Is there anyway to stop biome mimics from spawning?

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As we all know, biome mimics cause problems for hard-mode farms. I normally isolate a huge area before I defeat the wall of flesh so I can still use my afk farms without having to worry about biome mimics coming along and killing me.

The first thought I had was to simply not activate them. If you don't use dart traps, then the mimics will stay in place. Plain mimics don't spawn in the hallow or corruption anyway, so its not like you have anything to lose. This could cause an obvious problem though in that the biome mimics would gradually accumulate off-screen gradually reducing the effectiveness of the farm. Of course, given how rarely they spawn, this may honestly take quite a while to happen. Frankly, I would imagine that stupid skeleton merchant is far more of a nuisance than the biome mimics would be. Its like they put him in the game just to keep you from finding ways to save precious hours of your life and still progress.

I've wondered though, if there is a way to just keep them from spawning in general? What type of blocks do they need to spawn on? Can they spawn on single blocks? I can't seem to find any information about their spawning requirements. Is there a way you can build an afk farm in the hallow or corruption and not have to worry at all about biome mimics?

[wcc]

Afaik no. All what I've seen is that you place a bed as spawn point right under your afk room, with platforms leading there. With auto-jump and something on your Space key, you character will leap back into that room once respawned in the bed. Doesn't work as good in hc of course, and talking for myself, I faced a need for "real" afk farming anyway.

[The Yoyo Master]

Yes there is if you place a bunch of torched and break most of the walls enemies tend to spawn less it could also help with a calming potion and if 2 npcs are within the area enemies spawn less

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Originally posted by Tord:

Yes there is if you place a bunch of torched and break most of the walls enemies tend to spawn less it could also help with a calming potion and if 2 npcs are within the area enemies spawn less

That would stop everything from spawning, I just want there to be no biome mimics.