User:Hanid

Growing Thistles with Veggietales

Step 1 - Get voids and be sure someone has tested them for day and night. Believe it or not the getting of voids is the hard part LOL. Try Twisted Thistle info for voids.

Step 2 - Enter voids in VeggieTalesnew>config_thistle file. When you place a zero next to a rule it creates a void. For example a void for Nit_Asc would look like "rule_Nit_Asc 0"

Step 3 - Enter your desired thistle

written like this:

desired "label: YOURNAME"

desired A-F~P+T+

if you write it like this:

//desired A-F~P+T+ it won't be searched ) Save and close.

Step 4: Open VeggieTales and run Thistle mode. This will create a series of recipes if the voids are suitable.

Step 5: Open history in VeggieTalesnew folderScroll to the bottom and check percentages. If it is in the 85% range you probably can grow an accurate thistle, below that you may need to experiment. Try the "Best for . . ." recipe first. Copy the recipe, but not the letters saying what it will produce at the top and bottom, just the list of numbers.

Step 6: Go to luaScripts folder. Open thistle_new (no zeros in name)

a) Change local expected_gardens to = your thistle garden number

b) Paste in recipe after: "instructions = {"

It should begin something like this:

instructions = {

0,0,0,1,33,

It should end something like this:

0,0,1,1,99,

};

(These numbers represent the various nutrients and sunlight, the first line translates to "use 1 oxygen, 33 sun" and the last to "1 water 1 oxygen and full sun" they are just examples.)

c) Change sun to the last number on your recipe list, so for this example you scroll up to the line right above instructions:

local last_sun = 33 and change it to 99 in this example. Save and close or minimize.

Look at your thistle gardens, be sure they are all set to the number you just entered (33 or 99) Night growing is unaffected by these numbers so no need to change them after dark, but you will need to change the recipe. You can plant change to desired light and abort to fix them.

Step 7 - Pin all gardens, I use veggitales arranger to set them up, directions there.

Step 8 - make sure you have water and thistle seeds

Start Veggietalesnew thistlenew script and enjoy :-)