Wood/Cobble farm

[meshy]

Possibly the most epic thing we will ever do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20-PbpuSVik

[meshy]

Thanks to @jimboswilko

[ghickman]

The hardest part of this seems to be getting the actual wither? Everything else looks pretty simple!

[mjtamlyn]

Since when is Epic a problem for us?

[meshy]

:D

[meshy]

Hmm the comments suggest that no longer works, but the minecraft wiki indicates that this does... (with some modifications) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QuZFlpHPRw

[ghickman]

I think whatever we use for this it's going to require the wither which will probably be harder to get than the rest combined =(

[ghickman]

Latest version requires a snow biome and we want it miles from anywhere, here looks good.

[ghickman]

Civil engineering teams have begun expanding the Arctic Line in anticipation of Arctic Base 1 and Mega Farm 1.

Still to do:

• Get a wither, blocked by Wither skelly farm #37
• Build Mega Farm 1 (the wither farm)
• Build Arctic Base 1 here with a portal and ice tracks to Mega Farm 1
• Clear below Mega Farm 1
• Add easy escape routes below Mega Farm 1 with ice tunnels back to Arctic Base 1
• Wall up Mega Farm 1 with running water to slow down a wither that gets free
• Add appropriate signage to the area to warn of a players impending doom should they unleash the caged beast

[peterjwest]

If we want an obsidian farm, this will need to be in the end.

[ghickman]

@peterjwest – Are we likely to lower the Endr spawn rate if we put it there do you know?

[peterjwest]

Possibly... by one. I don't know if the wither counts as a hostile mob or is a separate category, also it may not count because it's not in the loaded chunks.

[meshy]

I am 👎 for an obsidian farm unless it can be achieved without using a block duplication glitch or similar.

[peterjwest]

We'd use the end platform which regenerates each time the portal is used. Not a glitch.

[ghickman]

Sounds good to me then! Is this something you'd need lots of hard labour for?

@peterjwest – How would we get into the end without dying a horrible death from the wither?

We could definitely do with cobble and trees to begin with, we've been perpetually low on trees for ages.

[peterjwest]

Uh, it's complicated.

And yes, lots of hard labour.

[ghickman]

@peterjwest – Nice status ;)

Could you elaborate on how it would work? I've some reservations about keeping the end and it's farm of precious XP easily accessible given it's probably our highest traffic area.

[peterjwest]

Yeah, maybe not the best idea... you also need 2 people AFKing for it to work.

[meshy]

We'd use the end platform which regenerates each time the portal is used.

Sorry, I thought that the way to do this is to drop sand from a duplicator into the end portal. Is there another way?

[meshy]

Saw this. Now that's wood generation...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir-iXss_7nU

[peterjwest]

Erm, use any block?

[meshy]

Erm, use any block?

Seems fair :P

[peterjwest]

Got three wither skulls.