Zombie Spawner Sculk Farm! ▫ Minecraft 1.19 Survival Guide (Tutorial Lets Play) [S2 E116]

[@narayanbandodker5482]

Tip: even Basalt works in converting, so you can make a very fast basalt generator in the nether to speed this up a lot, maybe under a magma cube spawner or a very efficient zombie pigman farm

[@xisco5525]

Doing it with a zombie piglin farm would make skulk spread so fast! Although I dread to think about how much noise that monstrosity would make lol

[@levibradley1487]

Wow that's a good tip. I may have to add this farm with that edition to my survival world

[@MrEMVme]

@@xisco5525 adding it to the bottom of an enderman farm is really fast as well.

[@itmeurdad]

@@MrEMVme tangos latest is a rough draft of just that. Pix's is a bit more approachable IMO though.

[@MrEMVme]

@@itmeurdad I sort of agree with that except for needing to find spawners which I’ve found difficult to come across since 1.18. Enderman farms are crazy simple to make.

[@CieJe.Alexander]

It's good to see that someone as proficient as you can still struggle a little bit. It really shows us to just keep at it, and not get discouraged. I love how you explain what does, and doesn't work, in what circumstances. Whereas many would just cover it up, and pretend it was picture perfect from the onset*. I admire that about you. Keep on being real. We love you. *Unless it had already been seen by others on Twitch Lol😋 [Edited] Akshay Raj, DoomThink, Jonny Chrst, Simon Valen (alphabetically; just the ones I spotted, and maybe some others in the comments) suggested utilizing Golems to move the Zombies around, or as kill mechanisms, OR even introducing an Iron Golem Farm to the set-up, so that the Golems, and Zombies would destroy each other, increasing the Skulk output (not to mention better drops). Almost like a double-spawner/Gladiator type thing. (Could make AFK-ing less boring) 🚩Now I really want to see this happen! Anybody?

[@jasonreed7522]

The only thing about am iron farm vs zombie spawner is i don't think the zombies would keep up and eventually it would just be a pit of golems (maybe pre damage the golems or keep them in range of the villagers so the village limits the total number of golems in the pit)

[@CieJe.Alexander]

@@jasonreed7522 right, or limit the villagers view so the are scared only occasionally.

[@jasonreed7522]

@@CieJe.Alexander i suspect pre damaging them is probably the best method, make it sorta like Tango's various iron farms that kill the golems with interesting mobs, except this time its just basic zombies or skelly. I would be interested in a multiple cave spider vs iron golem farm. Just realized, Tango's Hermitcraft S7 farm had pistons pop up the zombies to scare the villagers in a wave, you could do this and adjust the timer to match the kill rate of the zombie spawner. (Or detect when the golems are all dead with tripwires above the zombies heads)

[@_duane_joshua]

I have seen the empires SMP sculk farm and wanted to build one. Finally I can do it.

[@thegreatarcana]

Just a bit to point out: sand CAN be converted into sculk, so be careful with the catalyst in deserts!

[@akshayraj4623]

Do u think a skulk sand variant would be cool. Like a dark coloured sand block that will form if sand gets corrupted by skulk ?

[@samuelabela7685]

@@akshayraj4623 Use your imagination alone. There are alternative methods to create this effect. That seems like a very niche idea. Nice to hear though.

[@Xacris]

came down here to add to this, I had sand in part of a monostable circuit and the sculk spread to it, breaking my redstone

[@samuelabela7685]

@@Xacris i think i'm going glass where there are blocks with no required powering. And the cobble blocks never go wrong.

[@Roknok]

Don't spread misinfo please

[@claaaaaire]

It wouldn't be a proper tutorial series without episodes about trial & error and problem solving. Good stuff.

[@jinj6971]

You've probably already thought of this or someone has already mentioned it, but for the baby zombies and for the leather wearing zombies, you could make separate tunnels into the walls with turtle eggs to lure them out of the farm and maybe onto something that would automatically kill them. It won't help make those zombies be a part of the sculk farm, but it'll at least help with the mob count. Awesome farm design tho btw, it looks really simple and relatively able to be made early game if one is brave enough to take on the deep dark in the early game XD Edit: and by "separate tunnels" I mean a 1 bock high tunnel under the snow for baby zombies specifically, and a 2 tall one at ground level with the snow so it won't lure out the zombies that can be used in the farm

[@RedWinterRoses]

personally, I love watching the trial and error process. It's nice, of course, to just be able to open a tutorial and Make a Thing, but it's super cool to sit down and watch someone test and redesign and evaluate a project as it grows.

[@qainan8665]

Pix you could have a few put a few signs some place in the air and have put lava on that as it wouldn’t stop the fall damage, they would take burn damage and since they are in the air and not around the ground sculk will be converted

[@lindleya]

The lava just needs to still be low enough that the light from it doesn't disable the spawner

[@qainan8665]

@@lindleya oh yeah there is that but if it 20 blocks below the spawners the light shouldn’t reach it

[@BellePullman]

@@lindleya does powdered snow stop light? They could first fall through a layer of snow, air gap, then lava, then plunge down.... or, direct them with water streams up a bubble column to splat properly!

[@eloquentornot]

Nice to see a tutorial for The Machine, also congrats on the deepslate emerald!

[@sweetiepie9113]

Perfect timing,I was bored.🔥

[@thesoulman5420]

Same lol

[@dazaioneandonlywife]

samee

[@Techie111]

Same here

[@sashaleon5943]

Same

[@renevz]

Same man

[@angelarobinsonmarkley9720]

I love this approach to making farms. Where this isn't the most efficient farm, but it is a way. This really helps lay the foundation of making bigger more complicated farms. Thanks!

[@togepipickmeup3729]

congrats on finding that deepslate emerald ore pix! im planning on making a vault for a bunch of rare items as well as blocks. i just found a stony peaks and im planning on searching for some deepslate emeralds for the vault

[@jaywon6749]

Thank for sharing your thought process. I know there were numerous hurdles to had to overcome but, your thought process was priceless. Keep up this series. Been here since season one. Cheers.

[@humourlessjester3584]

So this suggestion involves redesigning the farm entirely so you might want to consider this for another farm in the future, but if the spawner is not deep enough to kill the zombies with fall damage you might want to use the mechanic where sculk charge travels up alternating sculk blocks using stairs or trap doors (I believe Ilmango and gnembon explained this mechanic and it's not as complicated as I'm making it sound). It'll make the charge from the sculk travel to another room entirely to be converted into sculk blocks so you can use the extra space you used for the farm to maximize fall damage. Alternatively you can drop them all in lava that's low enough to not affect the spawner for the catalyst to pick up and it can send the sculk charge to another room separated from the killing chamber where you can harvest all the sculk blocks. A bonus to that latter suggestion is that it destroys the drops in case you don't need them, like in a zombie spawner.

[@WhatIsMyPorpoise]

It's one of those really cool features of sculk that aren't obvious at all to players trying sculk out for the first time.

[@humourlessjester3584]

@@WhatIsMyPorpoise Yeah but I do wish more players knew about it because it's really cool seeing the bubble particles travel like some sci-fi piping system.

[@WhatIsMyPorpoise]

@@humourlessjester3584 Yeah and it was a very intentional feature from mojang. Bedrock had an entire collection of fixes when it came to the number of blocks that can connect to/sit on stairs and trapdoors. Flower pots, lanterns, ladders, etc(Decoration with trapdoors was actually pretty restrictive before 1.19). Right after that feature was discovered, kingbdogz commented about it. And the fixes on bedrock came a few weeks after, allowing it to be done there as well.

[@sarthaksaxena5776]

i think silverfish spawner will be the best option for this type of farm ... no drops low hp

[@sierra1513]

funneling the zombies into a water stream definitely makes this farm a lot easier to manage and to build in the first place

[@norbucso]

It's what I did. With water elevator and then drop them onto the catalyst.

[@ahaaas9433]

yay!! i've been curious how u did the xp farm on empires so perfect!

[@PrismBee]

Can confirm, cave spiders are a pain. I have a triple cave spider spawner sculk farm. I spent over a week sorting out waterways and bubble elevators to get them all to drop down to one point to activate the catalyst. Now that it's up and running, it's beautiful. Absolute perfection. Sculk and string for days. But holy cats. This farm was a challenge!

[@Unwind7088]

Nicely done. I'm a big fan of taking us through the thought process and troubleshooting techniques. Thanks for another great video!

[@lukmigindnuforhelved]

Great video as always :) Ideas for fixing this wonderful contraption: Maybe a thin layer of lava (on top of open gates) about 10 block up from the floor could both hurt the zombies and set them on fire ? Enough that they would die further down or a little later ? Or, you could open the whole shaft up to the surface ... so the zombies would die from sunlight ? :D

[@02bigkev]

Thanks for showing the mechanics, I like the way you show how to improve a design.

[@sicksid3534]

Awesome Episode! Cool farm design! For the Baby zombies and the leather zombies, I'd place some turtle eggs to get rid of these zombies, alternatively maybe a lava curtain during the fall could also do the trick, but I'm not sure how deep that lava fall pool would have to be. Can't wait to see what new design you can come up with in the next episode! Enjoyed your explanations! Didn't know Skulk could "travel" that way :)

[@ebonyburgess6356]

You are really good at flying, the opening's and closeing's is what i love most!

[@tiffanygresham9835]

I am new to Minecraft and I learn so much from your problem solving and explanations! Thanks for another great video!

[@yazukazuhiko2666]

yeah I have been waiting for this!

[@VarmusTheBrony]

Pix, you could install a sign-held lava blade layer just underneath the spawn radius of the spawner. This way the zombies - including baby ones - will first fall through lava, and then bonk down on the floor. Hopefully this should be enough to kill them? Thank you for all the videos, you pretty much taught me how to minecraft and let me enjoy it immensely.

[@tntgaming828]

It would have to be 15 rows below to accommodate the light level, I think he'd be better ditching the spawner and making a regular mob far, alternatively like he said add a water steam and bubble column for extra fall damage

[@StarNanny]

It’s so interesting to see the design process! Thank you.

[@NoOneYT1]

Back to the survival guide!

[@Lea_D.]

Next time can you show us a little closer how you did the mechanics of moving the skulk upwards again, once the push limit is reached? I'm confused about where each next set of pistons would be placed to move the row over for the next set of pistons to start pushing them up. Anyway, happy to see another ingenious Pixlriffs machine invented!

[@nilsnorman1889]

Lets go new survival guide episode, wohoo

[@woutnoynaert107]

Pix, to solve the leftover stone being pushed up. You can place a bit of moss on the top that is being constantly bonemealed, this way you can harvest everything with a how. (I haven't seen this entire episode jet so this is mostly for the empires smp disign)

[@woutnoynaert107]

Pix, you can put a lava layer half way down, this way all mobs take damage and fall damage. Putting the lava layer half way down doesn't prevent stone conversion and doesn't interfere with the light level

[@tldr9989]

Hi, Pixl. You could also add a lava blade a few block below the spawner (enough to allow spawning) so zombies get burned + some fall damage, enough to kill them at floor level.

[@kestrelgaming554]

ZPM 😂 Trouble shooting is always fun, it helps with understanding the mechanics. 😁 I like knowing Why ?? a farm works.

[@briankeith2]

Pix- to fix the issue of baby zombies or leather-wearing zombies, you could place an iron golem in the wall on each side that leads the zombies to a hole with lava in it. Im not sure if this makes complete sense the way i explained it but i think it would work.

[@AbiManyu-kq7jj]

why not just use iron golem in the bottom to automatically kill them instead of snow

[@ArcaneAxolotl]

@@AbiManyu-kq7jj iron golem could be damaged over time and then die because of the zombies

[@prithaknepal2013]

23:00, I think you can put lava above signs in the middle of the farm so that the zombies get the burn damage while falling to their deaths

[@gunslingercytron5841]

I kinda like all of the deepslate ore, and emerald is indeed rare and hard to find, so having one feels really good, and I'm happy that your have found your favorite deepslate emerald ore. But my favorite deepslate ore is probable deepslate redstone ore, next is diamond and then emerald.

[@ΝΑΥΣΙΚΑΜΩΥΣΙΑΔΟΥ]

Hey Pix great video by the way. For the sculc conversion I would suggest instead of the hopper timer putting the catalyst under the platform and an observer facing it (as it can detect a catalyst upon activation) with a dropper counter next to it that would fire every two to three catalyst activations. Also you could replace the lower set of stairs with scull sensors as they are immovable and they can (at least as i can remember from 1.19 snapshots) block some sculc sensor/shrieker generation that could interfere with the zombies

[@Xacris]

oh, you know if you wanted to, you could use a Sculk Sensor to detect when the Spawner produces mobs and use that to control how often the stone generator works. Also, from my experiments, it seems like for a block to be converted to sculk, it needs at least one face open to air. It's almost like it checks for if a sculk vein could generate, and if not then it won't convert

[@superajokera]

So with Sculk, it generally follows a different rule of thumb for blocks that it can replace. This generally includes blocks you'd see on the surface of the Overworld, the Nether, and the End. Notably, this does include Clay, Gravel, and Soul Sand. (Mentioning Soul Sand so that in case your working with Bubble Columns with Sculk then just be careful.)

[@bruhbruh3080]

love the ad being at 4:20

[@colintibor]

Looks like I’m staying awake for 30 more minutes lol

[@Fuzzycub_]

Working on a similar farm too, I think I will try the water funnelling drop method, as The spawner is quite low. Another great episode :)

[@ChadKWDL]

Best part of this video was the deepslate emerald ore! Congrats! Time to make a shrine to the ore.

[@briandara8832]

Can’t wait for part two! Love this series!!!!

[@Hail4Gaming]

What about pointed dripstone? Would that no allow for sculk growth? I thought pointed dripstone might work wonders.

[@AY4XN_Official]

Thanks man, it works well🔥

[@PunkR0ckz09]

For the baby zombies and armored zombies, I believe you should remove the powdered snow layer and place down flowing lava right above the stone/sculk floor. I don't know if it would stop the blocks from converting, but I doubt. IF that stops the blocks from converting, setup a lava "floor" placed above open fencegates a few blocks down from the spawner (maybe 5?) and one just above the stone/sculk floor as well... Yes, it requires much more material (a.k.a almost 200 fence gates and probably 10 lava buckets) but it would work and could possibly be made higher in the world as well so you could have a minecart under it collecting drops as well.

[@-FutureTaken-]

Congrats on 200 episodes of the spawn chunks pixl!

[@gamerartimagus]

Turtle eggs around the sides with magma blocks on the edges not connected to the piston strip (obviously). Put a skulk catalyst in the center and one in each of the Cardinal directions at the walls above the layer of stone. Even if the zombies fall on then, they'll be attracted to the turtle eggs and fall off. This will kill the baby zombies as well, and magma blocks can't be turned into skulk (though they can be covered, so youll need something like string on top of them).

[@kkalafus]

You might try using a couple iron golems instead of powdered snow. Even though they'll eventually die, you can just drop down a couple more since iron is basically free

[@voxorox]

Or put a few villagers in a safe place nearby to just spawn them into the area. Already have the zombies for an "iron farm" so why not use that mechanic if you can?

[@Isnotanapple_]

Perfect time watching Pix's new vid while Eating heh this is great:))

[@BellePullman]

This is what is so fun about the game - problem solving with increasingly complex and objectively ridiculous methods! Explain to a non-Minecraft friend that you need to kill zombies with snow to store their life energy, since they won't fall far enough!

[@Josh_lang_to]

Watching all the way from Phillippines🇵🇭

[@genius_miserable]

Happy 850k subscribers, Pix.

[@ptacraftgamer7528]

sculk can spread even if there is lava on top if the bottom part of the blockshas access to air, so you can have a lava floor where the zombies fall and spread sculk, this would take care not only the zombies but also the drops, and the catalyst can also be below the platform this way the lava can cover the entire floor

[@MCheiron]

I think one way to prevent the spreading on the walls is to replace the full blocks with bottom slaps. Like a cage. The veins can't go through the half block space. At least it worked in my bedrock world.

[@CieJe.Alexander]

I think half-slabs are what Wattles did on his.

[@pyrosapien4028]

I know your build didn’t work out but this tutorial is helping me out. I found a zombie and skeleton spawner close enough to activate so to made them into regular gravity spawner farms but I’m going to add the option to divert the mobs into secondary paths and drop them on this build then cube the skulk with two piston walls to make xp batteries

[@SallyH247]

My brain has never felt so bamboozled, watching this lol (I wish I fully understood Redstone mechanics)

[@benjagosac]

Hey pix, you could maybe put the powdered snow higher up in the farm, like right below the spawner, for baby zombies to be affected by a bit of damage from that and then ultimately die from fall damage

[@Timelord79]

One way of dealing with the leather armor/baby zombies in this setup could be a simple lava trap with turtle eggs as bait to lure them out of the snow and kill them.

[@scarlettquick4676]

I’d love to see you hook up a line of dispensers with arrows along the bottom layer. It would take care of baby zombies and those with leather, plus speed up your powdered snow kills. It’s a bit unconventional but you use an infinity bow so I’m sure you’ve got arrows to spare.

[@boyblue5320]

Youre a really talented builder and lore guy.

[@MrAshleyR]

Question; would Slabs on top of the skulk platform help with the baby zombies? Surely that'd push their hitbox up, and not be converted?

[@ravensshadow2179]

I have you put a block next to the power snow a long with bait( turtle egg or a villager) it will draw out the baby zombie. The other thing you could do is just use the water stream to just cycle them back into your kill chamber.

[@benish3890]

To help improve the rates from the farm, you could add an iron golem on the side to attract any zombies with leather or babies, and then kill them with magma blocks.

[@judsongreenwood2636]

You could use a turtle egg at the bottom to bring them into a bubble column at the side that circulates them over and over to eventually kill them

[@christopherweaver8601]

Great vid Pixl =D your so knowledgeable and awesome

[@SaignusUnltd]

A trap with a turtle egg could lure out the baby zombs to clear spawns. A 1block high entrance would keep the adults from escaping

[@QuotePilgrim]

You could have replaced the layer of powdered snow with just about any other block, and then placed pointed dripstone on top of that, and the fall damage would likely be enough to kill the zombies. You were so caught up on the fact that placing the pointed dripstone directly on the moving stone platorm wouldn't work that you never considered placing it a few blocks higher than that. Another possible solution would have been to replace the powdered snow with campfires.

[@Lea_D.]

Does the mob have to be standing directly on the stone for it to be converted to skulk, or can there be anything between the mob and the stone? I was wondering, if they were standing on a layer of campfires above the stone (where the snow is now), if the stone beneath that would still be able to convert. The wiki says the mob just has to die within 8 blocks of the catalyst.

[@markgaming1752]

Wouldn't lava on signs a bit more up be a better option to the fall trap?(because of the fire damage?) I'm open for corrections

[@ovadiadan]

Hey pic, did you ever cover crafting fireworks? I'm trying to search and can't seem to find one.

[@--ivypool--]

you could use soul sand elevators? or entity cramming with minecarts. does that work?

[@DidaMinecraft]

Funnel all the mobs into one hole and put a magma block on the bottom, stone generator hooked up to the side with a catalyst. Can take the redstone signal from the catalyst to activate the generator

[@rudrodeepchatterjee]

Finally. I don't have to kill mobs out in a plain field at night anymore!

[@firenkyo8073]

I'm not very good at farms or redstone in Minecraft, but would it be possible to spawn the zombies onto a platform with water, push them into a bubble column that brings them up higher, then push them back out once they're high enough to die of fall damage? That might cause issues of them just landing back down on the platform again and it does seem kinda complicated but it's the first thing I thought of

[@christopherpearson6514]

There is a way around the kill mechanism in the use of pointed drips tone for the kill.

[@boulderease1855]

How bout replace the powdered snow with soul campfires? Would the catalyst still detects mobs dying above it?

[@rokasradomskis2463]

Is it possible to use lava or even powdered snow for damage with cobwebs undernwath? Then zombies would fall slower through the cobwebs and take enough damage to die from fall damage when they reach the ground.

[@akshayraj4623]

How about having a platform with magma block with a one wide gap. Water streams will direct them before they die on the magma blocks and when the fall through the gap,they might potentially die as long as they don't have Armor. This also takes care of the baby zombies. One more solution is to have a simple iron golem farm which will supply iron golems down there which will kill armored or baby zombies. Villagers can detect iron golem presence so you don't have the problem of having too many golems.

[@DavidAtwell]

I wonder if having a bank of dispensers firing arrows every time the farm ticks over would be a reasonable way to deal with leather armored zombies or baby zombies. It would need to be refilled, I guess, but if I recall correctly you prefer infinity on your bow so it would be a good use for all the arrows you get from your general mob spawner.

[@ryanfjell3580]

One option to fix the problem of the zombies not dying is put in a lava blade halfway down. They should pass through being weakened pretty low by the fall damage, but be finished off from the burning damage. (Maybe) lol

[@soultundra7869]

Would a lava blade or 2 further up the drop zone work?

[@GIRGHGH]

You could make a water funnel beneath the spawner and direct all the zombies onto the catalyst, and only put dripstone on the catalyst, right?

[@namist9176]

For a killing system, how about a Warden or a Johnny, it would be funny to see those used in a sculk farm, and the warden is just around in the ancient city and would definitely work well

[@mineralnoodles]

The warden will be dangerous for the player

[@MasterRobbe]

Can you please show a cobble generator that doesn’t use TNt duping. Because every design I have built on a server with TNT duping breaks.

[@_xelua_]

Hey pix ... have a suggestion might help... you can replace the powdered snow for layers of lava held together by signs....

[@albericdecarrere8436]

What if you put a lava trap with signs just enough low down that it won't prevent spawn but high enough that the fall damage will finish off the zombies ? Idk if it would be more effective than the water streams in your particular scenario but I thi k it's easier to set up

[@edward1012]

I love this farm

[@DoomWalker42]

I will definitely attempt this when my server updates finally to 1.19. thanks for the Tutorial. They are helpful as always. On my server I got lucky and found two cave spider spawners in spawning range of each other and a skeleton spawner. Though would this farm be more efficient with a custom mob farm than spawners?

[@deas13games50]

I think if you want to do this the best way is to design a normal mob grinder just reliant on natural spawns that way you can build it up in the sky over an ocean and can easily control the mobs and the wall of skulk plus it tends to be alot faster and the drops would be more useful

[@Xolarflare]

Could lure the baby zombies and leather equipped zombies into a bubble collum with a villager behind it. That way it makes a little classic zombie farm , not too efficient but no loss

[@GreatTazGaming]

Pix, what about a layer of lava about 3-4 Y levels higher then the powered snow? How close to powered snow can lava be? What if you had a layer of signs or fence gates above the powered snow then lava on it. It would be high at head height for zombies who spawned with leather boots.

[@denmsore]

could you use pointed dripstone to kill the falling zombies?

[@grimmsoul3096]

did pix just ignore emerald ore?! 21:56

[@homosapien1143]

I'm assuming that you generated the chunk containing the zombie spawner prior to your 1.19 upgrade, right? Otherwise you should not have encountered bedrock until Y=-64 or so. Am I forgetting something about the 1.18 to 1.19 terrain generation with respect to the new world depth/height?

[@bartoszradko7610]

Maybe this would be a good place for showing bedrock breaking methods. The spawner is at y=-36, so a stone layer at -61 would be low enough for killing zombies.

[@aspenhill9662]

This is so satisfying

[@adiiboi1805]

I LOVE YOUR CONTENT

[@ouwismail9780]

how about doing a regular kind of set up where you shoot the zombies upwards and then drop them onto the stone platform giving them enough fall damage to die thus making the farm more efficient and avoiding any possible losses