So, you’re eager to know about the wild mob spawners in Minecraft! You’ve come to the right place. In a nutshell, Minecraft mob spawners are those mobs disguised as a caged fire and placed in various rooms or shafts inside a mine that keep breeding endless mobs as you go near them.
Funnily enough, if you’re a regular player, you’ll know that the diverse mobs these mob spawners generate eventually come in handy for the players themselves. In fact, these mob spawns are the staples for making your way out of Minecraft’s mine while exploring and creating killing chambers, farms, water channels, and whatnot.
So, let’s dive into this resourceful article where we’ll discover more awesome facts you need to know about Minecraft mob spawner.
1. First Things First: What Are Mob Spawners?
Let’s get your GK spiced up a bit first. If you’ve been playing this game for a while and are still unaware of how to find Spawners in Minecraft or what the spawners actually are, they are in-game blocks producing more in-game mobs. You might want to be careful of them.
But these spawners are visible in the gamer’s eyes as rigid cages containing fire inside. They don’t seem to come after you to bite your head off. However, if you look carefully, you’ll see an object revolving around the fire inside the cage, essentially the demo of the spawn to be produced shortly. But, do you know what these seemingly harmless spawners are called? Well, in the Bedrock edition, these mob breeds are known as Monster Spawners due to hostility.
Nonetheless, in the survival edition, you can get various limited mob spawners as:
- Zombie
- Spider
- Pig
- Skeleton
- Magma Cube
- Cave Spider
- Blaze
- Silverfish
As we’ve mentioned earlier, even though the mob spawns are hostile, they’re useful to the gamer. However, you can’t hold and pick up the spawners as required. Even the sticky piston or Silk Touch Pickaxe wouldn’t come in handy in this case.
But if you need any of these fireboxes or cages to build a farm or your base, you must create the desired structures around them.
2. But How to Find Mob Spawners?
If you’re wondering how to find these useful mob spawners, here’s how:
- In the Creative mode, you must use the ‘Give’ command to find spawners.
- The same instruction applies to the Bedrock edition if you’re using your creative inventory.
Typically, the Bedrock edition has an empty spawner cage, whereas the Java edition has a pig for a mob spawner. Even so, you can always utilize a spawn egg with the spawner to assign a desirable mob to it.
Conversely, when playing in the Survival mode, there are other spaces where you’ll be able to find spawners like:
- Woodland mansions; contains spider spawners
- Strongholds; contains silverfish spawners
- Mineshafts; contains cave spider spawners
- Dungeons; contains skeletons, spider, and zombie spawners
- Nether fortresses; contains blaze spawners
- Bastion remnants; contains magma cube spawners
3. How to Utilize Spawners in Minecraft Farms?
This segment may be a beginner’s guide to utilizing spawners in Minecraft. Usually, gamers capitalize on spawners to create mob farms that supply them with endless mob and orb loot. But you can’t go on with farming without fulfilling the following things:
- Finding a way to kill mobs
- Knowing the spawning requirements for the mobs
- Having an item collection system
You may consider setting a water flow or hopper to gather loot from the dead mobs. To make the sorting easier, you should take help of the cute and helpful mob called Allay. It’s an unusually harmless mob in the Minecraft game that helps gamers collect valuable loot. It takes an item from the gamer to find the same items in larger amounts from around your world’s loaded chunk.
If you want to kill mobs, you can use the Minecraft sword enchantments. There are many enchantment swords like;
- Looting: The name says it all because if you kill a mob with a sword enchanted with Looting, you’ll get more items than usual, including rare objects.
And the most amazing part— it has three increasing enchantment stages where each tops the previous one in terms of collecting more valuable items after killing the mobs.
- Sweeping Edge: With the Sweeping Edge enchantment on your sword, you can draw even more damaging hits on the mobs. It mostly comes in handy in Nethers, where you’ll have to fight loads of mobs simultaneously.
- Unbreaking: It’s a useful enchantment that enhances the sword’s durability. Using this, you can utilize your sword for a longer time as you walk through your Minecraft adventure.
- Fire Aspect: You can outplay the mobs by setting them on fire. And to do that, you must use the Fire Aspect enchantment to vitalize the sword to its next level. It’s the simplest yet the strongest enchantment to use in Minecraft.
- Knockback: Knockback enchantment effectively keeps the mobs away from your side with a single hit. This enchantment will increase your sword’s power by up to 190%, making you powerful enough to knock an entire mob’s group by six blocks with a single hit.
- Curse of Vanishing: This is like getting your own weapon cursed with a negative enchantment. Using this enchantment, your sword will despawn or vanish upon your death in the game. This is an irrevocable enchantment, meaning you can’t remove this spell once you have it.
However, if you’re too possessive about your sword, you should be happy because no other player can steal it if you die in multiplayer mode.
- Mending: As the name suggests, this enchantment works as a healing spell on your sword if you’re struggling with a damaged one during a fight with the mobs. You can get it to work only by the experience orbs, as it will help your sword automatically heal for reduced durability when killing the mobs.
- Smite: This enchantment sharpens your sword and makes your attack more damaging to the mobs. However, one limitation that prevails in this spell is that you can only use this sword on the undead mobs.
You know the undead mobs, right? Skeletons, zombies, withers, husks, phantoms, etc., are only a few among many undead mobs.
- Sharpness: In many stages in Minecraft, you’ll have to deal with the damage your sword goes through with every hit. Here, the Sharpness enchantment will support you in not only sharpening your weapon but reduce the damage as you go.
Remember, this spell works in five levels of sharpness, and you can utilize an enchantment book to apply different levels of sharpness to your swords.
- Bane of Arthropods: This particular enchantment will help you kill the arthropods, a unique set of animals with specially jointed limbs. Using this spell, you can increase the damage intensity of every hit you draw upon the arthropod mobs like spiders, bees, silverfish, etc.
4. What Are the Spawning Requirements?
You can’t activate a spawner unless you’re within sixteen blocks of its radius. Once this requirement is met, the spawner will breed mobs within the four-block distance in every open direction if you’re on the Bedrock edition. But if you’re playing the Java edition, the spawner will spawn mobs within one block vertically while four blocks horizontally when within the range. Although a spawner usually produces four mobs every forty seconds, it skips breeding when there are already six or more mobs around the spawner.
5. Learn How to Disable the Spawners
There’s a way to inactivate or disable the spawner if you do not require it for the time being. This only makes it poised or non-functional until you reactivate it.
Since all mob spawners require a ‘dark condition’ to work correctly, you can only disable them by:
- Keeping a torch on top and all sides of the spawners
- Placing solid blocks all around the spawners to deactivate their function by blocking the spawning range
- If you want to disable a blaze or silverfish, you’ll need a level-12 torch to place in grids around the spawner.
- Besides, you can also use a level-15 light level to lay solid blocks around the spawners to disable them.
6. Is It Possible to Get Custom Spawners in Survival Minecraft?
Often, playing Minecraft in survival mode may seem to be less satisfying while playing with the limited mob spawners. However, using a specific command, you can create custom spawners in survival mode.
It goes like—
/setblock ~ ~-1 ~ spawner{SpawnData:{entity:{id:wolf}},Delay:299} replace
Running this command immediately turns the block under your feet into a custom mob spawner! The only limitation is that this works only in the Java edition of Minecraft 1.18 or later versions. Nonetheless, if you’re playing in the Bedrock edition, you have to run the ‘Give’ command or use the Creative Inventory to receive spawn eggs and a monster spawner.
Let’s Get on with It
Since you’ve learned a lot from this article about the Minecraft mob spawners, and relevant functions and tools, it’s time to get on with the console and play. We hope you can now explore more dungeons, shafts, and passages as you combat the mobs besides using the spawns in your favor.
So, what are you waiting for?
