Re: Duplication glitch

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Please don't duplicate.  Please, please, please.  Duplicating means you don't want to play the game.  The guys that duplicate show up and say, "Hey, can I get a piece of cobblestone?  I want to duplicate it to build my house."  O.o  The day they don't get their cobblestone free, they leave the game and never come back.  OOOOOmg.  Even they guys that say, "Oh, I only duplicate my diamonds," they aren't playing anymore.

Wait!  I know a legit reason to duplicate!  You can duplicate the pieces to put back into the game after the griefer that duplicated the TNT left...LOL j/k

There is a way to duplicate that still works, but I would urge against it.  Using the duplication glitch will steal your soul.  On a similar topic, yesterday I finished a piston mechanism that generates sand, which is very useful to me, since much of my construction is under water and I've already mined out much of the sand in the game (needed to make glass).  I also figure that, if I can build it with redstone and pistons, it must be good.

Generates sand? Do you mean like makes sand?

And agreed duplication steals your soul, don't do it. But if you must, youtube is the place to go.

Yes, with 3 pistons, 3 sticky pistons, 8 redstone repeaters, 20 redstone, 6 blocks of stone, 6 blocks of sand, 1 lever and 1 redstone torch, you can build a device that actually makes sand.  Very cool I thought.

There's a more simple design that I am using. I don't have that much of a desert in my world, and I'm not going to dig it up, so I made the one in the video. It seems there might be an entity limit because the machine stops after producing exactly 200 sand blocks every time.

edit: If you stand where the torches are that break the sand then it will keep going.

Two problems with the design in your video from my lay perspecive.  First, it produces sand in full block form, instead of the smaller resource blocks, which means you have to take time to dig it up.  I like to be able to just stand in one place and have sand automatically added to my inventory because it falls on me in the form of resource blocks.  As you may know, there are two ways to convert the sand to resource blocks--smash them between pistons or have them fall on a torch or half slab.  Second, it is rather slow.  The design I use generates about 200 resource blocks of sand blocks every minute.  That said, it is not yet totally efficient, as resource blocks fall in a variety of locations, so if I am just standing in one place (while reading a book or whatever), I only get 40-50% of the blocks.  I have to run around the contraption to get all the blocks.

You can add 2 torches where the sand falls to break it up and you get 100% of it in your inventory. The part at the end, when he added the row of pistons is used when you want to fill in a bunch of water or lava. Other sand duplicators, that were made during this version of minecraft, got broken with future updates. The design I use is used in the current pc version so it'll last for a long time, unless 4j patches it.

I understand that, someday my sand generator will not work, but for now, it creates sand resource blocks so extremely fast that I wouldn't want to use anything else for the purpose of generating sand unless it was even faster/more efficient.  That said, I plan to build several different models of sand generators over the next week for display purposes and will probably add the one in your video to the list.  I actually have an area of my map that I'm dedicating to sand/glass generation (last night I built a "Museum of Sand and Glass" next to my sand generator--a sort of comic relief--with the lower levels being used to store the sand from my sand generator and the sandstone and glass that I create with that sand).

 I know what you mean. might as well make use of current game glitches, until they get patched, and then move on to another one later. I do find it amusing that stuff people have come up with recently will work in an update this far back. Makes me wonder how they didn't figure it out then. The generator I use was actually intended for filling in large bodies of water or lava but can easily be modified just for sand generation.

 Before booster rails we had to use minecart boosters but when they got patched it pissed a lot of people off. People built entire minecart station with them and then they got broken when booster rails came out. Man I miss those things.

 Anyways, people really shouldn't make too big of projects using some of the glitches because when they get fixed it'll just cause way more frustration than it's worth.

Well, by the time they got rid of the booster glitch, they had released powered rails, so there was no real loss.  You just had to stick down some powered rails and your rail network was fine.  I wonder how well that contraption works for filling in large bodies of water.  As I build a lot underwater, I am frequently filling in large bodies of water.

It works pretty well. Here's a video of the guys that created it filling in the lava in the nether. Skip to 3:25 to see it in action.

You know, with the Nether being so small in this version of the game, it is actually not all that hard to eliminate all of the lava.  That gives me some ideas on future Minecraft activity... Turn the entire Nether into a beautiful place to live.

Haha! Good luck with that.

I think you'd be surprised how small the Nether is in this game (much smaller than even the overworld).  I made a minecart track that basically traces the bedrock border of the Nether and it takes about 1 minute on a minecart to navigate the entire route.

ive built throughout the nether and it is tiny i play on easy and the ghasts have destroyed alot of the nether but not m y cobblestone stuff

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Generates sand? Do you mean like makes sand?

And agreed duplication steals your soul, don't do it. But if you must, youtube is the place to go.

Yeah, I've been in there but was just a quick in and out. How much glowstone did you guys see in there? I don't like doing the duplication glitch but I might just have to with the glowstone. Going to need a lot for projects and also when we finally get redstone lamps. Would dupe the pumpkins to use for lighting but I'll wait for when we can farm them.

Glowstone is by far the greatest thing of value in the Nether (the second way down in importance would probably be easy access to lava).  Sadly, there is far too little of it.  Torches are a completely renewable resource, so I try to use that where I can.  I do hope that 4J takes me up on my suggestion and compensates for the limited size of the gameworld by offering as DLC portals into other overworlds and Nethers.  Such portals would provide the user with an endless supply of resources by porting resources from one world to the next, and yet likely would not use any additional RAM (since it only has to generate one world at a time).  

I guess it all depends on how you play.. I find the easy access to cooked pork and mass amounts of mushrooms more of value then glowstone and lava.

Hope they do portals to link worlds.

Alas, I have no shortage of mushrooms.  They infect my base.  I can't seem to get rid of them all.

You should see mine. They are everywhere under the overhang where I'm at growing on my chests, furnaces, half slabs I put down for my infinite water source, and probably my wolf.

I have realized that, once they spread, the only way to get rid of them all is not only to pick them, but get rid of the block they are on, since they seem to leave seeds in the block that will cause them to sprout again.  Then you have to make sure there is a new, uninfected block between you and the source of the infestation.

Cleanse it with FIRE!!!!

I think it was in the next update they get patched to where they only grow in groups of 5 and they don't grow on certain blocks like the ones I mentioned. I' m probably going to leave them on my furnaces and chests just for the humor value.

Yeah, I should clense my wool floor with fire.  That will work just fine. :)