1.14.4+ Witch Farm (4300 items/h)

[Applause] Hi guys welcome back to another tutorial video so today i want to show you how you can make the witch home that i built in my skyblock world it’s actually an updated version because the way mob spawning works changed again in 1.143 so we’re back to using soulcent now

So what changed exactly mob don’t spawn on top of trapdoors anymore that was a spawn proof again yes but actually quite a ride so first we were using the souls and shifting floors ever since the normal shifting floors got fixed and they always worked but the problem was

In 1.14 flat mobs no longer spawned on soul cent blocks so basically the rates were cut in half only every second block was a spawnable block okay then we went to the observer trap to a shifting floor design which by the way wasn’t really um yeah a

Glitch it was kind of intended way to make a shifting floor so we just moved this over and then the trap to opened and the mob was falling through so this worked from 1.40 in flat until 1.14.2 technically it still works but now we have the issue the 1.14.3

Mobs don’t spawn on top of those trapdoors anymore and that would cut the rates of this concept in half but luckily mob spawn again on soul cent so we can just go back to this design so the witch farm itself is really efficient it’s a hybrid of a detection

System and a clock system so as soon as a witch would spawn we would activate those pistons here it would push down an observer and those would activate the shifting flow shifts back and forth but sometimes that system fails and which is either gets stuck between two blocks

Um or don’t fall through that’s why we also have a clock running that in case the witch didn’t fall through and still is activating the tripwire so basically it means your service down here would activate the shifting floors again until the witch finally glitches through right yeah so the system is really

Efficient uh i’m getting 4300 drops power of this design i also made two killing systems again so the first one was the fall damage system very easy and very fast but it has the disadvantage that you can’t afk as high so in case you would build a double or quadruple witch shot

Where you need a a perimeter anyway i would recommend that but in case you only want to build a single witch farm then i would recommend actually this entity cramming system so we just flush the witches over to this um dropped shoot the little one here and

Yeah when you fall down they killed better minecarts such as standing in there also i optimized it the witches don’t get stuck they’re swiftly flushed over and killed by the minecarts before the witches could despawn some despite using the cobble walls here just gives two witches enough space to stand next to

Each other but we still only need one stack of 24 minecarts to kill them so i can use master’s mini hut mod to illustrate that so this is the despawn sphere around the player so we got the afk spot the single block there in the middle where the player would afk

And mobs can only spawn or exist within 128 blocks of the player which is shown by this huge despawn sphere of a radius of 128 blocks in order to get ideal spawning conditions for your farm you want the only available space for mobs to exist

Be inside of your witch farm so if you look at the bottom here you get the swamp pot and if you would put the killing system directly below the farm we can move the afk spot higher and that also means the despawn sphere um yeah would also be higher up so in

Order to get the ideal spawning conditions we would just need to light up the blocks that are inside the sphere here and there’s a bit of it underground we could just maybe dig that away so it’s actually not a lot of blocks so this would be the advantage of having the

Entry climbing system if we would now build the fall damage system instead so let me quickly adjust the despawn sphere we need to move the afk spot lower so about 20 blocks and then the area that needs to be prepared would already be a lot larger so we would need to

Yeah make sure that the caves down there are lit up completely in order to get the perfect rates which you can do by just digging away the area but as you can see this would be a lot more work so in case you only have a single witch

Farm then i would definitely recommend to use the entry climbing system but as you can imagine if you would have a double witch hut form um then the other witcher usually is about 200 blocks away and in order to basically have both of those uh swarm

Parts that are about 200 blocks away and sometimes even more the fk sport would need to be in the middle of the both farms and also be a lot lower in that case you definitely need a perimeter um but yeah for a single widget you don’t really need the perimeter

Especially if you would use the entry cramming version okay now let’s start with the tutorial so first of course we need to find a witch hut which you can find in a swamp biome they are quite rare but you can also use tools like a midst in order to find them

Okay now just actually 1.14 also different qualities of which shirt so we got the ones that generate normally as low as possible and then sometimes width shuts also generate a bit higher those will also have lower rates so this is actually a perfect width shot generated as low as possible you can

Easily see that so here we got the witch hut bounding box displayed by masters a mini heart mod again i can also quickly show you how you can display that so you need to press h c to get the mini hud menu then you would go to structures and set witchhut to true

And then in order to turn on the rendering for me it’s h and o so structure main toggle that would turn it on and off in order to turn mini hud on and off completely you would press h and that would show you the bounding box of the witch shot in case

You want to use it yeah but this is the perfect witch shot so here you can see if you look at the block of that front porch it’s at y 64. um we’re gonna later search for another witch shot that would generate higher that would mean that the mob spawning

Algorithm always depends on the highest block of the witch storm the rates would be a bit lower after which uh hud would generate higher okay so the lowest spawning layer in this case would be at y62 the middle one 65 and the upper one at 68. okay now let’s search for another

Which shot to generate higher that didn’t take long at all actually the next switch that i found already generated a bit higher usually the witch shots that generate higher are not standing inside of the swamp so they just adjust to the terrain around them so this one here has the front porch

Level um at 68 instead of 64. so it generated four blocks higher in total this would make about a five percent difference in terms of rates actually which would be about 200 items power in perfect spawning conditions so i would definitely recommend in case you have the option to search

For multiple witch homes and to try to find one that generates low but yeah it’s about five percent difference it’s not a big deal actually i quickly want to mention that this information mostly affects micro 4.14 with the richard spawning height in 113 and below if a widget would generate higher then

Actually the bounding box was smaller and in some cases you would only get a single spawning layer for the witches in 1.40 now even the witchers that generate higher are usable but the rates are just slightly bit lower all right so here’s the full material list for the witcher with the entry

Cramming version let’s also scroll up a bit so you can see everything that you need um i was actually using prismarine brick slab to mark out the area where the mobs could spawn but cannot just use stone slab instead apart from that you also need 24 extra minecarts for the entry trimming system

Let’s check out the bounding box once more because that’s important for the spawning floors so it’s a seven by nine the whole roof covers it and then this extra slice here in front of the three blocks from the front porch and then two blocks sticking out so it’s

Seven and this is the longest side with nine okay so if you have the perfect width shot then the lowest spawning floor would be at well sea level um that’s basically two blocks lower than those wooden blocks here so i made a little bit of space and

Place down the blocks for the spawning floor so this is the seven by nine so in total we got those nine long strips of soul sand four in total and to normal blocks in between you can also use slabs all right we’re actually going to add one more

Slab here on the side outside of the bounding box reason is it increases the efficiency slightly because if you push those blocks over towards that direction then yeah mobs can also spawn on this block for just a short moment so it helps a little bit okay then we’re gonna place pistons

Right next to it directly on this side and the other side we’re gonna keep an air gap in between there we go so now we can continue with placing down the trap doors like this just gonna do it for one slice copied it as well for the other eight slices

So also we can place down some blocks spawn proof this here also on the other side okay then we need the redstone so we need to go out a little bit to not power this piston directly to tripwire hook both sides so let’s get the tripwire hook and the string there we go

And behind the normal pistons just place blocks and have repeaters pointing into it so on the side with the air gap the repeater needs to be on three ticks and on the other side on default delays of one okay here in the back just place down observers and sticky pistons it would

Point into the repeater and the back of that gonna have a line of powered rails to go this way okay let’s also quickly add that on the other side so here repeater normal delay downwards facing sticky piston server and here these are the golden rails or the activator rails

Okay copy this for the other slices as well so it should look like this okay the rest is almost a bit boring because it’s just gonna be the same twice more the only difference is that we’re gonna add two observers that are pointing down we place the rails on here at the back

But the address is the same so place repeaters here on both sides the spawning floor is just there three blocks higher exactly the same twice more so this is how it looks with the three layers now we’re going to continue with the redstone so we’re gonna place line of blocks here

Okay gonna use that to put rails on top from here to this point now we need to get around this block getting powered so you just place on an observer then a block and a repeater and then another block so this should power it all same on the other side there we go

Okay now we need to add the clock so let’s go over to this side here we need to add actually two observers like this and a block on top to power that then at the bottom we need a normal block here we actually need either a slab or a glass block to put

The comparators on full block at foot height but decrease the spawning rates so if the aggregate would actually select this block for the spawning area from the spawn attempts aboard it unless you have a glass block so if you would have a concrete block as well it would be slightly detrimental okay

Let’s continue with the hopper clock so pair of hoppers facing into each other here normal block again redstone dot on top of both sticky pistons redstone block again let’s add the on off switch so we can just place down another glass block and the level on top

Okay in the hopper here we put four items all right so this is already done now we can continue filling up the sides here just that the witches don’t fall out to the side okay also here at the top actually here we only need one layer

Because we’re gonna put stairs on top of that alright same on the other side okay then we can continue with the roof definitely would recommend to use a slap roof because that’s bomb proof it’s actually also like in my demo version mark out the spawning layers again with prismarine slabs it helps a

Little bit just have a different color there okay so let’s mark out the seven by nine the prismarine slabs and of course we need to make it dark which is to spawn all the time so we need to reduce the light level to zero and therefore we need to go out 14

Blocks in each direction from that but it’s also beneficial that we actually go lower um because the way the spawning algorithm works so it actually can happen that spawn attempts from the side jump into the farm and that is dependent on the chance dependent on the highest block in the

Chunk and another chunk actually in the single one by one block column that’s why i actually gonna use stairs here so it can go a little bit lower just ever so slightly increases the rates so on both sides we’re gonna place down stairs like this so three stairs

And then go out further so in total we need to go out 14 blocks one two three four five six seven eight nine 10 11 12 13 so we recommend just to go out 14 blocks from that yeah prismarine slap structure at the top to all sides and

Then connect the ends okay now let’s do it for This end as well so here it is yeah don’t have any choice we need to place it on slab so we can’t go lower so this is five blocks already then we’re gonna add three stairs as well so another stair layer and that’s the last one then we just

Need to go out so we got eight in total now actually there was a mistake that i used the prismarine slabs there should have used the normal ones to make it clear yeah i’m gonna fix that later so in total we need to go out five six seven eight 9 10 11

12 13 14. you can also do that this end and once you’ve done it on all four sides then you just want to connect that and complete the roof so just yeah connect it like this diagonally and also fill in the gaps in between to fill up all of that area here with

Stairs of course i think that’s pretty clear i’m sure the finished one so this is how the roof would look like in the end so i added the prismarine slabs as a marker hopefully that makes it clear okay the only thing missing is now the killing system at the bottom

I’m gonna build the entry craving version all right i’m gonna build it up down there so first we need a side wall here is basically around the seven by nine um let’s place down three blocks here next we actually need walls because these are cobble a different color that doesn’t matter

Then air cap and walls on this side as well so using the walls so two witches can fit right next to each other okay then here in the back also placed on a couple of blocks and now in the front we need a seven wide strip

Like that then five wide three white and then just one okay then we can actually continue place down the sign here and we want to go three blocks lower with the walls as well and make sure nothing gets out okay then we continue with the hoppers we need three hoppers because items

Could actually fall to the side and if they would land like on a glass block here they wouldn’t get picked up by the hopper actually tried other blocks um but yeah ever since the hitboxes got changed 113 and was also no longer an option so i would just recommend the

Walls the only downside is if you need three hoppers which is not really a big problem hopefully okay then place it on a rail and 24 minecarts approximately didn’t count now then let’s also fill up the rest of the seven by nine this is just one block higher for water streams to work

And then finish it there’s also the sidewall okay then get two water buckets first one here and another one there and all the witches get flushed down here to entry yeah cramming system okay the farm is finished now we just need to find the ideal fk spot so it’s

Kind of tempting just have the afk spot in the direct center of the farm so this block here just 110 blocks higher but this would decrease the rates because really any block you place above the seven by nine and also the five blocks around it would decrease the spawning rates so

Yeah if you would do it and and have the fk spot directly above i would say the rates might be decreased by i don’t know 0.8 to 1 approximately so it’s not really that much of a problem but yeah why not just go out a little bit and have the the perfect afk

Spot so therefore we go out um yeah six blocks here from the side and place down i placed on a c linton but you could also place on another block then we need to place exactly 111 scaffolding on top and on top of that would be the ideal fk spot

So inventory had a full stack and 47 that’s 111 items so at the top of that i also placed on a torch and here a slab to make it phantom spawn proof all right now we also need to prepare the area around the witch from a little

Bit in order to get the ideal rates it’s a bit of work but it it’s definitely worth it okay um so in order to do that i would recommend to get the mini heart mod from masa then once you got miniature installed so this there’s actually a 1.144 version and

Also there’s even one for the snapshots for 19w37a then you want to open the mini hut config go to renderer hotkeys and you probably have to assign a shape render a hotkey so for me it’s h and s then you also need to make a shape so the d spawn sphere

Enable it on configure set here okay now we’ve got the d spawn sphere then you want to start up mini huts and actually already did that do you want to turn on h s to get the shape renderer okay then we can see the area and yeah inside of which

Mobs can exist or would spawn and this area needs to be made spawn proof okay so i would either recommend to just dig it out i think that might be the easiest solution and also the cleanest if you i don’t know somehow know what’s underground you can also light up caves

Instead so in this case yeah mobs could actually spawn in this cave which would be a bit of a problem so unless you do some kind of a maybe check in a creative world how terrain underground looks like he would miss that cave that’s why i would

Recommend to maybe to get out in this case it would be probably a couple thousand blocks um but it would definitely be worth it because if you just miss one or two caves then the raids already or there’s a really good chance the rate’s already quite lower

Okay that’s pretty much all there is to it so yeah digging it out i guess with the mini hut mod it’s not a big deal you can always see where i need to dig so this shouldn’t be too much work you don’t need to make a full perimeter in

Case you only have a single richard if you don’t want to get mini hard to at least recommend to place down some torches here the area around the witch um to light it up to at least prevent mob spawning at surface level at night and if you’re lucky they don’t even have

Any caves down there but usually there should at least be some um yeah water is not a big deal a drown spawning is not frequent enough so i don’t need to worry about drown spawning in the water really okay yeah in this case this would actually only be this one cave

Maybe feel like you don’t even have a cave and then lighting a is already enough okay this should really cover everything it will also provide a world download from the um the void world so you can check out the farm in case something is unclear thanks a lot for watching actually a

Different skin today my second account it wasn’t planned okay thanks a lot for watching see you next video bye-bye [Applause] [Applause] You