Minecraft

Blaze farm will be shut down in a day or two for renovations, I'm just collecting the resources right now. If you see the spawner encased, don't touch anything. When I'm done it'll be fully automatic.

Edit: Also please disable whatever mods/options that prevent you from setting your spawn point with a bed and using lava buckets.

K, just went a little nuts and built the entire blaze farm. You'll notice a giant structure where the blaze spawner was, go down the stairs to the afk room. There are two button on the wall down here, a far/left button and a near/right button.

When you get down there, the gate that allows blazes to drop into the crusher chamber may be open or closed depending on how the last person left it. If the gate is closed (you don't see blazes dropping down), press the right button to reset the gate.

Now you just afk for a little while while blazes build up in the chamber. Once you get enough blazes in the chamber, press the left button. This will close the gate so that no more blazes can fall down, and begin a crusher which is connected to a timer. It will suffocate the blazes until they're at 1/2 a heart. When the crusher retracts/they stop taking damage, just punch them (without a weapon) to kill them. Press the right button again to reset the gate and blazes will begin to fill the chamber again.

The enchanting table, anvil, and locker system has been moved down into this area.

The area is in bit of disarray, I still need to tidy it up but I ran out of stone brick. It's fully functional though, except for a couple minor tweaks I'm going to make later.

The lever on the left doesn't do anything right now. It's wired to shut off the system completely when you flick it, but I need the admins to remove the plugin/option that prevents you from placing lava buckets for that to work.

Edit: By the way, it would please me if people kept unnecessary nether exploration to a minimum. The next update is adding nether ores that can be used to make quartz blocks:



I want a lot of this stuff.

Lava works. Use caution. Hot Lava Burn Baby!

Thanks digital.

With this new quick exp setup, I'm expecting a lot of you will have books you don't need, so trading that stuff around could be useful. For example, I have an Infinity I book that's really rare and I have no use for it. I'd even trade it for Unbreaking III, which is somewhat common.

Edit: Oh and digital, I just read that there's a bug that makes enchanting books lose their enchantment sometimes if you log out with them in your inventory. I'm not sure if that caused your issue, or if the were just completely unenchanted when you looted them out of the chest. Could be a related bug. Book system is still really buggy all around, sometimes it doesn't even correctly tell you how many levels you actually need to apply the enchantment and you kinda have to guess.

Also... the blaze farm seems kinda slow compared to other ones I've built. Does one of the server plugins limit how many mobs can be spawned in an area?

I saw a few blazes stuck behind pistons on the top level yesterday, maybe that slows down the spawn since some are still hanging around.

Yeah, pistons are kinda buggy right now, nothing you can really do about that. If you notice a blaze stuck in a piston, you just have to thrown down a torch/lever or whatever next to the piston on the outside to reset it.

Some blazes were spawning on top of the spawner and staying there. I added some blocks to the top so they can't do that anymore, but I also died and lost half my shit including 3 maxed out diamond picks.

Reiker: throwing away stacks of diamonds for ur right to grind exp

I checked out the blaze grinder. It creates a ton of lag if you are in the same chunk. I think possible solutions would be to use fewer pistons or somehow move the collection point away from the smasher. It may be that the redstone circuits needed to be reset (buttons were not labeled) but I was unable to use it. As far as the rate of mob spawning is concerned the only restrictions I could find in the config files was something that said friendly mobs are at 10, hostile mobs are at 90. I don't want to change those until I know exactly what they do.

On another note. I have a project going and I temporarily need a few hundred rails. If anyone has any I would be grateful. You will get them back when I am done.

digital.x_sl said:

I checked out the blaze grinder. It creates a ton of lag if you are in the same chunk. I think possible solutions would be to use fewer pistons or somehow move the collection point away from the smasher. It may be that the redstone circuits needed to be reset (buttons were not labeled) but I was unable to use it. As far as the rate of mob spawning is concerned the only restrictions I could find in the config files was something that said friendly mobs are at 10, hostile mobs are at 90. I don't want to change those until I know exactly what they do.

On another note. I have a project going and I temporarily need a few hundred rails. If anyone has any I would be grateful. You will get them back when I am done.

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Not sure what you're talking about. I have awful internet and an awful computer, and it doesn't lag me. As far as I know, this problem is on your end. There's no pistons that can be removed in the design, and I'm not sure what you mean by "resetting redstone circuits." I explained how the redstone operates about 10 posts above. It at least explains what buttons you have to push to do what thing, I'm not sure if you want a more in-depth explanation or what. There's two RS NOR latches that hold the state of the gate and the crusher system. There's also a timer that controls the crusher to bring the blazes down to 1/2 a heart so you can punch them for exp. The redstone configuration is easily accessible via the anvil room. There's no clock or anything involved that would cause continuous lag like you're describing.

You can't "move the collection point away from the smasher," how would that work?

There's other blaze spawners in the area, if you have a design that's better than the one I spent hours of my time and loads of my own resources on, be my guest. You're completely free to not use the the thing I built for the benefit of people on the server.

Edit: There's a second blaze spawner at X 159, Y 61, Z 171. Go use that one if you don't like mine.

I'd like to thank the hosts of the server for their time and resources they put into this project. Thank you.

Moon? How about some end stone. I think Reiker found a stronghold. We don't even have to kill the dragon, although an egg would make a nice trophy. Just drop an ender chest and begin filling. Empty your inventory and jump off the side.

Was considering killing the dragon so I could farm ender pearls a bit easier, but didn't know if anyone would get mad if I took out a one-time-event thing.

If this was a tekkit lite server I would play here.