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Farmhand - Farm Manager

A script to help ensure high yields and automate harvesting. Full details can be found in the Farmhand Guide.

This is a beta. It's pretty well tested but there may be bugs. There may also be breaking changes between versions, so make sure you read the Upgrade Notes section. Additional planned features are at the bottom of this page.

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Changes the lights on the farm plots to indicate the status of the crop. This is configurable, but these are the defaults:

• Dark Purple: Nothing planted
  
• White: Plant is growing
  
• Green: Plant is ready to harvest
  
• Red: Plant is dead
  
• Blinking White: Farm plot is low on water

Tracks the amount of ice in irrigation systems
Tracks the amount of water in the farm plots
Tracks the air/pressurization status using an air vent
Triggers timer blocks when certain events occur

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Load the script into a programmable block. You should see a summary of tracked blocks on the programmable block's screen.

Take all the blocks you want to track and put them in a group together. This include farm plots, irrigation systems, air vents, and timer blocks. All blocks are technically optional.

Next, add the tag [FarmLCD] to any LCD Panels or Control Seats/Cockpits. Then go into the Custom Data of the block and add the group name. This LCD Panel/Control Seat/Cockpit will now monitor that group. You can add as many LCDs to a group as you want, and you can have as many groups as you want.

(Optional) If you only want to track one group and don't want to see a readout on a screen, you can add a single group to the Custom Data of the programmable block. This will still control farm plot lights and trigger timers, but it can only track one group.

Congrats, setup is now complete!

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There are many ways to configure the script, including changing the farm plot light colors, trigger timer blocks, changing alerting thresholds, etc.

For a full list of options, see the Farmhand Guide.

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During the beta period, there may be breaking changes in how the script works. Please follow all the migration guides between your current version and the one you're upgrading to.

• Default "low water" alert threshold changed from 20% to 50%. You will need to manually change it on any existing blocks (if you want to)
  
• If you're splitting output between multiple LCDs, you may want to set which one(s) show the new Farm Plots category in the LCDs' custom data.

• You no longer have to put LCD panels in the group. Tag them with [FarmLCD] instead.
  
• You can keep the group name in the programmable block custom data if you want (it is no longer required), but if you want the readout on the LCD, you'll have to tag the LCD with [FarmLCD] and add the group name to the LCD Custom Data.

• In the LCD Panel custom data, "Show Errors" has changed to "Show Alerts." If you changed the value of "Show Errors" to false, you will need to change "Show Alerts" to false as well.
  
• "Show Errors" can be deleted from custom data if you want. The script ignores it now and won't add it to new blocks.

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These are in no particular order. Hopefully I get to all of them eventually.

• Ability to customize the colors for each state
  
• Customizable thresholds for ice and water levels
  
• Support for using screens on blocks with multiple screens
  
• Support for multiple farm groups
  
• Better LCD output with graphical representation of more data
  
• Support for broadcast controllers

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[h2Known Issues[/h2]

• For some reason, the farm lights don't sync to the client properly on some dedicated servers. No idea why yet but it might be a bug with the farm plot

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Discord[discord.gg] Has a dedicated chat room for help and bug reports for this script.