Cave spiders are my all-time favourite mob farm... good xp when you build a farm for the player to kill them, and there's always a challenge trying to design a multiple spawner farm and make them do the right thing! My record was a 6 spawner farm, found in a mesa biome. It was so much fun to build :) I've never made a passive farm like this for string, and now I can't wait to try it! Fab video!
IMHO spiders (cave or otherwise) are the least rewarding mob to build spawner farms for. Them climbing walls requires so much care and they drop the least average amount of XP from all overworld spawners. (Spiders always drop 5 XP, zombies might drop more if they are baby zombies and/or spawn with armor/equipment, while skeletons always spawn with at least a bow as equipment, which always increases their XP drops.) I guess having a whole bunch of cave spider spawners will at least provide a bit of mob density, but stringing together multiple spider spawners is way more annoying than e.g. zombie or skeleton spawners.
@@TheRealWormboagreed, but on the other hand cave spider spawners are the most likely to spawn in clusters where you can stand in 1 spot and have all of them activate. That means even if an individual spider drops less experience than other mobs, the shear number of them from a quad or higher spawner makes up for it in terms of total experience per hour. The other consideration are the item drops. Skeletons drop bones, arrows, bows, and armor. Realistically the bones are the only thing truly useful, but a large stockpile of arrows is nice. The non-stackables are too much of a pain to sort and process into anything useful so i end up just throwing it out to rot after disenchanting it. Spiders then have the second most useful items in string (wool, redstone, building/snowblocking) and eyes for potions. And a small trickle of skeletons from the jokeys which won't provide industrial level skeleton drops. And zombies are the least useful, their main drop is rotten flesh which is only useful for selling to clerics. The non stackables are still annoying. And the rare drops of iron, carrots, and potatoes are unlikely to amount to much. For all that analysis i still just build the closest/easiest spawner grinder for my enchanter and then build more if i need the drops or i find one that is truly worth it. (Like a quad cave spider spawner)
@@jasonreed7522 Yeah, doesn't really matter which is the most efficient for exp specifically, since realistically they'll all do the job well enough until you get far enough to do some sort of either blaze xp farm or the inevitable Enderman farm
Given enough redstone dust, I might power the rails from a pressure plate in the AFK area and connect that to redstone lamps in the walls around the spawners. Standing on the plate would turn off the lights and power the rails. Stepping off the plate would power the lamps and stop the minecarts. That's a strategy I have used, especially on multiplayer servers, to control the operation of a variety of mob farms and minimize lag.
@@Glen789 That is true, but on a multiplayer server, admins often require automated farms like that to be turned off while the player is away from the farm to reduce lag.
One trick I learned recently is that you can have Lava over a hopper and the items will be drawn into the hopper before the items are destroyed, so you could use lava to kill the spiders. Absolutely brilliant video as always.
The trick is indeed what Pix did: Don't bother using them for XP. Yes, you won't get spider eyes, but there are other ways to get those, and it's so much less of a headache to just drop spiders to kill them.
Thanks for this video. I just converted a regular spider spawner to a string farm, being inspired by this video. However, I did it a little differently. I had the same 11x11 area, but I dug down about 8 blocks, and used flowing water from the corners with magma blocks in the middle (smaller hopper minecart setup underneath). The magma blocks are a low enough light level (3), that it only takes a short distance for light level to reach 0 at the spawner. Closed trap doors around the outside just above the water line for good measure. It's producing quite well, and meant I had to do a lot less work. I basically combined parts of your idea with parts of a design by Logical Geekboy (he used wither roses in the middle, but I don't have any of those yet!)
The cave spiders are actually half block tall, they can crawl through half block tall space, so slabs won't save you. They can fit in a one block wide space, and can crawl under or over a slab with a full block neighbouring from top or bottom, they're one of the worst mobs to deal with. But they're quite resourceful. Unlike silverfish, which only deals damage and doesn't drop anything.
Hi Pix, I'm sure you're aware of this, like I'm pretty sure I learned this from you in a previous survival guide series, so consider this advice for people who didn't know this yet. You CAN make it so that the top chest of the collection system can be opened, by replacing the full block above it with an upside-down stairs block. Since it's not a full block, it'll allow the chest to open, but the solid side will allow the hopper minecart to return, if the stairs block was placed in the correct direction of course. I hope this helps at least one person in making their farms as optimal as possible ;-)
I don’t think the solid face of the stair block returns the minecart. I could be wrong about that, but there are some weird exceptions to which blocks will return minecarts. Like if you put a redstone block there to power the rail, the minecart doesn’t bounce off it IIRC
@@PixlriffsYou do. A friend of mine and I learned that the hard way while building a frog farm. Minecarts wouldn't bounce off the redstone blocks and it took us a little while until we figured out we had to swap the blocks. I don't know about the stairs. I'll certainly try it out.
@@Pixlriffs Just tested it and you appear to be correct, the stairs (tried several different materials) have a smaller hitbox, though I'm now very distraught over what I did somewhere in one of my worlds that had my chest covered yet allowed it to open and also returned the minecart... I somewhere have something that does exactly that, but I can't remember in which of the hundreds of worlds I have or even in which minecraft version. If I find it back, I'll get back to you on that...
@@Pixlriffs That's correct, you need something that's considered a "full cube" solid block, i.e. something that redstone wire will transmit power downward from. So no glass (that only transmits downward in Bedrock edition), and even though they are opaque to light, observers, redstone blocks, or TNT also don't count as "full cube".
On a single spider spawner you can do all this without tracks; just make water in the four corners of the magma floor, and in the center, put a hopper just below the magma floor, put a hopper minecart on that, and push a magma block down into that with a piston.
Minecarts should not stop in vanilla Java Minecraft anymore. No promises for Bedrock edition or Spigot/Paper/Purpur or similar heavily modded server implementations. As for powering the end rails: You could run a redstone signal into the magma block above the rail as well. That's probably the safest way to avoid accidentally powering the hoppers below the rails, as that would stop them from pulling or pushing items. But it's probably safe to just leave the carts running anyway.
The main danger is chunk borders, if a minecarts is moving in a loaded chunk and runs into an unloaded chunk it will be stopped as if it hit a wall, but won't reverse direction. This has broken numerous farms in the past, its not exactly hard to fix (especially if a proper maintenance access is installed) but it is annoying and a risk.
Always fun to watch you problem solve these multi-spawner situations! Question for you though: what sort of things would a player need all that string for? I am a newer player, so this is a genuine question and not rhetorical. What uses would a person have for 64 pieces of string, let alone a chest full of 64 pieces of what sort of things do people do with it? I know we can stop saplings from growing, but I don’t know what it would be used for at scale.
I'm trying to remember...will a rail cart bounce off a upside-down stair the way it does off of a full block (as long as the full side is what the cart hits)? If so, you could use that and still open the chest. Alternatively, either extend the hopper chain by one or move the block back one, so that it's on top of one of the hoppers rather than over the chest.
I know you did it 11x11, but I think it might still be possible for a spider on the edge to reach the wall. To take care of that, you can add a water block (locked in with gates and signs) to the top edge of the wall. They climb up and drown.
I afk’d for a couple of hours and didn’t find any spiders climbing the walls. I think 11x11 works - the spiders don’t seem to have enough time to pathfind towards the wall before they hit the ground.
Hey Pixl, love the spider carpet and thanks for the eps. Didn't want to spoil it, but there is a spider spawner in the mountain across you base, but seeing you got a spider farm now...spoiler alert. thanks again and see in the next eps. Cheers
I've always wanted to be able to make strings from wool lol bedrock use to get string from iron farms that was vary nice oh back to making string farms
I solemy swear that I will watch every episode of The Minecraft Survival Guide by Pixlriffs. Hands down one of my favourite minecraft youtubers all-time.
I realy enjoy watching your videos!!! Im working on a quad spawner farm. I have found a Spider, a Cave Spider, a Zombie AND a Skeleton Spawner in one area But now I have trouble moving all the mobs arround in the farm. Because of the different sizes in hitboxes it is hard to make a bubblecolumn that fit for all mobs to flush them up and move to a central killing floor. Maybe you can make a tutorial on how to get this done? Id love to see how its possible or not. .. kind regards
I wish cave spiders had a dedicated drop, like a chance to get poison vials or something that you would need 4 of them to make a potion of some sort and no not a poison one 😅
I feel you. I basically have cheats enabled and switch between difficulty levels when I wanna farm for mob stuff, but the lack of easy gunpowder/string/iron farming options in Peaceful is not fun.
I believe so, though you could also "crawl". There could also be spawning issues underneath, I think. Maybe Java isn't like this, but on bedrock many mobs can spawn on blocks that have scaffolding on them...
The whole point of those posts is to let people know when I’m streaming on Twitch, so I take them down once the stream is done. Otherwise people think I’m still live, and they turn up and I’m not there
Unnecessary and actually kind of obstructive. Obviously the damage multiplier is nice but the drops will sometimes fall onto the dripstone and not be collected; an accident of positioning can cause 1-wide mobs like zombies or skeletons to fall between the dripstone spikes and not die. Better to have them fall onto magma blocks or lit campfires if you don't have enough room to deal max damage via falling.
You could, but you could also make less controversial contraptions, like a flushing mud floor spider farm. You will probably not see Pix using duplication glitches, except maybe to dig holes with TNT.
@@yooooooohth yeah I agree with you on the saddle part but you could upscale the strider farm to make it more efficient. I’m not sure how big you’d have to make it to pass 2 spider Spawner rates but yeah probably not worth it for the amount of work you’d have to do
Striders are passive mobs, and as such have a very low mob cap. You'd need to make a lava-free perimeter (128 blocks spherical from where you AFK) to have them spawn in your farm. They are the fastest way to obtain string in peaceful mode, but if you allow hostile mobs to spawn, spiders (especially using a flushing mob farm design with 1-high mud floors) spawn way faster (spawn attempts are made 20 times per second instead of every 20 seconds) than any passive mob alternative. Also, saddles are storage hogs. They don't stack and they have way too little use to hoard them in such quantities.
spawners are junk, building a mob farm is better for the reason you can get creepers,skeletons,spiders and zombies to spawn in one place. I play on bedrock and even get raiders to spawn you can also get witches to spawn in them. dont think ill be watching anymore of your content
The tip for spawners not being the best in the long term is fine, although Pix has consistently shown that this guide isn't meant to teach you how to play minecraft optimally, but how to play minecraft in general. Also about the last part, this isn't an airport, no need to annouce your departure
This is a tutorial series. It is meant for new players who don't know all the complex builds yet to develop skills that will help them with later builds, such as the massive mob farm you favour. Right now, though, spawner farms are more viable, and this world provided Pix with an opportunity for building a double-spawner farm. You're a seasoned player who has their own playstyle. _You are not the target audience of this series and your childish reaction to this video doing what the series does is unseemly and uncalled-for._
@@haz6908 you can build as mob spawner ealy game, i get mine up before beating the dragon. Wattle got a great design. spawner are trash. you only need 25 stacks of building blocks, it can even be done without hoppers. do you even play minecraft lol
@@theimaginatrix7625 complex its super easy to build one and can be done in the first 100 days with as little as 25 stacks of building blocks, go ahead and search mob farms on youtube. You can find tons of easy mob farms to build, wattles has the easiest farm design.
Wow are you childish. Yes, I do play minecraft, I've made many more advanced farms than you have, but I don't care to make this a competition. Spawners aren't too useful. However, they exist. and because they exist, the survival guide needs to cover them. Regular enchanting is also bad, villagers are way better, pix still does regular enchanting because that's the purpose of this series. It's meant to teach a casual playstyle before delving into more advanced stuff. Could he have made a mob spawner? Yes. Would it be useful to just dismiss a core part of the game like spider spawners just because they are slightly less viable? No, of course not. Again, you're missing the point of this series. I wish you luck in growing up a little. @@inncidious6694
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Doesn't matter how long I've been playing Minecraft, or how many seasons of the survival guide there are, I'm going to watch each and every episode! ❤
Here here!!!
I’m currently taking a break from Minecraft and I’m still watching every episode
same i watch each episode that comes
Here here! ❤
I can relate! 😂
Favorite Pix line of all time. “That’s enough math….lets dig a hole” 😂😂😂
Also 2:23 they’re half a block tall. Even more of a pain to deal with, as they can fit through slabs
Cave spiders are my all-time favourite mob farm... good xp when you build a farm for the player to kill them, and there's always a challenge trying to design a multiple spawner farm and make them do the right thing! My record was a 6 spawner farm, found in a mesa biome. It was so much fun to build :)
I've never made a passive farm like this for string, and now I can't wait to try it! Fab video!
A 6 spawner that must have been so fast no?
IMHO spiders (cave or otherwise) are the least rewarding mob to build spawner farms for. Them climbing walls requires so much care and they drop the least average amount of XP from all overworld spawners. (Spiders always drop 5 XP, zombies might drop more if they are baby zombies and/or spawn with armor/equipment, while skeletons always spawn with at least a bow as equipment, which always increases their XP drops.)
I guess having a whole bunch of cave spider spawners will at least provide a bit of mob density, but stringing together multiple spider spawners is way more annoying than e.g. zombie or skeleton spawners.
@@TheRealWormboagreed, but on the other hand cave spider spawners are the most likely to spawn in clusters where you can stand in 1 spot and have all of them activate. That means even if an individual spider drops less experience than other mobs, the shear number of them from a quad or higher spawner makes up for it in terms of total experience per hour.
The other consideration are the item drops. Skeletons drop bones, arrows, bows, and armor. Realistically the bones are the only thing truly useful, but a large stockpile of arrows is nice. The non-stackables are too much of a pain to sort and process into anything useful so i end up just throwing it out to rot after disenchanting it.
Spiders then have the second most useful items in string (wool, redstone, building/snowblocking) and eyes for potions. And a small trickle of skeletons from the jokeys which won't provide industrial level skeleton drops.
And zombies are the least useful, their main drop is rotten flesh which is only useful for selling to clerics. The non stackables are still annoying. And the rare drops of iron, carrots, and potatoes are unlikely to amount to much.
For all that analysis i still just build the closest/easiest spawner grinder for my enchanter and then build more if i need the drops or i find one that is truly worth it. (Like a quad cave spider spawner)
@@jasonreed7522 Yeah, doesn't really matter which is the most efficient for exp specifically, since realistically they'll all do the job well enough until you get far enough to do some sort of either blaze xp farm or the inevitable Enderman farm
Given enough redstone dust, I might power the rails from a pressure plate in the AFK area and connect that to redstone lamps in the walls around the spawners. Standing on the plate would turn off the lights and power the rails. Stepping off the plate would power the lamps and stop the minecarts. That's a strategy I have used, especially on multiplayer servers, to control the operation of a variety of mob farms and minimize lag.
But that can be a disadvantage because the farm won't be working while you're just doing other stuff around it.
@@Glen789 That is true, but on a multiplayer server, admins often require automated farms like that to be turned off while the player is away from the farm to reduce lag.
Love the spider carpet! It's such a cute idea. Not a fan of cave spiders but this is a great farm design.
One trick I learned recently is that you can have Lava over a hopper and the items will be drawn into the hopper before the items are destroyed, so you could use lava to kill the spiders.
Absolutely brilliant video as always.
Pix, you can talk about the code of Minecraft and I’d watch- you have such a great way of structuring a story, it’s truly a joy to watch
I get your point, and I agree with the sentiment, but only truly twisted freaks enjoy java (the language not the Minecraft version)
BLESS you, I've struggled with cave spider farms for forever
The trick is indeed what Pix did: Don't bother using them for XP. Yes, you won't get spider eyes, but there are other ways to get those, and it's so much less of a headache to just drop spiders to kill them.
While I preferred building a manual spider farm, this passive double spawner setup is quite productive! Good job and nice AFK room design.
I've been playing Minecraft since 2009, but love Survival Guide a lot and I do learn things 😁
Thanks for this video. I just converted a regular spider spawner to a string farm, being inspired by this video.
However, I did it a little differently. I had the same 11x11 area, but I dug down about 8 blocks, and used flowing water from the corners with magma blocks in the middle (smaller hopper minecart setup underneath). The magma blocks are a low enough light level (3), that it only takes a short distance for light level to reach 0 at the spawner. Closed trap doors around the outside just above the water line for good measure. It's producing quite well, and meant I had to do a lot less work.
I basically combined parts of your idea with parts of a design by Logical Geekboy (he used wither roses in the middle, but I don't have any of those yet!)
The cave spiders are actually half block tall, they can crawl through half block tall space, so slabs won't save you. They can fit in a one block wide space, and can crawl under or over a slab with a full block neighbouring from top or bottom, they're one of the worst mobs to deal with. But they're quite resourceful. Unlike silverfish, which only deals damage and doesn't drop anything.
we want to see the storage building finished bro, that thing is amazing
Your little room turned out kinda cute!
Hi Pix, I'm sure you're aware of this, like I'm pretty sure I learned this from you in a previous survival guide series, so consider this advice for people who didn't know this yet. You CAN make it so that the top chest of the collection system can be opened, by replacing the full block above it with an upside-down stairs block. Since it's not a full block, it'll allow the chest to open, but the solid side will allow the hopper minecart to return, if the stairs block was placed in the correct direction of course. I hope this helps at least one person in making their farms as optimal as possible ;-)
I don’t think the solid face of the stair block returns the minecart. I could be wrong about that, but there are some weird exceptions to which blocks will return minecarts. Like if you put a redstone block there to power the rail, the minecart doesn’t bounce off it IIRC
@@PixlriffsYou do. A friend of mine and I learned that the hard way while building a frog farm. Minecarts wouldn't bounce off the redstone blocks and it took us a little while until we figured out we had to swap the blocks. I don't know about the stairs. I'll certainly try it out.
@@Pixlriffs Just tested it and you appear to be correct, the stairs (tried several different materials) have a smaller hitbox, though I'm now very distraught over what I did somewhere in one of my worlds that had my chest covered yet allowed it to open and also returned the minecart... I somewhere have something that does exactly that, but I can't remember in which of the hundreds of worlds I have or even in which minecraft version. If I find it back, I'll get back to you on that...
@@Pixlriffs That's correct, you need something that's considered a "full cube" solid block, i.e. something that redstone wire will transmit power downward from. So no glass (that only transmits downward in Bedrock edition), and even though they are opaque to light, observers, redstone blocks, or TNT also don't count as "full cube".
You could add another hopper to the chain and put the solid block on top of that to be able to access the chest.
Your tutorials help out so much for my own survival world, many thanx for creating such great content 🎉🎉🎉❤❤
Always enjoy your videos, Pixlriffs. I always learn something, and you are an encouraging calming voice in a noisy world.
Thanks for the content! Binged all the series in like a week to catch up n play w kids
On a single spider spawner you can do all this without tracks; just make water in the four corners of the magma floor, and in the center, put a hopper just below the magma floor, put a hopper minecart on that, and push a magma block down into that with a piston.
this is the way.
Minecarts should not stop in vanilla Java Minecraft anymore. No promises for Bedrock edition or Spigot/Paper/Purpur or similar heavily modded server implementations.
As for powering the end rails: You could run a redstone signal into the magma block above the rail as well. That's probably the safest way to avoid accidentally powering the hoppers below the rails, as that would stop them from pulling or pushing items. But it's probably safe to just leave the carts running anyway.
The main danger is chunk borders, if a minecarts is moving in a loaded chunk and runs into an unloaded chunk it will be stopped as if it hit a wall, but won't reverse direction.
This has broken numerous farms in the past, its not exactly hard to fix (especially if a proper maintenance access is installed) but it is annoying and a risk.
By watching your world minecraft survival series like 4 years ago i have now understand all the things in MInecraft Love You From Nepal 💚
This is why one of the first things I ever do in a new world is make a basic mob farm in the sky. Good XP and mob drops.
Just in time! I found 3 cave spider spawners very close together under my base but never made a spider farm before.
Always fun to watch you problem solve these multi-spawner situations! Question for you though: what sort of things would a player need all that string for? I am a newer player, so this is a genuine question and not rhetorical. What uses would a person have for 64 pieces of string, let alone a chest full of 64 pieces of what sort of things do people do with it? I know we can stop saplings from growing, but I don’t know what it would be used for at scale.
Making tons of wool, crafting bows, crafting scaffolding, and yeah, the tripwire string tricks
This is so great! I have a double cave spider spawner I need to build in the next couple days.
I'm trying to remember...will a rail cart bounce off a upside-down stair the way it does off of a full block (as long as the full side is what the cart hits)? If so, you could use that and still open the chest. Alternatively, either extend the hopper chain by one or move the block back one, so that it's on top of one of the hoppers rather than over the chest.
Love this! So easy to understand!! ❤❤
I know you did it 11x11, but I think it might still be possible for a spider on the edge to reach the wall. To take care of that, you can add a water block (locked in with gates and signs) to the top edge of the wall. They climb up and drown.
I afk’d for a couple of hours and didn’t find any spiders climbing the walls. I think 11x11 works - the spiders don’t seem to have enough time to pathfind towards the wall before they hit the ground.
@@Pixlriffs Glad to hear it. Thanks for the 11x11 tip
Nice farm Pix! Love the sider face in the floor.
It's allways a good day when Pix have a new video for me ❤
Hey Pixl, love the spider carpet and thanks for the eps. Didn't want to spoil it, but there is a spider spawner in the mountain across you base, but seeing you got a spider farm now...spoiler alert. thanks again and see in the next eps. Cheers
My solution for string has been a creeper farm that I failed to fully spiderproof. Works well enough
Yeah, eventually this string farm will be made obsolete by a general mob farm - but it's worth it in the short-term!
I've always wanted to be able to make strings from wool lol bedrock use to get string from iron farms that was vary nice oh back to making string farms
I solemy swear that I will watch every episode of The Minecraft Survival Guide by Pixlriffs. Hands down one of my favourite minecraft youtubers all-time.
How have I not known that spiders won't drop eyes if killed by environmental damage!?! Guess i know which farm i need to overhaul tonight...
You should make a giant statue of your favorite drink!!!
I was certain that hoppers could not put items into a chest with a solid block on top, nor take them out.
I realy enjoy watching your videos!!! Im working on a quad spawner farm. I have found a Spider, a Cave Spider, a Zombie AND a Skeleton Spawner in one area But now I have trouble moving all the mobs arround in the farm. Because of the different sizes in hitboxes it is hard to make a bubblecolumn that fit for all mobs to flush them up and move to a central killing floor. Maybe you can make a tutorial on how to get this done? Id love to see how its possible or not. ..
kind regards
I wish cave spiders had a dedicated drop, like a chance to get poison vials or something that you would need 4 of them to make a potion of some sort and no not a poison one 😅
I think it would be cool if they had a cobweb as a rare drop, make them renewable.
Hi pix, no way you see this but I'm finally trying to get caught up on your videos after 7 months...
Watching amazing videos like this makes me wish there were better ways to get things like string in peaceful.
I feel you. I basically have cheats enabled and switch between difficulty levels when I wanna farm for mob stuff, but the lack of easy gunpowder/string/iron farming options in Peaceful is not fun.
I've been following pix since 1.14 and playing since then too. And I still hate these spiders!
Am I right in thinking you can put rails on scaffolding? If so then you could always walk through them to push the minecart if it did ever stop.
I believe so, though you could also "crawl". There could also be spawning issues underneath, I think. Maybe Java isn't like this, but on bedrock many mobs can spawn on blocks that have scaffolding on them...
Hi pixx hope all is well.❤
Java really needs to get Trident Killers like they do on Bedrock.
This is Great 👍
Couldn't you put a stair on top of the chest and have the minecraft still bounce back?
I'm just trying to imagine what are you going to use all of that string for. lol
Hey pix, when are fighting the dragon episode 50 sounds good to do so doesn't it
Yeah, it’ll probably be episode 50
String Theory
Does this still work in bedrock after the new update?
Why'd ya remove the post from community tab, did someone comment the coordinates? I thought you said you won't be reading it anyways.
The whole point of those posts is to let people know when I’m streaming on Twitch, so I take them down once the stream is done. Otherwise people think I’m still live, and they turn up and I’m not there
Could you use honey blocks on the walls of the farm to prevent spiders from climbing?
Spiders can climb anything with a vertical surface. It’s overhangs they can’t get around
Thoughts on pointed dripstone for mob drops?
Unnecessary and actually kind of obstructive. Obviously the damage multiplier is nice but the drops will sometimes fall onto the dripstone and not be collected; an accident of positioning can cause 1-wide mobs like zombies or skeletons to fall between the dripstone spikes and not die. Better to have them fall onto magma blocks or lit campfires if you don't have enough room to deal max damage via falling.
@@Pixlriffs thank you for the response! Can't wait to get my hands on some magma and see this beauty run!
I get more string then I need in my iron farm, weird, right?
Can shearing cobwebs still be broken down to 9 string each or has that changed now??🕸️🕸️🕷️
Was never a thing on Java Edition, but I believe it’s now been removed from Bedrock Edition too.
You can use string duper
You could, but you could also make less controversial contraptions, like a flushing mud floor spider farm.
You will probably not see Pix using duplication glitches, except maybe to dig holes with TNT.
Babe wake up, I've been waking up late but hey, new survival guide episode just dropped.
Is there a way to take a spawner anywhere in the world or will it get permanently destroyed if I try to do that?
Will be destroyed
Nit even silk touch will pick it up.
You will only gain some experience from breaking it.
4 more episodes and the we will meet the dragon!!!
2 episodes in as many days. Feeling spoiled
woooow
I am so low in string in my survival world. I think I’ve killed like 20 spiders and have only got one piece of string!
Riffin on a Friday night
Spider farm, spider farm 🎶🎶
Bonemeal and sugarcane farm is insane!!!
I would just make a strider farm for string and you get saddles too that way
Technically slower and u dont need a lot of saddles and im p sure he has a saddle trade from one of the villagers anyway
@@yooooooohth yeah I agree with you on the saddle part but you could upscale the strider farm to make it more efficient. I’m not sure how big you’d have to make it to pass 2 spider Spawner rates but yeah probably not worth it for the amount of work you’d have to do
Striders are passive mobs, and as such have a very low mob cap. You'd need to make a lava-free perimeter (128 blocks spherical from where you AFK) to have them spawn in your farm.
They are the fastest way to obtain string in peaceful mode, but if you allow hostile mobs to spawn, spiders (especially using a flushing mob farm design with 1-high mud floors) spawn way faster (spawn attempts are made 20 times per second instead of every 20 seconds) than any passive mob alternative.
Also, saddles are storage hogs. They don't stack and they have way too little use to hoard them in such quantities.
I see, thank you for the clarification@@TheRealWormbo
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spawners are junk, building a mob farm is better for the reason you can get creepers,skeletons,spiders and zombies to spawn in one place. I play on bedrock and even get raiders to spawn you can also get witches to spawn in them. dont think ill be watching anymore of your content
The tip for spawners not being the best in the long term is fine, although Pix has consistently shown that this guide isn't meant to teach you how to play minecraft optimally, but how to play minecraft in general.
Also about the last part, this isn't an airport, no need to annouce your departure
This is a tutorial series. It is meant for new players who don't know all the complex builds yet to develop skills that will help them with later builds, such as the massive mob farm you favour. Right now, though, spawner farms are more viable, and this world provided Pix with an opportunity for building a double-spawner farm.
You're a seasoned player who has their own playstyle.
_You are not the target audience of this series and your childish reaction to this video doing what the series does is unseemly and uncalled-for._
@@haz6908 you can build as mob spawner ealy game, i get mine up before beating the dragon. Wattle got a great design. spawner are trash. you only need 25 stacks of building blocks, it can even be done without hoppers. do you even play minecraft lol
@@theimaginatrix7625 complex its super easy to build one and can be done in the first 100 days with as little as 25 stacks of building blocks, go ahead and search mob farms on youtube. You can find tons of easy mob farms to build, wattles has the easiest farm design.
Wow are you childish. Yes, I do play minecraft, I've made many more advanced farms than you have, but I don't care to make this a competition.
Spawners aren't too useful. However, they exist. and because they exist, the survival guide needs to cover them.
Regular enchanting is also bad, villagers are way better, pix still does regular enchanting because that's the purpose of this series. It's meant to teach a casual playstyle before delving into more advanced stuff. Could he have made a mob spawner? Yes. Would it be useful to just dismiss a core part of the game like spider spawners just because they are slightly less viable? No, of course not. Again, you're missing the point of this series. I wish you luck in growing up a little.
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