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Minecraft: how to build an xp farm.
Experience points (XP) are earned in Minecraft by doing simple things like killing mobs, mining oars, and cooking food. At the bottom of your screen in the game, you will notice a green bar, either empty or slightly full, accompanied by a small green number that indicates your overall experience level. Each time you fill this bar, you will gain a new level and the bar will reset. As you increase in experience, each level requires more XP to achieve the next one. It is also important to keep in mind that dying in the game will reset your experience back to 0 . You can, however, return to the site where you died and reclaim some of the XP.
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If you intend on using an enchantment table, in any sort of efficient way, you will no doubt require an XP farm. One of the most simple and effective versions of an XP farm in Minecraft is also referred to as a mob farm . This guide will teach you how to construct an entirely automated mob, from which you can collect plenty of XP and subsequently enchant your heart's content.
Required Materials
Before you begin any construction, collect all the materials listed below:
- 25 stacks of Building Blocks (cobblestone, stone brick, deep-slate, etc. Whatever matches your style)
- Four Hoppers
- Four Chests
- Four Slabs (Any kind will do)
- One Stack of Trap Doors (Any kind will do)
- A handful of Torches
Step One: Building The Collection Apparatus
You will begin your build at the base, which features a mob, XP, and mob drop collection system. Every time mobs die in Minecraft, there are varying probabilities that they will drop useful items. You will begin by creating an automated system that collects these items and stores them in chests. The first step is digging a hole in the ground that is one block deep, two blocks wide, and two blocks long; a square. Now, place the 4 chests inside the hole.
You will then place the four hoppers on top of the chests, as shown in the image above ( shift-clicking will allow you to place the hoppers, without opening the chests instead). Use the same shift clicking method to then place the four slabs on top of the hoppers. Lastly, use your primary building block to build a wall that stretches around this structure.
The wall should float, as seen in the image above, leaving only a half block of space open.
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Step Two: Building The Structure
At this point, you have effectively built an automated system for collecting mob drop items. From here, however, you must build the actual structure of the XP farm. The first step is to continue erecting the wall from the previous step, adding 21 blocks in height.
Once this is done, build four platforms that are level with the highest blocks. They should be 2 x 8 and protrude radially outward from each side.
Next, build a wall that stretches all the way around each of these platforms. This wall should also be two blocks tall.
It would be helpful at this point to create an infinite water source inside the farm. This can be done easily by filling a 2 x 2 hole, that is one block deep, with two buckets of water.
You can now make the main chamber of the XP farm, in which the mobs will actually spawn. Build a floor by filling in the spaces between each of the four platforms. Then, make a two-block tall wall that stretches all the way around, and a roof that sits on top.
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Step Three: Inside The Farm
While you're working inside the farm, be sure to first place plenty of torches around. This will prevent hostile mobs from spawning while you're still inside.
There are several more things to do before this farm can become functional, the first of which is lining each of the trenches with trap doors, then opening them. This will trick the mobs into thinking that they are " walkable blocks ," allowing them to fall inside.
Next, use your buckets, and the infinite water source from earlier, to place a water source at the back of each trench. Each trench will require two water source blocks, one for each of the two blocks in the back. The water should flow just to the edge, leaving only one block of dry space. When mobs fall into the trenches, the current will drag them to the center of the farm. As they collect in the center, they will fall through the hole, down to the collection chamber.
Step Four: Preparing The Farm
Congratulations! The grunt work is mostly behind you. The structure of the farm itself is complete, and you are finally done building. There are, however, a few more things to square away before this farm can become operational. If you placed torches inside, to illuminate the space while you worked, removing them should be your next step. Hostile mobs spawn only in the dark, so this chamber must be kept completely devoid of light.
The efficiency of this farm depends entirely on maximizing the number of mobs that spawn inside . One way to do this is by illuminating every dark place within your render distance. If you find that your farm isn't generating as many mobs as you would like, it could very well be that there is a cave nearby, filled with lots of mobs. By completely lighting up all the nearby caves with torches, all the mob spawns become concentrated in the only place where mobs can spawn, your farm. Depending on how many caves there are in close proximity to your farm and how big those caves are, this can be a very time-consuming endeavor. If you're up to the task, however, you will undoubtedly see a major improvement in the efficiency of the farm.
One last improvement you can make, which is technically optional, is building an AFK room (AFK: Away From Keyboard). This should be built 70-100 blocks above the top of the farm. This room should include a bed, allowing you to sleep and avoid monsters spawning overnight.
The XP farm will only be as efficient as you make it. Eliminating nearby areas in which mobs can spawn, will increase the odds of them spawning in your farm.
Step Five: Using The Farm
Finally, the farm is complete and you are ready to reap the rewards of your effort. Mobs will spawn in the chamber and fall into the trenches randomly. The currents of the water will push them to the center and they fall down into the collection chamber at the bottom. All that is required of you now, is to stand outside at the bottom and kill the mobs through the half-block opening. The height of the farm was chosen specifically so that the mobs don't die from fall damage. Rather, they usually become reduced in health so that one hit is sufficient to kill them. Sometimes, however, the mobs are wearing armor, which protects them from the fall.
Use a sword when killing the mobs, they have a swiping attack that allows you to kill multiple mobs in one swing. When the mobs die, collect the green XP points that spill out from the collection chamber. If you decided to build an AFK room, wait inside of it and check the collection chamber every five minutes, or so.
Remember that the mobs often drop useful resources and items. These are all being collected by the hoppers and stored in the chests.
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How to build the ideal Minecraft XP farm
If you’re looking to get some quick XP in Minecraft , you’ll want to build an XP farm. Here are the best methods to build an effective and easy setup.
XP, otherwise known as experience, is a valuable asset in an ever changing game like Minecraft . After all, it’s important if you want to enchant your weapons , armor , or equipment, so it’s always handy to have a large amount on you, just in case.
However, with XP primarily coming from killing mobs, mining and smelting ores, or trading, it can be a little challenging to create a reliable stream of XP.
So, with that in mind, we’ve put together three of the best Minecraft XP farms so you can get to finding those new mobs, or creating the perfect house in your fantastic world , without needing to worry about XP.
- Traditional Minecraft XP farm
- Nether XP farm
- Mob Spawner XP farm
How to build a traditional Minecraft XP farm
Most Minecraft players are aware of how to build the traditional XP farm, which features a dark room built far above the player where mobs can spawn and drop down to the killing floor to be farmed.
The latest version of this farm for Minecraft version 1.19 was explained in a video from YouTuber Voltrox .
The video goes into full detail of the build, but the gist is that players will need to build a large room (16×16) with a four-block funnel in the middle.
Using trapdoors and water-logged blocks, players can trick the mobs into falling into the funnel where they will take a 22-high drop that will put them right in front of the player, one hit from death. This lets players go AFK while the funnel fills with hundreds of mobs to easily farm tons of XP (and loot).
Players will need the following materials to build this farm:
- 704 solid blocks of any kind (11 stacks of 64)
- 916 slab blocks of any kind (just under 15 stacks of 64)
- 240 trap doors (just under 4 stacks of 64)
- 2 water buckets
- 128 scaffolds (2 stacks of 64)
- 1 stack of torches (no exact number, these are just to spawn-proof as you build).
Voltrox’s build advises players to build up in the sky, but truthfully, it is fine to build on the ground in an isolated area. The farm will just be at its most efficient when it is built in the sky so that the player is high outside the range of mob spawns when they wait to farm it.
The benefit of this traditional farm is that it can be built at just about any point in the game, and doesn’t require any redstone or exotic blocks. The downside is that it requires a lot of blocks to build the spawning room.
How to build a Nether XP farm
The second farm that Minecraft players can build is based around Zombie Piglins, which are found in the Nether.
Instead of creating a spawning room for mobs that will fall into a killing chamber, however, this farm takes advantage of the Piglin’s logic where they will pursue and attack a player who attacks any nearby Piglin.
Voltrox , again, provides a blueprint for the farm.
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Instead of building a high platform, players will simply build a small pit (3x4x4) with trapdoors that they can lure Piglins into. Just like with the traditional XP farm, the trapdoors will trick Piglins into falling into the inescapable pit where the player can go down and safely kill them all.
Here are the materials needed for the Nether XP farm:
- 32 solids blocks
- 6 trapdoors
- 6 slab blocks
While Voltrox’s build advises players build something of a mound to stand on where the Piglins will chase them, you can also simply build a small hut or enclosure to shield yourself from them (but make sure the Piglins can still see you).
The benefits of this XP farm are that the material costs are very limited and you don’t have to wait and go AFK for mobs to spawn before you kill them. The downsides, though, are that you need to be able to get to the Nether and you’ll need a large flat area so the maximum amount of Piglins can see you.
How to build an XP farm around a mob spawner
If you’re lucky enough to find a mob spawner, you’re in luck because that can be easily turned into an XP farm.
To do so, all you’ll need to do is to dig out a 9-block area all around the spawner build a funnel system similar to that in the traditional spawner, and sit in the killing room waiting for mobs to drop in.
Minecraft YouTuber Jumper explains how to turn a zombie or skeleton spawner into an XP farm.
Simply build the room around the spawner, fill the corners with water buckets so that any spawning mobs get washed towards the center. There, you’ll dig down 22 levels to build a killing platform where you’ll wait for mobs to arrive one hit from death.
The materials you’ll need include:
- 64 solid blocks
- 5 slab blocks
- 64 torches (for lighting the room as you dig it out)
- 4 buckets of water (or just two to make an infinite water source)
Another alternative to building the spawner to drop mobs straight down to the killing floor is to situate the water so it pushes all the mobs to a central spot at the front of the room where they will drop down. This gives you a way into and out of the spawning room should you need to repair something.
The advantage to this XP farm is that it is also very cheap in terms of resources needed and you don’t have to build an AFK spot to stand in high in the sky. The drawback is that you’ll need to find a spawner and you will have to build the farm in that location.
Those are the three best XP farms in Minecraft. While waiting for the experience to flow in, take a look at some of our other handy Minecraft guides:
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Tutorials/Mob farm
Mob farms are structures built to acquire mob drops more easily and in larger numbers. They usually consist of two components: a large, dark room to spawn mobs, which are funneled into a central location, and a mob grinder to kill them quickly and efficiently.
- 1 Locations
- 3.1.1 Using observer blocks
- 3.2 Sinkhole
- 3.3.1 Compact canal design
- 3.3.2 Minimal canal design
- 3.3.3 Large chamber fully automatic design
- 3.3.4 Water pans
- 3.4 Active mob displacement
- 3.5 Other designs
- 4.1 Horizontal transportation
- 4.2 Downward transportation
- 4.3 Upward transportation
- 7 Performance concerns
The purpose for the farm is to provide a large area that is a viable spawn position for the intended targets, and to kill the mobs quickly. Due to the rules Minecraft applies to spawning mobs, this makes the choice of a location for the mob farm a difficult problem.
Farms placed on the surface can provide good drop rates during the day, when it is one of the few spots of dark ground, but has a sharp drop in effectiveness during nighttime, when the entire surface is dark enough to support mob spawning.
Farms built underground have a time-independent drop rate, and remain within your personal spawn range for hostiles when you go mining, but their effectiveness depends on the amount of unlit caverns in your vicinity, which provide alternative places for mobs to spawn.
Farms floating high in the sky can achieve the best spawn rates during the day and night and you are far away from caves, as they represent the only viable spawn ground. However, building one in survival is rather dangerous, and due to their height they stop working completely when you descend underground to mine resources. To produce loot, you must stay at the height of the farm.
Farms constructed under an ocean can provide the best during day and night, as the ocean limits the viable spawn locations to open areas underground except for drowned , which spawn underwater. You can also locate your base below it to ensure that you are always close enough to spawn monsters.
Superflat worlds provide higher spawn rates than other worlds, as the missing air pockets underground reduce the amount of dark places.
The Nether is difficult to farm, as water evaporates and most mobs are immune to fire. This reduces the amount of functioning farm designs considerably. One could try to funnel the mobs through Nether Portals to circumvent the restrictions.
What a mob farm produces depends on location and the type of grinder used to kill the mobs. Automatic killing prevents certain drops and experience , but is safer as the player is not required to be near the mobs. The following is a table of mobs that can be effectively farmed and their usual and player-caused drops. Player-caused drops and experience can be obtained only when the monster is killed directly by the player or a tamed wolf.
Note that zombie, skeleton, and creeper heads drop only if killed by a charged creeper. Wither skeletons, however, have a small chance to drop theirs no matter the cause of death, but still always drop them when killed via charged creeper.
When planning a mob farm, one should consider the size of the spawnable area. The maximum spawnable area depends on where one plans to be in relation to the farm. If you plan to be directly beneath the center of the farm, waiting for the items, then the radius in which mobs can spawn can be used to calculate the maximum size of the spawnable area:
In Java Edition the spawn radius is 128 blocks. In Bedrock Edition the spawn radius is roughly 96 blocks for simulation distances > 4. For simulation distance 4 in Bedrock Edition the spawn radius is 44 blocks.
In practice, however, it is rarely worthwhile to fill the maximum spawnable area with a single farm that delivers mobs to central location. For example, if you plan to spend your time in a less defined position, it might be easier to repeat a simple design several times, ensuring that at least some areas are in the spawn range while limiting complexity. Moreover, transporting mobs long distances for killing makes a farm less efficient because of caps that limit spawning based on the number of mobs already in the loaded areas around the player. The impact of caps is especially important in Bedrock Edition , which has caps that limit population densities as well as a global cap that counts mobs around every player loaded in the world.
If you are making a room that relies on darkness to spawn mobs, cave sounds and bats are good signs that your spawner is dark enough to let hostile mobs spawn.
Spawning tower
One of the most popular overworld designs for a general mob farm is based on a tower of spawning pads that are periodically flushed with water to push the mobs off so that they die from fall damage. The water comes from a central pillar of dispensers and observers that cascade a clock signal between platforms. This type of farm is known for its high production rates, simplicity, reliability, and ease of build.
Starting in 1.19.3, mobs no longer spawn on scaffolding. In this case, just build the spawning platforms with top slabs instead of scaffolding. The central signal tower of observers, dispensers, scaffolding blocks remains the same.
Using observer blocks
The designs shown in the YouTube videos above are somewhat resource intensive, but this design requires only the following materials:
- 1 dispenser (per layer)
- 1 water bucket (per layer)
- 1 observer (per layer)
- 112 opaque blocks of choice (per layer)
- 1 clock (e.g. an Ethonian hopper clock: 2 hoppers , 2 sticky pistons , 2 comparators )
- A capture layer (just several dozen hoppers leading into a chest)
In addition to being inexpensive, it is also easier to build.
The design uses three different layers that are repeated with a redstone clock added to the top layer. The layers are as follows:
- Top layer: An observer block, facing up observing the dispenser it; the rest of this layer is air.
- Middle layer: This layer is completely air (once the dispenser is triggered, it becomes filled with water taking the block above the dispenser at its center).
- Bottom layer: The dispenser (facing up , surrounded by opaque blocks (e.g. cobblestone) to hold the water . Fill the dispensers are filled with a bucket of water.
For layer one, the blocks must hold all of the water, so go out seven blocks in each direction, then fill in diagonally. Optionally, you can surround these blocks with signs to prevent spiders from climbing up. However, this would be a large amount of work for little benefit.
This mechanism can cascade downward through quasi-connectivity. When the top dispenser is triggered the observer see the state change and signals down to the air gap above the dispenser below, activating it through quasi-connectivity.
This cascades down through all of the layers (make as many as you like, but anywhere between 3 and 10 should be plenty). To start this cascade, the topmost dispenser needs to be activated. It is recommended to do so using an Ethonian hopper clock with about ten items in it. You can trigger the topmost observer using the redstone output from one of the emplacement the redstone block could be in the clock. It is also recommended to make the layer on which you place the clock bigger than the other the hide the layers under from the sun, and to place torchs on it to prevent mob spawn.
The easiest possible design consists of a large, empty area of simple shape, with one or more holes in the ground for the mobs to drop through. The edge of each hole has to be lined with opened trapdoors or gates to trick the Mob AI into believing the hole to be solid ground. Trapdoors can also be controlled with redstone , so one could shut off the farm by closing the holes remotely.
The whole room is closed by a roof to create a minimal light level. A roof height of 3 allows Endermen to spawn, while a roof height of 1 would restrict the farm to spiders.
Sinkhole farms have limited effectiveness, as the chance for a mob to wander into a hole is small, and zero when the player is so far away that the mobs freeze. [ Java Edition only ] But they can be built quickly and cheaply, and works in the Nether (unlike other designs requiring water because you can't place water in the Nether).
Canal-style
Example layout of a 38x38 Canal-style farm
To improve the chances of a mob falling into the holes, one can add channels filled with flowing water, leading to the central hole. The channels are lined with open trapdoors to trick the mobs into falling in, and the water transports them into the grinders. Such a design requires a bit of planning to ensure that there is no stationary water in which the mobs might get stuck, reducing effectiveness.
Because the system uses water to transport mobs, it cannot capture Endermen, which teleport away when touching water. Therefore, the roof of the cavern should be 2 blocks above the ground to prevent griefing of your farm by Endermen taking blocks.
Compact canal design
Compact Canal design
An easily-built design can be made in a 20×20 area, using eight water source blocks to fill the channels, which are exactly eight blocks long so that the water stops exactly at the edges of the central hole. The design can be easily stacked or placed next to each other to increase the effectiveness. This design can be made even smaller as shown in the video (14×14 area). Shrinking the design can be done by using signs to cut off the water flow at the edge of the sinkhole, forcing the mobs to fall into the central hole.
Minimal canal design
Minimal Canal design, using glass to show the flow of water
If there is not enough space for larger designs, this might be used. Its small size of 10x10 or 20x20 (inner area) makes it able to be incorporated into larger construction projects without trouble. It uses four water source blocks, one in each corner, with the water flowing around 3x3 squares of building material to the central hole. The parts of the water between the wall and the blocks is closed over to provide more spawning area.
Large chamber fully automatic design
Large Chamber Fully Automatic
This is a large farm that requires significant resources. It has 6 spawn chambers in each building, and redstone controlling it. It outputs 4 waves of average 10-15 mobs every 16 or so seconds.
If you have mobs coming in from multiple sources, you may need a water pan (a.k.a. water tray) to collect mobs from a large area to a central dropshaft.
A basic 9×9 (not counting the walls) water tray works well for zombie or skeleton spawners, or when gathering together the output of several dark areas. Simply put water sources at the corners of the square, and they flow to drop the mobs into a hole in the central square. For spiders or iron golems, you must expand this to 10×10, which allows for a 2×2 hole in the middle (for spiders, you must also line the chute with glass).
For a few cases (notably Overworld gold farms), a 27×27 water tray (counting the walls!), with two levels, may be needed. Start with a classic 9x9 pan surrounding the drop chute. Move up a level to surround it with the rest of the large pan — slabs or blocks suffice for most of it (put real blocks at the boundary, so you can place water on them), but the outer ring should be a 25×25 square of fences on the same level (that is, you'd have a half-step up from the outer pan to the fences). Surround this with the 27×27 outer wall. The inner pan gets a water source at each corner, which should send the flow in to surround the hole. For the outer pan, water sources go every other block on top of the fences (place them against the outer wall), but not in a complete ring. Place the sources every other space along two opposite walls; the water should flow exactly to the edge of the inner pan. Now, if you fill in the entirety of the other walls, you get extra water sources forming from the corners, and your current becomes a sheet of mostly-still water. For the other two walls, put only five sources each covering the middle — that is, one at the midpoint, and two on each side (still every other space). This sends the water flow to the other edges of the inner pan.
The large pan could also be expanded to 28×28 with a 10×10 inner pan, but this requires some experimentation.
Active mob displacement
The Canal-Style System still suffers from the mobs freezing when outside a certain range around your character in Java Edition , and from the limitations of low population density caps in Bedrock Edition . Active Systems can correct that problem. One example is using Redstone and Dispensers filled with a Water bucket to flood the spawning grounds repeatedly, flushing all mobs into the channels to be transported to the grinders. Thus, the farm provides area for the mobs to spawn in, but does not rely on mob movement to get them into the grinder. Using this, one can omit the trapdoors needed for the other, passive designs.
In Bedrock Edition placing water on top of scaffolding provides an efficient means of active transport. Land mobs spawn with their feet inside of the scaffolding and their heads inside of the flowing water. The mobs are then immediately transported to a drop chute or other killing area. Spiders and baby mobs present a challenge for water-on-scaffolding designs because they spawn entirely inside of the scaffolding and cannot be moved by the water until they randomly climb/jump. Several methods have been invented to deal with this: buttons placed every-other block in every-other row prevents spiders from spawning at all; villagers can be used to lure baby zombies (see below); snow golems can be used to knock mobs upward and into the flowing water; or cascading water down a funnel-shaped spawn floor can be used to pull babies and spiders into the water flow at every block.
Other designs
Instead of using water to transport mobs, there are various other methods to make them move toward the grinder, each of which may work better with certain mobs but with other tradeoffs.
- Sunlight mob farm: Undead mobs seek protection from sunlight. A roof three blocks above the ground can provide a shady area to lure undead mobs into a pit lined with open trap doors, leading into a grinder. The disadvantage of the farm is that it attracts only zombies and skeletons.
- Villager: Only zombies and drowned are attracted to villagers . This method works by having one or more villagers trapped (but protected from actual attack). Any nearby zombies go toward the villagers. You can make a maze that the zombies have to go through so that you need only one trap. However, there should be some sort of trap that the zombies fall into to get to the villagers (e.g. a ton of soul sand in water or in air, fall damage, etc.).
- Turtle eggs: This method works on zombies , drowned and zombified piglins . turtle eggs attract all variations of zombies, which want to trample them. Turtle eggs can be used in combination with open trapdoors above a drop to lure any zombie-variant mobs into a killing chamber. It is a popular choice for zombified piglin farms in the nether, and can be used as a method to lure zombies away from other mobs in a standard mob farm.
- The easiest configuration consists of a wall of iron doors or fence gates (you can use wooden doors if you're not on Hard difficulty) with a row of pressure plates in front of them. When the mobs walk onto the pressure plates, the door opens, letting them through, but once on the other side, they can't open the door since there is no switch.
- With pistons, the arrangement is reversed, with the pressure plates on the desired side, and the pistons pointing upward, so that they block the path of the mobs when extended. This design works only with a 2-block high roof to prevent the mobs from jumping, and even then might fail on spiders. However, it requires considerably more common ingredients than the iron door variant.
- Such systems can also be used to "store" mobs after gathering them from the farm, so that they later can be killed for the rare drops and experience
- Slime: This farm design uses large slimes to push mobs off ledges. The simplest way to get these slimes are through a slime farm. As for the rates, it gets over 20,000 items per hour, as said in the video title.
- Cats: Creepers flee from cats. This can be used to redirect the creepers away from other mobs, and/or to their own killing chamber. Similarly, skeletons and wither skeletons flee from wolves.
Transporting mobs
After collecting the mobs from the farm, it might be beneficial to transport them to a different location before grinding them, so that you can access the items more easily while remaining at a close-to optimal position for the spawning of your farms.
Horizontal transportation
Horizontal Transportation can be done easily using flowing water, with a drop of 1 block vertically for every 8 block traveled horizontally. Build a tunnel with a height of 3 blocks and a width equal to the size of your gathering holes (usually 2). Mine forward to a length of 8 Blocks, so that water placed at the start ends exactly at the drop. Repeat, but one block lower, so that the mobs fall from one funnel part to the next. Mine out the roof at the higher level for 2 or 3 more blocks to prevent spider clinging to the walls from clogging up the funnel.
Spider grinder
Alternatively, one can use a cactus to grind the spiders immediately. To do this, make the first funnel part only 7 blocks long and place one water source block instead of two. Place a sand block and a cactus on top on the same side as the source block. To place the cactus, you have to mine out the block next to it. To ensure the water flow on the next part, mine out the wall block next to the sand and add the water sources there and next to the sand, where there would usually be one.
Downward transportation
Transporting mobs and items downward is trivial, simply let them drop down a chute with a water brake at the bottom. Or omit the water brake when you want the mobs to die from fall damage.
Upward transportation
Upward transportation uses the fact that nearly all mobs attempt to swim in water, moving upward. Therefore, to get the mobs moving upward, one must provide a column of water with enough air holes to prevent them from drowning. This can be done by arranging signs or ladders and water source blocks in the following vertical configuration:
This can be repeated indefinitely in any direction for a mob elevator. When arriving at the right height, flowing water on top of the topmost ladder is enough to dislodge them.
Slimes do not swim in versions prior to Java Edition 1.8 , which can be used to separate them from other mobs.
As of Java Edition 1.13 and Bedrock Edition 1.5.0 , a block of soul sand can be placed at the bottom of a column of water source blocks to force entities quickly upward, while also supplying air for long distances. If soul sand is not used, undead mobs can be separated from the others because they do not swim upward.
The last part of a mob farm is to kill the gathered mobs and collect their items. This can be done in different ways, using the variety of damage available in Minecraft, like falling, suffocating, drowning, burning, sunlight (for undead), touching cacti, simply player-applied damage from weapons or lava.
Passive systems do not change to kill the mobs, they rely on constantly available damage sources. Traditional mob grinders used "Lava Blades" and "Drowning Traps" while newer models use magma blocks to kill mobs above the minecart/hopper retrieval system.
Active systems have to change configuration to actually kill mobs, usually in the form of redstone devices. The most known might be the "Piston Grinder", which applies suffocation damage by pushing an opaque block into the head of the mob. While possibly faster than passive systems in killing, active systems usually have a limited capacity, and higher amounts of mobs might clog or even jam the system. The "Minecart Grinder" uses Minecarts to carry the mobs into one block high space, suffocating them. This method can jam up too, but is fairly amusing. You could also use lava at the above the hoppers so you get the loot before the loot burns automatically.
EXP farms are systems that capture and soften up the mobs, but rely on the player to deliver the killing blow, so that the rare drops and experience can be gathered. An example would be a nearly-lethal falling height, which would reduce the majority of mobs to half a heart, easily killed even without a weapon. However, such systems are only as good as the player using them, and in constant danger of being destroyed by creepers if not built out of obsidian, or if the player is out of sight of the creeper, in which case it does not explode. Also on bedrock edition one can make a piston push a trident back and forth for AFK xp.
hopper make it easy to collect the dropped items, even without player involvement. This makes fully automatic mob farms possible where the loot is deposited into a chest for easy accessibility.
Performance concerns
- You should clear out the entire chunk where the mob farm is by placing torches. The game has a limit on the number of hostile mobs based on the number of loaded chunks, so it's a good idea to make sure all of them spawn in the farm.
- You may need a somewhat beefy computer to operate the farm, since mob AI can be taxing on the server component of the game program. Check the TPS indication if you are on singleplayer, or ask about the server host for rules on multiplayer servers. The quicker mobs are killed, the less likely AI is going to be a problem.
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How to Make an XP Farm in Minecraft
Experience can drop from mining certain ores in a mineshaft, taking a finished item out of a furnace, or killing a mob. This feature can be manipulated to produce a never-ending supply of XP by making an automated farm. There are several ways these farms can be made, by spawning mobs in an enclosed space, by setting up an automated fishing farm, or even an automated cactus farm. Experience is extremely crucial in some Minecraft processes such as enchantments, or renaming your items.
Minecraft allows players the ability to do many things. You can build gigantic fortresses or explore deep caverns. One aspect of the game is creating custom tools. Whether this is from enchanting and/or renaming your tools, all of this can be done with experience.
How to Make an XP Farm in Minecraft With a Spawner
Creating an XP farm with a spawner is very easy. All you have to do is mine out a room around the spawner. This will give the mob enough room to spawn. From there, use water to push the mob into a hole and fill the hole with water. Make the hole go 20 blocks up. At the top of the hole, use water to push the mob a couple of blocks in any direction and then have the water end at another hole. This will cause the mob to drop and have a little bit of health left. Now, when you hit the mob it will die. Over time the mobs will stack up and you will get enough experience from your farm.
How to Make an XP Farm in Minecraft Without a Spawner
Creating an XP farm without a spawner is just as easy. Instead of mining an area around the spawner, just make a chamber that is 30 blocks away from the player. Mobs will naturally spawn 30 blocks away from you. They will wander into the water and will flow towards the hole where they will fall and you can easily kill them for the experience.
How to Make an XP Farm in Minecraft Without Mobs
The easiest way to get XP without mobs is by smelting items or mining ores. The ores that will give you experience when mined are coal, lapis lazuli, Redstone, diamond, and emerald. One way you can make an XP farm without mobs is by creating a cactus farm. The cacti will automatically break and flow into a hopper that will go into a furnace and make some cactus green. When you take out the cactus green, it will give you experience from the furnace. This process will constantly give you more and more experience over time.
Top 5 farms for XP in Minecraft
In Minecraft, there are so many different types of XP farms, but here are the most efficient:
- Cactus or bamboo farm
- Fishing Farm
- Portals Farm
- Guardian Farm
- Enderman Farm
Cactus or Bamboo Farm
The cactus/bamboo farm is just like the one stated in the section above. This is all reliant on acquiring experience from smelting in a furnace. With a cactus farm, all you have to do is create a stream of water for the items to find their way to a hopper and then into a furnace. For the bamboo farm, you can use pistons to harvest. For the cactus farm, you can set up fences to automatically break the cactus when they are grown.
Fishing Farm
There are so many AFK fishing farms out there, but the simplest way of creating one is by using a trapdoor and some tripwires. Fishing is a great farm because not only will you get experience, but you can also get many different items. Some of these items can be different sources of food or even some enchanted books. Every time you catch an item, you will get some experience.
Portals Farm
A portals farm is another great experience farm. To set this up, all you need to do is create a massive portal above flowing water. This will cause the zombie pigman that walks into the portal to fall through and into the water where you can kill them for the experience. This farm will also drop gold as well.
Guardian Farm
The fourth experience farm on the list is a guardian farm. The reason why this is on the list is because of the amount of experience it gives. Guardians give the most experience per kill, but this farm requires the most amount of work since you have to drain an entire ocean temple.
Enderman Farm
Once you have made it to the end, and have killed the ender dragon, you can create an Enderman farm. Enderman farms are great because they give a great source of experience, but they also grant thousands upon thousands of ender pearls.
Experience is one of the most prominent addons to Minecraft. It is used to create custom weapons with your enchantments or even to rename items to what you want. You need experience and you will always passively get it, regardless of what you’re doing in your world. Creating an experience farm is a great task to complete in your Minecraft world. Minecraft players can build the above listed farms to get maximum XP without any major issues. These farms can also be built in Minecraft 1.18 update.
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Minecraft: best farms for xp.
Here are just a few incredibly ingenious Redstone and non-Redstone farms to help anyone boost their experience gain in Minecraft.
Experience is one of the key gameplay features in Minecraft . Although there are no skills or additional abilities to unlock, experience points can be spent on powerful enchantments for your gear, which can make fighting stronger and stronger mobs much easier.
However, gaining experience is a slow process. Thankfully, like just about any other process in the game, players have figured out countless ways to turn it into a quick and efficient process. Here are just a few incredibly ingenious Redstone and non-Redstone farms to help anyone boost their experience gain.
Related: Minecraft: Things You Must Do Once You Enter The Nether
Updated On October 19, 2021, by Helen Ashcroft : Minecraft is changing all the time and this means that farm mechanics can be broken. With this in mind, we've gone back through this article to make sure that all the farms listed are still the best options in Minecraft 1.17 and still work after recent updates. We've also made the information easier to understand with each entry including details of what each farm does, the materials you'll need to build it, and a link to a tutorial.
15 Cave Spider Farm
Cave spiders are considered the worst mobs to farm in the entire game. For one, they will poison you, and for two, spiders in general have a tendency to be able to escape various structures by climbing walls.
However, there is a way to make either a cave spider or a regular spider farm work and to get a bunch of experience points for it in Minecraft. This is particularly useful since cave spider spawners are very easy to find due to how common abandoned mineshafts are in the game.
Items Required For A Spider Farm
Items required for a cave spider farm, how to make a spider/cave spider farm.
Before you start it's recommended that you have a few essentials with you. Ladders for climbing out of holes, torches to light up the area while you work, a sword to fight off any mobs that get too close and of course a pickaxe. A bucket of milk is also handy to mitigate the poison effect if you are dealing with cave spiders.
The materials above are for two different farm designs by Kmond. The Cave Spider XP Farm , for up to version 1.17.and the Regular Spider Farm , which also works up to version 1.17.
14 Automatic Fish Farm
There are tons of designs for AFK fish farms or other automatic fish farms, which are all excellent ways to farm enchantment books, bows, saddles, name tags and even fishing rods . Automatic fishing farms are also great for food and xp in Minecraft.
Given how it doesn't require many resources, having a fish farm is pretty much a must-have for any player. The xp is pretty low but the process is simple and easy and the rewards are excellent.
Items Required For An Automatic Fish Farm
How to make an automatic fish farm.
There are many designs for fish farms but the one we've chosen is the Easiest Automatic AFK Fish Farm By Carbon Gaming . This farm uses easy to find resources, is simple to build and will net you some useful drops as well as some xp.
13 Portal Farm
If resources are not a problem you might as well go big with your xp farm designs. One favorite (especially at harder difficulties) is a nether portal farm that pulls in Zombie Pigmen from the nether and doesn't even require you to manually kill the mobs.
Related: Minecraft: How To Make A Nether Portal
As well as an impressive amount of xp, you'll also gain a tonne of gold. The only downside is that it requires a huge amount of resources, which can be difficult to obtain on survival.
Items Required For A Farm With Portals
How to make a portal farm.
This particular portal farm is designed by Rays Works and has an AFK mode and an automated mode. Rays Works' video on the farm covers both modes but the later requires extra redstone materials to make a redstone clock.
We haven't added quantities to the list of materials due to having no clue of the scale of this farm. However, it's likely to be scalable in that the portals can probably be reduced.
12 Bedrock Charcoal Farm
Back to more simple designs, this is a very interesting take on a self-fueling farm that's similar to the concept of the cacti and bamboo farm. However, this one uses wood instead to create charcoal and fuel itself over and over again by storing the experience points within the furnace.
This charcoal xp farm design can be made as big or small as you want and has the advantage of using a resource that's usually readily available.
Items Required For A Charcoal XP Farm
How to make a charcoal xp farm.
For players who can't get their hands on bamboo or cactus easily, this is the way to go. Plus, it's certified to work on Bedrock, thanks to this design by ProfePlaysMinecraft .
The only thing to note is that the furnace is powered by wood so you'll also need a lot of wood to get xp this way.
11 Piglin Bartering Farm
Now to the real meat of the nether update. With the introduction of piglins and bartering, players have been coming up with extremely interesting farm designs that not only incorporate xp farming in Minecraft but also infinite bartering with a trapped piglin.
These farms provide a huge amount of xp as well as a wide selection of materials. This is because the farm generates gold and xp then uses them to produce trades with Piglins for different items.
Items Required For A Nether Bartering XP Farm
How to build a piglin bartering farm.
This particular design by Rays Works is excellent because it automatically provides gold to the piglin by killing off zombie pigmen and generates experience points as well as tons of items from the bartering process. It really does kill three birds with just one stone, and although it's not easy to build resource-wise, it's absolutely a must-have for players.
10 Raid Farm
It may not have crossed your mind, but illager outposts are excellent locations for farming XP in Minecraft. Even if the outpost tower itself is demolished, illagers will still continue to spawn.
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These farms are simple to build and the rewards include emeralds and totems of undying, both of which can be incredibly valuable. You'll also get more crossbows than you know what to do with.
Items Required For A Pillager Raid XP Farm
How to build a raid farm.
This design by Avomance in particular works wonders.By placing a bed and a few villagers in the middle to attract illagers, they can be guided with water down into a tunnel to kill them easily. If a captain is killed, even better, because it will instantly start a raid due to the presence of the villagers.
9 Mob Spawner Farm
During any regular survival game, you are very likely to come across mob dungeons with a spawner at some point. Dungeons are easily recognized by their mossy cobblestone walls and loot chest or chests. These are mob dungeons ideal for xp farms in Minecraft.
Most spawner farms work on the simple principle of trapping the mobs in one place where you can safely kill them in order to gain exp and any items they may drop.
Items Required For A Dungeon Spawner XP Farm
How to build a mob spawner farm.
The best dungeon to turn into an experience farm in Minecraft is a skeleton dungeon due to the useful loot they drop (bones, arrows and bows), but any type will do.
Spiders will be more difficult to trap due to their ability to climb walls and are better contained in the spider-specific farm mentioned earlier. Here's a great design by Kmond .
8 Gold Farm
Murdering zombie pigmen is a great way to get xp. If you aren't worried about trying to integrate bartering into your farm this is a great alternative to the piglin bartering farm.
This farm brings in huge amounts of xp and while its resource heavy the actual build is fairly easy to construct.
Items Required For A Gold Farm
How to build a gold farm.
This farm does involve some cheesy game breaking strategies, such as entering the Nether roof . You'll need to do this before you can begin the build.
The Nether roof is basically a wide flat area made of bedrock, a material on which no mob can spawn. Therefore, any other block that's placed down has a huge chance of spawning Nether mobs, making it easy to manipulate spawn rates for XP farms. RandomGgames constructs a great gold and experience farm with few materials worth copying.
7 Stone XP Farm
Most XP farms require a staggering amount of resources to build. This can make most players think twice before attempting to build one, especially in survival mode or even hardcore mode. However, a good XP farm in Minecraft doesn't have to be resource heavy.
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A simple stone XP farm using furnaces is just enough for a singleplayer survival world, at least in the beginning.
Items Required For A Stone XP Farm
How to build a stone xp farm.
By smelting stone, the furnaces store and generate XP in them, similarly to a few other designs. If you are using stone or smooth stone in your builds this is an especially productive way to generate xp.
If you need a design then WaffleNite showcases a simple idea that's easy to replicate.
6 Classic Mob Farm
Ultimately, a survival world of Minecraft isn't complete if you haven't made the king of all mob farms, the classic Minecraft mob XP farm.
Although it requires quite a bit of stone and usually a great height to be built on, it can yield a lot of experience points and useful drops.
Items Required For A Classic Mob Farm
How to build a classic mob farm.
If closed off platforms are built over a large body of water or far up in the air, you will see an increased rate of monsters spawning inside. The mobs can then be pushed down by water and left at one or two hearts for you to kill them off at the bottom of the drop.
Voltrox shows the strength of this simple yet iconic Minecraft XP farm perfectly with his design.
5 Kelp XP Farm
For those that feel super intimidated by more complex experience farms and just need a tiny xp boost to their survival Minecraft world without any frills, there's a simple way to farm xp with only kelp needed.
Items Required For A Kelp Farm
How to build a kelp farm.
Kelp is an interesting material because it can be grown, dried in the furnace and then used as fuel to dry more kelp. As such, it makes for excellent fuel for a simple and easy Minecraft xp farm, as shown by Farzy .
4 Blaze Farm
If you're looking for the best mob to farm for XP, blazes are an excellent place to start. While building a farm in the Nether can get risky, blaze rods are a necessity for the end game, which is why this farm basically kills two birds with one stone.
Related: Minecraft: How To Find And Conquer A Nether Fortress
If you want to experiment with potions and brewing then you'll need a good supply of blaze rods. This farm will help you get them safely, and gain some xp.
Items Required For A Blaze Farm
There are hundreds of different ways to design blaze xp farms in Minecraft, but it's always best to pick a spawner that has a lot of natural cover, so that building around it isn't a chore and potentially doesn't kill the player. Voltrox has a very easy and material light design to follow.
3 Guardian Farm
It's no secret that guardians are some of the best mobs to farm for XP in the game due to the decent amount of XP they drop.
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That being said, building a guardian farm is a monumental task, since most designs require draining the entire ocean monument.
Items Required For A Guardian Farm
How to build a guardian farm.
Despite the huge time and resource cost, this farm is still worth it due to its sheer output of experience. LogicalGeekBoy in particular has a very easy to follow tutorial on how to nail down the design and mechanics of the guardian XP farm in Minecraft. The best thing about it is that it also avoids the epic task of draining the ocean monument.
You'll also gain a tonne of cod as well as materials to craft prismarine and its variants as well as sea lanterns.
2 Enderman Farm
Once you have actually reached The End and defeated the Ender Dragon, you might want to consider building an enderman xp farm. The End is basically full of free space where endermen can spawn, and with water as their sole weakness, it's an easy enough farm to make.
Items Required For An Enderman Farm
How to build an enderman farm.
Not only does this farm yield a ton of experience since endermen are among the toughest mobs, but it also provides more ender pearls than you'll ever use, which come in handy when exploring the End islands.
Pixlriffs has a great guide on how to create a straightforward Enderman farm.
1 Cactus And Bamboo Farm
For those who want maximum output and the least amount of materials used, this cactus and bamboo farm is the answer. Not only is it cheap to make, it's also fully self-sufficient. All you need to do is leave it to do its thing and come back hours later to reap the benefits.
Items Required For Cactus And Bamboo XP Farm
How to build a cactus and bamboo farm.
This farm is compact, but its main problem is how immensely loud it can get due to the constantly moving minecart. For this reason it's recommended that you build it at a distance from your base. Check Avomance 's tutorial for the best XP farm design.
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How to Make an XP Farm in Minecraft [SOLVED]
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For enchanting and upgrading the gear, players want to collect more XP in Minecraft. Along with enchantments, they get much experience as they keep on playing. If you’re a newbie and want to explore how to make an XP farm in Minecraft , be glad. This guide is going to be helpful in understanding the basics of earning XP during both early and end game scenarios.
- XP farms are the easiest way to gain tons of XP as well as other useful items in Minecraft.
- These farms can include several mob types and/or objects to give you the XP you need.
- One of the best ways to ensure an endless supply of XP is by including a Spawner, an item that spawns mob as time goes on.
- The XP generated from an XP farm can be used in numerous ways, such as enchanting, repairing, and even renaming your weapons and armor!
- Of course, the bigger your farm, the more XP you’ll collect in a single go!
By creating an automated farm, you can produce an unlimited supply of XP. There are multiple ways to make such farms, such as setting up a cactus farm or fish farm and spawning mobs (any of the three categories). To become a pro player, you have to be an expert in some of the Minecraft processes like renaming your items and applying enchantments.
Minecraft empowers the players with different abilities and gives them the freedom of doing various things. You can traverse deep caverns, create custom tools, and build enormous fortresses. So, there is much more to explore in Minecraft. Let’s have a look at different ways through which you can make an XP farm in Minecraft.
Make an XP Farm in Minecraft without a Spawner
If you’re eager to know how to make an XP farm in Minecraft without a spawner, here is the easiest way of doing so. No need to mine an area for spawner around it. All you have to do is to build a chamber that must be 30 blocks off from you. This way, the mobs will spawn 30 blocks away from the player.
As there would be water around the hole which will make the mobs drop down in it. Killing them will not be a difficult task for you when the mobs will be falling in the hole speedily.
Make an XP Farm in Minecraft with a Spawner
If you’re thinking about how to make an XP farm in Minecraft with a spawner? It’s as simple as making an XP farm without a spawner. Here you have to make a room for the spawner which will provide plenty of space to the mobs for spawning. Then, you have to push the mob towards the hole with the help of water.
When they move into the hole, also fill it with water. Extend the length of the hole up to 20 blocks above the ground. Again, at the block’s top, you require water for pushing the mob a few blocks away towards any direction. When the mobs fell from the hole, they become weak, and killing them becomes a breeze.
Make an XP Farm in Minecraft 1.14
You have various options for making farms In Minecraft 1.14, that will increase your experience and let you earn more XP. You can create a farm of chickens, cows, or pigs. Maintaining a chicken farm is not challenging but it provides less experience. Make a chicken pen and keep some eggs there for growing up chickens. Once you are done with the basic setup then make a floor on the already built chicken pen.
Spread hoppers on the whole floor and use a switch and Redstone timer for connecting them with a dispenser. The chickens will throw their eggs from the top into the hoppers.
From there, the eggs will transfer into the dispenser. The fresh chickens spawn here and all that process occurs automatically. Just you have to kill the lower potion’s chickens for the experience.
With the levels up, when you are desiring to diversify your farm, go for raising pigs or cows.
Enderman XP Farm
When the player reaches the end and kills the Enderman Dragon, he/she can build an Enderman XP farm. The end realm has a lot of free space which is ideal for an Enderman to spawn. The players can make well-organized mob farms here. The interesting fact is that the XP level of a player can go high up from 0 to 30 within just one minute. This automatic farm is made conveniently and gives plenty of pearls to the player.
Best Minecraft Farms for XP
There are many XP farms in Minecraft, but here we are discussing the 5 best farms that focus on boosting one’s experience. This selection will make it easier to choose from when wondering about the best XP Farms in Minecraft.
1 – Cactus and Bamboo Farm
If you desire to get the maximum output without investing in many materials, this one is best for you. It requires a very low amount of materials for its setup and then it does all the rest of the work on its own. You can leave it to complete its tasks and return after a few hours to receive the benefits.
The cactus and bamboo farm is too compact and highly efficient, but it’s exceptionally loud which becomes irritating and hard to bear.
2 – Guardian Farm
Guardian farm is the highly XP paying farm which offers more experience on every killing. But it asks for excessive work in return. Sometimes you will be draining out the whole ocean temple to gain experience.
3 – Blaze Farm
Blaze farm is one of the best mob farms which is not that difficult to form. You can design it in hundreds of ways but it’s better to choose a spawner with multiple natural covers. So, building the farm around it is not too demanding and protects the player from being killed. This should be the answer to blaze farm.
4 – Kelp XP Farm
For every player that wants to stay away from the hassle of getting experience through the complex farms, this one is ideal for them. The kelp XP farm gives a boost to the player in a very simple way. Kelp is a beneficial fuel that you can easily grow and then dry in furnaces. It can be used to dry other kelp, that’s why it is a big source of fuel production.
5 – Classic Mob Farm
The classic mob farm is considered the king of all mob farms because it provides more experience points for little effort. You can build the farm at an enormous height with fewer stones. The monsters spawn inside the farm conveniently if it is built too high or over a huge water body. You can kill the mobs by pushing them down in the water.
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How to make an XP farm
XP farm, also known as experience farm, is one of the best methods to provide items necessary for the enchanting process. Not only that, but this farm can also provide you with items that you can use for the crafting process. Many XP farms are available, such as fish, gold, bamboo, or Mob farms. The focus of this article is to make a mob farm to give you a detailed understanding of how this farm works. You can make a mob farm by adequately following the below-mentioned steps.
Place 4 chests in a hole
First, you need to dig a hole and place four chests connecting all inside it to act as a building block for our XP farm. Here the chest will serve as a storage unit that will store all the items from the mobs.
You can craft the chest by placing 8 wooden planks of any type on the crafting table, like in our case, we are using the birch plank.
Place 4 hoppers and stones
The next step is to place 4 hoppers above it that should be connected with a chest. Later place 4 stones on a hopper.
You can make hoppers by the following image shown below. On the other hand, you can get the cobblestone by finding a stone block and then digging it using any pickaxe.
Make a cobblestone wall
Make a cobblestone wall, like shown in the image below. The reason is that mobs will drop here, and they can’t escape, so we can kill them quickly to gain some experience and some random items.
Make a bridge
The next step is to make 4 bridges having a length of 8 blocks each. After that, make a wall around the edges that should also be two blocks high. Now create a platform and connect everything and make another wall that should be two blocks high from the edges. The step-by-step construction is mentioned in the images below.
Make a Roof
Mobs usually come in the dark, so it is better to place a roof on the bridge so no light can pass internally. Also, put some torches on the roof to avoid mobs from appearing there.
Place the trapdoor and water
Now place the trapdoors on each corner as displayed in the image below so the mobs can easily be trapped there. Also, put some water between the spaces as this will move the mobs towards the center of the building to fall to the ground. Next, you need to place the water between the gaps so that the mobs can drop from the center space and go to the bottom part.
You need to follow the below mentioned recipe to make the trapdoor and water bucket.
Make a Ladder on top of the roof
You need to create a ladder of 80 blocks based on a scaffolding item and then climb it to the top. It is recommended not to do anything now for at least 5 minutes, known as away from the keyboard (AFK). Mobs can spawn quickly by this process as the chunk is idle and no one uses it as you are very far away from the main building. You can craft the scaffolding by using the following method.
Final Result
If you have followed all the steps mentioned above correctly, you will see some mobs at the bottom of the surface. You can kill them by using a sword that will give you some items and additional XP that can be seen below.
Experience farm (XP) is a type of farm used to provide new powers to the user. Those powers can offer unique abilities to the weapon or improve the durability of the armor a user is wearing. Also, it can be used for enchanting for the crafting of rare items. It’s tiresome to create the XP farm, especially for beginners, but once it is made, you gain benefits from it repeatedly.
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