The Sand Slave Guide
TNT duping is legal here, and sand is the fuel. How to set up an automated sand farm to feed your cannons.
A "sand slave" is the community nickname for an automated rig that mass-produces sand (and gravel) to feed TNT and cannon builds. Since TNT duplication is allowed on RefinedVanilla, a good sand supply is the bottleneck between you and an endless explosives stockpile.
/Why sand matters here
TNT is sand plus gunpowder. Dupe the TNT and you remove gunpowder from the equation - but you still burn through sand to bootstrap the loop. A steady sand source turns a finite cannon into a self-sustaining one.
/Building blocks of a sand slave
- A falling-block generator that drops sand onto a breaking layer.
- Pistons and observers timed to break the sand into items each cycle.
- Hopper minecarts or water streams to collect and funnel the drops.
- Bulk storage feeding directly into your TNT crafting or dupe array.
/Run it without lagging the server
Even on Ruthenium, thousands of unmanaged falling entities add up. Keep your collection tight, batch your cycles, and switch the rig off when you're not stocking. High-yield is welcome; lag machines are not.