Etho Plays Minecraft - Episode 454: Thorns vs. Mending
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- Опубликовано: 25 май 2016
- Minecraft survival. Today we experiment a bit with combining the thorns and mending enchantments together in hopes of creating some kind of stupid but cool mob system.
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With adding the new observer block mojang have said they are not removing any of the old bud switches, quasi connectivity will stay we just get a new block :-)
Gek Badass you predicted the future
@Gek Badass fast forward to season 7 lol
What were those shiny rocks that fell in the lava? I guess they're not valuable.
+TacticalCraze I heard tools created from them are unbreakable!
You may need to use them in block form for the blue fire to work though
they are used to be thrown into the void once you get a full inventory of them since that is the only way you can get the hidden achievement
+Lucas Forsberg Thats just rumors. Im pretty sure the blue fire thing is legit.
I really hope this isnt a joke :D
2:30 that librarian is the best one you could ever have gotten.. mending book.. cheap infinity book AND HE LISTENS
Ohhh ETHO. "Whos line is it anyway" references make me so happy.
It is now after I binged Whos Line that I understand this joke... 6 years later
Whenever I watch a Etho video and no ad pops up, I reload the video so he can get that youtube moneyz'
So kind
you should get 100$ now
You are an inspiration to all
Make sure to click on the ad too!
Kr15t1an_14 i do :)
In honor of your thorns, my snack for today is a large cactus.
I chose barbed wire.
Cactus is actually delicious.
How do you eat a cactus?!
Very carefully...
I ate a medieval mace! (And yes, it hurt!!!! AWESOME RIGHT?)
Etho's fanbase is so much more chill and kind than most youtubers. It's cool
Etho, I've got an idea for the mob system: You could put something onto your right mouse button and constantly eat the spider eyes you get from the farm! Like that, you wouldn't run out of food whilst AFKing, and we saw that the regen effect could handle the poison. :)
But in which hand does he put his looting sword then? Offhanf is occupied by the thorns item. a minecraft character doesnt have 3 hands.
Ya but he made the farm to get spider eyes
Just about to add that! D=
If he doesn't have food in one of them then he won't be bale to go afk and if he doesn't have the thorns item in his offhand he might run out of durability. Seems like he has to go with those 2 rather than the looting sword. At least on some farms.
Food wouldn't be a problem this way, he would just die, respawn, and averything starts over again. The problem is the looting sword, but conceptwise, this idea is just great (etho's, not mine)
Etho, I really like how calm you are with the spiders, like other you tubers would be cracking up or freaking out, but you're just carrying on with the lp :D
That's one of the reasons I like etho. He doesn't freak out if there is a mob and he loses a few hearts. I also like that he gets that it's just a game, and it's not the end of the world if you die in it
+Atooch Super cool dude.
a lot of youtubers like to over exaggerate to be funny, but Etho isn't like that. He's a good youtuber because he's actually decent at the games he plays.
*Cough* VintageBeef *cough*
+live slow, skate fast beefisnt fake aabout it tho, he just gets really absorbed in the game
Don't misunderstand me, I am not a kid. but I would really like to see Etho playing Minecraft Pocket Edition. I would like so much to see his reaction and to see him trying the mechanics of the game. If you liked the idea, leave a like so he can see this comment.
I loved Pocket Edition, I had it a long time before they even added buckets, but when I got the PC edition I got unused to the PE controls and now I can't enjoy it anymore :,(
It would be fun for a one time video.
He's already said he's not interested in it.
Minecraft PC is the same thing as PE. the difference is that PE dosnt have some features as PC does. btw PE would just be a waste of time.
The mechanics are the same.
20:18 This is the reason why I love Etho. He acts all innocent as if it was an accident, despite the fact that he's basically a pro at minecraft. "Oh, oops." Keep up the great work Etho!
didnt notice the sound until you mentioned it, THEN it got annoying :/
lol ikr
Ikr
same
Takamura 😂👌
the nexus looks like a dragon head I swear...
build a market around the nexus.. like a crowded market where they sell items from the nexus
or make the nexus a dragon head and make a Chinese city
or make a town that isn't finished yet...like a construction site kind of but make it with the theme of everywhere else with wood, wood and more wood!
Nice
Town would be cool, maybe put the villagers there !
like digging up dragon bones as if they were from a dinosour
nice
or just don't build a fucking town there at all
36 minutes of Etho Plays Minecraft! :D
God, you're early too! Where are you from, bro?
+Hannes Dendoncker Sweden
Wait what?
+Jet Lag wait, you're swedish?
Tteam (2nd channel) Jet Lag may be Swedish, or Jet Lag may not be Swedish, we may never know, all we know is that they are an awesome person (or bird, or machine, whatever) that is early on Etho's (and Zisteau's) videos...
Its been over a year since I started my journey to watch all of etho plays mincraft season 2 and man I'm sad there is like only like 100 episodes left.
"oh, whoops..."
ah, Etho, never change.
It seems to be you've been happier, lately, Etho! One can definitely notice that you've been more lively, recently! Why do you think that is? :)
Probably because he's been spending more time With team Canada
He's got a mistress
+Dat FancyIan He did talk about going on a date in the TerraRestore series
his sex life is going better
#HOTDATE
LMFAO at the Whose line reference :D :D :D :D :D
I watch whose line is at anyway, but I must've missed the reference :_:
It was the opening to the video
Aaron Brubacher oh wow, I guess that completely flew over my head - trying to revise for tomorrow's chemistry exam and balancing it with a dose of Etho is tougher than anticipates
Ryan Stiles has a huge nose and Colin Machirye is bald. Hence testificates.
no one cares that you are studying for a chem exam
I laughed way too hard at "commit Sudoku"
Hey Etho, to fix the problem of starving when using the farm I suggest using a mooshroom (cow) to be able to eat mushroom soups when you are hungry. And fix your mouse button to eat automatically.
If you still want to use the looting you can use dogs (which are save while the spiders are one-hit-kill) or try putting the thorns on your armour and not wearing a full set of it for the mending to be able to repair it.
2 things about this machine. the torns armor that you have in your offhand slot is better if mending is not on it, and is also better if mending is not on the looting sword. if you have more mending things the exp is going to be divided between them and less exp is going to go to your equiped armor. the other thing is about the potions thing, you could put healing potions on a timer, but you can also put food on a dispenser on the same timer and set a key to eat the food automatically, is probably easier to store food and just eat it.
the potions require more resources, and you have to trust that the timer is going to heal youat the right time, is hard to time random damage from spiders+poison+hunger properly, but if you just keep eating is going to be 100% sure that you stay alive.
maybe if you want to make it fully automatic you could make a chicken cooker next to the farm
He could use Mushroom Stew.
that is probably the one food item that he cant use. to tell you the truth, if he wants to use looting, he needs to use potions because he is out of hands. but if he wants to use food instead of looting, he needs a food item that doesnt leave anything behind when eaten, so he cant use anything that is made with bowls.
Right, but if he holds a bowl in his off hand and constantly looks at a Mooshroom while holding right click, he can refill and drink the bowl automatically while still having the looting effect applied in the main hand. Then he won't need storage of food and can run the farm indefinitely without ever needing to refill a dropper.
+commandblockguy This is the best and most practical solution.
commandblockguy thst i did not think about and is a good idea, only problem is that etho needs to have a thorns piece in his hand, so he has to choose between having looting on the other hand or eating food, that is a a point in favour of potions.
Man am I the only one who gets excited when you see a new Etho-video on the notification?
You see the word 'Etho' and instantly yell,"YES!"
Yeah, Etho Plays Minecraft and I'm so happy :P
I have it too :P
sir you are commenting that on an Etho video.
+MoodyMoony anybody that's subscribed to Etho has the same feeling. Best end to my night
Etho, first I loved the entire 36 minutes of this episode and was so excited to see it in my sub feed.
Also a quick idea for the Nexus, just right to the main room where you might put a corridor to the second room maybe keep the glass showing redstone theme you and Doc have been toying around with recently so it shows off all the pretty redstone behind.
Keep up the great videos man
This is why I've been watching you since 2012, your cool concepts and inventions!
Loved it!
Thorn does not stack. Only the piece with the highest level is doing damage. One piece of thorn II is better than 4 piece with thorn 1
I don't think he said it does stack
but he equiped thorn on every armor at the start
Minichaud Berkimilov Good point
No it doesn't stack but it does increase the chance of thorns activating against an enemy
yeah, the point of saying maxed out thorn 3 on 4 prices of armor is to make it where thorns will proceed over 92℅ of the time. the lowest chance I believe is around 22℅.
ETHO YOU ROCK!
No it's ETHO YOU STONE
+hunterw96 lol
You're name isn't iChinnyAce?
ER
+hunterw96 He's a red stone
I missed the mob mechanics and diamond trolling (as well as General Spaz) from the original 1-150 episodes or so. This episode was a really nice throwback to that! Thank you!
Wouldn't sitting in a Minecart prevent any hunger? Or would the spiders break/knock you out of it?
I think so... I hope he tests this
Oh yeah! Or a boat? Good call. :)
It takes food to heal
I think them hitting you would take hunger away
Yeah, you still get hungry, you just can't see it anymore.
You can eat afk if you just put a weight on your right click. Maybe a food dispenser for if your stack runs out.
It'd be easier to remap your right click to a key and then put weight on that
+Alec East I just disconnect my mouse and it'll stay triggered. You get the idea.
It would eat every single time he went -.5 of a hunger, he would have to build a machine to rapidly dispense meat and even then it would take thousands of stacks just to ask in a 5 hour period. Most likely etho will just switch it to normal mode when off camera.
+Dat FancyIan If he ate Spider eyes? Or if he ate something that just gives .5 food?
He could start with no food in his inventory and set s timer to dispense a piece of food every five minutes or so when he got hungry. If he had right mouse pressed down it would automatically be eaten.
Hey Etho, I see you use a lot of hardened clay. I've always hated farming it, do you just bite the bullet and hardcore farm for it, or is there a mechanic I don't know about?
I've got a speed mine setup for it. You need an efficiency 5 pick and at least a Haste 1 becon and then you can break it almost instantly.
+EthosLab becon
+EthosLab actually etho, im not sure if this works, but you need a wireless mouse.
you will keep spamming (holding) your right key on your mouse, and off your mouse (while you're still holding it, after you off it, you let go). minecraft will think you're still holding the button, so you can eat constantly. I always do that xd
+EthosLab About your new mob system. You could spam right click and just eat constantly. Combine it with some cheap food source like melon farm that can replenish itself on its own and design is complete. Way cheaper solution than potions but you are loosing loot efect from main hand I belive so keep that in mind ^^'
you can do that with stuff like alt tab as well
I love how the Etho community on RUclips is the nicest community I have yet to see.
20:59 The right man in the wrong place can make all of the dinference, Mr. Etho.
Etho, what happens if you tape down or weigh down your eating hand and eat some of the spider eyes you get? They do give you one haunch of food, and since you'll always be poisoned, it shouldn't be an issue? Cons: Minecraft has to stay focused, you couldn't go AFK and do something else on your computer, but I think you'd eat far fewer spider eyes than you'd get, so it'd still be profit.
Con: you can only hold thorns OR looting, not both, but PRO: you can go fully AFK and won't die.
It would eat every single time he went -.5 of a hunger, he would have to build a machine to rapidly dispense meat and even then it would take thousands of stacks just to ask in a 5 hour period. Most likely etho will just switch it to normal mode when off camera.
+Dat FancyIan How many times to did u write this comment?
He likely wouldn't be able to keep up with spider eyes if he didn't have looting, and not holding thorns the armor wouldn't be able to keep up, because that's one more thing for it to heal, although it's still the same amount of things healing, it will take more durability because him wearing thorns, so it will have to heal more, unless he wants to not put mending on that, but then it would break before he gets profit. (BTW, when I say heal I mean healing durability). It's a good idea, but likely wouldn't work.
You can actually unfocus MC while any combination of buttons is triggered. Well, at least on Windows. The trick is to change the full screen mode using F11 while holding all the necessary buttons. Then all the buttons have to be released before the transition is over (black screen). This is often used in fish or sheep farms.
You could do that one trick that's used in auto fish farms. You hold right click with food in your hand, while staring at a metal door. Your character will keep trying to right click until you can do something, like eat, and then it will continue and automatically eat again as soon as your hunger goes down.
Then you can't use looting and thorns
+Edwin Newton No looting? What's about the off-hand?
+Lenni maxx you need thorns in the off hand.
The problem is, he wants to run Minecraft in the background, so he can use his computer for other things. With right click AFK farms you can't do anything else on this computer
ifroad33 Yep. I have also got this to work with the regular right click too, but I guess that means you cannot do anything else on your PC?
Saving up Etho episodes. Gonna binge watch right now!
Wow, that's a really good librarian. Not only does it have Mending, but it runs into a hole to be sealed off on cue, runs around to show off the dragon head on cue, and even runs right back to its enclosure!
I so hoped it would be Sky Factory.
Etho, try adding some tamed dogs, so even if thorns misses the enemies still die everytime and drop rare loot.
The pure joy in Etho's voice at 1:36 brought a smile to my face.
Etho was in a really good mood starting this episode 😄
Also ahh thorns was a real swing and a miss for so long before they finally fixed the extra durability loss and mending's random effect.
Etho, every 30-1:00 make a red stone timer to heal you so you don't die
Or every 5min-9min
Etho! I think i speak for everyone when i say this: You make us more than just viewers. When we see your videos we are more than just watching. We are right there with you placing every block, testing every theory, and laughing every laugh! You are a truly amazing person! Thank you. :D
and it's the subtle, natural way in which he does it, he is truly a special youtuber :)
mhm :D
I don't play minecraft much anymore, but you make watching it so entertaining, Etho!
I totally love these long episodes Etho!
Keep up the good work!
If you're willing to do without the looting, you could just eat the spider eyes to keep your hunger bar full.. You're already being poisoned anyway, so it's free food.
Etho
U can catch the food then hold the right click button and press f11
What will make u eat without stoping
feels good when you remembeer the episode that etho found these spawners
This series never gets old
> Video uploaded 15 minutes ago.
> Looks at dislikes, 2, okay.
> Looks at how long the video is, 36 minutes.
> ???
How can you ever dislike an Etho video, savages...
What about carryng a full stack of arrows with lingering leap effect? So yo can take off more easy...
Just that beginning deserves a like!
That beginning was awesome. Keep doing intros like that plz. Great start is where its at!
I spend 4 hours a day reloading ethos videos to watch adds to give him the u tube monies
that is a stupid waste of time
each ip address can only give 1 view in ~1 day or something like that
While your intentions are good and appreciated, as others have mentioned your efforts are in vain. You could still help by sharing his videos on social media under the hashtag of Minecraft and make sure to like and comment to make the video appear higher in search rankings.
Dogeasaurus Rex actually, you are right about that. If you could do it multiple times then you could steal money.
one view only gives a fraction of a cent, it's not worth it m8
etho talks to npc's in his spare time confirmed
That intro joke was amazing. you deserve praise
Too cool Etho ! Love your enthusiasm !
Love etho
as always, the 454th amazingly creative episode You're an inspiring genius, Etho.
I'm not sure if it's far or not, but it's about Etho's Lab for the potions. If it's a little bit close, you can have a railway retrieval system to come back to the spider spawners, drop it off, lead it to a few dispensers to splash onto you. When the chest cart is at the point of dropping the potions off, it sends a signal to a clock to the dispensers. The time of the clock takes the same amount of time when the dispenser dispenses the potion. I'm not a redstone expert at all. It might even be worse than anyone can think of. ;)
Etho, Cant you just leave a weight on your mouse so you continuously eat and dont starve?
What I was thinking.
or like write a macro
lol me 2 man xD,
He could use golden carrots too so they would last long...
Lol I wonder how long it's gonna take him to see this or realize first
Souls a named them MendWing
*Should've
such creativity much fun
Still was like an early 100s episode, absolutely great!
I have an idea for how to solve your damage problem. Basically, what you would do is have a hopper clock dispense you a spider eye (collected by the farm) every so often , and you would have your right click button held down so that you would eat it. The spider eye would poison you, but that would matter as you were already poisoned. Eating the spider eyes would counteract the hunger problem, and therefore make it possible to afk! Thanks Etho, great episode as usual!
tried putting zombie head on villager. Dose not seen to work like it dose when players wear it.
Etho, can u do a tutorial on how to make the enderman farm you made in this episode. U said it was easy too make, and that could help minecraft noobs like me. Thanks
or you could do it yourself
ask yoursef questions like:
how high has to be the drop to kill them in one punch?
how can you drop the endermans from the platforms?
what's the new trend? (endermite farms are insane)
grab all the questions you thought about and ask google, he'll know what to do
Why did everyone respond in such a manner that this was like a computer assistance forum.
you know, I first came to this channel and the very first thing I saw him do was add the lil' crafting bench block swapper in the mancave next to his storage room. And that was so long ago when (sorry Etho) when the mancave was in it's ugly duckling stage, and now he roams his majestic mancave and everytime I see that crafting bench, I smile.
So now I see him talking about how he's got to do the nexus and how its a big project and I cant wait for a few more years to pass.. And I'm still sitting here, watching his videos and it'll still look the same cause he's distracted himself with other projects lol
oh my goodness that "who's line" reference though. 10 outta 10!
Those diamonds 😭
they are not the first... we must avenge the blue shiny rocks
they are not the first... we must avenge the blue shiny rocks
What are diamonds?
I hear that they are one of the most useless items in the game.... next to pre-1.8 lapis of course.
You must be forgetting the poison potato, it's so pointless.
I'm early let me make a joke, the comment section.
Intelligent comments on a youtube video!
Hahahah!
+TacticalCraze if I will stay around here it wont.
Love those classic Etho transitions 20:00 - 20:19 :D
Awesome episode! For the Nexus I think it would be fun to add a minecart track to take you to the chests, then you could get an overview of all the build if you wanted. Keep up the great videos, they always brighten up my day.
I have an idea for the nexus! I'm no redstoner, but you are. See if you can build a hallway that can flip between a staircase leading up and a staircase leading down. It'll probably be super complicated, but that's a main theme of the nexus. Being complicated. I think it's a good idea, but maybe to difficult, or too inconvenient, or maybe just plain impossible to be pulled off. Thanks for reading!
Here are some suggestions for the health problem:
1. You could make yourself a chamber in which you are surrounded by cows with the spiders attacking from above. Hold a milk bucket and place a rubber band on your mouse (or hold right click and disconnect the mouse while still holding) before going afk. It might be possible to build it in such a way that you alternate between milking cows and drinking milk to get rid of the poison effect. Only that way you would lose the looting effect.
2. Use Xisumavoid's 2-way piston bug door to pull you into a separate chamber every now and then. In that chamber you could dispense health potions without healing the spiders and then have the door pull you back into the farm.
3. Build food farms around the xp farm and have them dispense food at you in regular intervals. Use one of the tricks from (1.) to press and hold the right mouse button while afk. Technically, you wouldn't even need a farm - you could just eat the spider eyes, since you're poisoned already.
ETHO I LOVE "WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAYS"!!!!! THANK YOU :DD
0:49 "I've been tryin' to breed these guys, get more little babies" -Etho 2016
+EthosLab If you press F3 + P, your game will not pause if the game loses focus(alt+tab out), you can use this to constantly eat, the same way automatic fishing farms work.
Just remap your right-click to a button when you're at the spider farm, then hold down the eat-button as you're alt-tabbing out, and you'll be constantly eating. Then you can set up a system to dispense steak at you in certain intervals, and fill up your inventory in a way so you can only recive the steak.
Instant like for that intro. That was wonderful.
22:49 Aye, they go up and they go down
Hey Etho! Add lanterns to the mob system, and have it all (lights, brewing system, potion dispenser) hooked up to be controlled by a pressure plate that you'll stand on when you're in place for the system to be used!
Haaa who's line is it anyway reference!!! Love you Etho.
Standing in a life support machine with self repairing armour that automatically kills enemies - Minecraft has come along so much
Hey Etho! I don't know how effective it'd be, or if it'd even work at all, but you could set up a clock of sorts in the mob farm that lets you hold right click with food in your hand, and maybe have a trapdoor in front of you. Once the clock ticked, it'd close the trapdoor behind a block (using a piston), which would give you just enough time to eat, then it'd open again. That'd mean, however, that you'd have to give up on the Thorns-holding thing (since you'd hold looting in one hand already), but maybe you could put Thorns in your helmet, so it wouldn't take as much damage. Love your videos, keep up the great work!
etho make a dispenser shoot bread at you every so often and have a weight or something on your mouse, or something(you get my point). Then make a villager bread farm to fill the dispenser and practically have infinite afkable food (bread is also a lot better then melons) then fill your inv with cobble or other blocks. Also just wanted to add that your my favorite youtuber and probably the only one that keeps my full retention
Hey Etho, regarding healing options for the Spider Thorns farm, you can also use golden apples as food source and then when you're using the farm AFK just leave something on your 'eat' button.
I love that you love Whose Line Etho
i love these technical videos etho!!
Could you have steaks on your hot bar, hold down right-click with something or just make a macro with something like auto-hotkey to permanently hold down right click with your steaks selected, and then have a dropper throw steaks at you occasionally?
You could then put hoppers under you to collect unused steaks and recycle them back into the dropper, in addition to collecting and sorting the other mob drops.
You wouldn't need to worry about another drop replacing the steak location on your hotbar because I highly doubt you'd ever run through 64 steaks before the dropper dropped more, and I'm pretty sure if you put a double chest of steaks on the dropper it would last you for quite a while.
You could even hook up the chest or dropper to some lights in the spawn room to automatically shut down the system when there's only x stacks of steaks left so you never accidentally die.
"So the spider commit sudoku... The game!" That is xD
Loved the Whose Line reference
who remembers the good old days when spider eyes were Etho's main food source?
yes
Haha! A who'se line reference to start the episode! Gold!
Your the source of my motivation for my YT Etho! Keep up the awesome work man! xP
Hey etho, if you hold an item with thorns on it, in your hand you still get the effect of thorns but the durability does not go down. if you fill your inventory up and have a helmet like a pumpkin on your head you can keep swinging your attack hand and use your other hand to eat food without equipping anything. so set up an automatic food farm that flows to you while you afk and have both left and right click pushed down and you will be able to ask forever while attacking and eating just make sure slot on of your hotbar has food in it. sorry I've explain this in a really complicated way
This episode is a clear explanation why Etho cannot post everyday. Lots of work and testing was here involved.
Thorns is an interesting way of making a grinder. I think I might have a solution for the hunger problem: put a few spider eyes in a position on your hot-bar and have right click held down (re-bind it to the space bar and put something on it, for example). That way, especially with looting, you will have enough food from the farm itself and not need to do anything crazy with potions.
Dear Etho,To make the spider farm work better, have a Mooshroom and a cow in the wall separated by iron bars. Hold a bowl in your main hand and a bucket in your off hand. Hold down your right click button. The spiders will knock you back between the cow and the Mooshroom. When you are looking at the cow, you will fill the bucket and then drink it, which takes away poison. When you are looking at the Mooshroom, you will fill the bowl and drink it, which gives you food. If you want to get Looting effects, put the bowl in your main hand and a Looting sword in your off hand. You will still get food but will take damage from poison.
Hey Etho,
I did some testing with cave spiders, equipped thorns+ mending armor seems to be holding up just fine. Maybe it's just the higher damage that endermen deal, or they were coming at a quicker rate in your test?
Here are the details:
- Dual cave spider spawner as in the video
- An indented ring in the walls of the AFK-room/drop plattform so the spiders could not climb back up into the "disable"-region of the spawners.
- Mending + unbreaking III + protection IV + thorns III on all four pieces of armor
- Looting III on sword in main hand
- Spider eyes in off-hand, right mouse button pressed down while AFK
- One beacon with resistance II, one with strength (which probably does not matter) and regen
- One hour AFK in hard mode
- All armor pieces are holding up just fine, well within 100 points of the max durability
- I went from level 0 to 20. Not the best XP farm, but that isn't the point ;)
- I did not collect the drops with hoppers, so most of them probably despawned. Still, the free slots in my inventory filled up with 13 stacks of spider eyes and 18 stacks of string.
There was one difficulty: Initially, most of the XP was wasted. The spiders had to come uphill to get to me, and were attacking me from a distance of about 3 blocks, with some of the XP falling even farther away. Many of the XP were then unable to get to me. So it is important that the floor geometry allows the XP to reach the player from about 4 blocks away.
Before Mending, the automatic fishing farms used to automatically dispense fishing rods that the player would only pick up if their inventory was empty. You could do something similar here--have right-click held down so you're always eating food, then dispense food on an interval so that you don't run out.
Hey Etho, two things for you
A) I would say you should add a Hopper system to the farm as Im sure you are aware considering they are somewhat key in AFK farms to farm anything but EXP
B) For the Nexus, I would ask you to consider modifying the theme of it so that you can include the grass currently there and maybe even fit it into the world space without making it a massive building to hide any redstone, my idea was something along the lines of a ruin, that way you could mke clear paths as well as neat spectacles for the decoration of the nexus outside of what you've already done with its design.
C) Keep being awesome!
Etho, Skeleton Traps don't make charged creepers, Xisuma tested it on his last mini-myths video.