Work on the Ranch is really coming along. It is basically operational at this time, although I have a few more projects in mind and am looking for ideas on more.

Currently the ranch has the following features:

- Large pens with every sheep color
- Large pens for cows and pigs
- Automatic egg farm and roasted chicken/feather farm
- Automatic sugar cane farm
- Automatic cactus farm
- Automatic Melon and Pumpkin farms
- Auto-harvest fields for wheat, potatoes and carrots.

Projects in mind:

- Stable near the entrance to the ranch
- Re-build the main house to be larger and more like a ranch/farm house. I’m probably going to wait until the 1.7 update as I plan on using mainly hardened clay for the building. If you have a bunch of clay you’d like to donate I may be able to start sooner.

Everyone is free to use the ranch and its production facilities. Getting there is easy, you can either take the new road I built that goes around the volcano, or you can get there via the nether. Nether access is probably the easiest and quickest. Just head east from the train station portals down the hall, and then take a left before the roof ends. Keep going straight and you are there. I’ll make some signage soon that helps with the way finding.

Most of the automatic production facilities only require you to be present in the chunk to work. All items are collected in chests for easy access.

Are there any other items that could be good additions to the grounds? Is there anything that you use that could be automated and made a resource for everyone?

The ranch is relatively close to the city, so it is a good place for production of commonly used items.

If you do go visit, please help increase the livestock numbers by breeding as many animals as you can.

I am wide open to suggestions for future use of the space!