12 Best Farms To Make In Minecraft

The constant attention to resource management in Minecraft can be made far easier when you build the best farms to automate the collection of certain materials. The sheer amount of items you have to keep track of can be overwhelming, especially as you discover new biomes throughout your sandbox world. A farm could take away the stress of material hunting while you focus on other important tasks.

Farms can range from traditional mob enclosures to places where you collect the best crops in Minecraft to keep your character’s energy up. Food and potions crafted for upcoming expeditions are just as important as rare materials harvested from dangerous creatures. Some seeds you could use to generate your world may have unique biomes that cause you to prioritize a certain type of farm over another.

12 Chicken Farm

Early Feathers Source

Chicken farms are one of the most common additions to a base in Minecraft, providing food, feathers, and eggs for various crafting recipes. Food helps regain health in a tight spot, but the other materials provided by chickens can also be excellent for trade. The simple breeding mechanics in the game make this an easy farm to build, using basic items that even beginners may be able to understand.

A basic build by
JC Playz
on Youtube teaches players how to use a Hopper and Lava Block to cook chickens automatically.

Chickens occasionally produce Eggs, which can be used in Cake recipes to provide one of the most regeneration food items in the game. The raw Meat from a dead Chicken can be smelted into Cooked Chicken, which restores some of the most hearts out of any food item. Since Chickens breed faster than other farm animals, they are among the easiest and most efficient to farm.

11 Honey or Bee Farm

Excellent Sugar Source

The Honey or Bee Farm provides two major resources you want to harvest: Honey and Honeycombs. Honey can be refined into Sugar, which is used in various food recipes, while Honeycomb makes unique Honeycomb blocks, Wax, and Candles. Bottles filled with Honey in Minecraft also allow you to create an Anti-Poison Potion, which disables the negative effects of concoctions thrown by hostile Witch mobs.

An automated Honey farm in Minecraft can be a bit difficult to make since it demands that you be close to an area with Bee mobs nearby. If you desperately wish to have the materials provided by these creatures, you may want to load a world seed that has the Cherry Blossom biome.

10 Magma Farm

Craft Fire-Resistance Potions

Another hard farm to create is a Magma Farm, but having Magma Blocks can be incredibly useful to defend your base from hostile mobs. You will have to build this farm in the Nether, and then you can craft various items for decoration, light production, and even potion making. A byproduct of Magma Block destruction is Magma Cream, which can make Fire Resistance Potions to help fan the Nether’s flames in Minecraft.

Shulkercraft
on YouTube shows how to make an efficient Magma Farm that produces around 3700 units of Magma Cream and 920 Magma Blocks per hour.

Ordinarily, Magma Cream is only crafted when you combine Blaze Rods and Slime Balls. However, with Blaze Rods being an important ingredient to make Eyes of Ender in Minecraft, you want to save each one you get from dangerous Blaze mobs. Building a Magma farm allows you to get Magma Cream without resorting to other materials, allowing you to get the item without much sacrifice.

9 Fish Farm

Easy XP Farm

An unlimited food source can come from a Fish Farm, which also gives you a ton of experience quickly in Minecraft. Planting enchantments on fishing rods will help you lure tons of different fish types, including Salmon, Pufferfish, Cod, and Tropical Fish. There are special items tied to each type of fish that you will obtain on top of the food and XP when you catch these creatures in limited pools of water.

Any fish you catch can easily be cooked in a Smelter to give you food that regenerates health. Constructing an automatic fish farm will give you a nearly infinite food supply, and give you the XP needed to enchant all of your weapons and armor easily.

8 Piglin/Gold Farm

Gain Tons Of Items Through Trading

Piglins have changed a lot in recent Minecraft updates, with the normally passive Nether mobs gaining a robust bartering system you can exploit on a farm. Piglins are drawn to Gold, accepting it in their trades and even offering some in return for other valuables. This method can help you get many unique items, from rare blocks to enhanced Potions, weapons, or armor.

A Piglin farm must usually be built in the Nether, which can be a dangerous place to build without resources or blocks that stop attacks from other creatures like Ghasts.

All you need to do is simply trap one Piglin in a glass cage where they can’t escape or despawn, then place a funnel over their head. Placing Gold Ingots through this space forces the Piglin to trade, where a basic Redstone setup can siphon the treasures the Piglin gives you in exchange for the Gold into a nearby Chest. This method can also be used to simply kill the Piglin, allowing you to gain Gold for a farm you set up later.

7 Creeper Farm

The Best Gunpowder Source

Gunpowder is a particular tool you may want to get through a Creeper Farm rather than wait for these creatures to sneak toward you and blow up. Manipulating a mob spawner that sends these green bombs into a kill chamber is the best way to harvest the TNT material in Minecraft without getting hurt. As one may expect, making a machine designed to eliminate Creepers may take far more time and effort than other farms.

Although you can sometimes find Gunpowder in Jungle or Desert Temple structures, having it reliable opens the door to many new items. For example, Gunpowder is used to craft Firework Rockets, Fire Charges, and turn any Potion into a Splash Potion. Splash Potions can deliver a Potion effect to any target in an AoE radius once it’s thrown, allowing you to buff your friends or debuff enemy mobs.

6 Enderman Farm

Teleportation Made Easy

The tall, mysterious mobs of Minecraft are hard to pin down in an Enderman Farm due to their teleporting nature. However, those who have traveled to the End may be able to make a farm that lures these mobs into a trap in the mid to late-game stages of their adventure. Killing Endermen grants you a ton of XP and is one of the few ways to harvest Ender Pearls, extremely rare items that let you teleport when thrown.

Ender Pearls are also items used to craft
Eyes of Ender
, which help transport you to The End dimension. YouTube creator
Shulkercraft
compares five different Enderman Farm designs, which players should research before building their own.

Ender Pearls only have a 10% drop rate, making them extremely hard to get from random Enderman you may spot in the overworld. The elusive nature of Endermen can also make them too strong to take down or catch unless you have strong equipment. With an Enderman farm, you can simplify this process and make it easier to get Pearls from these creatures without worrying about pinning them down.

5 Wool Farm

Colorful Decorations

A Wool Farm provides the fluffy cotton from Sheep mobs to give you a reliable material that you can use to craft furniture and fuel fires in Minecraft. Enclosing individual Sheep into a small space blocked by grass and glass blocks lets them eat the grass below while preventing them from getting lost. You can set up a machine to automatically shear the sheep as their coat grows back, giving you an unlimited supply of Wool.

You can take the initial Wool provided by a Sheep mob and use
color dye
to create various decorative items that boast different hues and shades.

Wool is obviously used to make a Bed, a place where you can rest and recover while waiting out the night filled with mobs. This farm should not be confused with a Sheep farm, which can be used to farm meat from the animals for food. Rather, this preserves the sheep and allows you to gain Wool that can be used to customize your character’s look as you play.

4 Slime Farm

Slime Blocks Have Many Uses

A Slime Farm is only limited by your ability to actually find Slime mobs in Minecraft, which are typically elusive creatures to discover. Scavenging Swamp biomes is an excellent way to track these green cubes down, but you should also have some luck underground, according to YouTube creator Eyecraftmc. Slimes can create Slime Blocks, Fire Resistance Potions, Sticky Pistons, and Magma Creams from their harvested materials.

Fire Resistance Potions are essential for any trip into the Nether, but those looking to make Redstone contraptions will need plenty of Slime Balls as well. Sticky Pistons are sometimes used to create the other resource farms on this list, making them arguably one of the most important materials for you to harvest.

3 Goat Horn Farm

Their Milk Alo Cures Afflictions

One of the most interesting structures to make in Minecraft is the Goat Horn Farm, which can be similar to the Wool Farm with Sheep. Taking advantage of the Goat Horns dropped by goat mobs, you can craft eight different types of instruments that play unique music from parts collected from the shaggy creatures. In the same way that cow mobs’ milk can cure status effects, Goat Milk can also cure afflictions.

Be careful when building a Goat Horn Farm since goat mobs can ram into you and deal a considerable amount of damage.

An Adult Goat you herd into a farm has a chance to drop up to two Horns for you to use. Two types of Goats drop Horns, known as Normal Goats and Screaming Goats in Minecraft. The sounds made by each Horn correspond to its label, allowing you to infer what kind of noise it will produce. The Horns you can get from Goats are:

• Ponder Horn (from Normal Goat)
• Sing Horn (from Normal Goat)
• Seek Horn (from Normal Goat)
• Feel Horn (from Normal Goat)
• Admire Horn (from Screaming Goat)
• Call Horn (from Screaming Goat)
• Yearn Horn (from Screaming Goat)
• Dream Horn (from Screaming Goat)

Any sound produced by these Horns can be heard over a great distance, allowing you and your friends to hear each other from afar. Skilled players can create codes out of different Horns, with various sounds creating messages for someone else. The endless creativity of these items makes them worth farming, despite the struggle it may take to herd these temperamental animals.

2 Iron Farm

Collect The Most Important Metal

Iron is among the most important resources in Minecraft, with the smelted version of Iron Ore being used to create powerful weapons, armor, and other tools. Iron tools are usually the longest-lasting tools you can make, but that doesn’t mean they don’t break eventually. Building an Iron farm allows you to always have the material on hand for when your best gear breaks down after a long journey.

As you can see in the above video by YouTube creator Voltrox, the key to an Iron farm is trapping a group of Villagers together. By allowing enemy mobs to get near these Villagers, you can manipulate the spawn of an Iron Golem that appears to protect them. The kill box you make for the Golem that spawns will generate tons of Iron Ingots every time, saving you tons of time usually reserved for smelting the material from Iron Ore.

1 Tree or Wood Farm

Genuine Time Saver

By far, the most valuable automated material collector you could build is a Tree or Wood Farm, which provides a basic resource for construction. Harvesting individual trees for their Wood provides an abundant, renewable resource that is demanded in nearly every important crafting recipe in Minecraft. A fantastic Wood Farm design from YouTube creator OinkOink can even produce up to 7000+ Wood Blocks per hour.

Wood is used in practically every recipe in the game, from basic home-building to crafting basic weapons or tools. The best farms in Minecraft give you a dependable source of an important item and are built in a way that requires minimal effort to operate during the rest of your experience.

Source: YouTube/JC_Playz, YouTube/Eyecraftmc, YouTube/OinkOink, Voltrox/YouTube, YouTube/Shulkercraft