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So I finally got Minecraft xbox edition. Something that is paramount to me in every minecraft world is a proper Mob Grinder. So I am planning on doing a 50x50 underground dark room with water streams guiding the mobs to the grinder in the middle. I can handle everything, its just the actual killer that I have questions on.

I am either going to do a pure lava blade grinder, or a lava blade and drowning thing combination. I am worried about losing drops in the lava.

Pure lava blade:








Would this work or would the loot get burned up?

Lava blade and drowning combination:

(view from above)





(The lava would handle spiders cause you cant really drown them)


(Drowning
Drop Here) (The drowning handles everything else that is shaped normally)


So I know that the drowning would successfully kill and loot the 2x1 mobs, but would the lava handle the spiders?

Thanks!

Use the first method you described, however, make sure there is a row of blocks directly above the edge of your lava blade to stop any mob swimming up through the blade (items drop from the legs), and make the blade three blocks wide but leave the middle clear, so there is only lava hanging over 2 of the 3 blocks (this will save about 80% of spider drops). When you have a spider getting burnt by more than 1 block wide of lava, most of the time you will lose the drop.

I made an above ground mob trap that kills them from fall damage and then ones that happen to survive get killed by lava blades and I have a double chest full of every drop after about 4 days. But if you're going to do it underground I would have to say Crafts is the best advice for that.

Thanks guys yeah I will use the first method. I have used the second method before, but I want to gain resources by building the spawn room, not use them. Thanks!

Quote from Craftinforkicks

Use the first method you described, however, make sure there is a row of blocks directly above the edge of your lava blade to stop any mob swimming up through the blade (items drop from the legs), and make the blade three blocks wide but leave the middle clear, so there is only lava hanging over 2 of the 3 blocks (this will save about 80% of spider drops). When you have a spider getting burnt by more than 1 block wide of lava, most of the time you will lose the drop.

Hmm. This could still work if the blade was bigger, right? My blade is 6 blocks long. I would like to try this to increase the output of items my grinder produces.