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For the love of God, make them stop!

I have built a home in the farthest corner of my map, a vacation home if you will. Made of wood and glass, with a brick chimney and netherrack fireplace (build correctly to avoid unwanted fire spread). I have done just about everything I can to mob proof this house, yet Zombies (and once, a skeleton) are spawning every single time I try to go to sleep.

I have made sure of the following:

• There are no gaps. Every surface has contiguous coverage. Originally I was leaving it open air, with fences to keep from wandering off the second and third floors, but I closed everything off with glass in my attempts to zombie proof my house.
• It is well lit. I made my ceiling out of wooden steps, and have inserted rafters across the ceiling to ensure that the space in the upper most areas is well lit. The first floor is lit with Jack o lanterns and several torches as well as the netherrack fireplace. The second floor has many torches and a fireplace. The third floor has over two dozen torches and a fireplace. Even the chimney space is filled with torches and capped off with glass!
• It is far above any possible spawner. It is on posts three blocks high, and I dug a five block pit beneath the house with a lava gate to burn the bastards that kept ambushing me from underneath every morning.
• My bed is a single bed placed away from any walls or other blocks, in the middle of the well-lit sleeping area (torches everywhere)

So, I guess the only question I have left to ask are;

• Does Netherrack somehow help zombies spawn? (I have tried removing it, but no luck, they still come)
• How can Zombies spawn inside a sealed location with that much artificial light?
• I have ONE spot that is the control to the lava gate that is capped with a half slab of wood to preserve the redstone circuit. Is THAT an opening a creature can spawn through?
• Are there any blocks that are "transparent" in terms of zombie spawning (i.e., zombies could still spawn in a house made of sand, etc.?

While building this haunted house, I had a small, 3x3 space enclosed entirely with glass and a wooden door with a single torch on the floor, and I never once missed sleep.

It's getting very frustrating that I have spent this much time on this place and now can't ever sleep because of the constant zombie attacks.

I have no access to getting my video up on you tube, but if anyone wants to come into my game and inspect the house for me, and find out where I am going wrong, I'll accept a friend request and invite you in. (I'll even come to your world and mine for an hour or gather wood as payment, LOL)

Sleepless in Paradise,
Kenn

Just move your bed to the second floor usually works for me :f

cover ur bed with dirt [temporarly] so only 2 wholes to wake up on. make sure to enclose a roof to

Just so you know, you can use foul language, like ********, as long as it's not directed towards another member.

Bed is in middle of room. Bedroom is on third floor. Not anxious to build what amounts to a coffin around my bed. There are double doors into the house. Will try taking those out.

do you have a double door by any chance

Seems to have done the trick... so far. Not happy, I like the look of double doors. But grateful to have gotten some sleep. Thanks gang!

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Just so you know, you can use foul language, like ********, as long as it's not directed towards another member.

Did not know that, didn't want to take a chance. Good to know, though I don't plan on throwing too many curses around (except at Zombies, because **** them).

You can try lighting up the area around your house and try to put up the double doors

I had a similar problem. I fixed it by adding more torches, and made a room in my house sealed off from the house with a door (and glass) that I slept in.

The double doors are the issue. I had the same problem, and threw a fence post in front of the doors to preserve the design, and added a single door that wasn't in the way of anything to go in and out of. Once the fence posts were in place, I could sleep like a baby with no zombies or skeletons bothering me.

You're other option is just to switch to single doors until they fix this little problem.

Is the chimney open?

This topic has found a way to secure a bed for a house, without having to get rid of your double-doors.