Uh-mm....the 4×4 chunk challenge is dead?

You can reliably sort mud from clay from the simple fact that the clay uses the "guitar" soundfont on the noteblock. So maybe you can adapt you sculk block sorter to try it on your machine

Love to see these farms being churned out so rapidly! Can't wait to see what crazy 20-in-one contraption comes out of all of these new snapshots.

It's also always an option to add a system whereby endermen pick up the clay and are then killed in order to get the clay blocks directly. I love this crazy automation!

"There's always ways to improve machinery, but there's only so much time we have." -ilmango 2022

For sorting out the mud blocks you could use a hopper bellow the block line an an item on dropped on top, so when a mud block passes through detects the item getting into the hopper, then push the block out and drops a new item on top. The collected item can be reutilized. Maybe if mud blocks slip through just put a second filter.

Hmm.. could you perhaps sort out all the clay blocks using noteblocks, like you did with stone in sculk farm? That way you clear out the space for more mud and it gets more time to get converted, whilst the mud that already got converted to clay can be sent straight to tnt chamber!

This still works in current versions! It's just a little tricky getting the mud converter going You will need to place 1 stack of empty bottles, and 4 water bottles in top hopper Minecraft, and the 3 hoppers below it You might wait for a few dirt blocks to pass through, but after that it should run flawlessly.

How about dropping an item onto the blockstream, and having a hopper below? Since the mud is lower than the clay, as soon as the item lies on a mud block, the hopper should be able to pick it up. Then just use a comperstor to detect the item going through the hopper…

beautiful contraption; especially cool to see the streams splitting and rejoining.

What in the… what a monster machine- this is the kinda of redstone machine you always dreamed of making as a kid.

You could put moore blocks with dripstone below the single blockstreams going into and coming out of the conversion chambers. It won't make a significant difference, but it's very little effort for a slight increase in efficiency.

finally fast clay converter so i dont need quarries

Oh my gosh I've been waiting like, three whole days for this :o

I think that noteblocks change its instrument with clay, maybe that can be used to sort the mud out

The machine is brilliant, but the option to switch what’s being harvested is, to me, just the perfect conclusion to it. It’s such a simple thing to add, but so clever in case you need it. And the whole process is just fun to watch.

To sort out the mud, just have an item sit on top of the clay Then when a mud block comes around a hopper could pick it up from underneath

ilmango, what a great guy this extender piston using honey and slime! I would never think of that, you are really amazing! I'm Brazilian, and even though I don't understand English very well, I'm a big fan of yours, and I'm always amazed by your ability to develop redstone circuits

Would be really fascinating seeing the entire production setup starting from the moss/bonemeal (can’t remember what exactly is first) all the way to the glazed terracotta. With crafting and storage sections when needed. Just seeing all the block being moved through each section like a full on factory

i really appreciate the world download link and that it works. thank you!

it's always 2-3 am for me when you upload. So it's a fun early morning ritual for me to watch your latest video along with some coffee ^-^

Amazing work again Ilmango

would like to see a survival series on the one block at a time April Fools update. (kind of like the peaceful challenge.) I think you might find it interesting it is a really cool concept and because of the inefficiency of the player it is often worth it to automate things and some of the mechanics open up a whole aray of new contraptions. It would be cool to see what the technical community could achieve on a one block at a time world.

Freakin awesome as always, ilmango.

For more efficiency, you could put more stalactites and blocks under the blocks that are being pushed to the blast chamber, so that even less mud remains

I am so excited to see this farm comnected to the other farms. From Stone To Clay!! 😁 Side note: If you combined this system with the carpet mod auto-crafting mechanic, then you could have a system that switches between the several different clay recipes with the flick a lever. Side-Side note: I really really like the multi-pathway piston pusher system, I can't believe I hadn't ever seen or thought of that before this video. It seems obvious once pointed out, but wow! Is it cool!

OMG, nice farm 👍🏻

Hey ilmango, there is a way to make a 100% efficient design that takes even less dripstone, but it requires a total redesign. Basically every single mud block goes it’s own chamber to turn into clay, and an observer detects the change and pushes it out so a new mud block can go in the chamber. The chamber design and the loading and unloading of chambers would take some figuring out though

This is exactly what I needed!

Is there any specific reason why it's a 17.2% chance of converting mud into clay?

9:12 thinking back to that cube maker/extractor you made earlier for the skulk blocks. I think if somebody REALLY wanted to flush out the machine, they could just detect when the dirt generator stopped, and then start a dropper timer or something to switch both input and output from the system to clear out most the clay. you would probably still have stuff in the blast chamber, but the conversion cells would be clear.

Really good farm what you showed us here I will definitely build it it

To take the remaining clay blocks out of the machine you could use powdered snow

Could you do something like this for ageing copper? Could make a system that puts 4 cobble in between each copper you place, goes through a long system to age, then collected in tnt blast chamber.

Can't wait to have a good source of bricks!

such a wild machine.

You guys are nuts! :D

i would love to see new videos of the lets play series. hope you have a good time

For the sorting of mud and clay, you could use minecarts which will attach to the rail below the mud block, which is not possible in full blocks like clay.

This is cool

You could also fully utilize the output blockstream for conversion by putting blocks with dripstone underneath it.

This is flipping insane and awesome at the same time.

To sort of the mud block you can use a player to plant the mangrove sapling with a observer point at the sapling and a piston bellow

Could you make a system where it's detected when the mud is converted to clay? It probably couldn't take a block stream, but with input chests and a player continually placing blocks when space is available you could guarantee that all the dirt would be converted to clay. Some kind of block storage might also be possible, such that when the storage is filled it reroutes it to a blast chamber and switches back when the storage empties. You could even have the dirt stream split 50/50 into mud and dirt at this stage, creating a farm that produces dirt, mud, and clay with no player input!!!! Such a system would be wildly more complicated I'm sure, and would almost definitely produce fewer clay blocks per hour, but I'd love to see it regardless. 100% efficiency is too satisfying!

You are a freaking genius. I have watched so many of your Minecraft tutorials and I am frequently astounded. I have a certified IQ of 142 and you make me feel dumb. Take that as you will. Great content, keep it up!

Would be cool to have an option to switch between the rooted dirt input and manual mud block input, could even shorten the farm's conversion section and just recycle the unconverted mud back in that way. Especially helpful since mud spawns as the floor of mangrove biomes so it could be harvested in large quantities. But this is amazing as a playerless setup.

Greatjob!

Bloody hell what a contraption 🤪😃

Mind blowing!

Could you put more dripstone underneath the stream going to the blast chamber? Just to improve the chance a tiny bit

hello illmango, for the design in sorting mud from clay, would dripstone's faster drip rate when mud is on top be able to be picked up from an observer? Just a thought that would be simple yet effective

cheers. I understand all the words. I just do not know this language well and now thanks to the auto-translation in subtitles I understand what it explains

An armor stand on a mud block, getting pushed through tripwire could work for sure in some way to filter out mud blocks from the production line. You're the Redstone wizard though, so I don't know how armor stands would be reused in the machinery between each mud block. Food for thought though. :)

The clay is actually a note block instrument so you can use the stone and skulk block separator to separate the clay and mud

Idea: can the clay and mud be differentiated via note blocks, or perhaps some plant? There could be a way to sort them out for even better efficiency. Maybe there is some block update when the mud is placed where it can be converted, so you could use dripstone to sort clay vs non-clau

You could add more dripstone on the feeds that send the blocks to the TNT duper. Honestly, any piston feed that has a flat straight could have dripstone under it for more efficiency.

Renewable clay wow

For anyone that wants both clay and mud on mass you could play with the ratio of converted blocks, might make the machine slightly simpler

You might be able to sort the mud from clay using an observer to detect the droplets on the drip stone

You should be able to sort out the mud from the clay using dripstone. Have the blockstream pass over a dripstone, when a mud block is over it, the dripstone starts dripping, which should be detectable by an observer.

can you make the stream of mud/clay blocks go over a path of dripstone till right before the tnt chamber? to try to at convert those mud block to clay up until the last moment. or it is going to fast for that to happen?

For sorting clay from mud, since the mud block is lower, cant you pick up an item through it? I'm not sure how feasible it would be, but you could maybe dispense an item on top of it, hopper underneath, and if the hopper picks up the item, it's a mud block, otherwise it's clay, then you flush the item off the top of a clay block using a water stream. then afterwards you could send mud blocks to a second one of these systems, and loop the output of the second one back into the output stream of the first, so that the mud blocks keep cycling around and only clay goes into the blast chamber. Also, if that system were to work, would it be more beneficial to only have one of the sections, then keep looping mud through a single section until it becomes clay? right now a lot of random ticks are being "wasted" on clay, if I'm understanding it right, and if it was just mud on top, the system would be more efficient? since a certain percentage of the mud is being converted in the first section, then a percentage of the remaining mud in the second and so on, whereas if you just keep looping the mud through a single section, it would be that percentage of all the of the mud all the time

You can further convert the left over mud to clay by adding more dripstone in the spaces of the block streams which lead to tnt blast chamber not sure what you think of it but a little more efficiency doesn't hurt :D

You could add an BUD detector and detect mud blocks to put them back at the beginning.

Insane!

Fun idea to sort out the mud Have an item sitting on top of the block stream with a hopper underneath That way when a mud block gets through the item will be picked up and can be pushed out

Could you add more dripstone to a system for better effecieny? For example in all conveyer belts and into blast chamber.

So you could theoretically create a stone to brick converter with these machines? Starting from stone to moss to rooted dirt to clay, then an automatic smelter with the dropped clay balls?

Lol and I felt proud of the wool farm I just posted💀this is nuts!! Can’t wait to see how it evolves

also i'm wondering if we cannot make a faster converter by detaching and reataching dripstone to it's block. like reseting the tick speed or something like that

I always thought clay was affected by gravity.

Does pointed dripstone get block update, when it starts dripping? Because if it does, you can easily distinguish mud and clay this way. (but I'm not a redstone genius, probably armor stand is easier)

bro i swear the next thing that this guy is going to post is a warden farm then like a sculk farm

are there any weird mechanics like how copper has where you could maybe put clay blocks near it in the system to make something faster and more compact or is this just how you do it

Could you put pointed dripstone below the output line to try to convert more mud to clay on it's way to the blast chamber? I know it can't be converted while moving but I think there is time when it's not moving at all.

When a mud block is placed beneath a block it should in theory become a full block.If this is correct, can an observer detect it?

If moving blocks ignore the dripstone tick, would it make any difference if you filled up one side completely then the other side in an alternating way? so the left gets to sit uninterrupted while the right fills up? or even go slice by slice?

Finally...brick houses!

Does the drying check for if blocks around it immediately are arrainged in a specific way? Like farming vegetables in rows, or copper being not next to each other ect?

video idea : all most efficient ways to get smart random outputs, with Redstone, and command blocks

"so many machines, so little time"

Can you uyse the dripstone itself to sort them out? They only seem to drip when there is mud. Maybe possible to take advantage of that some how.

Is there a sound for either clay or mud? If there is something different, might be able to solve the clay vs. mud problem with a noteblock observer setup?

Can you use the height difference between clay and mud blocks to filter out the mud blocks as blocks and send them back into the system if they fit? You'd want to give priority to incoming blocks so you don't jam up whatever's inserting blocks into this module, but you should be able to make the separator in such a way that if the input is already operating at peak capacity, the piston that tries to push the mud blocks out of the clay/mud filter just can't push and the mud gets blown up and filtered out as an item. I'm not sure how exactly you'd detect the height difference that fast, though it should definitely be possible if you do the filtering before you fully merge everything (one thing that comes to mind is having an armor stand on top of the block stream; you try to push it onto the adjacent block and if it can go, you've got clay, while if it can't go, you've got mud, but that would be pretty slow because you need to detect the armor stand moving or not, and then you need some mechanism to lift the armor stand back up if it _is_ mud. Lots of interesting problems, but it should be possible. Failing that, you can use a system which dispenses an item on top of the block stream and has a hopper under it. If the item gets picked up, you have mud. However with how long it takes comparators to update, that'd probably be half-speed at best, and you also have the problem of dealing with the item despawning if you have no mud for 5 minutes. *EDIT:* Should have watched the last minute of the video first lmfao

I will farm clay faster than ill build this holy machine

Isn't it possible to add extra dripstones when the mid is traveling to the blast chamber and such? Not really that efficient but maybe can take a few mud out.

btw maybe you should add some more of these dripstones at the blockstream

Do Clay and mud blocks have different note block sounds? Possible way to separate them?

7:10 there is a long conveyor bringing the blocks all the way to the blast chamber. Could dripstone be added to that to try to convert the last left mud blocks?

you could add blocks with spikes under it even on the block conveyor belt to get even better % of clay right ? doesn't cost much more

Why not place iron blocks with dripstone below for the blockstream towards the blast chamber. It would help a little, right?

Man, talk about redstone spaghetti!

It would be cool to see a mud-clay sorter. If you can't do it with noteblocks, you need to use the fact that mud isn't a full block. That's also more time-resistant. It would probably use shulkers, minecarts or items

Seeing these machines at work is a sight to behold! Too bad those QC pushlimit extenders don't work on Bedrock edition... there are workarounds, but Java makes them a lot more compact.

why not add more drying space under the conveyors and just before the blast chamber? theres always a chance they will dry right?

Im Wondering If the Mud to clay is faster when the blocks are spread like the Copper Blocks or is the same thing.

if you find every spot in that machine where a mud block sits above an air block for any period of time, you could in theory bump the rates up a tad by placing blocks with dripstone below. Like those 1 wide gaps between each module, is there any reason there can't be dripstone there?

you should make a mangrove tree farm! the mangrove trees are such a nightmare to cut down so it would be nice if we could just afk farm them!

Ive been working on a similar version on the bedrock edition of the game, using the principle of pistons shuffling mud over dripstone platforms

10:50 is it possible to detect a block update on the dripstone when mud is above it instead of clay?