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I've been trying to kill spiders just for their items based on spider spawners, and so far I've been using cacti , but what tends to happen is that half of the items are destroyed when they touch the cacti and do not make it to me or the hoppers below. Is there a better way to kill them? Other than using pistons, because even connected to a daylight sensor to make the loop minimal this would create lag from the spider buildup and I'm looking for a way to kill them instantaneously.


Don't post saying you can give/sell me spider eyes/string I'm really just doing this for the concept as it's for a bigger project.


Any ideas?

You farming any xp on it ?

You can drown them. Get them into a small chamber with water at the top so they can't swim out of the water. Pretty simple and effective.

Drop 'em around 23 blocks. Place hoppers at the bottom to transfer the drops to chests.

Suffocate?

cubeguy314 wrote:Suffocate?

Like this?

Not farming for exp at all, just silk :/

Sharp_Enderman wrote:Drop 'em around 23 blocks. Place hoppers at the bottom to transfer the drops to chests.

Spiders can climb :/

cubeguy314 wrote:Suffocate?

This is what I would like to do, but I don't see how to without a loop of some sort :/

DGannon wrote:You can drown them. Get them into a small chamber with water at the top so they can't swim out of the water. Pretty simple and effective.

Did not think of this Ill try it out :3



While I was writing this I thought of another way to do it. Maybe as they fall slowly they activate a tripwire that gives a delayed Redstone signal to a portion at the bottom to suffocate them in, let's say, 10 seconds, and by that time they would have reached the bottom? I don't think this would work with a buildup of spiders coming in at once though :/

SuperCreeper007 wrote:

Sharp_Enderman wrote:Drop 'em around 23 blocks. Place hoppers at the bottom to transfer the drops to chests.

Spiders can climb :/

Just make the spawner suspended in mid air and the room wide enough that they can't reach any walls to climb.

You can definitely kill spiders with drop damage.

Assuming you're going to be idling there like a normal person, standing on a platform above the spawner will just make them flop straight down. Ez. Drowning is also perfectly acceptable and would require less room. Ezer.