So you want to fill that quarry hole? (tutorial DW20 pack)

[voidreality]

Like many of you I was looking for a good way to fill an ugly quarry hole. 64x64x64 is A LOT of cobble. Old cobble generators were either to slow, or lagged the server to much. Here is what I came up with. I have not seen this method in other places. So here we go.

Cobble generation and input:
2 Chest
1 Fabricator
1 RP Sorter
1 RP Battery Box (optional)
2 RP Solar Panels (1 is optional)
1 Item Tesseract
1 Tome of Alkahest

In the left wooden chest I have the Tomb. The enderchest in the picture is redstone. It could very well just be a normal chest, but I have a redstone generator on the other end that converts UU matter into redstone. In the fabricator I have the recipe for cobble with the Tome. This is one Tome + one cobble + one redstone. Due to the magic of fabricators pulling from adjacent inventories, you only need to put one cobble in the fabricator inventory and it will use the tome and redstone from the other chests. To the right of the fabricator I have a RP sorter set in loop mode and to pull anything in stack mode. Next to that is a RP battery box to power the sorter. Also, connected to the output of the sorter is an item tesseract set to send only. This system creates cobble VERY fast. I haven't seen anything close. Not even in the same ballpark.

Output:
4 Landmarks
1 Filler
9 Bricks
1 Item Tesseract
1 Battery Box (optional)
2 RP Solar Panels (1 isoptional)
1 Redstone Energy Cell

Item tesseract set to receive the cobble being generated from the input. Sorter set to loop mode and full stack pull. Battery box to power the sorter. Filler set to fill mode. Energy cell to power the filler. On a large hole, you'll likely need to replace the energy cell. This could optionally be an energy tesseract or any other power source that will power the filler.

And here is the hole I filled using this method. This hole goes to bedrock. I plan on using a similar method to fill to top with dirt. The tome can do cobble, dirt, and sand with almost the same recipe. So I can use the same setup and just swap out the cobble with dirt, and it will fill with dirt instead.

I hope you guys like. Please let me know any comments or suggestions for improvement.

 

[lolpierandom]

Wow, you're burning UU-Matter to create cobblestone?

Is this some sort of joke?

You do realize that you could just put ~64 igneous extruders or so and a router?

That not enough? Double it. Not enough? Triple it.

 

[Bigglesworth]

At least buy it dinner first


Jokes aside, its a nice lil guide, but UU matter for this? Thats really silly. Cobblestone is as free to produce as it gets. Why use one of the most expensive items to make the least expensive item? Thats the definition of inefficiency.

Also, why fill them with pure cobble anyway? I think a better method would be a preemptive way of going a few K blocks away from everything and making a quarry (or 8) in the ocean, then all youre left with is just a sort of cool extremely deep ocean trench do do with what you will

 

[voidreality]

Wow, you're burning UU-Matter to create cobblestone?

Is this some sort of joke?

You do realize that you could just put ~64 igneous extruders or so and a router?

That not enough? Double it. Not enough? Triple it.

No. The redstone is already being created for my Solar Factory. I'm just tapping into the redstone that's already there. One stack of redstone makes 17 stacks of cobble. This could easily be mined. The materials needed to make the igneous extruders is not only more, but as I stated in the post, is to slow/server lagging. I think you have to agree this method takes up way less space then 64 or 128 or whatever slow cobble generators.

 

[ILoveGregTech]

Why not just use the cobble you got from mining and use a filler to fill it? Or am I missing something here?

 

[YX33A]

The whole point of using this setup is that it's faster? OK. Costs a hell of a lot more to run, but it's your build.
Personally I'd use a GT Rock Breaker. Or just not use a BC Quarry.

 

[voidreality]

Why not just use the cobble you got from mining and use a filler to fill it? Or am I missing something here?

I went through 4 diamond chests full of cobble before figuring that I needed to generate more. 64x64x64 cobble is 262144. That's 4096 stacks of cobble (about 217 stacks of redstone using this method). Good luck storing all that as you mine. I'm not saying this is the most efficient method. I will say this is the fastest way to generator cobble, dirt, or sand. Unless you have maybe 500 extruders (maybe more), and those don't do dirt or sand. The redstone was not a problem for me. I already had a generation of it using UU matter that was created for a solar factory. I only wanted to fill the hole the easiest and fastest way possible, with minimal server lag. This creation method can keep up with a filler working at full speed and I filled that entire hole in about 30 minutes. Which is about how long it took the filler to actually fill that many blocks.

 

[YX33A]

I went through 4 diamond chests full of cobble before figuring that I needed to generate more. 64x64x64 cobble is 262144. That's 4096 stacks of cobble (about 217 stacks of redstone using this method). Good luck storing all that as you mine. I'm not saying this is the most efficient method. I will say this is the fastest way to generator cobble, dirt, or sand. Unless you have maybe 500 extruders (maybe more), and those don't do dirt or sand. The redstone was not a problem for me. I already had a generation of it using UU matter that was created for a solar factory. I only wanted to fill the hole the easiest and fastest way possible, with minimal server lag. This creation method can keep up with a filler working at full speed and I filled that entire hole in about 30 minutes. Which is about how long it took the filler to actually fill that many blocks.

Er, 4 diamond chests just for cobble? Why not use Barrels, or one barrel and a extra-dimensional storage upgrade?(I recall hearing that the upgraded barrel could hold 2096 stacks of one item)

 

[Guswut]

Er, 4 diamond chests just for cobble? Why not use Barrels, or one barrel and a extra-dimensional storage upgrade?(I recall hearing that the upgraded barrel could hold 2096 stacks of one item)

Extradimensional barrels will hold 1024 stacks of items, or if the item is less than a stack of 64, up to 65536 of the item in whatever stack size they come in as such.

 

[voidreality]

There was a point when we stopped using barrels on the server because they cause a lot of client side lag. At least they use to. It may be different now, but I still had the chests from that. Plus, there is very little reason to have 1024 stacks of stuff. Hole filling aside. I want to say that we've been playing this server since FTB was in early beta. We're far into the endgame and resources are not much an issue anymore. We mostly focus on fast, lag free methods to do things. This means trimming on excess materials, blocks, and less pipes. Which this build accomplishes.

 

[Guswut]

Which this build accomplishes.

A better way, in regards to lag produced, to deal with quarries to it quarry out around 512x512 to 1024x1024 of a hole, and then fill in a few layers and make it nice and smooth. It's great for building, and does not require that you use more than a few million cobblestone to complete a few layers and partial layers. Make sure to make the topmost layer obsidian, and it's perfect.

 

[mrkite]

A better way, in regards to lag produced, to deal with quarries to it quarry out around 512x512 to 1024x1024 of a hole, and then fill in a few layers and make it nice and smooth.

Don't even need to smooth it out now that flatbedrock is in Ultimate. Bonus that mobs don't spawn on bedrock.

 

[Lambert2191]

seems like an awefully expensive way... how about "don't quarry next to your base"

 

[voidreality]

seems like an awefully expensive way... how about "don't quarry next to your base"

Lol. I would obviously do that now. When I started this world, there was no teleport pipes, no tesseracts, no mystcraft, and enderchests only had 9 slots. So placement was pretty limited.