[Gust Hubb]

water buckets and dispensors in chest at entrance to the pit.

[cerveza_fiesta]

Awesome. Thanks GH.

My new design for the spawner is basically a multi-tier flushable system. Monsters spawn on 6 block deep platforms and are washed down into the central collection area using a pulse of water from the dispensers.

It will still work as an automated system, but not as efficiently. The drops from mobs aren't exactly the most valuable resource anyway, so it's not a big deal. There will be door access to the XP grinder pit anyway, so anybody with the inclination to do so can collect the drops from there as well.

I read somewhere that it is a good idea to go into the caves surrounding your spawner and cover them in 1/2 blocks to prevent spawning anywhere but in your grinder. While I like that concept, I don't think I'm going to bother going to quite that extent.

[Gust Hubb]

All you need to do is light up the caves actually

[cerveza_fiesta]

Gust Hubb, on 20 January 2015 - 01:30 PM, said:

All you need to do is light up the caves actually

yeah, that's true I guess. They are pretty well lit up down there already, but might be worth taking a spin around down there to make sure at some point.

[cerveza_fiesta]

OK, next session I should be able to finish the XP grinder. I've got a good portion of the new flushing system completed now and just need to add the control system and dispensers. It's a pretty straightforward design if anybody is interested in helping with it. I have one spawn room completed now - the second just needs to be an exact copy of the first.

Being mildly OCD about prettiness, I'll probably pretty up the interior at some point, but functionality is No. 1 for the moment.

[Sheve]

The dispensers and the redstone circuits to operate the rooms are now in place and working.

Only thing that is needed is a inspection and closing up the access holes to the rooms, all the torches are ground placed and will flush to the collection point when you want to.

[cerveza_fiesta]

WE were testing it out last night. Productivity could be better to be honest, but maybe we need more spawning cells to make it work at its best.

Makes a big difference whether it's night or day too...spawn rates on the surface reduce spawn rates in the cells.

We made the murder room a bit safer -- you can now hack away at monsters' feet and it's harder to get shot by skeletons. Gotta add in a flushing system to get mob drops and stray XP balls out of the murder room floor too. I'll work on that next.

Question about falling - if the floor that a mob (or a player) is falling into has *running* water on it and not *standing* water, does it still break your fall?

If not then it might be a good idea to have a permanent water funnel to move all mobs into a common murder/collection chute. It would increase chances of getting records from skeletons shooting creepers too!

[cerveza_fiesta]

holy crap with the outer shell being erected around the sorting facility. I assume that is the work of ADL. Who updated the old sorting room with the blue stained glass?

[Gust Hubb]

mess

[Gust Hubb]

Server looks sweeter and sweeter everytime I am on.

Sorter fixed, hopefully. I swear the redstone code is buggy

And free used diamond boots next to the sorter. I upgraded

[Gust Hubb]

Main base is pure awesome. Kudos to Mess?/ADL? I really like the main entrance and incorporation of the sorter. We probably want to continue building the sorter upward, so advise how you wish that done (although, I could build it downward I guess....).

[cerveza_fiesta]

I would build it downward. tie it into the base's lower floors for easier access.

[Gust Hubb]

kay

[A Demon Llama!]

No, build it up. There is no space to go down.

[A Demon Llama!]

Also, whats with the giant stair from the nether portal down? Gust, you making us walk down large steps again?

[Gust Hubb]

uh, yeah?

[Gust Hubb]

I am going to do a slime block at the bottom to allow for a quick drop to the base of the stair case, but I figured that the only way to make a straightforward efficient nether network was to build it in the ceiling like the last world (minus having multiple levels at the same x,y coordinate).

[Gust Hubb]

Will try being on the server again ADL. My wife just had me put the kids down for a nap, so let's see if they do so

[Gust Hubb]

anyone on tonight?

[Gust Hubb]

Have a new ocean monument that ADL and I should be hitting tomorrow (I would say 1 pm my time? Maybe 10 am? Not sure. Anyway, I have a nether route to it, so hope others can come. They are fun, and you will need at least 2 potions of waterbreathing, 2 potions of nightvision and 2 potions of strength (potions of regen wouldn't hurt either). There are 3 bosses (I go in from the top) and the reward is 8 blocks of gold and sponges, which as mess knows are pure awesome.

We also have 1 of 3 wither skulls toward a Wither boss.

And finally, the portal to the End is also located (and linked via the nether), so we need to take down the dragon sometime And face the Ender mites...