Cobblestone Generator/harvester

DaDodsworth · Post by **DaDodsworth** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 11:50 am

I haven't seen any automated cobblestone generators, so I had a crack at it and made a little simple device, which is easily expandable and not very complicated.

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Pictures of the generator and how it works.

Shows how it is expanded.

I'll make a video some time soon, but it will be a quick 30 second clip is I'm too cheap to pay for fraps :P

Tell me what you guys think :D

walker_boh_65 · Post by **walker_boh_65** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 11:53 am

I've seen some that just generates the cobblestone, but this is the first auto one I've seen, nice work

magikeh · Post by **magikeh** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 11:57 am

coolness, hopin to see the video... aswell you can take several 30 sec clips with Fraps and then use a video editing soeftware to patch them all together (this is what FC does to make all his vids) Cant wait to see... Then Try!! >:D

DaDodsworth · Post by **DaDodsworth** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 11:59 am

I'll get to work on a video! and ill make a blank map with it on and post the download link :D

magikeh · Post by **magikeh** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 12:02 pm

DaDodsworth wrote:I'll get to work on a video! and ill make a blank map with it on and post the download link :D

niiice, less work for me!! ;D dayum now im excited!!... but i guess i still have to prepare all the resources on mah legit world!!

QUESTION: does the 'factory' have an on/off switch?!?!

Post by **sargunv** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 12:04 pm

jamestully22 wrote:QUESTION: does the 'factory' have an on/off switch?!?!

You can add a switch to stop the clock to turn it off.

DaDodsworth · Post by **DaDodsworth** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 12:10 pm

Yes! it has a switch, I just sent a redstone current to the gearbox under the turntable to stop the whole thing, it does make a bit of a noise :L

magikeh · Post by **magikeh** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 12:13 pm

DaDodsworth wrote:Yes! it has a switch, I just sent a redstone current to the gearbox under the turntable to stop the whole thing, it does make a bit of a noise :L

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Woot Epictosity! now i shall stop posting in order to let you start and finish the full leingth feature film about the workings of this wonderful machiene that you have to graciously made!!

DaDodsworth · Post by **DaDodsworth** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 12:15 pm

I would just like to add that I haven't "perfected" the design but it doesn't matter as most circuitry is out of sight.

magikeh · Post by **magikeh** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 12:20 pm

DaDodsworth wrote:I would just like to add that I haven't "perfected" the design but it doesn't matter as most circuitry is out of sight.

and that is why posting your creation here is such a great idea, it will be taken and fixed up several times by members of the community and then spit back out as a perfectly working automated cobble factory!!

(i would just persionally just dig a bit hole and watch mobs fall down! >:P )

DaDodsworth · Post by **DaDodsworth** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 1:07 pm

Just realised you can make it 2 high (will include it in the world save) but I like to see the water and lava :P

magikeh · Post by **magikeh** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 1:13 pm

DaDodsworth wrote:Just realised you can make it 2 high (will include it in the world save) but I like to see the water and lava :P

What can go 2 high? like you can stack the units??

Water and lava is cool... But i enjoy seeing cute and ugly mobs alike falling to thier untimly death!! (all the while collecting thier drops and the cobblestone that i mine!)

EDIT: I have edited this post!

DaDodsworth · Post by **DaDodsworth** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 1:16 pm

The cobble making part :L there still some redstone under it but before the actual unit was 3 high, but it can be 2 high.

Stormweaver · Post by **Stormweaver** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 1:25 pm

I might post a pic of my ones later on; it's a similar concept to the OP, but a touch smaller and a redstone/BD or redstone/piston timer instead of a turntable. Which may or may not be because I haven't gotten around to playing with turntables yet >.>

Brilliantly useful things though, at max speed they generate cobble at roughly the same speed you can build with it.

DaDodsworth · Post by **DaDodsworth** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 1:33 pm

World download with some examples on: http://www.mediafire.com/?zr7mvhenmk4tqen

My original design used repeaters for a clock, but with the introduction of turntables I moved to them.

Fracture · Post by **Fracture** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 2:10 pm

I wish I could still use pistons for crushing purposes, I was much better with them than I was with block dispensers. Could make huge cobble-generating facilities :<
Then again, if I can time it right I bet I could make it right with a design like this, but with a BD sucking up the first BD to drop the cobble, extending this to make perhaps 8 fast-timed generators, and 2 rows, generating 16 cobble every, say, 2 seconds, and moving it all to a single drop point.

...Castle building just got easier when playing legit. :D

DaDodsworth · Post by **DaDodsworth** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 2:44 pm

Haha, it most certainly did, i didn't look at that aspect of the machine but it somthing i plan to do.

Also 30 second video of the machine and its parts,

darahalian · Post by **darahalian** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 2:47 pm

Fracture wrote:I wish I could still use pistons for crushing purposes, I was much better with them than I was with block dispensers. Could make huge cobble-generating facilities :<
Then again, if I can time it right I bet I could make it right with a design like this, but with a BD sucking up the first BD to drop the cobble, extending this to make perhaps 8 fast-timed generators, and 2 rows, generating 16 cobble every, say, 2 seconds, and moving it all to a single drop point.

...Castle building just got easier when playing legit. :D

I've already succeeded in making a cobble generator like this, where one BD sucks up the other one, so I know it is possible. It's only a single version though, producing roughly one cobble every 1-2 seconds. The way I did it was to have the signal from a clock send power to the first BD, and also through a delay and a monostable circuit to the second one. The result of this is that after the second BD is spit out, it gets a quick pulse, causing it to suck up the cobblestone before the signal from the clock turns off and makes the first BD suck the second BD in again, dropping the cobble in a water flow. The signal from the clock also makes a piston push the cobble out from the water/lava to the block dispenser setup. The clock I used in this design was a water clock from one of Battosay's videos, but I might try to replace it with a turntable now.

It's kind of fun just to listen to this thing run... It has its own heartbeat. :)

magikeh · Post by **magikeh** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:02 pm

darahalian wrote:I've already succeeded in making a cobble generator like this, where one BD sucks up the other one,

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HOLY wow that is an awesome idea... Never even thought of that as a way to automate collecting items/blocks from a BD. Great Idea there!! ^_^/

DaDodsworth · Post by **DaDodsworth** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:18 pm

Playing with this idea now, but I wonder if it would be faster to have it suck up the collecting BD when it full? I'm also trying to make a modular design, I like modular things :P

darahalian · Post by **darahalian** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:29 pm

jamestully22 wrote: HOLY wow that is an awesome idea... Never even thought of that as a way to automate collecting items/blocks from a BD. Great Idea there!! ^_^/

I have to admit that it was not my idea completely. I got the basic idea to suck up a second BD with the first one from somewhere else on this forum. Someone else had made a thread for their auto cobble collector I while back, and it used this principle. They even had a video, but it was kind of confusing. I think my design is a little bit simpler, but I don't think I can take the credit for the idea behind it. :P

EDIT: It was this post by finite8 where I got the idea.

DaDodsworth · Post by **DaDodsworth** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:30 pm

RAPID DEVELOPMENT ENGAGED!!!

Just made it modular and fully automated, with one block per second :P

magikeh · Post by **magikeh** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:31 pm

DaDodsworth wrote:RAPID DEVELOPMENT ENGAGED!!!

Just made it modular and fully automated, with one block per second :P

YEAH!! WAHOO!! now we definatly need a vid AND NEW PICS \^_^/ Epictosity!

DaDodsworth · Post by **DaDodsworth** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:38 pm

Will do, but I'm cleaning it up, and tweaking it etc. One "cell" will produce 2 blocks a second :P the other cool thing about this design is that it should be stackable, hopefully.

Edit: Also makes a really funky beat now!

magikeh · Post by **magikeh** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:41 pm

[insert evil giggle] IT SHALL BE MINE, [insert Evil Laugh]

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