Prefered Mob Farms

[Not Brntrogdor]

I've seen quite a few designs for different mob farms, some are XP focused, others are Item focused (some are both.
Some use mob towers, some use spawners.

My personal favorite is a double blaze spawner for the insane XP farming and easy blaze rods... but I'd really like more TNT, thus I need a farm to give me more gunpowder!
What did you think I was going to go out with a Looting III sword at night and do it myself?

Anyways, what are your favorite mob farm types and build styles?

[LoneSoldier55]

Well, ALL farm types are bad.

Because sitting in front of a grinder for hours on end is the height of your Minecraft gaming experience, is it not?

[Not Brntrogdor]

Oh here I'll just post a general statement full of hate for the world. -LoneSoldier55 (aka, Butthurt)

Farms make my goals possible in less time, that is all.

[LoneSoldier55]

You mean your goal of sitting behind your grinder less so you can loose your gear more?

[RevStoningpot]

You could try mine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVIRpHNW8Xs

[LoneSoldier55]

The only thing I got out of this video was that Rev has a voice that's nice to listen to.

[Not Brntrogdor]

It was like listening to Morgan Freeman compared to your whining.

[Yukar9]

Please keep the flaming down.

[worldruler086]

Please keep the flaming down.

NO YOU

In regards to the topic itself, meh. I remember when mob farms were a common occurrence, and you had to make them, lest you be severely outgunned. Before this server became a bit more...dry, getting a large amount of TNT or other shit was nigh impossible without a large amount of time, which may as well be used to make a grinder. That said, I found them to be finicky at best, and I just straight up don't bother. I don't interact with players anyhow.

[SilasOfBorg]

I found mob farming science (using 'natural' mob spawning, not mob spawners.. booooring!) kind of interesting, and had a couple different designs under construction prior to my new life as a spawn rat.

Of course on an SMP server someone was usually afk with a spawner running, running the world over mobcap and hosing everyone else. Often making me wonder what kind of industrial-strength brain damage the game designers had suffered when they implemented a small global mob cap and then gave players easy means to blow right through it.