Implemented Banning of PortaSpawners

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  1. HalfPintHorror

    HalfPintHorror New Member

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    I just want to say I hope this is a temp. thing because I rely on them for my iron farms ect. If someone was abusing them and causing server issues they need to be banned plain and simple especially if its a repeat offender. I wasted allot of resources making my portaspawners that are now sitting useless in my ME system.
     
  2. SirWill

    SirWill Founder

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    The PortaSpawner has the same banned reason as the diamond dollay and the disabled spawner pickup from the bedrock pickaxe. We don't want that players pickup spawners because many players pickup too many and we can not really control this.

    If someone needs to spawn mobs then use the auto spawner.

    I can exchange the PortaSpawner for you if you want?
     
  3. chaosblad3

    chaosblad3 Very Well-Known Member Patron Tier 1

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    Hmmn, the problem is that in order to make an auto-spawner work you NEED to first kill other mobs using a grinder to produce the mob essence the auto-spawner requires..

    Without any way (other than late-game thaumcraft) to move vanilla spawners the only viable way to do that is with an animal farm of some kind since otherwise there is no way to produce enough mob essence.

    I thought when we banned the diamond dolly on the last version we specifically decided to leave the portaspawner unbanned since it required 1 nether star (which admittedly isnt worth that much any more thanks to certain people lol) and 2x enderium ingots.. and the portaspawner is single use, being consumed when you place the spawner back down.
     
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  4. chugga_fan

    chugga_fan ME 4M storage cell of knowledge, all the time

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    yw for destroying the star price xD and it is NOT lategame thaumcraft to get the focus you need. you just need lategame to get the spawners with a specific wand
     
  5. Ipozi

    Ipozi New Member

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    There are other ways of generating essence (and a lot of it) without any type of mob. It's not as much place-and-go as the vanilla spawner + grinder set up but it is still very viable.
     
  6. chugga_fan

    chugga_fan ME 4M storage cell of knowledge, all the time

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    cursed earth? really? but thats so hard to get with the 3 withers a day limit
     
  7. Ipozi

    Ipozi New Member

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    No, not cursed earth. Why does the limit have anything to do with cursed earth or normal mob spawns?
     
  8. chugga_fan

    chugga_fan ME 4M storage cell of knowledge, all the time

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    it's how you get the mobs to spawn unless you have a lot of time to make a mob trap
     
  9. Ipozi

    Ipozi New Member

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    Yeah I know what it is, but again why does cursed earth have anything to do with your wither limit? And mob traps are very easy to make with some cobble gen, I think DW proved that in his Agrarian series
     
  10. chaosblad3

    chaosblad3 Very Well-Known Member Patron Tier 1

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    You only get cursed earth when you do the division sigil activation ritual which requires an inactive sigil that you get either from dungeon loot chests or from killing a wither... though you only need 1 sigil to do the ritual and only one piece of cursed earth to breed in a dark room with a floor of dirt so his argument is invalid!
     
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  11. chugga_fan

    chugga_fan ME 4M storage cell of knowledge, all the time

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    not TOO many people were spawning withers... until me and sunun started selling skulls
     
  12. Ipozi

    Ipozi New Member

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    You're right, its just the few of you. Chaos's point still stands: you can turn one piece of cursed earth into as much of it as you want.
     
  13. chaosblad3

    chaosblad3 Very Well-Known Member Patron Tier 1

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    Yea, also my housemate has 6 division sigils from dungeon chests, so they're easy enough to get without having to kill a wither if you know where to look!
     
  14. chugga_fan

    chugga_fan ME 4M storage cell of knowledge, all the time

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    true but getting it is work and having silk touch is (somewhat) hard then LIVING long enough to get through it is hard which is why it's hard to get cursed earth
     
  15. Ipozi

    Ipozi New Member

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    This game is not supposed to be made easier and easier, you should always have to work for what you want otherwise what is the point of playing? The argument that getting cursed earth is too difficult to be a realistic alternative to spawners is nonsense because it's far easier than surviving a wither and creating enderium for the porta-spawner.
     
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    chugga_fan ME 4M storage cell of knowledge, all the time

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    i know but getting the porta spawners is (somewhat) hard too and there's a delay with them AND they aren't infinite use
     
  17. Ipozi

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    Well in that regard cursed earth is better than a porta-spawner as there's no delay in spawning (you can spawn a greater quantity with CE than a spawner) and they are infinite use.
     
  18. chugga_fan

    chugga_fan ME 4M storage cell of knowledge, all the time

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    *reject's your "reality" and uses spawner controllers*
     
  19. Ipozi

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    I'll just say this, if they get out of hand then the controllers will get banned for everyone. Keep it at a reasonable level, I really don't want to lose mine.
     
  20. chugga_fan

    chugga_fan ME 4M storage cell of knowledge, all the time

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    oh they aren't THAT good.... it's only how we produce all our iron really... it's helped us make 100K iron... from a tower golem...
     

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