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Using a shovel to obtain lots of sand (like for TNT) ruins the landscape, so it would be really, really nice to be able to get it by the good old generator. Using Google for queries like "Minecraft Sand Generator 1.7.10" only points me to some threads in which the OP asks for one, but gets nothing.
If that's important, I need it to create a lot of TNT for stuff like TNT cannons and sometimes glass for construction purposes.
Were there any unfixed designs left in the version 1.7.10?
If not, what was the last version to have a working sand generator?
Best Answer
TL;DR: "Cheat" in some Sand
I spent the last few days rethinking my reasons to need a sand generator, which were:
At some moment I had a thought in my head: "Why don't I just use a command to give myself a needed amount of Sand?".
In original vanilla Minecraft, the problem with acquiring large amounts of Sand is not that it takes time, like with Diamonds (if not concerned about destroying terrain and armed with a Diamond Shovel, one can dig large stacks of Sand very quickly), and not the difficulty, like with the Nether Star. It's about terrain preservation.
So, my solution was to use something to give players large amounts of Sand for nothing:
While it might be cool to find a glitch that could solve the problem and build a fancy redstone scheme, I don't see any real problems rising from Sand, an already common resource, becoming more easily available. Actually, pretty much the same could go for other common and easy to obtain resources like wood (as not all the players replant their chopped down trees).