Well, recently I've found a Spider Dungeon near enough to my base that I can connect them together. The problem is that first off, they're spiders, and second, that the dungeon is at y: 25. Normally I just do the 20-something block drop to put them at about a heart left, but spiders will just climb on the walls and clog up the system, plus it's too low down for the fall damage to work. Does anyone know any way to make an efficient trap from this, where I still get the EXP?
If you can tell me anything that can help, thanks.
You are going to more trouble than it is worth for something that will not work. Spiders can suspend from ceilings, so a drop will not be effective unless there is nothing overhead. But big spiders are not that difficult to kill either. So just make a 1 block wide hallway for an entrance and go in there and slay them with a stone sword. If they become too much for you, just back into the hallway where they cannot reach you.
You could replace some of the dungeon floor blocks with sand and plant cactus to weaken the spiders, but that would be too easy.
Skeletons are about the only thing you need a dungeon elevator and drop for. Even zombies dungeons are easy if you just add a doorway or gate that you can close.
Cave spiders (like my skin) are a different matter, because they can fit through a 1x1 opening.
If you can tell me anything that can help, thanks.
By a piston crusher, you mean like a suffocation trap, right? That might be a pretty feasible idea.
there is one problem with that
you wouldnt get the xp from it
but if you just want the items then it would work
Nope. You can hook the crusher to a delay that would pull the crusher back, leaving a 1-hit KO spider, giving exp and items.
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You could replace some of the dungeon floor blocks with sand and plant cactus to weaken the spiders, but that would be too easy.
Skeletons are about the only thing you need a dungeon elevator and drop for. Even zombies dungeons are easy if you just add a doorway or gate that you can close.
Cave spiders (like my skin) are a different matter, because they can fit through a 1x1 opening.