Surviving With Botania 1.16 :: E05 – Orechid Automated Ore Generation

What is going on guys we are back playing some more survive myth britannia and today we’re going to be setting up some automated ore generation using the orchid so last episode we set up the infinite mana generation tree farm which is right over here it’s been running flawlessly since last episode generating

Tons of mana which is great because it means we finally have some excess mana to play around with and one of the most useful things that i think you can do with that access mana is generate infinite ore because that saves you a ton of time you no longer really have to

Worry about going mining and trying to get some resources to make stuff with so of course that’s what i want to do because i want to be lazy and stay at my base and with batanya it is very easy to automate the production of ore at the

Expense of mana using the orchid it’s going to generate one ore every five seconds assuming it has stone in its area and it’s going to expend 1.75 percent of a mana pool or for an exact number 17 500 mana so all things considered really not that bad and again it’s an extremely

Easy setup to automate as for the requirements for today’s episode you can see them in this chest right here you can feel free to pause the video if you want to make sure you have everything needed to follow along today but we should be good to grab all this stuff

Out and do some crafting So now all the crafting for today’s episode should be done we should be good to set this up and it was a lot faster than previous episodes because if we take a look at my inventory right now there’s actually not that much in here that we need to make this setup because

Like i said earlier it is very simple to do really the hard part about this is going to be supplying it with sufficient mana to actually keep it running so investing a little bit more time and effort into your manage generation setups is probably gonna yield better results with this than trying to

Overcomplicate this in some way to make it more efficient so to start out we’re gonna grab out a chest and a hopper and i will say that the chest is not going to be the center of this setup the hopper is so when you’re trying to

Decide where to put this down the hopper is where you probably want to base the center of this entire thing off of so we’re going to put the chest down and then we’re going to put a hopper directly next to it pushing into that and then we’re going to grab out our

Diluted mana pool and we’re going to put that down directly on top of the hopper and this mana pool is never going to get mana in it it’s got a totally different purpose here that we’ll be going over in a little bit the next thing we’re going

To want to do is grab out our glass and then just some miscellaneous block to build with that we can break and then we are going to come up and one level above where this diluted mana pool is we’re going to put down glass completely encasing the center block above the mana

Pool so it’ll just be like a little bit of a glass tunnel leading down to the mana pool right there and then we can clear these out and this is basically going to just funnel the items down right into this mana pool the next step

Is going to be just pillaring up here to get on top of the glass and then we’re going to grab out our pulse mana spreader we’re going to put it down right here and it’s already facing in the direction it needs to be but if it’s

Not then you can just adjust it with your wand of the forest to be firing across the glass to the other side like that then we’re gonna grab out our mana lens of weight and we’re gonna put it on to the mana spreader so if you don’t

Know what this lens does it’s actually really cool whenever a pulse with this mantel lens gets fired off whatever the first block is that it hits which in this case is going to be stone that forms right in front of it it’s going to treat it like sand or gravel and that

Block is going to fall and so the way that this setup works and how we auto harvest and essentially silk touch every ore that forms in this setup for very little mana is going to be the stone forms right in front of this mana spreader gets turned into ore once it’s

Turned into ore this pulse man spreader with the weight lens will fire off that ore is then going to act like sand or gravel and drop down and when it hits this diluted mana pool it’s going to turn from a regular block in the world into an entity and then it’ll get picked

Up by this hopper and put in this chest and again it’s basically going to be silk touched so for things like diamonds or redstone where you’re not really getting that many of them being able to place those down after and fortune them or or process them or whatever you want

To do with them is definitely extremely beneficial and it’s not going to take ton more mana to actually get that so definitely a very cool method of harvesting this instead of just doing something like boring through them in which case you also need to worry that it’s gonna go through multiple blocks

This one just gonna hit one block and then it’s done now that we have the pulse mana spreader set up the next step is going to be grabbing out the orchid in the mana pool we’re gonna put down the floating orchid right here on top of

This glass and then we’re going to put down our mana pool directly between the pulse mana spreader and the orchid and then we’re just going to make sure that the orchid is in fact bound to this mana pool and not this diluted one down here

As this mana pool right here is going to basically be the input mana pool that’s going to give magnets about the orchid and to the pulse mana spreader this one down here like i said is never going to have mana in it its sole purpose is to

Break the ore that’s going to be falling down there so it can get picked up by the hopper once we have all this set up the next thing is pretty much to set up the smooth stone generator that’s going to put the smooth stone right in front

Of the mana spreader that the orchid can then transform into whatever ore it’s going to go with so we’re just going to grab out some of our glass we’re going to grab out our water and we’re just going to encase the water right here so

We can build off of this and we can just grab out a regular living rock brick so that we have at least one block to work around with so it’ll go right there and then we’re just gonna put down some glass right there so it doesn’t totally spill out

And we should be good to fill this in now obviously it is going to go down here right at the start that’s why we have the glass there but we should be good to put glass down now on top of the orchid pulse mana spreader this glass

Right here and then finally we’re gonna have to put a block down right in the center there just so we can put this one down we can break this and finally we should be good to put the lava down right here and the smooth stone should

Generate so there we go and the generic setup is done we now have the smooth stone that will be generated we have the orchid that’ll transform it the input mana pool the mana spreader that’s gonna break it the breaking setup and the collection setup all we really need to

Do now is get the timing done so we’re actually gonna be using two different redstone components to make the timer for this setup the first one we’re going to start out with is the very basic hovering hourglass timer and we’re going to put the hovering hourglass down directly next to this pulse mana

Spreader because this is the only thing that we care about getting a signal from this and we’re going to put 10 sand in there now you can do 10 regular sand you can do one red sand doesn’t matter you can also adjust the amount of sand

You’re putting in there i would say 10 is a little bit on the high end if you want to be safe 9 is okay 8 is going to get you a little bit faster i would not go lower than seven the reason being the orchid is going to look every five

Seconds to transform one block of stone in its area into an ore so you’re going to have at least five seconds that you want to wait before you fire this thing off again but then you also need to take into account the fact that you need a

Little bit of time for the smooth stone to form you also are going to have time where the smooth stone that’s transformed into the ore then needs to fall once the weighted mana lens pulse hits it before the water and lava can even move into its place and on top of

That you also do have a little bit of a delay between the pulse mana spreader getting the redstone signal firing the pulse and it hitting this block so i would say roughly seven to eight seconds is going to be the fastest you want to go if you go at seven seconds or any

Lower than that you’re going to start getting periods where smooth stone is going to be collected instead of ore because there’s not going to be enough time between the smooth stone forming and the pulse mana spreader firing off for the orchid to actually change it from smooth stone into ore so again you

Can adjust it yourself to whatever you want but i really don’t think there’s that much of a benefit in making it go fast because you’re gonna be expending that if you make it seven seconds almost two percent of a mana pool every seven seconds so unless you’re supplying that

Much mana consistently the timing doesn’t really matter and it’s more about if you’re able to actually even supply the mana for an extended period of time so again overall my recommendation 10 seconds you will never run into issues and you will all be set now that we have that general timer set

Up for this the last redstone component we need to do is going to be the off switch for this thing and it’s going to automatically turn off if it does not have sufficient mana to have the orchid transform the smooth stone into ore and then the pulse mana spreader to drop it

Down and really what’s gonna happen here is eventually your orchid is not going to have a full internal mana buffer so as you can see it does obviously have an internal mana buffer just like every functional flora and then you also have an internal mana buffer on the pulse

Mana spreader so eventually this mana pool is going to empty out there’ll be some mana in here some in here and the orchid is no longer going to be able to turn the stone into ore but the pulse mana spreader is going to have plenty of mana to keep firing off repeatedly and

You’re going to be generating smooth stone and wasting a little bit of mana so if you really don’t want to generate smooth stone and you don’t want to waste any mana much like myself putting this little redstone setup on here will prevent that from happening so if you

Want to avoid that all we’re going to do is build up a little bit so that we can work from above here we’re going to put down a block below this mana pool another block off of that and then we’re going to build two blocks here one up

From that so we’re going to put a comparator going into this block right here from the mana pool and for those of you that do not know the mana pools do output a comparator signal with the strength depending on how full they are now we’re going to be setting up

Redstone on top of both of these blocks right here and then finally putting down a redstone torch right here and the way this whole thing is going to work is essentially this redstone torch is going to override the hovering hourglass signal whenever it’s on mainly because the pulse management functions where

It’s going to get a redstone signal it’s going to then fire off but until that redstone signal goes away no other redstone signal coming in is going to cause it to pulse it won’t be able to reset if this is still on so this is

Going to stay on unless there is a two strength signal coming from this comparator which is only going to happen when this mana pool is roughly 10 full i’m not sure the exact percent but roughly 10 and as long as there is some mana in this mana pool that means that the

Orchid has a full internal buffer and is good to transform this stone into ore but what’s going to happen when the process stops is basically this orchid is going to turn this stone into ore this is going to drop to an amount that is less than let’s say the 10 percent

Roughly that this will have a signal strength of 2 at this comparator then is going to drop the signal strength to 1 this torch is going to turn back on that hovering hourglass is probably going to be about 3 seconds away from flipping over but this pulse mana spreader is

Going to fire off anyway due to the new signal from the torch it’s going to take whatever ore was just made drop it down new smooth stone will form the orchid will make one more ore but now the hovering hourglass will no longer actually be able to give input to the

Pulse manage spreader because this torch is going to consistently be on until we give more mana to this setup and that’s extremely useful especially if you are manually transferring mana in like i am because you’re not trying to waste all of your excess mana on this especially

If you’re not in critical need of oars at that moment so that’s pretty much it for the setup that’s how everything works and i guess if we actually want to try it out now we should be good to dump some mana in here from my mana tablet and let this thing run

So moment of truth to see if this works let’s just dump the mana tablet on there we can see the comparator kicks on as mana goes in here we have mana filling up the internal buffer and this thing is loud i will tell you guys it is very very loud so

Gonna be a little bit rough but let’s see how much mana we have in here that’s sufficient for it to fire off at least a couple times it’s gonna totally drain my mana tablet but we should be good to grab this back it’s basically empty but we can watch as this thing functions

We can watch the timing on it and you’ll see that the ores are weighted obviously so we’re gonna get a lot of coal and a lot of iron but we can see that we are generating ore we do have our living rock in there from when we were doing

Work around here earlier but we have some coal and even some redstone so we can watch as this fires off and eventually we will see when that kicks back on oh we got some gold that’s actually another very rare one i wonder if we’ll get any diamond while we watch

Here but we should run through pretty much all the mana we supplied this with pretty quickly we can watch and you can actually see the amount it takes per operation in here because it takes so much so we’ll be able to see this yup it goes down obviously it’s not

A ton of mana from the mana pool you’re expending like half of this to make one thing of terra steel so in comparison to that it’s really not that bad but it is super weird being able to see such a large visual drop for a single piece of

Ore if you’re not really generating that much mana so we should be probably about three or four operations away from the redstone torch kicking back on because this thing goes sub 10 mana left in the mana pool and when that happens we’ll be able to verify that our sort of stop or

Automatic stop due to the mana supply in the system does in fact work and then we should be good to call it for the day because that’s pretty much the setup it’s very simple there’s no need to make more than a single smooth stone generator as long as you’re having this

Break it every pretty much five to ten seconds then you’re not really wasting any downtime on this and it’s pretty compact and cheap to do which i think is great i think this is a super useful setup to do early on if you have obviously access to the pixie dust i

Believe which was used for making the orchid and some of the prismarine that you need to get for me oh we got diamond i was gonna say the prismarine for the weighted mana lens but wow and emerald those are both like the two rarest oars that you can get i’m actually really

Surprised we got some of those but we can see that the torch also kicked back on so the hovering hourglass is no longer going to cause the pulse mana spreader to fire and yeah you can see it’s about 10 maybe a little bit less than the mana

Pool and that is the automated or generation setup guys you can see the amount of ore we got here for roughly i would say you know three quarters issue of a mana tablet expended since there’s still some left here in this mana pool maybe a little bit less than three

Quarters but i think that’s gonna be for today guys hopefully you enjoyed today’s setup and hopefully you find it useful if you did be sure to subscribe so you never miss out on a future episode as they come out every monday and thursday at 2 p.m eastern standard time and i

Will talk to you guys later Um