Stonemeal Farm: a Zolson012-esque Moss-based Bonemeal Farm (Minecraft Bedrock Edition) @ROBOTRON31415

ROBOTRON 31415 Stonemeal Farm V7M8 rate:
13.7k Bonemeal profit per hour (excluding while it fully turns on, ramping up production for the first few minutes as the hoppers feeding composters get filled with moss items)

The rate was calculated from at least a dozen hours of tests with the farm facing north, but the farm is slightly directional with ~13.2k bonemeal profit per hour when it is facing south. Only a few hours of testing were done in each of the east/west/south directions, with east/west seeming similar to north (though I can’t be certain), though south seemed noticeably worse. The directionality is likely due to differences in how item entities clip through blocks in the farm.

One thing I should have emphasized more in the video: be sure to turn off the farm before unloading it (by leaving the area or closing the game); otherwise, some cobblestone might generate.

Other specs:
Bonemeals two central moss blocks in a 10 redstone tick cycle,
17x20x17 bounding box (including the floor),
15x19x15 bounding box for redstone,
should be chunk aligned,
works both pre- and post- 1.20.40

Credits:
youtube.com/watch?v=B4sI3OXGbeY — the official tutorial (made by EggFur) for Zolson012’s bonemeal farm

World download:
drive.google.com/file/d/16Ku3LCKI9PrTj2Go9sbd43zHS8Xrdf0C/view?usp=sharing

Stonemeal farm materials key:

- In the world download, I use deepslate bricks as my solid block. To be safe, you should use solid blocks which moss cannot spread to and which lava cannot burn. Cobblestone or netherrack is fine, stone or polished andesite or Overworld tree planks are not.
- Each deepslate brick slab is a block that could be either a slab, solid block, or glass (whichever you prefer; I like to save resources by using slabs),
- Polished deepslate slabs can be either slabs or glass,
- Deepslate tile slabs must be slabs,
- Light gray glass is for the sides of water streams and can be entirely replaced with solid blocks,
- Black glass is primarily aesthetic but is sometimes needed for redstone, so be careful if substituting it with solid blocks. There’s also black glass in parts of the moss-crushers; I don’t know exactly how items decide to clip through blocks, so I don’t know for sure how much of that glass can be replaced with solid blocks.
Lastly, for the optional input protection, the wooden shovel can be replaced by any nonstackable item.

Materials list for main farm:
Deepslate Bricks: 360 (5 stacks & 40)
Deepslate Brick Slab: 444 (6 stacks & 60)
Polished Deepslate Slab: 38
Deepslate Tile Slab: 56
Light Gray Stained Glass: 158 (2 stacks & 30)
Black Stained Glass: 180 (2 stacks & 52)
Obsidian: 38
Packed Ice: 53
Soul Sand: 1
Stone: 80 (1 stack & 16)
Moss Block: 2
Redstone Dust: 305 (4 stacks & 49)
Redstone Torch: 11
Repeater: 39
Comparator: 6
Target Block: 32
Observer: 4
Piston: 110 (1 stack & 46)
Sticky Piston: 56
Dropper: 31
Dispenser: 2
Hopper: 64
Composter: 31
Trapdoor: 1
Fence Gate: 17
Button: 30
Lever: 1
Medium Amethyst Bud: 2
End Rod: 4
Lava Sources: 24 lava buckets
Infinite Water Source: 2 water buckets
Bonemeal: 6-7 stacks

Materials list for input protection:
Deepslate Bricks: 6
Deepslate Brick Slab: 2
Redstone Dust: 3
Redstone Torch: 1
Repeater: 1
Comparator: 2
Observer: 2
Dropper: 2
Item Frame: 1
Wooden Shovel: 1

updated 2 years ago

Stonemeal Farm: a Zolson012-esque Moss-based Bonemeal Farm (Minecraft Bedrock Edition)

ROBOTRON 31415 2024-04-30 | Stonemeal Farm V7M8 rate:
13.7k Bonemeal profit per hour (excluding while it fully turns on, ramping up production for the first few minutes as the hoppers feeding composters get filled with moss items)

The rate was calculated from at least a dozen hours of tests with the farm facing north, but the farm is slightly directional with ~13.2k bonemeal profit per hour when it is facing south. Only a few hours of testing were done in each of the east/west/south directions, with east/west seeming similar to north (though I can’t be certain), though south seemed noticeably worse. The directionality is likely due to differences in how item entities clip through blocks in the farm.

One thing I should have emphasized more in the video: be sure to turn off the farm before unloading it (by leaving the area or closing the game); otherwise, some cobblestone might generate.

Other specs:
Bonemeals two central moss blocks in a 10 redstone tick cycle,
17x20x17 bounding box (including the floor),
15x19x15 bounding box for redstone,
should be chunk aligned,
works both pre- and post- 1.20.40

Credits:
youtube.com/watch?v=B4sI3OXGbeY — the official tutorial (made by EggFur) for Zolson012’s bonemeal farm

World download:
drive.google.com/file/d/16Ku3LCKI9PrTj2Go9sbd43zHS8Xrdf0C/view?usp=sharing

Stonemeal farm materials key:

- In the world download, I use deepslate bricks as my solid block. To be safe, you should use solid blocks which moss cannot spread to and which lava cannot burn. Cobblestone or netherrack is fine, stone or polished andesite or Overworld tree planks are not.
- Each deepslate brick slab is a block that could be either a slab, solid block, or glass (whichever you prefer; I like to save resources by using slabs),
- Polished deepslate slabs can be either slabs or glass,
- Deepslate tile slabs must be slabs,
- Light gray glass is for the sides of water streams and can be entirely replaced with solid blocks,
- Black glass is primarily aesthetic but is sometimes needed for redstone, so be careful if substituting it with solid blocks. There’s also black glass in parts of the moss-crushers; I don’t know exactly how items decide to clip through blocks, so I don’t know for sure how much of that glass can be replaced with solid blocks.
Lastly, for the optional input protection, the wooden shovel can be replaced by any nonstackable item.

Materials list for main farm:
Deepslate Bricks: 360 (5 stacks & 40)
Deepslate Brick Slab: 444 (6 stacks & 60)
Polished Deepslate Slab: 38
Deepslate Tile Slab: 56
Light Gray Stained Glass: 158 (2 stacks & 30)
Black Stained Glass: 180 (2 stacks & 52)
Obsidian: 38
Packed Ice: 53
Soul Sand: 1
Stone: 80 (1 stack & 16)
Moss Block: 2
Redstone Dust: 305 (4 stacks & 49)
Redstone Torch: 11
Repeater: 39
Comparator: 6
Target Block: 32
Observer: 4
Piston: 110 (1 stack & 46)
Sticky Piston: 56
Dropper: 31
Dispenser: 2
Hopper: 64
Composter: 31
Trapdoor: 1
Fence Gate: 17
Button: 30
Lever: 1
Medium Amethyst Bud: 2
End Rod: 4
Lava Sources: 24 lava buckets
Infinite Water Source: 2 water buckets
Bonemeal: 6-7 stacks

Materials list for input protection:
Deepslate Bricks: 6
Deepslate Brick Slab: 2
Redstone Dust: 3
Redstone Torch: 1
Repeater: 1
Comparator: 2
Observer: 2
Dropper: 2
Item Frame: 1
Wooden Shovel: 1

Fully Automatic Clay Farm (Minecraft Bedrock Edition)

ROBOTRON 31415 2024-05-31 | Clay Farm V4M2 rate:
In short: it can be expected to produce a shulker box worth of clay blocks per hour, or rooted dirt if clay is not enabled.

The theoretical rate I calculated before finishing the farm's design is 1987 rooted dirt produced per hour. If clay is enabled, nearly all of that rooted dirt should be converted into clay. I have not tested the farm for long enough to determine the exact rate, but it seems that the theoretical rate is close enough; at the very least the rate exceeds 1728x4 clay balls per hour (1 shulker box of clay blocks per hour).
Additionally, the farm should produces around a shulker box of oak logs per hour, and a fair amount of bonemeal (testing the exact bonemeal rate was not a priority).

Path it uses to produce clay:
Stone → Moss and Azalea (via bonemealing moss near the stone) → Rooted dirt and oak log (via bonemealing the azalea)
→ mud (via dispenser using water bottle on rooted dirt) → clay (via pointed dripstone)
→ items (via wither)

Other specs:
- 48x22x32 bounding box (3x2 chunks, so it works in Sim 4)
- Needs to be chunk aligned, and built facing the correct direction; must be in the same direction as the world download.
- Handles crashing (and presumably other unexpected unloading) very poorly; no blocks should break, but quite a few block streams might have become messed up, and the internal state of the 1-to-44 block splitter might be affected. Fixing it is somewhat tedious in creative, and no doubt worse in survival
- Uses bedrock; in theory you could modify the design to use cubemakers, and shut off the farm when they're full. I already have bedrock in my survival world, so I'll be using a wither cage.
- The storage system is far from the best, but works. It doesn't have shulker loaders.

Credits:
The bedrock wither cage is based on this NavyNexus video: youtube.com/watch?v=ZMMx3_20osk
I designed the bonemeal farm based on Zolson012's design.
Parts of the clay conversion and rooted dirt farm were probably inspired by ilmango's Java designs.

World downloads:
WARNING: there is one mistake in the world downloads and Structura packs. One of the pistons in the rooted dirt farms' stone generators should have had a deepslate brick next to it instead of a deepslate brick slab. (If looking north at those stone generators, in the bottom right rooted dirt farm, the middle left piston is the affected one.)
Clay Farm V4M2: drive.google.com/file/d/11TXQZU_buDYRfIdO0jP_co3jHACScnBa/view?usp=sharing
Farm with its block streams (and item sorters) filled: drive.google.com/file/d/1nGVtIIhLjqJBIN_tMACWx-_zZc0XHHx9/view?usp=sharing
Farm with the snow golem moved arbitrarily far up: drive.google.com/file/d/17YuBxR1rkp0HFsOWhgoB6f0z-6i6AHj_/view?usp=sharing
(The world download was built starting from my bonemeal farm's world download, so that I could copy-and-paste the bonemeal farm with a structure block.)

Determine how far up the snow golem might need to be: https://minecraft.wiki/w/Tutorials/Snow_farming#Location
Structura Lab link: structuralab.com/2c9903c1-0a53-4c38-ad05-414f0cbbe7ff/item4.html
The Structura .mcpack is here as well: drive.google.com/file/d/1VlOA7TR0d1EeFwbfTqZ4cMVpvbPGFj_g/view?usp=sharing

Materials List: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Od02VKtAPigH1wocKaL1X0Bf4bAuO2Oa_wzAI9oXaCU/edit?usp=sharing

How To Distract A Piglin Using Gold (Achievement Tutorial) (Survival) (MCBE) (Not Low Effort Video)

ROBOTRON 31415 2020-09-10 | Just a short, sarcastic video of me getting an achievement on a world I’m working on.

Cross Theme in GarageBand (from NyxTheShield’s remix)

ROBOTRON 31415 2020-07-20 | I could only find sheet music available online for Jakei / Jael Penaloza’s original Cross Theme, so I decided to figure out the notes for NyxTheShield’s remix of Cross Theme and made it in GarageBand.

The melody should probably be played by another flute, rather than a bell, but these choices of instruments should make it slightly easier to make in Minecraft later on (except for the percussion... R.I.P. gravity block stacking that I could have used to make a contraption to store massive amounts of sand to use the sand breaking sound effect as cymbals).

Much of it could be copied from sheet music of the original’s piano arrangement by Reknah, with the percussion taking some time to figure out. The most time-consuming parts were the bass and one section of melody that NyxTheShield added (labeled SB - C here). For the latter, I played the song at 1/32 speed with a tuner app open, keeping the chords in use in mind, and that final section of melody I had left to do turned out better than most of the other sections I had to figure out myself.

Edit: While NyxTheShield’s remix had that SB - C section of melody louder than the original, it was in the original, but not in the piano arrangement.

NyxTheShield’s remix of Cross Theme:
youtube.com/watch?v=-4pzcxZ-6ws

Fibonacci Sequence on Computer 2.0

ROBOTRON 31415 2020-07-13 | This is the second program I made for my 8-bit Computer 2.0 in Minecraft. (And if you pause the video near the start, you can read the three lines of code making up the first program).

Just to be clear about how slow the computer is, yes, that timer is actually in minutes and seconds, and yes, calculating and displaying the next Fibonacci number takes exactly 48 seconds (excluding the very start and end of the entire program).

I also spent a lot of time making a better (and more slow) version, called P3. I finished coding it (or rather, planning out what I would code into the computer), but it will run on Computer 2.1, which will need its own video first.

To explain the ‘code’ towards the start:
the two leftmost digits are the addresses in program memory;
the next three digits are the first three bits of an 11-bit instruction, and select a function;
and the next 8 digits, split into two sets of four for legibility, sort of determine what the function actually does.

In short, the left pages display machine code with addresses added for my sake.

The right pages, meanwhile, have a sort of informal assembly-like ‘code’ that lets me more easily read or write code without constantly having the list of opcodes next to me.

MC:BE, Ep 5: I Made a Redstone Computer

ROBOTRON 31415 2020-07-13 | In the weeks between my third and fourth videos, I didn’t just do nothing! Hopefully, this video is a decent overview of the work I’ve done on this 8-bit computer, so I won’t have to cover the background of how the computer works in future videos.

I can’t take credit for all of the redstone I used:
n00b_asaurus’ ALU:
youtube.com/watch?v=nPBYOF3bfiA

HansLemurson’s counter:
youtube.com/watch?v=5u56AbEomoE

I’m not sure who initially came up with the idea, but I learned of smart pistons from navynexus.

The machine playing the music in Minecraft is mine, though I did not make the song.
The music is Cross Theme by Jakei, arranged for piano on musescore by Reknah.
youtube.com/watch?v=OW4gJdNHm8Q
Arrangement with the sheet music I used:
musescore.com/reknah/cross-theme

MC:BE, Ep 4: End of Perlin Generation Attempt One

ROBOTRON 31415 2020-07-12 | This is the end of my Perlin generation in Minecraft attempt for now, especially since I have plenty of material for videos from the three weeks since my third video.

I’ll be sure to make the next version even better.

MC:BE, Ep. 3: More Commands and a Wall of Command Blocks

ROBOTRON 31415 2020-06-14 | I finally finished entering all of the commands to generate a very simple landscape!

Next time, I’ll go over the past two videos and activate this device.

As before, the music in the background is called Welcome to the Factory.

MC:BE, Ep. 2: Command-Entering Timelapse

ROBOTRON 31415 2020-06-13 | x2 speed could be useful.

I wanted to show some of the (relatively boring) work that goes into this command block contraption. I’m aware it will be difficult to figure out what’s going on, but I will go over this command-entering video once the entire device is complete.

I actually made the music in the background, called Welcome to the Factory, myself.

As before, everything for this video was done/made without a PC. It will be amusing to see how long I can go before actual equipment becomes necessary.

MC:BE, Ep 1: Command Block Perlin Noise

ROBOTRON 31415 2020-06-10 | I actually made a video :D
Hopefully, the ‘intro’, ‘outro’, and audio aren’t too bad, and the video wasn’t too long to watch.

As this is my first video, I obviously used extremely high-tech equipment:
Basic iPad microphone
Photos app
iMovie
Notability

and literally nothing else.

Anyway, hopefully you managed to learn something about command blocks and Perlin noise.

Here’s those sources I used:
minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-java-edition/redstone-discussion-and/redstone-creations/2321521-pseudo-random-number-generator-made-only-with

mzucker.github.io/html/perlin-noise-math-faq.html#algorithm