How To Farm Glow Squid
Glowing Squids were added in the 1.17 Caves and Cliffs update and are one of the more recent mobs added to Minecraft. They are similar in behavior and shape to regular squid, but with a distinct light blue tinge. Instead of dropping black ink sacs, which are used for black dyes, glowing squid drop glowing ink sacs.
Glowing Ink Sacs are a very special item as they can be used to craft glowing shields and glowing item frames. Players looking to create lots of shields like this will need lots of glowing ink sacs, but spending hours poking around the underground in search of glowing squid can get tiring. Luckily, there’s a pretty easy way to directly breed glowing squid.
How to breed glowing squid
The spawn characteristics for glowing squid are pretty straightforward. They spawn in groups of two to four in complete darkness underwater below the Y=30 altitude coordinate. Because of this Y=30 requirement, players must go moderately underground (at least 34 blocks below sea level) to build their farm. It is recommended that they go to a large open cave, e.g. B. a stalactite cave, so that there is plenty of space to work.
Here are all the resources players need to build a glowing squid farm:
- Two buckets of water
- Eight magma blocks
- A funnel minecart
- Six rails
- Two powered tracks
- Two levers
- A funnel
- a breast
- Lots of building blocks
At the outset, players should determine where their rally point should be. Note that this spawner extends ten blocks higher than the chest, so the chest shouldn’t be higher than Y=20 for glowing squid to spawn to the max. Build an eight block long line of blocks into this chest, with a funnel as one of the end pieces leading into the chest. Place rails along the entire row, with a power rail at each end. Place a block at the end of each side of the rail, then place activated levers on both blocks.
Place a block of magma blocks over each rail, then build a 7×8 slab of solid blocks on the back of those magma blocks as shown below. Since players want this farm to be completely dark inside, players should use building blocks that don’t let light through.
Build eight blocks of walls around the platform as shown below. Then take the two buckets of water and use them to fill the chamber with water. Start filling the bottom layer by placing two water sources with an empty space between them, creating an infinite water source. Players can then pick up this middle water source and use it to fill more spaces. By creating two adjacent walls of water source blocks, the entire layer will fill up automatically. Repeat this process for the bottom six Layers.
Lay down a layer of solid blocks over the top layer of water. These are temporary and will be removed shortly. Place water sources on top of these blocks one side of the chamber. Specifically, it should be the side opposite the rail system.
Destroy the layer of temporary blocks and cover the top of the chamber, making it completely dark inside. Finally, place a Hopper mine cart on the track below and push it so that it starts going back and forth endlessly. The farm is officially operational.
To increase spawn rates, players should try to remove all other potential spawn areas nearby. If there are other sources of water in the cave, players should either remove them or make sure they are well lit enough to prevent glowing squid from spawning.
To explain exactly how this farm works, both luminous squid and axolotl will appear in this farm. Axolotls that spawn kill glowing squid whose dropped items float to the surface. The water flowing up here pushes the ink sacs over the magma blocks, creating bubble elevators that pull the items to the bottom of the chamber. The funnel minecart underneath these magma blocks will suck the items through the blocks and deposit them in the chest.