Ender pearl/lily generation nerfed in Infinity?

[Zelfana]

Pfft, you can kill the dragon with just some blocks, a regular bow and 5 stacks of arrows. It might take some time but it's not really that difficult. Getting enough eyes of ender for the portal is more time consuming and Endermen are also way more dangerous than the dragon.

 

[Baron_Falcon]

Pfft, you can kill the dragon with just some blocks, a regular bow and 5 stacks of arrows. It might take some time but it's not really that difficult. Getting enough eyes of ender for the portal is more time consuming and Endermen are also way more dangerous than the dragon.

Yea I figured the ender pearls would be the hardest to get in vanilla. My vanilla strategy would be this. Fully enchanted diamond armor, sword and bow. Getting pearls would probably work best with a looting III sword. I've never figured out a way to create a enderman spawner/grinder in vanilla. Feather falling is prob a must for when dragon knocks you off block stack. Maybe make a small platform with 1 block high walls and set rendering to max so you can snipe a lot of crystals from a single tower? Or make a crystal pillar into walled tower.


On the original topic, I think I know what my problem has been, I've been sleeping every night at my base because I am in a walled village and I didn't want mobs to spawn and kill the villagers. I'm thinking the more you stay awake at night, the more endermen will spawn. True or no? I am going to torch up the place, and I have put in garage doors at the gates, so I can work through the night and see if enderman spawn increases.

 

[Zelfana]

Yea I figured the ender pearls would be the hardest to get in vanilla. My vanilla strategy would be this. Fully enchanted diamond armor, sword and bow. Getting pearls would probably work best with a looting III sword. I've never figured out a way to create a enderman spawner/grinder in vanilla. Feather falling is prob a must for when dragon knocks you off block stack. Maybe make a small platform with 1 block high walls and set rendering to max so you can snipe a lot of crystals from a single tower? Or make a crystal pillar into walled tower.

The blocks are just for getting off the initial platform, you don't need to pillar up or anything. Then it's just a test of your accuracy with the bow. I don't think I had any crystals impossible to hit without pillaring. You can avoid getting hit by the dragon easily by shooting it in the face when it swoops down to get you. Usually it tends to just fly around doing nothing, though.

Of course I would also have better gear by the time I get eyes of ender and find the stronghold so it's not like I am always doing the dragon fight naked. It's still entirely possible, though.

On the original topic, I think I know what my problem has been, I've been sleeping every night at my base because I am in a walled village and I didn't want mobs to spawn and kill the villagers. I'm thinking the more you stay awake at night, the more endermen will spawn. True or no? I am going to torch up the place, and I have put in garage doors at the gates, so I can work through the night and see if enderman spawn increases.

Obviously the surface is a better location to find rarer hostile mobs because you can see a lot at the same time. If you torch up the place nothing will spawn at night. Endermen have the same spawning requirements as other hostile mobs but they also need a three block tall space.

 

[Baron_Falcon]

Yes, I'm thinking more along the lines of outside the walls, but still within spawn radius, particularly if I take a few turns around the perimeter.