so last couple days I've gotten little done because of work. But I finally get some time Saturday and find a recent update has broken a few things. The most important of those is my mob system. So I had to make a new one.
First thing is a wanted this one to look nice and be visible so I opted for OpenBlocks dark glass. Which means I'm going to need a lot of thicken glass so it is a multi stage process. So I made a monster of automation.
Yes it is a mess by
Saice, on Flickr
Yes it is a mess by
Saice, on Flickr
Ok just this looks a little confusing but in the back left there buried under that barrel is a pulverize and a igneous extruder. The nice thing about BM is that whats powering it is also buried in there one steam dynamo with lava crystal the same is in to two steel furnaces. The sand goes up into a barrel and the gravel gets piped over to its own barrel the sand then gets pulled out with TE itemducts some into a furnace for glass and some into the MFR fluidcrafter. it makes Sandy glass and that gets pipped out to a second furnace which then makes the Thicken Glass. Both glasses have a barrel and the whole system has an over flow to a trash can.
So with that running I needed more cursed earth then what I got from my sigil. So off to a tight dark hole to grow more.
Mmmm cursed earth by
Saice, on Flickr
With all that in hand I made some TiCo drawbridges because I wanted to be able to turn the whole mess on and off. You can see the basic idea here. I'll put Fans on the sides and down in the gap to push everything to the hole in the middle.
Build it and they will spawn by
Saice, on Flickr
Build it and they will spawn by
Saice, on Flickr
I used some red alloy wire and some wireless redstone under the draw bridges to control them. Since both Redstone paste and the Drawbridges are signal aware I had to use the alloy to make sure all the bridges fully extended.
Build it and they will spawn by
Saice, on Flickr
My first run had a few issues and I ended up adding anti-spider systems.
Build it and they will spawn by
Saice, on Flickr
With all that in place you can see basically how this works.
Build it and they will spawn by
Saice, on Flickr
Build it and they will spawn by
Saice, on Flickr
Down bellow (via a portal) is the Kill room and like every vanilla dark room system you have ever seen it has to odd kill drop and farm mode.
Build it and they will spawn by
Saice, on Flickr
Kill box of love by
Saice, on Flickr
Kill box of love by
Saice, on Flickr
A little extra thing is since the kill box is 2x2 and if you get right up on it and a mod is in the back they can see you. I had to add something to keep from creepers blowing up. Yep more fans. There are two fans buried in the back wall about 6 blocks back the blow all the mobs up front into a 2x1 space making sure everything is in reach and no mob can see you. Also it pushes all the drops out to so there is that.