07-31-2012, 03:10 AM
We FINALLY finished our Blaze farm. It was the biggest and most intricate build we've ever done. We copied this design by Etho (I urge you to check out all the cool stuff Etho comes up with). A Blaze farm like is really great because Blazes give 10 experience per kill as opposed to 5 for Cave Spiders/Zombies/Skeletons. More importantly, they also drop Blaze Rods which are important for Brewing.
Here's the thing we built, looking up at it.
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The Redstone wiring is very technical. Inside has a system of pistons activated by pressure plates that funnels the Blazes down into a 2x2 "kill room". Most of the damage is done by a precisely-timed system of repeaters that activate sticky pistons with blocks to suffocate the Blazes to near-death. When it turns off, you can just walk up and punch them once to kill them, and collect lots of experience and Blaze Rods. This is the repeater timer on the outside.
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This is my son posing in front of the 2x2 kill area as Blazes are collecting. It's completely safe here and they can't attack.
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The hardest part of this project BY FAR was disabling the spawner while also building a huge cobblestone cover over it. We died many times. You can't just disable it with a few torches, you literally have to encase the entire spawning area with solid blocks while dodging projectiles fired by both Blazes and Ghasts as you do it. It's 100% safe for us now, because it's completely protected from Ghast attacks and the Blazes can only spawn within the thing we built. The Etho design we used also allows us to turn off Blaze spawning by dropping streams of lava in the spawning area itself.
Here's the thing we built, looking up at it.
The Redstone wiring is very technical. Inside has a system of pistons activated by pressure plates that funnels the Blazes down into a 2x2 "kill room". Most of the damage is done by a precisely-timed system of repeaters that activate sticky pistons with blocks to suffocate the Blazes to near-death. When it turns off, you can just walk up and punch them once to kill them, and collect lots of experience and Blaze Rods. This is the repeater timer on the outside.
This is my son posing in front of the 2x2 kill area as Blazes are collecting. It's completely safe here and they can't attack.
The hardest part of this project BY FAR was disabling the spawner while also building a huge cobblestone cover over it. We died many times. You can't just disable it with a few torches, you literally have to encase the entire spawning area with solid blocks while dodging projectiles fired by both Blazes and Ghasts as you do it. It's 100% safe for us now, because it's completely protected from Ghast attacks and the Blazes can only spawn within the thing we built. The Etho design we used also allows us to turn off Blaze spawning by dropping streams of lava in the spawning area itself.