So about caveling farms..

[Basti]

As a lot of other people I'm trying to farm Hallooween bags by afk-farming cavelings. For this, I have setup a 20x50 area with moss, topped it with conveyors, which lead to a 1x20 row of spike traps.

Good in theory.

Unfortunately I'm running into either 1 of 2 possible issues:

1. If I leave it as described above, the cavelings will simply not die, due to some kind of insane health regen.

2. If I put a layer of poison slime under the spike traps, the cavelings will get poisoned and will indeed die to the spike traps, but occasionally purple slimes will spawn on the spike traps, making the caveling brutes attack them and thus destroy the killing mechanism and/or the conveyors, rendering parts of the farm non functional. This happens at least once about every 15 minutes in my setup.

So my question goes out to the people, who have managed to build a functional afk caveling farm: How did you guys do it without either one of the above 2 issues happening?

Regards and happy core keeping!

[Xaelon]

I believe you should be able to stop the poison slimes from spawning if you put slime down and then put Caveling moss on top of that. If I remember correctly the top-most layer is what controls what can and can't spawn.

For other ways to improve your farm I suggest reading this guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2846860078

[󰀚Juki󰀚]

i put poison slime down and on top the rock moss but the slimes still spawn...

[Nukerkid]

Since poison slime appears on top of the Caveling moss, it has a chance to spawn mobs. You want to put a Caveling Floor Tile, poison slime and a spike trap down on a single tile - The Caveling Floor tile will stop the poison slimes from spawning and that will kill all Caveling types (on normal mode). Caveling Floor Tiles, Logic Circuits and Delay Circuits always stop mobs being spawned, regardless of stacking order.

You can to look at "Tile Stacking Precedence and Spawn Blocking" and "Mob Stats and Killability with Automation" sections of that guide for more info.

(Edited a couple of times to get the info right =P)

[きず]

if you're doing stone moss mobfarm, it's not recommended to use poison slime layers to poison them, since brutes will slam the poison slime and finally destroys everything, if you want a simple layout of a stone mobfarm, you can do it like this.
https://imgur.com/a/Mnm5zI8

and if you want a complicated one,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hj4ZsZf-7k&ab_channel=%E3%81%8D%E3%81%9A
at the right side and stone moss farm part, maybe it would help.

[Nukerkid]

As I said, the Caveling Floor Tiles stop poison slimes from spawning, I haven't had any problems when the tiles are stacked as I mentioned.

Here's my farm: https://imgur.com/a/kM90TGP

In the main section of the farm, I have conveyors around the outside which lead to this kill box. That is enough to kill all stone Caveling types on hard mode, unless the kill box gets too packed for them to move around (In that case you can just shoot them over the fences).

[󰀚Juki󰀚]

Originally posted by Nukerkid:

As I said, the Caveling Floor Tiles stop poison slimes from spawning, I haven't had any problems when the tiles are stacked as I mentioned.

Here's my farm: https://imgur.com/a/kM90TGP

In the main section of the farm, I have conveyors around the outside which lead to this kill box. That is enough to kill all stone Caveling types on hard mode, unless the kill box gets too packed for them to move around (In that case you can just shoot them over the fences).

its not freaking working.... https://imgur.com/a/KWAMMvv

[FSHerrante]

No need afk farm, place moss in natural slime spawn zone and wait, these creatures attack each other. I found zones filled of dropped items by slimes and cavelings including some king slime idols if you are want this.