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I'm making a topic of this, because its hard to discuss about this in the server.
I have now 3 spawners(too far from each other to link them) and I decided to make a grinder/farm of one of them. I made a grinder like in this video:

, but with zombies tho.
Now turns out that the server has a limit for mobs per chunk, so this spawner doesn't really work even nearly as effective as in the video. I only get like 8 to 10 zombies trapped before they start to despawn.

My question is: What is the most effective type of grinder I can make out of: a) zombie spawner b) spider spawner? :roll:

You've got to have a grinder where the mobs arrive at a collection part, where you stand safely, able to attack them.

Agentred wrote:You've got to have a grinder where the mobs arrive at a collection part, where you stand safely, able to attack them.

Aight, I have now a one that keeps spawning zombies non stop and they keep falling in my trap, where they can't reach me and therefore I am able to kill them safely.
But it takes like 2 minutes to get trapped full amount of zombies, which is like 5-8.
Is the only way to make the grinder more effective to link it with a another spawner and have a friend there keeping it active? Or am I using bad grinder?

Arsenikki wrote:

Agentred wrote:You've got to have a grinder where the mobs arrive at a collection part, where you stand safely, able to attack them.

Aight, I have now a one that keeps spawning zombies non stop and they keep falling in my trap, where they can't reach me and therefore I am able to kill them safely.
But it takes like 2 minutes to get trapped full amount of zombies, which is like 5-8.
Is the only way to make the grinder more effective to link it with a another spawner and have a friend there keeping it active? Or am I using bad grinder?

Normally, a one-spawner grinder would be plenty as long as your need for exp isn't too urgent--you just stand at an area where the spawner will be active and drop mobs into a collection area, then come back an hour later to kill them all.

Since MineRealm restricts the number of mobs in an area, it gets trickier. If you can link up multiple grinders, you could either drop them into the same area (if you're planning to stick around and constantly kill the mobs), or drop them into different areas (if you're planning to go afk for a while--you'll have 12 mobs instead of 6 when you come back). Of course, in either case, both spawners need to be active at the same time for it to work. If they're too far apart, having a friend go afk at one grinder would probably be the best option.

Personally, I just use a single-spawner grinder and check in every couple of minutes while browsing the internet or reading; the drop area is usually full, so it's not totally efficient (some mobs are forced to despawn without me killing them), but it's nice to be able to do something else instead of just waiting.