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Quote from Chowder »

Try using Cartographer to find caves you've missed.

Won't work i'm afraid. I'm playing on an SMP server that a coworker runs. HE may be able to though. the only thing I can think of doing is mine out in all directions.

Quote from IscopeU »

Eliminate the possibility of mobs spawning elsewhere.

Light up caves, light up the ground above. (That's why people build under the sea.)

The area to do this is 75 blocks in all directions from your collection point. From top to bottom.

Building a large spawn room is only 50% of the work done.

I'm under an ocean already so that is done. However, I'm fairly close to the shore. I already set out tons of torches along the coast as well. The only thing that I can think of is more caves. *SIGH*....

EDIT: Honestly, i'm about to just give up on this trap and consider it a wash. I'm already thinking about building a tower above my huge diamond mine. At least there I know for certain there are no flipping caves underneath....

Quote from punchin »

This design seems like it's pretty good. Nice small footprint. However, if you're wanting a spawn room that still works without exploiting the 0,0 glitch and produces a massive amount of items, check out Kiershar's spawner. I decided to do a double decker (2 floor) design down at bedrock on my server. Just the first floor produces enough items to provide all8 members of my server with everything they need. The second floor was boredom. I constructed one quarter of the room with picks and collected powder from that. Then made TNT to blast the rest of the room. It goes pretty fast. Here's the link to his video. I made no changes to it in my design, except to add a second floor.

I have something very similar to this and it gets no where near the 2000+ items an hour the creator claims. I'm only getting 100 aprox an hour TOPS. Not sure why.... done pretty much everything I can think of.

Thats pretty cool. However, just wondering. What do you view the schematic with? My PC does not have anything associated with the file type. Is this a MCEdit thing? If so do you have a PDF or something? I'm not really into the whole MCEdit thing, but would love to try and reproduce something similar from scratch instead.

So, I have a 30 x 80 mob trap I designed rougly based of various videos I seen on youtube. However, I seem to have a problem with getting much items. Originally, I attributed this to being to close to the floor. I was originally exactly 24 blocks away. So, I extended the collector to be about 64 - 69 back(roughly). However, I did not notice an increase. So, I went about and started digging around and found a few caves that were probably competing with my kill floor. I lit them up and killed the natives like any good caver would do. However, I still am having trouble with items. I am roughly pulling in anywhere from 50 to 100 items an hour. Not sure what I am doing wrong either. But for the time spent on the construction it has been not worth the payoff thus far.

One thing I did notice, also, is people claiming mob towers work better. Mine is underground and occupies layers 19 thru 24 with the spawn floor being centered on layer 22 - 24 with exactly a 2 high space for them to spawn.

Soooooooooo... any advice on how to improve upon this? I was thinking about incorporating another 30 x 80 floor directly above the original and have a hole feed into canal near the lava trap. Oh, thats another thing... I'm also fairly certain its not the lava... I sat for a while and listened to see if any items burned and I didn't hear any yet.

Thanks in advance for any ideas!

Quote from ColorWars »

Some areas have low spawn rates and other areas have high spawn rates.

There are a few threads about this...

I have been having the same trouble as the OP...

Do you by chance have the name or URL to this thread you speak of so I can check it out?

Yeah I have a 30 x 80 foot single floor that is 2 blocks high. I could probably work another floor into the scheme of things.

Ok so I built a monster trap underground around layer 22ish. My problem is being that I get great items when I first get their but then quickly it stops completely. I had a friend test it and it appears that I may have the collector to close. I *thought* I remember reading somewhere that they have to have them at least 24 blocks away from the floor which is what I did. However, I may be wrong. So my question is this: How many blocks away do you need to be away for monsters to spawn? Thanks!

Thanks everyone. I figured as much that it wouldn't be added for some time. :sad.gif:

Oh well... guess I will have to work out some other form of traveling long distances (relatively) quickly.

Thanks again!

Hi,

Just joined the forums to ask this question. Was playing on a friends server while he was away and I created a portal to the nether but it did not work as usual. I did some research and found that this feature has of yet not been included in SMP. Does anyone know if this is going to be an intended feature and what an estimated timeframe would be when this would be completed? I was unable to find anything else regarding this issue.

Was going to try and use the nether like I usually do as a fast travel between my bases of operation... was disappointed to say the least when it did not function correctly :/