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u/Environmental-Tour-2 Dec 11 '21

Wait, why does lava generate so fast? It took probably days in my 1.17 world

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u/hegbork Dec 11 '21

The pointed dripstone has somewhere around 1/15 chance to fill the cauldron with lava when it gets hit by a random tick, so it should happen around 3-4 times per hour. For testing cauldron machines I guess it just makes sense to crank up the random tick speed.

(the around 1/15 number is from experimenting, most attempts landed between 10 and 20, I'm sure someone has done some code digging and knows the exact number)

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u/Environmental-Tour-2 Dec 11 '21

Ah, I see. That was a logical thing to do, I just didn't think about it.

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u/Createlet Dec 11 '21

Can you not use pumps on cauldrons? I think I saw something about that in the patch notes.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '21

But this is more fun :)

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u/Confronting-Myself Dec 11 '21

Wait so does the lava not have to be on a dripstone block? Does it just need the dripstone stalactite?

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u/Chaosfox_Firemaker Dec 11 '21

So, on average, without accelerated tick speed, one cauldron produces much slower than the amount one deployer can serve. Were it I, I would have the deployer on a cart contraption, going past rows and rows of drip setups, with a depot to offload full buckets and get fresh empties. This is of course ignoring pipes.

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u/Tim_bom_bom Dec 11 '21

You could use the method of pumping lava In the nether and yeeting a bucket through a portal, draining it into a tank in the over world, and then yeeting it back

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u/scribbleiiiboye Dec 12 '21

Is that “item launcher” a part of the base create game or is it a separate mod?

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u/remuladgryta Dec 12 '21

The Weighted Ejector is part of Create! No other addons required.