Skeleton and Creeper item farm

[PhilHibbs]

So I got myself two lovely T5 Creeper and Skeleton shards. I already have a zombie farm for XP and gold/iron drops, so I don't need to do anything complex with these ones. All I want is the drops - the gunpowder, bones, and arrows. What's the best way to get this?

What I did so far is adapt my Sulfur Goo Farm which is a big square wooden structure - 19x19 I think - with 4 triangular platforms and 4 trenches that flushes drops into a central obsidian tube. I the spawners 60 or so blocks above it with a wireless switch to turn it on and off. The mobs survive the fall though. First I tried putting a layer of wooden fences above the water so the mobs would die on the fence but the drops go through. That didn't work, most of the drops stayed on the top of the fences. I tried iron rails, same problem. Then I settled on Quicksand. It's working, but kind of noisy and laggy as hell. The quicksand kills them fairly slowly and slows down the drops as well. I suppose I could replace some of the wooden blocks in the channels with melee turtles, but I don't want to leave them running all the time, and I don't want to have to fly in and manually run an attack program.

Any other ideas? I like the idea of re-using my goo farm as it already flushes drops into a chest. I just need to get the drop to kill the mobs. Maybe I should put the water blocks in dispensers, and stop the flow while the mobs drop.

 

[Celestialphoenix]

A simple drop trap should do it.

 

[RetroGamer1224]

Make it a block or two or three higher. That way the mobs die for certain.

 

[ThemsAllTook]

Make it a block or two or three higher. That way the mobs die for certain.

There was a change recently (Minecraft 1.4.6 or so?) that made all drops into any amount of water do no damage to mobs or the player. I currently have a T5 zombie pigman soul shard set up for gold nugget farming, which uses water streams to funnel them into a 1x1 drop shaft that ends at an obsidian transport pipe and an item tesseract. Works great, you just have to set it up carefully so that the mobs don't bottleneck - push them over from the spawn area down a 3-block drop to a 1-wide water stream running off to the side, then have that one go into your 1x1 shaft.

 

[Poppycocks]

Eh, I think that the easiest, cheapest and most efficient way is drop trap over a floor of obsidian pipes with a layer of iron pipes under that. The monsters are remove from the spawn area asap, which makes spawning faster, the collection area only costs a little glass, obsidian and iron, but best of all is that you don't have to worry about a thing. There's no messy water, no laggy timers, no engines...

 

[RetroGamer1224]

I wasn't thinking of dropping them in water. Just drop them on a point which kills them and water under moves drops. That or make a simple death drop at the height you need. Lot less mess. I believe MrNewGuy had a great video on a mob spawner.

 

[ShameWillFollow]

I just put my spawners (in this world, creeper and enderman) high up in the sky (25+ blocks up for creepers and 45+ for enderman) and just simply let them spawn and drop straight down. The platform at ground level is just a simple square (9x9 IIRC) with transposers equally spaced to pick up any drops. The transposers are given a pulse from a timer via redstone tubes, and the drops are then whisked away through the tubes straight to my enderchest.

 

[Korenn]

I just stick an ender chest in the side of the drop chute bottom and set a strong wooden golem on it.

 

[Poppycocks]

I just stick an ender chest in the side of the drop chute bottom and set a strong wooden golem on it.

Lol, I'm an idiot. You win this thread.

 

[Dragonchampion]

Why doesn't anyone use buildcraft obsidian pipes in their mob drop farms?

 

[Poppycocks]

Why doesn't anyone use buildcraft obsidian pipes in their mob drop farms?

Read the thread again.

 

[Dragonchampion]

Didn't know you meant pipes, ahaha. I derped there!

 

[Poppycocks]

Didn't know you meant pipes, ahaha. I derped there!

Haha, miscomunication on my part I guess .

 

[Exedra]

Quicksand in their heads after a ten block drop. Your choice of item collection underneath.

 

[OmegaPython]

Combat turtles on an infinite turtle.attack() loop. with your choice of drop collection.

 

[Mero]

Transposers work much better than obsidian pipes. Just set up however many you need too cover the area stuff drops and set it up on a timer set to 5 seconds or so.

 

[ThemsAllTook]

Transposers work much better than obsidian pipes.

Better in what way? I haven't seen obsidian pipes jam up or anything.

 

[Poppycocks]

Better in what way? I haven't seen obsidian pipes jam up or anything.

Yeah that's one thing, obsidian pipes are also cheap, are built in bulk and don't require timers. I'd rather avoid timers. It's actually the reson I'm using routers way more often than I should.

 

[Revemohl]

I don't like making timers for everything, so the last time I did something like this I used a 9x9 floor of transposers. Unnecessarily expensive, but yeah whatever.
I guess you could use pressure plates (wooden, in special) to save up a bit on both transposers and timers as well.

 

[Mero]

Better in what way? I haven't seen obsidian pipes jam up or anything.

the fact that you don't need to attach a motor to every one to make them pick up items in blocks that isn't the transpose makes it better. You can run 1000......off of the same timer. tubes won't spit items all over the ground
If the attached inventory is full.