Automated Cobble Farm W/ IC and BC?

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    I was playing Minecraft today with IC2, BC, and EE. I had been farming cobblestone for about 10 minutes for a competition with a friend to see who could get a Klein Star Sphere legitimately first. I was looking at the wiki and reading about the MINER from IC2, and I was wondering, is it possible to make a miner that digs the same block repeatedly as it is filled in by the lava and water? How would one do such a lazy thing? I haven't messed around with MINERs yet, so how do they use pipe? Do they spit it out as it retracts? Could you hook up a BC pipe that just keeps on plugging in a pipe as it is spit out to keep digging? Is there a better way to do this (legit)?

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    It's easyly possible with a miner and already crashed IR once, due to the mass of cobble produced (and being left uncollected XD).


    The basic idea is following
    :Intergrated Plating::Lava Cell::Intergrated Plating:
    :Tin Ore::!::Mining Pipe
    :Intergrated Plating::Coolant Cell::Intergrated Plating:


    The ! marks the cobblestone generation, the cells represent Water/Lava Sources.


    Miners are somewhat slow. Thus you can even put a diamond drill in and it will for sure never reach the ore, will always attempting to, effectively mining cobblestone en mass.

    Yes, miners are buggy in 1.00. They drill through bedrock. Which is reported to, once they drill through the lowest layer, just drain all the energy available. I don't recall any other bugs offhand.