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Originally Posted by photon
How do you make mob traps? Or even just a room that spawns mobs, my kid is always wanting to find slimes and they're hard to find.
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I think best way to find slime is going as deep as you can, so close to bedrock. what I do is I use F3 to find them. They have a distinct repetitive hopping motion, unlike the other mobs where the only hop a few times and stop.
I think 1.4 actually made slime a lot easlier to find. I've found more than a dozen since 1.4 came out.
The easiest mob trap with minimal effort is to build a 34x34 trap. 2 blocks for canals, 2 blocks deep so they can't hop back out. 3 blocks high for the spawning pads with 4 pads. My trap is about twice as big and I get about 1500 drops/hr. Not completely efficient, but that's because I didn't light up all the caves underground too. I think I can hit 2000 drops/hr if I put a bit of effort into it.
You can check out Ethoslab for his insane creations. This guy is a minecraft genius:
http://www.youtube.com/user/EthosLab
My favorite is using boats to travel from one location to another underground, and fully automating the system so the boats reload on its own.