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[Sigurd]

I am sure you guys have considered this as you have played the game for this long...
What about a production plug in like power craft?

The only thing I wish for really is a mechanism to crush stone into items that you can pick up. And I can't find any in vanilla minecraft.
The mining part to get stone for my castle is taking many man hours and I would like to make a machine that makes ready to go stone.

[Vladimir]

I am sure you guys have considered this as you have played the game for this long...
What about a production plug in like power craft?

The only thing I wish for really is a mechanism to crush stone into items that you can pick up. And I can't find any in vanilla minecraft.
The mining part to get stone for my castle is taking many man hours and I would like to make a machine that makes ready to go stone.

Ask TC if you can use his cobblestone. He always seems to have a surplus. Far more than you can carry.

[TinCow]

Yeah, I've got about 15 chests of cobble. You're welcome to take a large quantity (10+ chests) if you'd like.

I like the various industrial mods, but I'm wary about them because of balance. I try to keep everything in the game very balanced in terms of effort to obtain. I find that balance like that is important to keep everything we build 'impressive.' Some of the production mods eventually get to a point where you might as well be playing in creative mode. That seems like it would cheapen the development that has been done. The only time I've been ok with a system that does stuff like that is the sand generator, and that's just because obtaining sand/sandstone requires strip mining the deserts which looks absolutely hideous and ruins the area. I figure the sand generator is an acceptable sin to avoid the strip mining desert blight.

I've never looked at Power Craft specifically, so I'll take a look at it and see if it looks balanced for the server.

Alternatively, enchant a diamond pickaxe with Efficiency IV and then chug a haste potion. Stone will evaporate in front of you.

[Vladimir]

Branch mining is fun and often produces a lot of cobblestone, just watch out for lava.

Sigurd if you need a good mining pick you can take one of the Efficiency/Unbreaking ones in my southern village. I also left an Efficiency IV or two at TC's place while I was using his XP farm. I used the anvil to create a pretty powerful composite.

[Sigurd]

Yeah, I've got about 15 chests of cobble. You're welcome to take a large quantity (10+ chests) if you'd like.

I've never looked at Power Craft specifically, so I'll take a look at it and see if it looks balanced for the server.

If it is not balanced (not tried it myself, just threw out an example), then so be it. No hard feelings.

Alternatively, enchant a diamond pickaxe with Efficiency IV and then chug a haste potion. Stone will evaporate in front of you.

I just happen to have one... But I would like it to get unbreakable AND silk touch (sic?) on it.
The 30 exp that I lost in the minecart accident between Arena and the n00b hotel and that you kindly restored to me got me Efficiency IV on the diamond pick axe I brought. (I walked the line, but found only half the gear I brought. There should be a diamond pick axe, diamond sword and a gold helmet somewhere on the line between Arena and n00b hotel. If found - they are mine)

Branch mining is fun and often produces a lot of cobblestone, just watch out for lava.

Sigurd if you need a good mining pick you can take one of the Efficiency/Unbreaking ones in my southern village. I also left an Efficiency IV or two at TC's place while I was using his XP farm. I used the anvil to create a pretty powerful composite.

I made a working smooth stone generator on the top of my mountain, so I shouldn't lack for raw materials. If it could only be supplied with a stone crusher...
A diamond pick axe with unbreakable, efficiency and silk touch, would make it an unlimited source of smooth stone for my castle walls.

[TinCow]

I made a working smooth stone generator on the top of my mountain, so I shouldn't lack for raw materials. If it could only be supplied with a stone crusher...

I've contemplated installing this mod before. If I did, I think it could do what you're looking for. All you'd have to do would be to hook up the end of your smooth stone generator to a piston pushing into a chest. The generator would then just keep adding stone into the chest and you'd be able to pull it out without mining. At least, I think that's how it would work.

[Sigurd]

I've contemplated installing this mod before. If I did, I think it could do what you're looking for. All you'd have to do would be to hook up the end of your smooth stone generator to a piston pushing into a chest. The generator would then just keep adding stone into the chest and you'd be able to pull it out without mining. At least, I think that's how it would work.

Yeah.. and with the limit of .. was it 13 stone a piston could push out.. you could potentially have 13 chests sitting along the column of smooth stone and have the pistons activated as soon as the column reached the max length.
The generator can push stone vertically OR horizontally

[Vladimir]

I made a working smooth stone generator on the top of my mountain, so I shouldn't lack for raw materials. If it could only be supplied with a stone crusher...
A diamond pick axe with unbreakable, efficiency and silk touch, would make it an unlimited source of smooth stone for my castle walls.

Silk Touch seems to be rare enough that it may be better to smelt cobblestone. The XP generated is also nice.

[TinCow]

Server updated to 1.4.5, PistonChest installed, MobArena skeletons fixed.

[edit]PistonChest disabled... it was causing serious server issues. This is likely a compatibility issue with 1.4.5 and will hopefully be fixed soon.