So I made a sand generator, the same design as video linked below, and my friend told me it was just another form of duplicating, but it isn't exploiting a glitch to copy an item really is it? I'm just not sure so I wanted to see what everyone thought because I want my world to be 100% legitimate. Thanks for any helpful replies.
So I made a sand generator, the same design as video linked below, and my friend told me it was just another form of duplicating, but it isn't exploiting a glitch to copy an item really is it? I'm just not sure so I wanted to see what everyone thought because I want my world to be 100% legitimate. Thanks for any helpful replies.
Ok well a sand generator sounds really cool but it really would just be another way to duplicate items.
I would use the generator to make tons of windows for my buildings though
but it isn't exploiting a glitch to copy an item really is it?
Hmm. It's using a glitch to copy sand.
Did you really have to ask people? If you wanted your world to be 100% legitimate, then obviously using a glitch to copy sand wouldn't be considered very legitimate.
Did you really have to ask people? If you wanted your world to be 100% legitimate, then obviously using a glitch to copy sand wouldn't be considered very legitimate.
Would you consider obsidian generators that use redstone as a dupe/glitch as well? Just curious.
Would you consider obsidian generators that use redstone as a dupe/glitch as well? Just curious.
A glitch, by definition, is something that wound up in the game that the programmers of the game did not intend to put there. It seems to me the physics of both obsidian being made by a water over lava and the ability to use redstone circuitry to automate processes have both be added into the game intentionally by the programmers; so an obsidian generator would be merely an application of the game's principles and not an exploitation of a glitch.
ETA: However, looking at the vids, I'm inclined to maybe rethink it and classify it potentially as a glitch (depending on the intent of the programmers and what they say about it). The vids I watched, show the process returning 4 or more obsidian blocks for 1 flowing lava source block and 4 or more redstone dust.. Pouring water next to 1 flowing lava block normally returns 1 cobblestone. and pouring it next to 1 stagnant lava block returns 1 obsidian. So, the process does seem to defy the game's physics. If it was not intentionally programmed that way, then it might be considered a "dupe glitch." That said, some glitches are not patched, but instead adopted into the game. The creeper is stated to have started out as a bug in the game. The process as shown in the vids does seem rather labor intensive, since you still have to mine away the obsidian blocks. One can just pour up to 7 buckets of lava into a 1 deep trough (so that the lava is stagnant) and then pour water next to the trough so it flows over the lava and then mine the resulting obsidian in much the same way.
Ok well a sand generator sounds really cool but it really would just be another way to duplicate items.
I would use the generator to make tons of windows for my buildings though
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Retired StaffDid you really have to ask people? If you wanted your world to be 100% legitimate, then obviously using a glitch to copy sand wouldn't be considered very legitimate.
Would you consider obsidian generators that use redstone as a dupe/glitch as well? Just curious.
A glitch, by definition, is something that wound up in the game that the programmers of the game did not intend to put there. It seems to me the physics of both obsidian being made by a water over lava and the ability to use redstone circuitry to automate processes have both be added into the game intentionally by the programmers; so an obsidian generator would be merely an application of the game's principles and not an exploitation of a glitch.
ETA: However, looking at the vids, I'm inclined to maybe rethink it and classify it potentially as a glitch (depending on the intent of the programmers and what they say about it). The vids I watched, show the process returning 4 or more obsidian blocks for 1 flowing lava source block and 4 or more redstone dust.. Pouring water next to 1 flowing lava block normally returns 1 cobblestone. and pouring it next to 1 stagnant lava block returns 1 obsidian. So, the process does seem to defy the game's physics. If it was not intentionally programmed that way, then it might be considered a "dupe glitch." That said, some glitches are not patched, but instead adopted into the game. The creeper is stated to have started out as a bug in the game. The process as shown in the vids does seem rather labor intensive, since you still have to mine away the obsidian blocks. One can just pour up to 7 buckets of lava into a 1 deep trough (so that the lava is stagnant) and then pour water next to the trough so it flows over the lava and then mine the resulting obsidian in much the same way.