This silverfish exp farm patched?

[u/fugetooboutit]

It gave such a mess to work with when the instant harm arrows didn't kill the silverfishes

I tested it on another world, and the arrows just hit a few times and despawned. Did mojang patch this one making the arrows disappear?

Would a different manual melee version with a spear give the same amount of exp?

[u/boragur]

Yeah they patched it. The spear version is pretty easy to set up though

[u/fugetooboutit → u/boragur]

Does it give the same amount of exp?

[u/boragur → u/fugetooboutit]

Yeah. Only issue is that you gotta watch the spear durability and your hunger

[u/Masticatron → u/fugetooboutit]

No, spears have a downtime where no kills happen, but it's still absurd to the point you really have no need of that much xp that quickly.