Does the timer interval I place upon an automatic sugar cane farm actually affect the production rate in any way? The timer I am using is not a BUD switch or anything overly fancy, just a simple hopper timer. But since sugar canes grow due to random block updates, assuming that the pulse for the pistons I use to harvest the sugarcane is negligibly short compared to the timescale of harvest, shouldn't the interval set on the hopper not affect the amount of sugarcane harvested? Or does the extending piston mess with the growth of the sugar cane?
Minecraft – Automatic Sugar cane farm timing
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Best Answer
The piston-arm over the sugarcane resets the amount of time it needs to grow, so the answer is yes, it does affect the amount of sugar canes, i recommend you to put a bud switch, its very easy to do and its very efficient.
You can also put a timer with a lot of time, so you are sure that the sugar cane will be growth when its harvested.