I found this because I was googling “ethical cow farm Minecraft”. The “normal” farms I found were the kind where you stick cows in a 1x1 block and continually kill them with lava and shit. Very effective, but I don’t know.
It just feels weird building that in my otherwise friendly little base. It’s like you build this whole world with cozy cabins and creature comforts and peaceful veggie farms - and in the middle of it you stick this eyesore of a death machine that ruthlessly and efficiently kills cows en masse.
It sort of ruins the immersion. It doesn’t feel immoral as much as it does inorganic and not really of the world.
I really want to make fun of you for being a vg-slur-playing g-slur, but I also have to acknowledge your commitment to your values while also subjecting yourself to mockery, so yeah well done
How do you imagine an ethical farm in minecraft? Either you build an efficient death machine or you have a pen where you kill them manually with some fire.
My search term "ethical" was really just a way to find any tips or tricks to building something that had the look/feel of a real farm - with any tricks I might be missing. Since if you search for "farm" you literally get farming, like you would for XP farming or something brutally efficient like that.
I might look for an "aesthetic" build or something later.
This is like the village I setup. I had built onto this village and had a bunch of happy villagers, but underneath the large town hall I built for them, I dug out an area, and put in a bunch of prison cells. I forced the villagers whose shit I wanted to farm into all the cells, and locked them in. The only entrance was through a secret button that opened up a trap door in the town hall, that lead down to what looked like a wine cellar with a bunch of casks. There was a one block square of water next to one of the casks though, and if you swam through it, you could fit under the 1 block gap underneath the casks, that lead the the dungeon.
My kid still managed to find it and was like "Dad why are all these villagers behind these bars?"
Last time I played minecraft I had the KFC hole which was a 2x2 pit filled with chickens. It was created through an exponential series of incestual chicken relationships until I had at least 500 chickens in this hole. I received frequent complaints from other g-slurs about how my contraption was lagging their game when they passed my slaughterhouse.
When I last played, I played on a server with some friends from college. At one point in time the server started lagging pretty badly for all of us, and we had no idea why. Turns out one guy had built a farm and would consistently breed his animals every single time he logged on but he never killed any of them. The guy had so many cows, pigs, and sheep in that one spot that it lagged up the whole server.
The latest high density animal farm design has no kill mechanism, it's just a hole with a fence post above, a hopper below, a chest for harvesting, and a water dispenser on a switch to float em up for feeding.
It uses entity limits per square to trigger deaths, literally crowding the animals to death.
I always just build 2 stacks or so of stone wall and fence in a large field. Lots of space to breed a ridiculous amount of cows. Put some light posts throughout it to prevent mobs spawning.
For smaller operations just do like a 15x15 square
Does this r-slur not realize that you can go completely vegan in Minecraft? Does he realize that farming, albeit with a initial time cost, can be several orders of magnitude more efficient than killing animals?
With the addition of haybales it's become even more efficient. 576 wheat goes into one stack of bales. With a big enough field, like 3 harvests and you've got literally all the food you could need.
I've got a small server with my friends, and I sell shit tons of wheat for iron. With a steady flow of iron I don't have to find myself I can focus efforts on finding diamonds.
Unironically r-slurred. My only source of food in Minecraft is either carrots, wheat or potatoes. Minimal investment for literal stacks of food at a time. It takes significantly more time and interaction to breed animals for food and wait for them to grow.
True but finding mushrooms and dandelions is more inefficient than cow farming. Their point is that irl meat takes 16 calories of feed to make 1 calorie of meat. That's true, but also stupid
Not really, having challenged myself in autistic ways (in Minecraft ofc) its pretty ez to find atleast a stack of dandelions within the first 10 minutes. But yeah, vegans are fuckin retarded.
minecraft animal autism incoming: Minecraft devs overhauled the ocean biome but refused to add sharks, a widely requested animal, under the guise of "animal cruelty" concerns because they don't want kids to think its ok to kill sharks. But you can burn other animals alive as they run away from your sword in game, so what gives? Well, many believe it's to comply with the Chinese market, as Chyna is undergoing a massive anti shark-eating campaign as of recent years with very high profile celebrities and shit. Minecraft also added the panda bear as a sign of reverence to China.
It's not more efficient if you only cared which food makes you more full, and which food lasts longer in your body. Which is what the game illustrates.
98 comments
89 always_horny_guy 2020-07-24
If you want to know what a pansy I am...
I found this because I was googling “ethical cow farm Minecraft”. The “normal” farms I found were the kind where you stick cows in a 1x1 block and continually kill them with lava and shit. Very effective, but I don’t know.
It just feels weird building that in my otherwise friendly little base. It’s like you build this whole world with cozy cabins and creature comforts and peaceful veggie farms - and in the middle of it you stick this eyesore of a death machine that ruthlessly and efficiently kills cows en masse.
It sort of ruins the immersion. It doesn’t feel immoral as much as it does inorganic and not really of the world.
Anyway I’m g-slur
91 pepperouchau 2020-07-24
Just play Stardew Valley you fucking nerd
38 whenweriiide 2020-07-24
I really want to make fun of you for being a vg-slur-playing g-slur, but I also have to acknowledge your commitment to your values while also subjecting yourself to mockery, so yeah well done
35 Habahz 2020-07-24
How do you imagine an ethical farm in minecraft? Either you build an efficient death machine or you have a pen where you kill them manually with some fire.
27 always_horny_guy 2020-07-24
My search term "ethical" was really just a way to find any tips or tricks to building something that had the look/feel of a real farm - with any tricks I might be missing. Since if you search for "farm" you literally get farming, like you would for XP farming or something brutally efficient like that.
I might look for an "aesthetic" build or something later.
23 nybbas 2020-07-24
This is like the village I setup. I had built onto this village and had a bunch of happy villagers, but underneath the large town hall I built for them, I dug out an area, and put in a bunch of prison cells. I forced the villagers whose shit I wanted to farm into all the cells, and locked them in. The only entrance was through a secret button that opened up a trap door in the town hall, that lead down to what looked like a wine cellar with a bunch of casks. There was a one block square of water next to one of the casks though, and if you swam through it, you could fit under the 1 block gap underneath the casks, that lead the the dungeon.
My kid still managed to find it and was like "Dad why are all these villagers behind these bars?"
27 nybbas 2020-07-24
Ya'll a bunch of fucking nerds.
15 mqL49J 2020-07-24
Cruelty is a goal unto itself, g*ymer.
9 zergling_Lester 2020-07-24
I liked the multiple other unacknowledged death machines in the background.
5 DukeChadvonCisberg 2020-07-24
He has hundreds of death machines
10 Maskedrussian 2020-07-24
Last time I played minecraft I had the KFC hole which was a 2x2 pit filled with chickens. It was created through an exponential series of incestual chicken relationships until I had at least 500 chickens in this hole. I received frequent complaints from other g-slurs about how my contraption was lagging their game when they passed my slaughterhouse.
2 Lysander125 2020-07-24
When I last played, I played on a server with some friends from college. At one point in time the server started lagging pretty badly for all of us, and we had no idea why. Turns out one guy had built a farm and would consistently breed his animals every single time he logged on but he never killed any of them. The guy had so many cows, pigs, and sheep in that one spot that it lagged up the whole server.
6 mischwanz 2020-07-24
WORDS WORDS WORDS
50 Outdated_CPU_1 2020-07-24
It’s two paragraphs you illiterate mongoloid
50 mischwanz 2020-07-24
2 2 much 😎
5 ballrot 2020-07-24
Yeah it's because factory farming is uncomfortable
5 Lehk 2020-07-24
The latest high density animal farm design has no kill mechanism, it's just a hole with a fence post above, a hopper below, a chest for harvesting, and a water dispenser on a switch to float em up for feeding.
It uses entity limits per square to trigger deaths, literally crowding the animals to death.
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1 waffen_waffle 2020-07-24
I always just build 2 stacks or so of stone wall and fence in a large field. Lots of space to breed a ridiculous amount of cows. Put some light posts throughout it to prevent mobs spawning.
For smaller operations just do like a 15x15 square
47 Outdated_CPU_1 2020-07-24
Does this r-slur not realize that you can go completely vegan in Minecraft? Does he realize that farming, albeit with a initial time cost, can be several orders of magnitude more efficient than killing animals?
14 waffen_waffle 2020-07-24
With the addition of haybales it's become even more efficient. 576 wheat goes into one stack of bales. With a big enough field, like 3 harvests and you've got literally all the food you could need.
I've got a small server with my friends, and I sell shit tons of wheat for iron. With a steady flow of iron I don't have to find myself I can focus efforts on finding diamonds.
Imagine not being a wheat Baron
5 yeetusdeletusgg 2020-07-24
Based wheat baron
5 LR_Vegito_Blue 2020-07-24
Unironically r-slurred. My only source of food in Minecraft is either carrots, wheat or potatoes. Minimal investment for literal stacks of food at a time. It takes significantly more time and interaction to breed animals for food and wait for them to grow.
37 MysteryMuhammad 2020-07-24
A vegan playthrough is actually possible in minecraft. What is this guy complaining about?
25 GeminiRocket 2020-07-24
I wish I didn't see this sentence.
12 Angelofsmoke 2020-07-24
That eating meat restores more hunger points than vegetables
20 Maskedrussian 2020-07-24
Just like real life but that doesn’t stop vegans now does it
2 Angelofsmoke 2020-07-24
Like v*gans have a sense of reality
2 SpezKilledSwartz2 2020-07-24
Forgive me for being a g-slur but mushroom stew with dandelions restores much more saturation.
1 Angelofsmoke 2020-07-24
True but finding mushrooms and dandelions is more inefficient than cow farming. Their point is that irl meat takes 16 calories of feed to make 1 calorie of meat. That's true, but also stupid
1 SpezKilledSwartz2 2020-07-24
Not really, having challenged myself in autistic ways (in Minecraft ofc) its pretty ez to find atleast a stack of dandelions within the first 10 minutes. But yeah, vegans are fuckin retarded.
36 low-info-upvoter 2020-07-24
minecraft animal autism incoming: Minecraft devs overhauled the ocean biome but refused to add sharks, a widely requested animal, under the guise of "animal cruelty" concerns because they don't want kids to think its ok to kill sharks. But you can burn other animals alive as they run away from your sword in game, so what gives? Well, many believe it's to comply with the Chinese market, as Chyna is undergoing a massive anti shark-eating campaign as of recent years with very high profile celebrities and shit. Minecraft also added the panda bear as a sign of reverence to China.
21 Pepperglue 2020-07-24
They are owned by Microsoft, and introduced the most anti-fun mob in the game, what do you expect from them?
16 TheColdTurtle 2020-07-24
Are you talking about that one manta ray that kills you if you don't sleep enough? Because that shit is just fucking awful and ruins servers.
4 Pepperglue 2020-07-24
That's the one. The only saving grace of that thing is they can be turned off server side.
3 somestupidname1 2020-07-24
Nothing beats a nice dungeon/nether run only to get divebombed by those things the second you step out to go home.
3 TheColdTurtle 2020-07-24
Fuckers hit boxes are so small too. At least with ghasts they are easy to hit.
1 Pepperglue 2020-07-24
I avoided the game when it came out. I do not need another cliffracer situation.
19 pepperouchau 2020-07-24
Wait, this is what we're going to cancel notch for?
Ahh, he hadn't revealed his power level yet.
11 BoomersForYang2024 2020-07-24
FRONT LINES
THESE FUCKERS MUST BE ON THE FRONT LINES
7 InnocuousBystander 2020-07-24
Hey retards in the comments, maybe read the actual post.
It's factually true that vegetarian food is more calorie efficient than meat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_conversion_ratio
Didn't you study this in high school biology?
40 Qwagsoir 2020-07-24
I mean yeah who the fuck cares about that shit in a game where you punch blocks tho
7 InnocuousBystander 2020-07-24
Calorie efficiency matters.
1 CommissarCletus 2020-07-24
Sorry buddy but soybean paste will never beat a good filet.
22 WallyWendels 2020-07-24
Nobody cares.
3 InnocuousBystander 2020-07-24
Why'd you reply to me then, f@ggot?
23 WallyWendels 2020-07-24
How dare you speak to me
17 ImHereForTheBussy 2020-07-24
I'd rather eat a burger that doesn't make me grow tits, thanks though.
21 InnocuousBystander 2020-07-24
Considering you're already there I don't think it'll make much difference.
19 ImHereForTheBussy 2020-07-24
nothing like vegan seething
1 godsrmay 2020-07-24
Cope, just take the L carnist
16 lawlzposting 2020-07-24
Beef has more of that "tastes like beef" efficiency tho
9 ballrot 2020-07-24
Meat tastes better
8 Ravensthrowit 2020-07-24
Eating bird food is boring nerd
killing things is fun and therefore should be rewarded in video games 😎
2 InnocuousBystander 2020-07-24
The only valid response.
4 Pepperglue 2020-07-24
It's not more efficient if you only cared which food makes you more full, and which food lasts longer in your body. Which is what the game illustrates.
7 Pepperglue 2020-07-24
Oh my God what a fargoth. I bet he punches wood every day to find his missing ring.
5 darth_tiffany 2020-07-24
Giantbomb is a slightly less hysterical version of Kotaku so I'm not sure what you were expecting.
1 AyyStation 2020-07-24
Is Giantbomb still a thing???
2 daggermag 2020-07-24
Dead to me after they hired the screeching jewess abby
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1 Cuntable 2020-07-24
Say what now?
1 godsrmay 2020-07-24
Holy shit what an autist lmao
Also so many minecraftcels in the comments 😷😷
1 RIPGeorgeHarrison 2020-07-24
When I play Minecraft I like to designate some places as national parks that I don’t do any surface mining or logging at.