For information about properties of farm blocks, see farmland.
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
- Animal Farming
- Using wheat, seeds, and carrots to breed animals, to be slaughtered for their products or used in egg, milk, or wool Farming.
- Hostile Mob Farming
- Creating spawn rooms for hostile mobs, to be killed for their drops.
- Villager Farming
- Farming villagers by creating houses, doors, or curing spawned zombie villagers.
Experience Farming
- Spawner 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
- Cactus Farming
- Farming cacti for cactus green dye or traps.
- Cobblestone Farming
- Creating a stone or cobblestone generator for self-repairing shelters or harvesting.
- Obsidian Farming
- Creating an obsidian generator for obsidian intensive builds.
- Ice Farming
- Farming ice using a self-refilling rink.
- Pumpkin Farming
- 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.
- Tree Farming
- Farming trees for wood, saplings, apples, or charcoal.
- Mycelium Farming
- Farming mycelium for decoration.
Item Farming
- Iron Farming
- Farming iron ingots by killing iron golems spawned in large villages.
- Gold Farming
- Farming gold nuggets by killing zombie pigmen which spawn in the Nether or near Nether portals in the Overworld.
- Egg Farming
- Farming eggs for use in cake, pumpkin pie or creating chickens.
- Cocoa Bean Farming
- Farming cocoa beans for use in cookies or creating brown wool.
- Mushroom Farming
- Farming mushrooms for use in mushroom stew or creating huge mushrooms.
- Nether Wart Farming
- Farming nether wart for use in brewing.
- Snow Farming
- Trapping a snow golem and digging the snow it produces.
- Sugar Cane Farming
- Farming sugar canes for books, which are required for bookshelves; and sugar, which is required for cake, pumpkin pie and potion brewing.
- Chorus Fruit Farming
- 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.