Jaqyl's Spider Water Trap - Minecraft

A trap designed specifically for spider spawners which require two blocks of empty space on all sides a for full spawn rate. It uses two 5x wide waterfalls with separate delivery flows to ensure no items are left in stagnant water to despawn.

There are two things I failed to mention in the video.

1. The two dirt blocks at the bottom of the waterfall column represent blocks that existed in the original design but were later removed. They were removed to improve the flow into the back flow. However, the flow test done in the video indicates their removal was unneeded.

2. The two waterfalls are on different elevations, this is needed so the mobs are pushed on top of the lower waterfall and then pushed into the downflow column of the higher waterfall. This configuration keeps the spiders from floating on top of the water surface and avoiding death.


See stills of the original here:
http://www.reddit.com/delan/


EDIT: Video of the original trap can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ4bjGDPEI8

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• Minecraft
• MC
• Jaqyl
• Spider
• Water
• Trap
• reddit
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• spawner
• lonely
• sheep
• water
• shaping
• flow
• delivery
• system
• cobblestone
• glass
• dirt

[freddotu]

Has anyone who has built this trap also used MCedit? I'm having a perception problem that keeps me from getting this one hundred percent correct. I'd really like to find either a saved world with this particular trap in it, especially if it is on the surface like this one, or find an exported .schematic file from MCedit.

Any other form of this trap would also be helpful.

thanks

[JaqylAntern]

@freddotu I used InvEdit to give myself the blocks as this is my experimentation/test world. I've never used MCedit though. I'll see about dropping a world save, though my primary computer is down at the moment so I don't have access to that save right now.

[sopersoon]

Awesome! Thank you very much. it works :)

[JaqylAntern]

@sopersoon glad you were able to make it work, maybe you could help @freddotu with a worldsave? I can't get to mine right now as my main comp is down waiting on an OS reinstall.

[PewMan852951]

how do you collect the cage and use for pigs?

[JaqylAntern]

@PewMan852951 I believe there are better traps for outdoor spawning mobs. The one I'm thinking in particular looks diamond shaped and is quite large, all you would need to do is modify its "drain" for spiders and pigs which wouldn't be very hard.

I've been meaning to make one of these traps anyway, maybe that will be a new video, a universal outdoor gathering trap.

[samedelsten1]

I love how in all Minecraft vids, the narrators talk to the animals :D

[JaqylAntern]

@bilde2910games For my test world, which this trap is in, I use InvEdit for materials, I still do the builds by hand though. This means I could probably replace the block that represents the spawner with an actual spawner and then just build a room around the trap to make it dark enough for spawns to happen. Hmmmmm, I may do that soonish.

[DannyD00M]

The spiders do not drown ... but jump around ... this annoyed me slightly -_-

[Rekcals25]

@freddotu I couldn't figure it out either man, so hard to see where what alot of the stuff is without a step by step build. I ended up making my own design

[DrayAssist]

YES, FINALLY A MINECRAFT VIDEO WITH NO LAG!

[xenxander]

The top part of the trap has problems. the spiders can wiggle under that area. plus there's a chance that the items will get stuck directly on the platform under the spawner (IE the two block rest that divides the back and front flow).

I've built this twice with varying depths and there's always the same two problems.

[Eggspert7820]

Works perfectly. You are the man!

[Omfgitzeric]

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[sso7199]

@samedelsten1 because we LOVE our animal u know

-opens minecraft to kill 100 animal i see on sight-

[kalanvryce]

I am not getting this to work, i've been checking out other video's etc and just can't get it to flow right... just in testing i toss blocks in on the high side and they drop down and just sit there, also the spiders are not drowning half the time :( is this broke in 1.6.6?

[304Stephen]

@markdadisman007 I made a trap by myself and i ran into the climbing problem. This was easily remedied by adding another water flow like the trap above. The spiders would attempt to climb but they wouldn't get high enough for a breath. Im not sure about escaping spiders, I have a bit more testing to do.

[TooThi72]

im building it right now and i am seeing EVERY BLOCK of this video, my plan is make an exact copy of this

i will post another comment if it works