Something I’ve been toying with in the last year on my preferred server is the idea of using my alt accounts as a way to work around server restrictions like “no tnt duping”.

The idea started when I wanted to make an AFKable tree farm and needed a way to destroy the trees. I considered a wither cannon and just making the tnt by hand but then it hit me…bring on an alt to stand under and harvest the piston-fed line of logs. No mod needed, just use F3+T to keep the alt swinging while I use another about to place the saplings.

If you didn’t need a renewable source of saplings you could do all of this without any elaborate setup but I wanted the leaf crushers to keep the supply going.

I’d love to hear if anyone has other uses for alts in regards to server limitations or farm simplification.

Had this conversation today in my main servers discord. The probables with some super efficient farms is they’re efficiency is often sourced from precise timings/expected game mechanics and on most servers this just isn’t realistic.

Part of the reason I don’t switch servers too often is I’ve learned what idiosyncrasies my server has and don’t want to re-learn another config.

I’m not sure where or when I heard this but I remember being told that a roof and/or walls around any spawning-type farm will increase rates as it encourages “pack spawning”.

Any technically-minded Minecraft peeps out there able to weigh in on this and if it’s still a game mechanic?