Monster Sky-Trap

DirtyBollox

anyone have any experience with these things?

basically you build a large square building up in the sky. how big and tall is up to you but it has to be high enough so that monsters fall to their deaths when they do.

once the place is done put a hole in the middle and then have some type of water system to push the monsters into the hole and then they can fall out of it and die. making you loads of resources in the process.

i have one built on my single player so i can throw up some screnshots later, but if anyone has any experience with it and can improve on the design please comment.

here is a link to one you can download and try out for yourself.

DOC09UNAM

I saw a perfect one made recently, it killed everything.

Had water to pull the monsters in and cactus to kill them, I'll try find the video of it I was watching of it.

Tallon

How do you get the monsters there? Or do they just spawn at night?

DOC09UNAM

they spawn in dark caves at night, so if you build it, and then build a giant cave near it, a ton of them should spawn in there and come for you.

DirtyBollox

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

I saw a perfect one made recently, it killed everything.

Had water to pull the monsters in and cactus to kill them, I'll try find the video of it I was watching of it.

only problem with the cactus is that it destroys anything touching it.

Tallon wrote: »

How do you get the monsters there? Or do they just spawn at night?

the inside of the spawner has no torches and no light. perfect place for monsters. then they can spawn during the night and day.

DOC09UNAM

What about a trap that drowns all of them??

DirtyBollox

i did creat one once on an old server a few months back. if i can find it or build it i'll throw it in here.

DirtyBollox

this is the monster drowning machine. its pretty cool and easy enough to make. not too sure how effective it would be though if you werent in it at all times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50Q8MfWbn0

Kersmash

http://www.youtube.com/user/kiershar

This guy is amazing, his tutorials are just brilliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U8o_5DJ3EA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygsf8KnwgHU

DirtyBollox

here's a few pictures from my own skytrap. very basic but it does the job.

Outside the skytrap:


Underneath:


Inside: (i am pressed up against the side walls and the small torch just up and right of the crosshair is the centre.)

Top: (just to show you how large it is)


was going to put in a pic of the loot so far but imageshack is being a bastard.

i have had it on normal difficulty for the past 30 minutes and already i have 2 piles of bones, feathers. i pile of string, gunpowder and arrows.

Jogue

These devices are never really that efficient though?
Unless you watch them properly, the items just despawn after a short while.
It'd be much faster to just farm them quickly! :P

Wezo1994

nice

MunkyzRus

I was wanting to make one for the last week i just havent had the time! gonna have a good go at making one, but surely (as Jogue says) the monsters will not spawn unless ur near? making it that you will have to stand there for the whole night?

whiteboii

ya mine was kinda like yours with water but i put some cactus around some of the water so it can kill it easy.

Fisheh

my skytrap failed on me!

SS30888

I like moat/lava traps the most

HiipFire

Just make sure you do your homework when your making it.

DirtyBollox

MunkyzRus wrote: »

I was wanting to make one for the last week i just havent had the time! gonna have a good go at making one, but surely (as Jogue says) the monsters will not spawn unless ur near? making it that you will have to stand there for the whole night?

havent found it to be so. but i made it very close to my main base so i am always wandering around or near it and i have it set to hard so i can gather as much resources as i can. i'm going to have a go at the drowning trap later and see if it actually works. and if it does work how well and how many resources i get out of it.

Orichalcum93

I tried to make one before with cacti...... It uh.... didn't go well for me... I still have nightmares

DirtyBollox

I know i'm reviving an old thread here but has anyone seen or built an exp grinder? are they the same thing or is there a different feature to them that allows you to gain XP from the mobs?

jujumushu

Well if you wanted to go mad you could always use MCedit to change a few chunks to glass or slabs, then build your monster tower on there. The mobs won't be able to spawn on the glass/slabs obviously which will give you a much better chance of having the mobs spawning inside the tower which you could make with loads of floors completely unlit.
Just remember to make it out of obsidian or something if you're planning on maintenance so it doesn't get blown to bits

Solitaire

XP grinders can't kill mobs, only damage them to within an inch of their life. YOU have to land the killing blow to make the EXP drop!!

As of 1.9 spiders have 16HP and zombies have 22HP, making things difficult; swords wear out fast and even if the bottom of the funnel is 19 blocks above the killing chamber spiders will die while zombies will still have 3HP left, making unarmed killing slower.

As of 1.0 creepers have no hitbox in their lower half to make mobfarm-based XP grinders very difficult to operate as you can't just nobble everything's kneecaps anymore (F***ing Notch!!).

Due to these issues XP grinders are an utter pain in the tits in 1.0. The best XP grinder remains compression farming with cows - slower and needs TONS of wheat but nowhere near as lethal Second place goes to ultra-concentrated chicken farms - very simple, just have 100 of them lay stacks of eggs then slaughter a load of them while firing eggs. No mobs, no pistons, no mess

davidk11811

I have one that works quite well. You can see it in this video. The one problem is you have to find a skeleton or zombie spawner to make it.
Here's the video;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0zzjokkVQ8