[Spoiler] Working mob farm

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Working mob farm

Explanation:

So we all build some floor where we can kill monster for their items, what i'm offering is a working design where you can kill a thing with out taking damage, or kill 20 monsters at the same time. Monsters wil spawn on the spawning platform and when they move in the path of a fan they get pushed to the center where they teleport to a small confined space where you can kill them with out them hurting the player.

Tutorial

First of for efficiency reasons you gonna need to to move to a corner of the map, from there make sure that there is no land mass with in 500 blocks and make sure you start building a leased 40 levels above sea level. (This is all for the mob farm to work better) From there you want to start of your building.

First of you begin building a killing platform similar to this:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=631975074

Note that it is a 3 by 3 aria with a teleporter suspended up in the air, the teleporter it self is 5 blocks away from the slabs, by using slabs with the upside down stair you create a little gab where monsters can't pass true. by doing this you can stand 3 blocks away and hit the monsters with out them being able to hit you. i also have a stair case going to the hight of where the teleporter is so i can drop bombs in the tube killing them faster.

For the spawning floor i created this platform :

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=631974959

First of make sure you center this with in the middle of a chunk on the bottom layer (to find out where the chunk is type in /sim and look at the nr shown in chat. The bigger nr is the chunk and the small nr is the layer of that chunk.)

I have teleporters in a 3 by 3 formation and from there each layer is 4 blocks long (monsters can only be pushed 3 blocks so i have the fan on the 4th block.)

Each layer is 3 blocks thick (for people that don't know spawning mechanics, the engine needs a certain nr of blocks in a chunk to determine if mobs can spawn there.

From there is go up 1 block for each layer. (the reason for only 1 block is because i have seen monsters resist falling down more then 1 block.) Note that my fans have a 1 block gape between them, this is due game mechanics where mobs don't seem to like standing in front of a fan unless there is a space on the other side of where the fan is pointing at.

If you like me and you see monsters have stopped spawning... Just quit the game, wait 5 min and come back, the engine will spawn in monsters again.

I like to thank RemyD for helping me out with the technical stuff. And i hope this tutorial is helpful, if for some reason it wasn't helpful? you always welcome to come on to farrahs (my world) and take RemyD's portal to come and take a look

[GermanBeast]

That's awesome. I took a look on your world but dustevil do not teleport?

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A fan can only push a mob when it moves in front of it, the dustevil never move unless they are tracking you. i tried aggroing them but they seem to go back to sleep from the moment you leave the platform.

[GermanBeast]

Ok. I have some problem with understandig the middle of chunk thing. Can you explain me this with a example?

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The world is made up with chunks, A chunk is 16 by 16 and 16 blocks high. When you type in /sim you will see a nr like this 510,5,150. The first nr is East/West, the second nr is up/down, the third nr is North/South.

You just move around and see where 510 begins and ends, then do the same with 150. Finally you look where lowest block is.

[GermanBeast]

That's great. Thank you for this Information.

[GermanBeast]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=654812546

Can you look at this picture. The Fields under my Mob farm with the Adobe Walls are the cunk's.
Have I begin in the right way?

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from a picture i can't tell what your cunk is

[GermanBeast]

At the lower bottom the blue yellow and white adobe walls. This fields mark the chunk 16x16 each field.

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seems good, i can see you're using 3 layers, this is good. I didn't test how the farm works with the new spawning mechanics in R29 (they said they increased the spawning so don't know if this fixes the issues i had before with the mobs just not spawning after some time)

[Clown]

a simpler method would be digging a wide rectangle with its edges lined as a 3 depth hole of space, then lure everything around you towards it.

still a nice idea for the 2nd part, I could've like.. put a teleporter at the middle and connect it to someone's base to see all the spawn go into their base..... oh the horror....