So, I've made a enderman farm, (I made it 1 or 2 weeks ago.) and I've noticed not many endermen have been spawning around the endermite trap, I've made a flat platform around the endermite, and it did help a bit, but not much, do torches (the one's around the exit end portal fountain) effect spawn rates for them? since they are hostile mobs? do I need to make the flat platform larger? I need some help with this, not many endermen are even coming over to the trap, I need this because I have mending and I want to get xp and pearls for my survival...
Also, PS this farm is on the end island, not in the void. do I need to put it in the void? (the platform and the farm!)
First off, yes, light levels do affect Enderman spawning, they require light level of 7 or lower like other hostile mobs, and if I'm not mistaken, the more light there is, the more likely a spawn will fail (up to 100% failure at light level 8 and and above), so you will want to keep the spawn area completely dark for best rates.
The main reason people build Enderman farms out over the void is just because there are no nearby spawnable blocks outside the farm itself, so all spawns that occur, will occur inside the farm. If you have endermen spawning outside the farm, they will quickly fill up the mob cap and you won't get many, if any at all, spawning inside of it. If you want to build an effective farm on the main island, you will need to light, flood, half-slab, or just plain remove all of the rest of the island, so the Endermen have nowhere else to spawn but in the trap.
I think you're building one of those farms where you AFK above the portal, while endermen fall down in it and into the overworld, then you go back there and kill them all at once? I believe Endermen can detect an Endermite from less than 63 blocks away, if I recall? So that means you'll want to spawn-proof anything 64 or more blocks from where the Endermite is trapped. Don't forget about the tops of the obsidian platforms.
My farm, is a endermite on a block in a minecart. with a hole around it with trapdoors on the side to make the endermen fall in it.. it's not a end portal one.. the endermen who spawn on the end island go after the endermite, fall down about 30/40 blocks down, and it gets them to 1 heart so I can kill them in one hit.
My farm, is a endermite on a block in a minecart. with a hole around it with trapdoors on the side to make the endermen fall in it.. it's not a end portal one.. the endermen who spawn on the end island go after the endermite, fall down about 30/40 blocks down, and it gets them to 1 heart so I can kill them in one hit.
Oh. Well then, yes, you might be better off building that one off the main island but if you're determined, spawn-proofing the island should help a lot. Up to you whether that's more or less work than just pillaring out over the void and building it again.
So, I've made a enderman farm, (I made it 1 or 2 weeks ago.) and I've noticed not many endermen have been spawning around the endermite trap, I've made a flat platform around the endermite, and it did help a bit, but not much, do torches (the one's around the exit end portal fountain) effect spawn rates for them? since they are hostile mobs? do I need to make the flat platform larger? I need some help with this, not many endermen are even coming over to the trap, I need this because I have mending and I want to get xp and pearls for my survival...
Also, PS this farm is on the end island, not in the void. do I need to put it in the void? (the platform and the farm!)
Diamonds ftw.
First off, yes, light levels do affect Enderman spawning, they require light level of 7 or lower like other hostile mobs, and if I'm not mistaken, the more light there is, the more likely a spawn will fail (up to 100% failure at light level 8 and and above), so you will want to keep the spawn area completely dark for best rates.
The main reason people build Enderman farms out over the void is just because there are no nearby spawnable blocks outside the farm itself, so all spawns that occur, will occur inside the farm. If you have endermen spawning outside the farm, they will quickly fill up the mob cap and you won't get many, if any at all, spawning inside of it. If you want to build an effective farm on the main island, you will need to light, flood, half-slab, or just plain remove all of the rest of the island, so the Endermen have nowhere else to spawn but in the trap.
I think you're building one of those farms where you AFK above the portal, while endermen fall down in it and into the overworld, then you go back there and kill them all at once? I believe Endermen can detect an Endermite from less than 63 blocks away, if I recall? So that means you'll want to spawn-proof anything 64 or more blocks from where the Endermite is trapped. Don't forget about the tops of the obsidian platforms.
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My farm, is a endermite on a block in a minecart. with a hole around it with trapdoors on the side to make the endermen fall in it.. it's not a end portal one.. the endermen who spawn on the end island go after the endermite, fall down about 30/40 blocks down, and it gets them to 1 heart so I can kill them in one hit.
Diamonds ftw.
Oh. Well then, yes, you might be better off building that one off the main island but if you're determined, spawn-proofing the island should help a lot. Up to you whether that's more or less work than just pillaring out over the void and building it again.
Village Mechanics: A not-so-brief guide - Update 2017! Now with 1.8 breeding mechanics! Long-overdue trading info, coming soon!
You think magic isn't real? Consider this: for every person, there is a sentence -- a series of words -- which has the power to destroy them.