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**Melissia**

From just below the ceiling to sea level should suffice.

**Tyyr**

You mean a sky trap? Talk about an eyesore. I've seen some. I know the fall from the roof of my castle to the turf won't reliably kill them.

**Requia**

I'm thinking it could be built inside a mountain to avoid the eyesore problems.

**Tyyr**

Well... I guess you can do that. The question is finding a mountain large enough and tall enough to do it. Otherwise you're getting into an earth moving task that makes even me balk.

**SagesStone**

Perhaps build a huge tower around it to hide it?

Not a fan of gravity traps either.

**Deathklaat**

i have some tall spots on my map, first hill i climbed i checked my coords and i was at 118.

what about the minecart block trap does that still work? can you do something like that with water or is it too slow?

**Requia**

Tyyr wrote:Well... I guess you can do that. The question is finding a mountain large enough and tall enough to do it. Otherwise you're getting into an earth moving task that makes even me balk.

I've got a couple actually

**Melissia**

Go build one from sea level to bedrock. That should do the trick.

**Tyyr**

Yeah, shouldn't be too hard to do, just build it the same as another trap but have the point they get swept to just keep on going straight down to the bottom.

**Requia**

It's apparently harder to get mobs to spawn where I want them than I thought :/

**Tyyr**

What's your goal? For hostile mobs just make an artificial cave and don't put in any lights. Perfect darkness should get you as many mob spawns as you'll ever get.

**Melissia**

And make sure you have torches everywhere else but where you want them to spawn, then stand ten to twenty five blocks away from the empty space.

The torches everywhere else will prevent them from spawning anywhere but in the cave you want them to spawn, while staying too close to the cave will usually prevent them from spawning inside of it.

**Melkhiordarkblade**

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!

(you read that in the Futurama guy voice didn't you)

My Computer Genius friend is coming over to try and reclaim my deleted world. My castle will be mine again.

I will let you guys know later if it works.

**Melissia**

Yay, I found a world that was a mostly flat forest world!

Wait. Why is everything suddenly on fire?

RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!

**Requia**

Tyyr wrote:What's your goal? For hostile mobs just make an artificial cave and don't put in any lights. Perfect darkness should get you as many mob spawns as you'll ever get.

Did that, got zero spawns in the cave (which took 3 picks to dig) out of two day/night cycles.

**Melissia**

Up to 200 hostile mobs and 15 neutral mobs can be on a map at a time. Mobs spawn no closer than 24 blocks from the player

From the minecraft wiki. So be sure to stand twenty four blocks away from the cave.

**Requia**

its bout 40 blocks above me.

I wonder if the problem might be that there are too many mobs already? Perhaps its killing spree time.

**Melissia**

Noooo.

A creeper destroyed my roof, then two more destroyed both of my furnaces. One of them contained sixty four finished blocks of glass, the other one sixteen blocks of iron ore.

**DA's Forever**

Wow! thats the worst creeper assault ever. They usually try to only kill me, not wreck my whole home.

**Melissia**

oddly enough... I didn't die.

**Corpsesarefun**

Creepers seem to love me, I have lost count of how many times i walk out the door to have a creeper fall on my head

**Melissia**

In my main file, I solved that problem by having my roof covered with torches and building ontop of cliffs.

**Corpsesarefun**

I solved it by covering the roof in lava.

**Melissia**

Lava WOULD provide enough light to prevent them from spawning, yes.

Speaking of cliffs:

Once I flatten that out it will be perfect for a main shelter on this file.

**Runer60000**

I just have a balcony over the door on my castle.

My problem is being ambushed my multiple skeles in caverns. I had a stack of iron, a stack of moss stone, saddles, what remained of all my iron picks, 6 stacks of torches(Not hard to get back, but still), and multiple blocks of gold ore and a diamond(i think).

**SagesStone**

Spiders love balconies over doors, like moths to a flame.

I don't really have any trouble with any of the mobs at the moment with my base. Maybe spiders but it's more with them climbing my trees and jumping off as the roof for any base I make is spider proofed with cacti.

**Melissia**

I made a base with a door overlooking a lava pit. I often look out said window to watch zombies burn in the lava.

Or sheep.

**Tyyr**

Poor zombies.

Yeah, any kind of overhang over a door will attract spiders. Dunno what it is about their AI but they do it.

**Melissia**

what, you pity the zombies but not the sheep?

**SagesStone**

They like to ambush or pretend to be ninjas I guess.

Zombies are people too.