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Theoretical limits of farms?
Started by Roman

Ive been making farms for a while. mostly ore farms and I've wondered what is the limit of farms. I'm talking how much can the ob server handle before I'm told to stop rn I have 4 cell farms at 4 blocks high (upgrades soon) and one mega one. if storage tech was not a limit what is the limit.

let me know if anyone has smth to say or new farm suggestions 

Roman

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The server is pretty good at handling farms in general with it being loot farms or anything else. This isn't something you should worry about as if farming ever becomes an issue on the server we will handle it gracefully and you wont receive any punishment.
For example we might:


Limit Certain Spawns Per Island

Limit How Many Spawners You Can Buy

No matter what, i recommend not to worry about this, as of right now you can go all out with no limits. and until i see a foreseeable issue i wont limit anything

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- FrenchToast Owner of AP Network

but what about non spawner farms such as my ore farm I'm running rn? it makes abt 600k drops per hour which causes lag for me but not server side.

also what about storage tech, like anti burnout (stops ImpulseSV filters from breaking by spamming sticky psitons)

Since that isn't on the server side, its no issue to us. The only problem is with anyone that goes to your island or you on your own island. If it gets to the point where it starts to crash peoples games, i might be up to the task of reducing how fast these farms produce their materials.

For the storage methods we don't really mess with it, the only thing i believe i have done is hopper limiting which as of right now is just limiting how fast items go through hoppers.

If i see the lag issue with the blocks and items on your island and other people care about it and you do, i will look into possible solutions. It could be something as simple as just merging the items together that are close enough.

- FrenchToast Owner of AP Network

limiting the speed of hoppers isn't a good idea in my opinion because it make storage tech harder to do at larger scale

There is always other options, such as moving your items with water and ice.

The hopper limitation is minimal and players shouldn't notice the difference

- FrenchToast Owner of AP Network

French its a big issue i move abt 500k items with water but I have to sort these items meaning i use more filters than needed. and i believe that may have cause some of my system to break bc the torch going on and off.

i agree