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Many people like easy picking from mob grinders. These give Minecrafters an infinite supply of gunpowder, arrows, iron (although rare) rotten flesh, bows, etc. But which is most popular? What do you think?

I haven't made any actual grinders, but I make trapdoors with pressure plates to reduce the amount of creepers in my back yard.

By mob vending machine, is that an xp grinder? If so, I choose that cause I love getting enchantments

I'd say that people mostly use fall damage xp farms..

Mine can either be a fall damage xp grinder for enchants, or a lava blade grinder to stock up on gunpowder while i afk.

Fall Damage

The 2 most popular are lava and fall damage. They are the fastes and kind of easiest to make (lava can sometimes be hard to get without a mine).

I use fall damage all the time. It's easy to build and extremely effective.

When you build the drop for the mobs, how far should the drop be for a 1-hit kill?
I've found a zombie, skeleton and cave spider spwaner (alll within 50 blocks of each other) and want to set something up that will make it easy to create an XP grinder.

Thanks!