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Ya, lava's hard to use in traps if you want the items.
I'm gonna make a grinder next time I find a dungeon... grinder = water flowing past some cacti, with a 1x1 opening exit where the water pushes the items to a designated spot . Fun times.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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I'm surprised I didn't realise that, JoB was the coolest character in that game.
There's the slight problem of items vanishing if they touch cacti though so it will be annoying to start with. Though you would probably lose at best 1/10 drops. When I had one it had slightly larger gaps then normal but ended in a drowning trap in case any creeps got that far.
That's what I built, I emptird one room out to find out I had dug it too deep and needd to start another, needless to say the second one works well enough
It's fun to detonate a few dozen tnt blocks at the exact same time using redstone...
If only I had enough TNT to do it in my main game. I certainly have more than enough redstone.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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Simple, the redstone just needs to be next to the tnt like it were a switch.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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Just lay the redstone right next to it I think, at least that's how the cannons I've seen have functioned.
I'm pondering how to make a second level for this lava guillotine trap. Something that will dump the mobs down in the right area so things don't get jammed up. This isn't the kind of thing you want to have to open up and fix after you've built it.
mattyrm wrote: I will bro fist a toilet cleaner.
I will chainfist a pretentious English literature student who wears a beret.
In my invedit world, from the top down, this is what I did. All of this is floating in the air by the way, well above the blast radius.
E = empty, B = block (any non-sand or gravel block will do), T = TNT
All blocks have redstone wire on them, and as long as the redstone is adjacent to a TNT it will activate its fuse. Mirror this on the other side for just shy of double the TNT. It might freeze up your computer though. The reason for the arrangement by the way is because of the limitation of the redstone wire only being able to carry a charge for fifteen blocks unless you have a repeater set up.
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The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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They will despawn. Also mobs will only spawn in loaded chunks so you need to build your mob farm somewhere that you spend a lot of time and check it regularly. Based off what I've read due to the rate of drops you don't have to camp out there, it will make so much you'll run out of inventory room to move it all.
My idea is to use the Minecraft wiki mob farm and build a second level on top of the first. The top level will be built pretty much exactly as it's detailed. The lower level will be the same but instead of a 2x2 chute down into the guillotine it'll be a 4x4 chute. That way the mobs from above will fall down through the center while the mobs from the lower level will fall around the outside. I have to modify the plan to have a 4 wide guillotine but it should be fine regardless.
mattyrm wrote: I will bro fist a toilet cleaner.
I will chainfist a pretentious English literature student who wears a beret.
As a side note, anyone abused the fact that reeds/sugar cane block water and lava and don't catch on fire?
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
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Tyyr wrote:They will despawn. Also mobs will only spawn in loaded chunks so you need to build your mob farm somewhere that you spend a lot of time and check it regularly. Based off what I've read due to the rate of drops you don't have to camp out there, it will make so much you'll run out of inventory room to move it all.
My idea is to use the Minecraft wiki mob farm and build a second level on top of the first. The top level will be built pretty much exactly as it's detailed. The lower level will be the same but instead of a 2x2 chute down into the guillotine it'll be a 4x4 chute. That way the mobs from above will fall down through the center while the mobs from the lower level will fall around the outside. I have to modify the plan to have a 4 wide guillotine but it should be fine regardless.
Sounds like a good plan, you may even be lucky enough and find a dungeon like I did !
Wolf wrote:Sounds like a good plan, you may even be lucky enough and find a dungeon like I did !
Three weeks of playing the game and I have yet to find a dungeon.
I'm changing my plan on the mob farm. Instead of duplicating the design on top of the first level I'm just going to build a floor above the first one but no conveying system. Instead I'll just leave slots above the canals on the first level. That way mobs that spawn on the second level will just fall into the preexisting transport system on the first level. Saves me a lot of construction time,no second canal system to build, and a lot of height on the farm since ideally I want to cover it over with dirt once I finish so it just looks like part of the landscape.
mattyrm wrote: I will bro fist a toilet cleaner.
I will chainfist a pretentious English literature student who wears a beret.
Hrm... feb 18th again. Guess I'll go bake myself a cake in minecraft.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
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Yep. Though someone else made a lemon cake for me IRL (which is fine, I like lemon cake, certainly more than I do most chocolate cakes which tend to either over or under do the chocolate aspect), I made a cake for myself in minecraft lol.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
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I want to take a look at that cannon and see if the 73 m^3 of TNT was a limit of how long it takes the TNT to drop into the water trough or what. I'd like to make an even bigger cannon.
I want to send Pigs to Mars.
mattyrm wrote: I will bro fist a toilet cleaner.
I will chainfist a pretentious English literature student who wears a beret.
Screw that, I want to ride in that space program cannon and see where it launches me.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
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Can you survive the launch? I know the water cushions the surrounding terrain but not pllayers, mobs, and such. I think. So could you survive the launch in a minecart? Unless you hit water I doubt you'd survive, and I'd wonder what would happen when you hit the top of the world. I wonder if you'd have to set a cannon like that on the bedrock to get the best distance with it.
Lot of questions I guess. Hmm... makes me want to build a cannon and experiment with it. If it works you should be able to test it out and if you can survive launch you could build a water landing target downrange.
mattyrm wrote: I will bro fist a toilet cleaner.
I will chainfist a pretentious English literature student who wears a beret.
I know you won't survive the fall unless it's in water if you get launched in person, but I'm not sure about in minecarts.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
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