Farming

Farming refers to the systematic production of renewable resources. The technique is typically used to get blocks, food, experience and other desired items. Specific types of farming are listed below.

Automation
Farms can be classified as manual, semi-automatic, and fully automatic. Manual farms rely mostly or solely on the player to harvest and restart the farm. Semi-automatic farms use mechanisms to automatically harvest the farm, but they are manually activated by the player. Fully automatic farms do not rely on the player at all and usually use mobs or more complicated mechanisms.

Mob farming

 * Using wheat, seeds, and carrots to breed animals, to be slaughtered for their products or used in egg, milk, or wool farming.
 * Using flowers to breed bees to store in beehives and bee nests, and make Honeycomb and/or Honey.
 * Creating spawn rooms for hostile mobs to be killed for their drops.
 * Farming villagers requires the player to have enough beds and job site blocks for each villager for them to breed.
 * Farming guardians by funneling them to a concentrated area for materials and/or experience.
 * Farming blaze rods from blazes.
 * Farming crossbows, emeralds, iron tools and ominous banners from pillagers.
 * Farming tridents, nautilus shells, rotten flesh and copper ingots from drowned.
 * Farming slimeballs from slimes.

Experience farming
The reason to farm experience is to easily enchant items, or repair tools and armor. Many common experience farms require a difficulty above Peaceful, as they require mobs to spawn. Other uncommon farms use other ways to gain experience, such as fishing or furnaces.

Spawner farming involves waiting at an active monster spawner for monsters to spawn. This includes mobs that do not spawn naturally without the use of spawners, such as cave spiders.

These can be automated with a water pathway transferring the mobs to a convenient collection or killing area.

A similar system can be used to adapt "dark-spawn farms" to experience harvesting: Mobs are funneled into a grinder to soften them up, then a killing chamber where you can take a sword to them without being targeted. There are several considerations here, the hard part is doing them all at once:


 * As usual, spiders generally need to be separated or killed off to avoid them blocking other mobs.
 * The killing chamber must not allow various monsters to aggro:
 * Creepers can't see you up close, lest they ignite.
 * The system must not allow baby zombies to escape and run wild. Remember that they can go through a 1-block hole.
 * Skeletons can't be able to shoot at you.
 * Naturally, the works need to be enderman-proof, and the areas where you wait should have low ceilings to protect you from any who do show up.

Even in peaceful mode, certain crops can be auto-farmed and directed into an automated furnace or smoker. The experience from the smelting is accumulated until the furnace is manually emptied or broken.

Given automatic farms for smelting stock, fuel, and disposal, the only real limit is how much time a player is willing to let a furnace collect experience between harvests. A full chest of items contains 1,728 items, which will take 144 minutes (2 hours 24 minutes, over 6 game days) in a smoker, double that in a plain furnace.


 * Cactus provides the most experience (1/item), but a regular furnace must be used.
 * Each furnace accumulates 6 experience per minute. A chestful provides enough experience to go from none to level 32.
 * Potatoes provide about a third of that (0.35/item), but a fully-automated farm may be difficult.
 * A smoker accumulates 4.2 experience per minute. A chestful provides enough experience to go from none to level 20.
 * Kelp provides the least experience (0.1/item), but can be cooked in a smoker for 1.2 experience/minute. A chestful provides enough experience to go from nothing to level 10.

Fuel is difficult to supply automatically, but a bamboo farm may be able to keep up. Alternatively, a fuel chest can be loaded with dried-kelp blocks. A chest full of 1,728 items can be smelted by 18 lava buckets, 22 blocks (or 216 pieces) of coal, 288 logs crafted to planks, 87 dried kelp blocks... or four chests full of bamboo.

The smelted result can be collected for use, or discarded.
 * Cooked potatoes will yield more food value, or compost, than raw.
 * Cooked kelp can be composted, or crafted into blocks for fuel.
 * Green dye (from cactus) has no use beyond making things green, so it may be necessary to automatically discard it. A clock-driven dropper can be used to throw the dye pieces onto a handy block of cactus, which will destroy them.

Fishing provides a steady stream of experience, food, and treasure. Your catches will include enchanted rods, bows, and books, which can be used directly, combined in an anvil or converted to experience in a smithing table.

Initially this will be somewhat slow, but as you catch enchanted rods, you can combine them on an anvil to assemble a "god rod": Lure III to speed up catching stuff, Luck Of The Sea III to get more treasure, Mending and Unbreaking III so it will repair itself faster than it is used up.

For best results, make a safe platform to fish from, or make your own fishing pond within the protected area of your base. In either case, the water you are fishing from needs to be open from the sky, or your fishing speed will be cut in half. The best time to fish is when it is raining or storming (not in dry biomes), as you can get a 20% speed boost; note that the rain has to be falling on the bobber, but not necessarily on the player.

Fishing will initially yield an average of 12 experience points per minute, which Lure III can increase to 28 points/minute. The rain bonus will increase that to over 33 points/minute. At 28 points/minute, fishing for a Minecraft day (20 minutes) will yield 560 experience, enough to take a player from nothing to level 20.

Cleric Villagers can sell you Bottles o'Enchanting, providing a source of experience which can be stored and used at your leisure. They are expensive (3 emeralds apiece), but various crop farms (see below) can let you earn vast amounts of emeralds. Note that buying the bottles will also grant the usual experience for trading. Each stack of 64 bottles offers an average of 448 experience, enough to go from nothing to level 18.

Food and other crops

 * Wheat, Carrot,  Potato,  Beetroot farming, and Sweet Berries: Farming wheat, carrots, potatoes, beetroots, and Sweet Berries
 * Pumpkin and Melon farming:Farming pumpkins and melons
 * Vines can be farmed for use instead of ladders, decoration, or crafting mossy stone bricks or mossy cobblestone. The Nether also offers weeping vines and twisting vines.  In all cases they are initially planted on a block (green vines on the side of the block, weeping vines on the bottom, twisting vines on the top), after which they can be allowed to grow naturally or force-grown with bonemeal.  All are harvested with shears, though the Nether vines can be harvested at a 1/3 drop rate without tools.
 * Farming kelp for fuel or decoration.
 * Farming kelp for fuel or decoration.


 * Farming bamboo for fuel or scaffolds.
 * Farming sugar canes to make paper and sugar.
 * Farming chorus fruit for food and popped chorus fruit, which makes purpur blocks and end rods.
 * Farming mushrooms for use in mushroom stew or creating huge mushrooms. They can be farmed in darkness, in the Nether, or (in any light) on mycelium or podzol blocks.
 * Farming nether wart for use in brewing.

Block farming

 * Farming cacti for 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 trees for wood, saplings, apples, or charcoal.
 * Farming wool for many different uses

Several other blocks can be produced in place and then harvested:
 * and : Mycelium, like grass, can be allowed to spread through plain dirt, then harvested with any Silk Touch tool.
 * Podzol does not naturally spread through dirt, but growing a giant spruce tree will convert all dirt nearby to podzol, which can be harvested with Silk Touch.
 * : Either form of nylium does not naturally spread, but can be made to spread through netherrack by use of bone meal.  It can be used for decoration, or for growing Fungus and other Nether plants.

Item farming

 * Farming bone meal.
 * 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 zombified piglins, 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.
 * Trapping a snow golem and digging the snow it produces.
 * Farming fish, experience and other items by fishing with the use of a fishing rod.
 * Farming honey bottles and honeycombs from bee nests.

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