Mob Conduit

Stops hostile mobs spawning around it. Made out of vanilla blocks.

Server side only, so players don't install anything.

Building one

Same frame as a vanilla conduit. Three rings, 42 blocks, netherite by default. Obsidian in the middle with an end crystal on it.

No water. It works in open air.

16 frame blocks gives you a 64 block radius. A full 42 gives you 128.

What it does

Natural hostile spawns stop inside the radius.

Spawners, trial spawners, spawn eggs, breeding and /summon all keep working, so a mob farm inside the radius is fine. Passive and neutral mobs are ignored.

Anything hostile already inside when it switches on gets removed. A light turns on over the mob and it comes apart in soul fire. This is spread over several ticks so a few hundred mobs won't hitch the server. They get removed instead of killed, so there's no drops and no XP orbs sitting around for five minutes afterwards. There's a config option if you want drops.

It also removes hostiles that wander in later, which you can turn off if you only want spawn suppression.

While it's on it weeps obsidian tears off the frame and holds sculk souls around the crystal.

Cost

A full netherite frame is about 1,512 ancient debris. That's on purpose. It's meant to be something you build after you've already beaten the game.

If that's too much for your server, set frame_block to minecraft:ancient_debris in the config. Same shape, much cheaper. Any vanilla block works.

The crystal can be destroyed

Creepers will get it eventually and withers have no trouble with it. When the crystal goes the conduit stops and spawning comes back.

Put a new crystal on the obsidian to start it again.

Config

config/mob-conduit.json. Run /mobconduit reload to pick up changes without restarting.

You can set the radius, the thresholds, the frame block, whether mobs drop loot, whether it handles wanderers, and all the particle effects including which particle each one uses.

/mobconduit status puts a scoreboard on screen with a running count of how many spawns it's blocking.

Requirements

Minecraft 26.2, Fabric Loader 0.19.3+, Fabric API, Java 25. Server side only, clients need nothing.