The block generator

Fishing gives you the rare stuff, the generator gives you the volume. The two go together.

How it works

When water and lava meet, a block appears. You mine it, it forms again, endlessly.

The server swaps that block for something else now and then: coal, iron, and better and better as your raft levels up.

The tier follows your raft's level

Your generator has a tier, from 1 to 25. It goes up with every raft level at first, then every other level, then every third one. Tier 25, the last one, is reached at raft level 46. /radeau generator shows the current tier and what it produces.

What shows up, and when

Tiers 1 to 8: stone, coal and a little iron.
Tier 9, at level 11: copper arrives.
Tier 10, at level 13: gold arrives.
Tier 12, at level 17: redstone.
Tier 13, at level 19: lapis.
Tier 14, at level 21: diamond.
Tier 19, at level 36: emerald.
Tier 20, at level 39: ancient debris, enough to make netherite.
Tier 25, at level 46: the maximum.

The quantities go up too. A few real markers: at tier 1, you mostly pull out stone, with 1.25% coal and 0.25% iron. At tier 14, diamond shows up at 0.125%. At tier 25, it climbs to 0.5%, and ancient debris to 0.11%.

What it is worth, block by block

On average, sold back at the shop, a block out of your generator is worth:

Tier 1: 1.47 $
Tier 10: 2.05 $
Tier 14: 2.53 $
Tier 20: 4.00 $
Tier 25: 5.50 $

Count one block mined per second, so 3,600 blocks an hour: that comes to about 5,300 $ an hour at tier 1, and close to 20,000 $ at tier 25.

That is why the generator beats fishing in dollars, and by a mile: fishing tops out around 1,100 $ an hour early on. The generator only depends on how fast you mine.

Getting your lava back

It is the classic accident: water touches your lava, and it turns into obsidian. It is not lost. Take an empty bucket and right click the obsidian: the lava comes back into it.

It works on your raft, in your Nether and in your End.

Where to buy water and lava

At the /shop, Utilities aisle.

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