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The mob grinder, new and improved:
The mob grinder from before had some flaws, mainly: Mobs at the back of the crushing room were unreachable, only a few mobs could fit in the room at a time, spiders would hardly ever get in the trap, and most importantly, the crushing room was in a place where standing there would prevent many mobs from spawning in the trap.

First thing I did was move it back so that the crushing room was far enough back to let mobs spawn on most of the spawning platforms. I also put a viewpoint in the tube.


Here's the crushing room itself. I realize that I didn't actually show the inside and the mechanics, but I can upload that later if anyone really wants to see it. Levers from top of the picture to bottom: Crushing levers, Access levers (so I can get inside if absolutely necessary), Door opening lever (piston doors farther back in the transport tube that close so that more monsters are prevented from coming in). Hoppers help pick up items.


It can fit a theoretically infinite amount of monsters in it now - the monsters are dropped into the crusher from above instead of just flowing straight into it as they were before.


Ah, 1.7. The crusher (and fists) can't kill witches, they keep drinking health potions.


The spiders were clogging up the trap, so I created an alternate route for them to follow.


When they were clogging up the trap, I had to open the maintenance hatch and kill them manually... And, inevitably, a creeper would explode, and, just my luck 10 times out of 10 it would be in the millisecond that it was bouncing above the water. I've been reduced to a half heart on multiple occasions. Playing on hard mode it's a wonder that I didn't die several times.


The common area - finally!
So, I've been taking absolutely forever on this stage, and part of it was because of tower planning. I came to realize that I couldn't fit every single room in my tower as is - and some of the rooms would be too big. I recently decided on a final tower layout accounting for all rooms I'll ever build. Anyways, I built the common room where the old storage room used to be, and I moved the location of the new storage room from the globe (which is a pain to get up to) adjacent to the common room.




The improved storage room
The new storage room can be accessed by pressing a hidden button in the common room's fireplace...


Which temporarily closes a set of pistons, pulling back part of the wall (the niche to the right in the picture above, seen in the picture below from the other side)


The new storage rooms, with room for expansion later on. It's much more compact, using the technique of putting chests and trapped chests together to skip the gap that is normally in-between the chests.




Here is the location of the storage rooms seen from the outside (farm viewpoint):



Stuff:
Getting ready for the meat requirements for the next stage as I've been relying primarily on carrots for food.


The endermen have been attempting to sabotage my farm.


My filter for the water source inside the tower seems to be working.