Insane Minecraft Spider Farm! Epic Tutorial

Hello everyone my name is pig Soros and welcome back to the Minecraft Survival Guide I hope you guys are having a great day today we’re going to do something a little different to the last few episodes we’ve been working on builds and projects around here we’ve been working on making things look pretty

We’ve been working on taming horses and today we’re going to do something a little more technical and for that we’re gonna run down here into the mines to discover rediscover I should say something that we have not had a look at since the early episodes of this series

In fact if we go down here you’ll find exactly what I’m looking for a spider spawner so today by popular demand because a couple of people have been asking me in the comments when we’re going to get around to this we are going to convert this spider spawner into a

Farm for string now we would also convert it into a farm for experience because having a monster spawner like this is a great way of ensuring that you’ll be able to get a steady flow of experience however we have a double blaze spawner in the nether we have to

Blaze bonus side by side and those are actually much better than spider spawner or even zombie or skeleton spawner for delivering a large flow of experience even better than that we now have access to the end which means we could in theory create an ender farm and ender

Ender for Enderman and we could farm experience very very fast in that way so we have a lot of options open to us and I think the best thing to do with this is to start off slowly to kind of introduce projects like this before we get into the more technical stuff like

Blaze farms and Enderman farms but I think we’re not going to turn this into an experience farm we’re going to turn it into a string farm that is we’re going to farm these spiders for string drops now there are going to be a lot of different designs for spider farms out

There in the world so I don’t expect this to be the best spider spawner design in the world in fact it’s probably going to be quite low tech as far as these things are concerned there’s a lot of very complicated designs a lot more efficient designs

Than this one so if you’re looking for a super efficient farm design then please go ahead and look elsewhere on youtube because there will be a lot of more technical players than me who will be able to do something similar to this however I can at least explain some of the

Mechanics of Spawn as like this and we’ll be able to do a quick experiment with this to see if we can get a decent amount of string basically without really doing anything at all we’re gonna be able to stand completely still even away from the computer for large periods

Of time and still manage to get loads of string from this spider spawner so the first thing I’m doing is clearing out the area a little bit spawn is like this can actually generate spiders within a nine by nine area around the spawner so if you count the spawner as a central

Block it can go one two three four blocks in each direction so that means this way as well which is gonna mean we would probably finish our spawn area around there I normally mark this out with torches so it’s nice and easy to see like so and

Then we have one two three and four so the fourth block is going to be there so what I want to do is clear out the rest of this area a little bit clear out some of the blocks in the surrounding walls get rid of all of this cobblestone which

We can always reuse in the design later if we want to the important thing throughout all of this is to make sure that the area stays well-lit because otherwise the spawner is going to start generating spiders and we don’t want to get attacked by spiders while we’re

Working on this and there we go we’ve now cleared out a nine by nine area around this spawner with four blocks are leading away on each side that is the maximum area in which these spiders can spawn at least as far as horizontal distance goes in terms of vertical

Distance they can spawn spiders a block above or a block below the level on which the spawner sits currently and here is an interesting thing about mob spawner x’ which makes them different from the way monsters naturally spawn in the world is that you don’t need to have

A solid block underneath them in order for the monster to spawn monsters can actually spawn in midair from spawn us like this so it is entirely possible if you wanted to to dig a hole all the way down to say bedrock or at least a very low level somewhere where the spiders

Would be able to generate in midair down here and fall straight down to the bottom of a giant hole and there they were taking a full damage that they would probably die instantly that’s one approach we could take to this room but it would take an awful lot of digging

Instead what we’re going to do is dig out the floor here two blocks at deeps so we’re going to have a two block deep section here we go to put water underneath it and of course the great thing about water as you will know from having experimented

With it a little bit yourself or seen it in other videos here water will actually move mobs around if there is flowing water it will direct the mobs into a certain place for you so what we’re going to do is set up a stream of water

That’s going to carry the spiders to a specific location where fingers crossed we’re gonna set up a means for them to die nice and easily but in the meantime we can continue digging this out and lighting it up making sure that we put torches in say you each corner right now

I think that will probably do if you put one up close to the spawner one on each wall and one in the corners you’re pretty much guaranteed to have a well-lit area and now I’m gonna do something a little bit dangerous but I think I can handle a couple of spiders

I’m gonna knock out some of the torches in this area that are lighting up everything so you can see there did you see that that spiders spawned in thin air it spawned around at the edge of the spawn and not on the floor but in midair

And fell down to the ground that is the mechanic we are going to rely on so that this spider farm is going to work for us let’s knock out that middle torch there to give you an example one more time and it’s going to take a little while for a

Spider to generate in here because the rest of the room is lit up and what it’s doing is checking all of the valid spaces that a spider can spawn which right now considering the amount of torches we’ve got in here is not many but there you go that one spawned right

Above the spawner in fact and that’s something we’re going to have to make sure we block them from doing in future because the last thing we want is a spider deciding to stay up there on top of the spawner this is essentially part one of converting one of these spawns

Into a farm and it’s creating the maximum a possible spawner ball space the next steps are going to be a little bit more complicated because they require transporting the spiders to a killing mechanism now the killing mechanism is actually going to be housed inside of this section of the wall here

So we’re gonna clear out a couple more spaces on this side and this is kind of arbitrary you can choose basically now that you’ve got this nine by nine room whichever direction you want the killing mechanism to be placed in and it really doesn’t matter all that much so it’s all

About what’s convenient to you but the most important thing is to move the spiders outside of the spore Noble rain so outside of this nine by nine by three area in which spiders can spawn because if the game detects that a spider is still hanging out in this space that’s

Been generated by the spawner it’s not gonna try and spawn any more spiders in or rather to get the maximum amount of spiders generating from this spawner you should try and remove any spiders that are still here outside of the range of it before it continues to spawn stuff

You’ll notice that a lot of players tend to have lots of water streams diverting spiders towards a sensible location whether it’s somewhere inside of their base or somewhere just a reasonable distance away from the spawner and that is always so that the spawner can continue to generate monsters while the

First set of monsters is heading over to the killing mechanism to be destroyed now because I don’t intend to use this as an experience farm I’m actually not going to create any kind of system where the spiders go towards me to get killed instead I’m going to set up a killing

Floor here made out of magma blocks magma blocks are a block we’ve used in this series before at least we’ve encountered in this series before and what we’re going to do with those is set up an area where the spiders can just flow over take damage until they die and

Drop the string directly onto the magma blocks and that’s why we have a few magma blocks stored up in this chest already I’m going to bring 40 over there with me I’m not sure if we will need that many but we will start off with that at least and the great thing about

Magma blocks is that they will not destroy items in the same way that lava does so even if the mobs are taking damage from the magma blocks it will not damage any items which appear there later i’m actually going to like this area up a little bit it seems a little

Dark over there and I’m slightly worried hostile mobs are going to appear while we’re working on this so what I plan to do is create a floor of magma blocks over here probably three blocks wide and the entire length of this room so that the water is going to push spiders onto

The magma blocks over here the spiders are going to take damage like so until they die they’re gonna drop their string here and then we’re going to have something underneath the magma blocks collecting up the string as it gets dropped here in fact with those magma blocks in place it might actually be

Possible to give you guys a quick example by taking out the torches throughout the rest of the room so let me drop a couple of water sources in here now let’s take out the torches on top of the spawner so we get a couple of spiders spawning over here and watch what

Happens so this as soon as the spiders fall into the water streams even though they’re looking at me and they’re trying to get towards me they they are drifting in that direction in the water stream now I do need to place another row of magma blocks there because the maximum

Distance a stream of water can travel like this is eight blocks and unfortunately it’s gotten as far as eight blocks before it reaches the killing floor but you’ll notice that spider is over there when it’s not focused on me it is actually taking damage from the magma blocks anytime it

Walks over there and right now is trying to climb the walls this is the unfortunate nature of having a spider farm is that a lot of the time the spiders themselves will try to climb the walls to get out of here now I’m gonna place down a few more torches just to

Halt the spawning for now but yeah you’ll notice any time they get on to the magma blocks over here they are gonna take damage and they won’t do any of that jumping around if there isn’t a player in their field of vision so all

We need to do is create a space for us to stand in and the spiders will just be able to drift towards those magma blocks over there they’ll all die pretty much straightaway and then we’ll be able to collect up the string and in order to collect all that spider string that

Drops onto the magma block so we’re going to need a couple of things for a start we’re going to need some hoppers and it won’t be as many hoppers as you might think because we can’t collect items through the magma blocks just using regular hoppers instead what we

Will need to make is a hopper minecart and these have some very special properties which allow them to pick up items through other blocks and I’ll explain a little bit more about that once we’ve got it set up we’d already collected a couple of mine carts and some rails including some powered rails

From the mineshaft that’s down there so luckily we have a lot of the supplies we already need because powered rail requires you to spend a lot of gold luckily I’ve also got a fair amount of gold in here that I don’t mind using on this project so that shouldn’t be too

Difficult ultimately we will need enough powered rails to power the minecart as it travels around this area collecting up string from the spiders and yes you’ll notice in here that I’ve been doing a little bit more silk touch branch mining I’ve got myself some diamond door here I’m going to fortune

That at the end of today’s episode just for fun but for now I think this should be enough I think once we’ve got a little bit of gold ingots and we’ll need some redstone of course as well I think this should be okay let’s bring a couple

Of blocks of redstone just in case I have a feeling we might want those for powering purposes I’m temporarily going to take up this magma floor now that we’ve tested it and we know that it pretty much works and I need to dig down a little bit further to make sure we can

Install rails underneath the magma blocks because that is how we are going to collect up all of the spider string as it gets dropped down here you know what I might as well take this iron as well I’m gonna have to replace the floor over here with something let’s maybe put

A little bit more dye righty and it doesn’t matter what this floor is made out of it just matters that it’s eight blocks long so the water comes to a stop right there and all of the spiders are going to tip over onto the magma blocks here now I’m not placing these magma

Blocks a block further down or anything because the spiders might be tempted to try and climb these walls to get back out so the the idea here is to create as little climber ball space for these spiders as possible I’m just gonna quickly investigate what this is because

Yeah I keep hearing which noises so I think there are a few mobs spawning down here in the unlit sections of the cave hopefully you’ll be able to deal with them light this place up a little bit better and we won’t have to mess with

Any more mobs Oh looks like we’ve got a few skeletons down here let’s take care of them quickly first and go through lighting this section up Oh would you look at that we’ve stumbled across some diamonds fantastic all right let me dig down and grab those because I will never

Pass up the opportunity to collect some diamond ore when I see it especially when I’ve got my silk touch pickaxe on me hello let’s see if we can get him to walk into the lava come on try and follow me I dare you come on nail’d it’s

Got him brilliant okay a quick check to see if there any more diamonds down here I didn’t realize we were quite so close to Diamond level but I guess we are a little bit of gold oh this is a nice little corner of the caves isn’t it fantastic

Sorry I’ve gotten a bit distracted from the spider spawner folks I gotta have some recreational time in all of this hard work and normally this is the kind of thing I might be tempted to cut out of a video to save time but then it did look a little bit suspicious if I

Suddenly turned up with a bit of a few more diamonds in my inventory especially oh if we’ve got a decent sized vein here oh my gosh that was nine time and all blocks in a row did you see that that was incredible I’m gonna throw out the granite I want these blocks I’m

Slightly worried that there are lava noises nearby though so let’s be very careful here let’s make sure we can pill it back up with some yep okay we’re good we’re good nice okay that was that was lucky that was a nice little find and just in case anybody who

Is playing in this world is short on diamonds those were at nineteen fifteen two hundred very cool let’s get back up to this point a spawner I’ll put the rest of those resources in here that’s a nice little fine I’m really happy with that actually and now let’s explain

Exactly how this minecart hopper system is going to work so to demonstrate I’m gonna put down a piece of powered rail here we’re going to put our minecart with a hopper on top of that and you’ll notice this has a hopper sized inventory five slots there can store up to five

Stacks of items and these can actually pick up items through other blocks I think it’s something to do with thee if it’s standing on a rail the minecart with a hopper hitbox actually gets pushed up into the block here even though if I press f3 B to turn on hitbox

Is it doesn’t really look like that’s what’s happening trust me it is now let me use a couple of other blocks here and just kind of pillar up so that I can chuck some blocks on top of this as an example we’ll throw the other magma

Blocks onto here and you’ll see that the ones that actually land on top of the block when my throw is on target will actually disappear and when we click on the inventory for this you’ll notice that those blocks have all ended up in this mine cart with a hopper now all we

Need to do is set up this minecart so it automatically travels around underneath the magma blocks on a rail and it will collect any string that drops on top of the magma blocks for this to happen I’m gonna place a redstone block down here in this corner and we’re going to create

A kind of s curved section of track like so now any powered rails which are connected to a power source like this can actually stay powered for quite a distance before the power runs out so remember that if you I think it’s probably 13 blocks in each direction or

Something like that they will still be receiving power the redstone block is a decent power source but you can use any other kind of power source you can power it from below with a lever or a redstone torch or anything that can power the block below this allowing the powered

Rail to be turned on and in an ideal situation we would be using exclusively powered rails for this except when it comes to the track turning because regular rails are the only ones that can create curves like this but since powered rails are quite expensive we’re

Only going to be using a couple at a time here and then now we’re running into problems where the powered rails are actually acting there we go yes the powered rails end up connecting to some of these tracks and as you go you may have to fix

Up the rails to curve like this because occasionally if you don’t have a say if you don’t have a rail already placed here for example and you try and place a rail next to one that already exists it will automatically try and curve around towards the rail that it already noticed

This so instead you’ve got to place a rail here before you place a rail here and then those two will connect up and the normal rails will have priority because they can create curves like this the minecart might lose a little bit of speed in some of these turns as well so

It’s usually a good idea to have a powered rail almost immediately after a bend like this and even to take out some of these blocks on either side because we don’t want it to run into the blocks over there and lose momentum you know what now I’m looking at this it occurs

To me I should probably be building it the other way around because I want the last piece of minecart track to finish up over here because that’s kind of closer to the entrance to my mine then this bit over here is so bear with me a

Second while I swap all of this around I just ran out of rail so I had to make a little bit more but making some more powered rails should be as simple as putting a stick in there and a redstone dust yes there we go fantastic we got

Some powered rail there as well that is basically all we need now one other thing to remember is to try your best not to have water make any contact with these rails because water will remove any rails where it splashes in that area so just be careful of that now okay I’ve

Placed that crafting table in a pretty awkward location didn’t I let’s put it there instead let’s make a couple more hoppers because I will need a couple of hoppers at the end of the track here this is gonna be like I said a very low-tech system we’re just going to have

The minecart run over these two hoppers here and it should hopefully be able to deposit everything into a chest on the other side here there we go we’re gonna put the chest in this corner we’re gonna try and make it a double chest yes there we go and then we’ll put two hoppers

Facing into it like so and the direction of these hoppers is gonna be a little bit hard to see so let me dig out the wall here so you can check this out all that was dangerous shouldn’t have dug straight down but there we go these two hoppers are facing into each

Other so to place a hopper we’ve covered this in a previous episode I think but we’ll go over it again to place a hopper facing into a sauce like this you just need to right-click on it you need to shift right click in this case because it’s

Gonna open the inventory of this chest otherwise and then you need to again shift and a right-click to place this hopper so it’s going in that way if it’s not going into the block it’ll look like that and it will go straight down but if it’s going into this block next to it

Then this will direct items through a chain of hoppers so if I put some andesite in here now you’ll notice it all taking away it’s going through that hopper one block at a time and it’s all going to end up in this chest over here

And that is how we will do it on this side with the item collection where you’re gonna have the powered rails run across the top here we’re going to have these powered by a redstone block which is going to be here the main reason to have it there and not next to these

Hoppers is that redstone current will actually lock a hopper and prevent stuff from traveling through but if I put the redstone block here that should allow items to pass through the hopper like so let’s chuck a couple of dirt blocks on there as an example those should all end

Up in the chest and they have fantastic so that is running as expected that is all it needs to do we could even have a manual trigger mechanism set up here if we get a piece of cobblestone which I don’t have on me right now because I’ve

Been using a silk touch pickaxe but if we make a lever you can actually set this rail to turn on or off manually and that will allow you to start the minecart rail whenever you want to we’d have to remove that redstone block and just power this track using a lever but

That should be relatively easy to do so to explain this little better powered rails will actually push a minecart along in whatever direction it’s traveling when they are powered when they are unpowered however they the minecart will actually come to stop on those and it won’t be able to move until

That rail becomes powered again so we’ll actually need to make this section of track only one block long for it to stop in the right place that it can go again when we press the button or pull the lever or power whatever this rail is next time so here’s the example yep it

Slots into place on that block once you press the button again it will move again that’s really all you need to do I guess we do actually have some cobblestone in here so we can demonstrate with a lever instead let’s make one of those really fast and let’s

Pop it on the wall over here this will permanently power this rales so whenever the minecart comes to rest here there we go so that whenever the minecart stops in here it will automatically get pushed back out again and collect up all the string but then

Once we turn the lever off that rail will D power and it will be able to bring the minecart to rest there and then you can just flick the lever again and off it goes again so I’m gonna lay the magma floor back down here we’re

Going to do another quick test of the spider spawn and knock out all of the torches and see how much string we can get just by automatically collecting it up with this minecart now I will need to knock out these torches and very quickly run back to my hidey hole where that

Chest is because the spiders are gonna start spawning in here very quickly there’s one now let’s take out that torch as well and the spiders gonna try and follow me for a second so I will have to fight him off and then we’ll block up this area so that the the mobs

Can spawn let’s turn the torch on and let’s see as you can see like I said the string is getting collected through the blocks there and all we need to do is hide ourselves in here for a short while and we should hopefully be getting a decent amount of string coming through

So I’ve opened this up a little bit to try and fight my way out of here because I am done standing here for the moment it’s also worth noting that when you stand near a spawner to activate it and have the mobs collect around here you

Need to be within 16 blocks of the spawner for it to activate so bear that in mind for having fought a few of the spiders manually I’ve collected a bunch of spider eyes but even so this machine has been going okay it collected us just over half a stack of string in total

That’s probably including a couple of looting kills from my looting sword it isn’t the fastest farm and that’s why you’ll see a lot of people using cave spider spawners for these string farms because cave spiders while they are poisonous so they’re a little bit more difficult to handle once you have a

System like this in place you can often find multiple spawner –zz in a mineshaft and if you have a lot of spawn is close together close enough together that they will spawn a lot of spiders all at once for you then you will end up

With a huge amount of string in not too long a time and since we didn’t do this earlier I’m gonna create a pillar right the way from the ceiling to on top of the spawner to make sure that nothing can actually end up resting on top of

The spawner because I did notice a couple of times when I dug that hole out that there were spiders just sat on top of this not moving anywhere and that ideally we want them all to fall down into the water and get carried over here so that more spiders can keep spawning

Now there are a couple of additional steps we can take here that I personally would consider optional but it’s kind of useful to have them one is a means to switch on and off the lighting in here and that is done through the use of redstone and redstone lamps which I

Don’t have any of on me right now but we can easily go and craft some and that will allow you to turn on and off the lighting so basically you can enable or disable the spawner whenever you want now obviously as I said if we walk more

Than 16 blocks away from the spawner it is going to disable itself naturally let me try and explain that visually if I step away there we go you’ll notice that the the flames and stuff have died down the spider in the middle is no longer spinning because we’re sixteen blocks away that spawner

Will not be active so you don’t need to worry about it churning out spiders when you are super far away all you would need to do would be walk out of this mine shaft and this thing would pretty much guaranteed not be active but if you’re in the area it is sometimes

Useful to able to enable and disable the lighting in here so you can guarantee that spiders will or will not be spawning the other thing to do is to create a nice little afk room and away from keyboard rooms so that you can collect all of the

Drops from the machine without having to interfere with the inner workings of the spider spawner at all and that’s going to be very convenient for here because right now we’re doing this from this end of the spider spawner and it’s not the best place to be so I’m gonna block all

Of this off and we’re gonna dig our way back up to the mineshaft that we have elsewhere we’re probably going to encounter it if I dig upwards like this or we’re going to encounter a completely different cave well that’s good news I suppose that looks like the bottom half

Of the spawner is it okay maybe this is oh this is a place where you’ve dug down from before fantastic so we could easily get out there if we wanted to but it might be easier just to have a surface access over here somewhere so how about we keep digging up from the

Spot where we were and sooner or later we encounter the place where we came in so this is the cave that goes out to the surface in this direction if I follow the torches back we’ll be able to find it yes that’s the way back to our farm

So actually all I really needed to do was come up through here and we can turn this into a more formal entrance to the spider spawner let me block off this cave like so so that we don’t get distracted on the way all we need to do

Is head straight down into this section here and that’s where I’ll be able to turn the machine on and off we are definitely within a range of the spawner here so you would just need to flip this lever get the minecart collecting stuff and we could create a safe space for

Ourselves down here that monsters wouldn’t be able to get in and we can just stand here and collect the drops as we wait the next optional step which is one that I actually really like is to decorate this place because for a start it’s all covered in stone right now so

It’s actually not super obvious where the spider spawner is in the grand scheme of this cave and I think it would be great to have some sort of decorations so that if we go mining around this area we know not to mine through the walls because they’re either

Made of stone brick or maybe black wool to look like the spider skin texture or something like that either way it would be a good idea to have something to differentiate this from the caves around it so that’s going to be another project and last of all it

Might be a good idea to create some sort of overhang around this area so that when spiders get funneled into this area they have trouble climbing up the walls and that’s gonna be a little bit more difficult some people use signs to stop spiders climbing up walls but I can’t remember

If that has been changed if supply the behavior no longer allows for them to be blocked by signs or something like that maybe some folks who are more experienced with spider farms can let me know but in the meantime I think we’re gonna be done with this project for

Today we’ve spent a lot of time on it already in this video and I want to go back to the surface and fortune all of this diamond door that I’ve collected in previous episodes and this one so let’s find our way back to the farm should be

Relatively easy to get back all we need to do is hop up here and there we go we can see grass in the distance we are on our way out and luckily it is daytime looks like the Sun has just come up I’ll have to make sure there’s no creepers

Around that are going to attack me notice just some long grass in the distance I get so paranoid about long grass anyway let’s hop into the house here let’s add this diamond to our stash maybe put away some of the resources we have here and I’ll give you guys an

Update on the spider spawner situation in the next episode because I’m sure we all have made some progress before then but now the moment you’ve been waiting for and let’s do it down here on the puzzle area where we’ve been farming those spruce trees we’re gonna lay out

Each of these diamond ore blocks and we’re going to break them all with 14-3 and see how many diamonds we get now normally with 14-3 you will probably get about twice of the amount of diamond ore you place down in diamonds so let’s see

How well we do here I think we put down 38 so I think we’re at least going to get over a stack that’s a good start seeing twos and threes of diamonds popping out of these all blocks is exactly what we wanted and I reckon

We’ll get a fair amount out of this you can see them adding up in the hot bar so far that’s already half a stack pretty good pretty good looks like this is going to keep us going for a good while here we’re up to 47 51 55 oh these are

Some good fortunes guys yes there we go that’s a full stack and I’m sure there is more adding up in my inventory as we speak those last 200 gave me one at a time but that’s okay oh boy we’re getting so many at this stage right let’s see how many

We got a stack and 26 almost a stack and a half that’s really good that actually is going to keep us going for a long time and remember diamonds are also something you can turn into a resource block you can put nine diamonds into a diamond block and those are

Probably the most expensive blocks you will ever build with probably unless we’re talking beacons at this point and we will get into beacons in another episode but that is ten blocks of diamond not bad folks well that’s got to be it for this episode of the Minecraft

Survival Guide thank you so much for watching like I said we’ll give you an update on the spider spawner in the next episode once we’ve made a little bit more progress there I’ll show you how to wire it up with proper lighting and everything it’s going to be great don’t

Forget to leave a like on this episode if you enjoyed it subscribe if you want to see more and I will see you guys soon take care bye for now