Basalt / Obsidian block generator

[Myra Midnight]

Well, since I wanted to create a personal stone generator on a multiplayer server I have been paying on (https://www.vintagestory.cz/skyblock/) , I had to figure some things out. And since there doesn't seem to be a lot of info about such generators, I figured I share what I designed. I managed to figure out for myself how to get a obsidian block generator, but I wanted basalt as well. It lead to this creation.

It uses 3 water sources and 1 lava block, I just placed buckets to make it obvious where water goes.

You can optionally chisel out a little side access to the water blocks, for easy access to unclog the basalt side of the generator (though since lava is weird, and it can eat any non-full block...other option is to just break glass whenever you want to unclog the water.

Hope this was useful ^^ it is always fun to figure things out. Lava and water interactions in vintage story is quite unpredictable sometimes. But this generator seems to not be at risk of exploding into a lava bomb if something goes weird. 

this generator will let you mine whole obsidian and basalt blocks with ease. Enjoy

[Grummsh]

Ok so just a quick question as i played with generators in minecraft looooong time ago but never did one is Vintage Story before - can this be done in survival game or only in creative mode? Is there a way to transport lava? Can you simply get it in my wooden bucket (id guess not but you never know)? 

[DejFidOFF]

4 hours ago, Grummsh said:

Ok so just a quick question as i played with generators in minecraft looooong time ago but never did one is Vintage Story before - can this be done in survival game or only in creative mode? Is there a way to transport lava? Can you simply get it in my wooden bucket (id guess not but you never know)? 

Yes you can make it in survival, but there is a catch - you need a mod Primitive Survival installed, because there is a recipe to craft metal bucket - for lava transport.

[Grummsh]

Ahhh thanks man got it

[Maelstrom]

Without said mod it can be done.  One just needs a lava source with enough space around it (below and the sides) to make a generator possible.