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How to get tons of flint!

  • #1 Sep 27, 2011

    Okay, so when your getting gravel you can get flint, so I figured you could just reuse the gravel to get flint, so stack yourself as high as you can with the gravel and dig down and repeat until you have all flint and no gravel, I don't know if this is old or not but I thought it might be worth posting

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  • #6 Sep 27, 2011

    Or put an air space, cobble, then gravel on top of that, put torch in air space, break cobble, profit. Unless that's patched as well.

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  • #7 Sep 27, 2011

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  • #9 Sep 27, 2011

    Everything with rails and torches are patched.
    Now; Useless thread is useless.

    I'm sorry, I didn't know this was old, I was just trying to help :sad.gif:

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  • #10 Sep 27, 2011

    Everything with rails and torches are patched.
    Now; Useless thread is useless.

    It worked for me...

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  • #11 Sep 27, 2011

    Do you get any flint, though?

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  • #13 Sep 27, 2011

    Maybe this isn't the best way to get flint, but I feel it is a good use of gravel that results in flint.

    Build something underwater--a house, a glass dome, anything, and use gravel to flush it out. Clearing the gravel will give you a fair amount of flint and also remove the water from the building. With the new ocean biome, you should also be able to make a much bigger underwater base than before, using much more gravel, making much more flint.

    This gives you a goal other than just getting flint, which at least helps me out in terms of entertainment. Enjoy having an underwater base!

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  • #14 Sep 27, 2011

    or 4 powered rails 4 normal rails in a circle (square what ever)

    then a same size square of cobble above tracks (do this 1st)

    go round in circles sitting in the minecart and place the gravel while going round onto the cobble...

    dunno if they have patched this :huh.gif: i find flint pretty useless so havnt tried it since i built my mob grinder.

    Yeah mob grinders have made flint pretty much obsolete.

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  • #15 Sep 27, 2011

    Yeah mob grinders have made flint pretty much obsolete.

    I like going for a realistic minecraft approach though, like I'm sure others do, so no grinders, maybe a small chicken farm, etc. Then you need to find ways to get gravel.

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  • #16 Sep 27, 2011

    I like going for a realistic minecraft approach though, like I'm sure others do, so no grinders, maybe a small chicken farm, etc. Then you need to find ways to get gravel.

    I heard using the torch method didn't drop flint. If it does, I'm all over it as I haven't had the time to set up a grinder in my SSP thus far.

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  • #17 Sep 27, 2011

    I don't have a mob grinder, so I do need flint. I usually build and dig myself down from a noob tower. More recently I discovered that if I build multiple towers, I can dig through 2 or more at the same time much faster from the bottom than the top. (either jumping or digging my way down from one.

    I just tested the torch thing a couple of times and didn't get any flint- not sure if this is a fixed bug or if I just got unlucky.

    Edit: Epik beat me to it a bit- I was testing while he posted.

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  • #18 Sep 27, 2011

    I just tested the torch thing a couple of times and didn't get any flint- not sure if this is a fixed bug or if I just got unlucky.

    Edit: Epik beat me to it a bit- I was testing while he posted.

    Probably been playing a bit longer than you. ;P

    Edit to avoid possibility of double-post:

    Maybe this isn't the best way to get flint, but I feel it is a good use of gravel that results in flint.

    Build something underwater--a house, a glass dome, anything, and use gravel to flush it out. Clearing the gravel will give you a fair amount of flint and also remove the water from the building. With the new ocean biome, you should also be able to make a much bigger underwater base than before, using much more gravel, making much more flint.

    This gives you a goal other than just getting flint, which at least helps me out in terms of entertainment. Enjoy having an underwater base!

    I usually use sand, but using gravel to double as a flint source as well as clearing the water never occurred to me.

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  • #19 Sep 27, 2011

    Okay, so when your getting gravel you can get flint, so I figured you could just reuse the gravel to get flint, so stack yourself as high as you can with the gravel and dig down and repeat until you have all flint and no gravel, I don't know if this is old or not but I thought it might be worth posting

    Regardless that this isn't new info, the bit that someone should have mentioned by now is that there is no need to conserve the stuff. If you are actively mining, you will have gravel coming out of your ears in no time. I use it to fill in lava pools and bedrock or I use it for beacon towers (ie, it is junk, I am actively getting rid of.) In the incredibly unlikely event you were to run out, there is tons of the stuff in the Nether.

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