Farms: How to Build Easy/Cheap Witch Farm in Minecraft 1.8

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1. I built your farm.. because it looked simple and easy to put together.. it worked great... for abut 3 minutes.  You see, I spent two entire days prepping the farm so that I got decent spawn rates... caving and such.  I put your design together.. elevated to the proper AFK position, and checked it after a few minutes passed... holy mobs batman!!!  I believe I had the actual mob cap standing on the redstone that runs the shifting floors!!  They totally rendered the farm useless... witches everywhere... just not falling to their death because of all the other mobs... I half slabbed what I could get away with and tried again.... no use!  you can't cover the redstone strips that run behind the pistons, so other mobs spawn at will, and wreck the operation of the farm.  what was your solution to this!?!  I tried to rework your design by pushing the trip wires in so that they would be flush with the outer edges of the shifting floors...allowing me to better spawn proof the design, but the pistons would bud power and the floors stopped shifting.  I eventually gave up all together... your design, as it currently is in this video, does not work!  It was a good try, it just does not take into account the spawning of other mobs out side the bounding box of the witch pads... breaking the farm.  This is exactly what the other.. more expensive farm designs are trying to achieve... little to no spawns outside of the witch pads. Getting witches to spawn is easy... Getting ONLY witches to spawn, thus preventing other mobs from breaking your farm is the real trick!  I am surprised there have not been more comments to this end.  If you have a fix for this issue, please share.... you made a good video though... so thumbs up for that.
2. This worked for me in my testing world, but I'm wondering why do you need 3 layers? Mine worked fine with 1 layer.
3. Where i can stay afk???
4. Hey "Mott Bot"! Try to make a Realistic Survival comptramtion
5. Fort Thingy!!!!  Contacted Mojang and they said  " Sorry we cannot call it a Fort Thingy due to the fact that it is a hut not a fort. But we still love Mott Bot's new name for the Witch hut"
6. does anyone has a resource list ??
7. over 2.5k views! WOW! :O
8. Awesome video! Thank you for submitting! Find it on our website on May 24 at http://thatminecraftplace.net/2015/simplest-auto-witch-farm-1-8-4-ready/
9. Hi mott a guy left his account logged at my resort lol =D - lolcorpCEO
10. sZPeddy's witch farm is far simpler, though it requires a lot of iron (hoppers).
11. Thanks for inspiring me with this design, but i think i made a little better then it already is, by using a comparator clock.
    Check out my world download: http://1drv.ms/1PkLjjH I've also included a few other handy devices, which you can use with the witch farm.
    
    I like you're inventions, you gained another fan.
12. how are u removing and placing blocks? is that a feature of dispensers or droppers or something?
13. Thanks Mott Bot! I'll have to check this out on my new server.
14. Sweet! Much easier to build in survival than JL's, especially if you don't have an iron farm. Thanks! n_n