I /cremoved the chests at the mob farm but will have to rework the whole thing as the drop is not high enough to kill the witches that seem to be spawning everywhere now.
It seems somebody installed some tripwire triggered pistons too (maybe in an attempt to kill the witches?) but that didn't...
Oh i see.. he covers the whole spawning floor with pressure plates to make the water flow correctly. I guess it will be easier for me to just kill the spiders that climb down the drop shaft though.
Yep i've seen his videos.. he used passive spawners that rely on the mobs moving around so they fall down from level to level. Unfortunately that doesn't work that well anymore because the mobs now tend to freeze a few seconds after spawning when the player is a bit further away. So i decided to...
I think its all stuff that we found while lighting up the caves in the area. Shouldn't be a problem if you take what you need. Maybe leave a bit of building material in case something needs to be fixed or redecorated.
It is possible to create non despawning Zombies and Skeletons though. :D The trick is to have them pickup items. Panda4994 even made a mob spawning switch by exploiting this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-MJqk1bF68
Ok here are the screenies of the item sorter:
To the right is the dropoff chest with the item elevator behind it. Left the 3 chests with their sorting mechanism. These can then be repeated over and over again.
The hoppers second from top are the ones holding the filter items, 22 pieces...
The smallest design for the sorters that i found so far is this:
I am using a slightly different design though that doesn't need a torch below the hopper but powers the adjacent block instead so it is possible to sort the stuff into 3 double chests that are stacked on top of each other. I'll...
BTW in 1.5.1 they also fixed the problem with using Lava Buckets as fuel. The hopper below the furnace will now also suck the empty bucket out of the fuel slot, so you can power your autosmelters with lava as well.
You might want to check out the Mob Farm. I installed an automatic item sorter there now. It also uses a small dropper tower as an item elevator... though its not the best design as i found out yesterday when i started installing the same thing on the witch farm you can just power the middle one...