the planks you can just do all 8 to the same conveyor
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong... but when I turn on the tin drills - they are not breaking the wood that is literally touching it. How do I fix this?
it'll work without robot arms. the robot arms are entirely for automatic organization. You can't do the plank making part without the robot arms though.
why do you have 5 blocks of space between seed and drills? you only need 1, and i mean you have to know that bc you did it like that in the basic version
the side roots are being connected to the 5 tile long trunk and all the side roots will grow down that trunk. So instead of drilling 1 root per drill, I'm drilling 11 roots per drill.
you can use a hoe or pickaxe to remove the type of flooring that is causing the spawning to happen. spore like floor covering spawns mushrooms and the slime goop will cause slimes to spawn.
you can then use that flooring that you uncover to create your own mob spawner in your base. put the goop or spores down and wall them in with traps and you can mob farm this way. you can do this for every biome and spawn those enemies back at your base to collect materials.
dont think it's a bug? but not sure, because switches have lower power, like 13 and electric generators 25, hence your issues On the other hand, how much wood are you generating over 14 trees? for comparison on the basic wood farm?
Its definitely a bug. I went to my other wood farms on other worlds with the exact setup and they weren't having the problem. It was only happening to me in that world.
then dont use robot arms. my easy design at the beginning doesn't use robot arms, just conveyors. Once you have robot arms, add them into the design. But until then you'll have to do planks manually if you need them and you won't be able to automate storage.
just bought some sound proofing. Should arrive in a few days. next few videos will still be the same though. But hopefully soon it will be better. I can't even hear the echo when I edit.
the new mod author for autodoors messed it up pretty badly. But the original author told me today he should have a fixed version up soon, if its not up already.
@@DakonsMadhouse Well that would be awesome for sure, AutoDoors is pretty much essential. Hopefully the CK devs will just implement it as a feature in the future.
yes cross generation works. So PS4 can play with PS5, Xbox One can play with Xbox Series S|X. The earlier generation console versions will release on September 17th.
@@RhythmofResonance yes I know that drills do that. I'm moving the wood from that spot to the chests for storage. If you don't want to automate that process, then skip the conveyors and just pick up your wood yourself.
I misunderstood. the reason I didnt do the sideways turn on the drills is because wood grows only 5 tiles away from the root and I want to include the top root seed. If I move them on tile 6, I can grow the roots down 1 more tile but I wont be getting my top roots spawning there. If I move my drills up 1 tile to keep my top root part of the spawn, then I sacrifice side roots. So I went with the vertical turn for the drill. But now conveyors become required to move the wood.
did you verify that the power going to your drills is a steady, constant yellow light? If its flashing you need to add a wire under the lever. That will fix the issue. Even if the lights are solid, if you don't have a wire under the lever, add a wire and see if that fixes it. Otherwise I suggest submitting a bug report to Pugstorm.
I don't understand why you made the vines longer in the more complex build. You only need 1 tile and you can put all the seeds next to each other with a 1 tile gap in front and a fence around the whole thing, like this: D = Drill, C = Conveyor, R = Root, F = Fence/Wall/etc FDDDDDDDDDDDF FCCCCCCCCCCCF FRRRRRRRRRRRF FFFFFFFFFFFFFF It'll always grow and be instantly harvested on top of the conveyor
check out the next video I made on this where I test the different wood farm designs and show why this design improves on the more simple design. Then you can determine if the more advanced design is even needed for you or not.
I want to try to answer the most common questions I'm seeing here. I hope this helps people, and I'm sorry I forgot to include these details in the video itself.
1. I chose scarlet drills over tin drills because of personal habit. I'm used to using scarlet drills. Tin drills work just fine.
2. The conveyor belt/table saw system is specifically designed to avoid overflow. you'll never fill up your table saws this way, and you're making them at 4x the speed.
3. the electricity generator is there because the lever alone isn't enough to power everything, AND I want the table saws to continue to do their thing, even if I turn off the wood farm. The generator there allows me to flip the switch, disable the farm but continue to process planks.
4. This is the big one....why do I let the main root trunk grow before planting the other seeds? This is difficult without a visual aid, and I had a hard time making one in photoshop which is why I didn't have it in the video. Wood will grow up to 5 tiles away from the root along its trunk. Lets say I put down the side roots at the same time. Root 3 happens to grow a piece of wood that isn't connected to the main trunk yet, there's a 1 tile gap. We now have 2 trunks, and if they merge they are still 2 trunks. Seed 2 is trying to grow along the main trunk but it hits the trunk for seed 3 and it can't grow beyond that, so now seed 2 just stops growing. Having 1 trunk going down the entire length of the farm gives all the side roots a single trunk to grow down, guaranteeing they all spawn at the same spot and that they all continue to grow.
5. There is a bug that causes the trunks not to grow the full length. This is caused by stalagmites under the ground tiles. Dig up the ground, then dig up the offending stalagmite and replace the ground tiles. This should fix the issue.
I was bout to say, nobody farming wood is gonna have scarlet drills lmao. I kind of figured tin drills would work the same, but was curious.
@@ardeof ya tin drills didn't come to Core Keeper early access until about 6 months ago or so (give or take a few months). Before that scarlet drills were the only option. As such I tend to default to them.
Hmm, why not just plant one seed on every block, and block off the bottom? The seeds can't grow over each other, so every "first" wood will grow upwards. Then you could just place drills above the seeds (with one block of empty space in between for the wood to grow).
Hang on, are you saying the root seeds inbetween the trunks will ALSO contribute to the growth of the final block? >.> meaning that last block grows like...5x faster or something???
@johnnysmith5923 I believe that's what he is saying and is happening. If you watch the beginning of the video you can see how slow it was growing and getting harvested. Then later at the end you can see it growing and harvesting super fast. It's interesting and crazy
so been playing core keeper on gamepass me self an this game is taking over my social hours at an alarming rate thanks for putting out content that can help newer player like me self
You interested in playing with someone? i wouldn’t mind a teammate!
@garrettfiliatreault8931 I would like to team up :), it's not crossplay tho what platform are you on?
It definitely sucks you in! I just hit over 123 hours 😅 and I’ve been playing before the full release
Honestly this game is insanely addicting, I love that it combines so many aspects of some of my favorite games of all time. Farming feels somewhat like stardew but less tedious and more fast paced. The class based systems and gear feels kinda like terraria (mage, summoner, melee, ranged). And it even includes automation and farms like minecraft has (although not super similar mechanics wise)
Oh shit its 4 am -me last saturday.
This game is addictive as Terraria. I've already sunk 30 hours into it the last week lol
Lol I did nearly 30 hours just this past weekend 🤣
I like this a lot more than Terraria. As a dad, I don't have the hours in me to go research into what the hell goes with what to make something/summon a boss. This game is a lot more linear, while also providing endless gameplay if I choose.
@@theunbearablebull Yeah I agree. The amount of times you have to open the Terraria wiki just to understand what the hell to do next or where to find something is super annoying.
I love the game, but man, the creator should've made progression much clearer.
this game has wrecked my sleep schedule lol
Love the video my man. Basically nobody else making content like this for CK atm.
I’ve been watching your uploads like a hawk for more advanced tips and farms like this to see how things might have changed with 1.0.
It’s all that technical and under the hood information but you break it down and make it accessible.
Would love to see basic (and advanced if there’s scope for it) slime farms at some point soon. I’ve been toying with my own designs but I feel like they’re not as effective as they could be.
there are some bugs in mob farming right now. Im waiting for a patch or two before I do mob farm videos. I'd like them to get rid of the weird spawning glitches first.
@@DakonsMadhouse noted! Looking forward to the vids post patching then
So fun lil tip for anyone who doesn't know the roofing tool you can change how many tiles you hit out with R on the keyboard it makes punching holes easier.
if using too many tiles is too expensive when starting out, digging holes or laying sand tiles between the wood roots also manipulates where they grow without losing too much resources
good point. very true and resourceful.
@@DakonsMadhouseyou can plant the other seeds and just not water them until the main branch is fully grown. You don't have to do any breaking near your branches this way!
I used torches works just as well. Or digging a hole.
loving the core keeper content would love to see what your idea of an efficient mechanical parts farm would look like!
I'm so glad I found this channel. I was running around Core Keeper lost. Making very little progress, until now. #EnterTheMadhouse
As someone who has played a ton of Stardew Valley, & just got into Core Keeper this weekend, the potential for automation in this game has me extremely excited.
If you are intending to use planks to generate money, I recommend making Gleam Wood Farms, as they seem to generate wood at a 50% faster rate than other woods, additionally, I find I love using Gleam wood floor tiles and walls in my base building, so that helps too.
Hey Madhouse 😎🤘
I've just started Core Keeper on Steam and I'm getting a couple friends in on it to. Your beginner video really helped us manage all the options in the beginning.
I really appreciate the quality of your videos and look forward to viewing your whole library.
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thanks so much! there's tons out there but be sure to check if I have marked it as EA or not. If its EA I did it during early access and the info may not be as accurate anymore. I try to update my thumbnails when something is truly outdated though.
Thank you for making an updated version of this. I'm about to build a half-size version for regular wood and coral because that's all I have access to ATM. I don't have a ton of coral wood seeds just yet, so I'm curious: what happens to the seeds that drop on the plank side? Do they just get daisy-chained through the internal storages of the plank machine or does the arm not pick them up at all? Surely they don't get stuck in the arm and jam the machine up. I'll probably have it built and find out for myself before anyone answers but, hey, a comment for the algorithm lol
they daisy chain into the plank chest. you can pick them up there.
Really great guide! Thank you so much. I would love to see a armor/weapon guide for 1.0 from beginning to end of teh game. Your content is fantastic!
Man this is a great guide!! Gonna help me so much to max skills. Building mine without the plank addition for now due to not having a good Scarlett source yet
Thank you for this wonderful and easy to follow guide, i have now set up this for each type of wood ^^
A very helpful and detailed giude. Thank you!
So in theory I could make this farm and instead of having every row regular wood I could do some rows reg wood, some coral wood and some gleam wood( with the ground under neat being the correct ground of course. )
So I could have a 3-in-1 wood farm.
Right?
Don't see why not.
if you do it wide enough to use 3 drills per wood type, it will produce more wood than a single tablesaw can process. Which is kinda good because the wood stops growing when your like 250-300 block away but the saws will continue working through your ever increasing pile of wood.
So the root setup causes it to grow wood in the one spot at the drill super fast? or why have so many root seeds planted for only 1 drill point?
I'm sure he'll probably explain this as well better later, but it essentially forces each individual starter root, running the length of your main branch to push to one spot at the drill bit. This means that each individual root starter adds one additional block to be calculated in to how many is broken at a time by the drill. It's doing the same thing as if you grew each individual root into a separate drill but by focusing it into into one point using the main branch you save a ton of space and makes automation much easier.
this is a better explanation that I've been able to articulate.
@DakonsMadhouse never sell yourself short, you do well to make quality content and always have a birth of knowledge on a variety of CK. As well, I think as the 1.0 gets steam, it will become a much more popular game, and I'm sure your content will be able to help a lot more people out.
Then I'm curious: why not use more roots for the rest of the areas that are normal wood (except of course the one before the drill)? And on that note: why have an empty alternating spot at the bottom? Are these required for optimal growth?
Why someone would turn on/off this farm? like its not costing energy or anything to run it 24/7 ;d
I like having the option. The treefarms are kinda maintenance free but it just feels more "realistic" to switch off a machine before doing maintenance instead of ripping out a generator or wiring :D also, there will be thousands of wood in your saws so maybe some times you just don't want to listen to the pulsing drills 🤷♂
i was like "why dose he have crane there...?" and then i relized it was for autocrafting planks.. this really is the best farm, honestly
Thanks for this, the advanced farm is great!
thanks for your guide! appreciate it
The reason why the power was flickering is because it was running off the lever power and not the generator power until you connected the circuit. The lever doesn't provide the necessary power for the bigger drills
Thanks for this video (I know I said it before) - I modified mine a little to where I can turn off the planks if I only want wood. I just added a switch on the right and powered the carp tables and cranes with their own.
Then I changed the conveyer belt on top to go all the way to left (I just use one storage chest for planks and wood) to the crane putting stuff in the chest. Then the conveyer above the wood on the left side (the 4 columns for wood instead of planks) go up instead of horizontal. I'd post a pic but YT is stupid and blocks it =D
I'd love to see it! If you feel like joining the discord you're welcome to post pictures there. We love seeing cool designs.
@@DakonsMadhouse I think I had already joined, I just posted the image in screenshots =D
Why go 6 tiles deep for the roots if the drill can only come in contact with one tile?
Your channel is an amazing goldmine for Core Keeper players. Thank you
PS. I like your character design
This is so cool, thanks for sharing!
Great Video, thank you so much for the help my man
Hmmm I probably should update my wood farm a bit. I have the three wood types feeding into a single conveyor line, sorted into saw tables and boxes but the single tablesaw per wood type can't really keep up and there's always thousands of wood backlogged in the saws. It's really not a problem, I just don't like how ineffective it is :D
Hey I know this might sound a little silly but if you do any future build guides would you be able to put a material list in the video description? I hate having to go to specific parts in the vid just to see exactly what I need haha. Great video though man I appreciate the work you put in to this project!
ya I'll do my best to remember. I searched to see if I had the wood farm already written somewhere but apparently I don't. If I get some time I'll try to update this description as well.
You can just expand the first one if you don't have enough resources for the hand and the drills, the wood will grow depend on the amount of seed between them.
Now I know to get materials for leveling up my crafting skill without turning my mud caves into barren wasteland
Thank you for the video! I am new to Core Keeper and games like this in general but wouldn't it be more time efficient to funnel all of my wood farms' (let's say one farm for each type of wood) produce and the planks into one single chest?
Why do you need to use a double chest? Does the robotic arm not work with a single one?
works fine on a single one but a double has more room. If you want to use a single, go for it.
@@DakonsMadhouse excellent! My double chests are in short supply right now. Thanks
Can the same logic be used for many other things than just wood? Can I automate ore to ingot creation? Anyway to do this with farming?
sure can. if you have a boulder going, set up conveyors around it leading to a robot arm. then have a smelter behind that, then another robot arm and then a chest. And your ore will leave the boulder, travel to the arm, get moved into the smelter, then the finished bars get moved into the chest.
@@DakonsMadhouse love this and to add to it, you can daisy chain this (robot arm, smelter, robot arm, smelter...etc) for it to auto smelt every ore coming down the conveyor so that you dont have to separate the ore yourself. all finished bars will end up in the same chest at the end
@@paulcorbin4864 the only problem I have seen with multiple ores, so lets use gold and iron as example, the robot arm will try to pick it up and place it in whatever you have connected, meaning if it’s gold ore and you have a regular smelter than the ore just gets placed floating next to the regular smelter since gold ore can’t go in it..
workaround that I’ve found…
Have the arms and smelters set up one behind another instead of side by side, so that the next arm will then pick up the piece of gold ore and place it in the smelter behind it(assuming you have the correct smelter for gold ore behind the second arm.)
And if you have more than 2 ores being carried to smelters than make sure you have that many smelters set up one behind the other so nothing gets left floating.
Example. (Think of it like an assembly line vertically not horizontal)
Conveyer belt
Arm
Smelter (copper)
Arm
smelter(tin)
Arm
Smelter(iron)
Arm
Smelter(gold)
The gold would get picked up by each arm and dropped behind until it reaches the correct smelter.
Dnt have too long of a conveyer belt, or you’ll get a build up past the arms reach.
Also the arm isn’t smart enough to just pick up a specific ore while letting the other ore pass it.
Maybe this would work if you had arms set up on each side of the conveyer belt. I’m not sure
If there’s some other way, I haven’t figured it out yet, and I guess wasted my time typing all of this lmao. 😅
@@carriejohnson4922 that's what I meant by daisy chaining them. I have a u shape at the end of my conveyor line. All ore falls into one block space and a robot arm picks it up and puts it into a smelter. If it can't go into the smelter then it gets picked up again and moved to the next smelter etc. until it gets smelted. The robot arms also grabs all bars out and tries to drop those into another smelter, they obviously don't get smelted again so they just pass by them so to speak until then all end up in the chest ready for me to grab
6:08 How do u have different outfits at the same time??
the dresser lets you control your cosmetic look.
Why do the roots need to grow so far before being harvested?
Cool video I am new player. Very helpful. One issue for me two of my columns won't continue growing for some reason... youtube won't let me post a picture, of course...
Any ideas why those two stopped?
I know they aren't going to grow because I've gone through 4 sets of other crops in this time. Maybe I need to dig those two up and replant? I replanted them and they grew 2 spots again and stopped :(
Ahh I had to dig up the dirt and found stalagmites under it. Then it grew :)
that stalagmite bug is a weird one. I just learned about it the other day.
@@DakonsMadhouse I had no clue, posted on reddit who answered immediately, thankfully. Got my farm workign now it's really cool.
I haven't killed the 3rd boss yet though so I don't have scarlet ore yet.
But I just revealed the boss so gonna head that way. Meanwhile the wood will just pile up (no planks I just put the conveyer across all the drills for now)
Thanks for the cool vids!
@@DakonsMadhouse can you add this to your pinned comment? seems to be a pretty popular issue for others
I think the wires were flashing because the lever doesn't generate enough power to power the red drills and by putting the wire under the lever it allows the generator to power them when the switch is on
whats weird is that it works fine in my classic world. same exact setup.
I just found your videos after buying Core Keeper on the PS5. It has opened my eyes to the possibilities, you have amazing and well thought out videos. Keep them coming! 😊
why in the second stage of the advanced farm do I need to place root seeds in all the tiles? why not just on the ones close to the drill to make that part to grow faster?
I'm not sure why you're not planting all the seeds at once. The core roots would still grow the same, wouldn't they? Also, why not use tin drills ?
you can use tin drills, I prefer scarlet because of habit.
You dont want to place all the root seeds at the same time because you're trying to put all the roots onto the same trunk. If you let each root generate its own trunk as it moves toward the drill, it won't force spawn into the single spot you want it to for every root. Some roots just won't grow because another trunk is in the way.
@@DakonsMadhouse Oh I see, thanks for explaining that
Great video man♥
So can normal root seeds also be put between the mainroots to force beach wood or glimmering wood grow faster?
Is there any reason not to fill in the tile spots at the end of the video, with root seeds? (those in the "every other" sequence)
this might be a bug in the game but I built 2 of the exact same farm you built, one for coral and the other for wood, waited for all the roots to grow the line of wood, then when I checked the coral grew just like normal but when I checked the wood, all of them grow as well except the first to from the right? replanted them didn't work, replaced all the dirt and it still doesn't work. the root itself grows to it's fullest but doesn't produce any wood
ya I've heard some people aren't getting full growth on roots which is weird. double check your ground tiles. wood can grow on most ground but some of them stop growth. For safety I like to just use dirt ground since everything grows on dirt.
My drills are simply just not breaking the wood, and on reload the logs are broken but wont travel through the drill to my conveyors
I copied this setup but with Crude Drills and then it doesn't work. Any idea why? (Edit: AutoDoors-mod broke drills)
Loving your guides
make sure there's a wire under the lever.
@@DakonsMadhouse Turns out it was the AutoDoors mod preventing the drills from working properly. >.
I followed how you built it but the 4 pieces of wood in the middle will not grow 5 spaces they have stoped at 2 and 3 and will not grow any more how do you fix that?
check under the ground and see if there are any stalagmites down there. if so, dig those up with your shovel. should fix the issue. I became aware of this bug after I made the videos unfortunately.
@@DakonsMadhouse That fixed the problem thanks
Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Everything grows initially as it should, but the last 3 rows are the only ones that grow up more than a block or two. Every other row either won't grow at all, or only produces one or 2 logs. By the time the last 3 rows had been fully grown all the way to the drill, the other rows still hadn't moved beyond that. Everything is done exactly as the video shows.
I forgot to go into it but some ground types won't grow wood. To keep it simple I prefer to use dirt for normal wood, limestone/beach for coral and shimmering blocks for gleam wood.
@@DakonsMadhouse Yup that was with normal dirt. I picked everything up and replaced it too. I think it has something to do with the mods I have installed, saw a lot of people on Reddit saying the same. Gonna remove them and retry.
🔥🔥 ima use this, thank you!
Thanks that was helpful!
I chuckled at the “giveaway” 😂
Sooooo, do you just have 3x of this farm in your base?
1x Wood 1x Coral 1x Gleam wood?
pretty much ya.
Not seeing anyone else asking this but is the drills not spitting out the wood behind them a common bug? Mine are just piling up in front of the drills, this isn't a huge issue as I can just run around and gather but something is wrong for sure.
I havent heard that bug happening before. I would recommend sending the devs a bug report. There used to be a link in the start menu...cant remember if its still there. Info is in the Discord also.
@@DakonsMadhouse cheers, I'll verify that it isn't some mod causing the issue and then report it.
Is there any reason I should not build several of these right next to each other? Does it affect chunk spawn rates?
I have 3 built next to each other, one for each wood type. Go for it.
Hello Dakon, i was wondering if you had a video of a starter base that could get us to the end game? im not really creative when it comes to making bases.
I have a video showing off my early access base, but I don't have much when it comes to base building videos right now. I plan to make some eventually. Check out MysteryxMistry she might have some base building inspirations for you.
@@DakonsMadhouse alright, thanks you!
This looks very complex. Who can i find the simple compact version?
When is the earliest you can build a wood farm? Beginning game before the first boss ... or much later?
When you start getting tin
You can build a normal wood farm, but you won't have access to a lot of this stuff until you've progressed some. You can just build a room with roots planted and wood will grow everywhere, you'd just have to manually farm it. Once you are able, you can upgrade to something more efficient like this.
@@fi7959 Yeah ... I am a loooong ways off (have 2 whole lumps from random boxes)! Have yet to confront the first boss! Too busy doing mundane things like fishing & finding gear.
I still don't get it about why did you plant another 5 seeds in each row. Isn't the only wood that will get drilled is on the last one? If so the isn't 1 more seed at the end enough, and you just need to cover the other 4 with floor or something.
what happens is that every root on the side links up to the trunk in the middle and they all grow into the single open spot that gets drilled. They build up in a queue and when one breaks another root triggers its spawn and then another and then another.
very nice my big guy
I did the exact same thing with the wood farm and it's not breaking the wood. I need help, I tried everything and nothing is working. The drill is not breaking the wood and I left 1 space so the wood can grow on the empty spot. And I even blocked off the areas where I don't want the wood to go.
A bit late to comment but do you have the auto door mod? That apparently caused a bug where that problem happens but they just recently patched it
@@tiddlez3948 o really? And yeah I do have the auto door?
@@sinisterskull_playz7500 update the mod then lol
When i recreated the farm with coral and gleam wood some seeds refused to grow up, making the farms smaller each time, do you think there is a hard limit on tree seeds in an area?
not that I'm aware of. but gleamwood will only grow on crystal ground and coral will only grow on beach sand/limestone. Double check the ground tile its not growing on.
@@DakonsMadhousein my experience only the roots need to be on the special ground. All of my basic trees grow all over the place and don’t just stay within their specified ground
What is the best food ingredient to mix with a large mushroom? I want to cook it into something that I can eat at midgame/endgame and I have been holding on to it for a while.
Have you already eaten one?
You can only get the permanent health boost from it once, and combining it will not increase the bonus. This goes for all the permanent health increasing consumables.
@@rekalty4477 I know I just want to make a good food buff out of it.
What are the planks for?
planks are used in crafting mid and late game.
why not go all 8 drills on one conveyor? will be there too much regrow for the system?
It's just to make it half regular logs and half get turned into planks. If you don't want to automate the planks you can just do all 8 to the same conveyor
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong... but when I turn on the tin drills - they are not breaking the wood that is literally touching it. How do I fix this?
place a wire under the lever and see if that fixes it.
thanks for the tips!!
W vids bro helped me a lot
Do I need robitic arms, or will this work if I build it without robotic arms until I find scarlet ore ?
it'll work without robot arms. the robot arms are entirely for automatic organization.
You can't do the plank making part without the robot arms though.
@@DakonsMadhouse awesome thank you, I'll start the build today
I like it when my wood grows to the north, hate it when my wood grows out of place.
why do you have 5 blocks of space between seed and drills? you only need 1, and i mean you have to know that bc you did it like that in the basic version
the side roots are being connected to the 5 tile long trunk and all the side roots will grow down that trunk. So instead of drilling 1 root per drill, I'm drilling 11 roots per drill.
Been meaning to try this game & this is a great tutorial to get me started! Thanks! #EnterTheMadhouse
I tried doing the same with coral wood but didn't work. I used beach tiles and the first root part grows but nothing else. anyone know why?
can you update using coral wood
the design is the same, but use coral root seeds and limestone blocks for the ground tiles instead.
How do I stop mobs from spawning near my base while I'm building a slime runs up to me to say hi
you can use a hoe or pickaxe to remove the type of flooring that is causing the spawning to happen. spore like floor covering spawns mushrooms and the slime goop will cause slimes to spawn.
you can then use that flooring that you uncover to create your own mob spawner in your base. put the goop or spores down and wall them in with traps and you can mob farm this way. you can do this for every biome and spawn those enemies back at your base to collect materials.
Is there a reason to use the lever at all? Why not just let the farm run forever?
you can. But once I reached a full double chest of wood I felt like I didn't really need any more so I added a way to turn the farm off.
dont think it's a bug? but not sure, because switches have lower power, like 13 and electric generators 25, hence your issues
On the other hand, how much wood are you generating over 14 trees? for comparison on the basic wood farm?
Its definitely a bug. I went to my other wood farms on other worlds with the exact setup and they weren't having the problem. It was only happening to me in that world.
@@DakonsMadhouse o.o
im doing this with coral wood and its not working
whats that orange pet your using?
thats a snugglygrade. you find them later in the game.
how come youre not using sprinklers?
they aren't needed. The root seeds only need to watered once.
@@DakonsMadhouse thank you!!
what if i dont have robot arms yet?
then dont use robot arms. my easy design at the beginning doesn't use robot arms, just conveyors. Once you have robot arms, add them into the design. But until then you'll have to do planks manually if you need them and you won't be able to automate storage.
@@DakonsMadhouse sweet, thank you!!!
So stuff don't decay?
stuff don't decay.
are you gonna update your mobfarm?
yes. there are bugs in the mob spawning right now. waiting for those to get fixed.
Just some constructive criticism, work on getting some sound proofing for recording, your voice has a lot of echo feedback.
its been on my to do list for awhile. thank you for the reminder.
just bought some sound proofing. Should arrive in a few days. next few videos will still be the same though. But hopefully soon it will be better. I can't even hear the echo when I edit.
#EnterTheMadhouse
Love the vids, keep it up 😁
Just fyi, auto doors mod breaks this farm for some reason, causes drills to act weird.
the new mod author for autodoors messed it up pretty badly. But the original author told me today he should have a fixed version up soon, if its not up already.
@@DakonsMadhouse Well that would be awesome for sure, AutoDoors is pretty much essential.
Hopefully the CK devs will just implement it as a feature in the future.
Why not just make the wood line a single tile?
Why do you need to farm wood at all? I already have more wood than I'll ever need without ever planting a root seed.
does anyone know if you own the game on console if it's going to be cross generation?
yes cross generation works. So PS4 can play with PS5, Xbox One can play with Xbox Series S|X. The earlier generation console versions will release on September 17th.
@@DakonsMadhouse thanx for the reply
Doesn't seem to work anymore, not for me anyways. The wood grows but the drills just don't break it. 🤔
why dont you just make the drills face horizontally? that would save you the need for most of the conveyor belts, and some of the robot arms..
you can make the drills horizontal if you want, it won't change the design. Flip it in any direction it still needs the conveyor belts and the arms.
@@DakonsMadhouse drills move stuff behind it so you dont need a line of conveyor belts, so you save conveyor belts
@@RhythmofResonance yes I know that drills do that. I'm moving the wood from that spot to the chests for storage. If you don't want to automate that process, then skip the conveyors and just pick up your wood yourself.
@DakonsMadhouse yeah for that, the arm could have just been placed behind the last drill
I misunderstood. the reason I didnt do the sideways turn on the drills is because wood grows only 5 tiles away from the root and I want to include the top root seed. If I move them on tile 6, I can grow the roots down 1 more tile but I wont be getting my top roots spawning there. If I move my drills up 1 tile to keep my top root part of the spawn, then I sacrifice side roots. So I went with the vertical turn for the drill. But now conveyors become required to move the wood.
That’s one way to do it..
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2:46 essentually
Whoa there Tex
#enterthemadhouse
Great video btw ❤
This farm isn't working for me. My drills don't even cut the wood..
did you verify that the power going to your drills is a steady, constant yellow light? If its flashing you need to add a wire under the lever. That will fix the issue.
Even if the lights are solid, if you don't have a wire under the lever, add a wire and see if that fixes it.
Otherwise I suggest submitting a bug report to Pugstorm.
If you have the AutoDoors mod, disable/remove it.
I don't understand why you made the vines longer in the more complex build. You only need 1 tile and you can put all the seeds next to each other with a 1 tile gap in front and a fence around the whole thing, like this:
D = Drill, C = Conveyor, R = Root, F = Fence/Wall/etc
FDDDDDDDDDDDF
FCCCCCCCCCCCF
FRRRRRRRRRRRF
FFFFFFFFFFFFFF
It'll always grow and be instantly harvested on top of the conveyor
check out the next video I made on this where I test the different wood farm designs and show why this design improves on the more simple design. Then you can determine if the more advanced design is even needed for you or not.
#EnterTheMadhouse great game!
Enter the madhouse❤
If i don't like farming, can I still enjoy the game and get through with things without it ?
yes
@DakonsMadhouse any tips on that without farming ?
@@keepitshort4208 not my play style. I farm and build machines.