Hello everyone!
So for a long time, I have been in need of a nice way to gather sugarcane. I'm sure everyone has great auto-sugarcane farm designs, so here is mine too!
I have a 3x4 grid of 16 sugarcane in each grid box, and 16 pistons too, that push the sugarcane into a stream of water. All of these grid squares channel the sugarcane into a dropper elevator that puts the it into chests, for collection.
Dropper system:
What a row looks like:

If you have any suggestions or ideas to improve this, please share them with us!
Have a nice day :D

Good idea! I didn't think pumpkins were useful, but after reading your post, they probably are.
My reason for using sugarcane is mainly that once I get a villager breeder started up, I can trade with the librarians to get emeralds and unlock the book trades. Also, I can sell the sugarcane to people who want to do the same.
haha my redstone is very messy too sometimes

Suppose I will have to make an auto pumpkin farm as well to get emeralds!