Zombie-Pigmen Farm in Minecraft 1.8

I am wondering what an efficient zombie-pigmen farm layout/design for Minecraft 1.8 is, and how it would be built?

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Make a large box as a cage. At one end of the box, in the last row of blocks, make a pit.

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Then, make a one-block slot on the end of the wall just behind the pit, and then make a small section and fill it will snow golems. They will automatically attack pigmen, aggravating them (and since pigmen have bad AI compared to most mobs) the pigmen will run towards the snow golems, and fall into the pit.

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You can either make the pit far enough to kill the pigmen and have hoppers pick up the drops, or you can make it one-block before killing them, and make a small window that looks onto their feet so you can hit them to also get the exp.

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Another Snow Golem design would be a 1 block thin strip of land, and snow golems could snipe pigmen off into a pit.

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