Chopper
To start out using PA for getting lumber you will need to make a wooden chopper.
When placed this you can click on the chopper to open the interface. To start the chopper you will need to put the following items into it:
- Fuel - Coal, wood, anything that can be used to fuel a furnace
- Sapling - You can give it any types of sapling and they will be planted around the chopper
- An axe- The chopper will use the axe to chop down wooden blocks, it will take durability but you can also enchant it. It will not however take damage when leaves are broken
The axe can only be up to the same level as the chopper, so you can only put a wooden axe in a wooden chopper, and you can put wooden, stone and iron axes in a iron chopper. Once running the chopper will attempt to keep the saplings and fuel filled with the items that it harvests, so make sure to keep the fuel topped up or else it will start to burn the wood as fuel. If the internal inventory is full the chopper will eject items into the world. It will also automatically put items into any inventory (like a chest) on top of the chopper.
The speed at which the chopper will break leaves will be faster when using a higher level chopper and does not depend on the level of the axe used.
The Chopper should be placed on the same level as to where you want to plant your saplings. In the above picture the first sapling would be placed on the green wool (if the wool was dirt/grass). Without any range upgrades that is the only sapling that would be placed. If you added 1 range upgrade then a sapling would be placed on the blue wool. Another upgrade would unlock the red wool and each upgrade would spiral around the machine.
It should be noted that the first sapling will always be to the east unless the machine is rotated with a wrench.
By default the chopper will only plant and harvest directly in front of it on the same level but the range can be upgraded by a single block with each additional upgrade that is put into it. You can put as many upgrades as you wish into the chopper but the upgrades need to be of the same type of the chopper.
