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I've been playing in a world now for about 3 weeks, and I've explored 1000 blocks at least in every direction, spanning 3 1/2 continents. So far there are no deserts. In fact, all the continents surrounding mine have the same biomes! (which I consider poor terrain gen, IMO) I could gather sand from rivers and coast lines, which I've been doing a little bit, but I'd like to be able to use a lot of glass and sandstone in my upcoming projects. I don't want to demolish the natural terrain. Ideally what I like to do is find a desert biome where I know for sure I'll never build, make a quick travel route to it, and use that as a sand quarry, but it's not looking like I'll be able to do that without an extreme effort. I also haven't managed to get any mapping programs to work with my Windows 8. Amidst helped me out in the past but on my new lap top it crashes and I haven't found any help dealing with that yet.

So I'm thinking about making a sand generator. I know some people use them and others consider them cheaty. It's basically block duplication, which I don't really like (as opposed to a cobble stone generator or a mob farm, which I consider to be more like minecraft science). What do you guys think?

Quote from minecrafter147

I've never heard of sand generators before. Just find a desert for sand.

A desert isn't even needed, depending on how much you need; I mined over 5,000 sand from nearby lakes with plenty more left; with Respiration III (or a potion of water breathing) and Aqua Affinity I on a helmet and diamond shovels it isn't that hard either.

In particular, I used MCEdit to analyze my world and it has about 160,000 sand blocks - despite no deserts and being only about 700x700 blocks, mostly due to a swamp; that is enough sand to cover more than a quarter of the world one block deep and more sand than iron ore (you can also see where I removed sand, replacing it with dirt, plus sand from a few small lakes where I built my base).

Attack the legs, if you attack the head or body they usually warp away. Also don't use fire aspect or water, or a bow, because then they'll teleport away and become neutral again.

What? Endermen always track me down and kill me.
Try not having anything behind you. They often try to teleport behind the player but there are blocks in the way, so they can't attack and stop the chase.
Once I attacked an Enderman in a cave, and it disappeared. I dug a few blocks behind me, and found another cave and the Enderman, which I actually killed for once.

I know what you mean. I intentionally "aggro" them by looking at their face. It seems to keep them around a bit longer, unless they hit water. You can also trade with the purple shirt villagers to get ender eyes. It may be quicker that way.

Its Called To Not Lose Then Look Them In The Eyes So They Will Follow You Because Having A Pumpkin Is Really Annoying And Finding One IS Well In The Wiki There 2x Harder To Find Than So Kinda Rare Like The End Portal For Beginners!

Attack their feet, not their bodies.

I definitely think they're cheating, its item duplication.

seed generators are not cheating

Quote from RurouniTim

Sand generators exploit bugs, which is cheating imo. It's your world though. Do whatever you want.

but with that logic then many things are cheating

I don't care what they do with them as long as they don't spawn from thrown ender pearls.

Yeah, you can make more efficient ender farms with them, but the one item you get from farms (the coolest item in the game IMO) is nerfed/made more obnoxious because of them. That's a net loss as far as I'm concerned.