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So in this episode, we start to get some animals to spawn and start to grow some of our own food. We also discuss some of the issues that i have with how I made this world.

Ok so here is episode 2, again we are moving kind of fast cuz I wanted to get caught back up to where I was. But today we go into the nether and build a platform at the bottom and get a blaze and nether skeleton farm set up.

Ok so here is episode one of the sky block LP. I go pretty quick because I was passed that I lost my last world and wanted to get back to where I was. You don't miss hardly anything in the cuts I made just a lot of cobblestone mining and placing. Hope you enjoy!!

So I decided to update the skyblock map and do a let's play, here is a quick video that covers the changes that I made. Any and all feedback is welcomed!!

Episode 3 All feed back is welcome feedback!!

here is episode 2 tell me what you think!!!

I use amidst (program) or www.chunkbase.com

You need a chunk loader.... after you leave the spawn chunks they technically unload.... not really but technically. What I mean is a lot of stuff will stop working so what you need to do is set up a nether portal and a hopper timer that will shoot a item in to the portal every ~45 seconds or so, this can not exceed 50 seconds I believe. Here is a link for you, just add this and I am sure that it will continue to work for you when you leave the spawn chunks. Skip to 17:26 to see how he did it.

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I've built several mob farms that worked out fairly well. I normally build at ~200 height over ocean. I use 4 pads that are 8x8 size each, with a 2 block wide, 2 block deep, water channel in between each pad. The hole in the center 4x4. I then build a shaft 24'ish blocks below the hole as the collection/kill point.

Reading tutorials I often come across diagrams like this: http://i.stack.imgur.com/DiCYC.png showing the spawn / movement ranges / despawn ranges of mobs around a player. But I've never seen a diagram or read a discussion about those distances vertically. For instance, <24, the range that mobs will supposedly not spawn around a player, is that 24 above a player as well? I assume so, since 24 blocks above me mobs are spawning.... so are they actually spawning 24 high and 1-8 blocks over, meaning the true distance from me is 24+ (solve the right triangle...8 squared plus 24 squared, square root of that, 25'ish:)), so it fits the rule in the image I linked to above?

In other words, if I built my collection point ~4 blocks higher, would the spawn pads 20 blocks above me stop spawning?

Just take that image and imagine that its a sphere and not a circle. I think you have the right idea

Trying this whole youtube thing and trying to see what people think. Here is my first video for my lets play any advice is greatly appreciated!