A Guide To AFK Farms
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Heath04🌳
Pumpking
Lava is the most effective way to kill biome mimics while AFK. While it doesn't work in GFB you can use Khaios' design to create a teleporter setup if you're playing on that seed.
Hi,
Sorry. Terraria noob here.
Sorry. Was looking at the post linked at the bottom here. It mentions building a spider farm, jungle biome farm, and cavern level farm all separately. Are there any mobs we might want to farm that aren't on the cavern level? I take it all spider farms are the same? Is there anything we need to be specifically in the jungle to farm? Also, was there a good way to deal with the cursed skulls that keep kicking me off the platform?
Sorry. Terraria noob here.
Sorry. Was looking at the post linked at the bottom here. It mentions building a spider farm, jungle biome farm, and cavern level farm all separately. Are there any mobs we might want to farm that aren't on the cavern level? I take it all spider farms are the same? Is there anything we need to be specifically in the jungle to farm? Also, was there a good way to deal with the cursed skulls that keep kicking me off the platform?
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chewythebigblackdog
Duke Fishron
Those options aren't for making entirely new farms, it's for how you can modify this one to farm different types of mobs. With how easy it is to change biomes in this game there's no need to dig out a massive area for a completely new farm when you can just change the biome and/or spawning surfaces of your existing farm.Hi,
Sorry. Terraria noob here.
Sorry. Was looking at the post linked at the bottom here. It mentions building a spider farm, jungle biome farm, and cavern level farm all separately. Are there any mobs we might want to farm that aren't on the cavern level? I take it all spider farms are the same? Is there anything we need to be specifically in the jungle to farm? Also, was there a good way to deal with the cursed skulls that keep kicking me off the platform?
Also, the suggested farms are mainly for later on in the game (hence the suggestion of using turtle armour in the dungeon farm) when there's actually rare drops worth farming for.
Although adding another hoik platform to the right doesn't add more mob since the maximum mob spawn have been reached, wouldn't it be more effective to have two different dungeon wall types, one on the right and one on the left so that you can farm at least two different types of dungeon mobs instead of having to change wall types 3 times? And for the other farms, can't you have one side filled with infested spider walls to encourage spider spawns while the other side can be whatever biome mobs you want equaling farming two different types of mobs at the same time? And is it possible to farm from two different biomes if I introduce the hoik platform to the right? for example, snow biome on the left and jungle on the right, is this possible? Please let me know. Thanks.
ChillOutPickles
Terrarian
My farm does not seem to be as efficient as it should be... maybe i did someting wrong???
PokemonGerman
Terrarian
I encountered one problem. There are too many brown recluses spawning for some reason. Almost half of the spawns are brown recluses, I did use it as a brown recluse farm at first, and since then they keep producing brown recluses. I triple checked teh spawn area to make sure no infested walls are nearby but they are still being spawned. Is there a way to see where such walls might still? Or any other way to remove them when you don't know if and where they are? I even restarted terraria just to make sure it's not bugged in some way.
Slimey6922
Terrarian
I’ve been use this farm for a few days now but I haven’t gotten any desert mobs. It not a huge problem just trying to understand the game a little better I’m fairly new
Hello, thank you the farms insane I was just wondering if you could potentially point me towards an up to date thread on the full technical mechanics of biome stacking or explain it here as I can’t seem to find a thread of what I’m looking for exactly. I personally love learning technical game mechanics but unfortunately there’s not much content that’s easily accessible for Terraria.
The types of questions I’m looking to be answered are the following:
1) Does the sand count as a desert biome for increased spawn rates but without the ability to spawn desert mobs, allowing precise farming of one specific mob spawn criteria without desert mobs effecting efficiency?
2) How far does spawn rate efficiency stack such as Water Candle/Desert/Jungle at one time or is there a cap with this farm limiting you to how fast you can kill mobs thus making any further improvements pointless?
3) Is there potentially a configuration of biome stacking that allows for all biomes (or close to) to be placed within the farm system that can be combined with actuators to enable and disable them at a button press, with the only manual change by hand required being replacing the walls and blocks the mobs spawn on?
Kind regards
Kyo
The types of questions I’m looking to be answered are the following:
1) Does the sand count as a desert biome for increased spawn rates but without the ability to spawn desert mobs, allowing precise farming of one specific mob spawn criteria without desert mobs effecting efficiency?
2) How far does spawn rate efficiency stack such as Water Candle/Desert/Jungle at one time or is there a cap with this farm limiting you to how fast you can kill mobs thus making any further improvements pointless?
3) Is there potentially a configuration of biome stacking that allows for all biomes (or close to) to be placed within the farm system that can be combined with actuators to enable and disable them at a button press, with the only manual change by hand required being replacing the walls and blocks the mobs spawn on?
Kind regards
Kyo
HellHeater
Steampunker
What is the purpose of putting that many sand? What happens if I don't put them?
chewythebigblackdog
Duke Fishron
The purpose of the sand (and sandstone walls) is to make the game treat the farm as an underground desert biome, which drastically increases the spawn rate. Stuff like sandstone and hardened sand will also work.
HellHeater
Steampunker
But this guide isn't themed around underground desert. And what if I don't want that? What should I do to prevent mobs spawning on that platform?
chewythebigblackdog
Duke Fishron
Underground desert enemies need a spawning surface of sand/sandstone/hardened sand to spawn, so all the biome is doing is increasing the spawn rate with no compromises on the enemy types that spawn in the farm (those are determined mostly by your choice of spawning surface, and sometimes by additional biomes you add). To prevent monsters from spawning on top of the sand, just have the top of it not go off the top of the screen (or be 45+ tiles above the player if on a smaller resolution screen).
The underground desert isn't necessary, but it's a big boost to the efficiency of the farm (and is less time-consuming than the hoik part)
HellHeater
Steampunker
I'm trying to ask about if I don't place any sands how am I supposed to prevent anything spawning here. Do I just put lava?
Edit: I'm an idiot. Nothing can spawn there anyway. But what about the left of it?
chewythebigblackdog
Duke Fishron
Nothing will spawn there since there's a radius around the player where nothing spawns. The sand doesn't change anything about whether monsters can spawn in that area of the farm (since the whole reason for not making the sand too tall is so that the area on top of the sand still lies within the no-spawn range).
Hello,
Thanks for the design.
I have couple questions.
1. I seem to be getting a lot of bat outside of the standing area. Is this expected?
2. I realized that my center area is off by 1 vertically(one too high to be precise). Would I need to fix the center area as a whole? Or would I be fine with lowering the ceiling and the floor by one? I do see some mobs spawning at the bottom as well.
I will attach a world file just in case.
Thanks!
edit/ Sorry I meant upping the ceiling and floor by one.
edit2/ there's also a problem with the bats. If I leave this long enuf, the bats will take entire spawn limit and prevent mobs to spawn to kill chamber.
Thanks for the design.
I have couple questions.
1. I seem to be getting a lot of bat outside of the standing area. Is this expected?
2. I realized that my center area is off by 1 vertically(one too high to be precise). Would I need to fix the center area as a whole? Or would I be fine with lowering the ceiling and the floor by one? I do see some mobs spawning at the bottom as well.
I will attach a world file just in case.
Thanks!
edit/ Sorry I meant upping the ceiling and floor by one.
edit2/ there's also a problem with the bats. If I leave this long enuf, the bats will take entire spawn limit and prevent mobs to spawn to kill chamber.
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Kellam Yoshikage
Terrarian
Biome mimics are the main reason why I prefer a purely horizontal farm setup. They jump down from above and will hit you if they don't have line of sight. I would recommend a box to catch them in, like in the enemy farming guide on the wiki.
As long as you stand with the center of your character below the hole, and at least one side of the hole is hammered to not be a full square, enemies in the box can see you. When a biome mimic stomps down, it can't go through blocks if it can see you, so it gets stopped. Make sure to not let skeleton archers into this box, though.
As long as you stand with the center of your character below the hole, and at least one side of the hole is hammered to not be a full square, enemies in the box can see you. When a biome mimic stomps down, it can't go through blocks if it can see you, so it gets stopped. Make sure to not let skeleton archers into this box, though.
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