Take the tour ×  I just came across my first dungeon in
Minecraft, and already the Mob Spawner is giving me problems.
What would be a quick way to destroy the Spawner? All the
Minecraft wiki mentioned was ways to trap mobs.  share|improve
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accepted  While your opinion may differ, I find spawners to be
excellent exp farms, and you can turn yours into a mob farm.  If
you'd rather save your mob spawner, you need to block it off
with light, similar to placing torches in a cave to ward off mob
spawns. To de-activate a mob spawner, place torches around the
spawner (at least an 8 block radius) to prevent mobs from
spawning. Put them adjacent to the block itself.  To break one,
use a pickaxe, preferably Iron level or higher. Note, once you
destroy one, it will not drop as a block, so break these
carefully.  share|improve this answer Unless it is really in the
middle of your building plans, you might want to keep it though,
just in case you'd later on decide yo