Farming using Mob Spawners in Minecraft

Question

I have a couple of Mob Spawners surrounded by torches (thus rendered inert), and I want to try using them to farm enemy drops. What's the most efficient setup to automatically kill spawned mobs and collect their spoils?

Answer

Most mob farming techniques use a stream of water which collect all the monsters in the room to a central point, and then drowns them by pulling them underwater. Some other ways to kill them are:

• Pushing them via a water current into cacti
• Using lava to kill them
• Making them fall really far so they die from the impact

Just as a note, most people just build enormous completely dark rooms (like this one) to farm mobs rather than using the actual mob spawner blocks.

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