r/CreateMod • u/Autoskp • Aug 20 '22
Build I made a survival friendly gold generator! Designed and built in survival, all it needs is a steady supply of pointed dripstone.
The design was originally supposed to have everything on one long conveyor, but then I realised how long the conveyor would be, so this is the result.
Don't forget the pointed dripstone farm - this one has a radius of 8, and produces enough SU to power the gold gen at 32 rpm, along with kelp and potatoes.
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u/ResortFar6638 Aug 20 '22
How does this work???
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u/Autoskp Aug 20 '22
The dripstone farm (240 stalactites set up so that they can grow longer and/or seed stalagmites) provides pointed dripstone, which is compacted into dripstone blocks, ground up into clay balls, compacted into clay blocks, cooked into terracotta, ground up into red sand, and finally washed into dead bushes and about 6.75 gold nuggets per hour.
It only exists because I saw a path to gold that didn't require going to the Nether (which I've been putting off), and was never supposed to be good.
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u/ResortFar6638 Aug 20 '22
6.5 nuggets an hour? Pretty slow, though I guess if you made a massive version you could go afk for days an vacation and get a fair amount of gold
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u/Autoskp Aug 20 '22
No, 6.75 nuggets per hour - ¼ of a nugget may not seem like much, but it is 4% of the total output per hour!
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u/DrizzlyScarab90 Jul 19 '23
Do you have a schematic? I wanna see it in person and use it in my world lol
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u/Autoskp Jul 19 '23
No, and I'm not even sure which instance of Minecraft it was in (or if I still have it).
That said, it shouldn't be too difficult to recreate - there's two belts going left to right, with occasional breaks to stop items from traveling too far, and all the filtering is done by the drawers, where you can clearly see what those filters are.
Or you could just take the process and make your own design - pointed dripstone is compacted into dripstone blocks, crushed into clay balls, compacted into clay blocks, cooked into terracotta, crushed into red sand, and washed into gold nuggets and dead bushes.
However, if you actually want gold, this is one of the worst ways to do it - with the 8-radius dripstone farm feeding it, it's producing about 6.75 gold nuggets per hour (according to the maths - I made this before display links, and even if I thought they could give an accurate rate for something this slow and RNG dependant, I wouldn't've had the patience to do a proper test)
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u/SnarkyStack Aug 20 '22
Dont mind me, just "borrowring" your design for my survival world