automated cobblestone to diamond factory

Quote from cheeseloverswe

mine, (except i never acctuly built it) uses glowstone agregators(from EE) and series of automatic crafting tables and macerators as you get the highest diamond gain if you macerate the iron and upgrade the ingots

It's faster to just upgrade (lvl 2 SoED) it another level and just macerate the gold (half as many macerator operations and no loss. You get the same amount of diamonds)

One fully automatic Charcoal Factory. No input required!

The process is as follows:

1 Cobblestone-->4 Dirt
4 Dirt + 2 Seeds-->4 Saplings
2 Saplings-->2 Seeds
4 Saplings = 4 Wood
4 Wood + Induction Furnace-->4 Charcoal
1 Charcoal-->1 Cobblestone

For this to work, half of the Saplings are converted into Seeds, and half of the Charcoal are converted into Cobble. The end result is that for every Cobblestone thrown through the system, the system will replenish it's own stocks, while producing a FREE Charcoal. The minimum required Cobblestone and Seeds for full operation are 2. This can be sent through Charcoal-->Redstone-->Coal conversion to fuel a diamond factory.

Quote from FourFire

@ above yes I did this and showed it in the Factories thread but I also converted the charcoal into coal and automatically macerated them and crafted them into coalballs for Industrial diamond production

I'll one-up that. I've created this setup to create the Coal, Flint, and Bricks infinitely in such a way as to prevent backlog anywhere. The required mods are:

• IndustrialCraft 2
• BuildCraft
• RedPower
• Redstone Pipes
• Equivalent Exchange

This picture shows my Charcoal Factory, the core of the machine and identical to the one in my last post.

This picture shows my Flint Factory. The Charcoal Factory feeds this. The setup is like this:

1 Charcoal-->1 Cobblestone
1 Cobblestone-->4 Dirt
2 Dirt-->2 Sand
2 Dirt + 2 Sand-->2 Gravel
2 Gravel + Rotary Macerator-->2 Flint

The Flint then travels to the Diamond Factory.

This is the Brick Factory. The Charcoal Factory feeds this. The setup is this:

1 Charcoal-->1 Cobblestone
1 Cobblestone-->4 Dirt
4 Dirt-->2 Clay(Block)
2 Clay(Block)-->8 Clay(Item)
8 Clay(Item)-->8 Brick(Item)
8 Brick(Item)-->2 Brick(Block)

This is again shipped off to the Diamond Factory.

The Diamond Factory. Uses the IndustrialCraft 2 method to create Industrial Diamonds. These are converted into Diamonds. Recieves input from the other three Factories.

And finally, the Sorting Machine. This is similar in design to the Toggle Latch method, except using a Counter Circuit.

This is the basic design. The Counter is designed to increment up as each Charcoal goes by. When the counter reaches it's max, the torch on the right will light up. This will swich the Iron Pipe and send the coal to other factories. When the Charcoal reaches the Redstone Pipe in the off-branch, the Counter is reset. To prevent backlog, the first Counter increments to 137 in 1 unit steps. The second Counter increments to 17 in one unit steps. The math:

1 Charcoal = 1 Coal Dust
1 Charcoal = 2 Flint
1 Charcoal = 2 Brick(Block)
1 Coalball = 8 Coal Dust + 1 Flint
1 Coal Chunk = 8 Coalball + 1 Brick(Block)
16 Charcoal (Coal Dust) + 1 Charcoal (Flint) = 17 Charcoal = 2 Coalball
128 Charcoal (Coal Dust) + 8 Charcoal (Flint) + 1 Charcoal (Brick{Block}) = 2 Coal Chunk

Essentially, I'll need to use 1 Charcoal as flint per 16 as Coal Dust, meaning that the 17th Charcoal will be sent to make the required Flint. Then you'll only need 1 Charcoal as Brick(Block) per 128 as Coal Dust, meaning 8 as flint as well. This means you need the 137th Charcoal to be sent off to become Brick.

And that is my Fully Automatic Diamond Factory. Enjoy.

Hats off to you Zippinus. That's a lovely contraption.

Quote from SgtChuckle

I would jizz if someone uploaded their save. I don't care which one, I just get lost when it comes to auto factories like this.

I would, if not for 2 problems. First, I accidentally deleted my save while clearing my minecraft folder, as something in there was causing SMP to hate me, and second, I am unsure as to the new redpower mod, and would need to test it first. Also, thinking on it, There'll need to be an update to the EE + IC addon also. Updating that *should* be easy, but I never trust anything to be easy.