Minecraft Science: How Spawners Work - What you need to know to set up a trap around a mob spawner.

[ThatGuyisok]

Does the Spawner Scan accessable areas closest to it? or is it random chance where the mobs would be spawned?

[casw265]

Wow, so helpful - going to test this out on my zombie spawner on SMP.

[shadowsa2b]

are the spawn area and the max capacity area the same for all spawner types?

[SirRobHiFi]

@shadowsa2b Yes

[ixcaliber]

Also, what are the dimensions for the activation area. (Where I have to stand for it to work)

[SirRobHiFi]

@ixcaliber If you are within 16 blocks the spawner is active. If there are 6 or more mobs within 8 blocks of the spawner no more will spawn.

[ixcaliber]

Is there a website or a forum page that lists the numbers involving spawning. For example, how close you have to be for something to spawn. or how far mobs have to be away from a spawner for it spawn again.

It seems like a lot of youtubers find the information easily, but I can't find it anywhere.

And don't tell me to go to the wiki, it tells you barely anything.

[Crafter3020]

Awesome tutorial cleared up alot of unanswered questions thanks :-)

[Xoid97]

Helped me a lot thanks

[SuperMediaWizard]

Do you know a mod which increase the range you need to be within, for the mobs to spawn???

[jbaglo]

I can confirm that you do need to drop down *two* blocks to account for mobs jumping into the 17x17x9 area. My original skele grinder went down one extra block, and had trouble breaking 70 mobs in containment as a result. I fixed it, dropped the extra block, and now apparently there's no limit. I figure it's 'cuz mobs jump just over one block, like the player does.

[ScendoraStudios]

thank you very much :)

[razorkaiser]

this is such a great tutorial.

[rockstargir1]

you are soooooooooooooooooooooo boring

[Brooo007MC]

can you do a tutorial of the lighting of spwaners

[SirRobHiFi]

@Brooo007MC Not a bad idea, I did do one a while back but I made a mistake in it so deleted it.

[KXrider124]

Helped so much! BTW is a train station right behind you?

[SirRobHiFi]

@KXrider124 I'm right near an elevated train yeh.

[KXrider124]

@SirRobHiFi Okay all the noises make sense now.

[3ric89]

Very clear explanation, thank you.

[SirRobHiFi]

@3ric89 Thanks man. It's a question I wanted a definitive answer to myself because I was seeing so much contradictory info in the community and you can't take the Wiki as infallible.

[DeflectiveCheese]

Your voice reminds me of liam neson, its strange

[SirRobHiFi]

@DeflectiveCheese I'll take that as a compliment : )

[DeflectiveCheese]

@SirRobHiFi It is, If I had that voice I would be proud haha. BTW thanks for the video this helped me make a great skeleton xp farm

[SirRobHiFi]

@DeflectiveCheese Gotta love skele loot : )

[hypnotizd]

Very good information! This will help out tremendously in the future for building traps and exp farms!

[Generikb]

Very nice job, helps me out a lot!

[Logpatable]

@SirRobHiFi If you are having fps problems don't use a HD texture pack.

[SirRobHiFi]

@Logpatable Yeh, I tried default textures and saw no difference. Next video I will record at a much lower desktop resolution as suggested to me. Thanks for the feedback all the same, appreciated man.

[sabotaz90]

@SirRobHiFi lag probably has something to do with the amount of glowstone you have in that map

[SirRobHiFi]

@sabotaz90 I've fixed the issue for the most part, I'm now recording with a lower desktop res etc which made a huge difference.

[AutomatorMC]

On my way to change the spider farm.

[SirRobHiFi]

@AutomatorMC Hehehe

[MrPixelTech]

Very nicely done :)

[red3yz]

nicely scienced :)

[SirRobHiFi]

@red3yz Cheers mate!

[arrowfluxx]

Seed: 10001101011

Coords: X -60 Z - 80

A Double Blaze spawner that you can hook both of them up, coords might not be perfect but its close

[SirRobHiFi]

@arrowfluxx Thanks for the info!

[AgentRenamon]

@arrowfluxx

Does this Seed / Coords yield a double on 1.9 Pre6 ? I haven't gone to RC1 or 2 yet; but I am looking for a cool "project" to help expand my meager MineSkills...