So, Minecraft.

[DeeBye]

I finished my new skeleton archer spawner XP/item farm with the piston crusher. It works pretty well. If I would change anything, it might be to lessen or even eliminate the 3-block drop to the piston kill area. The mobs take some damage from the fall, but it's not a set amount of damage. I can tweak the piston crusher timer to whatever I want, but no matter what I do I can't find a happy balance. Some mobs die in the crusher outright on one setting, or they are more than one hit kills on another. With the setting I have it on about 1 in 10 mobs die in the crush phase. That's not too bad, but I strive for perfection.

I'm really glad I added the redstone lamps to be able to toggle on/off the spawns as I was tweaking it. It saved me a lot of headaches with unruly mobs running rampant as I was changing things.


I still have the SMP problem of the mobs visually bursting out of the trap like I have with my other XP farms, but I'm hopeful 1.3 fixes that. This is definitely better than my zombie and cave spider XP farms though.

I looked harder into slime spawning, and I'm pretty sure I found an actual slime chunk. I used this tool, and somehow found the world seed from this other tool. I'm not sure if the latter tool is accurate with regard to SMP, but I am hopeful.

I dug out a 16x16x3 area for this suggested slime chunk.


I found this while digging. No matter how often I see this, it always makes me happy.