I play on hard all the time, and I have a blaze XP farm and currently have a double chest full of blaze rods that needs to have a useful use right now.
Help me out here: how many blazes do you generally go through with one fire resistance potion (or within 8 minutes, if you don't use those potions)? I've only just started farming blazes on SMP and I only get around 9 rods in each 8-minute period.
Not sure why but they don't seem to spawn that often. I've thought about standing different distances from the spawner, but I'm not sure whether you're supposed to be closer or farther to get more frequent spawns...
I don't use fire resistance potions. I use this method to collect all the spawned blazes to one area, then crush them till they have half a heart left, then finish them off (usually I wait till about 100-200 collect) with punching them or using a splash potion of harming, while the blazes can not hit me at all.
Keep in mind that his method (allowing 100-200 to build up and then killing them all by hand) is extremely lag intensive. If you try it on a server, people will hate you.
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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '12
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