When I find a blaze spawner room, I first patch over the ceiling if it's an open-air room (fire resistance potion may be necessary for this), and then I add a couple of blocks around the front and an iron door (with a lever to control it, but maybe a pressure plate would be nice too). Then I cheaply stand outside the door and whack their little dangly bits while they're trying to come down the stairs to get to the door. I don't usually get too crispy. The door is a failsafe in case I get overrun.
I apply enchanted books to my equipment. Eventually when everything wears down at once, I'll get overwhelmed that I don't have enough XP to repair it all, and so I'll just stare at my anvil in despair.
It's been reported on the bug tracker; all it needs now is a bunch of people to vote it up here. Anybody reading this, go vote it up before you lose your home too, dash it all!
No, because I'd feel dumb wasting the materials on the double damage the axe takes when using it on things other than wood. (Exception: When I'm defenseless if my sword breaks from poor planning.)
My home is at the edge of a jungle, and every time I see an ocelot (they like my chicken coop), I break out the fish. I'm presently knee-deep in cats, but boy, I never have to worry about creepers around my farm! ...by which I mean it's nice the cats let me tend my carrot patch without devouring me.
Yeah, it'll reduce other spawns all over. In other branches of the mine, nearby caves, on the surface...in your mob farm. Which, most of those are actually a good thing, except for the last one. If you have a mob farm, you don't want to leave anything dark because it'll trash your efficiency.
I am okay with this. We'll call the torch-scraping optional.
One more thing to know about mineshafts is if you come upon an area blocked off by gravel, there might be more mineshaft on the other side. Cave-ins happen in mineshafts, after all
That's not bad, except you leave the area unlit (I'm assuming you're not fully stopping mobs from spawning). But I do like the idea, it just seems resource intensive if you do fill up the mine completely. I light up the area just for the sake of my mob trap rates. I think I will start to block off the dead ends however, but leave the torches in place. Anyway, thanks for the good idea!
Yep, I reclaim my torches and let mobs spawn all they want in the sealed-off branches. If anything, this would reduce their tendency to spawn in the chambers I haven't visited yet, right?
Not sure I follow the "resource intensive" part. Unless we're talking a cave spider spawner I haven't destroyed yet, I don't bother blocking off tunnels in their entirety. Almost always, a single block of cobble in the center of the wooden archway is enough to stop anything nasty from getting through. And that I only do at a junction to let myself know the entire wing beyond is explored. So... no, really resource-minimal, actually. Pick at the ceiling overhangs here and there and you get all the cobble you need for the operation. Dirt... dunno, maybe bring a stack, but you'll get it back by the end of the journey. You don't even lose any torches in the end (gain a few snatching the pregenerated ones).
Here's what I do when I'm not in the mood for a full tear-down: proceed through, placing torches on one side only, and when I come to a junction, pick one direction and wall off any others with dirt (just enough so bigger mobs can't walk through, unless I see/hear signs of cave spiders). When I hit the end of a path, scrape the torches out, go back to the nearest junction, and wall off the explored path with cobble. Cobble means finished, dirt means unfinished (and possibly dangerous).
If a path leads you to a dirt wall, this means your path was circular; replace the dirt with cobble so you don't bother coming down this way again.
I save dirt for patching over creeper craters and marking unvisited mineshaft branches. Gravel I mostly hoard for no reason except for an occasional Nether drop-staircase. Cobble is my go-to material for Nether bunkers, strengthening the ground under dirt, and marking off visited pathways in caves and mineshafts. And of course smelting into smoothstone for stone brick and stone slabs.
But even if I don't use something, I still hoard it.
In the periphery of my property where I battle most mobs, yes, I fill them in by putting a layer of dirt over a layer of cobblestone to protect the lower layers from future damage. Farther out, meh, new crater. I just can't be falling into random pits in my normal fight zone.
Lapis is an easy answer because its recipes are only decorative, but I'd argue that every ore has a unique function except coal. With charcoal, coal is now completely redundant. And of the breakable ores, it's also the ore that yields the least XP!
Not that I suggest taking it out of the game, of course. I like my chests overflowing with fuel.
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I am okay with this. We'll call the torch-scraping optional.
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Oh yeah, good one. The deceptive gravel cave-in.
Yep, I reclaim my torches and let mobs spawn all they want in the sealed-off branches. If anything, this would reduce their tendency to spawn in the chambers I haven't visited yet, right?
Not sure I follow the "resource intensive" part. Unless we're talking a cave spider spawner I haven't destroyed yet, I don't bother blocking off tunnels in their entirety. Almost always, a single block of cobble in the center of the wooden archway is enough to stop anything nasty from getting through. And that I only do at a junction to let myself know the entire wing beyond is explored. So... no, really resource-minimal, actually. Pick at the ceiling overhangs here and there and you get all the cobble you need for the operation. Dirt... dunno, maybe bring a stack, but you'll get it back by the end of the journey. You don't even lose any torches in the end (gain a few snatching the pregenerated ones).
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If a path leads you to a dirt wall, this means your path was circular; replace the dirt with cobble so you don't bother coming down this way again.
Repeat until everything is cobbled off.
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But even if I don't use something, I still hoard it.
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- Wood things
- Edible things
- Precious things
- Useful buildy-things
- Potiony things
- Enchanty things
- Junk
Labeling done with item frames attached to the fronts of the chests. Love those item frames.0
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Not that I suggest taking it out of the game, of course. I like my chests overflowing with fuel.
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