So, Minecraft.

[DeeBye]

You could always use some pistons to build a retractable shutter over the window for when you're not there to watch.

I was thinking in that direction. That will be a future project.

The light emitted from the lava kill block has very little effect on the spawn pads. This is the light level on the closest block to it. Mobs can still spawn there though.


When something is worth doing in Minecraft, it's worth overdoing. Today my son and I doubled the size of our mob spawner. It looks pretty impressive. I had to pillar up a long ways just to get it all in this screenshot.


We have 14 47x3 spawn pads, and 4 47x2 pads. That's 2350 spawnable pads (less due to anti-spider half slabs). We are getting so many mobs that there is starting to be a back log in our 1-wide kill area, so I think I'll increase it to 3-wide (and move the lava blade farther away from the spawn room while I'm at it).

We also found a huge ravine not 4 blocks below the area in the front of our house, almost directly below part of the spawn room. I have no idea how we missed it while we were caving to light up dark areas.

I'm also starting to really regret making our home in a Desert biome, because I'd love to add grass to the top of the mob room for passive spawns.

edit: OH WOW! It looks like animals CAN spawn in deserts. Time to grow more grass!