Mob Grinder

[LennyLen]

I've finished the mob grinder I was working on, and I've added a teleporter to the hub.  The room that you get teleported to has rows of chests down one side, and a double chest at one end.  The last chest is where items from the grinder get collected, and the others are storage for the drops.  At the opposite end from the collection chest is a switch to turn mob generation on and off in the grinder.

I haven't lit up the surface or any nearby caves yet, so it's not running at 100% efficiency.

[Mr. Analog]

Nice what kind of mob?

[LennyLen]

Nice what kind of mob?

All the regular hostile mobs, except for Endermen.

[Mr. Analog]

Ahh ok! I thought it was a spawner grinder

cool

[Thorin]

No, it's an old-fashioned regular dark-room mob grinder.  And it's for loot, not experience.  So if you need arrows/gunpowder/bones/string...  Notice I didn't say rotting flesh.  Honestly, who ever needs rotting flesh?  It's as useful as lapis!

[Mr. Analog]

At least you can make decorative blocks with lapis haha

Ugh, zombie blocks *shudder*

[Tom]

lapis will have a use soon.

[LennyLen]

No, it's an old-fashioned regular dark-room mob grinder.  And it's for loot, not experience. 

Yep, it's just about the loot.  If you want XP, use the skeleton spawner that's currently accessible from the town square (I keep forgetting to move the teleporter to the hub).

[LennyLen]

So I've finished lighting up the surface for a ~130 block radius around the grinder, and I lit up a lot of the caves in mineshafts in the area, though I may have missed a few places where mobs could still spawn. 

Efficiency will drop off after a while, as there are several slime generating chunks within range, and slimes never despawn so eventually they take up most of the cap.

[Tom]

So I've finished lighting up the surface for a ~130 block radius around the grinder, and I lit up a lot of the caves in mineshafts in the area, though I may have missed a few places where mobs could still spawn. 

Efficiency will drop off after a while, as there are several slime generating chunks within range, and slimes never despawn so eventually they take up most of the cap.

You can cover those areas in half slabs or a single layer of water and I believe it stops the slimes from being able to spawn.

[Mr. Analog]

Half blocks are amazing things, that's for sure

[LennyLen]

To be honest, it's probably not worth the effort. It takes 5-6 hours before they start having quite an effect, and by then the collection chest is full anyway, so you can just teleport back to town and return, which despawns the slimes.