Automatic Harvester

Automatic harvesters are blocks in this mod that allow you to completely automize your potato, carrot and wheat farms.

Function
When placed underneath tilled soil blocks, automatic harvesters continiously check for a crop above the soil block. If it finds wheat, potatoes or carrots, and if they are fully grown, it will remove the block and collect what the block would drop and place it in the inventory. It wil lthen take a seed item out of the inventory and replace the block to continue the farm cycle. If the inventory is full, the harvested items, except the one used to replant will be thrown out around the crop block. The harvesters can be fed items by hoppers through the sides and the top, and have items taken out of them from the bottom.

Crafting
To craft automatic harvesters, surround a chest with redstone dust. This will yield 2 blocks.

Uses
The recomended way to use the harvesters is to place them beneath tilled soil on which potatoes, carrots or wheat are growing. If you can afford to, you can place hoppers beneath the harvesters and have all the yield go to one chest by chaining them.

Although the main use of this block is for agricultural purposes, it can also be used as a chest, using up less wood but requiring redstone. It cannot form double chests.