Froggy Feeding Frenzy
Part 37 ~ 8 June 2025
Posted: 24 February 2026
Welcome to the basalt fortress on the nether side of Mitosis Swamp, where... wait, what is that ominous red dome hanging down from the ceiling?
Just kidding! I'm up here on the nether roof! I freecammed down there to get a picture lol. That red aura is the despawn sphere, courtesy of MiniHUD, for the farm I'm building today. It's what I'd consider the first "full scale" autofarm in this world, since the cobble duper bombed (oof) and a one-cell iron farm doesn't really qualify. And it'll bring light to my oceans – and likely a good chunk of the land too – because that little platform you see floating on the bedrock "ocean" is the beginning of a froglight farm!
This farm is adapted from a design presented by Shulkercraft. I've built it a couple of times before, so I just pulled up the video on the second monitor for reference. The build itself is dead simple (by mob farm standards), but there are extra steps that turn this into a full-blown sidequest! Right off the bat, I made a little tweak to the collection system, cutting out the storage section and funnelling everything into a single barrel. Just because I can. :P If you're building this, I suggest you start the build a few blocks above the bedrock in case you make a mistake or need more room for storage!
With the collection area and floor section built, it's time for more adaptation! The original design uses chains to filter baby magma cubes down to the lower level, but what later tutorials suggested – and works much better – is a layer of powder snow. This stuff feels almost specifically designed for this purpose: large and medium cubes die QUICKLY from freezing, while the little ones are small enough to slip through to the floor below. Very cool! So I unboxed my hard-earned stack of 111 powder snow buckets, and...
Umm, EXCUSE ME? WHAT HAPPENED TO MY SNOW?? Yeah, so I think I found a bug in Stacker mod, lol. Closing and restarting the game didn't fix it. So, I trust you won't judge me if I use a command to spawn those back in! XD Oh, while we're in my inventory, check out my hot new fashion accessory: shiny black leather boots! They're still invisible when I wear them, but trust me, they are comfy, stylish, and – in this specific circumstance – practical!
Back out to Mitosis Swamp to round up some fr– ooh, is that a full moon rising? Forget frogs, we're hunting SLIMES tonight!
Oof ouch owie... I'm gonna need a moment to recover from those *fifteen* arrow wounds. And sew up all the holes in my hoodie. Totally worth it though *winces in pain*.
Where were we? Oh right, frogs! This is where the sidequest kicks in. I could just round up the local amphibian population, but then I'd only get the yellow (ochre) froglights. So instead, I made a little pond in front of the portal and lured in a few frogs to spawn tadpoles, which I can then scoop up in buckets and raise somewhere else. So after a quick consult of the wiki and Chunkbase for warm and cold frog biomes, it's off to...
Hello? I swear the game is trolling me today. This is supposed to be the centre of a big blob of Windswept Savanna, but it seems the ocean has claimed it. I named what's left of this place Shattered Spit, after the old name of the biome (shattered savanna), and rebuilt the portal at sea level. The game says I'm still in the right biome, so I built a little aquarium and popped half a dozen tadpoles in.
After 20-ish minutes of lighting the area, checking the nearby shipwreck (nothing of value), and waiting around, my tadpoles grew up into frogs – but not the same orange variety as their parents. In the warm waters off the savanna coast, these little croakers took on a white colour, meaning that after gobbling up a magma cube they will drop a purple pearlescent froglight! Oh yeah! Were you wondering why my first major farm project is FROGLIGHTS of all things? It's because they're PURPLE. I'll farm some of the other colours too, but while the standard farm calls for four frogs of each colour, I'm switching it up to 6 white and 3 of the others. I led away just one frog at first to make sure my method works, and then brought the other five across the bedrock plain into the snowy pit.
Next on the amphibian agenda is the green frog. This is only obtainable in frozen biomes (and the Deep Dark and the End, for some reason), so I made a portal to Ghost Lake and set up an incubated enclosure in its frigid waters. This time, rather than wait around, I got to work building an igloo, using a snow golem and non-silk-touch shovel to generate the material at an absurd rate. It snowed again too, helping to rebuild my powder snow stack. By the time my shelter was done, the tadpoles were grown up, so I grabbed three and walked them the slightly longer distance to the farm.
Back to Mitosis Swamp, where rather than just take the breeding frogs, I decided to raise some new ones in case I ever want to collect more frogs later. I broke ground on a mangrove witch hut, which I'll come back and finish later. Author's note: It's still not done as of the time of this post XD And then the full moon came again so I went on another slime hunt, trying to stay close to the frogs to keep the chunks loaded. Three standard-issue orange frogs into the pit, and we're ready to finish the farm!
Now to build the actual farm! We add spawnable blocks for magma cubes, glass walls to stop them jumping out, a glass covering to prevent ghast spawns, and some iron golems in the middle to bait them in. And then a glass platform at the centre of my despawn sphere (y220 in this case) from where I can gaze down upon the carnage, safe in the knowledge that the "real" nether below lies empty.
The results are nothing short of spectacular. In just half an hour, my froggy friends chowed down on 4,000 cubes – the white frogs claiming 1,900 of them. The world will bask in pearlescent purple light! :D Plus I got 450 magma cream which, being craftable into blocks, contributes nicely to the gold farm fund. So with my shiny new blocks (and associated advancements!) in hand, I return to Elaville to greet the dawn of a new era. The dawn of industrialisation. The dawn of a golden purple age.
The dawn of Day 500.
