The impact printer was Chibi's first attempt to create an academic publishing house on the server. It was theorized that by dropping squid onto a pixel grid, in a controlled fashion, it would be possible to create an impact printer in Minecraft. The problems with this approach are twofold:

1. Due to the extreme demand for paper products in nearby Aransas, there isn't enough paper in the world to sustain a press this size.
2. Squid are feisty, free-spirited creatures which refuse to fall to their certain demise in a controlled fashion.

Nonetheless, a set of drains and pipes collect the remains of the squid, processing them into ink which can be obtained by the barrel.

Head on over to the Scrapped Metal iron farm. In the iron farm's collection room, where you stand to get the iron, you'll find a staircase which leads down. Take the staircase to get to the squid farm's collection room. Ink sac accumulate automatically in a chest. Take as much as you want.

The squid won't spawn when you're down in the collection room, however: that is too close. In order for the farm to work, you need to stand upstairs, in the iron farm's collection room. You might as well pick up some iron while you're at it. The throughput of the squid farm is dictated mostly by the number of other players on the server and whether or not they have beach-front property. Other players who are near lakes and/or oceans will cause squid to spawn elsewhere, decreasing the throughput of the farm.

The squid farm was constructed by Chibi using the same basic design that was published by Maiq.