So, Minecraft.

[DeeBye]

I'm also starting to really regret making our home in a Desert biome, because I'd love to add grass to the top of the mob room for passive spawns.

edit: OH WOW! It looks like animals CAN spawn in deserts. Time to grow more grass!

Another edit. Passives can spawn in deserts, but it's so incredibly rare that it won't be worth the trouble. I'm scrapping that idea.

I made some huge changes to my hostile mob dark room. I started making the main water collection channel 3-wide instead of 1 to handle more mobs, and then I noticed it did not line up with the main hallway in my base. It was offset by 1. I considered just leaving it as-is, but any serious Minecrafter with the slightest bit of OCD would slowly be driven crazy by this.

So I did the only thing I could do - I moved the hostile spawner 1 block to the right. At first I thought I could just chop one block off on the left and add it to the right, but as I got into it I realized that I also had to move the signs/stairs in the water channels and redo the half slabs if I wanted everything to be symmetrical (which it HAD to be).

It took a few hours to fix, but now the main mob delivery channel is 3-wide and works a lot more efficient than the old 1-wide channel. Mobs don't line up anymore and are delivered to the lava very quickly. One thing I did notice is that Endermen can sometimes spawn in this room due to the way I laid out the upper and lower spawning pads. It's rare and they really don't bother me because they can't destroy anything. I'm not sure if there is a fix for this.


The lava killing mechanism is now 3-wide and ensures there is no back-up of mobs waiting to be killed. I moved the lava farther from the spawn pads to ensure the light level on the closest spawnable block is zero.


I have a water channel carrying dropped items to the right and behind a wall. I used ice blocks and flowing water to deliver them quickly to this collection area.


I added this little viewing area above the killing mechanism so I can see and hear the mobs dying in my little lava trap. It's really satisfying hearing creepers die.