I'm building a reailroad in SMP in the Nether but I don't want to have a 1 wide tunnel, so I made a 2-3 wide tunnel for it. The problem is: I've lighted up everywhere and the bastards pigmen won't stop spawning! The spawn everywhere, even inside my house. At home I don't mind then, but it's really anoying when they get in front of my minecart an stopping it.
There's anyway to stop this other than placing half slabs or some other block which they can't spawn into?
Other than halfslabs, the only way to make the piggies stop spawning is turning to peaceful, as I recall.
You could use glass, leaves or another transparent block over your railroad so nothing can get into the way, though. You don't take suffocation damage from transparent blocks. Also, it doesn't impede your movement in the cart.
Are you ok with being unable to walk in the rail area? You can make a 3 wide, 2 tall train tunnel with upside-down half-slabs and stairs on the ceiling so the pigmen won't have space to spawn there and it still looks nice.Only problem is at the very end where you have to be able to get in/out you'll have to be creative about it so they don't get you stuck at the exit of your tunnel.
I don't think there is another way other than turning game mode on peaceful.
I'm afraid I can't do that on a survival server. Just had a crazy idea: put automatic dispensers with lots of pressure plates and arrows. That will work
Yeah, half slab it. One cool design I saw is 3 wide, 3 high. The track is in the middle and has iron bars on top of it, so you can't walk on the track, but both sides of it are half-slabbed so you can walk. Probably the best solution.
If I recall correctly,the more space you have outside your track the less pigmen your going to get. Its pretty much impossible to prevent the spawning all together.
my tunnel is 1 wide two tall, i didn't use half slabs because i thought you couldn't put rails on top of them.. now i feel stupid because i have to redo everything, and still on the other rail that i have it's quite open so they'll probably just walk on the rails anyways... mojang should really do something to prevent any kind of mob stepping and spawning on rails.. it's quite annoying going halfway and then suddenly you're pushed back because of a stupid hen o a pigman .... I don't like provoking pigmen so it's also hard to get them out the tunnel and off the rails without hitting them....
my tunnel is 1 wide two tall, i didn't use half slabs because i thought you couldn't put rails on top of them.. now i feel stupid because i have to redo everything, and still on the other rail that i have it's quite open so they'll probably just walk on the rails anyways... mojang should really do something to prevent any kind of mob stepping and spawning on rails.. it's quite annoying going halfway and then suddenly you're pushed back because of a stupid hen o a pigman .... I don't like provoking pigmen so it's also hard to get them out the tunnel and off the rails without hitting them....
You can't put rails on half slabs...What you have to do is place glass panes over the track to remove all room for spawning, because when you ride the minecart glass panes won't suffocate you.
There's anyway to stop this other than placing half slabs or some other block which they can't spawn into?
You could use glass, leaves or another transparent block over your railroad so nothing can get into the way, though. You don't take suffocation damage from transparent blocks. Also, it doesn't impede your movement in the cart.
Nope. (These are more words, so I can't get infracted for "spamming" the forum with one-word posts.)
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Nah, only the upside down ones. Good ol' fashioned regular half slabs are still safe.
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I think I'll just put half slabs, try to make it look like a subway or something. Just to confirm, they can't spawn on the actual tracks, right?
Yeah, they can. Which is one of the major problems about nether rails.
I'm afraid I can't do that on a survival server. Just had a crazy idea: put automatic dispensers with lots of pressure plates and arrows. That will work
You can't put rails on half slabs...What you have to do is place glass panes over the track to remove all room for spawning, because when you ride the minecart glass panes won't suffocate you.