Tutorials/Dripstone farming

 farming is the renewable way to farm pointed dripstone and dripstone blocks. Dripstone is used to farm potions (Bedrock Edition only), lava, and can also be used as fall damage traps for mob farms or for pranking, as it quadruples the amount of fall damage you take.

A few key points

 * Pointed dripstone on its own takes 5 real life days to grow, so it is almost unable to farm on its own. If you place water above the block which the pointed dripstone is growing on, it will grow slightly faster. However, it is still almost unable to farm in that way, but if you make the block it is growing on a dripstone block, it will speed up a lot, and it will also produce stalagmites on the floor.
 * You have a 1/4 chance to be able to buy 4 dripstone blocks for one emerald from a stone mason in Bedrock Edition, and in Java Edition the chance is 2/7.

Manual farming
To be able to manually farm dripstone, all you will need is some dripstone blocks, an equal amount of pointed dripstone and 2 water buckets. First you will need to place the amount of dripstone blocks you want dripstones to grow from, and water sources a layer above that. Now plant pointed dripstones on the dripstone blocks, and the farm is done. To harvest it, every 20 minutes or Minecraft day, check on the dripstone and harvest the second parts of the ones that are 2 high and the ones on the floor.

Lava/Potion Farming
You can farm liquids with dripstone! Here’s how:

Step 1: Place a cauldron.

Step 2: Place a block of dripstone 2 blocks above the cauldron, and place one more above it.

Step 3: Surround the upper block with dripstone, like a plus symbol.

Step 4: Place pointed dripstone 1 block above the cauldron.

Step 5: Remove the second block of dripstone from Step 2. In that space, place a block of lava. (Water also works, but why would you when you can just make an infinite water source.)

Step 6: Wait for it to fill the cauldron.

And you're done! The cauldron will keep filling up with lava! It might not seem like much, but if you place a bunch next to each other, then you can get a lot of lava! It also works with potions! Just use water instead of lava and fill the cauldron partially with the potion of your choosing. Bam! Infinite potions!