So I was messing with cactus farms for skyblock and after a lot of testing with different farm designs, I thought I would share my findings with everyone and see what people thought.

For the test I did a 30 minute test with 1 cactus that can grow. All other cactus had glass panes above them to prevent growth. The test also had randomTickSpeed set to 3000. I made a video of this but it was rather long and would take around an hour to upload (my internet is horrible, I know).

The purpose of this test is to show how many cactus you actually lose from cactus hitting other cactus while falling down.

Design 1 - This is probably the most common design. I set the cactus at the very top of the tower that could grow.




Design 2 - Same design as Design 1, but shows what would happen if you put a layer for catching the cactus every 2 cactus layers.




Design 3 - Same design and Design 1 and 2, but shows what would happen if you put a layer for catching the cactus, between each layer of cactus.




Design 4 - This design puts a fence post around each individual cactus to help prevent them from bouncing into another cactus. This design would also require a layer for catching cactus between each layers. Probably the most time consuming and costly design.





Results
Design 1 - 539 Cactus
Design 2 - 668 Cactus
Design 3 - 885 Cactus
Design 4 - 922 Cactus

So the question is... Do you think Design 4 is worth the time and materials to get nearly double the amount of cactus?