Kill 100 mobs with snow golems
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sam37 messagesstarted Sep 5, 2026, 3:50 AM
sam37 messagesstarted Sep 5, 2026, 3:50 AM
samOPlast monthSetup requires 2 snow blocks, 2 carved pumpkins, shears, and stone tools. Takes less than 3 minutes to kill 96 mobs with this setup (can maybe be done in 2:30).
This takes advantage of a few things:
1. You can shear a snow golem to get carved pumpkin back.
2. You can farm snowballs from a snow golem.
3. Snow golems drop 7.5 snowballs on average when killed (and cost 8).
4. You can kill 24 snow golems (max before entity cram) with 4 hits from stone sword.
You repeat 4 cycles of 24 (1 cycle shown).
Most of the time is spent constructing the snow golems and I tried a few different setups to make this faster. Open to any suggestions!
This takes advantage of a few things:
1. You can shear a snow golem to get carved pumpkin back.
2. You can farm snowballs from a snow golem.
3. Snow golems drop 7.5 snowballs on average when killed (and cost 8).
4. You can kill 24 snow golems (max before entity cram) with 4 hits from stone sword.
You repeat 4 cycles of 24 (1 cycle shown).
Most of the time is spent constructing the snow golems and I tried a few different setups to make this faster. Open to any suggestions!
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AeroGelolast month
cant you place a ladder to prevent entity cramming
Slylast month
well the crafting of the snow blocks could be faster if after you craft with the recipe book you click space (i think?) to refill the crafting grid instead of going back to the recipe book each time. it might be feasible to make 2 snow golem holes (a 2nd one to the right) and decrease the time spent waiting for the golems to fall (u need 3 pumpkin tho probably)
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samOPlast month
interesting idea but we kinda need to get the snow back too
samOPlast month
oh yeah that saves a lot of time on crafting
Slylast month
yes
samOPlast month
im not picturing the 2nd hole
samOPlast month
it'd be like 6 stone shovels worth of snow to get all 100 snow golems if we don't kill them in between to get their drops
AeroGelolast month
true, its like a min slower maybe
Slylast month
well then u can do 3 batches of 33
samOPlast month
im just not sure if it's faster tho
samOPlast month
mbe it is
Slylast month
idk i might test it tomorrow if i remember to try
Slylast month
i just did a rough calculation and 5 batches is faster than 4 for tas, but idk if 6 batches is faster than 5 (probably only ticks apart for tas, slower for human if i had to guess)
Slylast month(edited)
5 is faster than 4 by ~1.5 sec* if you do biggest batch possible with your snowballs and shrink it everytime
Slylast month(edited)
you need to mine ~240 snowballs to not get screwed by rng, which needs ladder anti cram for 30 snow golems
Slylast month(edited)
the mining for and killing of all 100 snow golems takes ~35 sec, so placing them is definitely the bottleneck
samOPlast month
this makes sense
GracefulBeautylast month
would it save time to make the hole deeper so they take enough fall dmg to die in one sword swing?
samOPlast month
uh you can't place high enough
samOPlast month
you need to be at the bottom of the hole
samOPlast month
you could mbe do things to environmentally damage them but it's prob too annoying to be worth
samOPlast month
and it would only save like 5-10 seconds
samOPlast month
the way i do it above is kinda chopped you can just flip the trapdoor and swing 4 times
samOPlast month
yep
GracefulBeautylast month
i was thinking you'd either swing lower or go down a bit to actually get the kills
GracefulBeautylast month
which is more relevant if you go the route where you prevent entity cramming
GracefulBeautylast month
although atp it only saves 3 sword swings sooo
GracefulBeautylast month
the other question is whether this is actually faster than kill 100 fish with good mechs. i suspect it is but idk
GracefulBeautylast month
time to collect 2 carved pumpkins and 2 snow blocks not as relevant cause it might be on your path
maskerslast month
oh wtf how did i never know you can do that for crafting
GracefulBeautylast month
yeah you can shift+space for max refill or just space for one refill iirc
GracefulBeautylast month(edited)
probably good for crafting sticks for fletcher too (unrelated)
samOPlast month
Suggested above, the problem is we need the snow back anyway so it saves time. 4 cycles is about the right number anyway for balancing out snow gathering vs killing time
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samOPlast month(edited)
Top players take abt 3:45 with a good river. So this is abt a minute faster
Ofc it’s easier as well if you’re bad at 100 mobs, though this requires practice too
Ofc it’s easier as well if you’re bad at 100 mobs, though this requires practice too
samOPlast month
Varies a lot with how good your river is ofc, can be quite a bit slower
samOPlast month(edited)
Took nemerald 3:45 to kill 82 ocean cod with dolphin
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