Iron Foundry?

Gaming Minecraft
#1

I was thinking of possibly building the iron foundry next map, for those of you who don’t know it’s an iron golem farm that generates a TON of iron (700 ingots per hour at full capacity).

It will be a pay for use iron farm, as the sheer amount of resources and time is insane. We’ll also need 2 villagers to be donated to create an infinite villager farm. Anybody who helps out with the project will get a IRL year’s worth of free iron!

Before I construct this I need to know if the spawn chunks in bukkit work in the same way as vanilla, i.e. they are always loaded. If not this will be a massive waste of time :’(

The collection point will be accessible via a locked door, the password will be changed monthly and mailed out to eligible players.

[size=1em]Le Small Print: Partial month subscriptions will not be accepted, you must mail TheUKOCtopus AT LEAST 2 days before the month ends to receive a subscription for the next month. ANY VIOLATION OF TIME PERIODS WILL BE TREATED AS THEFT FROM THEUKOCTOPUS AND WILL BE DEALT WITH IN ACCORDANCE TO PCB RULES. The 2 month free offer is only for new customers, existing customers get 1 month free. ANY PLACING OF DOORS WITHIN A 150 BLOCK RADIUS OF THE SPAWNER WILL RESULT IN PAINFUL DEATH AND BEING FORCED TO REBUILD THE ENTIRE FARM! DON’T DO IT! (YOU WILL BE KILLED AND BANNED FROM USING ANY SERVICES FROM OCTOPUS EXPORTS LTD, AND POSSIBLY BANNED FROM THE SERVER, CLEAR NOTICES WILL BE POSTED AROUND THE AREA WHICH WILL BE FENCED OFF.
[size=1em]USING THE IRON FOUNDRY CONSTITUTES ACCEPTANCE OF THESE RULES, PAYMENTS ARE NOT REFUNDABLE AFTER THE TIME PERIOD THEY RELATE FOR HAS BEGUN.

#2

I will help-what resources do you need?

#3

Shitloads of cobble and doors, some black wool and some villagers

#4

I can provide the cobble and doors for no money, as long as I can harvest iron myself at any time (I won’t take too much)

#5

Sure that’s fine penguin. As it is the half-size version will have to have a method of disposing of all of the excess.

#6

Ok.

#7

I will help I guess pm when you start ok?

#8

I remeber the old school days. When an iron foundry was a room with some furnaces in it.

#9

Before this post, thats the only iron foundry i knew of…

#10

I think this is going to ruin the already distorted iron prices. It only cost $2 per iron ingot now, and with this machine, it’ll bring it down to pennies per ingot! If it’s really making over 25 stacks of iron like you claim, there will simply be no use for all it. People could also just settle for iron tools instead of diamond ones since it would only be a fraction of the cost, distorting the diamond demand, thus distorting the economy.

Also, with all those golems spawning, I could only imagine the toll it would take on server lag, with literally thousands of more mobs.

I’m usually not against user created structures, however I think this has too many cons with very little gains, and personally I’m against it.

#11

There will be a maximum of 2 golems alive in the spawner at once, and approximately 80 villagers in 4 spawning areas.

I will no longer be using the design of the iron foundry because it is ridiculously complicated and misplacing 1 door means I’ll have to start all over again, this new design is marginally less efficient but can be placed anywhere. I have also received several requests for large scale contracts.

#12

I can see Ferrari’s point.
Maybe give workers that helped you make it unlimited iron, and everybody else has to pay PER ingot, not 80 dollars for unlimited.
E.g: 2 dollars per ingot

Do you still need the cobble and doors?

#13

Yes, doors are still required. This smaller size spawner would look better in wool.

Pricing will be as follows:

[ul][li]You can buy from the shop at a variable rate[/li]
[li]Helpers: Access to the chest room, unlimited iron for free[/li][/ul]

SPECIAL PLANS ARE AVAILABLE, PM FOR DETAILS

#14

If anything it would increase the demand for diamonds since more people would already have iron but not diamonds. I would rather have a load of diamonds than my iron stacks.

#15

After several decision making sessions I have decided upon the following:

[ul][li]Only myself and people who helped to build it will be allowed in the collection room[/li]
[li]Anybody can purchase iron from the Octopus Inc Store[/li]
[li]Contracts will be made with towns and goverments over iron supply[/li]
[li]This will NOT BE A PUBLIC FARM! IT WILL BE A BUSINESS ENTERPRISE![/li][/ul]

#16

If you need help, I’ve done spawners like this before.

#17

This will no longer be the iron foundry design, it will be docm’s much smaller but still quite efficent 4 stacked village design. So less doors will be required and no chaining or pairing is required, you just build it.

#18

I will be able to provide doors for the project but sadly not wool. Any other resources needed? Please reply.

#19

Here is a full list of everything I need:

[ul][li]Nice building blocks (eg wool)[/li]
[li]Some blocks for setup (dirt/cobble)[/li]
[li]Minecart rails and minecarts (for villager transport)[/li]
[li]Glass[/li]
[li]Water buckets (2 only, infinite water sources can be created)[/li]
[li]Lava buckets (4, for killing area)[/li][/ul]

And that should be everything!

#20

[glow=red,2,300]Here is a full list of everything I need:
Nice building blocks (eg wool)
Some blocks for setup (dirt/cobble)
Minecart rails and minecarts (for villager transport)
Glass
Water buckets (2 only, infinite water sources can be created)
Lava buckets (4, for killing area)
And that should be everything![/glow]

I can provide: Water buckets
Setup blocks (dirt/cobble)
Glass
Maybe mine-carts/rails
Doors