Hostile glowing light?

[PJS192]

This might sound like the most ridiculous title ever, but there's a zombie pigmen spawner near me on the ftb map with the obsidian totems and everything. I know that the pigmen are passive unless provoked (so I steer well clear!), but every now and then when I pass the spawner what I can only describe as a small 'glowing light' spawns, follows me and electrocutes me!

This thing is too small and agile for me to shoot with arrows, and flies around and pretty much chases me off. It's happened enough times for it to bother me so I destroyed the pigmen spawner, will that do the trick? Hopefully some of you guys know what I'm talking about! How do I kill this thing and stop it from spawning. I assumed it was probably Thaumcraft related but I can't seem to find out what it is. Any help would be much appreciated!

 

[Bickers]

thay are wisps you prob close to a unstable aura node only way to stop getting attacked by them is to box in the node

 

[WTFFFS]

Nope destroying the spawner will do nothing, there is a Dark Node somewhere near that Totem Platform it will keep spitting out Wisps constantly, so the only way to stop the wisps being an annoyance is to build a box around the node, as you can't see it since I take it you don't have Goggles of Revealing I would suggest building a 9x9x9 box around the entire Totem Platform that should make certain the node is inside.

 

[Yusunoha]

TC3 totem = dark node, I know that for sure.
everytime I find a totem like that, wisps start to spawn, so be careful near them and don't approuch them without good armor or a bow and arrow

 

[PJS192]

Thanks for the help guys! Yeah they seem to spawn by the totems, which is annoyingly near where both of my houses have been built on the map.

When you say both them in, is there any particular block thats needed to use for the 9x9x9 structure? Or will glass do the job?

 

[jumpfight5]

Nothing special, glass will work fine. Now, getting them out later will be your problem.

 

[egor66]

here is a fix: make googles of revealing when you can see the node incase it in glass leave 2-3 blocks around it as wisps spawn at its centre, you can later make a grinder from it by adding a tesla coil on a button push, anyway the wisps cant get out of the cube so cant attack you.

 

[Dravarden]

TC3 totem = dark node, I know that for sure.
everytime I find a totem like that, wisps start to spawn, so be careful near them and don't approuch them without good armor or a bow and arrow

Not dark, unstable.

Totem: unstable
Hill: dark
Trees: pure
Anything else: normal

 

[Freakscar]

This might sound like the most ridiculous title ever[...]

Actually, it reads quite cute (as I knew what you meant), to be honest with you. Made me chuckle.

 

[clippjam]

Not dark, unstable.

Totem: unstable
Hill: dark
Trees: pure
Anything else: normal

what is the difference between unstable and dark nodes? from what I have seen, they both produce flux, so are unstable nodes just slower dark nodes?

 

[Dravarden]

Normal: takes out its flux till it is moderate.
Pure: takes out flux till is none
unstable: generates flux as much as possible
dark: spawns wisps and does not get rid of flux, neither it creates.