SQUID FARM IDEA (AKA SAVE THE SQUIDS!)

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SQUID FARM IDEA (AKA SAVE THE SQUIDS!)

Postby Ray_0 » Sat Jun 20, 2015 9:07 pm

We need to spawn in a Squid spawner to make inksacs, free and accessible for the whole server. Yes it'd be semi-breaking vanilla but i's for a good cause. PLEASE EVERYBODY SAVE THE SQUIDS!!!!!

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Re: SQUID FARM IDEA (AKA SAVE THE SQUIDS!)

Postby blueumbreon » Tue Aug 18, 2015 10:39 am

i agree with this idea. squids don't spawn very often (if at all) and this would be beneficial to the players. one addition i would make is that you would buy them for a certain price
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Re: SQUID FARM IDEA (AKA SAVE THE SQUIDS!)

Postby DieSchwarzgeist » Tue Aug 18, 2015 7:18 pm

Here are two of my favorite survival friendly squid farms; the first one uses guardians, the second doesn't:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXycAfpl2Y0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnL8bFPnztA

Of course the spawn rates in the videos are completely unrealistic because there'd have to be absolutely no water within 128 blocks of any online player. Besides, do you really need a double chest of ink sacks every hour?
I can't accurately estimate what spawn rates would be like on zedwork, but whatever it is it should be more than enough considering the farm would be running non-stop whenever you're online, and its not like ink sacks are that useful anyway.
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Re: SQUID FARM IDEA (AKA SAVE THE SQUIDS!)

Postby blueumbreon » Wed Aug 19, 2015 8:59 am

its not like ink sacks are that useful anyway.


i beg to disagree. i can name MANY uses for ink sacks:

black glass
black wool
black clay
banners with a black design
black leather armor
dark prismarine
black shields (soon)
making grey dye

and the squid farm idea is bad. i already tried it and the spawn rates don't work well with it. a spawner would be far more effective
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Re: SQUID FARM IDEA (AKA SAVE THE SQUIDS!)

Postby DieSchwarzgeist » Thu Aug 20, 2015 12:10 am

blueumbreon wrote:and the squid farm idea is bad. i already tried it and the spawn rates don't work well with it. a spawner would be far more effective

Yes, it would be much faster; but squid-spawner blocks cannot be legitimately obtained in survival. I think it is very unlikely that Zedwick or the community would support cheating one in. I still believe a squid farm is the best choice.

An alternative solution is to put your main base in an ocean biome and kill squids every time you see them near the surface; this provides enough ink sacs for my needs, but it sounds like it might not be enough for you :\
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Re: SQUID FARM IDEA (AKA SAVE THE SQUIDS!)

Postby Dax23333 » Thu Aug 20, 2015 11:16 am

As someone who currently lives in an ocean biome I can say that it doesn't matter. I never see any either.

Trade deals with Zz maybe?
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Re: SQUID FARM IDEA (AKA SAVE THE SQUIDS!)

Postby HOMINIX » Fri Aug 21, 2015 6:04 pm

Zedwick has saved our squids! Proof below:

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Happy ink hunting! :twisted:
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Re: SQUID FARM IDEA (AKA SAVE THE SQUIDS!)

Postby Zedwick » Fri Aug 21, 2015 6:23 pm

HOMINIX wrote:Zedwick has saved our squids!


I made a post about it here: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1722
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