I thought I'd save anyone having to repeat the work, and share some notes I made when preparing to build the farm. It may not necessarily be correct (I may have missed some things, which I'll find out when I do the farm, I guess), but these are my notes as they stand at the moment: bottom pad goes from 671/61/779 to 651/61/809 3 pads, 31x21 (blocks travel along the 31-side) torch tower goes up 651/794 on one side, 671/794 on other side. There's also one in the middle. each slime slider is 9 blocks wide, and travels 15 blocks to either side of the torch tower. Need: Lots and lots of slabs and glass Glowstone for the central powering area Melons/furnaces, etc: - for the sliders: 15*2*3*3 = 270 - for the crushers: 9*2*2*2 + 3*2*2 = 72+12 = 84 Redstone: - for lining the melons: 15*2*3*3 = 270 - for the side clocks: 5*2 = 10 - for the central area: lots Redstone torches: - for the towers: 8*3 = 24 Redstone blocks: - 3 (hopper clocks) Repeaters: - for the side clocks: 4*2 = 8 - 11 on each (2) side of the operations area, 4 in the center = 26 Comparators: - 2 for each of the 3 hopper clocks = 6 Slime blocks: - for the sliders: 9*2*3 = 54 - for the crusher: 9*2*2 = 36 Sticky pistons: - for the sliders: 2*2*3 = 12 - for the hopper clocks: 2*3 = 6 - for the rest of the central area: 6 - for the crusher: 8+(9*2*2) = 8+36 = 44 Hoppers: - for collection: at least 9*2*2 = at least 36 - for the hopper clocks (3): 3*2 = 6 (note: there are 8 items in one clock, 9 items in another (not sure what the difference is), and 48 items in the center clock) Iron bars: - for the crusher: 9*2*2 = 36
Wanted to update everybody who's been asking if this farm works in 1.9 (and now 1.10). I downloaded Xisuma's world and ran it as-is, initially in 1.9.4, and it ran with no problems. I've since upgraded to 1.10, and ran the world download for several hours in Survival Hard mode, for the sole purpose of making sure that Endermen (who can now spawn in the Nether as of 1.10) do not spawn in the spawner, get crushed, get mad, teleport to the AFK platform, and kill me while I'm AFK. :) After several hours of running it, a couple of Endermen did spawn... but they did not teleport out of the crusher. I even got a couple of Ender pearls out of the deal. :) That may not be a viable test, as it only happened once in several hours, but I just wanted to let you guys know. The farm works fine in 1.10, btw.
One more update. I've finally finished building this farm in my world, and have been using it for almost a week now. It's quite fun, now that I've gotten most of the surrounding spawning spaces destroyed or slabbed. :) It works like a charm, and thank you again, Xisuma! :) In the several hours that I've been at the farm... it's usually not AFK, because I'm also using it as a blaze farm. As a blaze farm, it works wonderfully, btw, if you're not afk and if most other spawning places are gone. It's not as great as a dedicated blaze farm, of course, but I've gotten several stacks of rods, and I don't need very many. I've also gotten 39 wither skulls (this is after several hours), about 8 stacks of nuggets (as a gold farm, it's extremely slow), a couple of stacks of coal blocks, and lots of stacks of bone blocks. There have been three Endermen. They don't get hurt in the crusher, apparently. Two of them teleported when I hit them (I'm guessing the reason the one Enderman in Xisuma's world download didn't teleport was either because I killed him too quickly, or because he didn't have anyplace to teleport to). Thankfully, I anticipated this and built my ceilings very low, so wherever they teleported... it wasn't to where I was. I recommend anybody else building this farm do the same if, like me, you're terrified of Endermen. ;) The one that I managed to kill yielded 3 Ender pearls, so... nice side benefit. One other little note: At one point, there was a baby pigman just standing on top of the iron bars. As I watched, he ran towards the middle point of the crusher... and then suddenly, he was in the AFK area. No idea how that happened. Just a little precaution: even if you've totally spawn-proofed your AFK area, it's still a good idea to resist the urge to kill the pigmen. :)
+Katerine459 sounds great, ive been sea ching for a spdesign i like to build a farm, the only problem is the place i. Want to build it is a triple intercection and not a double. So i gotta mod it to be able to handle it
kevin cole Beware the despawn radius, though. :) Whenever there's more than 36 blocks (spherical) between wherever you are, and the mobs in the spawning platform or killing area, there's a possibility of them despawning. So even if you have a triple intersection, I still wouldn't build it wider than 31 blocks... (I run into mobs despawning a lot as it is, even with the 31-block-wide farm).
Wow! I didn't expect this. I'd always considered the sweeper idea (but couldn't get it right)- but this actually implemented it really well. Has some real potential for other useful things. I can see a lot of work went into this - well done!
This is why i subscribed! You come up with such great conceptions together with your friends, and i just love it! It's so usefull! Thank you Xisuma, thanks for being awesome! :)
I just spent a long time trying to work out why my 'sweepers' (the sliding slime blocks) were going to the end and stopping. Once i understood it better i realised i had the long and short tick the wrong way around. If you sweepers go to one end and stop try adding 2 ticks of delay to one side and see if that fixes it. (ie, invert the order of the short and long ticks)
I would suggest iron trap doors instead of carpets on top of the hoppers. If blazes agro on you (and they randomly like to do that from time to time, even though they should not be able to see you) they'll burn the carpets, but iron trapdoors stay intact. Other than that, great design!
Congrats on hitting 300k but you havent yet you are so close though. I have been watching you since like 20k and youve come along way keep up the great work X. Please do a 300k special livestream on hermitcraft i think it would be tons of fun.
not much of a tutorial, but it definitely seems like a worthwhile design, the shifting floors designs that I've been building suck at letting magma cubes fall through
xisumavoid great farm! Just there is a problem in 1.8 with hopper timers slowly duping items over time... resulting in messed up timings. I don't think you came across this when you built it due to staying in one place, but on a server... its a different story. So to fix it ive just used a modified version of your circuits without the hopper timers, and specificly for the main circuit used a modified version of cubehamsters compact one minute clock with adjusted timings to fit the farms sweeper movements.
I remembered this farm and considered it for my 1.9 world. But I have a big problem with the two drop shafts being more than 32 blocks apart. Meaning while you are killing wither skeletons on one side, on the other they will randomly despawn. I guess it could be somewhat mitigated by turning the thing around, so the afk and killing-area is in the middle and the redstone is on the outside, but since the 32 blocks are spherical that's still not ideal. Edit: considering that mobs do not start despawning for 30 seconds, you could afk in a minecart that goes back and forth between the two drops. That would still mean that some wither skeletons might despawn when you kill them, as that will probably take longer than 30s, but it should be negligible
Solowplaysmc This still works perfectly in 1.9. I used a better slime swiper design than in the video though. I never said anything about a second floor.
fully working in 1.10. built it in survival and on hard difficulty. just a few notes.. Light up the platforms as you are laying them down to reduce the amount of spawns, carry a bow, download the world from the description and keep flicking back and forth between worlds and dont place the redstone torch untill you have placed the sticky pistons and slime pushers as the clock will start. redstone was rather easy but had to change the timings on the crusher repeaters to 4 4 2 instead of the 4 4 4 as in the download. all working fine though
xisumavoid You mentioned in your this video about streamlining the redstone, well if you only used 1 etho hopper timer clock instead of 2 you would save these resources: 2 slime balls, 8 cobblestone, 12 iron ingots, 22 wooden planks, 6 sticks, 2 nether quartz, 6 smooth stone, 2 building blocks, 19 redstone dust (minus the dust needed to make the connections). By moving the pulsing etho clock in the middle up flush with the ceiling and then using the available space near the center to place 1 etho clock and using both ends for the crushers you would save resources and reduce the FPS lag a bit. As far as the iron bars issue I have tested just about every configuration I can come up with and different items and nothing seems to work and get it to do what this design does and is intended to do (kill cubes).
xisumavoid Also wanted to mention this as well. That using seed 4187261798007374307, -1, -122/60/130 you will find a Nether Fortress with a Quad bridge intersections that will ALL spawn wither skeletons in v.1.8+
I'm not sure how you could do this, but if you could gather all the skeletons into one spot, you can have the player hold a looting sword and attack them. Also, you could add a loop of hoppers and droppers to cycle swords so the player is always holding a looting sword as long as their inventory is full.
I was expecting to see an ultra efficient design tutorial, not to say I'm disappointed, the slime block swiper is brilliant, but I just think the community needs an efficient wither skeleton farm design more than this one.
I've been building this farm for several weeks now, and I just wanted to say thanks, Xisuma, for going through all the work of developing this farm. I can't wait to get it running, even though there are far too many spawning areas around my farm for it to ever reach your numbers. :) That said... wow, this redstone is daunting! It would be daunting even if I could see everything (there are part of the crushing mechanism that are entirely hidden from view). But what's especially daunting is, I have no idea if there are elements that need to be built in a certain order. Does the crusher clock in the front need to be coordinated with the crusher clock inside in any way? Should the piston sliders be set up before the torch towers going up to them, or the other way around, or doesn't it matter? Why are there 8 items in the Etho Hopper clock for the crusher on one side, and 9 items in the other side? I haven't even started building all the redstone (I keep putting it off), and already I have so many questions that make me afraid to continue...
My problem with all of these massive fancy redstone devices is that in the time it takes you to make them, you could just hollow out a huge section of the nether, quarantine it off, and manually farm skulls for hours and hours and hours and get more results. This kind of farm would only be suitable for worlds that would need hundreds or thousands of hours of farming time eliminated.
+Emerl18 The problem with that is you have to manually kill all the pigmen blazes magma cubes skeletons and ghasts as well You wont get many wither skeletons spawning since the other mobs will be taking up the mob cap.
xisumavoid :D You almost build my wither farm concept, I'm working on in creative for about a month now when I can. Stuff I should point out... I'm also using slime blocks to push mobs off, but mine is using faster slime wiper mechanism. The timer is ultra compact and I can work with 1 high mobs ;) Also there are no light changes inside of the farm, and no middle row. 38x19 all spawning spaces :) I'll tweet it when I build the full size. Also... Ghasts can't spawn in nether fortresses ;)
when you have multiple people having multiple bases it becomes an issue. Right now as far as i know X is the only one with a beacon and he moves it wherever he needs it while all the hermits could have beacons to spare
Love the way you present the build. I would like to do this as well on ps3 when the mob updates happen as we have a mob cap of 80 aggesive mobs it would be a smaller build for us as in 2 platforms or so. So thank you for the information.
This thing has Xisuma painted clearly across it. So let's get to the point. When'cha gonna build it in Hermitcraft, eh? Can't wait to see the actual process now...
Wither skeletons can spawn throughout the nether fortress. Would spawning pads across the whole fortress create a larger number of wither skeletons, or would they spawn in the same volume on a smaller spawning pad located at a pair of nether crossings?
Dogs can kill the witherskeletons and the skeletons will drop the skuls. This will make the farm fully AFK-able, but X, I have a mini myth for you. Do looting affect the mobdrops when the mob is killed by a dog?
Nice Design, you Planning to do a tutorial for this. I mean I won't need this because I have a similar design myself but I think that other people would benefit from the tutorial if you do one.
Snocrash literally just made a wither skeleton farm. His is fully automatic though and it has faster spawning. Xisuma you should really check his content out he's an incredible youtuber who publishes great content.
Xisuma, isn't it smarter to use dogs to kill the Wither Skeletons instead of you with a looting sword, because there will be more mobs killed, so there will spawn more mobs, so also more wither skeletons, and more Wither Skeletons means more Wither Skulls. For example if the mobcab is 150 and there are 150 wither skeletons, you can kill them with a looting sword, will give some skulls. But if they get killed if you are AFK, there will spawn more than that 150 wither skeletons, maybe even 3000, just saying numbers, but if you wait long enough they will. I am pretty sure 150 wither skeletons killed with Looting III give less skulls than 3000 without looting. Just an idea, could you use this?
Kampf Gorilla Seriously? thats the problem for u? u just built a massive farm and maybe even a perimeter around it and u'd stop at getting a dog through a portal?
It takes a while to get 150 wither skeletons. The chance to get skulls with a looting sword is so much higher, that it's worth it to kill them with that.
Xisuma, do dogs attack wither skeletons like they do normal skeletons? Maybe if you combined the most powerful wither skeleton farm of all time along with dogs killing them... things could get a little........ overpowered? :D
i would build this farm, except without the crusher that filters out other mobs so i could have a farm for all nether mobs (except for the ghast obviously)
Adding more than two platforms to this farm creates an insane amount of lag/FPS-drop for me (even with no redstone torches for extending signal). Any tips on reducing that? Is it the number of moving slime blocks that cause it?
Hey Xisuma, would sending the mobs to the overworld with a nether portal be a good idea? That way you don't reach the mob cab in the nether and can AFK longer?
The whole efficiency thing confuses me. I mean, it's good that people get into that and do their best to make farms as efficient as they can be and all. But when you're playing, at the end it doesn't really matter. At least to me. Even for a server, like Hermitcraft. Yes, several people use it, but at the end does it really make much of a difference if there are little issues that make it a bit less efficient? Considering a farm is already a lot more efficient than just going there and looking for wither skeletons on your own...
Ilona TheHestya Efficiency is about reward for time. Its always a factor whatever you choose to do. If you farmed 3 skulls in an hour and thats all you needed then it wouldst be efficient to build a farm like this, however if you spent a few hours building it you may then get much more skulls for the time you put in.
Vic John You got it mostly right. I do understand what efficiency means and I understand why it's important to point out the minor problems, what I don't understand is why some people make a really big deal out of the problems considering everything else I said. :D You have been given a design of an efficient farm, why make the little things big and terrible when they're not?
Ilona TheHestya It's part of the fun of designing and building something, making it as efficient, stylish and useful as it can be. Also, the more efficient it is, the less time you are wasting in the long run. The more efficient it is the more beacons you will end up with over time.
A simple, cost effective solution... I'm still to redesign my Wither Skeleton farm - triple intersection... My first attempt I pulled down to make my current design & then they made it 3x high spawning was required for the Wither Skeletons... I lost interest after that... :/
I thought I'd save anyone having to repeat the work, and share some notes I made when preparing to build the farm. It may not necessarily be correct (I may have missed some things, which I'll find out when I do the farm, I guess), but these are my notes as they stand at the moment:
bottom pad goes from 671/61/779 to 651/61/809
3 pads, 31x21 (blocks travel along the 31-side)
torch tower goes up 651/794 on one side, 671/794 on other side. There's also one in the middle.
each slime slider is 9 blocks wide, and travels 15 blocks to either side of the torch tower.
Need:
Lots and lots of slabs and glass
Glowstone for the central powering area
Melons/furnaces, etc:
- for the sliders: 15*2*3*3 = 270
- for the crushers: 9*2*2*2 + 3*2*2 = 72+12 = 84
Redstone:
- for lining the melons: 15*2*3*3 = 270
- for the side clocks: 5*2 = 10
- for the central area: lots
Redstone torches:
- for the towers: 8*3 = 24
Redstone blocks:
- 3 (hopper clocks)
Repeaters:
- for the side clocks: 4*2 = 8
- 11 on each (2) side of the operations area, 4 in the center = 26
Comparators:
- 2 for each of the 3 hopper clocks = 6
Slime blocks:
- for the sliders: 9*2*3 = 54
- for the crusher: 9*2*2 = 36
Sticky pistons:
- for the sliders: 2*2*3 = 12
- for the hopper clocks: 2*3 = 6
- for the rest of the central area: 6
- for the crusher: 8+(9*2*2) = 8+36 = 44
Hoppers:
- for collection: at least 9*2*2 = at least 36
- for the hopper clocks (3): 3*2 = 6 (note: there are 8 items in one clock, 9 items in another (not sure what the difference is), and 48 items in the center clock)
Iron bars:
- for the crusher: 9*2*2 = 36
Katerine459, The Unsung Hero
The hero we deserve, and the one I needed right now. Thanks
Been waiting for this one and it doesn't disappoint. Great job!
Tango Tek Thanks tango :-)
xisumavoid I have been amazed by you, you build a great farm, perfect hermit hills, and I get so much inspiration from you your the best youtuber ever
Gez Ferreira good design, but there are better ones. I'll pm you some of my design in a while :p
***** Can you PM "some of your design" to me, too? :) I'm curious and I promise not to share it with anybody ;)
Cool use of the slime swipers! Good job guys;-)
***** Thanks Doc! :-)
Still, i think pushing wither skeletons into the overworld would make it even better!
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That design is so kewl! Thanks for the info X!
Hello gatoooor :)
omg it slip , I love u vids
sweet concept !
Heya king! :)
Are you going to help him make it? :D
Wanted to update everybody who's been asking if this farm works in 1.9 (and now 1.10). I downloaded Xisuma's world and ran it as-is, initially in 1.9.4, and it ran with no problems.
I've since upgraded to 1.10, and ran the world download for several hours in Survival Hard mode, for the sole purpose of making sure that Endermen (who can now spawn in the Nether as of 1.10) do not spawn in the spawner, get crushed, get mad, teleport to the AFK platform, and kill me while I'm AFK. :) After several hours of running it, a couple of Endermen did spawn... but they did not teleport out of the crusher. I even got a couple of Ender pearls out of the deal. :) That may not be a viable test, as it only happened once in several hours, but I just wanted to let you guys know. The farm works fine in 1.10, btw.
hybrid farm
One more update. I've finally finished building this farm in my world, and have been using it for almost a week now. It's quite fun, now that I've gotten most of the surrounding spawning spaces destroyed or slabbed. :) It works like a charm, and thank you again, Xisuma! :)
In the several hours that I've been at the farm... it's usually not AFK, because I'm also using it as a blaze farm. As a blaze farm, it works wonderfully, btw, if you're not afk and if most other spawning places are gone. It's not as great as a dedicated blaze farm, of course, but I've gotten several stacks of rods, and I don't need very many. I've also gotten 39 wither skulls (this is after several hours), about 8 stacks of nuggets (as a gold farm, it's extremely slow), a couple of stacks of coal blocks, and lots of stacks of bone blocks.
There have been three Endermen. They don't get hurt in the crusher, apparently. Two of them teleported when I hit them (I'm guessing the reason the one Enderman in Xisuma's world download didn't teleport was either because I killed him too quickly, or because he didn't have anyplace to teleport to). Thankfully, I anticipated this and built my ceilings very low, so wherever they teleported... it wasn't to where I was. I recommend anybody else building this farm do the same if, like me, you're terrified of Endermen. ;) The one that I managed to kill yielded 3 Ender pearls, so... nice side benefit.
One other little note: At one point, there was a baby pigman just standing on top of the iron bars. As I watched, he ran towards the middle point of the crusher... and then suddenly, he was in the AFK area. No idea how that happened. Just a little precaution: even if you've totally spawn-proofed your AFK area, it's still a good idea to resist the urge to kill the pigmen. :)
+Katerine459 sounds great, ive been sea ching for a spdesign i like to build a farm, the only problem is the place i. Want to build it is a triple intercection and not a double. So i gotta mod it to be able to handle it
kevin cole Beware the despawn radius, though. :) Whenever there's more than 36 blocks (spherical) between wherever you are, and the mobs in the spawning platform or killing area, there's a possibility of them despawning. So even if you have a triple intersection, I still wouldn't build it wider than 31 blocks... (I run into mobs despawning a lot as it is, even with the 31-block-wide farm).
+Katerine459 now why would i ignor a thing like that
Wow! I didn't expect this. I'd always considered the sweeper idea (but couldn't get it right)- but this actually implemented it really well. Has some real potential for other useful things. I can see a lot of work went into this - well done!
hi
chinmaya dixit Hello.
I thought about using this and your wither skeleton farm (with the wolves). I'll try both and see which is more efficient for me. :)
This is why i subscribed! You come up with such great conceptions together with your friends, and i just love it! It's so usefull! Thank you Xisuma, thanks for being awesome! :)
Nicowitsz You are too kind
xisumavoid
agreed. great stuff.
Xisuma...You're a genius.
I just spent a long time trying to work out why my 'sweepers' (the sliding slime blocks) were going to the end and stopping. Once i understood it better i realised i had the long and short tick the wrong way around.
If you sweepers go to one end and stop try adding 2 ticks of delay to one side and see if that fixes it. (ie, invert the order of the short and long ticks)
Omggg I had the exact same idea!!! I saw Mumbo's overworld mobfarm and thought it may be possible to use this for a witherskull farm... haha lmao!!!
PandaGames Great minds think alike! :-)
xisumavoid Minds like mine just don't think...
Joshua Hettinger haha
but fools seldom differ xd
I would suggest iron trap doors instead of carpets on top of the hoppers. If blazes agro on you (and they randomly like to do that from time to time, even though they should not be able to see you) they'll burn the carpets, but iron trapdoors stay intact.
Other than that, great design!
Very nice farm once again, Xisuma! Really enjoying these videos! :)
Congrats on hitting 300k but you havent yet you are so close though. I have been watching you since like 20k and youve come along way keep up the great work X. Please do a 300k special livestream on hermitcraft i think it would be tons of fun.
Sorry to be two years late on this one: Etho's hopper clocks. Like the ones you made a video on on 20/12/2015
Other than that: Great video!
Been waiting for someone to use that sweeper for withers! YAY!
wow, that is an impressive design.
This was really professional!
not much of a tutorial, but it definitely seems like a worthwhile design, the shifting floors designs that I've been building suck at letting magma cubes fall through
Great Tutorial
Magma cream issue mentioned at 2:35.
Fix by replacing the slabs with hoppers and link then to the hoppers where the wither skeletons are standing
xisumavoid great farm! Just there is a problem in 1.8 with hopper timers slowly duping items over time... resulting in messed up timings. I don't think you came across this when you built it due to staying in one place, but on a server... its a different story.
So to fix it ive just used a modified version of your circuits without the hopper timers, and specificly for the main circuit used a modified version of cubehamsters compact one minute clock with adjusted timings to fit the farms sweeper movements.
I remembered this farm and considered it for my 1.9 world. But I have a big problem with the two drop shafts being more than 32 blocks apart. Meaning while you are killing wither skeletons on one side, on the other they will randomly despawn.
I guess it could be somewhat mitigated by turning the thing around, so the afk and killing-area is in the middle and the redstone is on the outside, but since the 32 blocks are spherical that's still not ideal.
Edit: considering that mobs do not start despawning for 30 seconds, you could afk in a minecart that goes back and forth between the two drops. That would still mean that some wither skeletons might despawn when you kill them, as that will probably take longer than 30s, but it should be negligible
I now built this in my world and put a 4th floor made of glass, directly above my afk spot, that swipes all the mobs into a single place.
+Miles where there any other problems due to 1.9?
+Miles also what do mean by "second floor"
Solowplaysmc
This still works perfectly in 1.9. I used a better slime swiper design than in the video though.
I never said anything about a second floor.
Miles what slime swiper?
fully working in 1.10. built it in survival and on hard difficulty. just a few notes.. Light up the platforms as you are laying them down to reduce the amount of spawns, carry a bow, download the world from the description and keep flicking back and forth between worlds and dont place the redstone torch untill you have placed the sticky pistons and slime pushers as the clock will start. redstone was rather easy but had to change the timings on the crusher repeaters to 4 4 2 instead of the 4 4 4 as in the download. all working fine though
did you build it above bed rock
Real nice farm X, good job! :D
You could easily avoid the mob-cap by sending the mobs through a portal.
For the blazes in the iron bars get a snow golem in a culdrun with water so they don't take damage
Can't wait for this to be finished, you've set the bar high.
Will you be making a tutorial when you're happy with the efficiency?
xisumavoid You mentioned in your this video about streamlining the redstone, well if you only used 1 etho hopper timer clock instead of 2 you would save these resources: 2 slime balls, 8 cobblestone, 12 iron ingots, 22 wooden planks, 6 sticks, 2 nether quartz, 6 smooth stone, 2 building blocks, 19 redstone dust (minus the dust needed to make the connections). By moving the pulsing etho clock in the middle up flush with the ceiling and then using the available space near the center to place 1 etho clock and using both ends for the crushers you would save resources and reduce the FPS lag a bit. As far as the iron bars issue I have tested just about every configuration I can come up with and different items and nothing seems to work and get it to do what this design does and is intended to do (kill cubes).
xisumavoid Also wanted to mention this as well. That using seed 4187261798007374307, -1, -122/60/130 you will find a Nether Fortress with a Quad bridge intersections that will ALL spawn wither skeletons in v.1.8+
I've been waiting for this!
Quite cool in fact, looking forward to your next modsauce video :D
PD: I named my dog Xisuma cause you are soo cool :')
World download: xisumavoid.com/downloads/AFK%20Wither%20Skull%20Farm.zip
Thanks man!
I'm not sure how you could do this, but if you could gather all the skeletons into one spot, you can have the player hold a looting sword and attack them. Also, you could add a loop of hoppers and droppers to cycle swords so the player is always holding a looting sword as long as their inventory is full.
Thanks Xisuma, this will be great in my survival world! Thanks!
I was expecting to see an ultra efficient design tutorial, not to say I'm disappointed, the slime block swiper is brilliant, but I just think the community needs an efficient wither skeleton farm design more than this one.
I've been building this farm for several weeks now, and I just wanted to say thanks, Xisuma, for going through all the work of developing this farm. I can't wait to get it running, even though there are far too many spawning areas around my farm for it to ever reach your numbers. :)
That said... wow, this redstone is daunting! It would be daunting even if I could see everything (there are part of the crushing mechanism that are entirely hidden from view). But what's especially daunting is, I have no idea if there are elements that need to be built in a certain order. Does the crusher clock in the front need to be coordinated with the crusher clock inside in any way? Should the piston sliders be set up before the torch towers going up to them, or the other way around, or doesn't it matter? Why are there 8 items in the Etho Hopper clock for the crusher on one side, and 9 items in the other side? I haven't even started building all the redstone (I keep putting it off), and already I have so many questions that make me afraid to continue...
My problem with all of these massive fancy redstone devices is that in the time it takes you to make them, you could just hollow out a huge section of the nether, quarantine it off, and manually farm skulls for hours and hours and hours and get more results. This kind of farm would only be suitable for worlds that would need hundreds or thousands of hours of farming time eliminated.
+Emerl18 The problem with that is you have to manually kill all the pigmen blazes magma cubes skeletons and ghasts as well You wont get many wither skeletons spawning since the other mobs will be taking up the mob cap.
xisumavoid :D You almost build my wither farm concept, I'm working on in creative for about a month now when I can. Stuff I should point out... I'm also using slime blocks to push mobs off, but mine is using faster slime wiper mechanism. The timer is ultra compact and I can work with 1 high mobs ;) Also there are no light changes inside of the farm, and no middle row. 38x19 all spawning spaces :) I'll tweet it when I build the full size. Also... Ghasts can't spawn in nether fortresses ;)
Any chance you can update the dropbox link for the world download? Also does this still work in 1.10 or 1.11?
Nice work all!
It's time..... to recreate this in hermitcraft! :D
Looks good, i have one problem, once you have a few beacons you don't need any more skulls.
If you have multiple bases then a lot of beacons is always useful
Its more helpful for servers, when more people need them
It's also good for coal, as a fuel and bones, for bone meal (afk wheat farms and such).
when you have multiple people having multiple bases it becomes an issue. Right now as far as i know X is the only one with a beacon and he moves it wherever he needs it while all the hermits could have beacons to spare
spum has one
so is there no actual tutorial for this:/
"World Download" described in video and linked in description. Copy directly, or modify as you see fit.
@@VoltisArt i tried to download the world but the dropbox link brings me to an error 404 and says they cant find the page, did it get deleted?
VoltisArt you appear to be about 4 years late bro
You don't really need a roof since ghasts can't spawn in a nether fortress bounding box
Nice job X, One question can i add more spawn platforms (make it higher)
Love the way you present the build. I would like to do this as well on ps3 when the mob updates happen as we have a mob cap of 80 aggesive mobs it would be a smaller build for us as in 2 platforms or so. So thank you for the information.
Can you make a bounding box tutorial? A lot of people would definitely benefit from this.
this would be a good thing to build in hermitcraft
“Less expensive” *procede to use 100 slime blocks*
Oh wow, my eye just spotted that you are only 695 subs away from 300k :O
This thing has Xisuma painted clearly across it. So let's get to the point. When'cha gonna build it in Hermitcraft, eh? Can't wait to see the actual process now...
Gracias por subirlo a youtube, buena idea !
Thanks for uploading this to RUclips, good idea!
Mai inglish is el mejor.
GENIUSSSSSSS ALERT
cobble will be a good thing to build :)
Wither skeletons can spawn throughout the nether fortress. Would spawning pads across the whole fortress create a larger number of wither skeletons, or would they spawn in the same volume on a smaller spawning pad located at a pair of nether crossings?
Dogs can kill the witherskeletons and the skeletons will drop the skuls. This will make the farm fully AFK-able, but X, I have a mini myth for you. Do looting affect the mobdrops when the mob is killed by a dog?
+xisumavoid, this is an awesome idea, im going to build it in my world :D
So gonna make this on EvoTech!
Good luck building this.
Nice Design, you Planning to do a tutorial for this. I mean I won't need this because I have a similar design myself but I think that other people would benefit from the tutorial if you do one.
This is genus.
Yes! Finally!
1:20 SKULL!
Snocrash literally just made a wither skeleton farm. His is fully automatic though and it has faster spawning. Xisuma you should really check his content out he's an incredible youtuber who publishes great content.
where would be a good waiting position for the farm?
Xisuma,
isn't it smarter to use dogs to kill the Wither Skeletons instead of you with a looting sword, because there will be more mobs killed, so there will spawn more mobs, so also more wither skeletons, and more Wither Skeletons means more Wither Skulls.
For example if the mobcab is 150 and there are 150 wither skeletons, you can kill them with a looting sword, will give some skulls. But if they get killed if you are AFK, there will spawn more than that 150 wither skeletons, maybe even 3000, just saying numbers, but if you wait long enough they will. I am pretty sure 150 wither skeletons killed with Looting III give less skulls than 3000 without looting.
Just an idea, could you use this?
Have fun trying to get a dog through the nether portal
Kampf Gorilla Seriously? thats the problem for u? u just built a massive farm and maybe even a perimeter around it and u'd stop at getting a dog through a portal?
It takes a while to get 150 wither skeletons. The chance to get skulls with a looting sword is so much higher, that it's worth it to kill them with that.
Petar Jovanovic True that. Getting a dog thru a nether portal is actually fairly easy.
jalmaanofthegames I didn't know they killed them until yesterday :-)
Is there a tutorial?
Snocrash released a FULLY afk skull farm, you should check it out X!
He saw,even commented :)
redstone torches have light level 7 which doesnt prevent mobs from spawning
Xisuma, do dogs attack wither skeletons like they do normal skeletons? Maybe if you combined the most powerful wither skeleton farm of all time along with dogs killing them... things could get a little........ overpowered? :D
There needs to be a tutorial.
i would build this farm, except without the crusher that filters out other mobs so i could have a farm for all nether mobs (except for the ghast obviously)
This build looks awesome. I'm just sorry that this video isn't a tutorial.
+Erin Howarth thats why its not called a tutorial :-)
Thanks for this!
AMAZEING! >.
This is a fantastic farm Xisuma, thanks so much for designing it and I might make it soon in a world
however, "me and him" ... just saying ;)
Adding more than two platforms to this farm creates an insane amount of lag/FPS-drop for me (even with no redstone torches for extending signal). Any tips on reducing that? Is it the number of moving slime blocks that cause it?
Hey Xisuma, would sending the mobs to the overworld with a nether portal be a good idea? That way you don't reach the mob cab in the nether and can AFK longer?
With the torches, couldn't you just move the torch tower away one block and cover it up with obsidian or a furnace?
It is what everyone needs :-)
Light don't seem to affect the spawn rates in the nether, unlike the end or the overworld, isn't it ? Look's like an new idea for Myths Busting !
Just look it up on the wiki?
It doesn't affect "nether mobs", but as the skeleton is just a variation of the regular skeleton, they can only spawn in the dark. ;)
But of course, if you spend the time and resources on the WWiper, you won't NEED to afk :D
Haven't played vanilla for some time, but as far as I know, redstone torches doesn't emit enough lightlevel to affect spawningrates?
in your personal opinion is this one better than the old design you did on hermitcraft?
You didn't mention what the average rates were. I would have like to know what to expect after an hour AFK.
for some reason youtube turned on automatic subtitles for this video and its friggin hilarious...
The whole efficiency thing confuses me. I mean, it's good that people get into that and do their best to make farms as efficient as they can be and all. But when you're playing, at the end it doesn't really matter. At least to me. Even for a server, like Hermitcraft. Yes, several people use it, but at the end does it really make much of a difference if there are little issues that make it a bit less efficient? Considering a farm is already a lot more efficient than just going there and looking for wither skeletons on your own...
Ilona TheHestya Efficiency is about reward for time. Its always a factor whatever you choose to do. If you farmed 3 skulls in an hour and thats all you needed then it wouldst be efficient to build a farm like this, however if you spent a few hours building it you may then get much more skulls for the time you put in.
Although it's a game, I think Xisuma's penchant for efficiency and effectiveness will help out in a real job. If he quits youtube, that is. XD
iomoon888 "in a real job"
That's exactly what's wrong with our generation. I think X's job is not only real, but awesome!
Vic John You got it mostly right. I do understand what efficiency means and I understand why it's important to point out the minor problems, what I don't understand is why some people make a really big deal out of the problems considering everything else I said. :D
You have been given a design of an efficient farm, why make the little things big and terrible when they're not?
Ilona TheHestya It's part of the fun of designing and building something, making it as efficient, stylish and useful as it can be. Also, the more efficient it is, the less time you are wasting in the long run. The more efficient it is the more beacons you will end up with over time.
AWESOME
Dose any of your old wither farms still work
Sweet!
So, we aren't getting a tutorial for this are we? :(
what are the wither skulls for? to fight the wither? (yeah I know im new to the game)
Will this work on a Spigot server? (talking about mumbo's pattern server) Would be nice with an answer soon! :)
A simple, cost effective solution...
I'm still to redesign my Wither Skeleton farm - triple intersection...
My first attempt I pulled down to make my current design & then they made it 3x high spawning was required for the Wither Skeletons... I lost interest after that... :/
awesome!
02:42 Redstone Torches emit light level of 7, hello!
I SAW U ON SNOWCRASHES CHANNEL!!
Sam Wilson HERMEGAWD!
Is there a tutorial on how to build it? How do you make the crusher to kill everything except the wither skellies
Hello xisuma i was wondering if u are planning to make a tuturial for this it is very useful
What about the smallest magma cubes and baby zombies and baby zombie pigmen?