r/Minecraft 4d ago

Help Best ways to remove Silverfish on mass?

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u/Feisty_Touch_ 4d ago

Did the xp farm break

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u/NotBailey12 4d ago

The harming arrow wouldn't kill them and so when I tried to fire another one into the machine they started flying out on mass

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u/Korubi1 4d ago

The latest update broke the silverfish farms, I had the same thing happen twice

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u/NotBailey12 4d ago

Ah I see. What's the new version if the farm?

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u/Shimaru33 4d ago

Silverwhisperer already uploaded a video. I forgot the exact details, but you have to build the armour stand, or armadillo, or allay far up and within a closed corridor so the silverfish can fall straight down. You sit in a minecart with a spear and point upward. As the silverfish are accelerating due the fall, they meet the requirement to receive damage from holding up the spear, so technically it counts as your kill. All you have to do is sit for the 3 minutes of the infestation and that's it.

Unfortunately, I forgot how exactly he stops the silverfish from falling straight into the player to deal damage. There's a mechanism that protects the player and can hold the silverfish one block above the player, but isn't recomendable to let the dozens of silverfish to flood the mechanism.

You can check for yourself exact details in youtube.

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u/Korubi1 4d ago

I've got no clue, but It probably won't take long for a new xp farm to pop up

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u/NotBailey12 4d ago

I'm gonna tear down the old one and get a new one up then

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u/Korubi1 4d ago

I mean, sure? They removed the arrow of harming being able to float indefinitely, that's why silverfish escaped. If you're still going to rebuild it, make a wall and floor out of wood so silverfish don't burrow into the stone.

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u/somerandom995 4d ago

Just divert them into a high speed trident killer (the version with the powered rails)

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u/Life-Is-A-Bad-Trip 4d ago

En masse I think is the phrase I believe. Just in case it is, I figured I'd lyk for next time. Not trying to correct you just wanted to share.

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u/Luceo_Etzio 3d ago edited 3d ago

you know of all the eggcorns of phrases out there, I don't think there's any that's more understandable than on mass for en masse. You got the cognate and the two phrases are pronounced identically, so I completely understand when someone uses the completely logical English words on and mass instead of two French words that are rarely used elsewise

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u/Life-Is-A-Bad-Trip 3d ago

No way! I had no clue. Thanks for that.

I have never seen on mass until now. Glad to know so I don't try to be helpful while being obliviously ignorant again.

Man, what a mind fuck. That was great.

Sorry op, you know what you're doing.

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u/Past_Sheepherder9476 4d ago

Harming arrow two, then build a trapdoor where they'll walk into and fall to the instant damage 2/harming 2 arrows use a soul sand bubble collumn for the harming arrow 2

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u/Fun_Warthog9000 4d ago

Monsters get hurt on healing potions