How to control a "Cursed Earth" spawner?

[epidemia78]

Yeah I always check the date before replying because the "holy necroposting, batman!" bit gets old real fast. I cant for the life of me figure out why lights are not an option but hey, ancient history.

 

[RedBoss]

Yeah I always check the date before replying because the "holy necroposting, batman!" bit gets old real fast. I cant for the life of me figure out why lights are not an option but hey, ancient history.

Lights now turn off cursed earth spawners without burning the cursed earth.

 

[namiasdf]

Two main requirements for mob spawning:

(1) Lighting

(2) Space

Use (2) to your advantage.

 

[Veggetossj]

I always use TiCo's drawbridges to control my Cursed Earth spawner, that and lights help.

 

[ratchet freak]

you can use drawbridges to place and remove cursed earth you just need to ensure the floor below is unsuitable for spawning

 

[malicious_bloke]

Pretty sure that doesn't work. It would still count as blocks touching each other and the Cursed Earth would turn into dirt same as using half slabs and only leaving half a block gap.

You only need to get the spawn area down to 1 block high to stop anything other than spiders from spawning.

 

[Yusunoha]

you can use drawbridges to place and remove cursed earth you just need to ensure the floor below is unsuitable for spawning

or place blocks that can damage them like ExU Spikes or those sugarcane things from tinkers construct

 

[namiasdf]

I always use TiCo's drawbridges to control my Cursed Earth spawner, that and lights help.

Light cause fire mother fu-------cker!

 

[Celestialphoenix]

Tinkers drawbridge placing a layer of glass directly on top of the earth.

 

[Veggetossj]

Light cause fire mother fu-------cker!

My spawning area is underground, so as long as no direct sunlight touches the cursed earth it doesnt catches fire even when the light in the room is on.

 

[McJty]

Light cause fire mother fu-------cker!

Only sunlight. Not light from torches (that has changed)

 

[SmokeLuvr1971]

Nice necro, especially considering that your information isn't true. Magnum torches don't do anything to a cursed earth mobfarm, and I know because I've been running a huge one in my Monster world while I have multiple Magnum Torches keeping random mobs from spawning in my base.
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Good to know about the magnums, as I didn't. And what in the 9 Hells did I start? Might have necro'd a bit but it appears some more good infos have been added. Great to hear about crafted light not burning the soil up! Thanks for contributing people!

 

[Capital_Mayhem]

To continue the necro: MFFS force field blocks directly on top of cursed earth don't break the earth but occupy the air block so mobs won't be able to spawn so if you can afford it/ your server allows it, it's easy and looks awesome!

Source: sl1pg8r's FTB monster series