I'm fairly certain the Farming Station has special coding for the IC2 rubber trees. It will use a tree tap on them to get rubber rather than cut them down.

I know that.

I just did some testing, and apparently, the farming station needs some space between the saplings to plant rubber tree saplings for some reason.

Because rubber tree saplings don't grow unless all 6 neighboring block spaces are empty. (Disclaimer: I have no idea if IC2 changed since we added support for their rubber saplings.)

Why, though?

@PapiDimmi you would have to ask the IC2 devs

Just a quick update: There are at least 4 mods that have those rubber trees (IC2e, IC2c, TR, GT). Some of them require the space around the sapling, some don't. I won't go chasing which one is which way in which version...

Figuring out whether the rubber tree requires empty space between each sapling to grow for four different mods doesn’t really sound like that difficult of a task to me, but that’s fine.

@legodude17 Sure, I can ask the mod authors.

The thing is, I have no idea what IC2e and IC2c are.

@PapiDimmi If it isn't that hard then go do it yourself. 😄

IC2e is the official Industrial Craft. The e stands for Experimental.

IC2c is Industrial Craft Classic by Speiger.

I think TR is Tech Reborn and GT is Greg Tech.

IC2c is out of the picture. It’s outdated, innit?