Mob farm in Maincrafter is a clever crusher of hostile creatures for safe farming of dropped loot. Despite the availability of the main monsters in the character’s environment, a special system can greatly facilitate the process of finding and killing the necessary opponents. Basically, the mob farm in Minecraft allows you to get resources such as thread, bone, spider eye, arrow, and rotten flesh.
In this tutorial we will show you how to make a Minecraft mob farm. Read on to find out how to safely obtain loot from hostile monsters, as well as where to dispose of any excess loot.
In addition to farming mobs in the game, you can build farms for mining tree, stone, gland, cane, bamboo, cacti, mushrooms и vegetables.
What is an automatic mob farm in Minecraft?
In Minecraft, a monster farm is a specialized area that uses game mechanisms to concentrate the spawning of creatures in one place, and then quickly kill them and get loot. There are many varieties of such systems, which differ in automation, types of monsters, size and location. The simplest farming system is capable of spawning various mobs regardless of the current biome:
- Zombie.
- Skeleton.
- Spider.
- Creeper.
- Witch.
You can also create farms to capture and kill other hostile creatures or neutral monsters, but such structures require special conditions. A simple automatic mob farm version 1.20 allows you to obtain the following materials as loot from dead enemies:
- A thread.
- Spider Eye.
- Arrow.
- Bone.
- Rotten flesh.
- Powder.
- Item of equipment.
Loot from mobs has a very wide application, for example: a thread – creating a weapon, a bag, a leash, candles, scaffolding, a loom, a fishing rod, white wool; Spider Eye - one of the main ingredients in alchemy; arrows – consumable ammunition; rotten flesh – material for taming wolves; bone – a resource for crafting bone meal.
How to build an automatic mob farm
A standard automatic mob farm generates new creatures in designated areas, after which, using streams of water, it washes enemies into the center, where they are killed, and the dropped resources are moved to a common warehouse. The principle of operation of the building is due to the fact that monsters will appear only at a certain distance from the character - usually this is a limit of up to 128 blocks. The success of the farm depends on the successful location of the system, the size of the structure, as well as the correct configuration of automation mechanisms.
Advantages | Disadvantages |
Safely farm hostile creatures. | A lot of materials are needed. |
Full automation of the process. | You need to have a good understanding of how redstone circuits work. |
High performance. | You cannot gain experience from killed mobs. |
Simple construction. | Takes up a lot of space. |
Aesthetic appearance. | Does not work in Minecraft Bedrock Edition. |
Preparation and selection of location
To build this farm you will need the following resources:
- Glass ×216.
- Scaffolding ×128.
- Chest ×10.
- Funnel ×30.
- Fence ×16.
- Bonfire with soul fire ×25.
- Redstone repeater ×26.
- Redstone dust ×2.
- Redstone torch ×1.
- Lever ×1.
- Torch ×32.
- Observer ×6.
- Dispenser ×6.
- Boat ×1.
- Bucket of water ×8.
It’s better to build on the water, away from the shore, to prevent unnecessary mobs from spawning in an ineffective zone: width ×21, length ×21 – this square must be made manually.
Construction Stages
Carefully follow the next steps to properly build a mob farm:
- Place the double chest in the center of the platform.
- Attach a funnel to the chest.
- Make 5 levels with alternating funnels and chests.
- Attach another funnel to the topmost funnel, then add more funnels around it - you should get a square with a side of 5 blocks.
- From the center of each side of the square, make stripes of 7 blocks.
- At the end of the vertical strip, make a horizontal row of 5 blocks, then increase the subsequent rows in steps.
- Repeat this with the remaining lines.
- The end should be a large diamond-shaped platform.
- Place torches on the lowest tier to prevent monsters from spawning there.
- From the row of 5 blocks, lower the wall to the bottom platform.
- Repeat this for each of the three remaining sides.
- Add a wall 2 blocks high at each edge.
- On the outside of the diamond, add 2 wall blocks to complete the loop.
- Finish the wall around the entire perimeter.
- Place bonfires with soul fire on top of all craters.
- Place a gate in a circle on the inside of the square of fires.
- Open all the gates.
- Place the dispenser exactly in the center of the fires at a height of 4 blocks.
- To the side of the dispenser, make a strip of 7 blocks.
- Add other rows and stripes to create a symmetrical diamond-shaped platform.
- Place the observer exactly above the dispenser, its arrow should be directed towards the sky.
- Place a bucket of water in the dispenser.
- Place another dispenser above the observer - if everything was done correctly, a bucket of water should spill over this platform.
- Repeat the previous steps and add another platform with a similar mechanism. There should be 6 such tiers in total. For a roof over a structure, attach a line of 9 blocks to the distributor and complete the diamond similarly to the previous algorithm.
- On the roof of the top floor, directly on the distributor, install one repeater.
- Add 6 more repeaters to the line and place 2 piles of red dust.
- Expand the line to two strips of repeaters, each with 13 pieces, and also install a regular block on the side opposite the red dust.
- Switch each repeater to the maximum value - 3 clicks.
- Attach a redstone torch to the installed block.
- To manually control the mechanism, add a lever next to the torch.
- Place regular torches around the redstone system.
- Go down to the tier with fires and pour water from the inside of the wall.
- Repeat these steps for all sections along the contour of the wall.
- Scaffolding must be placed in the center of the roof. Increase the tower of them to 102 blocks.
- At the very top, make a small work room or house.
- In addition to the walls, add a roof - the character will be here during farming.
If you have any difficulties at any stage, watch this video:
Farm inspection and testing
Let us describe exactly how the pharma system functions:
- Activate the repeater counter and climb up the scaffolding into the work room.
- Over time, monsters will begin to appear on the platforms, and streams of water will throw them towards the fires.
- The fires will kill the mobs, and the dropped loot will move through the craters to the general warehouse.
If more than an hour has passed and the resources do not appear in the chest, then there is a significant error in the farm system.
Farm improvement and optimization
There are several options that will help improve this building:
- Instead of a square of many funnels, you can place rails and a trolley with a funnel, which will endlessly roll and collect dropped resources - this way you will get save a lot of iron.
- Floor area can be increased or decreased, depending on the available space and the required number of extracted resources.
- It is better to cover the outer walls of the farm with blocks or tinted glass so that eliminate the influence of sunlight to spawn creatures.
The farm can also be placed on a piece of land, but then you will have to place a lot of torches on the ground and find a place without caves to prevent the appearance of monsters outside the farming zone.
Frequent problems
We will describe the solution to the main difficulties that prevent you from farming mobs:
- The character must constantly be in the workroom on the farm while farming, otherwise monsters will not appear – the presence of a player at a certain distance is the main regulatory mechanism for the spawning of creatures.
- If in a common chest few resources get in, then it is worth checking the connection of the funnels at the bottom of the structure, as well as the settings of the repeaters on the roof of the farm.
- If flush mechanism does not work, then you need to rebuild the automation or switch to the Java version, because observers work differently in Bedrock Edition.
If you encounter other problems, then try to manually control the automation mechanism, change the character’s position and wait more time.
Сonclusion
This mob farm allows you to farm standard resources from monsters with maximum efficiency and minimal risk to the character’s life. Such a building can be manually adapted to the Bedrock Edition by replacing the pouring mechanism, or simplified by reducing the number of tiers. The main surplus materials from killed enemy creatures will be used for crafting bone meal and the creation of an almost endless stock of arrows.
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