Minecrafter Engineer: Awesome Mob Grinders and Farms: Contraptions for Getting the Loot

By Megan Miller

You have your farms of cactus, wheat, melons, and sugarcane. You have some decent armor and a nice base. Now you need more. More blaze rods, more iron, more wither skeleton skulls, more gunpowder, more enchanted books, more everything! Minecrafter Engineer: Incredible Mob Grinders teaches kids how to build the incredible mob farms the experts use to increase their wealth and loot, from the witch farm to the iron golem trap.

The Minecraft Engineer series is designed to encourage creativity and problem-solving skills in kids who love building in Minecraft. Each book helps players work within the physics of the game to build clever contraptions that add to their gaming experience. Guided by hundreds of in-game, step-by-step photos and simple instructions, kids will learn how to engineer one of many incredible mob grinders to yield resources and goodies beyond their wildest dreams. (Hundreds of chests to hold your booty not included.)

Perfect for beginner to advanced Minecrafters who want to learn more

Includes hundreds of step-by-step, full-color photos to guide readers of all ages

Helps encourage creativity and problem-solving skills

You’re not an expert gamer until you learn the tricks and tips in this book! Minecrafter Engineer holds the valuable secrets to becoming the Minecrafter engineer you’ve always wanted to be.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sky Pony
• Release date: Feb 5, 2019
• ISBN: 9781510737709

Megan Miller

Megan Miller was born in Talara, Peru, and from there grew up in Miami, Barcelona, and the suburbs of London, England. She's also lived in Houston, Austin, NYC, the Hudson Valley, Kentucky, and finally New Mexico. She plays Minecraft daily, and has also spent many hours in the past with arcade game Centipede, the first Castle Wolfenstein shooters, the first color Mac space shooter Crystal Quest, The Sims, Sim City (1-3), City Skylines, Civilization, and more. You can contact her through her website, meganfmiller.com - (see you there!)

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INTRODUCTION

SOMETIMES IN MINECRAFT YOU NEED STUFF. Lots of stuff. Lots of zombie flesh to trade with villagers, lots of villagers to trade with, or lots of XP to make the most OP enchanted sword. Now you can engineer a solution! The mob farms in this book will help you get the loot, from gun powder to blaze rods. Some of the farms use redstone but are not terribly difficult, so you should be able to complete each farm on your path to world domination!

The farms in this book work for the 1.12.2 version of Minecraft Java Edition. Several are adapted from farms created or modified by expert redstoners and Minecrafters such as Etho, Tango Tek, Avomance, and impulseSV, who are also some of my favorite YouTubers! If you like to learn while watching videos, I recommend them.

Along with step-by-step screens from Minecraft, this guide also includes technical drawings and diagrams to help show where blocks go. Engineers use technical drawings, schematics, and blueprints to specify exactly where mechanisms are placed and how they are built.

Don’t forget to share your own Minecraft engineering accomplishments with me online. If you build any of these farms or other custom engineering designs, I’d love to see them! You, or a family member, can tweet me at @meganfmiller to showcase your work.

Protect Your Builds

PROTECT ANY BUILDS YOU MAKE THAT INCLUDE REDSTONE, BECAUSE MOST REDSTONE ELEMENTS (SUCH AS REPEATERS, REDSTONE DUST, AND MORE) WILL BREAK AND FLOAT AWAY WHEN THEY ARE TOUCHED BY FLOWING WATER. AN ACCIDENTAL PLACEMENT OF WATER CAN WIPE OUT YOUR BUILD. WHEN YOU DO BUILD A CONTAINING STRUCTURE FOR YOUR FARMS TO PROTECT REDSTONE, MAKE SURE TO LEAVE SPACE BETWEEN YOUR REDSTONE ELEMENTS AND THE STRUCTURE. THIS STEP HELPS PREVENT PLACING BLOCKS THAT COULD INTERFERE WITH A REDSTONE SIGNAL. THE EXTRA SPACE WILL ALSO ALLOW YOU TO MOVE AROUND THE BUILD IF YOU NEED TO CHECK OR FIX SOMETHING LATER.

ALSO, REMEMBER TO LIGHT UP YOUR BUILDS AS YOU GO. A CREEPER IS JUST AS INTERESTED IN BLOWING UP REDSTONE AS IT IS IN DEMOLISHING YOUR BASE.

CHAPTER 1

ALL-PURPOSE, NO-REDSTONE MOB FARM

YOU CAN MAKE THIS CLASSIC MOB-GRINDING farm soon after you start your world. You’ll just need plenty of cobble, wood, and enough iron for a couple of buckets and four hoppers. It’s not a pretty farm, but it will get you bones, zombie flesh, gunpowder, arrows, and other loot from skeletons, zombies, and creepers.

Planning Mob Grinders

This farm takes advantage of several key features of mobs and mob spawning rules.

•Hostile mobs treat open trapdoors as if they are solid blocks to walk on.

•Hostile mobs can be easily pushed by water flows.

•Overworld hostile mobs spawn at light level 7 and below.

•Hostile mobs spawn 24 blocks to 240 blocks away from a player but despawn instantly if they are more than 128 blocks away from a player. This means the mob-spawning area around a player is a doughnut shape from 24 to 128 blocks away. In addition, mobs despawn gradually if they are farther than 32 blocks away from a player.

•Fall damage is 1 heart of damage for each block fallen after 3 blocks. That means a fall of 23 blocks causes 20 hearts of damage, and will kill skeletons, zombies, and creepers.

•The mob cap is the maximum number of mobs allowed in a world. In a single-player world, the default mob cap for hostile mobs is 70. That means it is very important when you build a mob farm that doesn’t use a spawner to ensure mobs are spawning only in your farm, and not in nearby caves or forests. Around any mob farm that is limited by the mob cap, you will want to prevent other spawns

Reviews for Minecrafter Engineer

[Manrique Salazar · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Grate and epic build that have helped me in my survival world. Incredibly cool engineering.