I had to slaughter all of the chickens in the previous farm (something like 30-40 chickens. I was getting 16 eggs every couple of minutes), so I only have 3 or 4.
Love the shower in the bathroom! Does water come down when you pull the lever?
That chicken farm is so convenient. No fighting your way through a bunch of chickens to collect eggs!
I like the look of your incinerator, too. Much nicer looking than what I've been doing. Stealing!
The portal room looks like a little bit of the Nether leaked to the regular world. Very nice! And that skellie and his friend back there are sporting nifty new bows. It took me a minute to see that lol. Looks good!
Chickens! Haha. Just one chicken in the new farm, or are you going to put a few more?
And that bathroom is awesome! No so sure about the wooden floor beneath the shower, though. =P Haha.
And I agree with daydrifter; the portal room having some bits of the Nether in it is really a great idea! And it's like a slow transition, not all at once, which is another plus!
The Ender Ender-er or something. Good luck with it, and don't lose your pumpkin head! Smart of you to change the texture so you can see better while wearing it.
I've been a busy boy... But only two deaths in the meantime! It's a miracle! There are 4 (or 5, I forgot to count) "floors" in the farm in the meantime. The only way to expand this is to build down. Not going to do this yet (I'm also low on resources. Weird paradox. I have no redstone to finish the farm --> I go to mine redstone, but I have no fortune pick --> To get fortune pick, I need to enchant items --> To enchant items, I need to finish the farm), but maybe at some point. Right now I'm getting good rates. I'll test it later to see exactly how long it takes me to get to level 50.
Pictures!
Two Deaths...
What one "floor" looks like-
From the bottom-
Just so you know- I'm not prettifying it up yet. It's made out of cobble, but at some point I'll cover it with wood planks or something. I don't know yet.
Those redstone torches look all multicolored and stuff in that last picture. Reminds me of a game show or something. Haha.
As long as you don't find yourself actually getting caught in that loop, we're fine. Haha.
So they spawn up on the pressure plates, the pistons push them off, and they fall taking fall damage? Pretty ingenious. Really taking advantage of the fact that Enderman will teleport practically anywhere. Sweet!
That's the thing- Endermen won't teleport onto water, so I don't have to worry about that. The other part of it, is that the pistons are 3 blocks higher than the PP's, so I can't fall off unless I jump.
I can't take credit for this, sadly. Apparently Panda from one of the many servers (one associated with Docm77 and/or JL) thought of this. Etho's design is also nice, but much less efficient, since the endermen can walk around.
Yay!!! My farm has been completed (yeah, pretty much)! As far as I can tell, it takes something like half an hour to get 50 levels. Note that I was letting them spawn for 2 minutes, than killing them all together.
I've built an enchantment room:
And I've enchanted my second diamond pick, and a bow. Both were... Okay at the most. Not great. (Both level 50 enchants).
Oh, wow, that's a lot of Endermen. Haha. How many would you say spawn in the two minutes?
Hey, I think I have that same pickaxe! =D What exactly does Punch do? Is it kinda like Knockback?
And oh, wow. Lots o' enderpearls. Haha. Too bad villagers won't trade those. (Just noticed the Wiki took Zombie Flesh off the possible stuff Priests will buy.)
Yeah, it's a bummer. I'm not as sad as you, though, since I have no villagers to trade with anyhow. Hahaha.
Oooh. Bad luck on the Punch, then. At least you didn't get BoA. (It would be extremely funny if you had, especially considering it's not possible. Haha.)
Half an hour to get to level 50. WOW! That is an epic farm you have there! Too bad about your enchants, though the pick isn't bad. I absolutely hate Punch. It's the bow's answer to BoA. May you get Infinity next time. *voodoo fingers*
I've already gone through my previous pickaxe, the Efficiency IV one... So I went and enchanted another one, and got Fortune III, Unbreaking III. I think I'll go mining for a bit, get some more diamond, and then do another pick. I really need an Unbreaking III, Efficiency IV one. I feel bad using fortune...
Quick update (would do this later, but something annoying just happened and I'd like to tell you)-
Built a floor below the endermen killing area (using the water to get up and down):
Another pick to work with, although it's not amazing.
Brewing Room (I took the picture when it was WIP, now it's almost done)
The last part of the brewing room was lava falls in the iron bar/stone brick tubes. Next time I'm grabbing my lava in the overworld, dammit.
I lost (as far as I can remember)- some enderpearls, the efficiency IV pick, I think an Efficiency IV Fortune III pick, my BoA sword, my good bow, and few other things. Nothing too big that I can't replace.
