Hello and welcome back to my blog.
If you have been reading my posts then you would know that I am a big time.
gamer, always playing games and the game which has my attention nowadays is Mineclone. A game trying to replicate the famous sandbox game, Minecraft... and it does an impressive job.
I have been exploring nether and it looks so cool. We have some extra mods that add more biomes to the world. These biomes look magnificent in the nether.
Have a look!
Isn't it beautiful? I would love to explore more in the nether but it is very dangerous and first I want to better equip myself. For this, I wanted at least iron tools and armour.
Because of the world depth restriction, the caves are not big enough to find lots and lots of ores. Well, what can we do instead of mining? Farming!!
Yes, you heard it right, we can even farm ores or more specifically exploit the game's feature to get free iron ingots.
If you don't know there is a mob in the game called "Iron Golem" which spawns near villagers when monsters get close to them. They are like the security for villagers and they only target monsters, not players unless you hit them.
These are tanky units having massive health (100 HP), they are made out of iron and once dead they give iron ingots/bars. Anywhere between 3-5 iron ingots per golem. Well, you can kill them manually and another one will respawn (if there are monsters nearby) and you can kill them to get enough iron for your needs. But I wanted to challenge myself and create a way to automatically kill those.
I began with experiments, a lot of them. I tried to drown them but it didn't work, thought about killing them with damage from those spiky berry plants but it was slow as hell. I thought of crushing them using pistons but I had no idea how to do that.
But the most efficient and easiest way to kill is by lava. I did a series of experiments to see how lava behaves and how much time it takes. I also used hoppers underneath the lava blocks and tried throwing items in them to see if the hopper will be able to collect the items before they get burnt by the lava. Most of the experiments worked and I had a plan in mind.
First, I levelled the area where Iron golems were spawning. They were spawning around the trapped zombie. I named him "Little Guy".
I then used the power of water. Water can be used to your advantage. Flowing water can push items and even mobs. So, I used water which should push the "Iron golems" into the pit. During this entire episode of figuring out the optimal way to channel water into this pit, I accidentally drowned the "Little Guy".
Later, I used water to push the Iron golems into the middle and placed 4 hoppers connected to two double chests below. I put the lava on top. Later I made the pit 1 block deeper. During the entire time, I was constantly making improvements.
At times when I was levelling more area (because the golems were spawning on the other side as well) I accidentally overflowed the water in the pit and the lava became obsidian. It happened twice to me.
Had to go back home and bring more lava, a diamond pickaxe to mine the obsidian and some other things. After doing this the most important part of the puzzle was having a monster to trigger the spawning of Iron Golem again.
This has to be the worst part and I struggled a lot. I decided to trap a zombie and to make it not despawn I have to put a nametag on it. Fortunately, I had 5 nametags with me.
Trapping the zombie was not easy, they are so dumb. Some of them just jump in the water even though they see me standing in front of them. A couple of guys burned as it became morning. I should have put a roof over their head...lol.
One of the zombies was killed by an Iron Golem. Not sure how the golem managed to kill it through the stone blocks. So, I keep shifting the location of the zombie as well. I had to wait for night else they can easily burn.
When I thought I had it, I saw one spawning on the other side. So, I had to use more water and somehow make it all work. I made my lava into obsidian again. Had to redo it. Also, the Iron golems occasionally spawned in the underground mine. So I decreased the height of the rooms so they suffocate and die if they spawn there.
Finally, after all the adjustments and killing many zombies, I can say with some confidence that my farm works. One just needs to stand there and watch the Iron golems spawning and dying. Which gets automatically collected in chests underneath.
Let me show you how much it can produce in under an hour.
Cool...right? This should make me less worried about iron and now I can focus more on nether exploration. I spent an entire night making it. I was on my last nametag and it all worked at the end.
Now I can sleep peacefully!
If you want to play along with us as well, join us in the neoxian's discord server and come to #minetest chat.
Thanks for reading...
~~ Until next time ~~