Just fooling around with pistons and made a stupid cobblestone generator. If anyone really wants to make this, well, I guess I could give some instructions. It makes cobble, I guess for those who can't find any, lol. Though I suppose on limited mining area SMP servers, it's a way to get massive amounts of cobble about as fast as possible, and you only have to stand in one spot and mine it. Put a piece of tape to hold your mouse button down, you don't even have to be there.
Top view:
Simple timer on the left powers two pistons, one a sticky. The lava flows down, hits the water, turns to cobble, gets pulled out by the sticky piston, the other piston pushes it down the trench to where you stand, ready to mine. The two switches turn the pistons on & off and the other closes the lava source so it doesn't overflow when you're not there.
Close up of the pistons:
So there you go, a great way to waste some time doing something (almost) useless and pretty dumb. Compared to some of the awesome & huge piston / redstone creations on here, this is just pathetic. I mean really, why did I even post this?
heh, thanks, I suppose it's a way to waste an hour or so. Texture pack is mostly JohnSmith, with some other stuff thrown in, but about 95% JS I would say, from various versions.
I suppose this design could be used to create a wall or block a passageway if you needed. What would be really cool, is if you could create a way to mine the blocks automatically too, so you can be super lazy, let it run for a bit, then go over and pick up a couple stacks of cobble.
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heh, thanks, I suppose it's a way to waste an hour or so. Texture pack is mostly JohnSmith, with some other stuff thrown in, but about 95% JS I would say, from various versions.
I suppose this design could be used to create a wall or block a passageway if you needed. What would be really cool, is if you could create a way to mine the blocks automatically too, so you can be super lazy, let it run for a bit, then go over and pick up a couple stacks of cobble.
Running the crusher plugin/mod for pistons (so they break blocks) would allow it to be a fully automated farm actually.
I might just use this on my server since we use that plugin...
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Hey, that's pretty cool, didn't know of such a mod. Combine it with the store on contact chest mod and you can get a whole chest full in no time. Add a couple more pistons on timers to move the chests along, and it would have a huge storage capacity.
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There's alot of different things you can use this for..
Personally my fav is using it as a detector so you know if someone breaks a block. Pistons only push 12blocks so along that line of 12 blocks (or more using a chain of pistons) if someone breaks one of those blocks the cobblestone generator goes into work pushing a new block in its place causing redstone wire that was traveling through another block in that row to move temporarily cutting power to a redstone wire which would trip a RS Nor Latch and then any amount of countless fun can be had. Can't have any sort of precision trap like only the dispenser behind the block that gets busted will be armed, but it can do more wide area traps like filling a hallway with lava or pulling out the floor from under the person.
Interesting, the only problem is if you let this fill up to capacity with cobble to where the piston can't push it anymore, the lava over flows and breaks the whole thing. With some careful switching of the piston that holds back the lava, it might work out though.
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i use a smaller, more compact version that work relatively fast and takes 2 minutes to set up. these type of things have been made
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Interesting, the only problem is if you let this fill up to capacity with cobble to where the piston can't push it anymore, the lava over flows and breaks the whole thing. With some careful switching of the piston that holds back the lava, it might work out though.
you can make it so that as soon as the first cobblestone is destroyed, it makes a new one.
The cobblestone is where cobblestone would be generated. Push that with a piston, withdraw the piston, and a new cobblestone takes the place. That way you don'y need to time everything.
(I may have gotten the design a bit wrong. There's probably more room between the lava and the water columns. Play around with it, though.)
and it turns on/off at will with no risk of lava overflow, and if you made two next to each other it would double amount in just another 4 minutes
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and ittssnowing, that is the concept i use to build my cobble factory, it works perfedtly, but dont try on slow servers, it bugs up and kills you 8-)
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Yeah, I figured something similar and/or more efficient had already been done by numerous people, but figured, what the hey, here you go. Have fun with it.
Now I'm off to create slime spawn rooms in a bunch of slime chunks thanks to CJB's more info mod that tells you where the slimes will spawn. Of course, I could just use a mob spawner set to slimes but hey, that doesn't involve mining and fighting in the depths of the earth, now does it? hehe
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That's actually a pretty fun looking one, huge but fun. I build small Cobble gens in my basement. One Piston, 2 Repeaters a lever and a handful of redstone. Generates a rather large amount quickly. Good for building castle walls without leveling mountains. XD
Glad you like it, hope it helps. Now that 1.9 is out, lava and water react differently and there's a way to make smoothstone from it. Changing it to make it create smoothstone was fairly simple, and also simplifies the design a bit:
The lava flows onto the water, makes smoothstone, the rest is the same. The cutoff piston now works faster to turn off the lava and it won't overflow or break. Thing is, it still doesn't make stone fast enough so that it can keep up with your mining, even with stone pickaxe. I think even a wood pickaxe can mine faster. Probably a couple of these could be chained together to feed one row of stone to mine. I've seen other generators that produce stone faster, but you have to be there and actively mine the stone by changing position, I'd like a fast solution that you can walk away from by taping down your mouse button, you see, because I'm lazy.
Top view:
Simple timer on the left powers two pistons, one a sticky. The lava flows down, hits the water, turns to cobble, gets pulled out by the sticky piston, the other piston pushes it down the trench to where you stand, ready to mine. The two switches turn the pistons on & off and the other closes the lava source so it doesn't overflow when you're not there.
Close up of the pistons:
So there you go, a great way to waste some time doing something (almost) useless and pretty dumb. Compared to some of the awesome & huge piston / redstone creations on here, this is just pathetic. I mean really, why did I even post this?
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I suppose this design could be used to create a wall or block a passageway if you needed. What would be really cool, is if you could create a way to mine the blocks automatically too, so you can be super lazy, let it run for a bit, then go over and pick up a couple stacks of cobble.
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Running the crusher plugin/mod for pistons (so they break blocks) would allow it to be a fully automated farm actually.
I might just use this on my server since we use that plugin...
"You ready your hoe!" Awww yeah.
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Personally my fav is using it as a detector so you know if someone breaks a block. Pistons only push 12blocks so along that line of 12 blocks (or more using a chain of pistons) if someone breaks one of those blocks the cobblestone generator goes into work pushing a new block in its place causing redstone wire that was traveling through another block in that row to move temporarily cutting power to a redstone wire which would trip a RS Nor Latch and then any amount of countless fun can be had. Can't have any sort of precision trap like only the dispenser behind the block that gets busted will be armed, but it can do more wide area traps like filling a hallway with lava or pulling out the floor from under the person.
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you can make it so that as soon as the first cobblestone is destroyed, it makes a new one.
The cobblestone is where cobblestone would be generated. Push that with a piston, withdraw the piston, and a new cobblestone takes the place. That way you don'y need to time everything.
(I may have gotten the design a bit wrong. There's probably more room between the lava and the water columns. Play around with it, though.)
Now I'm off to create slime spawn rooms in a bunch of slime chunks thanks to CJB's more info mod that tells you where the slimes will spawn. Of course, I could just use a mob spawner set to slimes but hey, that doesn't involve mining and fighting in the depths of the earth, now does it? hehe
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The lava flows onto the water, makes smoothstone, the rest is the same. The cutoff piston now works faster to turn off the lava and it won't overflow or break. Thing is, it still doesn't make stone fast enough so that it can keep up with your mining, even with stone pickaxe. I think even a wood pickaxe can mine faster. Probably a couple of these could be chained together to feed one row of stone to mine. I've seen other generators that produce stone faster, but you have to be there and actively mine the stone by changing position, I'd like a fast solution that you can walk away from by taping down your mouse button, you see, because I'm lazy.
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