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Minecraft Farms
Dec. 27th, 2011 12:16 pmOn the server we now have 3 different farms for xp/items.
The first one was a zombie farm. Using a mobavator to raise the zombies up, then drop them to take enough damage to bring them near death. Technically 2 punches to kill each one after that but we tend to brew up splash potions of healing. Zombies take damage from them (All undead do)
So I set up a brewing station etc in the room as well so people could stockpile potions while waiting for the zombies to stockpile up.
The next one is a Blaze farm. It's in the first nether fortress we found since it was easier to build there. That one is mostly inside solid netherrack, so the blazes were mostly contained and couldn't do much to stop me from getting the farm built. This is the one I built. Exactly.
Problem with that is that there's a difference between single and multiplayer minecraft. In single player, you can punch mobs in the feet/lower block. You can't do that in multiplayer. But you can't look at them directly or they'll shoot fireballs at you.
This isn't a problem overall since you can still shoot them in the feet with arrows. And we have a regular mob grinder that supplies a constant stream of arrows. Another tactic is to use splash potions of harming on them once they're built up. We store a supply of both things at the farm, along with things to make bows, etc. Blazes drop blaze rods, which can be used as furnace fuel. They're also double the xp of zombies, so it's been easier to stockpile high level enchanted diamond tools.
Splash potions of harming require spider eyes to make however, and spiders don't drop those unless they're killed by the player. We get none from our grinder. As a result I did a spider farm near the Ocean Portal. It uses a lot of the same redstone work as the Blaze farm. It has a timed crusher that brings them down to near death so that a single punch will kill them. Then I added some water works so that the item drops will reliably move to you. This farm would work in single player or multiplayer.
The first one was a zombie farm. Using a mobavator to raise the zombies up, then drop them to take enough damage to bring them near death. Technically 2 punches to kill each one after that but we tend to brew up splash potions of healing. Zombies take damage from them (All undead do)
So I set up a brewing station etc in the room as well so people could stockpile potions while waiting for the zombies to stockpile up.
The next one is a Blaze farm. It's in the first nether fortress we found since it was easier to build there. That one is mostly inside solid netherrack, so the blazes were mostly contained and couldn't do much to stop me from getting the farm built. This is the one I built. Exactly.
Problem with that is that there's a difference between single and multiplayer minecraft. In single player, you can punch mobs in the feet/lower block. You can't do that in multiplayer. But you can't look at them directly or they'll shoot fireballs at you.
This isn't a problem overall since you can still shoot them in the feet with arrows. And we have a regular mob grinder that supplies a constant stream of arrows. Another tactic is to use splash potions of harming on them once they're built up. We store a supply of both things at the farm, along with things to make bows, etc. Blazes drop blaze rods, which can be used as furnace fuel. They're also double the xp of zombies, so it's been easier to stockpile high level enchanted diamond tools.
Splash potions of harming require spider eyes to make however, and spiders don't drop those unless they're killed by the player. We get none from our grinder. As a result I did a spider farm near the Ocean Portal. It uses a lot of the same redstone work as the Blaze farm. It has a timed crusher that brings them down to near death so that a single punch will kill them. Then I added some water works so that the item drops will reliably move to you. This farm would work in single player or multiplayer.
