We've been trying to grab music discs this evening - getting skellies to kill creepers is simple on paper but difficult in practice. You need to prepare the creeper by getting it within one arrow's damage of death (three hits with an iron sword is sufficient), else you risk the creeper retaliating at the skeleton with the familiar suicidal explosion.
Easiest way to do this is with two-meter-deep holes that you can get both skelly and creeper trapped in - obviously injuring the creeper before introducing the two. Unfortunately, on top of the expected mis-timings and arrow hits, you also have to contend with zombies and spiders trying to get a slice of you. And if there's more than one skelly or creeper at once, things can get confusing.
We've been having a blast (well, quite a few) on the south side of the cathedral, but the amount of dirt it takes to patch the creeper holes is rapidly eating into my storage. I think I'd like to construct an obsidian record farm somewhere.
We started swapping discs to build up our personal collections. I propose a noticeboard of duplicate discs we'd be willing to swap, positioned either near the disc farm, or in a convenient location near the spawn area of Ma'Spa. I'd also like to get a public music booth set up with its own independent library of discs.
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