My Blaze farm is ready to go - come and try it.

[Pants]

I don't totally have the room complete, but the farm itself works just fine.  I still need to cover a lot of the redstone circuits with stone so they can't be messed with, but I did run a powered rail line from my portal to it.  Everyone is welcome to use it for XP or Blaze Rods.  It's totally safe (though I have noticed buggy Blaze spawning if you log in and out of range of the Blaze farm).

Here's a quick tutorial:

This lever turns on and off the spawner by dumping lava streams and disables it via lighting.  I know that this isn't totally necessary because all you have to do is move out of range of the spawner, but it's there for when I want to work around the spawner without it being active.  Please leave it turned off when you leave.


When it's turned on, layers of pistons push the Blazes down into this 2x2 collection area (note:  if you walk right up to the collection area while Blazes are there - they can possibly hurt you.  Stand a block back)


When enough Blazes have collected (don't idle here too long - Blazes can build up fast and lag the server), push the button labelled "Crusher" once.  This traps the Blazes, pushes them forward, and activates some sticky pistons on a timer to bring them down to near-death.  You only need to push this button once.


Here's the crusher in action.


Now you can walk up to them and one-hit kill them with a melon slice to receive XP and blaze rods.


Pushing the Reset button withdraws all of the pistons and allows more Blazes to fall into the collection area.


Edit: go ahead and have a look at the redstone circuits, but please don't mess with any of it.  Setting them up is tedious.

[Melbosa]

Nice JOB!

[Thorin]

Yah, nice job.  You must have tons of blaze rods

[Mr. Analog]

Wow!

[Pants]

I put some spare Blaze Rods in a chest at my Blaze farm.  Go ahead and pillage it.

[Thorin]

I put some spare Blaze Rods in a chest at my Blaze farm.  Go ahead and pillage it.

It's kinda funny whenever a farm gets built because suddenly there's a ton of that type of item!  For instance, magical Power I bows and arrows at the skelly farm, iron swords and shovels and helmets at the zombie farm, iron ingots at Unethical Iron Co (is it working again, Lazy?).

[Lazybones]

I put some spare Blaze Rods in a chest at my Blaze farm.  Go ahead and pillage it.

It's kinda funny whenever a farm gets built because suddenly there's a ton of that type of item!  For instance, magical Power I bows and arrows at the skelly farm, iron swords and shovels and helmets at the zombie farm, iron ingots at Unethical Iron Co (is it working again, Lazy?).

That is sort of the project I am half ass working on... I wanted to increase production but the shear size you have to build the farms makes them a chore in SMP if you want to up the production rate you need multiple farms which means breading and moving more villagers.

[Mr. Analog]

I put some spare Blaze Rods in a chest at my Blaze farm.  Go ahead and pillage it.

It's kinda funny whenever a farm gets built because suddenly there's a ton of that type of item!  For instance, magical Power I bows and arrows at the skelly farm, iron swords and shovels and helmets at the zombie farm, iron ingots at Unethical Iron Co (is it working again, Lazy?).

That is sort of the project I am half ass working on... I wanted to increase production but the shear size you have to build the farms makes them a chore in SMP if you want to up the production rate you need multiple farms which means breading and moving more villagers.

I can help out if ya like, I have lots of supplies and with modly powers I could help make some villagers ('cause herding is such a chore)

But yeah!! Blaze Rods!!!!

I was starting to run out, I wanted to make some Eye of Ender but then wow, expensive!

[Thorin]

I get the repetitive / boredom angle; part of digging that giant room was me wanting to see how much effort it really is.  I did see an interesting youtube video on how to build a good iron golem farm: http://youtu.be/lQnsuaXQq8A

[Mr. Analog]

I get the repetitive / boredom angle; part of digging that giant room was me wanting to see how much effort it really is.  I did see an interesting youtube video on how to build a good iron golem farm: http://youtu.be/lQnsuaXQq8A

That's impressive!

[Lazybones]

Ya, now think about the time that would take in SMP without cheating villagers or flying.

[Mr. Analog]

Ya, now think about the time that would take in SMP without cheating villagers or flying.

Sounds like a challenge to me!

[Thorin]

I think I have all the materials required for the build (stone brick, torches, glass, water, wood for doors, lava); the villagers would be the hard part for me because I don't have any villagers anywhere close to me (there's a village, but it's abandoned).

I think we're discussing this in the wrong thread, though

[Mr. Analog]

I think I have all the materials required for the build (stone brick, torches, glass, water, wood for doors, lava); the villagers would be the hard part for me because I don't have any villagers anywhere close to me (there's a village, but it's abandoned).

I think we're discussing this in the wrong thread, though

I can spawn villagers, I think that's only fair since the old farm was griefed.

[Thorin]

Yup, same as we had with all the cows going missing.

[Lazybones]

- there are still villagers in the center of my current building
- just barely feel like playing minecraft... Feeling blaa.

[Mr. Analog]

- there are still villagers in the center of my current building
- just barely feel like playing minecraft... Feeling blaa.

Ahh but you can do it Lazy!

YOU CAN DO IT!!



Good rainy day fun anyway

[Tom]

- there are still villagers in the center of my current building
- just barely feel like playing minecraft... Feeling blaa.

Ahh but you can do it Lazy!

YOU CAN DO IT!!

All Night Long

[Mr. Analog]

LOL! http://youtu.be/Bomv-6CJSfM

[Tom]

LOL! http://youtu.be/Bomv-6CJSfM

The 80s hair in that video is superb.

[Mr. Analog]

LOL! http://youtu.be/Bomv-6CJSfM

The 80s hair in that video is superb.

It's no Flock of Seagulls but it will do

[Thorin]

Pants, I'd just like to say I used the Blaze Farm a couple of days ago and it sure worked well.  That crushing trap really does bring them down to one hit point (I had maybe three out of a hundred die from it, but they probably were jumping at the wrong time or something).  Thanks for building it and thanks for letting us know where to find it so we could use it

[Tom]

How exactly does it work? Water isn't stable in the nether.

[Thorin]

The blazes come down into a 2x2 area, then you push the Crusher button and a roof gets closed over them, then blocks get shoved into their heads for a certain length of time.  They take damage as long as their head is in a block.  This is timed perfectly to get them down to a half heart (one hit point), then you have to whack 'em with something (most people use food).

[Tom]

Ah, the original image seemed to show water beside them or something.

[Mr. Analog]

I've seen another design that uses glass blocks to basically put them in a specific area where you are safe and can still hit them.

Crushers work pretty good too!

[Thorin]

That blue you see there is actually Lapis Lazuli blocks.  A good idea for two reasons, 1) it gives the lapis in the inventory a job, 2) it's really easy to see when the crusher trap is already active.