Foes Spawning In My Vertical Mineshaft

[Mr. J.D. Gumby]

So, I'm getting sick of zombies spawning in my mineshaft and dropping down through my tiers of wooden platforms and landing on my head. Any suggestions of how to keep that from happening? Very irritating after so long of being able to dig straight down without needing worry about stuff coming from above... :/

[Pandie]

use planks on the hole
for some reason monsters don't press down

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

Nope. But I rarely had that problem so idk. What do you mean "tiers of wooden platforms"? Haven't you heard of rope?

[Emmote]

The only way to stop mobs spawning inside your hellevator/mineshaft is to wall it off. Put background walls all the way down, and bricks on the side to stop mobs jumping in from the side.

Other than that, putting up with it, or constantly barricading with a couple of bricks above your head is the only option.

[Drackar]

Yup. Destroy all existing background tiles, replace them with stone, wall them in. A friend of mine's done that on a map we play on...I'm working on putting in actuated "doors" every hundred feet or so on both sides.

[Davosaurus]

If monsters are just walking in from adjacent caves, you can block off the sides of the shaft with any blocks. If they are actually spawning IN the mineshaft, then you can...
a. make all the background walls wood or other man made stuff (basically anything but dirt)
b. use rope instead of platforms. it is much easier and faster anyway
c. make some sort of trap at the bottom with yellow pressure plates (depending on how your mine is set up)
d. get some good armor or some more HP, so that the damage you get from them falling on you is not devastating to your health
e. USE SUPAH MAGIKS TO KILLZ THE ZOMBIEZ

[Emmote]

Originally posted by XcomNomNom:

a. make all the background walls wood or other man made stuff (basically anything but dirt)

Dirt is fine so long as it's placed by the player. Player placed dirt walls function like any wall, and it also looks slightly different.

[Davosaurus]

Originally posted by Emmote:

Dirt is fine so long as it's placed by the player. Player placed dirt walls function like any wall, and it also looks slightly different.

Oh ok, I didnt know player placed dirt was different. Just haven't placed much dirt of my own i guess! :P Basically the premise is still the same being that you would have to destroy all the walls and make your own for it.

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

Originally posted by ZippyMcZippo:

Yup. Destroy all existing background tiles, replace them with stone, wall them in4

this seems like more work than just killing what few monsters fall on you.

[toroid]

How many blocks wide is your vertical shaft? I think if you keep the shaft at two blocks wide then nothing will spawn in it.

[Butz]

get a grappling hook, and something that cancels fall damage.

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

Originally posted by Mike Rotch:

get a grappling hook, and something that cancels fall damage.

"But I repeat myself..."

[kevinshow]

How long are you hanging around in the vertical mineshaft? I see that sometimes but I'm pretty much doing down to a certain level then getting out of that mineshaft. In short, it happens to me also but I'm not often there long enough for it to matter (or the other part of this scenario is that I kill the monster that fell on top of me and then I continue on)

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

wait, would using the "elevator glitch" stop enemies from moving downward? I'll have to test that...

[Mr. J.D. Gumby]

Originally posted by ZippyMcZippo:

Yup. Destroy all existing background tiles, replace them with stone, wall them in.

Ugh. Already takes forever to dig a shaft. :/

(and, for the record, the shaft is actually in my housing complex, with no outside access at the top and all side passages get walled off the instant I finish digging out the ores that I spotted there and continue digging down)

[^^o^^ BatCat]

..sounds more like you need better tools and get yer shaft finished quicker. What are you using currently?