Need Help With Mob Spawner! Please :)

[godlikekane]

so I've moved some twilight spawners and some vanilla spawners into a dark room full of conveyer belts, and its going alright, but i have to stand pretty close, (around 16 blocks or so) just wondering if there's something that acts as a player? thanks for the help in advance!

 

[Geometry]

AFAIK, there isn't anything that acts like a player. You could use MFR Autospawners or make a cursed earth spawner.

 

[hiroshi42]

Nope, there are no fake players that activate spawners that I know of. You can either make a cursed earth spawner (cursed earth from Extra utilities) which doesn't need a player close by. Or if you are feeling adventurous you could install something like soul shards reborn which is basically the original soul shards mod but for 1.6.4 (made by someone else)

gah, mathematical ninja

 

[godlikekane]

was looking into the cursed earth spawner but im using turtles to kill them and sometimes the creepers blow up and destroy all my stoofs. so whats the best way, because a grinder doesnt give the mob exp does it? give your liquid mob essence? whats the best method..

 

[hiroshi42]

ya, the grinder gives MFR mob essence which can be drunk to gain levels or used directly in an auto enchanter or anvil. The mobs blowing up is probably Ars Magica shenanigans (the light mages like to pick fights) You should be able to negate the explosions by putting water in your killing chamber

What exactly is your end goal? Are you in it for the loot, the exp, both?

 

[godlikekane]

like auto enchanting books, trying to get looting 3! for my flux gear ill try the grinder method and this cursed earth, need any special conditions for the earth?

 

[hiroshi42]

If the cursed earth gets too much light it lights on fire. At least it did I know there was talk of only having that happen when exposed to sunlight but I don't know if that version is out/in the packs yet. So keep it dark and be warned, it spreads to other dirt blocks like grass does (only it needs darkness to spread). Also: the mobs still despawn if you are 128+ blocks away last time I checked and so you either need it close or chunkloaded in another dimension.

And if it is exp/mob essence you want, there are a few other methods to getting it. The essence berry bushes from Tinker's construct can produce a large amount of xp/essence. You just need some way of harvesting the berries, an autonomous activator to use the berries and something to collect the xp orbs like a sewer (for mob essence, don't stand on it or you will clog the system) a brain in a jar (from thaumcraft, hit it and you get xp orbs back), or a vacuum hopper (for liquid xp from another mod which can be used like mob essence, but not in the MFR machines)

 

[godlikekane]

does the auto spawner get the xp back what it uses?, if not whats a good solution?

 

[hiroshi42]

The auto spawner/ grinder combo is usually a net loss in mob essence. You used to be able to use slimes to make a net positive but I think that has been changed(I never used slimes so I don't know). The 'solution' is to have some other source of essence like a cursed earth spawner or even a regular mob farm with grinders

 

[Adonis0]

The auto spawner/ grinder combo is usually a net loss in mob essence. You used to be able to use slimes to make a net positive but I think that has been changed(I never used slimes so I don't know). The 'solution' is to have some other source of essence like a cursed earth spawner or even a regular mob farm with grinders

Sorry bro, but slimes are no longer an option
When they die, they no longer split. The loot acts as if they split still, but the essence doesn't.

 

[godlikekane]

what about the blue slimes from TC?

 

[Wekmor]

Use an auto snowman farm and grind those down for the mob essence :3
Needs a pumpkin farm and this Glacial thingy from TE3

 

[ThatOneSlowking]

Use an auto snowman farm and grind those down for the mob essence :3
Needs a pumpkin farm and this Glacial thingy from TE3