[billybobsky]

So Rowdy and I did a test run tonight of the fully enclosed mob trap.

2304 (or so) items per hour.

Mind you, while both of the turtles were on at the time, and this is a decent clip in probably everyone's book, we found the trap to be slightly faster with me running around up top and Rowdy waiting patiently by the outflow. It seems that while spiders do not sit in the rivers blocking the flow, they may actually sit above the rivers on the center islands and slow things down significantly. The only actual blocked flow we observed was when two spiders encountered each other at the center coming at cross angles, an exceedingly rare event that lasted maybe 5 seconds before rectifying.

It is clear, however, that the flow for this trap as compared to the other one is not well paced, at certain points large numbers of mobs fall at others very few.

Clearing out the caves (my next task) might help this a bit as all successful mob spawns will have to occur in the trap as opposed to anywhere else in the surrounding active region.