User blog comment:Scooter8pie/Pit Mobs/@comment-4583259-20111130063843/@comment-4583259-20111130230029

Yeah, I was worried it might sound sarcastic... but I think I proved how obsessed I am when I made this obsessive project obsolete by doing this even more obsessive project (which clearly still has plenty of potential for over-doing). It was mainly my understanding that you were in explore mode, where the counting is a lot easier, that I knew that number 507 wasn't actually costing you a lot of work.

I highly doubt the presence of other mobs matters. For a while I was hoping the type of material would matter, so you could shield your base against griefing by the Brown_Mob using Refined_Titanium. But your testing with every available material disproves that idea.