Cobblegen

[MrAgle]

I'd suggest placing a redstone energy cell right next to your powered furnace. You don't need a conduit, it'll just feed the furnace the energy it wants to run at max efficiency whenever it has something to cook.

2 MJ/t = 40 MJ/second, yes? So a fully charged cell would run for almost 210 minutes.

You could set up your brick dispenser with an indicator, say, a redstone lamp that came on when the battery was dead. Maybe even a fuel intake and a lever to power some engines to recharge the cell between uses?

 

[bigtwisty]

Not necessary and pretty expensive. The Igneous Extruder will supply cobble almost twice as fast as either furnace will cook it, so power draw from the furnace should be pretty evenly 2mj/t, which is exactly one electric engine. The only thing that could shut down the system would be if the chest fills up, so a simple gate on a structure pipe between the chest and the electric engine should be able to run it only when there is still room in the chest. Gates are cheap, and so are electric engines.

 

[Sotek90]

So this is the smallest and most basic set-up I could think of, right of the bat, more importantly its a cheap recipe and it doesn't require heavily overclocked furnaces or anything. it's size is 3x4x3 so it fits practically everywhere. Try to beat it ;-)

The autartic (thats how you spell that right??) gate and the gold chest will be replaced by a redstone engine and a plain chest for the cheapest recipe
Requirements are:

Igneous Extruder
Powered Furnace
Packager
Energy storage block
5 Redstone Engines
1 wooden transport pipe
1 optional pipe (powered furnace to packager)
3 redstone torches
1 bucket of lava
1 bucket of water

Which brings the total cost to:​

12 glass​

2 tin​

27 iron ingots​

4 gold​

15 redstone​

1 stack of wooden planks (13 logs)​

2 copper​

2 Brick blocks​

52 cobble​

​

 

[SilvasRuin]

I can see where two Redstone Engines are and can probably guess where two more are, but where is the fifth supposed to be? Or are you counting it in place of the Autarchic Gate? Also, should I assume the fact that the wooden pipe is backwards doesn't matter due to the Thermal Expansion's auto-ejecting behavior?

 

[bigtwisty]

So for this seemingly pulled from thin air contest, are we allowed to assume some power input from an external source, or must the device be completely independent? I love this, by the way!

 

[MCJinzha]

Loving the idea of auto-stonebrickmachines!

 

[bigtwisty]

I've got it! 2x2x2.

Bottom layer (perspective top down)
1 2
X 3

Top layer
4 5
X 6

1: Igneous Extruder (set to smooth stone)
2: Aqueous Accumulator
3: Diamond chest
4: Vanilla single chest
5: Automatic Crafting Table
6: Wooden Pipe with Autarchic Gate

Should make 500 stone bricks for every bucket of lava you put in the Extruder after the first one.

Top that!

 

[bigtwisty]

Well, I put it together, but I flipped the top to the bottom and added another Aqueous Accumulator for some speed. They still supply water slower than the Extruder uses it, but for a 500 stone brick per lava bucket system that's 2x2x2, you can't complain too much!

 

[Sotek90]

Thanks all, in all enthusiasm I build 4 different cobblegens/Stonebrick Machines and I have more bricks then I have plans to build with it XD

 

[bigtwisty]

Hahaha! You're welcome. This was a fun thread. Good luck!