So I created a new world after the most recent update, I made a very resource and time consuming blaze xp farm. Later as I was looking for whither, i destroyed a different blaze spawner because the blaze outside are a nuisance. I return to my blaze xp farm only to find it is no longer spawning any blaze... I dont know what the problem is, should I strip it down and reset the nether? I would hate to do all that just to have to dig it out, and rebuild from scratch all over again... Any help would be appreciated... And i mean this thing doesn't spawn a single thing.
Sorry to tell you but I don't think resetting will help. I did that with a previous world and it removed both spawners. Created another world with a dual blaze spawner set-up and found that blaze weren't spawning....or when they did it was only in a small trickle. Not sure but I've a hunch it's got to do with the mob cap. With so many skeletons and random blaze floating about I think the blaze spawners can't function like they used too. It's a shame....I used to make blaze xp farms all the time to enchant stuff quickly....now I'm forced to do it the vanilla way with a double overworld dungeon. Plus side is I've got tons of bones, arrows, spuds and flesh....but I'd swap it for glowstone dust and blaze rods any day.
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So maybe I need to flood the nether with lava again.... Did that a long time ago to make a pigman/gold farm.... Lol
But my concern is that it was fine after the update, I was getting alot of blaze, but when I destroyed the other blaze spawner mine stopped spawning entirely...
So maybe I need to flood the nether with lava again.... Did that a long time ago to make a pigman/gold farm.... Lol
But my concern is that it was fine after the update, I was getting alot of blaze, but when I destroyed the other blaze spawner mine stopped spawning entirely...
Sure got me beat. Could just be (another) bug. hmmmm....gold farm sounds interesting. Made 2 iron farms in the world I'm in now but im a bit gold poor. wonder if they still work?
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Since update tu14 I think, pigman now spawn at nether portals, so my new gold farm is a bunch of nether portals over water that channels them to an elevator which drops them to one HP
Since update tu14 I think, pigman now spawn at nether portals, so my new gold farm is a bunch of nether portals over water that channels them to an elevator which drops them to one HP
How far apart are you setting your portals in the overworld (or nether)? I know if you build them too close they tend to "merge". Last time I tried a made a bunch of portals in the nether but they must've been too close as no matter which one I went into it always sent me back through the one overworld portal. Made for a pretty useless failed first attempt at a gold farm. Got the iron farms perfected though. 96 blocks of iron and climbing.....great for when you wanna go AFK.
Did see a YouTube video where someone used an ender pearl to "bust through" the bedrock ceiling in the nether. he made an awesome xp/gold farm as nothing other than pigmen would spawn. The trick still works but when I experimented in creative nothing at all spawned in the void (and once your there you're sorta trapped) so yet to make an efficent gold farm in survival.
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Make the portals in the overworld, pigmen spawn in the portals, use ladders or trap doors so the pigmen fall from the portal into a water flow that pushes them to an elevator which drops them to one HP
Make the portals in the overworld, pigmen spawn in the portals, use ladders or trap doors so the pigmen fall from the portal into a water flow that pushes them to an elevator which drops them to one HP
Stick a bunch of trapdoors on the bottom 2 blocks of the portal on either side? And are your portals built on land or free floating? Sorry.....so many questions but a gold farm does interest me.
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Its in the air, may want to use vines and buttons to stop the vines below the trapdoor to reset the fall incase you use two or more layers of portals... Beneath is a one block space, then one block deep waterflow
You will need a looting sword to make this profitable, i will usually use controller 2 to log a second instance of myself that waits and let's them collect while controller 1 actually does whatever it is I do
Hi, i found one blaze spawner in nether, spawning ok in survival mode. From the update TU19 spawner started to fail. Anyway, i made a blaze farm with that failing spawner thinking that maybe one day it will restart spawning. That did not happen but to get my farm running i found one solution: deactivate localhost option "generate mobs", the mobs desappear but the spawn starts to run and i can farm for xp!!! Sorry my english, i dont know very well. Maybe late but hope this is useful for you.
Edit: Sorry im using xbox360
Ok...I'll check that fix out and hope it works on PS3. Got my wither skulls anyway so don't really need mobs in the nether at the moment. Nice work....kicking myself for not thinking of it myself earlier.
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About the blaze farm... I, too, did this. I built around one of the spawners to make a blaze farm which worked perfectly. Then I was wandering around and found another one and I destroyed it. Then my other spawner never spawned another blaze again. Luckily I had just saved before destroying the other one so I just exited without saving and reloaded and my farm worked again. I've reset my nether a bunch of times, for the wither skeletons, because I found that once I killed them all they (wither skeletons) never spawned again EVER until I reset it. I do, however, need to build another blaze farm, just for fun. =)
EDIT: I havent updated to 1.13 yet so I dont know what kind of bugs and issues the nether has now with that update.
I think they fixed the wither skeletons not spawning bug with the last update.....but blaze farms are acting irregular. I'd do everything you need to do with your working blaze farms while you can as there is a distinct possibility they might not work once you update your system. I've had 2 seperate issues....once both blaze spawners completely disappeared- not sure why. Secondly, as I said earlier, the new world I'm in (post update) has a dual blaze spawner but they're only popping out a blaze or two very randomly. Not even worth building a xp farm around them.
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Its in the air, may want to use vines and buttons to stop the vines below the trapdoor to reset the fall incase you use two or more layers of portals... Beneath is a one block space, then one block deep waterflow
You will need a looting sword to make this profitable, i will usually use controller 2 to log a second instance of myself that waits and let's them collect while controller 1 actually does whatever it is I do
Just finished my first gold farm in survival. Made a few tweaks to your design though. Made 324 portals (yeah....took some time), dual level - 162 on each. As my iron farms work really well while I'm AFK decided to use an auto piston crusher/hopper set-up to collect loot while I sleep. Going to check it in the morning to see how effective it is but like you said I might just have to modify it and use a looting sword. No issue with pigmen spawning though....had to make a dual crusher just to keep up with the steady flow. But it works well....kills all of them as quickly as they come......no back log waiting for auto death 😖
Out of curiosity how many nuggets are you getting an hour?
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Well the good thing about Blaze farms at the moment, they are easy to build so hopefully the reward will come when someone decides to fix the blaze spawning bug
But my concern is that it was fine after the update, I was getting alot of blaze, but when I destroyed the other blaze spawner mine stopped spawning entirely...
Sure got me beat. Could just be (another) bug. hmmmm....gold farm sounds interesting. Made 2 iron farms in the world I'm in now but im a bit gold poor. wonder if they still work?
How far apart are you setting your portals in the overworld (or nether)? I know if you build them too close they tend to "merge". Last time I tried a made a bunch of portals in the nether but they must've been too close as no matter which one I went into it always sent me back through the one overworld portal. Made for a pretty useless failed first attempt at a gold farm. Got the iron farms perfected though. 96 blocks of iron and climbing.....great for when you wanna go AFK.
Did see a YouTube video where someone used an ender pearl to "bust through" the bedrock ceiling in the nether. he made an awesome xp/gold farm as nothing other than pigmen would spawn. The trick still works but when I experimented in creative nothing at all spawned in the void (and once your there you're sorta trapped) so yet to make an efficent gold farm in survival.
Stick a bunch of trapdoors on the bottom 2 blocks of the portal on either side? And are your portals built on land or free floating? Sorry.....so many questions but a gold farm does interest me.
You will need a looting sword to make this profitable, i will usually use controller 2 to log a second instance of myself that waits and let's them collect while controller 1 actually does whatever it is I do
Ok...I'll check that fix out and hope it works on PS3. Got my wither skulls anyway so don't really need mobs in the nether at the moment. Nice work....kicking myself for not thinking of it myself earlier.
EDIT: I havent updated to 1.13 yet so I dont know what kind of bugs and issues the nether has now with that update.
Just finished my first gold farm in survival. Made a few tweaks to your design though. Made 324 portals (yeah....took some time), dual level - 162 on each. As my iron farms work really well while I'm AFK decided to use an auto piston crusher/hopper set-up to collect loot while I sleep. Going to check it in the morning to see how effective it is but like you said I might just have to modify it and use a looting sword. No issue with pigmen spawning though....had to make a dual crusher just to keep up with the steady flow. But it works well....kills all of them as quickly as they come......no back log waiting for auto death 😖
Out of curiosity how many nuggets are you getting an hour?
yeah i just finished making a blaze farm and it doesn't work it took soo long and i did it for nothing.
Well the good thing about Blaze farms at the moment, they are easy to build so hopefully the reward will come when someone decides to fix the blaze spawning bug