Finding and harvesting Pixons · 1.21.1

Minecraft 1.21.1 / AoA 3.7.16.1. Pixons supply Energy Stones and Power Stones for Imbuing progression. Make an Attuning Bowl, find a suitable Pixon, stand close and hold the use action. Carrying the bowl alone does not harvest anything.

Imbuing Chamber · Skill training · Loot reference

1. Make an Attuning Bowl

Amethyst	Empty	Amethyst
Amethyst	Gold ingot	Amethyst
Amethyst	Amethyst	Amethyst

Use 7 items matching c:gems/amethyst and 1 matching c:ingots/gold. The shaped recipe outputs one bowl. Pack changes to these tags can change accepted ingredients.

2. Search the right world

The stock custom-spawner files select these pools. A dimension appearing in this table is configuration evidence, not proof that its complete historical gameplay is accessible in this release. Check the version matrix before planning a trip.

Pool	Dimension selectors in the shipped definition
T0	Overworld
T1	Nether, Barathos, Lelyetia, Creeponia
T1, shorter intervals	Precasia
T2	Abyss, Mysterium, Candyland, Iromine, Haven, Celeve, Crystevia, Gardencia
T3	Dustopia, L’Borean, Runandor, Greckon
T4	Shyrelands

The stock lists do not include the End or Nowhere. Flat worlds are excluded, as are biomes in c:is_dead. The registration path also rejects dimension namespaces other than minecraft and aoa3; support for third-party dimensions needs compatibility work beyond editing a selector.

What the variant weights mean

Variant	T0	T1 / Precasia	T2	T3	T4
Ambient	30	10	0	0	0
Glistening	25	40	30	10	0
Blooming	20	35	40	20	10
Shining	15	30	35	35	40
Gleaming	10	25	30	30	35
Glowing	5	20	25	25	30
Glaring	1	15	20	20	25
Radiant	0	10	15	15	20

These are relative weights within a selected pool, not percentages and not encounter rates. Radiant is absent from the Overworld pool. A pool containing Radiant still does not guarantee one will appear.

Waiting and searching without false promises

• The server requires its passive-spawn flag and doMobSpawning to permit the spawner check.
• Ordinary configured intervals are 12,000–36,000 ticks, or 10–30 minutes at 20 TPS. Precasia uses 9,000–27,000 ticks, or 7.5–22.5 minutes.
• These are attempt intervals, not guaranteed spawn times. The first eligible check can occur earlier; there is no mandatory initial ten-minute wait implied by the interval alone.
• The code adds an extra delay per counted spawn: ordinarily 3,000–6,000 ticks; Precasia 2,000–4,000 ticks. Lag and loaded-world ticking affect wall-clock time.
• chance_per_player: 1.0 does not guarantee a visible Pixon. Candidate placement, biome and survival checks still apply. The attempt count uses a biased 1–3 sample plus integer player luck.
• Look around suitable supported, unobstructed terrain rather than expecting a fixed landmark. Placement rejects fluid, blocked/suffocating space, signal sources and blocks preventing mob spawning inside.

Do not build a farm around a claimed exact 40–128-block ring. Those arguments appear at the Pixon call site, but the shared released position helper uses axis offsets that can exceed the named maximum. The spawn-geometry audit explains that helper's problem. This is a static code finding, not a measured Pixon spawn map.

3. Harvest, rather than attack

1. Approach the Pixon's particle effect. This entity is not a conventional modeled animal: the inspected implementation is not pickable and cannot change dimensions.
2. Keep its supporting block intact and leave room around it. Avoid enclosing or suffocating it.
3. Equip the Attuning Bowl and actively hold use while standing close.
4. Watch your inventory for stones. Move closer if nothing arrives; a missed random roll is also normal.
5. Stop when you have the materials you need. Pixons have a finite life, so a single one is not a permanent infinite farm.

The source range is 2 + magnitude × 0.05 blocks. Normal initial magnitudes put it just above two blocks to roughly 3.25 blocks; getting close is more reliable advice than standing at the boundary. The per-eligible-tick harvest chance is min(25, magnitude) / 250. This does not mean one item every tick.

A successful harvest increases the Pixon's age by 500 ticks and, while above the floor, reduces magnitude by 0.5, clamped to at least 1. Ordinary ticking also ages it. Smaller magnitude reduces both harvest chance and the lifespan threshold. Age, variant and magnitude are saved, so reloading is not a reset-to-infinite-harvest method. Do not infer an exact real-time lifespan from this guide.

4. Keep the right stone

Each variant's base loot table makes one roll: Energy Stone weight 6; Power Stone weight 1. That is a conditional 6/7 versus 1/7 per base-table roll, not a probability per game tick and not a guaranteed pair. Loot modifiers can change final results.

Pixon	Energy Stone: declared Imbuing XP	Power Stone: declared Imbuing XP
Ambient	10	20
Glistening	20	40
Blooming	30	60
Shining	40	80
Gleaming	45	90
Glowing	55	110
Glaring	65	130
Radiant	75	150

These are the table functions' requested skill awards, not a guarantee after all player or pack modifiers. They are AoA Imbuing skill values, not the green vanilla XP level.

• Energy Stones: reserve one for the Imbuing Chamber construction recipe if needed. The inspected training use action spends the entire held stack outside Creative. Split a training stack before using it.
• Power Stones: keep the exact tier required by your enchantment recipe. Higher tiers are not automatic substitutes.
• This guide does not invent an Energy-to-Power crafting conversion. Harvesting tables are the verified route described here.

Troubleshooting

Symptom	Check
No stones while holding a bowl	Hold the use action, stay close and allow for random failed rolls.
No Pixon during a short search	Check world/biome restrictions and spawning settings; intervals are attempts, not guarantees.
Cannot find Radiant in the Overworld	T0 has no Radiant entry. Choose a supported accessible world with a pool that includes it.
Particle vanished while harvesting	Finite age and harvest-driven aging are expected; protect the supporting space too.
Stone does not fit the chamber	Energy and Power Stones serve different roles; match the recipe's exact Power Stone.
Modded dimension never gets Pixons	The source namespace gate needs an integration change; a dimension list edit alone is insufficient.

Evidence and scope

Machine-readable harvesting evidence records the six released spawner definitions, eight loot tables, bowl recipe, selected class checks and pinned source interpretation. Illustration provenance identifies the item previews and source palettes.

Primary implementation: PixonEntity. Data and source are scoped to the recorded release and pin; this page does not certify live encounters, private Enderloom behavior or complete historical dimension restoration. Images show actual item references and labelled palette dots, not a fabricated 3D Pixon creature.