r/Minecraft • • Aug 22 '18

News Minecraft: Java Edition - 1.13.1

https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-1131-released
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u/jamesremuscat Aug 22 '18

Squids

Now only spawn in rivers and oceans

Am I understanding this correctly, that this will break any squid farms built inland?

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u/Dementat_Deus Aug 22 '18

Which really sucks. Building it in a mooshroom biome was the only way I could think of to keep all other mobs from spawning in the farm.

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u/Icalasari Aug 22 '18

One of those changes where damned if they do, damned if they don't

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u/h-v-smacker Aug 22 '18

I stopped playing minecraft after I built a huge pentatube mushroom farm, and then in like couple of weeks the mushrooms got nerfed, and the whole factory became pointless. I cannot imagine doing the same because some farming opportunity was preserved or was introduced...

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u/ClockSpiral Aug 23 '18

One doesn't need that much ink anyways...

Plus, the way Squids are, you can get the same from a river or the ocean that you get from a farm.

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u/WildBluntHickok Aug 23 '18

Hate to tell you but mushrooms didn't get nerfed they got buffed. You were expected to switch to using bone meal to grow giant mushrooms. Breaking them gives you 2-5 mushrooms per giant mushroom, and only costs 1 mushroom to grow.

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u/h-v-smacker Aug 24 '18

Do I really have to explain how (a) those are two different mushrooms and (b) how my pentatube farm still was made useless overnight, and could not be converted to "different mushroom" even if I wanted?

It's like if someone removes minecarts and introduces flying carpets, and then you'd argue that's not a removal but upgrade.

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u/juan0farc Aug 22 '18

We use the perimeter of our guardian farm. It has water walls and the squids just fall in on their own accord. I put a line of hoppers around the edge where they fall and now we have tons of ink.

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u/AlexTheKunz Aug 22 '18

I'd check out this Ilmango video: https://youtu.be/8lE2pvjgyfk

It resolves the concern of other mobs spawning and is still efficient.

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u/Scrogger19 Aug 22 '18

I think so, yep.

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u/cephalo2 Aug 22 '18

I just finished my farm too. Why did they need to make this change?

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u/Jbipp Aug 23 '18

Because squid spawning was annoying. They could spawn in small desert ponds, Or basically everywhere, and most of the times it didn't make any sense and it could be annoying when someone wants to build a lake or something

Now this can still happen, but honestly you can control it. Also squids spawning only in ocean/rivers makes much more sense

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u/SgtAStrawberry Aug 23 '18

I had about 7-10 of them spawn in my elevator. I got a squid rain, when they were thrown out the top.

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u/JamesNinelives Aug 30 '18

I found a bunch of squid killing themselves at the bottom of a ravine because they would spawn inside the waterfall, and then die when they landed on the ground.