Regulating Soul Shard Spawner?

[PCPuddin]

Has anybody got any redstone tips on regulating a tier 5 blaze spawner?

I'm asking this because I'm just after lagging the crap out of my client and had it not been for the "killall blaze" command I would be screwed.All I want is to keep the spawn rate at a low number. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

 

[Cata3rd]

try limiting the spawn space or only have the signal on for a second at a time,

 

[brujon]

There's no way to reduce how many blazes are spawned per cycle of the T5 spawner, however, it is possible to keep it on for X amount of time, before shutting it off and waiting for Y amount of time before restarting the cycle. Easiest way i can think to do it would be with ComputerCraft. Place a computer above the spawner, use this quick and dirty program:

while true do
while redstone.getInput("top") do
redstone.setOutput("bottom", true)
sleep(15)
redstone.setOutput("bottom", false)
sleep(15)
end

This will turn the spawner on, leave it on for 15 seconds, then turn it off for 15 seconds, before restarting the cycle, and it will continue to do so as long as it receives a redstone signal from the TOP of the computer so you can run some red alloy wire from the computer to outside the spawn room, to a lever, where you can turn it on and off as you please.

Tweak the sleep values to whatever works best for you. Maybe you want the spawner on for more than 15 seconds, maybe for less than 15 seconds, or maybe you want it to be turned off for longer periods of time before it turns on again. Of course this could be done without computercraft, with toggle latches, timers, etc... But this is much more compact, and i like it better.

 

[dementia]

You could use a timer to only allow the spawner to spawn 5 at a time then stop and wait for a while then spawn 5 more, if you have a tier 5 blaze spawner. Adding a kill switch would allow you to deactivate it when you are finished. If you have a lower tier just put a red power light above it and use a switch to toggle the light.

 

[Saice]

as pointed out timers are one of the better ways to contorl the cycle for spawning.

Another thing you can do in that vain is use trip wires to detect the spawn and use that to trigger your delay timer. You could also use presure plates but trip wires can be run mid air allowing for lava, water, oil, or convayors to move the mobds under that.