I am sure this has been asked 100 times, but I am really curious. One way I found really effective is to breed chickens. They require pumpkin seeds to breed which are very easy to obtain.
But I see a lot of people doing monster experience farms and I just did one myself and really don't see it being that fast, but then I may have done it wrong/messed up on it.
Is there a confirmed/general accepted way in the community to gain experience of the fastest way?
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I have an Enderman farm in the End. I get from level 0 to level 30 in a hair over a minute. My best time that I actually recorded was 63 seconds.
You will never get that efficient with breeding or smelting or anything else.
Monster farms are the most efficient method of gaining exp when done right. I would advise you to look on youtube for mob farms, spawner farms and enderman farms. You will be shocked at how easy thye are to make when you know how.
And pumpkin seeds do work, and they are much easier to obtain than wheat seeds. Also while holding pumpkins seeds chickens do not follow you around which I feel was also less annoying.
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How are pumpkin seeds easier to obtain than wheat? You cut down tall grass which is everywhere, and build a wheat farm. You have to be lucky and find pumpkins to get their seeds.
Any kind of seeds will work for breeding chickens. Regular (wheat) seeds, pumpkin seeds, or melon seeds. They do only seem to follow you while holding the wheat seeds, though, which I did not know. Thanks kramman, for that bit.
I am pretty sure mine was made wrong, but I see so many videos on it I have no idea which to do. The one I originally made was 21 blocks high and 20x20 in length/width. I am playing FTB so I even tried to encompass a pigmam spawner into it.
It's also at the top of a mountain and dug down where I kill kill at the bottom rather than it being free floating in the air, but I do not know if this matters.
As well I have seen that people only make their canal one block wide and set up half stones in the mob grinder to prevent spawning spiders and having them clog it up.
I feel like I do not know the proper way to make it, so can someone link me a video of a guide with a mob grinder that they are using with success please?
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I find it easy to tame about 5-10 wolves. Then build an army of snow golems. When night falls, the most epic battle of all time begins....and so does the xp fest.
But I see a lot of people doing monster experience farms and I just did one myself and really don't see it being that fast, but then I may have done it wrong/messed up on it.
Using a well designed mob spawner XP farm (Zombie or Skeleton) you should be able to get to level 30 in around 20 minutes.
Using a well designed mob spawner XP farm (Zombie or Skeleton) you should be able to get to level 30 in around 20 minutes.
You CAN get 30 faster than that if you light up every cave in the area of 144 (or is it 128, I always forget that, I just go 144 always for soem reason). That way it concentrates the spawns to only happen in the spawner. Helps if you make the trap in the sky or in the ocean. However you will be still looking at 10 mins tops for level 30 using this method, which takes MUCH longer to set up than a basic enderman farm.
Lighting up all those caves and above ground places takes a long time I found when I did it in an old world. However an enderman farm needs you to do soem tricky construction and you will more than likely die several times making it. I suggest a pumpkin as a helmet to minimize accidental agro and death by enderman.
On my first world I made a skeleton dungeon exp farm using pistons. True, its't not half as efficient as an enderman farm, but it gives you a quick and unlimited source of arrows and bonemeal. You no longer have to think about conserving arrows while hunting if you have a double chest full of them.
You CAN get 30 faster than that if you light up every cave in the area of 144 (or is it 128, I always forget that, I just go 144 always for soem reason). That way it concentrates the spawns to only happen in the spawner.
Mob spawners ignore the mob limits assuming you don't have unlit caves within the 17x17x9 area centred around the spawner. You don't gain anything by lighting nearby caves.
I think like some of the top comments were up there ^ the best way that i have found is to create an enderman farm. If you dont have access to the end right now, make a man-made mob grinder, which you can find very effectively on youtube.
Having an enderman farm is the most efficient xp grinder in minecraft, And the best part is, you don't even need a spawner.
It can take a lot of recourses though, to be honest, I prefer skeleton xp grinders.
But I see a lot of people doing monster experience farms and I just did one myself and really don't see it being that fast, but then I may have done it wrong/messed up on it.
Is there a confirmed/general accepted way in the community to gain experience of the fastest way?
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You will never get that efficient with breeding or smelting or anything else.
Monster farms are the most efficient method of gaining exp when done right. I would advise you to look on youtube for mob farms, spawner farms and enderman farms. You will be shocked at how easy thye are to make when you know how.
And pumpkin seeds do work, and they are much easier to obtain than wheat seeds. Also while holding pumpkins seeds chickens do not follow you around which I feel was also less annoying.
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Best renewable source could be an Enderman farm.
It's also at the top of a mountain and dug down where I kill kill at the bottom rather than it being free floating in the air, but I do not know if this matters.
As well I have seen that people only make their canal one block wide and set up half stones in the mob grinder to prevent spawning spiders and having them clog it up.
I feel like I do not know the proper way to make it, so can someone link me a video of a guide with a mob grinder that they are using with success please?
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Using a well designed mob spawner XP farm (Zombie or Skeleton) you should be able to get to level 30 in around 20 minutes.
You CAN get 30 faster than that if you light up every cave in the area of 144 (or is it 128, I always forget that, I just go 144 always for soem reason). That way it concentrates the spawns to only happen in the spawner. Helps if you make the trap in the sky or in the ocean. However you will be still looking at 10 mins tops for level 30 using this method, which takes MUCH longer to set up than a basic enderman farm.
Lighting up all those caves and above ground places takes a long time I found when I did it in an old world. However an enderman farm needs you to do soem tricky construction and you will more than likely die several times making it. I suggest a pumpkin as a helmet to minimize accidental agro and death by enderman.
He's talking about a dungeon spawner, not a darkroom trap.
Village Mechanics: A not-so-brief guide - Update 2017! Now with 1.8 breeding mechanics! Long-overdue trading info, coming soon!
You think magic isn't real? Consider this: for every person, there is a sentence -- a series of words -- which has the power to destroy them.
Mob spawners ignore the mob limits assuming you don't have unlit caves within the 17x17x9 area centred around the spawner. You don't gain anything by lighting nearby caves.
It can take a lot of recourses though, to be honest, I prefer skeleton xp grinders.
but its not as fast as an enderman xo farm