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  • Lava casting is very situational, absolutely. However, you don’t have to continually place water for smooth stone generating.

    To do it automatically, place a row of 7 horizontal pistons, with a row of your own stone on their faces. Place two water sources on both ends of the stone row and place a single lava source block on top of the center stone block. Also place blocks to contain the water on the other three sides, and blocks to contain the lava but that allow it to spread across the top of the whole row of stone.

    Put the pistons on a clock. I forget the delay right now, about a half second should be fine though.

    The pistons retract when our clock unpowers, and water spreads a lot faster than lava, giving the water a chance to flow under the lava. Then the lava ticks, creating a row of 7 stone out of the flowing water. Then the pistons power, shoving the row out, and the extended pistons hold back the liquids. Repeat.

    The result is a 13x7 sheet of smooth stone. Sit sideways so you mine rows, not columns. It generates faster than you can break it unless you have a setup to instamine it, which still makes it faster than anything else. Add silk touch if you want smooth stone, or don’t and just enjoy faster speeds.

    Faster than cobble by a lot, faster than natural mining because you don’t have to move, and while technically AFK’ing isn’t faster, it feels faster.


  • Lava-casting is when you mix the lava and water where you already want the cobble, not just making it to mine it.

    It’s faster if you don’t already have chests of cobble, you just have to clean up a bit, although since your placement changes depending on what you’re making, it’s pretty easy to mess up and get an obsidian block.

    Also you can just generate smooth stone by dropping lava on water, then push it out via piston, so cobble mining is faster than traditional mining just to get cobblestone.


  • Best way in vanilla is to get better gear. There’s no 3x3, but enchanted shovels can mine died instantly, clearing it out like tall grass.

    Another trick you can do with cobblestone specifically is lava-casting. Get a bucket of lava, let it flow where you want cobble, Abe then pour water on it. Just make sure you pick up the lava source block right before so it doesn’t become obsidian.



  • I used a pi 3 to host a Foundry server (TTRPG software).

    I use Docker to simplify things, since I run two instances of it. Simple port forwarding setup within the docker container. the main reason I used a pi instead of my computer is so my players could access their dnd stuff all the time.

    I stopped because I switched ISPs and they won’t let me port-forward. My vpn supports it but the latency isn’t ideal. I host the same thing through a cheap server now.



  • If those uploaders were here, they could tell us if they didn’t want that to happen.

    As they aren’t here (yet, ideally), if you don’t, no one else will at all, and in my opinion, that is a negative to both this community and the artists, who might pick up a few patreon subscribers through the links and watermarks.

    In my opinion, if there’s no watermark, do a reverse image search for some socials, cause that’s real basic. Otherwise, if you have links, include them, and if you only have a watermark, transcribe any links in there to get more people clicking.

    If you did that, I’d consider it well-sourced and very welcome in any online community.



  • You’re not playing Java so I dunno if this will work but I had a similar issue at one point and it was other villagers “claiming” the workstation first, even when they couldn’t path to it. They’d eventually release it because they couldn’t path, but with enough of them, it’d take ages to sort itself.

    Try making sure there aren’t any spare lecterns out of his reach, make sure the rest have their workstations, including non-librarians, and if needed throw down a bunch of lecterns yours can reach, so that there’s definitely an extra.

    If that doesn’t work or you’ve already got that kind of a situation, try removing him from the rest and bringing him somewhere where he’s the only villager, and a good distance from any workstations at all, so he loses any existing stations he has. Then give him a lectern and if he takes to it, you should be able to move him back after.