attempt at making a wither farm.

[KillerRamer]

So yesterday I went through several attempts at creating a wither farm for easy stars, and avoiding the hub bub that comes with the quest for the star. I finally decided to go with mffs fields, and I'm rather pleased. My next portion is figuring out a way to achieve the skulls to make the wither himself.

Now when I tried using Soul shard's before- I had earned a skeleton soul from the wither skelly I had killed , I merely said to myself "Oh a wither spawner must not exist yet."

However after watching Dire's SMP 84 there was a brief glimpse of the wither farm. Now my question is how? Do skeleton spawners spawn withers in the nether? Or does a wither spawner exist in Soul Shards?

 

[Pip69]

I heard it mention that if you transport a skele spawner to the nether it will make wither skeletons.

 

[Celestialphoenix]

Skelespawners in the nether will produce wither skeletons as well as normal ones. It needs to be a T4 or higher to work outside normal dimensions for that mob type.

But looking at the ratio of skeletons to wither skeletons, and the percentage of wither skeletons that drop skulls a T5 is recommended.

 

[KillerRamer]

Ah thank you very much, so it will be allot easier than I thought then! Skeleton spawners aren't to hard to find. And since a wither farm's beneficial to a community, I'm sure folks wouldn't be to upset about giving up their skeleton spawners if it meant that we could upgrade to a wither farm. Not to mention the coal drops that occur aswell.

 

[Celestialphoenix]

Come to think of it, I should try to make a boiler run off the coal drops....

 

[KillerRamer]

Honestly I'd use the coal to make alumentuem. It's on the same level as coal coke and far quicker to make. Ran a few tests for quarry's and alum powered engines. Steam seems to be the way to go since it burns it far less faster. I just had to keep the energy cube output to 20 mj to keep it from burning faster than it could create. Five steam engines with about 6 to seven alum each got me down to 18 from 64.

 

[Celestialphoenix]

Honestly I'd use the coal to make alumentuem. It's on the same level as coal coke and far quicker to make. Ran a few tests for quarry's and alum powered engines. Steam seems to be the way to go since it burns it far less faster. I just had to keep the energy cube output to 20 mj to keep it from burning faster than it could create. Five steam engines with about 6 to seven alum each got me down to 18 from 64.

Nice idea- Will have to try wand+deployer (want to automate this as much as possible)

 

[KillerRamer]

Nice idea- Will have to try wand+deployer (want to automate this as much as possible)

tried wand's and deployers, they just spit em out.

 

[arkangyl]

Related: the Vorpal enchantment (I think it's added by RP) increases the drop rate for mob heads, so a skelly spawner in the nether would be doubly effective for farming wither skulls.