Minecraft - £8 Very well spent

A while back i had a look at the top 'cells' and a iron golem had spawned inside one of the villager pens! i got rid of him but couldnt think of a way to stop it happening again. this will affect the spawn rate.

Also, there is a skele spawner near (that doesnt work very well) would the mobs spawning in here affect the rate of the iron farm?

The other day i was having some graphical issues and it made all the blocks transparant (except for water, lava mobs and signs)

with this i was able to see the skele spawner in action, mobs are getting stuck at the end of the trap/start of the lift. i will need to revise this. i have an idea for a switchable spawner, along with a new water lift system.

But im STILL building the slime farm so may take me a while. If anyone wants to go in and disable the skele farm (torches on spawner) then please do so.

Not at all. Do you know how to link portals from nether to overworld? That will make it easier to travel too. If u need cobble I have plenty from the slime farm

Awesome! I'm working tonight so won't be on

Nope, I know how to make a portal but not dictate where it will take me. I'd like to have a nether path leading from my WIP castle tbh.

Gonna sneak an hour in now, wife's asleep and i'm wide awake

I think I follow, we'll see if I can get it put into practice tonight!

Probably but not always.

You have to factor in the Y vertical co-ord as well. If the X and Z in the overworld correspond with the X and Z/8 in the nether, but there is a vast difference between the Y co-ords then if there is an existing portal nearby that has a closer Y match but an offset X and Z it will link to that one instead.

You can get yourself in a real mess with them if you're not careful, and you have to manually remove every one that doesn't link up correctly, which is a pain in the arse as obviously once you remove it you can't get back to the other world until you find another portal already in existence. If you intend creating any new ones within ~1500 blocks of the current overworld I would like supervise the operation or do it for you as it will be a time-consuming task to sort out the mess if it goes wrong.

I never thought about the Y co-ord but I understand. If u want to let us know where the build is we can arrange to meet u online and help make the portals.

Have spent many hours today building a new mob farm/item generator, the 'X' design that's supposed to be so damn good..

It works, as in mobs do occasionally spawn in it, but the rate is pathetically slow. The thing that's bugging me is I absolutely cannot think of any reason why it's being so crap... It's built above the y=128 level, so any mobs at ground level should have no influence whatsoever, and the mobs it does generate are expelled rapidly freeing up the spawn pads to generate more (in theory...). I know distance makes a difference, but however close or far away I am (and believe me I've tried 'em all) nothing induces a decent spawn rate....

If any of you guys fancy heading over to my ranch with your thinking caps in tow, please be my guest!

ETA - my gold farm apparatus, which was working so well the other day, has suddenly decided to stop working as well.... i think I've suddenly turned into a MC noob, gone senile, or just totally lost the plot... or all three...

Whilst hooking up my minecart network I've stumbled across some blocks I can't destroy- very strange! If one of you guys are on tonight pop over so I can get a second opinion :-).