WANTED: Spider Spawner

[Mr. Analog]

I need to build a string factory badly

I want to start making wool blocks en masse for ... airships and stuff and I think the fastest way may be to farm spiders (for both XP and string possibly).

Has anyone encountered a spider spawner recently?

[Tom]

There's a bunch somewhere between my two bases. I made a long path from my old mine (beside the command block), to the area where my new base is in, and theres a lot of abandoned mines and caves with many spawners in there. I'm sure theres at least a couple spider spawners.

[Mr. Analog]

Cool! Well if you have co-ords that would be great.

Thanks man

[Mr. Analog]

Dang, I just learnt you can't push monster spawners with pistons

I had a clever plan to move a mob spawner to where I wanted it lol

[Tom]

Cool! Well if you have co-ords that would be great.

Thanks man

Hm, I might have some in the pictures I put up in my "weekend adventure" thread. I think I kept coords up on purpose for those.

[Thorin]

You want to build this?

http://youtu.be/17kPVaR3wOE

And I think having 500 sheep in a big pen and just running around shearing them all may well get you just as much wool just as fast.

[Tom]

Just be aware that a beefy grinder /will/ cause some lag. Thorin's dual skelli grinder was causing 150% cpu use or higher while he was idling. That said the lag at the time was not horrible, actually it was rather manageable, but I'm not sure what digital ocean's policy on excessive cpu use is.

[Thorin]

I don't have a dual skelly grinder.  I do have a single-skelly-dual-zombo grinder.  It fills up way too fast.

Anyway.

I know building drop farms like this is fun, but if you're looking for wool right away I have some I can send your way...  I'm always willing to support the Architects of Usamot

[Tom]

I don't have a dual skelly grinder.  I do have a single-skelly-dual-zombo grinder.  It fills up way too fast.

The point stands

I bet that thing will hit the server wide mob cap pretty quickly. Then there'll be no mobs anywhere else, even at night, so long as that chunk is loaded. The scarriest part will be when that chunk unloads and all of a sudden the chunks with players in them will see a huge influx of mobs at night.

[Mr. Analog]

You want to build this?

http://youtu.be/17kPVaR3wOE

That's a cool design, I'll see if I can build something like that later

[LennyLen]

There's a spider spawner at 1713, 12, -6872.

[Thorin]

There's a spider spawner at 1713, 12, -6872.

Unused, it looks like: http://mc.tomasu.org/#/1621/64/-6810/max/0/2

And a bunch of rails!

[Mr. Analog]

Thanks for the co-ords!

Mmmm rails!