Farming



Farming refers to the systematic production of renewable resources. It is usually used to get blocks, food, experience and more things. Specific types of farming include:

Mob Farming

 * Using wheat, seeds, and carrots to breed animals, to be slaughtered for their products or used in egg, milk, or wool Farming.
 * Creating spawn rooms for hostile mobs, to be killed for their drops.
 * Farming villagers by creating houses, doors, or curing spawned zombie villagers.

Experience Farming

 * Waiting at an active monster spawner for monsters to spawn. This includes mobs that do not spawn naturally without the use of spawners, notably cave spiders.

Food Farming

 * Wheat, Carrot,  Potato, and  Beetroot Farming: Farming wheat, carrots, potatoes, and beetroots, the four staple food crops.
 * Pumpkin and Melon Farming: Farming pumpkins and melons.

Block Farming

 * Farming cacti for cactus green dye or traps.
 * Creating a stone or cobblestone generator for self-repairing shelters or harvesting.
 * Creating an obsidian generator for obsidian intensive builds.
 * Farming ice using a self-refilling rink.
 * Farming pumpkins for use in pumpkin pie, jack o'lanterns or golems.
 * Vine Farming: Farming vines for use instead of ladders, for decoration or to be used to craft mossy stone bricks or moss stone and to decorate banners.
 * Farming trees for wood, saplings, apples, or charcoal.
 * Mycelium Farming: Farming mycelium for decoration.

Item Farming

 * Farming Bone meal by adding the farm to the end of another farm.
 * Farming iron ingots by killing iron golems spawned in large villages.
 * Farming iron ingots by killing iron golems spawned in large villages.


 * Farming gold nuggets by killing zombie pigmen which spawn in the Nether or near Nether portals in the Overworld.
 * Farming eggs for use in cake, pumpkin pie or creating chickens.
 * Farming cocoa beans for use in cookies or creating brown wool.
 * Farming mushrooms for use in mushroom stew or creating huge mushrooms.
 * Farming nether wart for use in brewing.
 * Trapping a snow golem and digging the snow it produces.
 * Farming sugar canes to make paper, which can be traded for emeralds as well as a crafting ingredient for books (and subsequently bookshelves); and sugar, which is required for cake, pumpkin pie, and brewing potions of swiftness.
 * Farming chorus fruit for food and popped chorus fruit, which makes purpur blocks.


 * Fish Farming
 * Farming fish, experience and other items by fishing with the use of a fishing rod.

Anleitungen/Farm (Begriffsklärung) Reproducción Agriculture Produzione 生産 Landbouw (doorverwijzing) Cultivo 耕种（消歧义）