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Im trying find a way to calculate how much time it takes to grow a certain ammount of crop (potato/carrot/wheat) to ration resources. The idea is to plant enough crops to feed a pack of 6 cows for example. That means that each 5 minutes (if i stay around all the time) , so its about 72 wheat in an hour.

The question is how much it would take to 72 wheat to completely grow? an hour would be enough? Id just like to know if is there a way to know it without "watching grass grow" if you know what i mean...

I dont know if explained the idea clearly, for any questions just ask
Thanks

I found this on the wiki, I think it may help you. Heres what it says Wheat crops have a total of 8 growth stages, and the growth from stage to stage happens on random intervals, but the average range is usually 5 minutes (in ideal conditions) to 35 (worst-case conditions). So its kinda random the way each individual wheat grows. My only tip is to make sure your crops have a good light source, and have plenty of water. Hope this helped

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I found this on the wiki, I think it may help you. Heres what it says Wheat crops have a total of 8 growth stages, and the growth from stage to stage happens on random intervals, but the average range is usually 5 minutes (in ideal conditions) to 35 (worst-case conditions). So its kinda random the way each individual wheat grows. My only tip is to make sure your crops have a good light source, and have plenty of water. Hope this helped

Yeah... kinda So that means that each crop can grow in a minimum of 8x5 (8 stages, 5 mins in between) so thats 40 minutes minimum.. is the calculation right ?

I have my crops with good illumination and proper water, still the one on top of the tower doesnt want to grow up (how dare them ! inmatures! =D ) but i think its because they have a solid block (wood) on top. Maybe if i change that for a transparent block (glass) the problem is that ill have to kinda re think the redstone a bit.

The Wiki has a detailed article on wheat farming, including the factors that affect their growth; for one, while not very space efficient, wheat grows faster when in separate rows surrounded by empty farmland than when surrounded by more wheat; they give a figure of 80% growth in 37 minutes for this method, compared to 62 minutes for the latter (e.g. 1 water block surrounded by a 9x9 farm, which has twice as many crops but doesn't produce much more per area). Thus, 100 wheat crops would produce about 11 wheat in 5 minutes (100 * 80% * (5 / 37), 6 for the slower method. This also assumes you harvest and replant immediately after they mature.

It's hard to say how long it will take any amount of wheat to grow however, because it is all driven by random block updates, averaging once every 82 seconds, but sometimes much longer or even several updates at once; I'd double the numbers above to be safe, also allowing for harvesting time, maybe even more; easier to let them all grow and then harvest, in which case wheat takes about an hour to fully grow.

Other crops use similar factors but have different rates of growth; for example, potatoes and carrots take about 19 and 31 minutes to grow in the conditions described above (here is a list of all of the crops). Note also that crops WILL grow on dry farmland but take much longer to grow (hours), a useful tip in case you don't have any water.

Also, for feeding yourself, I'd go with baked potatoes due to the faster growth rate and getting more than one per crop even after replanting, they also restore as much hunger as cooked chicken (less than steak or porkchops, but those require additional steps to get); chickens are also as effective since you can breed them with eggs, especially with an automatic farm.

I know that since i started playing Minecraft,i've wasted so much times doing these types of investigation.I don't like using wiki,i like to make experiments.

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The Wiki has a detailed article on wheat farming, including the factors that affect their growth; for one, while not very space efficient, wheat grows faster when in separate rows surrounded by empty farmland than when surrounded by more wheat; they give a figure of 80% growth in 37 minutes for this method, compared to 62 minutes for the latter (e.g. 1 water block surrounded by a 9x9 farm, which has twice as many crops but doesn't produce much more per area). Thus, 100 wheat crops would produce about 11 wheat in 5 minutes (100 * 80% * (5 / 37), 6 for the slower method. This also assumes you harvest and replant immediately after they mature.

It's hard to say how long it will take any amount of wheat to grow however, because it is all driven by random block updates, averaging once every 82 seconds, but sometimes much longer or even several updates at once; I'd double the numbers above to be safe, also allowing for harvesting time, maybe even more; easier to let them all grow and then harvest, in which case wheat takes about an hour to fully grow.

Other crops use similar factors but have different rates of growth; for example, potatoes and carrots take about 19 and 31 minutes to grow in the conditions described above (here is a list of all of the crops). Note also that crops WILL grow on dry farmland but take much longer to grow (hours), a useful tip in case you don't have any water.

Also, for feeding yourself, I'd go with baked potatoes due to the faster growth rate and getting more than one per crop even after replanting, they also restore as much hunger as cooked chicken (less than steak or porkchops, but those require additional steps to get); chickens are also as effective since you can breed them with eggs, especially with an automatic farm.

The wiki is always what i read first, i search on the google and see if anythings comes out but for me some info on the wiki is not clear or its mistaken, for instance i prefer to ask here. Tthe thing that is mostly confusing, for me that i learn english on school and the pcitures makes things more confusing.

In the end, what i can see is that theres no assurance for crops since they are "randomly" growing... you could get it in one hour or im 4...

Thanks for the answers

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I know that since i started playing Minecraft,i've wasted so much times doing these types of investigation.I don't like using wiki,i like to make experiments.

Please use a Sans serif font to post, comic sans is a little bit hard to read. Anyways, i prefer to experiment too but in this case i dont want to spend hours and hours watching the crops grow. The problem with the wiki is that the info comes a lot form other people experiments so things might be relative.

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The wiki is always what i read first, i search on the google and see if anythings comes out but for me some info on the wiki is not clear or its mistaken, for instance i prefer to ask here. Tthe thing that is mostly confusing, for me that i learn english on school and the pcitures makes things more confusing.

In the end, what i can see is that theres no assurance for crops since they are "randomly" growing... you could get it in one hour or im 4...

Thanks for the answers



Please use a Sans serif font to post, comic sans is a little bit hard to read. Anyways, i prefer to experiment too but in this case i dont want to spend hours and hours watching the crops grow. The problem with the wiki is that the info comes a lot form other people experiments so things might be relative.

Yeah,but i like to do expirements

Might as well grow a surplus, you never know when you'll need the extra.

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it works off tile ticks per chunk, to efficiently do this find the leftmost corner of a chunk ( dividable x/z by 16 ) and make the entire chunk a crop field.less technically, it works off randomly updating blocks inside a chunk, so bigger is better in terms of crops.

I have a tower type of farm. I designed it so it has only space to grow the wheat and of top of the grown wheat theres another layer of farming ground and so on. If im right, and my memory doesnt fails it has 8 floors and each floor has about 18 tilled dirt so thats about 144 wheat each time i farm it.This is the scheme of the thing in top view








is building block is ladder is farming ground/ wheat is redstone is lightsource (with water source bellow) is fence (to be able to till and plant) is where harvesting water goes to the level bellow

Im planning to build 4 towers connected by bridges with their own harvesting system and stairs to replant so 1 is not near even 1 chunk, at least 4 of those separated by 3 blocks is close