Talk:Tutorials/Slime farming

Is it possible for someone in the know to add something about the parameters required for a players AFK position to enable slime spawning? Where the AFK position is "from" also. I have seen comments about being 24 blocks away - but away from what? chunk edge, centre of platform etc? Also what is the maximum distance before spawning is restricted? Does the player need to be active, can they be in a minecart etc? Sid. X septic sid x (talk) 15:32, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
 * See Slime. The BlobsPaper.png 00:46, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Light levels
The slime farms listed don't work at 1.18 because slimes only spawn at light level 7 or lower now. Also, some of the blocks in the table will also not allow slimes to spawn, because the light level is too high. SirDaddicus (talk) 21:48, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
 * That's too bad. The slime farm I have in my survival game is well-lit to keep other mobs from spawning in it. Good thing I have enough slimes now. I could always remove most of the torches to make it work again though. It should still prevent hostile mobs from spawning because they now need a light level of 0.
 * These farms can be made to work simply by darkening them. For me, all I would need to do in mine is remove some torches. Mine is the basic slime farm listed first in this article.
 * I've made corrections about light levels.
 * This is also why I really dislike videos in tutorials. The editing community has no control over them. Tutorials should rely on text and graphics. That way, if anything needs to be corrected, then anyone can do it. I have also removed one video that promoted itself as being simple, cheap, and early-game, when it was none of those (needing huge amounts of iron and redstone components). Amatulic (talk) 23:21, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you!
 * Now all I need to do is find a farm that works on 1.18 Java. (I've seen a couple that purport to work in Bedrock, but I don't have that. I've also seen a few that have the same problem with lighting.)
 * The problem is that you have to have the light level be between 1 and 6 (or 7?) inclusive, which can't be done with torches in the slime chunk. They have to be placed outside the chuck a few block, but that leaves the center of the chunk able to spawn other mobs (because light level is 0 there; the chunk is too wide). I tried using candle pairs, which have light level 6, but that causes the problem that the slimes won't spawn on them. This is a major-league bummer to me. SirDaddicus (talk) 15:48, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Maybe I misread it. Now it seems to say the light level 7 requirement is only in swamps (on or near the surface). I swear it says 7 underground, too, but I'm probably just getting old. SirDaddicus (talk) 15:58, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
 * In the basic farm described here (using a drowning trap), and which I built, the light level is easily controlled. It would work in Java Edition too. I have blocks floating above the flowing water with torches on them. All I would have to do is remove most of the torches and raise the remaining ones higher above the spawning surface. A torch emits light level 14. If you put them 7 blocks above the spawn surface, the light level on the surface is no higher than 7.
 * On the other hand, I found something that works better than my farm. I found a cave in another spawn chunk. At the border of the chunk, I made a doorway 1 block wide. Slimes spawn in the cave, they see me (or I go in the cave briefly to attract them) and then stand outside my doorway and whack at them with a Looting-enchanted sword, or shoot them with arrows (Looting matters only for the tiny slimes). The tiny slimes get through but they do no damage. It's a manual effort, but with a Looting I sword, I get more slimeballs in an hour than I would in several days from my farm. Every time I happen to pass that cave (it's on my way to and from various things) I stop and collect a few more slimeballs. And this cave is small, it doesn't even occupy the whole chunk.
 * I have a couple of stacks of slime blocks now, but I conquered my monument with just 40 slime blocks. Amatulic (talk) 05:56, 7 December 2021 (UTC)