In my current world, I'm trying to scrounge up ender pearls, so I decided to try MFR auto-spawners for the first time.
The short version of the story is, I've got a bunch of animal pens, using fences, with the appropriate MFR blocks in the appropriate places. Everything works fine, the only problem is, I keep getting mobs "leaking" out of the pens... is this because I'm using fences? Would it be better if I walled up everything in something less leaky (like stone, or glass, or whatever)?
It's kind of an amusing problem to have. I keep finding baby chickens in the tiniest nooks and crannies... they fall into the gaps where the redstone conduits run under the floor, I have calves and cows occasionally stampeding about outside the pens. It's quite the circus.
I'll tell the long version of the story too, since it might be helpful and/or amusing to anyone encountering this stuff for the first time. It's a pretty perfect illustration of the Great Modded Minecraft Circle Of Joy/Tears... I'll explain.
I want to fly. Therefore I need an MPS jetpack. Therefore I need ender pearls (key ingredient in the crafting thereof). Therefore I need to kill tons of endermen. Now I *could* run around with a +looting sword and hope to find them, hope to hit them hard and fast enough before they despawn/teleport away, etc... in fact I tried that. That's a suckers game. Enter automation, of course.
As an aside, in the past I would use Soul Shards and set up a T5 farm, but now that Soul Shards has (IMHO) jumped the shark, I can't be bothered... it needs endstone fer cryin' out loud. I know the End isn't that big a deal, but for me, by the time I've a) found a stronghold, b) established enough gear to feel secure in trekking out to The End to take on the dragon well... I don't really need a spawner anymore. And it just isn't "fun". Sorry Soul Shards. You're passe.
So, back to the circle. I want ender pearls. Therefore... I need to spawn endermen in an auto-spawner. Ok, so for the auto-spawner to work, I need essence. Damn, that means I need a renewable source of mobs to kill, to make essence. Ok, enter the Breeder. So I get cows and chickens. Now I need to feed/breed them. That means wheat and seeds... Now I need a farm. Oh jebus.
So next thing you know, I'm walling out a 2x2 chunk area in the ocean (yeah, cos I decided to build an island base this time), so I can make a giant, emerald upgraded farm, because why do things small, right? Now I'm running out of cobblestone, amazingly, so I have to build an igneous extruder, and... man, I'm gonna need to pump all this water out somewhere. Now I need a pump.
At various points I keep forgetting why I'm doing the particular thing I'm doing and I have to go back through the circle... " I forget... why am I mining copper now? Oh yeah, gotta make some more liquiducts..."
Diary of a madman, indeed. But I'm having fun doing it all.
The short version of the story is, I've got a bunch of animal pens, using fences, with the appropriate MFR blocks in the appropriate places. Everything works fine, the only problem is, I keep getting mobs "leaking" out of the pens... is this because I'm using fences? Would it be better if I walled up everything in something less leaky (like stone, or glass, or whatever)?
It's kind of an amusing problem to have. I keep finding baby chickens in the tiniest nooks and crannies... they fall into the gaps where the redstone conduits run under the floor, I have calves and cows occasionally stampeding about outside the pens. It's quite the circus.
I'll tell the long version of the story too, since it might be helpful and/or amusing to anyone encountering this stuff for the first time. It's a pretty perfect illustration of the Great Modded Minecraft Circle Of Joy/Tears... I'll explain.
I want to fly. Therefore I need an MPS jetpack. Therefore I need ender pearls (key ingredient in the crafting thereof). Therefore I need to kill tons of endermen. Now I *could* run around with a +looting sword and hope to find them, hope to hit them hard and fast enough before they despawn/teleport away, etc... in fact I tried that. That's a suckers game. Enter automation, of course.
As an aside, in the past I would use Soul Shards and set up a T5 farm, but now that Soul Shards has (IMHO) jumped the shark, I can't be bothered... it needs endstone fer cryin' out loud. I know the End isn't that big a deal, but for me, by the time I've a) found a stronghold, b) established enough gear to feel secure in trekking out to The End to take on the dragon well... I don't really need a spawner anymore. And it just isn't "fun". Sorry Soul Shards. You're passe.
So, back to the circle. I want ender pearls. Therefore... I need to spawn endermen in an auto-spawner. Ok, so for the auto-spawner to work, I need essence. Damn, that means I need a renewable source of mobs to kill, to make essence. Ok, enter the Breeder. So I get cows and chickens. Now I need to feed/breed them. That means wheat and seeds... Now I need a farm. Oh jebus.
So next thing you know, I'm walling out a 2x2 chunk area in the ocean (yeah, cos I decided to build an island base this time), so I can make a giant, emerald upgraded farm, because why do things small, right? Now I'm running out of cobblestone, amazingly, so I have to build an igneous extruder, and... man, I'm gonna need to pump all this water out somewhere. Now I need a pump.
At various points I keep forgetting why I'm doing the particular thing I'm doing and I have to go back through the circle... " I forget... why am I mining copper now? Oh yeah, gotta make some more liquiducts..."
Diary of a madman, indeed.
But I'm having fun doing it all.
