Minecraft Java Edition – How to Safely Destroy Silverfish Blocks

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So, silverfishes are really hard to hit and they tend to mob and overwhelm the player. The sword approach is very ineffective. On top of that, sometimes we need to dig through mountain biomes, which do spawn silverfish ores. How to safely destroy the silverfish blocks instead of avoiding them?

Best Answer

The Easy Way

Use a Silk Touch tool. They will drop the normal, non-silverfish block.

Kill it With Fire

Fire and drowning damage will not anger other silverfishes out of their block. This means you can lure them into a trap. This is the simplest I could make.

Note that:

The safety platform should not be made of silverfish-friendly blocks. That means no cobblestone, no smooth stone, no stone bricks (normal, cracked, mossy or chiseled).
Trapdoors make mobs walk onto them thinking they can pass through.
The jump ceiling is 3-tall.

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Minecraft – How to permanently destroy blocks in Minecraft

You have a few options:

Throw them into a pool of lava
Throw them into a cactus block
Throw them into fire
Explode them (items will be destroyed if they are in the radius of a TNT or creeper explosion)
Just throw them on the ground and forget about them and they'll despawn after 5 minutes. This is generally longer than desirable, however, which is where the other options come in handy.

Minecraft – How to power a row of droppers efficiently from side or bottom

The most resource efficient way I can come up with to power a horizontal line of droppers is this

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with the redstone line on the left being connected to a clock. This works because the repeaters strongly power the dropper they are pointing into causing the droppers to the left and right to be indirectly powered.

The vertical line of droppers is powered as described in this Youtube video, with a comparator being used to send a (inverted by a redstone torch) signal to a vertical stack of redstone torches powering repeaters pointing into every 2nd vertical dropper.

With regards to the specific situation you are in the most resource efficient way to get the mobs from the exit of the spawner to the 'home' area would be to bring them up high enough using a mob elevator (a 1x1 tube filled with alternating water blocks and signs will cause the mobs to swim themselves up to the top) to a point where they can be dropped down the required number of blocks.

The only pitfall with this type of system is ensuring that the mobs fall a consistent distance everytime. All that is required to do this is to ensure that the water stream at the top of the elevator is set up like this

XXXXXXXXXX
X        X
X~~~~~S  X
XSXXXXX  X

(where ~ = water and S is a sign)

So that mobs get pushed into the drop shaft by other mobs pushing against them instead of directly by a water stream.