I have created a mob farm which I want to be able to turn into an XP farm at the switch of a button. Basically a multitude of mobs spawn at the top, fall down, and die. I want to add a dispenser that dispenses water so I can catch the mobs and kill them for the XP instead of their drops. However, creepers start to self-destruct as soon as I start hitting them through my half-slabs. I've tried using different combinations of slabs, stairs, fences, etc, but the creepers keep blowing up my mobs. Is there any way to stop this? I can draw a diagram of the XP farm if it would help.
Minecraft – How to farm creepers for XP without them exploding
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Most mob farming techniques use a stream of water which collect all the monsters in the room to a central point, and then drowns them by pulling them underwater. Some other ways to kill them are:
- Pushing them via a water current into cacti
- Using lava to kill them
- Making them fall really far so they die from the impact
Just as a note, most people just build enormous completely dark rooms (like this one) to farm mobs rather than using the actual mob spawner blocks.
Here are some screenshots from the link above:
Place another minecart in a 1x1 hole within reach of your derailed minecart and just hop into it with a right-click.
(not my idea, shamelessly stolen from Minecraftaddict's YouTube, see his explanation)
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Best Answer
I have been testing this vigorously and I've found a combination of slabs and blocks and that means that the creeper cannot see you and won't explode, no matter how much it is attacked. Here it is:
Notice that the player is standing on a bottom slab, so they can peer into the whole easily.
Another possible solution that I found during testing is to use a combination of stairs and slabs and a bow. While this does affect the durability of the bow I think that this can be overlooked by how effective this system is.
The setup for the upside down stairs stops skeletons from shooting at you and the distance stops the creepers from exploding.