Minecraft's bogged skeleton variant is one of two new mobs being introduced in Tricky Trials. These skeleton variants fire slower and have less health but exclusively attack with poison arrows. While the community has yet to design any bogged-specific farms, generic mob farms built within swamps will spawn bogged in decent numbers.
The process for making one of these farms is detailed down below. This build is perfect for players wanting to take advantage of the poison-tipped arrows that bogged can drop while clearing out trial chambers and other dangerous structures.
How to make a bogged-producing mob farm in Minecraft Tricky Trials
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As a version of Minecraft's classic mob farm, a bogged farm is quite cheap to make. It costs only a few stacks of solid blocks and slabs, as well as some hoppers, trapdoors, ladders, chests, and water.
This means that one of these farms can be made within the first few days of a survival world on any of Minecraft 1.21's best seeds.
1) Find a swamp
The first thing you'll want to do to make a bogged farm is find a swamp. This can be either a regular swamp or a mangrove swamp, as bogged can spawn in either. Within both types of swamps, bogged have a 50/566 chance of spawning in groups of four.
2) Build up roughly 100 blocks
Once you've found a swamp, you'll want to find the highest spot in it and build up roughly 100 blocks from there, using ladders to make getting up and down easy. Build a small platform on the top of this pillar. This platform should be four by six, at minimum, though it can be any size larger than this.
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This will ensure that the ground is not within the player's spawning bubble. This causes every mob spawn to be forced within the farm's spawn area, pushing rates much higher than they otherwise would be.
3) Make the collection platform
The next piece of the farm to build is the collection area. Place down a double chest, with four Minecraft hoppers feeding into it in a two-by-two grid. Place slabs on top of these hoppers and then add walls all around. Make sure to leave room for the chest to open and to attack mobs through on the front side of the collection platform.
4) Build up a fall chamber
From here, build up the walls around the collection area. This is the fall chamber that will deal the fall damage that makes mobs easy to kill. Build up 16 blocks from the slabs on top of the hoppers. This will leave most mobs with little health remaining.
This is shorter than a mob farm's drop would normally be. This is due to bogged having only eight hearts when compared to a regular skeleton's 10. The fall needs to be shorter to accommodate this lower health total.
5) Add wings
The next step is to build out eight blocks in each direction from the tube. This will form the wings of the farm, which will eventually be flooded with water to form the mob collection channels.
6) Build the spawn platform
Add a platform of solid blocks between each of the farm's wings. This will form the platform on which the mobs, including the Minecraft bogged, will spawn within the farm once it's completed.
7) Add the farm features
Now that the spawn platform is built, the final thing to do is add the technical parts. Add flowing water to the end of each wing. This water should flow all the way to the edge of the fall chamber and stop.
Also, add opened trapdoors in between each platform section. This will trick the hostile Minecraft mobs into wandering into the water channels, as they think the trapdoors are full blocks.
8) Seal up the spawn platform
The final step is to seal in the spawn platform. Build up a two-block-high wall around the outside of the farm, and then add a ceiling to it. Make sure to then place slabs on top of the farm to prevent mobs from spawning on the roof, outside of the farm itself.
9) Wait for bogged to spawn
The Minecraft farm is complete at this point. The final step is just to wait for bogged to spawn and drop down. This might take some time, as they are relatively uncommon mobs.
As previously mentioned, bogged only have a 50/566 chance of spawning, but this is the best way to farm them the community currently has.
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