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.

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)