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A Generator is a contraption with the specific function to provide the player with an endless supply of certain resources. As for 1.1, only liquids and few items can be produced by them.

Liquid generator

Materials needed:

• A pair of Pumps
• A Timer
• A Bucket
• Wire

The Liquid Generator exploits a minor glitch that causes the outlet Pumps to create more liquid than the matching inlet Pump removes, therefore increasing the amount of liquid.

Create a container, place the Inlet pump in it and fill it up with the desired liquid until the pump is fully submerged.Then, set up an Outlet pump so that the outgoing liquid falls into the container.Link the pumps to a timer and activate it, and the liquid will eventually fill it up.Take care not to leave it on too much, or you'll risk spilling liquids (especially lava):you can box the generator in to avoid such an occurrence.

The type of timer used determines the speed at which the liquid will be produced.

Obsidian Generator

The Obsidian Generator is meant to produce large quantities of Obsidian for building, storing, or sale (via the production of Obsidian Skulls).

Start by constructing a Water and a Lava generator next to each other.Be sure to close them properly to avoid any accidental spilling.

Then, make a two small "pipes" that link the vats to each other, but make sure the one from the water vat is one block below the one from the lava vat: this way the water, which flows slightly faster than lava, will keep flowing into the same tile every time the block of obsidian is removed.

For an added safety measure, make sure the walls and pipes are made of Wood or Glass, which are not breakable with a pick or drill and as such can't be accidentally broken while using the generator.

To farm obsidian from the generator, simply stand under the connection between pipes like the picture on the right, select a pick/drill and hold your mouse on the block:the obsidian will be dropped and placed in your inventory.

Loot Generator

The loot Generator is used to repeatedly spawn and kill monsters from Statues in order to produce various items, which can be sold or used for crafting.

Setting them up is rather simple:wire one or more statues to a timer, set up a simple trap beneath them (a thin layer of Lava to kill the monsters but leave the loot unharmed is ideal, although a volley of Dart Traps may also be used) and activate it. Monsters will spawn from the statues and die, leaving their loot. Because Goldfish and Hooks sell for 2 silver each,

a Loot generator can make a rather large revenue, depending on the number of statues and type of timer used.A 5-second timer wired to a single Goldfish statue, for example, can produce about 40 Silver per minute.

Obtainable Loot

Type of statue	Items
Slime Statue	Gel
Piranha Statue	Hooks and Robot Hat
Skeleton Statue	Hooks
Goldfish Statue	Goldfish
Jellyfish Statue	Glowsticks
Bunny Statue*	Coins and Bunny Hood
Goldfish Statue*	Coins
Bomb Statue**	Bombs
King Statue***	Red Hat

-* Only during a Blood Moon or inside Corruption

-** Bomb statues will drop them directly as an item. No more than 3 can be spawned at once on the screen.

-*** Only if the Clothier is present and can respawn: this is however inadvisable as it is slow and will kill all other male NPCs as well.

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