EXCELLENCE IN GAME MOD DESIGN

Crop farms are different to other Minecraft farms in the way that you can't make crops grow faster. This shifts the direction of a good crop farm design towards a more compact and economically viable one.

The standard design for a pumpkin farm is horizontal, meaning you need a collection layer in between each layer of the farm. However, that was too expensive and that many collection layers could cause lag problems. Instead, I opted for what I called a vertical design, where the items are pushed to the side down into one collection system, eliminating the need for several ones. Even better, since the items don't fall on any ground until the collection layer, you can use water instead of a mine cart and rails, minimizing lag even more.

As for the sugar cane farm, I designed a simple one where an observer detects when the sugar cane has reached a certain height. This observer then launches a flying machine to harvest all the sugar cane, which get collected by water and supplementary mine cart hoppers. This farm is simple in concept and is easily to upgrade since Minecraft flying machines can fly forever until they hit a player made block.