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Plant Crops Using Automation: Farming Without Resorting to Slavery

Tilled, hydrated soil should "pick up" seed items, much like a hopper does, and grow that crop. In this way, you could dispense seeds into a water stream and replant your entire farm, hands-free. 

If done correctly, you could now fully automate farming without using villagers. I know Mojang doesn't like the idea of farms, but this wouldn't be adding a new farm, just changing the way it's done. The current system sends a pretty poor message to kids. Unpaid, imprisoned workers are bad, mkay? 

For larger farms (in rows as opposed to squares), minecarts with Dispensers or Droppers could carry and plant the seeds down the line. Triggering the firing mechanism with detector rails would do just fine.

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    I think this is a great idea it simplifies automatic farming, removes slavery, and adds a new mechanic into the game.

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    Always wanted this feature

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    This is what i want

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    Awesome. I was suggesting dispensers should be able to plant seeds on farmland.

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    We NEED this

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    I tried to make a fully automatic farm for wheat but I need dispensers/droppers to place seeds. WE NEED THIS

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    I've actually played around with mods that let you use dispensers to plant seeds- it makes for some really interesting engineering challenges. (As it turns out, timing the harvest properly, and sorting/feeding seeds back into dispensers, and making the thing tileable is harder than it seems, if extremely satisfying.)

    Since food can already be obtained automatically, I think this system would encourage more innovation and design challenges than just trapping villagers and having them do it for you, which is more just irritating and morally dubious than fun or creative.

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    I disagree that the current method is a pro-slavery message but i do agree an automated way to plant crops would be useful. Maybe instead of the hoed ground automatically picking the item, we can use dispensers or some kind of item to "shoot" the seeds into the hoed ground. 

    Or have the ability for a hopper to plant a seed to farmland if farmland is under the hopper or add a seeder block that created by using the new resources we have in the game.