Cursed Earth Room and Spiders.

[NoPain9]

I am currently trying out some stuff for my blood altar, I have a small room above my blood altar, kinda what direwolf20 has in his single player series at the moment for getting blood.

I went a bit further and got me some cursed earth to help with spawning, as I couldn't find all the dungeons underneath my blood altar and house etc. The only problem is, currently I just have a 1 x 1 hole. And spiders are spawning that won't fit through.

I could make the hole bigger and just make the 'building' itself larger. But I'm curious on how get solutions to stop them from spawning.

I've added an image on how it looks currently, still working on it, lots of improvement to be made.

It's 3 tall, with the spawnable spaces are 4 x 4, currently. Will be expanding it once I get rid of those pesky spiders.

After some searching I've found that I can put transparent blocks above it, or I think half slabs or slabs can prevent it, but I'm not experienced with that and couldn't find some good examples. So I thought let's see what the people on the forum do for creativity for this.

Any help is appreciated !

 

[b0bst3r]

On cursed earth you can't stop spiders from spawning, well actually you can but you need EnderIO to do it and since you haven't mentioned which pack you are playing or what mods you have ....

Edit also I'm not sure if the EIO way will work on cursed earth since it doesn't work to normal spawning rules.

 

[NoPain9]

On cursed earth you can't stop spiders from spawning, well actually you can but you need EnderIO to do it and since you haven't mentioned which pack you are playing or what mods you have ....

It's the crackpack and aye it does have Ender IO. And I'm gonna make an assumption you mean the Aversion Obelisk? If so, gonna try it .

Edited Attractor to Aversion xD.

 

[Jakalth]

Using the half slab method only requires that you place the slabs so that there are no places where you have a 2x2 area without slabs. Spiders need a 2x2 area to spawn in. Everything else will still spawn just fine, if a bit slower, since the slabs reduce the number of spawn locations. It's not going to slow down the spawns by much though.

 

[b0bst3r]

It's the crackpack and aye it does have Ender IO. And I'm gonna make an assumption you mean the Aversion Obelisk? If so, gonna try it .

Edited Attractor to Aversion xD.

Yeah I did let us know if it works

 

[NoPain9]

Yeah I did let us know if it works

Well it's working half and half. I put in 2 soul vials with Creeper & Spider. As creepers can explode and make a mess. But it only does 1 of the 2. At the moment it's still spawning creepers. When I switch to peaceful and back. Spiders may spawn. So no idea how that is handled. Can't seem to find MUCH information about the obelisk though.

Also yes the Obelisk is in range, it's like right on top of the spawn building.

 

[Mirality]

Using the half slab method only requires that you place the slabs so that there are no places where you have a 2x2 area without slabs. Spiders need a 2x2 area to spawn in. Everything else will still spawn just fine, if a bit slower, since the slabs reduce the number of spawn locations. It's not going to slow down the spawns by much though.

Actually spiders need a 3x3 clear space to spawn in, so you don't need as many slabs. (Spiders are 2x2, but spawn at the centre of the centre block of a 3x3 space.)

 

[Jakalth]

Actually spiders need a 3x3 clear space to spawn in, so you don't need as many slabs. (Spiders are 2x2, but spawn at the centre of the centre block of a 3x3 space.)

Ok, that's something I seemed to have miss. Thanks. Makes the half slab option a bit better actually. Hope this info helps NoPain9 as well.

 

[NoPain9]

Actually spiders need a 3x3 clear space to spawn in, so you don't need as many slabs. (Spiders are 2x2, but spawn at the centre of the centre block of a 3x3 space.)

Ok, that's something I seemed to have miss. Thanks. Makes the half slab option a bit better actually. Hope this info helps NoPain9 as well.

I'm pretty sure they will as the Aversion Obelisk, helps but only does 1 or the other. So I'll have the obelisk for creepers (Not wanting unwanted explosions) and the slabs for spiders. Will update my post on progress if it worked . Thanks!

To update this. I did the halfslab thingie, works like a charm. No idea why the Obelisk isn't working though. I have it set to NOT allow creepers to spawn. Those are the only ones I don't allow. And yet it lets creepers spawn. Maybe Cursed Earth spawns to fast for the obelisk.