Wow. Just found this video on how to get music disk in survival mode. I have had such a struggle getting disk trying to get creepers to chase me then running by skeletons. The vast majority of the time it fails. Has anyone had success with a different system?
Yup, Make a Gravity Grinder enough for a 1 hit kill.. then 2 tall glass wall. Then when there are creepers and skeletons in run around the glass and jump so that the skeleton shoots you , hits the creeper and BAM. Dude before I came up with that, I couldn't get a single one.. Now I have hundreds of those things.. I actually burnt most up in lava, since they don't stack they take too much space.
using a water elevator to draw them up to the surface where they then get stuck in a room that has a 1 block window. outside the window, there is a trap mechanism... basically just a pressure plate, one side has the window to where the skeletons spawn, opposite to that is a little cubby for you to stand in to draw fire from the skeletons, so they shoot over the pressure plate.
the other two sides of the pressure plate have 2 high openings and sticky pistons that extend upwards when the pressure plate is triggered, trapping whatever steps on the plate.
so the objective is to draw the skeletons up to the 'firing room', then have a creeper chase you through the trap... creeper gets stuck on the pressure plate, then you go to the cubby, draw fire from the skeleton, which kills the creeper.
the other method uses the mob spawning tower design (http://redd.it/17shxp)... so basically zombies, creepers and skeletons spawn in, get channeled to a water elevator which then drops them far enough to bring their health down to a 1 hit kill. since creepers rush you and skeletons stay back, it is only a matter of time before a skeleton kills a creeper, yielding a music disc...
lots of good ideas. now that it has been explained to me it seems obvious and i wonder why i didn't think of some contraption. when i saw the video this morning i thought i had really come across something special. thanks for the additional trap plans i'll be putting them to use.
Well I've always done the one where you dig three holes and put a skellie in one, creeper in one and yourseld in one... I've never had the arrow shooting you "problem" that the guy was talking about though...
Dig a hole, place a fence, dig another hole, and place another fence, then dig an area for yourself to stand back a few blocks. Drop a skeleton in the first hole and a creeper in the second then stand in the last hole yourself. Did this for quite a few discs on my old world.
So It'll basically be an XP/drop/disc farm.
one uses a skeleton spawner...
using a water elevator to draw them up to the surface where they then get stuck in a room that has a 1 block window. outside the window, there is a trap mechanism... basically just a pressure plate, one side has the window to where the skeletons spawn, opposite to that is a little cubby for you to stand in to draw fire from the skeletons, so they shoot over the pressure plate.
the other two sides of the pressure plate have 2 high openings and sticky pistons that extend upwards when the pressure plate is triggered, trapping whatever steps on the plate.
so the objective is to draw the skeletons up to the 'firing room', then have a creeper chase you through the trap... creeper gets stuck on the pressure plate, then you go to the cubby, draw fire from the skeleton, which kills the creeper.
the other method uses the mob spawning tower design (http://redd.it/17shxp)... so basically zombies, creepers and skeletons spawn in, get channeled to a water elevator which then drops them far enough to bring their health down to a 1 hit kill. since creepers rush you and skeletons stay back, it is only a matter of time before a skeleton kills a creeper, yielding a music disc...
Maybe I'll try that out though. Cool
Skeleton spawner room - 1x8 room - your room.
A large area above all this where mobs spawn in darkness, they fall into the 1x8 room. They are stuck there. You stay in your room.
The skeletons try to shoot you, but you position yourself so that they hit the creepers.
Make a piston system that will flush out the items in the 1x8 hallway so you never have to go in there.
Sounds intriguing. Do you have any pics?