Saturday, April 16, 2011

Testing the traditional mob trap

I found a skeleton mob spawner today, so I decided to make a traditional trap used on mob spawners. For those who arn't familiar, the traps look like this:


Basically a bed of water sits under the spawner block, and it brings the mobs over to the glass wall where they drown. I decided to do a 15 minute test run of the farm. I got 50 bones, and 54 arrows. Meaning that the spawner averages about 400 items an hour.


This is a lot better than I originally thought. Some of the larger mobfarms I have built have only had item rates of 800 items an hour. But these took 6-10 hours to build instead of 20 minutes.  The one downside to these kill rooms is that they only work with zombies and skeletons, meaning you can only get arrows, bones and feathers from them at this rate. This is a major setback for me because I like having plenty of TNT for defensive reasons.

Overall, this design is good if you want to get a lot of arrows fast or need bones for growing crops. If you need lots of gunpowder for TNT or string for dispensers, I would stick with larger farms. I'm working on a new design for my farms, i'll share it later in the week, when I finish it.

13 comments:

  1. Not very familiar with this game but heard a lot about it. Maybe I'll get into it from following you. ;)

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  2. My god, you'll get addicted. Amazing game, make sure you get some friends to play with you.

    Following you, Reastmen. Looking forward to seeing your work.

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  3. Haha minecraft blog, yours is the best ive seen so far! Looking forward to your future posts!

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  4. I'm so addicted to this game! Made one of these in my base yesterday :P +Followed!

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  5. If you can implement a way to turn the water on and off and tweak the design a little, it means you could go off doing what needs to be done and come back to a pit full of mobs that can be easily killed. Essentially you wont lose your drops if you are away for a while.

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  6. this looks like it could be useful, I might try it.

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  7. Ive been looking for a minecraft blog 4eva! thanks man

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  8. this is the smartest thing ive seen on this game

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  9. i love minecraft, i wish i could still play, something buggy happened with my computer and now it wont work at all anymore :/ so now i just stick with diablo 2

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  10. Wow I didn't know about that!

    Great blog btw, following (:

    http://livintrip.blogspot.com/

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  11. Seed Cassandra
    Biggest effin cave system i've ever found <3

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  12. Only played Minecraft a little at my friends house, but loved it!!

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  13. Looks nice, keep posts coming, following

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