I’m trying to set up an automatic Bonsai farm for resources like iron, tin, lead, etc. I’ve actually managed to get the whole system running, but I’m running into one specific problem.

First, I built a power system for the autocrafter. Since it’s going to run pretty slowly anyway, I decided to use a Combustion Generator. To supply it, I made a separate Bonsai farm that only produces wood.

For smelting, I set up another wood Bonsai farm dedicated purely to furnaces. Above that, I have a Bonsai setup for each resource tree. From each tree, I’m only extracting resin and acorns. These get sent into the autocrafter, crafted step by step, then turned into amber, smelted in a furnace, and finally sent into ME storage. Overall, everything in the system works really well.

The issue is that acorn and resin drop rates aren’t equal for each tree. For example, in a single cycle I might get 10 acorns but only 6 resin. Over time, this means I end up with a large excess of acorns building up in the autocrafter or intermediate buffers.

I can’t figure out a clean way to solve this. I’ve tried several different approaches but haven’t found a good solution yet. Maybe something like not sending more items to the autocrafter if it already has more than 64 inside, or some other kind of balancing system but I’m not sure what the best approach would be.

Do you have any suggestions or ideas on how to deal with this?

Automatic Bonsai Farm Problems