can I pay now by any chance?

You will be missed captain you have a proper send off by us few players

@ardoasms why must all of you look better than me! i gotta find the selfie of me in a chewacca suit...

Ah-ha I knew you were chewbacca

@ardoasms there was, hes just saying he was bad at it

Sorta I was awesome at 1.8 I just suck at 1.9

So are you starting what I asked about or something else

1.8 was a fun time with others until update which I sucked at pvp but 1.8 is very memorable for those of us who played

@Laineyyz Lol I've just asked this in another thread too xD

Nice texture pack btw @Chips_The_Gamer

I went and read the other thread after I asked this

what texture pack is that?

@Kinkybobo @_UNDRSCRE_ uh im not exactly sure, the head with like green earphones? Whats your brothers IGN lol? I've gotten a lot of heads from @MizoreShirayuki and @neonjews, and from a few other sellers, so odds are he got killed by one of them XD, only other possiblity is I may have killed him, but I normally only attack the random nubs that wander into the arena at 4 in the morning lol

how did you get one of my old heads

@NutjobBob As you may or may not be aware the item clear also kills guardians and skeletons, as well as dropped items. This also kills all wither skeletons, strays, and elder guardians
Since the elder guardians don't respawn this can be abused to make ocean monuments incredibly easy to raid (with a little knowledge of how the structure generates).

I think I appreciate the reasoning behind killing these two mobs in particular. Skeletons are popular in grinders and can build up to large numbers, and guardians tend to spawn in huge numbers.

Side note: I would suggest adding cave spiders to the mobs killed by item clear. They are also common xp farms and it's likely to find several spawners next to each other. Meaning they can spawn mobs much faster than skeleton grinders.

Anyway back to the guardians. I'm fairly sure that there is no way to kill guardians and not elder guardians. Instead, I suggest not killing guardians at all during item clear. The reason being that the speed with which they spawn makes it pointless anyway.

Here's a few pics to support this:
Item clear just happened:

Less than 3 minutes later we're back to well over 100 entities

Entities then remained somewhere around 150 until the next item clear

Basically, guardians spawn can spawn fast enough, and the item clears are far enough apart that the number of guardians are only reduced for an ineffectively short period of time. With the exception of the elder guardians.

Let me know what you think.
NJB

rip fps in the second shot