Brain in a jar is creepy...

[Evil Hamster]

...looking

Even more than that. When I signed into my world this morning, there was a pig running around my house. No big deal, I figured I'd catch him later and start my pig farm

My base layout is my thaumcraft room, some stairs a small platform and I was down some more stairs around the corner doing some work. The pig was on the small platform. My brain in a jar is right at the top of the stairs.

I heard the pig squeal noise and a couple seconds later got a porkchop in my invetory (magnet mode is awesome!). A little curious what killed the pig I went upstairs and into my thaumcraft room and the brain in a jar was shaking on the floor.

Are those things capable of killing creatures??

 

[Celestialphoenix]

Was there anything else in the area that could kill it? I dont think pigs can jump/fall from platforms now.

(Almost certainly, if this works, I now have an auto-killing mechanism for my farms)

 

[FelixJ20000]

R u near a aura node. Brains generate a small amount of flux so a whisp could have spawned

 

[Evil Hamster]

Only thing I can think of is it glitched into a wall.

My crucible is empty, so it didn't jump onto that. The porkchop wasn't cooked so it didn't die from a lava fire. No wisps have ever spawned in my house- I haven't researched the goggles yet so I don't know where the nearest node is.

 

[Lakart]

The creepiest(and in my opinion best) thing about the brain in a jar is that the little evil eyes follow you around, and the brain turns to look at you. <3

Anyway, I made a circle of brain jars around a pig and there was no murdering, sadly.

EDIT: Sometimes they do shake, though.

 

[Mero]

If you didn't have any water in your crucible then I would say it was a glitch suffocation death. I had set up a few different passive mob farms in previous packs and came outside to find all of them dead. These were fenced in so nothing got out. After repopulating one once I was there to witness the mobs glitching into the floor and dieing.

 

[DreamingSheep]

I've been having odd things like this happen too and cannot figure out what's happening. I've got an 11x11 room with a 2 high gap, 2 blocks off the ground, that had all my pigs in it. The only other things in the room were a single vanilla chest, 4 torches and 3 tall grass on the floor. I've had 7 out of 8 pigs die or get out of the room at different times.

The area is chunk loaded too, so in theory should not be an issue with the chunk loading awkwardly and the pigs being in the wrong place, even though I don't think this is possible.

The area has another room above it and a roof above that, so no chance of lightning being the problem, and my flux level is 'None'. I'm not entirely sure what's happening, but there must be something one of the mods has changed something because I've never had anything that bad in vanilla.