Player proximity imitation

[RedBoss]

Do light mages appear if you don't start with Ars2? I've been running 3 7x7 cursed earth spawners for a few weeks and never had any creepers explode.

 

[hiroshi42]

Not necessarily what you are after, but there is a new mod inspired by the original soul shards called Soul shards: reborn. Seems to have all the same functionality as the old soul shards mod. Still seems in development and might have some cross mod compatibility issues (the post mentions something about slimes). But ya, other than that cursed earth in a mystcraft age (does the nether/end work too?) feeding a MFR grinder to feed a MFR auto-spawner to spawn mobs you actually want to kill seems the best option available to us ATM.

Supposedly the spawn mechanics for the AM2 mobs were changed to actually respect your AM2 level. They are also supposed to respect the config settings now, but I haven't heard if that is actually working yet.

 

[Tristam Izumi]

Do light mages appear if you don't start with Ars2? I've been running 3 7x7 cursed earth spawners for a few weeks and never had any creepers explode.

I think mages spawning is tied to your AM2 level (or possibly if on a server, the highest AM2 level on the server). If you haven't gotten into AM2, then mages won't spawn.

 

[Lohengrin]

Any clever options to deal with light mages that do spawn? I have seen a few, most look moderately complicated (water, fans, etc). Or are the grinders fast enough to drop them if the combination of creeper/light mage comes up to not really worry about it?

 

[Tristam Izumi]

Any clever options to deal with light mages that do spawn? I have seen a few, most look moderately complicated (water, fans, etc). Or are the grinders fast enough to drop them if the combination of creeper/light mage comes up to not really worry about it?

One idea I've seen is to checkerboard the cursed earth area with pillars of glass so mobs can still spawn but are separated so they can't interact. It does cut down on spawnable surface area, but it avoids the "light mage aggros the creeper" situation.

 

[Lohengrin]

Ooo, see now that is clever. Despite the lower spawn rate, that is pretty solid and low tech. Love it.

 

[hiroshi42]

From my own experience before I removed AM2 grinders do generally work fast enough if you have enough of them. I don't remember if 1 grinder per 5x5 was enough, I just spammed them and never had an issue
A couple of 'clever' ways I've seen:
Gather everything together (like with a ritual of containment or a corporeal attractor or fans if they work fast enough) and have water in the center to prevent explosions from doing block damage
Use a corporeal attractor with the soul-whatever to attract creepers to one end of the trap and light mages to the other.

 

[RedBoss]

I think mages spawning is tied to your AM2 level (or possibly if on a server, the highest AM2 level on the server). If you haven't gotten into AM2, then mages won't spawn.

Awesome! I use items from Ars but I never make spells