Simultaneous traversal: All Abyss difficulty.

Chapter 770 Monster Farming Tower
In a world composed of blocks and pixel art, Blocky Fang Yu stood on the second-floor balcony of his newly built seaside villa made of raw stone, looking at the rising sun on the distant sea, and stroked his chin.

"With the existence of the Earth-遁地冤虞 (a type of creature), there is no shortage of stones, but bones, arrows, gunpowder, and other such things are too inefficient to hunt in the wild at night. Moreover, it is easy to get groped by those old bastards in the fog."

He recalled the surprise visit last night, and his lips twitched. "We need to automate this, hmm, a mob farm! To free up our hands!"

Mob farms are the secret to riches for every veteran Minecraft player.

Core principles?

It involves building a tall, dark house, luring the spawning monsters inside, and then letting them slide down the waterway and die, with their loot automatically going into a chest.

“Location is key,” Fang Yu thought. “It has to be far away from my ‘big villa,’ otherwise the monster spawn circles will overlap, so fewer monsters will spawn inside the tower, but a lot might spawn near my house. Also, there needs to be enough light around here, so the monsters won’t spawn randomly outside the tower.”

His gaze fell upon the vast pixelated sea.

A secluded island at sea, far from the mainland, with plenty of sunshine, perfectly meets the requirements!
“There it is!” he pointed to a few isolated mud islands rising from the horizon in the distance.

With a thought, it took flight.

He flew to a point a few dozen squares above the island, rubbing his chin. "Too high and the monsters won't drop anything if they fall; too low and they won't die from the fall."

He recalled the fall damage calculation in the game: "Let's set it to, um, the height at which you fall down to half a heart, about 30 blocks should be enough."

Hovering in the air, it directly began to manipulate the air below.

Of course, it wasn't a real attack. Driven by willpower, a mountain of cobblestone blocks appeared out of thin air in the inventory and were steadily stacked up.

In the blink of an eye, a solid round stone platform, 20x20 squares in size, was suspended in mid-air. "Anyway, there are plenty of round stones, so we can recycle them like trash."

"The art of multiple shadow clones!"

Bang bang bang bang!

More than a dozen plumes of white smoke exploded, and more than a dozen shadow clones identical to Fang Yu appeared at the edge of the platform.

Fang Yu waved his hand and said, "Brothers! Let's get to work!"

The clones immediately split into several groups, with very clear division of labor.

For the outer wall assembly, quickly build the wall upwards using cobblestones along the edge of the platform.

The walls need to be high enough, at least three blocks high, to prevent spiders from climbing them, and also enclosed enough to ensure that it is completely dark inside.

In just a few seconds, four thick, round stone walls were erected, forming a huge, dark space.

The internal waterway system precisely plans the water flow path on the internal ground.

They first built rows of two-block-high pillars using cobblestone, and then precisely placed a water block every two blocks on the same layer at the top of the pillars.

"The water can only flow for 8 blocks! Remember! There must be a one-block drop at the end of each water flow!" one of the clones shouted, directing his companions to precisely break the ground blocks at the end of each water flow to form a 1x1 vertical shaft. Monsters washed into this shaft by the water will fall straight down!

"Make sure the water flow covers the entire interior floor, leaving no blind spots!"

The water source blocks were placed with a "plop," and clear water immediately flowed along the planned ditches, quickly covering the entire floor of the dark hall and converging at the various vertical shafts in the center.

Directly beneath the 1x1 shafts on the floor of the Dark Hall, a long, straight vertical passage needs to be built, which is the fall shaft.

Fang Yu jumped to the bottom of the well, the position corresponding to the final fall height of the monster, and tested the damage.

The upper clones were responsible for stacking the round stone well walls layer by layer to ensure that the passage was absolutely vertical and smooth, without any protrusions that could block the monsters.

The people below are responsible for simultaneously removing the blocks inside the well wall to expand the well's space, while also receiving the cobblestones that are thrown down.

"Here you go! Trash ore!" the clone on top shouted as it threw it, just like a construction worker carrying bricks on a building site.

The well, which was more than thirty blocks high, extended downwards at a visible speed thanks to the assembly-line-like coordination of the clones.

Since the bottom of the well wasn't the ground, Fang Yu designed a small "buffer space."

Two blocks directly below the fallhole, the clones built a small platform out of cobblestone. In the center of the platform, directly below the fallhole, they placed a funnel with its opening facing downwards.

A box is connected to the bottom of the funnel.

When a monster falls and dies, its dropped items automatically fall into a funnel and then flow into a box.

"Just to be on the safe side, let's add another layer to finish off the enemy!"

Fang Yu thought of zombies, creatures that are hard to kill and have high health. He instructed his clone to place it 23 blocks above the bottom of the well, ensuring that the monster would only have half a heart left when it fell there. He then used cobblestone to build a narrow passage that was only 1 block high and 2 blocks wide.

At the end of the passage, an exit was left. "I'll put two iron golems or snow golems here to guard the place, specifically to finish off any guys who didn't die from the fall!" Fang Yu planned.

last step.

The clones used cobblestones to cover the dark hall with a solid roof, completely blocking out all possible light sources.

The entire mob farm has transformed into a giant, black cube suspended in mid-air.

Carefully inspect every gap to ensure that not a single ray of light can get in.

Torches? That's even more impossible; there can't be any light at all!

Fang Yu personally flew to the center of the tower top.

"Unlimited Water, Activate!"

He took out an empty bucket, chose a spot on the top platform of the tower, and, following the basic rules of the Minecraft world, precisely poured water into the corners of the four adjacent blocks—splash!
A miraculous scene unfolded: at the center where the four waters converged, an eternal water source core instantly formed!

He easily drew water from the core with a bucket, then flew to a small entrance reserved at the edge of the dark hall and poured the water into the planned waterway source.

Glug glug. The water flow filled the waterway again.

To prevent monsters from spawning at the top of the tower, Fang Yu placed several bright torches along the edge of the platform and near the entrance.

The orange flames dispelled the darkness and prevented the monsters from making their home at the top of the tower.

After three days of hard work, a giant cobblestone mob farm with a rigorous structure that fully complies with the rules of the Minecraft game stands majestically dozens of blocks above the sea level.

Fang Yu was very proud to see this thing completed.

After all, building things in a game and building things in real-world first-person perspective are two completely different concepts.

"Done! We're done!"

The shadow clones vanished in a burst of white smoke, and Fang Yu landed next to the box on the bottom collection level of the tower, rubbing his square hands together with anticipation.

"Good luck on the start of construction!" He looked up at the towering tower. It was evening, and night was beginning to fall.

Soon, the tower was filled with the low growling of zombies, the cracking of skulls colliding, and even the faint hissing of a Creeper leaking air!
These sounds were interrupted by the rushing water and the thud of the monster falling to the bottom of the well.

a few seconds later
pat!

pat!

Three bones, two arrows, and a pinch of gunpowder fell precisely into the funnel of the collection layer, and then slid into the box!

"Haha! It's done!"

Fang Yu opened the box, looking at the gradually accumulating spoils inside. A satisfied smile appeared on Pixel's face. "That's great! There's plenty of bones, arrows, and gunpowder! My villa finally looks a bit modern! Once the resources are more plentiful, I'll upgrade this tower to obsidian or Nether alloy!"

He dusted himself off, and with a flash of lightning, flew towards his seaside villa.

Behind them, the monster-spawning tower, resembling a sea fortress, operated silently and efficiently in the deepening night, becoming the most peculiar sight in this pixelated sea.

This also provided Pirate Fang Yu's biscuit soldiers with an endless source of weapons and equipment!
(End of this chapter)