1.8 nerfs

I was look at the 1.8 update and i discovered that the drop rates of Iron Golems and Zombie Pigmen change when they are killed automatically instead of manually. The Iron Golem only drops poppies when killed automatically and the Pigmen only drop rotten flesh when they are killed automatically: When you kill them manually by tnt, potions, swords, and ect the drop rates are normal. So i was wondering if you guys where going to change the mobs de-spawning on your islands when you do /is, or rewrite the code so they still die automatically

ps here are the videos i saw that informed me of this:
Pigmen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcGa3qA6W1s
Iron Golems: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhEow1BxyQs

This is very simple to fix in the 1.8 update.
There is actually a way to kill pigman automatically and this is a trick i actually learned in my single player world but i put in a couple of iron golems inside the killing chamber of the pigman, i had the pigman drop to 1 hit kill and the iron golems take care of them automatically. If you want to increase you chances of getting more loot, e.g. gold nugget, i would hold my looting 3 sword and you get the looting effects while the iron golems kill the pigman, you also get EXP from this effect too.

For the iron golem i couldn't exactly find an automatic way to kill them but what i did was have the golems go through lava blades to bring them down to enough health for them to be killed when i set off TNT, but before the TNT explodes i quickly switch to my looting 3 sword and then i get the looting effect. I do believe you actually got to set the TNT off by hand, e.g. flint and steel, to get the normal drop rates + the looting effect. And to make things much much simpler just have the iron golems clump up into 1 killing chamber.

Just on the side note, looking on the wiki for the snapshots in 14w04a they changed it so that iron golems and pigman now drop ignots and nuggets by any means of death, so you can still have your fully automatic farms running.

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Although you might want to go with what i said above because i do believe that the chances of getting more has been dropped and as seen in the the photo the looting effect has another 1% increase chance of rare items per looting level.

Personally myself i'm going to keep my iron golem farm running automatically but might have some redstone involved to switch between manual killing and automatic killing, and i'm also going to go fancy with my pigman farm with redstone involved and having two killing chambers, but really it's up to you guys on what you decide to do

1.8 nerfs

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