Good source of gunpowder?

[teag2]

Hello, I recently got a Modern Weapons Box and made a gun, but the ammo requires Gunpowder. I know you can mine Sulfur and make gunpowder with that, but is it possible to get another, easier source? (other then creepers)

[BuildingRockets]

You could make a mob farm, which will produce gunpowder from creepers but without the hassle of trying to kill them. Most of 'em are (semi-)automatic too :-)

 

Here's a handy list: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials/Mob_farm

[AcesOyster]

If you were going to mob farm with MFR, you have access to a Grinder machine. Produces rare drops without any player interaction.

[Brandic]

I had a setup where i would grind infinite cobble from the Ignious Extruder into sand, auto craft the sand into sandstone. Then I would have that get ground for the niter.

I had a similar setup for grinding netherack for sulfur, but that was the more manual side as I had to actually go out and get that. As for the coal, I power my stuff off an auto treefarm + steam dynamos running on charcoal so that was no biggy.

 

Now that I have hit more end game, I found it far easier to shoot a wither in the head with an M60, make a portaspawner, goto the moon, and steal the evolved creeper spawners (Though be careful there's some glitch going on where they will say they are one type of spawner and look like that spawner type, but they will spawn a different type of mob and when picked up the spawner will change types to the mobs it was spawning. So to be safe find one that is actually spawning creepers.)

Edited February 21, 2014 by Brandic

[AcesOyster]

If you have a reliable source of mob essence, MFR autospawners can be very efficient for getting a particular common drop. I currently have one which alternates between being a wither skellie spawner and a blaze spawner.