Mainly Minecraft

Demo recorded by me as a spectator and Cyber Athletic League admin. Shoutcasted by BuLL3t for ND80 Radio back in 2004.

This is my new mob trap design. Low tech, minimal resources with 100% loot efficiency. I set myself the task to design and build a mob trap which delivers mobs at full health so they can be separated using mob health with 100% accuracy. The trap can be used for an XP farm and can also spawn and separate spiders. EDIT: It's actually a 2x2 "exit hole", the 3x2 was another design I tested.

After watching Etho setting up the silverfish xp storage system I decided to have a go at a fix for the jamming. I've been playing around with this for a couple of days and have since seen Etho's update and JL2579's version (panda's?). I realized all I needed to do was create a bottleneck that only let one silverfish through at a time but fast enough to keep up with spawn rates and after hours of testing I consider this design a success. : )

Automated nether portal, no reagents!

I was on my test world and was looking for a stronghold so I could port to the End and show how easy ender pearl farming will be when the End is properly implemented. I've never seen anything like this in minecraft before, too good to be true almost! VERSION: Beta1.9 Pre-Release 4 Seed: 2925819579792756736 Location: Roughly x -713 z -125

Response to AutomatorMC's request on spider suppression.

Distracted from work on the storage room by a new video from Test137E29 I dropped what I was doing and attempted to make a sand generator on the server entirely from memory. I didn't quite manage it but got there in the end. Test137E29 gravity block duplicator video : http://youtu.be/7m2G1QeV-nQ Texture pack by Misa : http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/69354-64x151-misas-realistic-texture-pack-updated-13mar2013/

red3yz suggested I show a closer look at the setup for people to check out if they want to make one similar. I also attempt to answer DocM's questions about the setup, showing that the normal mob cap is ignored and my softener is now set to take the blazes to exactly half a heart allowing for a spectacular nuke from a splash potion.

An overdue update. This video is all talk and no action so feel free to just listen in while doing other things. I discuss my plans for the 3 in 1 nether farm becoming a 4 in 1 ultimate nether base, what I've been up to in-game and what I hope to be able to do in the future.

Super Hostile - Spellbound Caves Part 2 - Ceiling Secret Vechs Super Hostile #10 Spellbound Caves download: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/191908-ctmcollection-%E2%98%A0-vechs-super-hostile-series-%E2%98%A0/ Misa's Realistic texture pack download: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/69354-64x110-pre-misas-realistic-texture-pack-updated-15dec/

In response to the demand I made my first tutorial, completely legit while on HARD difficulty. Yes, I died a few times... This design is based around a Blaze spawner as they give the highest XP per kill bar ender dragons. Water was never an option in the Nether for me as I was convinced it would be a short lived unintentional side effect to Silk Touch. Materials: Sticky Piston x 28 Redstone x 61 Redstone torch x 5 Redstone repeater x 51 Stone pressure plate x 20 Texture Pack is Misa's Realistic: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/69354-64x18119pre5-misas-realistic-texture-pack-updated-17oct/

Super Hostile - Spellbound Caves Part 5 - Michael Jackson Vechs Super Hostile #10 Spellbound Caves download: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/191908-ctmcollection-%E2%98%A0-vechs-super-hostile-series-%E2%98%A0/ Misa's Realistic texture pack download: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/69354-64x110-pre-misas-realistic-texture-pack-updated-15dec/

Super Hostile - Spellbound Caves Part 11 - Brown Wool Vechs Super Hostile #10 Spellbound Caves download: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/191908-ctmcollection-%E2%98%A0-vechs-super-hostile-series-%E2%98%A0/ Misa's Realistic texture pack download: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/69354-64x110-pre-misas-realistic-texture-pack-updated-15dec/

This is practically my first foray into smp and after having the initial base raided and destroyed I picked a much safer place. Not 1005 safe but in a map that's 50k square meters you can find some out of the way spots ; ) Also shows a triple blaze and triple skellie xp farms. For some reason the game sounds didn't record, sorry about that.

Tango Tek's "The Iron Trench" - http://youtu.be/YFaCNsuD01k ZipKrowd Server Tour #2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifJxzCd7TWc Music by TeknoAXE - "TeknoAXE Dubstep Mix 2012" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KENhqyjiSs&feature=share&list=PLC463C3BD71D711C0 Texture pack by Misa : http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/69354-64x151-misas-realistic-texture-pack-updated-13mar2013/

Apologies for audio... Finally put together a tutorial for the storage facility. This storage room is designed to sort every stackable item in the game into it's own chest and send the rest to communal chests to be sorted by hand. FIXED World download : http://www.mediafire.com/?wye4byhr8arvilu JL's Item elevator tutorial : http://youtu.be/WoAo7mjocng

In this video I show you how you can use one beacon in your spawn chunks to send it's effects to the same coordinates in the Nether and the End. I discovered this bu...er, I mean FEATURE while making Tango Tek's Iron Foundry on my single player world. How to find spawn chunks video by fellow ZipKrowd member Daniel Kotes : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxDNiuiRdrI Spawn chunks Mod by fellow ZipKrowd member KaboPC : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fNUDy8tUR0 Iron Foundry by fellow ZipKrowd member Tango Tek : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Je3IpC1aY Some ZipKrowd channels: ● ZipKrowd - http://www.youtube.com/user/ZipKrowd ● JL2579 - http://www.youtube.com/user/JL2579 ● ElRichMC - http://www.youtube.com/user/ElRichMC ● Panda4994 - http://www.youtube.com/user/Panda4994 ● Pommes_Peter - http://www.youtube.com/user/PommesPeter01 ● preisi - http://www.youtube.com/user/preisiHD ● Wubbi - http://www.youtube.com/user/WubbiConcepts ● CodeRaider - http://www.youtube.com/TheCodeRaider ● KaboPC - http://www.youtube.com/user/KaboPC ● Sancarn - http://www.youtube.com/user/sancarn ● OldGanon - http://www.youtube.com/user/oldGanon ● iWadey - http://www.youtube.com/user/iWadey ● Bananenkrieger - https://www.youtube.com/user/amonkeyonyt ● bbinme - http://www.youtube.com/user/bbinme2005 ● Docm77 - http://www.youtube.com/user/Docm77 ● milkyw4i - http://www.youtube.com/user/milkYw4iMC Texture pack : http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/69354-64x162-misas-realistic-texture-pack-updated-1jul13/

Following on from my last video I finally got the mob softener working for one of the two blaze spawners after much trial and tribulation. As I mentioned in that last video Blazes grant ten xp per so I skipped all the overworld spawners in favour of this setup. Love DocM, Etho etc but for me ten XP beats five by a factor of two. Besides, the nether stronghold is close to my portal and much closer than any convenient pair of spider spawners : ) Enjoy!

Sadly the trap door fix turns out to not be a fix after all, back to the drawing board on that one. Added the redundancy feature in case multiple carts head for the crusher close together.

Three months on and the ghast trap still isn't working anywhere near as well as I would like. Outlining plans on improving the spawn rates...

Here are some designs I've been developing since the 1.5 redstone update that I'm quite proud of so far. JL's Item elevator tutorial : http://youtu.be/WoAo7mjocng TEXTURE PACK: Misa's Realistic :http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/69354-64x151-misas-realistic-texture-pack-updated-13mar2013/

I wanted to collect some spider eyes and ender pearls from my sky mob spawner and because spiders won't drop eyes unless killed by a player I had to separate them and provide a water brake. Problem is, creepers and skeletons are somehow glitching through blocks into the spider chute which has ended badly for me and my base several times now. It's rare but it does happen. I'll do some testing and see what I can figure out but if you know why this might be happening please let me know. All I wanted to do was have a temporary solution while I continue work on a subterranean mob spawning/separating system and ran into this quite major issue.

Out of date info: it's now a 9x9 area and therefore far easier to setup. The vast majority of us know how to light up spawners in caves and dungeons to suppress spawning but what most people don't know is what the spawn area is exactly and the restrictions involved. If you are planning to make an XP farm using a spawner this is step one of the process. Armed with this info you can then get creative but efficient at the same time.

Super Hostile Spellbound Caves Part 12 purple Wool Vechs Super Hostile #10 Spellbound Caves download: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/191908-ctmcollection-%E2%98%A0-vechs-super-hostile-series-%E2%98%A0/ Misa's Realistic texture pack download: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/69354-64x110-pre-misas-realistic-texture-pack-updated-15dec/

Another follow up to my experiments on my Automated Mob Collection And Transportation System (AMCATS) in the nether using the 1.9 beta pre-release. I first show you a version of Ethos "Blaze farm" I made with five possible spawn points just to see if it would increase efficiency. With only one spawn point you may be losing out because when a blaze is in the act of being suffocated the spawn point is unavailable for a new blaze to spawn in. Next I show you my suffocation method using the AMCATS which also kills naturally occurring blazes, pigmen and also breaks up Magma cubes into the smaller less dangerous versions. Unfortunately you will have to deal with them manually when they split and the tiny ones will ride a cart around the system indefinitely. Finally I show you how I've protected the rails from spawns and collisions using glass blocks. Hope you find this useful or inspires you to design your own setup. Please leave a comment, thumbs up or even maybe subscribe. I'm especially interested in thoughts on improvements.