As a backdrop for my enchantment table I made an aquarium. It begins at level 46 and is 6x6x8 with plenty of jack-o-lantern lighting. a glass/open front. The top is sealed with smooth stone and filled it with a bucket of water on every ceiling tile. Does this sound like it will work? Will squid spawn there? It's just for looks. I checked some tutorials and wiki and don't see anything wrong with it but have no squid yet.
I'd take the time to fill your tank with source blocks, or the downward current will simply give you a tentacley pile of squid at the very bottom, it won't look very lively. I don't think they need to spawn in source blocks, though. Just follow the normal spawning rules, stray away from your tank--but not too far away-- and check back periodically.
I'm sorry to tell you but squid will despawn if it ever spawns in your aquarium. But... It could always respawn another one.
i have 'accidentaly' made a squid aquarium in the past with a waterfall off a building. a squid would spawn and stay a while then despawn. But one would eventually spawn again.so i was thinking maybe with the area of water maybe i would get multiple critters spawning and despawning ensuring there was always one or more in the tank.
i have been racking my brains to come up with something more to do with my aquarium. but i think a few squid lit up will look nice.
side note: they have eight legs but are called squid! just like the hybrid chickaduck.
squids really only need like 2x2x2 areas to spawn i think. they spawn in any water source. i had some spawn then got dropped by a waterfall into my massive open structure where they slid around my floor.... but theywill only spawn in the first few layers of the ocean level. so id check to make sure thats where the top of your aquarium is. id also leave one open/air block above your top water level. not sure if it'll help but just seems like they spawn where waters open more.
incidentally i build a deadmua5 head out of a while back before creative....then when creative came out i built a squid dispenser into it... so now deadmoua5 has a squid filled head.
Mine is made of ice, just ice.
In the dispenser I filled it with squid eggs and raw fish, makes my redstone world a little more pretty.
Side note: My squids are beautiful creatures.
They'll simply frozen and with other bodies of water taking up the squid spawning..you will rarely see one in your aquarium
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If so, even the inside of the tank is ice taking advantage of the fact ice works like glass in the fact you can't suffocate in it. If you use the dispenser so that it faces the ice the squid will spawn out of the egg in ice.
Update for everyone. My main base is in a ravine and i have been working on it for hours (4 or 5). The aquarium is in the middle of the ravine so i have been in the vicinity for a while and still no squid soooo... looks like I will be turning the space into a fountain maybe? After having the aquarium there it doesn't feel right to wall it back off. So that's where I'm leaning towards now.
Hey I just had a thought.. If I can get a villager in there and set up some bookshelves and a potion stand and stuff then close it up with glass it will look like he's an alchemist or something. Anyone ever do that?
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In creative mode I have 3 rooms made of glass then I filled each one with water but I put a door on first.The door makes an air poket then I filled it with squids.I tried raw fish but it seems they are dead.The squid room is awsome though you can walk in and watch as they swim around.
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Update for everyone. My main base is in a ravine and i have been working on it for hours (4 or 5). The aquarium is in the middle of the ravine so i have been in the vicinity for a while and still no squid soooo... looks like I will be turning the space into a fountain maybe? After having the aquarium there it doesn't feel right to wall it back off. So that's where I'm leaning towards now.
Hey I just had a thought.. If I can get a villager in there and set up some bookshelves and a potion stand and stuff then close it up with glass it will look like he's an alchemist or something. Anyone ever do that?
that's a cool idea with the villager... i spawned in creative to be spectators in my arena.... itd be tough to trap them though... maybe a minecart could transport them....
try this... fin your village. trap a villager in his house. block the door off or whatever then dig down one then another. at the second level dig a path towards your house and run some track so when he comes out his house he hops down into the mine cart then you push a button and swoosh. hes gone.... might be a little time consuming and resource heave though. maybe you could use water to force him in a certain direction. it'd consume less resources.
update 2: I tried cutting a canal from the top of my aquarium to the bottom of the river 2 spaces wide and 3 high with water flush from the river and gradually dropping into the aquarium. the occasional squid will make it to the canal but won't make it all the way to the acquarium.
I've got a huge aqaurium that is roughly 30x30x20 starts on the level 43 up to level 64. Works like a charm. It has an underwater castle in it, sponge, coral (made from endstone) and treasure chests...
Are you sure you filled it with water sources from the bottom up? You can't fill it top to bottom, has to be bottom to top. Water only makes 1 infinitive layer, so if you fill a deep lake top to bottom you basicly create a top sourced waterfall.
Only two ways to fill them as far as I know:
1. Use a dirt block or netherrack or whatever and fill the water against the sides of it on top of the water layer underneath. Note that you will need 1 water source per block you are going to fill, it's a nightmare job.
2. In creative fill it with a layer of ice, then melt the ice, apply another layer, melt, rinse repeat.
Have a look at youtube for a player named Ethoslab, he has them exactly like that. He uses villagers everywhere.
Sounds like I need to move my house rather than try to fill an aquarium.
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i have 'accidentaly' made a squid aquarium in the past with a waterfall off a building. a squid would spawn and stay a while then despawn. But one would eventually spawn again.so i was thinking maybe with the area of water maybe i would get multiple critters spawning and despawning ensuring there was always one or more in the tank.
i have been racking my brains to come up with something more to do with my aquarium. but i think a few squid lit up will look nice.
side note: they have eight legs but are called squid! just like the hybrid chickaduck.
incidentally i build a deadmua5 head out of a while back before creative....then when creative came out i built a squid dispenser into it... so now deadmoua5 has a squid filled head.
In the dispenser I filled it with squid eggs and raw fish, makes my redstone world a little more pretty.
Side note: My squids are beautiful creatures.
Is this for me?
If so, even the inside of the tank is ice taking advantage of the fact ice works like glass in the fact you can't suffocate in it. If you use the dispenser so that it faces the ice the squid will spawn out of the egg in ice.
Hey I just had a thought.. If I can get a villager in there and set up some bookshelves and a potion stand and stuff then close it up with glass it will look like he's an alchemist or something. Anyone ever do that?
that's a cool idea with the villager... i spawned in creative to be spectators in my arena.... itd be tough to trap them though... maybe a minecart could transport them....
try this... fin your village. trap a villager in his house. block the door off or whatever then dig down one then another. at the second level dig a path towards your house and run some track so when he comes out his house he hops down into the mine cart then you push a button and swoosh. hes gone.... might be a little time consuming and resource heave though. maybe you could use water to force him in a certain direction. it'd consume less resources.
sounds nice.
Sounds like I need to move my house rather than try to fill an aquarium.