Talk:Tutorials/Iron golem farming

Bedrock experiments
According to YouTube videos like this one, in Bedrock Edition 1.11
 * Only beds and villagers are needed to spawn iron golems
 * Villagers don't need workstations and don't need to sleep in the beds

In my quest to figure out how to convert an existing village to an iron golem farm in a way that's feasible in survival mode, I found that those two facts aren't enough. So far I have learned: In the image to the right, my farm (with 24 beds symmetrically arranged in the buildings around the water trap) seems to spawn golems mostly outside. The one I observed spawning firsthand appeared about at the crosshairs in the image, near the bell under the well roof. I suspect that the spawning is either in a region around the bell, or in a region around a specific gossiping villager like in the Java Edition.
 * Villagers need to mingle. The iron golem spawns during the mingling period of the day.
 * The spawn location appears to have no relationship to the placement of beds.
 * If an iron golem spawns only during gathering time, the ingots per day would be whatever the golem drops each day. That's really slow but better than nothing. (Update: Seems like they can spawn anytime; the gathering time spawn was a fluke although I've seen them spawn a couple of times during gathering.)

I wish I could figure this out. Maybe next I'll suspend the bell over the center of the farm and see what happens. ~ Amatulic (talk) 06:52, 12 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Update: I destroyed the two small buildings on either side of my trap in case they extended the spawn area off to the sides. Now I have just two parallel rows of beds with the water trap in between and slabs on the ground outside. That didn't help. The iron golem still spawns near the well.


 * So I moved the bell so it is suspended above the lava pit in the trap, and created a fenced pathway 3 blocks above the water trap so the villagers could get to it by stairways. Sure enough, they started mingling there, or around the stairways... and a golem spawned again, near the well.


 * Then I broke all the doors in all buildings except my sleeping buildings, so the doors are symmetrical around the trap. The next 3 golems spawned close to the trap, but still outside of it.


 * I'm beginning to suspect that the golem is spawning around the village center, and the village center is not determined by beds, the bell, or doors. ~ Amatulic (talk) 03:25, 14 May 2019 (UTC)