If you manage to find a Mushroom Island (depends how far into the game you are), get an Enderman to pick up a Mycelium block and then kill him, you can plant it in your base and it'll spread to any nearby dirt blocks (you need to light up the area). You can then plant the mushrooms on Mycelium and I...

Yes, I'm at least 50 blocks away from the farm. I also planted Nether Groth to nearby Netherrack and covered the Fortress with slabs, so there are no other mobs spawning, except for Ghasts.

I've decided to automate the Wither Skeleton Skull collection so I made a Nether Fortress mob trap. http://i.imgur.com/2aPrAnJh.png The design is pretty straightforward, mobs should spawn on Nether Brick covered by a pressure plate, which then activates a piston which pushes them to their doom. But ...

I just realized that I could dispense the food in a cobweb next to the wolves and there would be no losses.

Well joke's on me then, I already had a setup with a despawning timer before, but I thought it consumed way too much food, so I decided to make this "efficient" design.

I have recently slain the Ender Dragon and decided to fully automate my dung production with detectors and dispensers. Here is a pic: http://i.imgur.com/qUflePr.png Basically, the detector detects the dung, and a dispenser above the wolf instantly feeds it. Am I doing that wrong, because the wolf do...