I've been trying to think of a way to make animals farmable. It would be very difficult to make cows chickens and pigs not disappear, it would be processor consuming and trying to define parameters for what constitutes a farm would be difficult to code. But what if there were Cow Grass? A special variety of tall grass that caused cow spawn rate to increase by 10% within a 5x5 square around it. If you made a 5x5 square of it the square at the center would have a 250% spawn rate, that and regular torches and fences would make cows easy to find. But the cows would eat the cow grass and produce cow grass seeds so you'd regularly have to pick up the seeds and replant them. It wouldn't be free cows but it'd be more like a wheat farm. There could be pig and chicken farms too.
Looked at a mob grinder on youtube, it takes advantage of an unrealistic mechanism - that is that lava doesn't destroy ladders. You shouldn't have to bend the rules to farm animals. I think my solution would give a more realistic alternative to mob grinders.
Looked at a mob grinder on youtube, it takes advantage of an unrealistic mechanism - that is that lava doesn't destroy ladders. You shouldn't have to bend the rules to farm animals. I think my solution would give a more realistic alternative to mob grinders.
drown them then, or crush them with pistons use cati you dont need lava
Maybe you could craft cow/chicken/sheep/pig bait, and that would make animals spawn around it, that could work if after a while the bait went away, to make it fair
drown them then, or crush them with pistons use cati you dont need lava
...That would be a lot more complicated of a mechanism... Besides I'm not just looking for a way to accomplish something. I Think it would make the game more interesting if you could build a proper farm. You can already farm wheat, you should be able to farm animals too.
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Former Lead Modeler of Pixelmon
These won't work on 1.8 because passive mobs won't spawn in the chunk after you kill them.
OP: Wait for 1.9 and you will get animal breeding.
yes it would, you arnt killing them, they comit suiside you dont lay a finger on them
Former Lead Modeler of Pixelmon
Looked at a mob grinder on youtube, it takes advantage of an unrealistic mechanism - that is that lava doesn't destroy ladders. You shouldn't have to bend the rules to farm animals. I think my solution would give a more realistic alternative to mob grinders.
drown them then, or crush them with pistons use cati you dont need lava
Former Lead Modeler of Pixelmon
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...That would be a lot more complicated of a mechanism... Besides I'm not just looking for a way to accomplish something. I Think it would make the game more interesting if you could build a proper farm. You can already farm wheat, you should be able to farm animals too.