Above the Nether

[Dinalagos]

I'm planning a gold farm that I want to build above the nether. I want to put some wood in the farm (not the flooring). I know wood will burn IN the nether, but will it burn ABOVE the nether?

 

[null123]

Wood burns in the nether if it is set on fire. I dont think it just spontaneously combusts.

 

[wolfsilver00]

I'm planning a gold farm that I want to build above the nether. I want to put some wood in the farm (not the flooring). I know wood will burn IN the nether, but will it burn ABOVE the nether?

Above the bedrock layer in the nether is still in the nether.. If a ghast spawns up there and decides to make your wood structure look like cheese, then it will. As jedi said, wood doesn't just spontaneously catch on fire, it needs to be primed by (usually) a ghast explosion.

 

[Chaka]

Above is still the nether

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[Someone Else 37]

Note that mobs can't spawn on bedrock or thin air. If you make sure to cover whatever structure you build on the roof of the Nether with glass or any other spawn-proof block, or drop a Magnum Torch nearby (or maybe light the place up; I'm not sure what light levels ghasts require to spawn), neither ghasts nor pigmen will be able to spawn there, so you won't have any trouble.

Even if you do that, you might have trouble if there's a pocket of lava right below the bedrock ceiling, but I don't think there's enough of those to set very many things on fire.

 

[ratchet freak]

nether creatures spawns aren't affected by light level (pigmen spawn at any level)

 

[ljfa]

Note that mobs can't spawn on bedrock or thin air.

Oddly this also holds for Ghasts. No Ghasts above the nether unless you build something there.

 

[Someone Else 37]

Oddly this also holds for Ghasts. No Ghasts above the nether unless you build something there.

...which is exactly what I was trying to say.

I'm guessing the reason for this is so you don't end up with gazillions of ghasts and pigmen hanging out on the roof of the Nether making noise and preventing any from spawning in the caverns. A nether where the ghasts can't reach you is a safe nether, which is not what Mojang intended it to be.

 

[MigukNamja]

Do Ghasts spawn on half-height slabs and other non-mob-spawning blocks ?

 

[ljfa]

Do Ghasts spawn on half-height slabs and other non-mob-spawning blocks ?

No, according to Minecraft wiki:

Due to the general block checks, all mobs besides squid must spawn on top of an opaque block with at least two blocks of headroom, even ghasts, etc.