the failed wither skeleton skull farm
since i was in the area of verdant on the world download recently for the other post, i decided to take nyall on a tour of the failed wither skeleton skull farm nearby. it never made it into any video so i figured this would be a great place to showcase it! maybe ill even make another post about the farm that actually works later.
it all started when howlfang and i watched impulse and grian and a few other hermits from the popular smp hermitcraft cheese the wither with drip-stone. inspired by the video, we decided we needed to recreate it, with our own twist, on eyr smp.
however, in order to spawn the wither, you needed wither skeleton skulls, and if anyone here plays a lotta minecraft (which im guessing is most of nyall reading this), youd know that those burnt skeletons dont like dropping their heads. in fact, their drop-rate with a looting iii sword is still 5.5%.
knowing that our goal was hindered only by the incredibly low drop-rates, i was willing to shelve the idea. after all, incredibly popular mcyters did it, and the experience of cheesing a wither isnt too different per perspective.
then one day, i saw a video by skipthetutorial (forgive me but i cant for the life of me find which one it is) that noted that you can blow up strays with a charged creeper and get wither skeleton skulls on bedrock edition of minecraft. i didn't realize it was a bedrock only glitch, so when i updated the server to 1.17 and realized that there was an easy way to convert skeletons to strays using powder snow, i jumped at the chance to finally accomplish our goal to cheese the wither with drip-stone.
there was a broken mob spawner inside the mountains surrounding the place where the verdant children woke up. im not sure how it broke but it mustve been something to do with the world-edit plugin we used to build stretches of the mountain range easily. nevertheless, right-clicking on a broken mob spawner with a spawn egg of any kind will allow said spawner to summon mobs of the same type as the egg used upon it. at this point in the lifetime of the smp, i was already made owner since the previous one had to step down for the sake of their own mental health. because i had those permissions, i figured itd be fine for me to turn the broken mob spawner into something actually useful, and enlisted howl to help make a stray farm.
we then made a charged creeper farm that relied on thunderstorms and a trident enchanted with channeling. for those who are unaware, a channeling trident has the ability to summon lightning strikes when thrown at an entity during a thunderstorm. (any entity works! even item frames.) moreover, when a creeper is struck with lightning, it turns into a charged creeper. this is made even easier with the introduction of lightning rods, introduced in the 1.17 update, which was also known as the first half of the caves and cliffs update. these copper rods attract lightning strikes and safely discharge the excess energy. in the context that we used them however, they made an easy target for our channeling trident. lightning strikes have an area of effect, so they could still convert a regular creeper into a charged creeper from a couple blocks away.
all was going well, we were ready for our final test. we brought a charged creeper into the blast chamber where a stray was waiting in water so the explosion will not destroy blocks. i ran into the Danger Zone™ with a flint and steel, and lit the creeper, which immediately starts its detonation sequence. boom! the creeper blew up both itself and the stray. we waited for the dust to settle, only to see no wither skeleton skull. to my frustration, i realized that it was a bedrock only bug far too late.
and there you have it! your tour of the eyr smp world download for today
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