Well i was watching a video by Docm77 and it was about iron golem farms being nerfed in the 1.8 update. In the latest snapshot iron golems now only drop iron ignots as a rare drop so now you will have to manually kill them to get the ignot. Now for being that have a fully automatic farm will now have to redo their farm. But don't worry the spawning and villager cells and designs of the farm have not been change, in the video Docm showed that if you use a mob softener, a lava source 2x2 square with 3 one ontop of each other. After the mob softener he had the iron golems collected and blasted them with TNT and had a looting sword. Now that means that for the people they are going to do that please follow these rules that i made up due to lag reasons.
1. Don't leave the iron golems in the killing chamber thingy for too long or it will cause lag.
2. If you are going to keep it running i suggest to have it running for no longer than 1 hour, depending on what the spawn rate is, after an hour kill the golems.
3. Don't go afk or it will keep the golems bunched up and too many golems can cause lag.
Just follow those simple rules and you'll be fine, any other mod or admin that would like to add any more rules go for it!
Note #1: This will take affect for when skyblock goes into the 1.8 update.
Note #2: By lag i mean FPS lag but i've heard cases of server lag too.
Note #3: You gotta ignite the TNT by hand to kill the golems, there are other ways too but i believe TNT is the most efficient way in my opinion.
Note #4: They may change this nerf in future snapshots.
More info can be found in this video:
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