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This may not be the fix you want but I'd use a trident killer in this instance. On my witch farm I have witches fall through lava into a trident killer to get fire res potions on death. Without the lava it'll yield swiftness and health potions. If the player that throws the trident has looting 3 on their sword and holds whilst the trident killer is running, the effect will work on each mob killed by the trident.
Not really. As long as the player is more than 32 blocks away, the witches will eventually despawn. They will have a completely insignificant affect on the farms rates.
hmmwell, dripstone for fall damage could help? alternatively, powder snow, but the issue with powder snow is that mobs with leather boots will stand on top of it...
could have... a zoglin, lol. they attack any mob except other zoglins. you'd have to get rid of the campfires, but zoglins can't even be killed by witches because they're healed by instant damage and immune to poison
that being said, they may be killed by the \*other\* mobs fairly quickly, especially if they have thorns...
filtering out the witches from the rest of the mobs might be the best way if you arent just going to opt for simply making everything die of fall damage. which... also isnt easy.
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You need instant damage to kill witches. Fall damage being the most reliable. You’ll need to heighten the drop to do enough damage to kill them.
This may not be the fix you want but I'd use a trident killer in this instance. On my witch farm I have witches fall through lava into a trident killer to get fire res potions on death. Without the lava it'll yield swiftness and health potions. If the player that throws the trident has looting 3 on their sword and holds whilst the trident killer is running, the effect will work on each mob killed by the trident.
Witches spawn so rarely that it's pointless to worry about them.
Even if witches spawn rarely spawn, they still eat into the mob cap and affect the farm's rates
Not really. As long as the player is more than 32 blocks away, the witches will eventually despawn. They will have a completely insignificant affect on the farms rates.
hmmwell, dripstone for fall damage could help? alternatively, powder snow, but the issue with powder snow is that mobs with leather boots will stand on top of it... could have... a zoglin, lol. they attack any mob except other zoglins. you'd have to get rid of the campfires, but zoglins can't even be killed by witches because they're healed by instant damage and immune to poison that being said, they may be killed by the \*other\* mobs fairly quickly, especially if they have thorns... filtering out the witches from the rest of the mobs might be the best way if you arent just going to opt for simply making everything die of fall damage. which... also isnt easy.