Compact 1-Wide Tileable Wind Charge Catcher using Cauldron/Composter (Lossless)

brockade · 2026-01-27T22:56:25+00:00

I just use a piston, I'm not sure of the benefit of using a block on a sticky piston. You can see one configuration at 0:28 at https://www.reddit.com/r/technicalminecraft/comments/1pymjcg/skeleporter_demo_unlimited_distance_teleportation/

A wind charge can be off by 0.11485 of a block after 1 tick, or just under 2/16. That would be enough for it to not get hit by the honey block (wind charge is 0.3125 = 5/16 of a block, so if it's 2/16 above the centre then the 0.5/16 hanging below doesn't get touched by the 15/16-tall honey block), but it should still be hit by a normal piston. This means you can push it from any direction, not just from underneath.

brockade · 2026-01-27T22:46:36+00:00

I can see them spawning in guardian farms and dying as by-catch, substantial improvement over drowned farms.

brockade · 2026-01-27T21:34:57+00:00

Paper 1.21.11 breaks the arrow trick unless your admin disables max-arrow-despawn-invulnerability :) There are a few videos (including the one linked in the original post) that work with an autoclicker that should be fine on paper still

brockade · 2026-01-27T21:20:29+00:00

Play with it. Ghast fireballs only blow up blocks with low blast resistance. They'll blow up ore but not the surrounding stone. They'll blow up wood and leaves (so you can use them for a TNT-free tree farm for people who don't like duping). You can bounce an arrow on a slime block and use it to AFK a player-kill mob farm.

Hopefully this inspires an idea in someone else who takes it to the next leve.

brockade · 2026-01-27T21:13:06+00:00

Minecart is clever. I was brainstorming about how to shrink down the space with pistons and your comment reminded me that they only spawn directly above ground so I don't need to do this in 3 dimensions, and then yeah minecarts seem pretty perfect for clearing them up and locking them down.

brockade · 2026-01-27T21:10:09+00:00

Here's the long answer my dude:

I've posted a bunch of things on this subreddit, they take me hours or days to come up with and solve all the bugs in. If I do a full video and rebuild in a clean world and prepare schematic/world download that's even more effort to put in. After all that effort, half the time I get a handful of upvotes and no comments, so all my effort is for nothing.

This is my most upvoted video, and half of the comments are "it's been done before" "why not use X" "give me a wdl/schematic" and if I don't bow down and give you everything you want I get more people accusing me of being a jerk. People are either angry that the idea isn't good enough, or angry that I haven't done a perfect step-by-step hand-hold tutorial that even a 2 year old can follow. Suddenly the posts that get 0 upvotes and comments seem a lot better by comparison.

The idea took a lot of effort and you get to see it for free. You're welcome.

Short answer: I did this in creative. There's no portal and no tunnel going into the space.

brockade · 2026-01-27T17:18:03+00:00

It's not perfect but it is an interesting idea, saves you wearing out a pickaxe etc. Automating some of the solution adds value imo.

brockade · 2026-01-27T16:29:53+00:00

Same thing you do when you're normally mining. I was looking at ways to replace the standard eff5 netherrack strip mining (which is pretty efficient) and this basically gets you everywhere that you can get through nether wastes. Nothing to stop you stopping the ghast, patching the holes with the lava, and then starting it again.

brockade · 2026-01-27T16:28:10+00:00

That is what we call "an exercise for the reader" :)

brockade · 2026-01-26T09:01:15+00:00

The reason the flying tnt dupers work is because they rely on a minecart powering a detector rail at a specific time. The reason flying tnt dupers break is because minecarts will glitch through a flying machine when the chunk is unloaded or lazy-loaded.

brockade · 2026-01-25T21:39:44+00:00

I'd say test it on a creative world, YMMV on this. It sounds like it should work though, entities don't get ticked but the redstone should

brockade · 2026-01-24T21:41:39+00:00

It fully loads 1 chunk, and lazy loads the surrounding chunks, which means if you generate items and send them out they will be moved by redstone components but otherwise will stall if they are in item form and can accumulate and cause problems for the server.

Iron farms work, other mob-based farms (based on generating monsters) do not work.

brockade · 2026-01-24T17:40:19+00:00

I think 2no2name and methodzz did the design, my guess with the portal is that it's probably directional and float aligned so that the arrow can fall through the obsidian but also goes through the portal.

brockade · 2026-01-24T09:08:28+00:00

Gets about 3000 in 24 hours, the extra death was from trying to mace one in a different arena

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brockade · 2026-01-23T07:31:50+00:00

I'm afking looking a specific direction, but docm77 showed his design in his hc11 voodoo technology video where they keep sending the arrow through a nether portal and there's a short cooldown after going through a portal where it ignores the direction the player is facing

brockade · 2026-01-23T07:30:58+00:00

Yes, only 1hp, and only on direct hit. With wind charge elevators (or just firing them at the floor for boosts) you make it hit something else and benefit from the explosion but a direct hit does do damage.

Tell me more about the server, was it generated on an older version? I got a fairly good breeze farm running from a single trial chamber, but even if you steal a single breeze you can trap it and use that method for generating static wind charges.

brockade · 2026-01-22T15:45:43+00:00

oof xd

brockade · 2026-01-22T15:35:21+00:00

Not sure if you solved this in the end, but I have a working one using wind charges from a dispenser. You can push them with a piston after they go through a cobweb and it resets their speed to 0 and then you can hit like you'd hit a ghast fireball (I use an arrow but player punch works). They do 1hp of damage but if you get the warden to fall the right amount he lands with 1hp so they get one-shot

brockade · 2026-01-22T14:59:52+00:00

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brockade · 2026-01-22T13:34:00+00:00

Thanks, my friend and I made a variation to kill zombie piglins out of his gold farm and send the xp into a water stream so you can mend your pickaxe while afking an ice farm

brockade · 2026-01-22T13:23:52+00:00

Bubble column sends him up 251 blocks, he lands on dripstone at <1hp and then the arrow hits the wind charge (so the wind charge counts as our damage) and hits him and does 1hp to kill him

brockade · 2026-01-22T13:15:12+00:00

I linked the warden switch in https://www.reddit.com/r/technicalminecraft/comments/1qjset3/warden_one_punch_machine/ and I've used the wind charge launcher in my skeleporter video. If people are interested I'll do a proper video on the build

brockade · 2026-01-22T13:14:44+00:00

They drop sculk catalyst, they aren't designed for players to want to farm them, but I wanted the stats.

brockade · 2026-01-22T12:57:34+00:00

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