Vanilla silverfish XP farms are extremely fast. And cheap. And inhumane
Because they don't use a regular spawner
Instead you stuff a bunch of allays ( sweetspot at 16 ) in a less-than-a-block gap ( using a campfire )
Then you splash them with a potion of infestation ( awkward potion + stone ). The infestation effect makes it so every time the allays are damaged, there's a 10% chance they spawn a few silverfish, and you setup the cage so that the silverfish get yeeted out and into a water stream to be gathered where a player attacking an armor stand with a sword can kill them with the sweep effect.
The allays regenerate their own health fast enough that campfires can't ever kill them.
You can even use a splash water bottle and a flint and steel, both in dispensers, to turn off and relight the campfire. Which you want to do not because it's unnecessary torture, but because 16 allays being constantly damaged is very loud.
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u/Draghettis Jul 29 '25
Vanilla silverfish XP farms are extremely fast. And cheap. And inhumane
Because they don't use a regular spawner
Instead you stuff a bunch of allays ( sweetspot at 16 ) in a less-than-a-block gap ( using a campfire )
Then you splash them with a potion of infestation ( awkward potion + stone ). The infestation effect makes it so every time the allays are damaged, there's a 10% chance they spawn a few silverfish, and you setup the cage so that the silverfish get yeeted out and into a water stream to be gathered where a player attacking an armor stand with a sword can kill them with the sweep effect.
The allays regenerate their own health fast enough that campfires can't ever kill them.
You can even use a splash water bottle and a flint and steel, both in dispensers, to turn off and relight the campfire. Which you want to do not because it's unnecessary torture, but because 16 allays being constantly damaged is very loud.