Most Efficient Spawner XP Farm 1.14/1.13

[@Mackin3]

“I also did a quick ten hour test”

[@0x4A8]

He used a mod so he can speed up the game.

[@Techiejt]

ZyklonBoogaloo it’s not w mod it’s just a higher random tick speed command: /game rule random tick speed. Normal is 3 but you can make it as fast as you want

[@0x4A8]

@@Techiejt Except if you pay attention he doesn't use /gamerulerandomtick speed. He is using a command from the carpet mod, /tick warp, and no /tick warp doesn't just let you set the tick speed higher then /gamerule randomtickspeed cause you can also see him type "/tickwarp 1000" and you can set the tick speed with /gamerule randomtickspeed way higher then that.

[@Techiejt]

ZyklonBoogaloo ok I could do with a few mods like that

[@Techiejt]

ZyklonBoogaloo now that ur saying it, it would probably crash the server if you had such a high tick speed

[@pietanicev1044]

No one: Ilmango: I bet I could make 10 year old spawner farms 4% more efficient

[@RobertP.Landon]

4.6% !

[@SpaceCat01]

6,9%

[@tamoo6028]

420%❗❗

[@Pal42_]

69420%

[@MatthewGigaChad]

*42069240%*

[@daniellyons7069]

Me: *Takes out birch fence gate* Little voice in back of my head: "ilmango actually said spruce fence gate" Me: "Nah can't make any difference" Voice in back of my head: "ILMANGO... SAID...SPRUCE .." Me: "Surely it...." *Changes to Spruce fence gate*

[@nickghilea3624]

On the actual build he used oak.

[@megaibfernape3612]

Birch colour causes slight server lag, making the server lose one more tick every 10000 tick causing one less skeleton every 4 years.

[@eshwar6969]

@@megaibfernape3612 lmao

[@sigh9719]

@@megaibfernape3612 Read this in Ilmango's voice.. gold 🤣

[@mihika3208]

@@megaibfernape3612 lmfao

[@pomaranczowykrol468]

"So, the spawner on the left dropped 3 more bones in the span of 4 months"

[@Underqualified_Gunman]

the actual amount would be much higher if you did 4 months.

[@isaiasg2961]

@@Underqualified_Gunman ok smart boy

[@red-vg2ds]

@@Underqualified_Gunman woooosh

[@jamesyoof]

@@Underqualified_Gunman no shit sherlock

[@KILLRXNOEVIRUS]

Lmao

[@maddilismadness]

That's german engineering

[@gambit1127]

German technology is the best in the world!

[@bitesthedust784]

I see ur a man of culture as well

[@DenomicFire]

At its finest!

[@sqeet7392]

BRRRRRRRAKAMONOGA

[@damianpizana5473]

Explains the German ad I got for Doritos

[@lilmusky4297]

Lets make mangos in Minecraft a thing.

[@Cykotiq]

2 words - vanilla tweaks - already possible

[@tobertcordless2491]

@@Cykotiq It'd be even better if they were actually in the vanilla game lol

[@alive03330]

トビー Z yeah.

[@bowiemtl]

@@Cykotiq I think he ment it as an actual new item

[@Andriale]

New type of trees? Mango trees?

[@Leon-tq5kz]

"So you get about 9 iron per hour" Iron Farms in Bedrock before 1.15, colourised

[@etangy2263]

L.E.R are you saying before 1.15 there was no colour?

[@JustJum]

@@etangy2263 well, no, we're just mentioning the fact that its colourised.

[@austinfinch5470]

How are bedrock iron farms being improved in 1.15

[@josuepalomares6820]

@@austinfinch5470 better spawn rates

[@abc6568]

JustJum you cant colourise something that is already in colour

[@twoha7vds59]

1:46 another point I’d like to add that makes zombie/skeleton spawners better than spider spawners is that the armor that is sometimes dropped can be disenchanted for a little bit of extra exp and then melted down in a blast furnace to make gold/iron nuggets. Edit: Weapons too

[@ultikillerrrr]

@Nando Garcia you can disenchant diamond armor but idk if you can melt them

[@snowdrop9810]

Nando Garcia you cant melt diamond gear

[@snowdrop9810]

Nando Garcia anyways mobs dont drop diamond gear.

[@Macash]

@@snowdrop9810 they do spawn with diamond armour but its very rare

[@ultikillerrrr]

@@snowdrop9810 mobs can spawn with diamond armor. Just rare as hell

[@tinytim1906]

to everyone asking, yes this works in 1.16. no new mechanics have been introduced that would break this simple design

[@ninjacubex1873]

No it doesn't the trapdoor dosent keep the water in

[@reeck771]

NinjaCubeX1 what about bedrock?

[@ninjacubex1873]

?

[@buttholesucker7047]

NinjaCubeX1 yes it does

[@ninjacubex1873]

@@buttholesucker7047 no it doesn't

[@xtmt1234]

You’re the only one I’ve found who actually explains why things need to be the way they are, like for example why it’s 4 blocks on each side or why putting blocks on top of the spawned isn’t optimal. Thank you so much for making these videos!

[@nathancourtney7190]

I still don't understand why u need to go up 25 blocks

[@xtmt1234]

@Nathan Courtney it's so that they can be one hit killed. If you make them fall from 23 blocks they have barely enough health left and get killed in one hit, so we dig 23 blocks up + 2 additional blocks to allow them to stand, thus giving us total 25 blocks.

[@nathancourtney7190]

@@xtmt1234 ight thx bro makes sense

[@theCybericope]

@Malcomia skeletons will die if they fall from 24 blocks so if you put a slab it should keep them at half a heart

[@Squishy_yhsiuqS]

holy heck ilmango, like literally two days ago I was like "damn, there aren't any good 1.14 tutorials for good survival spawner farms that don't have some random ass screeching over the top of the content". Thank you for saving my frustrations, ilmango.

[@monochromeart7311]

I yesterday found a skeleton spawner, what a timing!

[@RemoveChink]

furry freak

[@monochromeart7311]

@@RemoveChink huh?? How's that related?? And who's a furry freak here??? You talk mad shit for somebody in STEAL range

[@hoominbeeing]

@@RemoveChink Says the schizo Christard

[@RemoveChink]

@@hoominbeeing Being a well adjusted member of society vs. dressing up as an animal.

[@BillyOnYouTube]

Pro tip: In 1.14 when tamed wolves kill a mob they will now drop xp. Place 2-3 Tamed wolves in minecarts next to the killing platform. Now you have a fully automatic afk xp farm.

[@tomasramos3029]

Whaat

[@crennips5669]

What if we use our brain 100%

[@chlopaczekhula3524]

Wow that’s kinda genius

[@isaacnewton8983]

unless a skeleton with thorns armor kills your dog.

[@BillyOnYouTube]

@@isaacnewton8983 Make a dog farm

[@jazzy_gaming]

10:27 the tutorial begins here

[@meatymorgan8727]

Thanks 🙏🏻

[@WafelixRox]

True definition of MVP

[@svan4748]

will shaw agreed, they could at least make a time stamp to the tutorial

[@TheDoctor1138]

@@svan4748 It's in the description, you should read it...

[@svan4748]

@@TheDoctor1138 ooh, right. Forgot the description. Btw, who even reads the description in 2020???

[@ILOVESEBECO]

Surely I cant be the only one to come back to this video every time I need to make an XP farm, even in 1.20.x in 2024

[@hunterwhitman7885]

“You only get rotten flesh, which isn’t very useful.” *Cleric Villagers: Am I a joke to you* Oh my gosh I can not believe I got 600 likes thanks so much!

[@onelastoreo]

Hunter Whitman thanks for the idea

[@tekmogm5979]

You can also use it for feeding your dog. He can't get poisoned.

[@nabilshah9184]

How do you put the water in the trapdoor without it flowing out?

[@falsehashtags6581]

Cleric trading is very slow, as opposed to farmer trading. It’s not worth it.

[@sushirofl516]

@@tekmogm5979 who tf gives his dog rotten flesh? He only deserves the best food you can find.

[@VG-er6lq]

Ilmango 2017 : so guys this is a 162k / hr mob farm and it’s faster than before (only 120k /hr ) so we rebuilt the the new one in survival Ilmango 2019 : **perfect skeleton spawner mob farm**

[@ddandymann]

Well people to keep asking him for 'survival friendly' builds, he's giving the people what they want.

[@keris3920]

You also need to keep in mind that spawners are great for repairing tools when using PIL (player in the loop) farms. This could be a small piece of something much larger.

[@John_Ass]

Imango 2029: T-Shirt tear up while screaming

[@EvilGeniys]

@@ddandymann nether portal xp farm more effective and dont need rare spawner, only obsidian.

[@ИгорьДементьев-и7м]

@@lunchbox1341 also spawners have a stable spawn rate,when the other farm has troubles with it.

[@RubikYT]

What if you place fences instead of blocks? That may solve this problem 5:20

[@Areshk]

Hola Rubik uwu, aprovecho para ganar un saludin ajjajaja ya que nadie te ha visto aca :c

[@alx-uw4og]

Pero madre mía Rubik que haces aquí compañero. Si, las vallas solucionan el problema

[@ayax2632]

Realmente no porque spawnearian encima del spawner aunque no sea justo en el centro, no?

[@THEMithrandir09]

then the mobs can spawn on and chill on the edges of the block right?

[@GatoLeyoD]

Justo estaba vídeo uno de tus videos, grande crack, felicidades por rivals

[@steventucker6445]

Here's a pro tip for Zombies: They move towards turtle eggs, and they move towards the most eggs. They can also see the eggs through solid blocks. This means you can put an egg behind the bubble column to get them off the pressure plate. (Or make them walk through a maze or something cool.)

[@dorinarnaut7392]

Yo, this is a cool tip. I need to try. Thanks for advice

[@Desu_Desu]

Or you can just make a shifting floor, it’s pretty easy and much faster

[@Desu_Desu]

Or just kill mobs with a tnt

[@dorinarnaut7392]

@@Desu_Desuwhat is "shifting floor"?

[@Desu_Desu]

@@dorinarnaut7392 Check a shifting floor mob farm, but it's probably overkill.

[@largemanOFFICIAL]

Me: Everyone else: Ilmango: 4 . 6 p e r c e n t m o r e e f f i c i e n t

[@sharath2273]

To be honest it is a relatively cheap fix, you effectively get a free boost

[@kristofferkirkesther2076]

Thx for awesome video! And thanks for not assuming that everyone knows everything about the game/showing every part of the proses! Not all youtubers do that.

[@MagicSkeleton]

Still works in 1.16 (built it today). Thanks again, Mango.

[@spikegorman1650]

Bedrock or Java?

[@rybel461]

@@spikegorman1650 It works in java i just did it in 1.16.5

[@annoyingfungi9789]

same in java 1.17

[@martinmoore4035]

@@annoyingfungi9789 cool, came here looking for this comment

[@blizzard4551]

@@annoyingfungi9789 alri thx

[@lowhead_bread]

People : puts 2 block on top of spawner Ilmango : wait that's illegal!

[@Novasky2007]

Slab: Well yes, but actually no.

[@richardweseman9242]

what about a button?

[@malick9549]

@@Novasky2007 takes out still all spawning spaces

[@TwinShards]

7:28 This thing is definitely going for my brain...

[@mirkkuffs]

I solved the problem of zombies getting stuck (9:50) in my spawner by making a snow golem shoot them into the elevator

[@dreamteamyt3396]

Where do u spswn the golem

[@807-k7w]

DreamTeamYT just make a box outide the farm where golem can c top of spawner

[@Miabeloved]

I just use Ice so they slide into the bubble column

[@yalkn2073]

@@Miabeloved They don't slide

[@PabloCardonaMusic]

Puting an ice block under the sign also works

[@AvidEric]

"New" player, just picked up Minecraft (a month ago) - and all those already known information was exactly what I was looking for to play around with a farm design that would keep the spawner still working. So thanks for mentioning!

[@ItsMeYancheng]

Don't mind me, I'm just making a note to myself- 10:25 is where the tutorial starts

[@adeshpoz1167]

Well, I mean someone had already marked it for the others to know but cool.

[@apock2474]

Thank you for the video! My world had a zombie dungeon not 3 blocks below spawn so this will really help my setup!

[@duckmcfuddle7537]

Apock 247 bro that’s LUCKY

[@apock2474]

Duck McFuddle yep. I started it as a hardcore world, but I’m terrible at this game, so I kept dying. Kept remaking the world and eventually stopped with the hardcore stuff. Sad part is the ocean is almost 2000 blocks away.

[@thesage1096]

Seed plz bro

[@jadeblades]

@@apock2474 seed?

[@apock2474]

The Sage I’m sadly going to be away from my computer, but I will get it to you ASAP.

[@HobbesHobbiton]

To fill in bubble elevators, put a water source block at the top. Then temporarily replace your soulsand/magma block at the bottom with a solid block. Fill the top of the column up with kelp, and then punch it out. Put the soul sand/magma block back, and the bubble elevator will work!

[@Coolbreeze02050]

For the skeletons getting stuck on the pressure plate block you could put a sign on the wall instead and replace the floor block with blue ice. That would make it so upon exiting the water stream the skeletons would slide across the ice and into the upward stream

[@Kaiwala]

I heard somewhere that mobs aren't affected by ice, somebody made a comment showing an elegant solution using fences one block down instead.

[@berni2905]

You can easily make *FULLY AUTOMATED* xp farm (only with skeleton spawners): Just place dogs in minecarts on the left and on the right from the slab on which the skeletons land. One small issue with that is that you have to feed the dogs from time to time, because they get damaged from skeletons' armor with _Thorns._ As you can imagine this is pretty rare. I had the farm running for maybe 5-10 hours and the dog lost only 1 hp. A different method of dealing with skeletons staying on top of the spawner is to make another dog sit on a slab in a small hole in a wall. The skeletons will immediately jump down from the spawner. This is just as efficient as ilmango's water method, but its much easier to build and I made it because I didn't know that mobs can spawn inside of open gates. To easily prevent mobs from getting stuck (9:50) you can make them fall in a 3-blocks-high hole and immediately push them out using just 1 _Pressure plate_, 1 _Redstone dust_ and 1 _Sticky piston_ It would look like that (S - sticky piston facing right, R - redstone, W - water source, w - flowing water, X - some block stopping water like sign or open gate, N - soul sand B - other blocks like stone, cobblestone or whatever): B B B W B X W B w w X W B B B W B B B S B W w w B B R P W B w B B B B N B B B That hole ↑ is to prevent water from folwing left.

[@Legless_Lizard]

Dude, thank you so much

[@berni2905]

@@Legless_Lizard You're welcome

[@albertarvadottosen3512]

Nice tip for when you build this in survival: When you make the source block water column, just put a water source at the very top. Then fill up the column with kelp to turn all the flowing water into source blocks. I find this method easier, although with 1.13 water mechanics its not as bad as it used to be to make mob elevators in general.

[@wtflolhahe]

Thx for this if it works

[@pandawaspplays6025]

Theres an easy fix for the bubble column elevator. Put a fence one block below the soul sand In front of it this pushes the nobs up into the stream and stops mobs from stopping. Ive has a tutorial o it for the curious. I dont think I explained it very well

[@daffytaphy8954]

PandaWaspPlays I don’t see the vid

[@hunterdfwm1286]

so you place a fence in the ground where the pressure plate would be?

[@daffytaphy8954]

Hunter Dafler I put the fence one block below where the pressure plate was and under the soul sand right next to it and it’s working fine

[@john_titor1]

could you put a single fence post to prevent skeletons from spawning on the spawner but not cause adjacent tile spawns to clip into the fence?

[@samuvisser]

Well, if they do spawn on adjacent blocks while overlapping with the middle block, that means they’ll stand on the spawner anyway. So it doesn’t solve the problem

[@communist4life630]

But preventing them from spawning reduces the spawn rates

[@john_titor1]

@@communist4life630 yeah but a stuck mob on the spawner reduces it even more.

[@communist4life630]

@@john_titor1 use the dispenser and fence gates

[@blibbber]

Material List: 1 trapdoor 1 soulsand 1 stone pressure plate 2 signs 6 Redstone Blocks (64+) 7 string 2 tripwire hooks 7 fence gates

[@iconic7433]

No homo but you are an amazing person for doing this

[@UKchuckM]

Blibber and 26 buckets of water Edit: basically a lot of water

[@3lli384]

With Skeles a dog may be better. They'd flee into the water. And thanks for the update, I always appreciate updates, even small improvements are interesting :-)

[@freddymeng]

Do you still get xp?

[@noahgershon6755]

just a tip, i found you can get rid of the skeletons stuck at the water elevator by digging a 1 deep, 2 long pit at the end of the water stream, with the water flowing into it, leading right up to the soul sand, and making the base of the pit fences. The fences act as a half slab in the water, which will push the mob up on top of the soul sand, and a sign can be used to keep the water in the elevator from pouring back into the stream. Also, at the base of the elevator, break out a hole on the opposite side from the water stream, allowing the bottom source block to flow in the direction of the stream's flow. This will keep the mobs moving into the elevator, preventing them from getting stuck. I'm sure it doesn't effect the efficiency of the farm, but it was something that was bugging me about my farm

[@NgoKimPhu]

nice design

[@benrex7775]

Thank you very much. I was annoyed by this but couldn't come up with something working myself. From now on every mob/bubble elevator of mine will have that.

[@Gralysin]

i just put ice there works just fine too

[@noahgershon6755]

​@@Gralysin i tried that, but the mobs still get stuck on ice unfortunately

[@monochromeart7311]

@@Gralysin ice affects only items, players and entities like boats

[@painintheash1399]

You can also put a tamed wolf in the killing area and the farm is now automatic and u still get xp. Only works with a skelly spawned tho

[@AlexDiaz-sf4qj]

Brawl Stars Suomi In bedrock you can make outpost farms so much easier.

[@gearsoftime9375]

Thanks but how do I get a dog all the way into the spawner

[@painintheash1399]

@@gearsoftime9375 leed

[@painintheash1399]

@@gearsoftime9375 and make it sit and push it in

[@painintheash1399]

And make sure that when you leave the spawner from and ad I sesh to make the dog sit again or it will teleport back to you

[@sceptus8033]

I know I know, somebody out there is asking, even though it should be common sense, YES it works in 1.17, and most likely 1.18 (when it comes out) as well.

[@anotheraggieburneraccount]

Ilmango: uses spawner instead of manipulating mobs to span extra fast on glitched bottom half slabs at y0 Me: confused screaming

[@landkon2254]

How does one do this

[@nate4422]

Exactly

[@jad5341]

How do u do this

[@aspargas2]

9:52 - I'm pretty sure this can be fixed without any additional redstone or complicated stuff. Just break the block adjacent to the bottom water source of the soul sand bubble pillar that is furthest from the spawner, and water will flow from that bottom source in that direction, giving the source itself a current that pushes the stuck skeletons into the bubble tower.

[@TheTaratee]

Zombie spawners are mostly rotten flesh but the good news is you can use that to trade with a cleric for emeralds and further for glowstone! It's how I'm lighting up my mines instead of torches. Same light no entity animations to lag my mine yay

[@aggressivereindeer3200]

Welp i have the best luck. I have a pillager and wtch farm right next to each other. Sooo thats all i need

[@inaayachen7592]

Turn off particles

[@toniokettner4821]

imagine wasting emeralds on glowstone. you really have to be late game.

[@omniscientcammaleon9477]

Dude just at the end of your zombie farm put a dispenser that drowns them an there you go drowned farm or zonbie farm 2 in 1

[@Affax]

Great job bro! Btw, omgcraft made a video about your cactus farm :D

[@ardigo_francesco]

could you do a tutorial on the tree farm that uses ravagers?

[@mkg2124]

Thank you! This was really helpful, my mob farm turned out great for my first time making one.

[@isntknow8436]

Thanks! Applied this to a double spawned (two trip wire setups) and it’s been working good! Only difference I made was making them fall through the center via a sign water blocker and they fall a few blocks before being lifting in elevator. Thanks!

[@Sh0cKwavE__]

Would it be faster to put a dog in the farm to so the Skeltons just run off the spawner?

[@matthijs2825]

Wow smart boi right here :o

[@sergeynajafov4422]

I tried messing about with that mechanic a few months ago actually but its a little buggy imo. Maybe mango’s massive iq can overcome that

[@Sh0cKwavE__]

@@sergeynajafov4422 aw that's unfortunate, so sad some of the more obscure features become unreliable seemingly every update

[@berni2905]

@@sergeynajafov4422 I did something like that and works fine for me.

[@jonahjlee]

Wont they just snipe it?

[@mrswag8935]

I'm having trouble with the trapdoor when I try to waterlog it that water goes down how do I fix it

[@iheartdnny]

same bro

[@MarnieHemming]

Danniel Zaragoza me too 😩

[@sparkplug8763]

try crouching and right clicking

[@WV_Smoke]

Yeah we tried that. If we stand it opens. If we crouch place it just ignores the trapdoor. I hope I'm speaking correctly on our behalf. I'm stuck too but hey it's less then 5 percent I guess.

[@sparkplug8763]

@@WV_Smoke to waterlog, the trapdoor and water have to be in the same air block. First block of three sides around the air block with other blocks or trapdoors so water can't get out from there. It'd look like a plus sign without a bottom part. Then place a trapdoor in the middle such that it is placed on the floor in the middle. Then open the trapdoor and place the water inside.

[@robertrijkers4923]

instead of a waterstream...could you recycle the arrows by having a dispenser shoot at the skeleton to kill or push it off the spawner.... give em a taste of their own medicine ;p

[@theunknownone_]

Then you’d have to lower the water elevator to compensate for the health they lost

[@gregorygarrison572]

@@theunknownone_ Or accept that those ones die and you don't get the exp for them. The water seems easier tbh. No need for figuring out how to replace arrows into the system.

[@slonkazoid]

@@gregorygarrison572 Hoppers + Droppers facing up

[@owenpburger5735]

everytime i build a spawner in my servers i always come back to this video, thanks for your infinite knowledge

[@FireDragon11111]

This is amazing that you came up with a different and better way to make this farm. One small way you could make yours better is by putting an air block column at the bottom, before the water column, so that the skeletons do not get caught!

[@firefly3082]

When I tried this, the mobs got stuck on the pressure plate and wouldn't walk into the elevator. This results in a lot of mobs stuck inside the spawning room. How do I fix this?

[@sethwarren2139]

Try adding ice so when they land in the water stream they go faster and they might go fast enough to not get stuck on the pressure plate

[@MelonLord8]

@@sethwarren2139 Ice doesn't affect mobs

[@wave_poiint4500]

What I did is make a small tunnel from the chest room to the opposite way the skeletons come from so that I lead them into the current. Put a sign so that the water doesn't flow through the hole. Also, hit them one time if you want xp

[@communist4life630]

Use a mob crusher instead its really useful and cheaper

[@samgerhart2446]

I’m playing on bedrock but ice works. Also if you put a dispenser with a water bucket in it above the pressure plate and just have a redstone wire running from that to a button, when the button is pressed it will push water back in the direction of the spawner but also moving the skeletons around which sometimes fixes the problem.

[@haydonhockey]

Idk if anyone else had an issue with the water logging on bedrock edition but a double piston extender instead of the trapdoor is an easy solution

[@philosopher6065]

Haydon Hockey how do I make the piston thing?

[@juwebles4352]

@@philosopher6065 I'd recommend looking up a tutorial

[@davidjohnson435]

Thank you I was about to break something I was so mad

[@davidjohnson435]

@@juwebles4352 is there a specific one that would help for this situation?

[@MrDancox92]

Yeah didnt work for me also, i opted for a dispenser with a water bucket facing down and double pulsing it by putting one of the trip wire hooks on a observer with restone dust to the dispenser. Observer detects the mob hiting the wire (releases water) and moving off it (retracts water).

[@micahbenson6849]

Water keeps falling through my trapdoor is there a fix for this?

[@smlbean3033]

Micah Benson same help

[@Sodalis_]

Trapdoor either upside down or open? Make sure it's closed when waterlogging it

[@brandonlee345]

On bedrock edition the water will flow out of trapdoor. I still use the redstone circuit which uses the triple hook as a switch with some modifications. In the video it connects directly to the water source block. I modified it by placing the dispenser above the water source block. Of course the water source block is not needed anymore because you can dispense water from the dispenser. After placing down the dispenser, connect the dispenser with at least a redstone dust. Then place down an observer which the red point facing the redstone dust connecting to the dispenser. Note that the redstone dust need to be connected to the dispenser at the same block level if not it will not work. As for the face part of the observer, connect it to the triple hook with redstone dust. And then it is complete.

[@pasel8125]

Doesn’t work on PS4. Just place regular blocks on spawner. Like video said, it’s only 4% more if you have it set up like his.

[@GeoffreyHale]

10:51 4 blocks in each direction 2 blocks above 3 blocks down tunnel 4 blocks bubble elevator up 25 blocks total ... ...brilliant, this works great, thank you!

[@adrianmarc5430]

Thank you for this video. I've taken inspiration from it and used it for a double skeleton farm I have on my world. It helped me a lot!

[@rayhanakram9912]

4:08 that's one of the rarest and creepiest cave sounds in the game. Just so ya know

[@SondaroSasuke]

I have reproduced this same farm on my realm and I have discovered a creeper inside of the system. After meticulously checking the farm inside out (and dying a lot in the process) I haven't seen any spawn places... and then it hit me. Is it possible for a creeper to spawn on top of the skeleton spawner?? Can that happen?? Otherwise I cannot for the life of me imagine how did that creeper get in there.

[@Sickliff]

I also noticed this. What you could do is place a pressure plate on top of the spawner. Unlike natural mob spawning, the spawner doesn't seem to have a problem placing mobs on pressure plates. Of course, this also means that water couldn't be used to remove the mobs that spawn on top. A piston pusher could probably be used, but you'd have to either put it on a timer or activate it manually, as a tripwire would be destroyed by the piston.

[@brandtdubois7538]

The zombie spawner can have a useful drop if you convert it into a drowned spawner

[@pico4996]

Is that that possible?

[@Jonathan-ih9sm]

@@pico4996 if you play on ps3 ps4 xbox, switch and a few others. The only one it doesn't work is on minecraft java edition

[@samkitchen7622]

10:10 this might be a bit confusing but where the sign is (in this scene) you can replace it with three open fence gates going down (from where the sign once was) and one open fence gate on the other side of the soul sand at the same level. This will change the elevation of the skeleton pushing him through into the soul sand automatically. Hope this helps

[@ollieb393]

Fantastic video, mine worked first try. You're a legend, ilmango

[@fungaro2205]

Would it work too with a snow ball-throwing dispenser?, so the mobs above the spawner get knocked down

[@whothou]

prob but then you have to refill it...

[@subhumanpostalworker8051]

@@whothou if you a bunch of chest with snow

[@Qejee]

If you have tond of snow i dont see why it wouldnt work!

[@sticco4342]

In my skele spawner i put ice next to the stream and it let them keep their momentum and go in more quickly. EDIT: Also, if you don't have silk yet, and have a zombie spawner then you could use a villager behind the water stream, for even more efficiency you could place a brewing stand next to him. You'll be able to sell your rotten flesh for emeralds right away.

[@yalkn2073]

Ice doesn't effect them

[@GatoLeyoD]

"This is not one of those videos of 7 years ago" Watches the video in 2026

[@legendzbigboi6684]

Thank you! The data may have changed a bit but I’ve been really trying to maximize a group of spawners I found together and this helped a lot!

[@TastierBackInThe80s]

OMFG thank you! For explaining everything and not taking forever to do so. Just getting back into Minecraft and having to refresh my memory of everything.

[@Dewkeeper]

Wouldn't it be more efficient to use tamed wolves, since they auto-attack skeletons and drop xp orbs, in order to allow the player to run another afk farm like a fishing farm? That's what I did with mine. Plus the stackable items can get sorted away, enchanted items can be unenchanted at a grindstone for xp, and you can use the bows as fuel to smelt the armor into ingots after you're done farming.

[@paddywiggle]

Dewkeeper this isn’t more efficient

[@wanderingmadman558]

I use wolves too. It is a more efficient use of the XP as you can mend two tools at a time(one in each hand) and with the wolves doing the killing you don't have to put any damage on your sword(which would use up XP to mend itself if it is mending enchanted).

[@KoyFoster]

If the skeleton acquires the armor after they spawn, do I still get the bonus exp? My skeletons reacquire dropped armor a lot.

[@1oglop1]

That's a good question, if this was a true you could set up a loop and dispense the armor back at skeletons and hoping that some of them will pick it up

[@Hallowed_Ground]

@@1oglop1 That's a good idea

[@nojomyth]

I was just thinking yesterday on building such a thing. Looked on your channel. Nothing was there (newer vids). Wow XD

[@frenchaphone7162]

Thank you, I just found a dungeon and have been needing an efficient XP farm for a while :)

[@stephenlatham352]

Not sure why but my mobs kept getting jammed because of the pressure plate. So what I have done is put two signs down instead of a sign and a pressure plate and then a block of ice just before the soul stand/below the signs and it’s worked a treat. Ty for the video 👍

[@moth.monster]

the real star of this video is the waterlogged trapdoor

[@Firigion]

If triwire hooks dont affect mob spawning from spawners, maybe entities don't either. Can't you use a boat to push the skelletons in that case?

[@tridentremixes5449]

They would just get in the boat

[@Hallowed_Ground]

@@tridentremixes5449 Not if if was a full boat.

[@Tybeuf]

Wouldn't the skeletons would push the boat off?

[@matijagrgicin5496]

Isnt it go i the entety cap??

[@Firigion]

@@Tybeuf Boats don't get pushed.

[@hikerwolfspaine8200]

Cheers mate. Really helpful. The making portion could have a little bit of a pause between sections so I know when to stop the video and have time to, but otherwise gave me a flawless grinder.

[@Omsidriver]

Really great tutorial with a lot of background informations!

[@せてんた-70]

*Forever Player* brought me here Vim pelo Forever Player ❤ btw love your channel ilmango

[@daffytaphy8954]

My trapdoor won’t hold the water it just goes straight through. I’m on bedrock. Is there anyway to fix this

[@scarrow]

Just use a dispenser instead?

[@bardancando8930]

You cant put fence gates over air on bedrock either it doesnt work as far as i know

[@brandonlee345]

On bedrock edition the water will flow out of trapdoor. I still use the redstone circuit which uses the triple hook as a switch with some modifications. In the video it connects directly to the water source block. I modified it by placing the dispenser above the water source block. Of course the water source block is not needed anymore because you can dispense water from the dispenser. After placing down the dispenser, connect the dispenser with at least a redstone dust. Then place down an observer which the red point facing the redstone dust connecting to the dispenser. Note that the redstone dust need to be connected to the dispenser at the same block level if not it will not work. As for the face part of the observer, connect it to the triple hook with redstone dust. And then it is complete.

[@drakechapman7476]

Can you design a spawner for use on servers with silk spawners I'm struggling on a design for 10 spawners

[@darcipeeps22]

Ender Lord Use the same principles. Water to wash off those that spawn on top and get out of the spawning box quickly so you aren’t preventing more mob spawns

[@thunderd7904]

darcipeeps darcipeeps actually, I think it’d be more complicated than that if you want max rates:if you place all the spawner in a 3x3/5x5/whatever cube then you’re denying spawn attempts for the spawners towards the middle. Even the ones not in the middle will have denied attempts. And then if you place them in columns, the skeletons falling down from the top may make lower spawners say “there are 6 skeletons near me, so I shouldn’t spawn anything.” My best guess to the MOST efficient design would be to have 2-3 spawners in a column and have those drop to a generic water stream and funneled to somewhere. But if you don’t want it to be too wide, then I guess 5-7 spawners per column would work just fine.

[@jemlap]

Or you could repeat this design 10 times and tunnel it all to one dropping tunnel.

[@TheRealWormbo]

You can chain the rooms together, spacing the spawners 4 blocks apart (5 for spiders) and putting the same flushing contraption on top of each. Note that you are limited to up to 40 blocks of tripwire, but then again, your spawners need to be a 16 block radius sphere anyway. You'll have to fiddle with the flushing layout a bit, but I don't see why you wouldn't be able to eventually get all the mobs into the same kind of funnel as shown in this tutorial.

[@pietanicev1044]

Omg Ilmango up here revolutionizing 10 year old Minecraft mechanics that literally everyone else thought couldn’t be any better

[@rmzing]

At this time, I've watched three of your videos, and your intro song is already stuck in my head.

[@Nyord7]

Wouldn't the blocks surronding the spawning range also block spawn attemps like the ones above the spawner? I'd also like to see a cave spider spawner tutorial. Great video

[@__________________6611]

Just dig a hole for the spawner and fill it with magma blocks with a hopper minecart under it

[@Error-zj7zf]

I thought about that aswell. If it is the case, it's an even larger loss in efficiency

[@santiagomendoza8278]

Do you mean the fence gates? I believe he said that since open fence gates don't have hitboxes they don't prevent mob spawning

[@Nyord7]

@@santiagomendoza8278 No, I meant the blocks outside the spawning range. If the mobs can spawn on the edge of blocks right on the limit of the spawning range, the blocks right next to it will block the spawning attempt.

[@byeillcommentlater1627]

These are the people of SciCraft. They make farms, then make them better

[@garionaolinger8752]

And then make the better farms even better

[@williampitton5753]

On windows 10, mobs will keep clumping up before the water elevator and not go in. How I fix

[@jondalessandro5610]

William Pitton try an ice block right before the bubble column so that they slide on it

[@Blicky-SB]

@@jondalessandro5610 Ice blocks don't actually affect mobs, only Players and items

[@areebmasoodi8932]

I'm thinking of making a piston thingy.

[@sabarblatoe]

Not sure about all systems but on bedrock you don’t need to place all water source blocks up the intake shaft if you’re using soul sand. Just get to the top & dump one water source block & the soul sand will convert all of them for you. & Thank you. This video was really well done.

[@laurenzreichelt4911]

Nice, i love the in-depth videos you make!

[@lewismassie]

refreshing endlessly to try and get not 360p lmao

[@duckmcfuddle7537]

Lewis Massie weird flex but ok

[@cacnus]

@@duckmcfuddle7537 no flex mate...

[@jadeblades]

@@duckmcfuddle7537 no one is flexing?

[@duckmcfuddle7537]

@@jadeblades It was kind of a joke reply, the flex I was referring to was how he was saying he got to the video when it was still 360p.

[@jadeblades]

@@duckmcfuddle7537 ah, I see

[@electrovintinica6848]

Shouldn't you incesue the wall size because mods cant spawn right next to the wall

[@SiMeGamer]

The size of spawning is 4 blocks from the center of the spawner, so you need only 3.6 block square perimeter around the spawner and a little extra to allow the actual spawn to not fail. So 4 blocks is perfect. The total square perimeter is 9 by 9. Hope this helps :]

[@electrovintinica6848]

@@SiMeGamer thanks for the response

[@cuolds]

tip: put an ice block next to the bubble elevator they wont get stuck there

[@favekiller1332]

I’m trying to get it to work rn and that seems to be my problem, they keep getting stuck before going onto the soul sand, I assume u mean put the ice under the pressure plate? Do they still slide across it even tho the pressure plate is there?

[@colton7373]

you can make the elevator with only one water source by temporarily replacing the soul sand with stone/dirt/gravel etc. and putting the water at the top then filling it with kelp to make them all source blocks

[@janemoffet7406]

love that quality information thank you!

[@PabbeYMk1]

Ilmango, can you make automated wood farm for 1.14 , i dont see that much wood farm with the tnt dup tingy.

[@ohtrueyeahnah]

1.4? oh man we're in the 1.14 range now

[@PabbeYMk1]

@@ohtrueyeahnah oh shit xd

[@vedantdeokar4373]

Whenever I try to waterlog the trapdoor, it leaks out

[@maguku4516]

^ same

[@krismartinez2685]

same

[@fiftyizzy5088]

I gotchu guys, look up "dual edge monostable circuit" first off, your gonna need to run one of those connected to the trip wire and on the other end you need to put a dropper one block above where you would normally put the trap door (this is to ensure the water stays in a one block vertical line before hitting the spawner opposed to spreading out to the 4 adjacent blocks (if it were flush with the ceiling))

[@krismartinez2685]

@@fiftyizzy5088 fuck that I just made a more basic spawner

[@OrchidAlloy]

I admire your research but I'm not gonna make a mechanized flush system for the 4.6% of skeletons spawning over the spawner lmao

[@stalehuman7585]

OrchidAlloy the flush takes 2 minutes to make

[@KlaugKnaughrt]

Stale Human mine doesn’t even work lmao

[@brandonlee345]

@@KlaugKnaughrt I use dispenser instead of trapdoor. Working pretty well

[@loopybrogaming1149]

@@brandonlee345 wait how?

[@brandonlee345]

@@loopybrogaming1149 On bedrock edition the water will flow out of trapdoor. I still use the redstone circuit which uses the triple hook as a switch with some modifications. In the video it connects directly to the water source block. I modified it by placing the dispenser above the water source block. Of course the water source block is not needed anymore because you can dispense water from the dispenser. After placing down the dispenser, connect the dispenser with at least a redstone dust. Then place down an observer which the red point facing the redstone dust connecting to the dispenser. Note that the redstone dust need to be connected to the dispenser at the same block level if not it will not work. As for the face part of the observer, connect it to the triple hook with redstone dust. And then it is complete.

[@Vidargavia]

Nice to go back to the old things and see what can be done! There is a nice solution to the skeletons getting stuck, using a wall and trapdoor trick.

[@victoryender2284]

Even old (relatively) ilmango videos comfort me AF

[@jhitgoomba1]

4.6 percent difference is more major than people think. Think about this, you have 1000 diamonds. 4.6 percent of that is 46 diamonds, still a lot but not as much.

[@infamoussoul2346]

I’m perfectly fine with 954 diamonds

[@online_cat]

@@infamoussoul2346 4.6 percent extra for interest in the bank would make you think differently, no?

[@BigBootyBatman]

@@online_cat yeah but the money works for you in that case. Here you have to actively stand at the spawner and Hit them

[@kevinrigney175]

Can you make a tutorial on 1.14.4 iron farms please

[@semillakan6]

Who but mango to make the oldest farm in Minecraft slightly more efficient

[@Progeusz]

Thanks for the video, really nice to see some content for less advanced players as well and with explanations for everything you said, why things works the way they do. I'm super grateful to you for investigating whether blocks above spawner affect the rates a lot, it was always bugging me. 4.6% is higher than expected, definitely worth using the improvement you proposed.

[@osvaldorojero6569]

At 11:30, for some reason it wont let me waterlog the trapdoor, why?

[@DirtyYetClean22]

I can’t either

[@secnep]

This still works for 1.20, mostly. but I would like to see an update video on this. You don't really need all that glowstone to disable the spawner anymore. Just one torch in the middle might be enough to disable spawning entirely- since mobs only spawn on 0 light level now. (they used to spawn on anything 7 or under). They also get stuck at the entry point. I might want to try putting sea pickles or another solution like that.