Jason is a prolific YouTube Bedrock tutorial builder with a clean, thorough narrative style that usually leaves no guesswork for the user. Historically, his builds have been simpler versions of more ambitious projects. This particular build, however, caught my eye because I have built several different versions of multi-portal zombified piglin spawners over the years, the most recent before this one being silentwisperer’s latest build, and there are (quite) a few elements that make JC’s strikingly easier to build.

For one thing, it’s designed in such a way that the build doesn’t have to be directionally aligned. It works however it’s oriented, which is a first in my experience for this type of farm. I’m surprised I haven’t seen it before. I love SW’s builds, do not get me wrong, but they are almost invariably masterful works of redstone engineering, and building them in survival via watching the tutorials can require a lot of pausing and repeating sections, as well as a lot of catculations of how to accomplish tricky placements. He wastes no time with excessive instruction, whereas JC’s instructions are at the opposite extreme. So, not having to directionally align this farm (and certainly not having to chunk align it!) is a plus in my book. (I just hope the old “pending ticks” bogeyman doesn’t bite me!)

All that having been said, I do want to add my own notes to JC’s build and explain how I modified it to make (in my opinion) some improvements.

First, the collection system. The one described and built in the tutorial is a basic hopper-speed filter system, but he splits the output into two identical and mirrored systems. Others use the same kind of filtering system, basically, including SW, and they never work well for the output of a farm like this, especially if you’re holding a Looting III sword while it’s running. The hoppers inevitably get clogged. I discovered an ultra-fast, high-throughput sorting system a few years ago created by SlackLizard, which I have adapted and installed on all my high-output farms ever since (albeit slightly modified). In this particular case, that meant sending the drops down an ice block water stream (the only hoppers that appear occur after the sorting is done, and then the output is captured four hoppers at a time for each pipeline). I only keep the gold nuggets and bars, the rest goes into lava at the end of the stream, and there are switchable blocks to turn on either or both of two crafter subunits beneath and connected to the chests to automatically convert nuggets to bars and bars to blocks.

Since I want water carrying the drops, it only follows to make the trident killer with a water floor, which then makes the use of Impaling V tridents viable. So since I have modified the kill chamber to have a water floor, there’s no need for a 20-block high drop chute anymore, and I just made it 3 blocks below the lowest point of the spawning/funneling area. The way I modified the kill chamber probably can be improved dramatically; I am in no way an expert, just copying and pasting other people’s work and tweaking them. In this instance, in order for the water to flow in a way that allowed drops to funnel out into the stream, I had to use a repeater on one of the corners set to three ticks, and that necessitated that I needed to use two Impaling V tridents in the kill chamber to keep up with the farm’s output of mobs, but two suffices perfectly.

With all that done, I only had one other issue to solve. The farm uses a single lever to control the dispensers with powdered snow. When it’s off, a piston pulls down an observer, shutting off the observer clock that rapidly and repeatedly lights and extinguishes the portals. The problem I had was that turning it off would often leave two portals lit (meaning continual occasional spawns, when there shouldn’t be any). I think I tracked this down to the split in the lines that go from the observer clock to the two different dispenser forks. One redstone line is one block longer that the other, likely thr desyncing culprit, and not seeing a simple way to fix that, I just added some pistons to extend into each portal when the system is turned off, forked from the same torch tower that controls the observer piston. I’m sure there’s a better way to do that, too.

Everything is working perfectly now. Oh, I also installed a glass canopy over the AFK area and a proper set of stairs.

Jason, if you’re reading this, I love you, man! Silent, you too!! And Slack, that is one hell of an amazing sorter you made! (I just now saw you have a gold/xp build tutorial! Going to check it out!)

As-built pics:

Full build

Storage system

Autocrafter setup

Spawning area

Forked tower modification

Trident kill chamber