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So, skeletons (and zombies? maybe?) go for shaded areas when the sun rises. Do they do this with enough predictability to make a trap out of an overhang?
I was thinking of making an overhang with a trapdoor(or a few trap doors) with a major fall, or water at the bottom to drown and collect.. The main question is if they would go to it enough for it to really matter?
I'm still relatively new to the game, (been playing a few months now) so I'm just now starting to play with mob traps, not really able to get to a real spawner right now though :-/
That's an interesting idea, the problem is most mobs stop moving after a little while and gradually despawn if they are more than 32 blocks away from a player, so not only would you only get one catch per night, it would only be from from a small area around you.
So you'd probably be better off using yourself as bait to lure them into a trap.
(or running around luring them into multiple traps.)
Or else using dispensers with water buckets to periodically flush them into the traps.
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I like the idea of the water flushing them where i need them go to. Thanks for that :-)
I'm wrapping my head around redstone. I'm about to set up my sugarcane farm, then I'll set up a trap for any other mobs. :-) This might be a good chance to check out the timers on the redstone stuff..
Make an outpost a few blocks high and surround the ground beneath you with magma blocks. Set a perimeter of pressure plates and put a bucket of water in each corner.
Mobs will aggro to you and walk into the water, pushing them all to die on the magma blocks.
That sounds a bit like a mob farm, only applied to the surface.
Instead of flowing water which can get a bit annoying to the ears, you can flank the trap with snow golems which will push the incoming mobs into the trap with their snowballs.
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That sounds a bit like a mob farm, only applied to the surface.
Instead of flowing water which can get a bit annoying to the ears, you can flank the trap with snow golems which will push the incoming mobs into the trap with their snowballs.
I haven't done anything with snow golems.. I've messed with Iron golems
But I would have to find snow, which I haven't seen yet on this world.. hmm
So, skeletons (and zombies? maybe?) go for shaded areas when the sun rises. Do they do this with enough predictability to make a trap out of an overhang?
I was thinking of making an overhang with a trapdoor(or a few trap doors) with a major fall, or water at the bottom to drown and collect.. The main question is if they would go to it enough for it to really matter?
I'm still relatively new to the game, (been playing a few months now) so I'm just now starting to play with mob traps, not really able to get to a real spawner right now though :-/
So.. thoughts? Suggestions? ,
That's an interesting idea, the problem is most mobs stop moving after a little while and gradually despawn if they are more than 32 blocks away from a player, so not only would you only get one catch per night, it would only be from from a small area around you.
So you'd probably be better off using yourself as bait to lure them into a trap.
(or running around luring them into multiple traps.)
Or else using dispensers with water buckets to periodically flush them into the traps.
Just testing.
I like the idea of the water flushing them where i need them go to. Thanks for that :-)
I'm wrapping my head around redstone. I'm about to set up my sugarcane farm, then I'll set up a trap for any other mobs. :-) This might be a good chance to check out the timers on the redstone stuff..
Make an outpost a few blocks high and surround the ground beneath you with magma blocks. Set a perimeter of pressure plates and put a bucket of water in each corner.
Mobs will aggro to you and walk into the water, pushing them all to die on the magma blocks.
That sounds a bit like a mob farm, only applied to the surface.
Instead of flowing water which can get a bit annoying to the ears, you can flank the trap with snow golems which will push the incoming mobs into the trap with their snowballs.
In Minecraft, you stick your head in the dirt to find problems.
I haven't done anything with snow golems.. I've messed with Iron golems
But I would have to find snow, which I haven't seen yet on this world.. hmm
Depending on the biome the snow golems might melt. Besides skeletons will kill them eventually.
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Stupid 3D..