Mob traps

What are some surface mob traps and underground mob traps and what factors do you have to consider when making them.


Here's a old one:

Took a while to find, but this is a great mob farm example. Its a bit old, but i doubt spawning rules has change
viewtopic.php?f=39&t=15646&hilit=mob+farm

I love mob traps! My favorite had been Society's setup, but trapdoors can't be placed in water anymore

What I've been doing so far, on Android, on the surface (underground needs testing) uses the basic design of Society's trap with wide stairs, water and acid. My pit is two deep, acid in the bottom and water flowing in the top. My center is 3 wide, ( 1 wide for safe standing) with a 5 wide roof extending over the pits, a ladder in the middle. Instead of blocking mobs with the trapdoor, I place a solid block to stop water and mobs while I remove an inner wall to collect items, then remove the block from the relative safety back inside. It's been working pretty well!

Warning, poor diagram below! O - open air, # - solid block, A - acid, @ - ladder

Open for business!
OO#####OO
OOO#@#OOO
##O#@#O##
##A#@#A##
####@####

Closed for collection
OO#####OO
OO##@##OO
##OO@OO##
##A#@#A##
####@####

So trapdoors aren't necessary. They were just used for convenience.


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Took a while to find, but this is a great mob farm example. Its a bit old, but i doubt spawning rules has change
viewtopic.php?f=39&t=15646&hilit=mob+farm

Does it matter the distance of everything?


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Took a while to find, but this is a great mob farm example. Its a bit old, but i doubt spawning rules has change
viewtopic.php?f=39&t=15646&hilit=mob+farm

Does it matter the distance of everything?


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Distance matters. Its so that mobs will fall down to the ground, not the block next to it. It allows for quicker and faster killing, and therefore, more spawning.

So trapdoors aren't necessary. They were just used for convenience.

Pretty much! They're just an easy way to stop the mobs from dropping on your face.

Took a while to find, but this is a great mob farm example. Its a bit old, but i doubt spawning rules has change
viewtopic.php?f=39&t=15646&hilit=mob+farm

Does it matter the distance of everything?


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Distance matters. Its so that mobs will fall down to the ground, not the block next to it. It allows for quicker and faster killing, and therefore, more spawning.

What about the height of the blocks from the surface?
To clarify, the distance of space between the surface and the actual platforms the mobs spawn on.


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What about the height of the blocks from the surface?
To clarify, the distance of space between the surface and the actual platforms the mobs spawn on.

As long as they can fall down and not get back out. 2 blocks, 3, 6... Not important. That's why the water/bridge combo is so useful, they can't hop back up. You don't want them to die from the fall because items will not be washed down. I prefer the staggered blocks (from Society's) because the mobs can get down safely and walk into my acid trap. Plus having 2 empty spaces between the spawn blocks means they fall down instead of just hopping between down blocks.

[TwelveFoot]

Unless I've missed something mobs don't take fall damage.

Im wondering what's with all the different build designs wouldn't one specific one for all surface mob traps be sufficient? What's with the different designs?


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Unless I've missed something mobs don't take fall damage.

My mistake then, I'm just over cautious about keeping them alive until I kill them

[Multipackwolf]

Im wondering what's with all the different build designs wouldn't one specific one for all surface mob traps be sufficient? What's with the different designs?


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Different planets have different types of mobs, and different mobs have different resistances. As well, you can hardly use lava in mob farm as well.. your items will go bye bye if they touch. And some mobs are immune to acid, while others are immune to drowning etc, so you need to change the design based on where you are

When I make these sort of traps, the mobs usually die far away and I have to run around to collect the drops, making it pretty pointless. Are the liquids supposed to push the drops or mobs?

[TwelveFoot]

Liquids used to push both items and mobs. Then water physics changed, now they don't. At least not noticeably.