Creeper farm in Maincrafter – a system of mechanisms that allows you to safely and autonomously accumulate a strategic reserve of gunpowder. This resource is very valuable both in single-player games and on public servers - it is difficult to obtain and can be used in many places. A special gunpowder farm in Minecraft is one of the most important farming systems, so it is important to know how it works and what mistakes happen during its construction.
In this guide, we'll show you how to build a creeper farm in Minecraft, and also tell you where to use excess gunpowder.
In addition to farming gunpowder, you can build farms for mining in the game tree, stone, gland, cane, bamboo, cacti, mushrooms, vegetables и bone meal.
What is an automatic creeper farm in Minecraft?
A creeper farm in Minecraft can make the game much easier in survival mode:
- If a creeper explodes, then from it no loot drops.
- Killing him can drop as much as 0-2 units of gunpowder.
- High probability die while hunting a creeper.
Therefore, building a special system that will allow you to automatically farm this monster will, over time, pay for all the resources spent. The principle of breeding and killing creepers is similar to that used in general monster farm, however, the endless gunpowder farm is a more complex and specialized building. Let's list where gunpowder is mainly used in Minecraft:
- Dynamite [TNT].
- Rocket [Pyrotechnic Rocket].
- Fire ball.
- Star [Pyrotechnic Star].
- Explosive Potion.
As a result, gunpowder is needed at all stages of the game in huge quantities, so it is important to always keep a strategic reserve of this resource.
How to build an automatic powder farm on snowmen
This gunpowder farming system works due to the natural generation of mobs near the player - it can be artificially adjusted to specific creatures through a specialized platform design. This creeper farm operates without cats - all the work is done by snow golems, which provoke enemies and drive them into a trap.
Advantages |
Disadvantages |
A safe way to farm endlessly. | A large supply of resources is needed. |
Maximum powder performance. | We need to find the ocean. |
Fully automatic system. | Long and labor-intensive construction process. |
Preparation and selection of location
Below is a list of materials used to create a creeper farm without a spawner:
- Stone (any block) ×2048.
- Hatch ×896.
- Snow ×32.
- Carved pumpkin ×16.
- Bed ×1.
- Lever ×1.
- Button ×16.
- Scaffolding ×128.
- Bonfire with soul fire ×9.
- Funnel ×10.
- Fence ×13.
- Gate ×8.
- Slab (any half-block) ×96.
- Chest ×2.
- Torch ×64.
- Piston ×1.
- Bucket of water ×1.
The main condition when choosing a place for construction is to find ocean, then sail as far as possible from all shores and find algae on the water surface - you can immediately place the foundation of a future farm on them (width ×3, length ×3).
Construction Stages
Brief instructions for construction:
- Create a starting platform.
- Place the chest and attach the funnel to it.
- Attach 9 more pieces to the first funnel.
- Place fires with soul fire on the funnels.
- Surround the fires with a wall of 2 blocks.
- Create additional tiers on each side of the wall.
- Place open gates on all fires except the central one.
- On the outside of the platform, make a wall of 3 blocks.
- Place a bucket of water in each corner.
- In the center, at the height of the last tier, create a square.
- Place the bed inside the square and fill the rest of the space with slabs.
- Make a square of fence above the bed.
- Create a temporary structure that will allow you to make snow golems (two blocks of snow and a pumpkin).
- Disassemble the temporary structure, beat the snowmen with your hand so that they are distributed inside the fence, then place 5 more sections of the fence - four in the center of the square, and one directly above them.
- Make a temporary mechanism using a piston and lever to move the top fence down.
- If everything is done correctly, you will get a fence in the form of a cross, which fixes the snowmen and distributes them into sections.
- Place buttons on the bricks around the fence.
- Make open hatches around the perimeter of the inner square.
- Build another circuit of hatches, but open them upward.
- From the center of each side of the tier, make a line of 11 blocks.
- Create a connecting path as shown in the screenshot.
- Repeat for all sections.
- Fill the empty space with bricks.
- Place the slabs across the entire surface of the platform at a distance of 2 blocks from each other.
- Make an outer wall of 2 blocks.
- Place hatches inside all internal openings and open them down.
- From the center of each of the 4 sides of the wall, create a line of 12 hatches.
- Fill any remaining space with hatches. They should extend exactly to the edges of the holes in the center of the platform.
- Cover the entire space on top with bricks.
- In the center of the roof, make a path up from scaffolding - 115 pieces for Java versions and 50 pieces for Bedrock Edition.
- Fill the roof space with torches - the more, the better.
- Place a small platform at the very top.
- Surround the top tier with walls and a ceiling, and also place one torch.
Additional details of the process can be seen in the video:
Farm inspection and testing
How to make sure that the farm system is working:
- Climb into the small house and wait 5-10 minutes.
- Creepers will begin to appear inside the farm, and snowmen will attack them.
- The monsters will go towards the golems and fall onto the fires, after which loot will go into the chest.
If, in addition to gunpowder, foreign objects are found in the storage, then the farm was built incorrectly.
Farm improvement and optimization
There are several useful upgrades:
- Use some more chests and funnels to expand your storage.
- Use additional blocks and improve the appearance of the building.
- Tinted glass windows allow you to check what is happening inside.
You can suggest additional ideas in the comments.
Frequent problems
Let us briefly describe the most common problems on a farm of this type:
- Rain kills snowmen, so temporarily shelter them under a roof.
- If spiders appeared inside, which means the slabs or hatches were positioned incorrectly.
- Creepers only explode if hatches, buttons, or fences around snow golems are positioned incorrectly.
It is also important to note that the distance for monster spawning can be changed manually by admins on private servers – check this to adjust the height of the scaffolding.
How to build an automatic creeper and gunpowder farm
This auto farm of creepers is very similar to the option described in the previous paragraphs, but snowmen are not involved here, so the process of collecting mobs occurs differently. Next, we will briefly describe all the differences, and also analyze the main features of this design.
Advantages |
Disadvantages |
A safe way to farm endlessly. | A large supply of resources is needed. |
Fully automatic system. | We need to find the ocean. |
Long and labor-intensive construction process. | |
It is necessary to add tiers to get maximum efficiency. |
Preparation and selection of location
This gunpowder extraction complex requires a lot of resources:
- Stone (any block) ×2752.
- Slab (any half-block) ×1856.
- Hatch ×342.
- Button ×200.
- Scaffolding ×30.
- Bonfire with soul fire ×9.
- Funnel ×10.
- Steps ×80.
- Glass ×42.
- Chest ×2.
- Torch ×32.
- Bucket of water ×1.
Construction Stages
Using screenshots, we will explain how to build a gunpowder farm:
- The collection system is exactly the same as in the farm described earlier, a chest and 9 funnels with bonfires of souls.
- Surround the fires with bricks.
- Increase the wall around the fire to 16 blocks high.
- On each side of the square, retreat 7 blocks and make an outline.
- Fill the outline with bricks and build a side out of them.
- Create an outline of steps on the side, then pour a bucket of water onto each of them.
- From one of the edges, lift one block over internal angle. It is important that he is not above the steps - to do this, move the block away from the corner and place the desired one above the platform.
- Destroy any extra blocks above the steps and create a square tier with even empty spaces.
- Install an open hatch in each hole, and place a button at each intersection of bricks.
- Add another exactly the same tier.
- Under the last platform you need to place closed hatches - it is important that each of them is located above an empty block where there is no button.
- Build a roof.
- Make closed hatches under the roof in the same order as on the previous tier.
- From the roof in all directions, build lines of 12 blocks.
- Connect the lines and complete the last floor.
- Cover the entire roof with half blocks.
- From one of the middle floors with hatches, retreat 20 blocks and make a glass platform.
- Destroy the extra bricks and complete the glass house, and lower the scaffolding down to climb to the farming site.
If there are small islands or other places near the farm where monsters will mistakenly appear, then you need to arrange torches.
A more detailed construction process is presented in the video:
Farm inspection and testing
Creepers should appear on tiers with hatches and buttons, and after the first attempts to move, they will fall down into a rushing stream of water, which leads to bonfires.
Farm improvement and optimization
The main feature of the current design is the ability add as many platforms as you like, on which creepers will appear. This is a labor-intensive process, but it will significantly increase the amount of gunpowder produced.
Frequent problems
If you find that on the tier, in addition to creepers, other mobs will spawn, this means you made a mistake in the placement of hatches and buttons - check the order of placement of these elements on the platform where the extra creature appeared.
Сonclusion
The first gunpowder farm of version 1.20 is more effective, but snow golems are the key and weak link, so the second option is more suitable for beginners. In addition to creepers, this resource can also be obtained from ghasts and witches, and can also be purchased through trade or found in chests. There are always wide uses for gunpowder reserves, e.g. potions, for the manufacture of dynamite, as well as when creating pyrotechnic rockets, with the help of which you can improve flight on elytra.
Read on:We hope that with the help of this guide you learned what a creeper farm is in version 1.20 of Minecraft. If any questions arise during the construction of the farm system, please write them в comments. In a special section on our website, read other useful Minecraft guides.