Minecraft XP Farm Project Thwarted By Unfortunate Terrain Generation

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Experience points in Minecraft are a crucial resource for upgrading gear, but one player was forced to abandon their plans to build a stronghold XP farm after the dungeon was incorrectly generated by the game. As one of the structures that have been present in Minecraft the longest, dungeons have long been used by players to facilitate mob farming thanks to the spawner blocks that they contain.

Discoverable underground practically anywhere in a Minecraft world, dungeons are small structures containing a single mob spawner, usually alongside several chests. They can be useful sources of valuable loot for players in the early game, while also providing a steady, limitless flow of experience points and mob loot via the hostile mobs that come from their spawners. Different dungeons spawn different mobs, and while not all of Minecraft's many different monsters can spawn in dungeons, rarer locations such as abandoned mineshafts and strongholds can play host to more exclusive dungeons that can spawn cave spiders or silverfish.

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As helpful as they can be though, these dungeons often prove to be vulnerable to Minecraft's somewhat unpredictable world generation. One fan named Magnuty on Reddit documents this well, sharing a video on the site that is as funny as it is unlikely. This clip shows their plans to build an XP farm in their stronghold being ruined after a single stone brick block generated exactly where the spawner block should be due to the overlap between the two naturally-generated structures. While this does provide a relatively danger-free dungeon for players in search of easy loot, it's not so convenient for fans looking to build a potentially long-term mob