Annoying Spiders and Slimes

[ThePokepika99]

I'm playing FTB in 1.5.2/wgt.
I have house in desert and I have most of my stuff there.
But at night i'm getting annoyed of spiders and slimes.
Spiders stay at my roof hostile UNTIL i come out of my house. (Probably Vanilla bug)
And these Blue Slimes are stuck in my window.
And I'm getting annoyed of these sounds what they make.
Yes, I know that I can sleep over night, kill those mobs or then just turn Peaceful on.
But I'm too lazy to do it.

So does anybody have any good way to automatically defend buildings from mobs?

 

[L.E.X.]

Extra utilities magnum torches?

 

[ThePokepika99]

Extra utilities magnum torches?

Just read forum thread! That really cool torch! Gotta try!

 

[L.E.X.]

Just read forum thread! That really cool torch! Gotta try!

No prob.

 

[Yusunoha]

you could plop down a nuke and scare'em like that...

but seriously, we all have this problem. spiders like to climb roofs and hang out there, you can prevent that by lightning up your roof, and adding an edge to your walls to prevent them from climbing up.
as for the slimes, you can put things around like cactusses or quicksand and let them die like that

 

[egor66]

The other option I have used in past, is a tesla coil or 2 on or in roof space on a button push, just make sure you have a good over 5 blocks below it to your head hight or its could get hilarious, (push button bam "oh damn")

 

[tehBlobLord]

Spiders stay at my roof hostile UNTIL i come out of my house. (Probably Vanilla bug)

How is this a bug? Spiders track you through walls to ambush you. It's intended behaviour.
You can add a rim to your roof so that they can't climb up, it works with microblocks (if you have them) because it screws with their pathfinding.
But honestly just lighting up your house in a 20 block radius will stop all of these anyway (mobs, except zombies in 1.6, and I believe ghasts, the wither and the enderdragon, track you within 16 blocks)

 

[Dee_Twenty]

How is this a bug? Spiders track you through walls to ambush you. It's intended behaviour.
You can add a rim to your roof so that they can't climb up, it works with microblocks (if you have them) because it screws with their pathfinding.
But honestly just lighting up your house in a 20 block radius will stop all of these anyway (mobs, except zombies in 1.6, and I believe ghasts, the wither and the enderdragon, track you within 16 blocks)

Try hollowing out one of those giant redwood trees from Natura for uses as a home, or make a sufficiently tall structure like the time I built a glass tower around an especially large silverwood tree I found (which after I made my goggles of revealing I unfortunately learned a large, highly unstable node right outside my door and right above where I had planted a rubber tree had absorbed and destroyed the pure node from the tree). The spiders have an amusing habit of climbing up the wall and then dropping to the ground over and over again until they kill themselves.

 

[tehBlobLord]

Try hollowing out one of those giant redwood trees from Natura for uses as a home, or make a sufficiently tall structure like the time I built a glass tower around an especially large silverwood tree I found (which after I made my goggles of revealing I unfortunately learned a large, highly unstable node right outside my door and right above where I had planted a rubber tree had absorbed and destroyed the pure node from the tree). The spiders have an amusing habit of climbing up the wall and then dropping to the ground over and over again until they kill themselves.

It's not a bug... They track you and walk towards you. They walk up against the wall which makes them climb it (spiders treat every block like players treat ladders). When they get high enough they forget about your existence and stop tracking you. So they drop to the ground, where they "see" you and start tracking again. Repeat until dead.

Sure, it's not intended, but it's not really a bug, more of an oversight.

 

[Saice]

You know .... you could try something more basic.

Like a wall.

three blocks and an upside down stair or a slab will keep everything out side.

B S
B
B

B - Block
S - Stair/Slab

 

[ThePokepika99]

You know .... you could try something more basic.

Like a wall.

three blocks and an upside down stair or a slab will keep everything out side.

B S
B
B

B - Block
S - Stair/Slab

But I don't wan't my place to be surrounded with 3 blocks tall wall. (It ruins the looks.)

 

[tehBlobLord]

But I don't wan't my place to be surrounded with 3 blocks tall wall. (It ruins the looks.)

Does your house not have walls?
Because there's your problem.....

 

[ThePokepika99]

Does your house not have walls?
Because there's your problem.....

I have house, but I don't want turn it into fortress.

 

[Golrith]

I was about to suggest adding a mod called Turret Mod. Adds various different types of turrets that track and attack mobs, but that would make your house even more of a fortress....

 

[tehBlobLord]

I have house, but I don't want turn it into fortress.

You don't need it to be a fortress, just make the roof overhang. It will probably look better anyway Depends on your house.

I was about to suggest adding a mod called Turret Mod. Adds various different types of turrets that track and attack mobs, but that would make your house even more of a fortress....

Portal turrets! :O

 

[BlackFire]

Extra Utils adds a block that mutes a good amount of world sounds and it works very well. You could just do that instead of killing them.

 

[RedBoss]

I have house, but I don't want turn it into fortress.

Make a larger house. My current base is about 40x40 and just over 30 blocks high. I have overhangs and details but even when mobs spawned on the roof I never even heard them. Plus my area was well lit so I was never attacked when leaving.

I now have a magnum torch on he roof so there's a large area where mobs can't spawn anymore now.

But that's just me

 

[fergcraft]

LOL and here's me thinking of all the odd flat roof houses I've made. The annoying spiders are my friend.