StTheo
Well-Known Member
This is a more refined version of the smoothstone generator I made when I was living in Skylands. Normally, I find smoothstone/cobblestone generators kind of pointless, but in a place as dangerous as Skylands, I didn't feel like venturing much. This could still be helpful for people in the middle of an ocean or living far up in the sky.
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This system uses 2 switches; one for lava and one for water. Don't turn them on at the same time - you'll end up having to clean out the interior of the mechanism (or having to mine an obsidian block, if you're really unlucky). Upon activating the lava switch, the lava pours over the rectangular pool, turning any water under it into smoothstone. After a while, it'll make a diamond shape in the water.
Once this is completed, you turn off the switch that controls the lava flow, and either wait for the lava to dissipate (what my Skylands prototype did, and it took forever), or (once the floating contraption has no freely moving lava in it) activate the switch allowing the water to flow through. This will turn most of the remaining lava into a layer of cobblestone, and any remaining lava (it can happen, oddly enough) can be removed by placing a block over it (I like to use dirt, since it's easy to mine).
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[collapse=Potential issues]
You'll face an issue when retracting both pistons at once.
This can cause the contraption to "push" itself apart when extending the pistons.
To fix this, you could swap the glass parts in the pictures with obsidian, or place a piston-immune block (Obsidian, Note Blocks, Chests, Furnaces, Jukeboxes, Dispensers, Brewing Stands, and Enchantment Tables) on the other side of the glass for each piston.
This will allow you to remove the cobblestone caught inside without harming the contraption.[/collapse]
[collapse=If you were to use multiple layers...]View attachment 106362This one generated 1000 blocks of smoothstone and 2351 blocks of cobblestone.
I believe I have earned myself a maniacal laugh. Bwahaha.[/collapse]
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Layer 1 (Bottom)
View attachment 106357
Layer 2
View attachment 106358
Layer 3
View attachment 106359
Layer 4
View attachment 106360
Layer 5 (Top)
View attachment 106361 [/collapse]
[collapse=(Early) Design]
This system uses 2 switches; one for lava and one for water. Don't turn them on at the same time - you'll end up having to clean out the interior of the mechanism (or having to mine an obsidian block, if you're really unlucky). Upon activating the lava switch, the lava pours over the rectangular pool, turning any water under it into smoothstone. After a while, it'll make a diamond shape in the water.
Once this is completed, you turn off the switch that controls the lava flow, and either wait for the lava to dissipate (what my Skylands prototype did, and it took forever), or (once the floating contraption has no freely moving lava in it) activate the switch allowing the water to flow through. This will turn most of the remaining lava into a layer of cobblestone, and any remaining lava (it can happen, oddly enough) can be removed by placing a block over it (I like to use dirt, since it's easy to mine).
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[collapse=Potential issues]
You'll face an issue when retracting both pistons at once.
This can cause the contraption to "push" itself apart when extending the pistons.
To fix this, you could swap the glass parts in the pictures with obsidian, or place a piston-immune block (Obsidian, Note Blocks, Chests, Furnaces, Jukeboxes, Dispensers, Brewing Stands, and Enchantment Tables) on the other side of the glass for each piston.
[collapse=If you were to use multiple layers...]View attachment 106362This one generated 1000 blocks of smoothstone and 2351 blocks of cobblestone.
I believe I have earned myself a maniacal laugh. Bwahaha.[/collapse]
[collapse=Blueprint]
Layer 1 (Bottom)
View attachment 106357
Layer 2
View attachment 106358
Layer 3
View attachment 106359
Layer 4
View attachment 106360
Layer 5 (Top)
View attachment 106361 [/collapse]
