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So has anyone tried making a record farm using btw? The rules are simple you just have to weaken a creeper and let a skeleton finish it in one arrow.

So has anyone?

If you mean a automate farm. No, that´s not possible, even with better than wolves. You would need to stand on a place, where a skeleton has to shoot at you through a creeper. It does not need Btw in any way. I have seen a mob sorter somewhere around here, so it is possible.

Technically I think it may be now that we can automate snowman production. Skeles will target the snowmen. If you put the creepers in the middle they should get CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE!

Will the skeletons automatically attack the snowmen or do the snowmen need to hit them first? Cause there is a chance the snowman will just hit the creeper, ofcourse.

Edit: did a quick test on creative and yeah, the snowman will immediately start hitting the creeper. So a bit more cleverness would be required to make it hit the skeleton first.

I...am going to test that theory right now!

Graphite wrote:Will the skeletons automatically attack the snowmen or do the snowmen need to hit them first? Cause there is a chance the snowman will just hit the creeper, ofcourse.

Yeah, using the non existent mob, that´s an idea! Put a DB in shootline of the Snowman, the DB detects the snowball, a piston pushes the snowman in front of the creeper, and the skeleton shoots the creeper.

A quick test on creative suggests that that strategy is indeed viable. So the process is automatable :P

so after 2 nights of disk hunting ive got 4 records.... :P
perhaps this is not needed...

Nonsense! Now that it is thought up, it must be built! Just not any time soon by me, as I've still got a long list of things to add to my stronghold base :P

I think FC needs to make it so that we can melt down music records for plastic... Think of all the uses!

Corrupting souls? Eternal torture? Sporks? The last two may be the same thing though. Or all three for that matter...

This is the weirdest thing, it was just yesterday when I was thinking about making a record farm! It's strange how things happen like that. I'm sure there must be a way, people seem to have the right idea!

Sarudak wrote:... If you put the creepers in the middle they should get CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE!

I am so, so sorry for this I blame Urian.

DaveYanakov wrote: I am so, so sorry for this

No, you're not. :)

Just because it's 80's night on #BTW :p

Shit, I'm missing 80s night? Gotta get on IRC!

After the final tweaks are done with my mob farm... I will have to try this... but how can you automate the creeper spawning in the right spot?

Feature, play record backward to haunt steve's foes with deathmetal?

Really though, if someone automates a record farm you are required to make a video, I'd just have to see it!

challenge accepted :)

Ribky wrote:Shit, I'm missing 80s night? Gotta get on IRC!

After the final tweaks are done with my mob farm... I will have to try this... but how can you automate the creeper spawning in the right spot?

Oh that's simple, all you need to is find a way of filtering out skeletons, zombies, spiders, and endermen while they're on their way to processing. A one wide passage will take care of the spiders, using water to transport the mobs will also help remove the endermen, and finally a nice bright sunny spot will eliminate the skeletons and zombies, leaving only creepers to be be harvested for discs. What would be harder is separating and then moving the skeletons to creeper shooting position. I'm thinking a snow golem, a detector block and a sticky piston should be able to handle that.

Build it next to a skeleton spawner? Then use water to carry them maybe?

This is the best mob sorter that I have seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SwtecF3m7g
all you need to do after sorting is move the skeletons and the creepers away from the first set of snowmen then create a crossfire with the skeletons and a new set of snowmen with the creepers in the middle.

XantyZon wrote:This is the best mob sorter that I have seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SwtecF3m7g
all you need to do after sorting is move the skeletons and the creepers away from the first set of snowmen then create a crossfire with the skeletons and a new set of snowmen with the creepers in the middle.

Wow... that's pretty clever...

I think that's the sorter DocM is basing his off of. It's pretty excellent, I would have NEVER thought of sorting out mobs like this. Some really good ideas are coming up in this thread though, I can't wait to see Battosay crush this challenge haha.

I have an idea for this which I wil post when it is completed. My first idea blew up though, because the snow golem was too close to the creeper. Back to the drawing board! (Actually, i'm just going to move the golem farther back)

I personally think that record farms are always overdone. Just look at these: I would recommend using the sticky piston though, because then the drops can't fall through the pistons and the creeper won't blow up as easily.