millstone and hopper

Beerkeg · Post by **Beerkeg** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:56 pm

i was wondering .. is it actually possible to fill a millstone with an hopper? also can that same millstone be powered tru the top?
how do you guys do it?

Stormweaver · Post by **Stormweaver** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:02 pm

Both from the top? with a piston and block dispencer I'd imagine.

Easier to power it from below though.
Looks neater too.

gftweek · Post by **gftweek** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:15 pm

Usually everyone just powers the millstone from the bottom, so the hopper doesn't get in the way, is this what you meant?

Beerkeg · Post by **Beerkeg** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:21 pm

gftweek wrote:Usually everyone just powers the millstone from the bottom, so the hopper doesn't get in the way, is this what you meant?

yeah.. well its kinda sucks.. since my millstone is one story below my hemp farm.. wich is on the roof along with the windmill.. oh well i guess ill have to route the axles in some ugly way..
.. lol

Damion Rayne · Post by **Damion Rayne** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:24 pm

It is possible, let me show you a screenshot of an underground area of my automated hemp farm.

As you can see the hopper is getting power from the side as normal, and the millstone is being powered from bellow. In this set up the hopper sends hemp into the stone and the stone mills it, tosses it out the sides into water flows that send it into another hopper that drops it off in a chest.

:)

Beerkeg · Post by **Beerkeg** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:37 pm

yeah that is what im gonne have to do.. it will just mess up all my first floor of my house :)

Damion Rayne · Post by **Damion Rayne** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:43 pm

Well, give some water flow a try to see if you can keep everything where it is and just have things flow and drop where you need it?

KriiEiter · Post by **KriiEiter** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:28 pm

Yep this is how I do it for my automated hemp farm, which is then ground up, and transfered to another hopper.

Deepsniper · Post by **Deepsniper** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 8:43 am

you do know that you dont have to go the entire 8 blocks to end the water slide and put in the hopper right?

KriiEiter · Post by **KriiEiter** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 4:43 pm

Deepsniper wrote:you do know that you dont have to go the entire 8 blocks to end the water slide and put in the hopper right?

Yep, as you can see in the upper portion (where the hemp farm is) they sort seeds out of the milling stream. I just liked the location of the hopper out there.

I just haven't finished decorating and spiffing up the building yet.

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