Auto-Monster farm question

[Dzarky]

Hi there I have gotten to the point in ftb infinity evolved where I have my fully automated monster farm ready...

It outputs all items and mob essence straight to my AE2 setup.

I only have 2 questions.

First of all - CREEPERS! I am using autonomous activator with a pretty powerful tinkers construct cleaver that has beheading bonuses. Occasionally when I use autonomous activator instead of MFR Grinder - creepers and skeletons fight and well... Creepers blow up! I don't want to turn off explosions but I have to - as they will explode and mess up my kill room. The question is - is there any way to set up a kill room to avoid creeper explosions? Thanks! Also keep in mind, you get a lot better drops and more mob essence if a mob is killed and drained into sewer instead of MFR grinder. So I would like to keep using autonomous activator.

I was thinking warded blocks but they don't ward the machines or conveyor belts as far as I know.

Second question - mob drops include Thaumcraft essence. Any way to collect it? Sewer only collects xp.

 

[MacAisling]

Creeper explosions in water don't break blocks, so try replacing the conveyors in your kill chamber with a water source block in the two corners away from the autonomous activator. You can try putting an empty wand and a tome of knowledge sharing in the autonomous activator with the cleaver (set it to always use the cleaver) and see if that will charge the wand. The orbs are like the vis you draw from nodes, not the stuff you can bottle. I'm not playing 1.7.10 anymore, so I can't test it. You'll have to let the rest of us know if it works.

 

[Dzarky]

I need to experiment with it a bit I guess. I have some ideas like thaumcraft attractor, I just to know if creepers explode machines like sewer or autonomous activator. As for essence orbs I remember a lets play where the guy made a monster farm with the ability to collect them. I just don't remember how he did it and I didn't write it down.

 

[Cptqrk]

Also make it so your cleaver is a one hit one kill weapon (Nether Quartz the crap out of it).

They can't fight if they are dead

Sent from a mystical device from North of the 49th

 

[Inaeo]

Unless the Skeletons can see a player, I'm not sure why they would attack anything. More than likely the fighting is occurring due to the natural aggression between Creepers and EnderMinis from EnderZoo. Unless you somehow have a need or want for EnderMinis, Concussion Creepers and the like added by EnderZoo, you can likely solve your issue by either messing with the configs or simply disabling EnderZoo completely.