Crop Manager

The Crop Manager is a tiered singleblock for automatically hydrating, fertilizing, and harvesting crops from IC2 Crop Sticks. The Crop Manager consumes a flat amount of EU per operation and works in a fixed area that scales with the voltage tier of the machine. There is even a slight chance for extra drops when harvesting. An alternative to the Crop Manager is the EnderIO Farming Station.

Individual operations can be disabled through the Crop Manager's GUI if necessary. For example, it is possible to disable the hydrating/fertilizing functions and still harvest crops as they grow. Even while enabled, the consumable items (ie. weed-ex) are not entirely mandatory for the machine to run.

The operating height of the Crop Manager is always 5 blocks (centered on Crop Manager block) which means one machine can harvest THREE layers of crop sticks simultaneously (two blocks above and two blocks below Crop Manager). See the image to the right as a reference.

The UI consists of three parts. The input slots for fertilizer and Weed-EX on the left, water for irrigation in the middle and the output slots on the right. Below are the buttons to toggle the individual operations: the first button disables Hydration/Fertilizing/Weed-EX, the second button disables harvest of your crop and the third button disables full growth Harvest.

Plant seeds on crop sticks within its operating area and watch as it automatically tends to the crops in accordance with its settings. The harvesting is equivalent to right-clicking the crop sticks with your hand. That means it never actually moves crops around or drops any seeds. Power is only consumed during harvests or applying water/fertilizer/Weed-EX. All non-harvesting operations consume only 25% of the EU normally required.

Every voltage tier increases the Crop Manager's area, EU consumption per operation, and the chance for extra drops. The following table lists all the relevant values.