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TV5 Music Disc Farm is up and running!

Post by Will T. » Fri Apr 24, 2015 7:05 pm

My sister and I have assembled a music disc machine for TV5. Music discs for all! :) To get here, go to my portal from the Nether hub (take the southern connection hall) and take the tunnel to the left.

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It works incredibly well - I made a chest at spawn for discs, which is already about to overflow:

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Feel free to take discs from spawn for your personal use. To make a jukebox to play them, lay out 8 wood planks on a crafting table as if making a chest, then put a diamond in the middle.


Want to try to farm your own discs? Here's a quick rundown of how to use this thing:

0.) Check that the skeleton tube is not turned off.

See below about this.

1.) Lure Creepers into the water trap.

This is the hardest step, and is the reason this thing can only work at night. Fortunately there's a lot of flatland around the farm, so Creepers shouldn't be too hard to lead. Just run out, get their attention, and get them into the water without letting them explode. Duck out of sight as soon as they reach the water, or they might follow you!

2.) Sit in the collection spot at the bottom of the ladder.

Go down the ladder in the little hut and sit in the collection spot. A skeleton from a nearby skele dungeon should be at the far end of the trench. (See below if it's not.) It will see you, start shooting, and hit the Creepers. The Creepers can't reach the skele due to the water and some fence posts, so don't worry about them blowing up the skeles.

3.) Profit and repeat!

Once all the Creepers are dead, nab their drops from the chest in front of you. Then repeat these steps to do it again!


One gotcha with this contraption is this thing:

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A water ladder draws skeletons from the dungeon constantly, and they will pile up. This structure lets you kill the excess ones with the flip of a switch.

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If there are no skeles in the machine, make sure this switch is flipped UP DOWN so they can get through. If there are too many (which will stop Creepers and other mobs from spawning), flip the switch DOWN UP to suffocate them. Keep it flipped down up, and the skeles backing up behind it will drown. [EDIT: I've redesigned this switch so it auto-activates the suffocation when a skele is in the machine. Flip the switch at the back to override it. The switch positions are now reversed from what they were before!] I kept the manual switch because flipping the switch to compress them into dust is incredibly satisfying... :twisted:


That's about it! Just remember that Creepers are explodey! Please be careful/smart when wrangling them, and please repair any damages that occur! There are spare parts in the double-chest in the collection area.

Also, try not to put more than four Creepers in at once. They can push each other close enough to the skeles that I'm not 100% sure they won't explode. Try to collect discs from all the Creepers that are in the trap before adding more.

Have fun, and enjoy the music!
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Re: TV5 Music Disc Farm is up and running!

Post by Inner » Fri Apr 24, 2015 9:57 pm

Great build and great instructions, thanks Will!

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Re: TV5 Music Disc Farm is up and running!

Post by Flash » Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:02 pm

Nice Will! Does the skeleton part of the trap allow their arrows to be harvested?

Asking for a friend… ;)

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Re: TV5 Music Disc Farm is up and running!

Post by Will T. » Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:32 pm

Flash wrote:Nice Will! Does the skeleton part of the trap allow their arrows to be harvested?

Asking for a friend… ;)
It doesn't collect them currently, but it's a feature I definitely want to add. It's just a matter of making/placing a few hoppers to carry skele drops from the water ladder to a chest. I have the iron and wood for it, so all I need now is the patience. :P And also a bit of courage, because opening up the water ladder is kind of dangerous.

EDIT: It was easier than I thought! Now you can get skele loot by standing in one of the corners near the water trap while the skeles are suffocating, plus a little bit from the chest along the side of the water ladder building after they're done. It's not a super-efficient way to grind for skele loot, but at least it's retrievable now.

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Post by c4ridw3n » Sat Apr 25, 2015 6:41 pm

I am ridiculously excited about this.
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Re: TV5 Music Disc Farm is up and running!

Post by Flash » Sat Apr 25, 2015 8:59 pm

The chest in town was already overflowing with music discs so I lightened the load by 12! My little one is already having a blast playing all the different songs/effects.

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Re: TV5 Music Disc Farm is up and running!

Post by Will T. » Sun May 03, 2015 7:38 pm

I made a bunch of tweaks to the skeleton water ladder that should allow for a lot more loot to be collected. You'll have to check three places to ensure you get it all though:

- The chest next to the water ladder still collects the same loot it did before.
- Behind the water ladder is a small staircase marked by a torch. Go to the right down the stairs to find a chest that collects additional skele drops from the water ladder.
- To the left down those same stairs is the CHAMPION'S PIT, where the first skeleton to spawn goes in order to shoot Creepers in the trench, triggering a piston that blocks all other skeles from entering the pit. Sometimes skele loot falls from above into here. I can't place a hopper due to the pressure plate, so any loot here will be laying on the ground. Please be careful of the redstone if you go in here! You can kill the champion skeles over and over for drops and XP if you like, but be careful as they can shoot you in there.

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