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Raid farming is a means to obtain items dropped by raid mobs (pillagers, vindicators, witches, evokers, and ravagers). Farms can be made from a village with a spawning platform for the raiders, or be made at a pillager outpost. In Bedrock Edition, a raid farm also yields special items dropped by these mobs during raids: emeralds, enchanted books, iron tools, and iron armor (of which half have enchantments). In Java Edition, getting Hero of the Village has the additional benefit of making some resources renewable, especially clay.

Mechanics

Broadly the components of a raid farm are:

  • a village (1 bed and 1 villager are sufficient)
  • a surface on which the raid is forced to spawn (the ground, or an isolated surface above)
  • a way to funnel or guide the raid mobs
  • a killing area; that is, mob grinder to kill the mobs, or a holding area for the player to kill them and earn experience as well as loot.
  • a way to get Bad Omen again, so that the next raid can start:

Video Examples

This is a basic raid farm that can be built early in the game with minimal basic materials; it works in both Bedrock and Java editions.

This is a more slightly advanced raid farm that is also simple, but uses more materials. (Bedrock ONLY)

Overview

Raid farms are usually made on or near pillager outposts. To start the raid, there must be a way to kill the pillagers that spawn naturally. This can be done by any mob grinder, however, the game must think that the player has killed the pillagers. One of the best ways to do this is to use a trident killer. Raids will only start if there is a villager and a bed nearby. Next, there must be a way to specify where the raids spawn. Raids cannot spawn on leaves or scaffolding, so you may take advantage of that. You must now make a second mob grinder, which also must make the game think you killed them, which will give you the experience points and the loot. As for storage, it is recommended you keep it far away so that raids do not spawn on it.

Loot

There is a lot of loot you can get from raids. In Bedrock Edition, however, raid loot is not earned in raid farms, as said above. You can get totems of undying, saddles, every type of enchanted book, emeralds, iron gear, iron weapons, crossbows, illager banners, sticks, gunpowder, redstone dust, glowstone dust, sugar, spider eyes, and bottles.

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