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perience points that help with enchanting and anvil repairs. However, if you don't
mind using weapons instead, the pit can even be just two blocks lower than the wa-
ter flow.
3.
Place a water source at the other end. It flows for 8 blocks, pushing mobs toward
the pit. You can also place a second water source coming in from the other direc-
tion, providing a total of 19 blocks of coverage around your perimeter, and the wa-
ter can flow around corners if required.
4.
Choose a safe location inside your perimeter or even inside your house, and tunnel
down and toward the bottom of the pit so that your eye height ends up at the same
level as the lowest part of the pit. Any mobs that stray into the ditch gradually
wash down toward the pit, fall in, and gather at the bottom. Head down the access
tunnel to safely finish them off and collect the spoils.
Figure 8.16
shows a trapped
creeper.
FIGURE 8.16
Creeper knobbled: the water keeps it in place while attacked, and the water
washes its drops (gunpowder in this case) toward you.
