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Cobblestone & Stone Generators! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide S3 ▫ Tutorial Let’s Play [Ep.40]



The Minecraft Survival Guide Season 3 continues in Minecraft 1.20!
This tutorial will show you how to build a Cobblestone generator and a Stone generator, starting with basic manual designs, then demonstrating two semi-automatic designs using redstone!

Cobble and stone generators are vital to challenge maps like Superflat Survival and Skyblock, allowing you to create infinite renewable stone. They’re also a great idea if you don’t want to deplete all the stone from the ground below you, but you still want loads of crafting ingredients, building materials, and blocks you can transform into something else!

Survival Guide Season 3 world seed: 787419271612053211

Music:
Minecraft soundtrack by C418, Lena Raine, Kumi Tanioka, Aaron Cherof

Season 3 of the Minecraft Survival Guide will teach you how to master Survival Mode in Minecraft 1.20 and beyond!

Follow the Season 3 playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfpHTJsn9I4&list=PLgENJ0iY3XBjmydGuzYTtDwfxuR6lN8KC&pp=gAQBiAQB

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41 Comments

  1. SohoNightSky on

    Love to call out to Superflat!!! Would love to see a series on Superflat! I’m currently doing a hardcore series on it and even got a Diamond Beacon! Fun challenge!

  11. Neet Scholar on

    Great Episode, as usual!

    There's 3 bits of info that I feel are missing that I feel would have been really easy to add smoothly in this episode, though.

    1) If you want to place a block that won't break with your pickaxe in the back of your stone generator, your best bet is a Wooden Door/Trapdoor. No matter how much Efficiency/Haste you get stacked on, it will have no effect on a wooden type block. If the small hit box of the trapdoor bothers you though, using a Crafting Table, a Chest or a Barrel are good second choices.

    2) Another alternative is to make the Lava source fall 5 blocks wide, and mine from the side. That way you can't mine the block behind, since it's out of range. (Unless you are playing from a phone or tablet)

    3) Should have also covered the Basalt Generator, since those are almost the same thing. Just make the lava flow next to a Packed Ice Block instead of hitting a flowing water block.

  13. riuphane on

    And for Bedrock players, you can waterlog a piston for an extremely compact generator!!
    Thanks as always pix for all you do! I didn't know you could use the wall/observer trick from underneath, I'll have to update a few of my generators now!!

  15. Geoff Carr on

    Water logged mangrove roots, leaves etc placed one block away from the lava source will also create cobblestone and save you a little bit on the size required for your generator. Just cover the top so they don’t ignite.

  16. Donna Noble on

    Good news fellow Bedrock peeps!
    The generators work the same way!!

    On the other end, there are no structures in our superflat worlds, so purely vanilla, no cheats survival is not possible. But with a bonus chest, a lava source and a good understanding of game mechanics, you can reach the nether! For the though, you'll have to find another way to get the portal frames.

  17. Greg Poehlein on

    I would like to add that using a waterlogged stair will only require three blocks for a coble gen. Just make sure the large side of the stair is pointing to the lava source. Place a hopper under the center block you'll never lose your cobble to the lava again. I stand five blocks back from the cobble block and mine away – that way I break the cobble, but not the block behind it. The pickaxe just whiffs thin air until the next block forms. And also remember that moss changes stone to moss, but not cobble. I also discovered that the fastest way to make dirt from moss is to plant a giant spruce next to the patch of moss. When the spruce grows, it turns all the moss within a certain radius into podzol – harvest with a non-silk touch shovel to get lots of dirt with one tree (unlike an azalea which only makes one dirt at a time and usually takes several bone meal to grow.)

  22. moth-ed-man on

    I actually switched to Java so I could play superflat survival! I used that exact cobblestone farm in it to build a lot of my structures, and your iron farm design from survival guide season 2 since it didn’t require me to dig a hole deeper than the world went. This might inspire me to try that again, it was a really fun challenge!

  32. The Jon B on

    I just set this up in my world except I put an additional row of pistons to make a 13×11 square of stone. I can just let the generator run for a while and then come back and mine it up when I'm ready.

  34. Duke Dresdyn on

    Really enjoying these videos of the technical aspects; they're mechanics I'm often aware of and even use regularly you giving the "why" of it all is great.

  35. Jack Guess on

    I don’t play much Xbox anymore but when I was younger I was a no life at call of duty and Minecraft at one point in my life. I can still remember when it came out on the Xbox, loading into a world and seeing a skeleton and creeper on my first night, idk why I remember that but I do. It was so fun back then. I want to get back into it. I’ve made so many memories on Xbox live I miss the good old days !

  37. DoomWalker42 on

    What do you think of the villager overhaul that Mojang is working on? Will you start a brand new survival guide then or just carry on with this one? Because tons of mechanics are going to change forever now.

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