I wouldn't say "useless", exactly. Main reason I need one is I have a fairly large project I want to work on and having the extra speed boost would make it less of a nightmare.
Didn't work, should I try using lava instead of water?
If you want to "farm" them, enchant a sword with a high level of the "looting" enchantment. It should improve the skull drop rates by a lot. Even better, combine that with the Tinker's Construct cleaver weapon, and you have a natural head-collecting weapon that will get you a Wither in no time.
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Get magical crops mod and you can literally grow them, but you still need 4 initial skulls to craft the seeds.
I grew the skulls, killed wither and put star in the extra utilities nether star generator which was then stored in the Draconic Evolution RF storage which powered my Applied Energistics system. I killed countless withers that game.
Otherwise in vanilla minecraft get a high looting enchantment sword (about your only option). If you use cheats look up how to get a skeleton spawner in the nether and set up a wither skeleton farm.
one thing you can do (that isn't perfect, but better than nothing) is find a nether fortress and change it into a structure that's made out of vertically stacked platforms with three air blocks between each platform - sort of like one might do with a multi-level slime farm but following the structure of the fortress rather than just hollowing out the slime chunk. that gives the wither skeletons as many sqaures as possible to spawn in. the more levels, the more chance of spawning.
the next thing is to remove all other places where mobs can spawn in range of where you'll be waiting, top to bottom. one way to this is to just literally blow every block in range that isn't where the fortress was away with TNT and cover the "floor" with lava. that way the only places mobs can spawn are in your platform-fortress and you'll get way more wither skeletons than you would with just the platforms.
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A guy on my server built a wither skelly farm that works really well we have at one point have had over 100 skulls. It is a pure vanilla server . He has videos that he recorded while building it . Here is the link to his channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiB9T36p6umxROSonFtrzhA
Basicaly, I've never felt the need to farm them and the few times I've tried have been...painful to say the least.
My question is, is there any easier way to farm them? I've been hunting through nether fortresses but the very few I find never seem to drop a skull.
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Try planting a Wither skull you already have in a tilled piece of land. Should plant a wither stalk to grow wither skulls
Don't even bother, the reward is useless.
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I wouldn't say "useless", exactly. Main reason I need one is I have a fairly large project I want to work on and having the extra speed boost would make it less of a nightmare.
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Didn't work, should I try using lava instead of water?
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If you want to "farm" them, enchant a sword with a high level of the "looting" enchantment. It should improve the skull drop rates by a lot. Even better, combine that with the Tinker's Construct cleaver weapon, and you have a natural head-collecting weapon that will get you a Wither in no time.
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Get magical crops mod and you can literally grow them, but you still need 4 initial skulls to craft the seeds.
I grew the skulls, killed wither and put star in the extra utilities nether star generator which was then stored in the Draconic Evolution RF storage which powered my Applied Energistics system. I killed countless withers that game.
Otherwise in vanilla minecraft get a high looting enchantment sword (about your only option). If you use cheats look up how to get a skeleton spawner in the nether and set up a wither skeleton farm.
Been using looting 3, which i'm pretty sure its the highest level of looting you can get without cheating, unless i'm mistaken.
Can't use TC as I'm playing without mods in my LP.
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Well, you could slowly transition to a modded LP, as there are mods like Optifine which improve performance. Even make an official announcement.
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one thing you can do (that isn't perfect, but better than nothing) is find a nether fortress and change it into a structure that's made out of vertically stacked platforms with three air blocks between each platform - sort of like one might do with a multi-level slime farm but following the structure of the fortress rather than just hollowing out the slime chunk. that gives the wither skeletons as many sqaures as possible to spawn in. the more levels, the more chance of spawning.
the next thing is to remove all other places where mobs can spawn in range of where you'll be waiting, top to bottom. one way to this is to just literally blow every block in range that isn't where the fortress was away with TNT and cover the "floor" with lava. that way the only places mobs can spawn are in your platform-fortress and you'll get way more wither skeletons than you would with just the platforms.
A guy on my server built a wither skelly farm that works really well we have at one point have had over 100 skulls. It is a pure vanilla server . He has videos that he recorded while building it . Here is the link to his channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiB9T36p6umxROSonFtrzhA