Hot Boxing
Part 21 ~ 25 August 2025
Played: 6 April 2025
Two parts played in one day? Wow, we are on FIRE! Not actually on fire though, thanks to the magic of potions :D Buuut I've run out of blaze rods from my initial stash, so it's time to pay another visit to the fortress. This time we're gonna make a few, shall we say, modifications. I grabbed a few hundred stone bricks and popped through the portal.
Last time I faced the blazes, I had nothing more than a shield to guard myself from their fiery onslaught. This time, I'm stocked up with a batch of potions deep enough to render me fireproof for hours. Fun fact about blazes, their fireballs do pure fire damage with zero knockback, so with my fire resistance up, the only way these guys can harm me is direct melee! I don't even have to face towards them to negate their ranged attacks. So, even though I'm at an ACTIVE MOB SPAWNER, I'm free to carry on my construction work in relative peace.
I dug out an area under the spawner, leaving a 3 block high gap below the cage. As I went, I covered the floor with slabs which, thanks to their offset placement on the y axis, can't have fire placed on them. I LOVE video game logic sometimes. I then expanded the footprint of this space to a 9x9 square, the true range of a mob spawner – it's quite a bit wider than the generated structure would have you believe!
Next up, some walls to keep the blazes in and the ghasts out – six blocks high, with a slab layer on top to make sure nothing spawns up there. I closed in the box with, you guessed it, more slabs, plus a single special slab on top of the spawner so that blazes won't spawn on that exact spot and camp there. All that's left is to go in and break the remaining nether brick pieces so they don't get in the way of where new blazes might spawn in – being EXTRA careful not to mine the spawner!
And there you have it: one optimised blaze spawner for all your blaze rod needs! I call it the Blaze Box. It's not the AFK mob farm of your dreams – far from it – but it is QUICK to build! This took me maybe half an hour. I've done afk farms and they are SO MUCH more effort. Maybe if I find a nice double spawner I'll do it...
