Crophoppers are no longer level 1, 2, 3 etc. Instead, crophoppers have a GUI where you can: Pay to unlock crops for the crophopper to harvest (current crophopper crops) cactus sugar cane melon pumpkin wheat Pay to upgrade the speed Originally at 1 item per second +1 item per second per upgrade to a max of 3 items per second Enable and disable harvesting of specific unlocked crops So you can have manual farms of different varieties in the same chunks as crop hoppers View harvest statistics on the crophopper (current and previous tax period) Number of crops harvested of each type Number of crops voided (harvested but not sold due to speed limit) of each type Unlocked crops and speed should be displayed in the item lore, so that the speed and crops unlocked can be viewed from the inventory and auction house. This serves to make level 1 and level 2 crophoppers more useful to newer players who currently have to go through the added expense of purchasing a whole new crophopper if they want to move up in farm efficiency. Additionally it adds in the functionality which many players have been asking for - individual crophopper statistics. Current crophoppers will be able to be converted to these new crophoppers in a 1:1 basis, eg: Level 1 crophoppers 1 item/second Cactus + sugarcane unlocked Level 2 crophoppers 2 items/second Cactus + sugarcane + wheat unlocked Level 3 crophoppers 3 items/second Cactus + sugarcane + wheat + melon + pumpkin unlocked Crophopper statistics and enabled/disabled crops should only be associated with the crophopper block, not the item, so that data should be lost after breaking.
Can't support this with the current server setup struggling as it is. A lot more calculations going on with all that and it will allow players to build manual farms on top of maxed farm chunks, giving rise to even larger farms. As it is, if you visit a large farm that is not already loaded, the server struggles. Visit back and forth between two such islands and the server almost dies. Ask Sky siad, Croppers are upgradeable. You can upgrade level 1 and 2 crop hoppers by holding them and typing /crophopper, then you will only pay the difference to upgrade the cropper. Ideally this upgrade could be done in place via the cropper GUI as suggested here because while you mine that cropper to hold it in order to upgrade it, the crops that grow aren't collected and you have to go and farm them out manually.
