If you're grinding for just experience, you should use a sword that does NOT have the looting enchantment. Every piece of equipment a mob spawns with increases the amount of XP that mob will drop, but only if the equipment is NOT dropped. Looting increases the chances of these dropping too which decreases overall XP.
@@TFVids It definitely mitigates it but probably not enough to overcome what you lose. The numbers for how often equipment is enchanted and how much XP you get from grinding don't seem to be known, so you can't do the math. Testing would be required. I think it would be fairly easy to test this by setting up something in a creative world and then switching it to survival. That said, my personal perception is no, it does not. Especially for mobs that always spawn with equipment (i.e. zombified piglins and skeletons).
If your building a farm just for XP then a massive portal gold farm was the best one I ever had. You make 4 nether portals as big as they can get connected in a cube with a turtle egg at the bottom and a system that turns the portals off and on. You get something like 50 zombie pig men per minute. They rush toward the turtle egg and fall into the kill chute where you’re standing next to a trident killer the lag while the thing is running is ridiculous but your xp will be in triple digits in about 5 minutes.
@@davidyounger2965 definitely the way to go! in the case of a high yield XP farm, the difference between looting and no looting is pretty much moot. My point only makes sense when you have an early game multi-purpose farm. Sometimes you want loot, but most times you want XP and its so slow that it definitely makes a difference.
i built this in survival for the first time today, and a little tip, don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet - if you're trying to farm music discs, put some trapdoors all around the little gap the mobs will see you through. you can flip them open when you want to farm discs and flip them closed for regular farming. otherwise you risk all the mobs seeing you and reacting and most importantly: the witches throwing their potions WILL piss the creepers off and they WILL blow open the bottom of your farm. i've begun to kill all the witches individually before i disc farm to avoid this again. be careful with those creepers!
I had issues with creepers. At first I thought I as using it wrong, but nope, the creepers can actually see you if you get too close. I put slabs on top of the hoppers and trapdoors where the slabs are and it works much better. It's harder for the creepers to see you and when they do blow up the slab stops them from destroying too much. Small change I'd recommend. Also if you make this change and also build the farm with a 2x2 chute instead of 3x3, the mobs can never see you at all. Might require some more modifications, but it's a solid solution
Ok so bedrock spawn rate sucks but if you use buttons instead of carpet, you get about 250-300 spawns per hour. Thats off a 15 minute timer and i left one spot for spiders just for the occasional string. Could make this into a trident killer and get decent afk rates for sure. Only issue if had since i finished the build is first i forgot to open my gates which destroys the rate, and on occasion the mobs die on impact. First one killed me but an easy fix. 2nd doesn't seem to effect the drops too much. Great job on the tutorial wattles, glad someone is out there doing stuff for both platforms
Do you just use one button to replace the carpet or cover the whole surface? I've tried a few different suggestions and it's still very slow with tons of spiders spawning
Good timing, I've been considering building an XP farm over the past few days since I started my present world and this design looks excellent. This video gets added to my farming list (which includes Wattles' previous Iron Farm).
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Get yourself a bunch of librarians. Disombifie them, buy from them bookshelfs, destroy them to get 3 books. Sell them back to them. You get to level 30 in a couple minutes, and get insanely emmerald rich.
I’m pretty sure that when you build in the squares at the top you should get a 13x13 and not an 11x11. I went back and trimmed it down and didn’t have a 2 block gap between my 3x3 platforms. Idk could’ve just built it wrong
No you built it right I think. He just explained it really poorly. I did the same thing and and did exactly what he said in the vid but I'm pretty sure he just doesn't know how to do math lol.
How to make this work on BEDROCK: Carpets and slabs actually will not stop spider spawns on BEDROCK. For that, you'll have to use buttons. If you want spiders, constructing the tube out of extinguished campfires should keep them from sticking, I believe. Light still gets through that block, so you might have to use something else at the top of the tube. Also, you're probably going to want to put a trident killer at the bottom so you don't have to slash at them with a sword. Guys, like Prowl, will have videos on how to make a good kill shaft with a TK.
@@mikehosier1239the farthest number of blocks you can AFK at Bedrock edition is 26 blocks and will improve the spawn rate of mobs. I recommend lowering your render distance from 8 to 6 (or 4).
Thanks wattles, took an almost 10 year break from survival and coming back to it was difficult this year. I’ve never really built mob farms like this before but it was in fact incredibly easy and useful. I build a lot so TNT is important. I made my top layer of three the creeper layer, and am now in the process of getting supplies to expand it even more. Thanks again, good stuff 👍
In Minecraft Bedrock... 1) Add a layer of slabs on top of the roof AND a second wall on the East and West sides to make it dark during the day time. 2) Make sure all corners (roof, floor, drop area) are square and not missing corner blocks. 3) Carpets don't stop spiders spawning (nothing seems to stop them). 4) Use obsidian for the kill zone walls and floor, plus cobblestone slabs (not carpet) on top of the hoppers - that way if a creeper explodes, you don't loose your hoppers and chest with loot - you just need to replace 1 or 2 cobblestone slabs. 5) Best built over the ocean in case you fall during construction! 6) Build a bubble tower from sea level to get to height quickly. Thanks Wattles! With this modifications your design works really well.
@@Da_Puff I used cobble stone - I just made the East and West (the sides facing the sun in the morning and afternoon) two blocks thick - as well as making the top 1.5 blocks (1 block plus 1 slab - to stop spawning). The easiest way to tell the difference is to go inside the spawner, sit on the top shelf close the hole above you and see if it is dark or not - if you can see inside, then you need to make the East, West and Top walls thicker.
Holy crap this has to be the best farm ive ever built. A creeper blew up the bottom killing scection and i had trouble fixing the farm becausr mobs just krpt falling down and stopping me. I was litteraly suffering from sucess. Unlike the other non spawner farms, this one actully worked well instead of takimg half an hour per mob. It took 3 minutes, 3 MINUTES, for me to get enough mobs to semi fill the killing chamber. You are 100% the best farms youtuber ive ever watched keep up the amazing work
I followed it to the letter and it worked very well. I put it in the middle of open ocean. This is my first real minecraft farm and I chose it cause I trust wattles and also because it can be adapted for no spiders or creepers only as well as more spawning levels added later.
Nice design, but I think you don't need to build this high, at least not over an ocean. Ocean level is y=63 and the despawn radius is 128. So building at y=192 would be adequate. Building higher will just reduce your rates. If you are building over land, you really only need to be 128 blocks higher than the highest spot in the area. Also, building this over a desert will give you far fewer zombies and thus more skeletons and creepers.
Fewer zombies but more Husks, so I think the rates are relatively the same if you group husks and zombie loot tables together. Also I guess this means there's an upper limit on the amount of layers you can add because anything beyond 128 won't spawn mobs (my math guesstimate is about 30 layers as the limit).
@HyperS13 in deserts when the game wants to spawn a husk has a higher chance to be picked than a zombie so when it picks a mob it will be husk but husk cannot spawn with blocks above their heads. That's why you don't find many in desert biome caves unless they wander. You will get significantly less zombie/husk drops by building in a desert.
I love these tutorials so much. I made most of the stuff in a server I played for a while and they worked very well. You're my favourite minecraft tutorial channel. Kepp up the good work! :)
For a better updated version, do the following: 1. Place slabs over all the hoppers. (XP doesnt get stuck, and loot goes through the slabs into the hoppers) 2. Remove the slabs around the bottom pieces (not the hoppers) so that theres a small area to hit them. 3. Build a small enclosed room around one side to prevent phantom attacks, and light it up with torches to prevent mob spawning. Also if some mobs are too far and you cant reach them, go up to the wall, and crouch for a second, you'll be on a level they can see you for just a second, they will come to you so you can hit them, but don't worry, if you only click if for a second, the creepers wont blow up.
I built it and it worked great! (After I realized I needed to make it out of tinted glass instead of stained glass) So after I destroyed all of the walls and rebuilt the walls out of stone, It worked great! And as I was using it, a Creeper that the mob spawner spawned exploded. When I finally fixed the damage (It's hard to build with mobs falling from the sky) the mob spawner resumed working order. Then another Creeper exploded. I guess I should stand a little farther back... LOL
My man,awesome vid. However tha platform that goes from stairs is 13x13 not 11x11 blocks(4:05), but its just a detail, super duper video my man. Love this desing
Built a 4 layer with spider proofing and the top layer creeper only. Worked like a charm. Used the peep hole method to get music discs but a creeper saw me and exploded opening up the whole side of the farm and unleashing a hoard of the undead plus creepers at y=250. A battle ensued but luckily I got it patched and repaired. Still works amazingly but I’ll stick to just killing them through the crack in the floor and get my discs another way 😂
Remember. If you build in the middle of ocean , if you use a lily pad concrete powder, you can build directly from the surface of the ocean rather than the bottom of the ocean ( placing sand)
I built this today in Bedrock. Works great. I'm not sure what I did wrong but trying to get the skeletons to kill the creepers just made them explode. I tried hiding from view immediately, but no luck. Kaboom! Several times. So I modified the base to make it more like a regular mob farm with water carrying the mobs down away from the base of the column and over to a better spot to take the mobs out. Added bonus... Any exploding creepers did no damage now that they were in water. Also worked great for collecting music discs.
this works faster than any mob farm i’ve ever used and i love how customizable it is and how you can make it a lot more efficient by adding more levels
Little tip, at the base of the farm where the mobs are killed if you use half slabs for the floor and than use a trap door on the top where the mobs feet are rather than the slabs that he used the creepers won't see you on occasion like they will with this build
Thank you for this simple tutorial, I have an elytra so i needed to get lots of gunpowder for fireworks and this video saved me Tip: If you dont want to spend lots of time getting materials use netherack, It gets the job done but also takes like half sec to mine netherack
Thank you (: This was the first time I ever built a mob farm and it works like a charm. I fell into lava in the nether and have to grind for xp to make new tools and armor, so I went with this.
At a farm builder myself, Nicoislost helped explains how mob spawns work in depth. I get the idea, but it lacks a few things to improve the farm. This farm does make up for how cheep and easy it is to make though. Love this series wattles!
If you want to make a design identical to this one you'll need: TIP: If you don't have silk touch use temporary blocks on the first layer above the chests as you'll remove them later - 890 Tinted Glass - 243 Platform Blocks (Cobblestone here) - 153 Building Blocks (Planks here) - 112 Accent Blocks (Stripped Logs here) - 8 Fence Gates - 12 Stairs - 12 Slabs - 216 Trapdoors - 4 Water Buckets - 9 Hoppers - 2 Chests - 9 Carpet Optional: To prevent spider spawns: 27 Carpets To make the farm creeper only: 243 Trapdoors To farm discs: 12 Slabs (And 12 less glass) For every layer you add you'll need an additional - 81 Platform Blocks - 72 Trapdoors - 156 Shaded Glass Update: I *have* tested this list and it is accurate. I didn't need any extra materials. Have fun!
It works really well but there are spiders but that really doesn't bother me much and also i added blocks on the corners cause it lets light in and iam also gonna expand the layers to 6 or more after i get more resources. Its a great design tho and thanks for that❤
wattles i doubt youre still reading comments on this video but this thing works like a charm, i didn’t even build it correctly (125 blocks up instead of 250, not over an ocean)
WORKED! Thank God! Used cobbled deep slate and only did three layers and it works like a gem. Can't imagine how awesome it'd be with 4+! One tip I would give anyone, grab a little bit more than 22 stacks of building blocks, 24 or 25 will cover you. Another tip is definitely be careful with the creepers and crouching.
Also to go with this, put some auto farms with it such as sugar cane, melon, pumpkin, bamboo etc. Let them run in the background while you get those sweet sweet profits.
Great tutorial and a nice design. Sadly i thought this would output a bit more mobs.. but at least it didnt take too long and to start off with its decent. (I did add about 10 layers)
Wattles I’ve been designing a mob farm in my hardcore world for a few days and it’s like you read my mind!!! Thank you for this video it came at the perfect time!
I built this recently and it works great. I was already enjoying it for the purpose of quickly getting a few levels to do some more enchants, but today I really appreciated it because I stupidly fell in the lake of lava in the nether. It took maybe a couple of hours, but I have replaced pretty much all of my enchanted gear. In some cases, the replacements may even be a little better than the ones I lost. When it first happened, I was really tempted to delete the world to free myself from the game for a while, but then I decided to see how fast the xp farm could get me back in business. lol
Works great! Started off as a 7 layer, and I’m almost done expanding it to 10 layers. Can’t wait to see the new rates. Eventually I’ll convert it to just a creeper farm probably. Edit: I have finished expanding it to 10 layers. Rates have SIGNIFICANTLY improved. I strongly recommend it. The enemies are flowing down here pretty fast, my mending gear is healing up crazy fast.
@@agentx3 damn i might try it in my survival work, might take awhile and I'm definitely gonna have to re watch the video but i hope it will be efficient
First of all great farm mate and love the vids, i have made a 6 level farm on bedrock but mob spawns are really low nowhere near as efficient as yours looks is there something i could of done wrong. Any help would be appreciated 👊
I always try to build two of these in the first days of my survival world, one customized just for creepers, the other for every hostile mob. This is, probably, on of the most overpowered farms you can build early on, eventually, I try to find a skeleton and zombie spawner and make a skeleton farm and a drowned farm.
I will give a rundown of this farm since people seem confused. This farm 100℅ works. But its very, very slow. Id say that it is unworthy to build because of how often mobs spawn. If youre on bedrock, the carpet doesnt stop spiders from spawning. Also, fill corners of where you kill the mobs at. Doing so will prevent creepers from blowing up. Id recommend finding a different farm because this one is quite honestly just not really good. Cheers
I've literally came up with this exact design on my super flat world, where there is no water until you build your own mob farm and grind iron from zombies. They fall 19 blocks and are aggroed to you when you look at them. After you get water you can automate it like in this video or convert it to make drowned zombies, who will also drop fully repaired items along with copper, which you will need to convert pigs into piglins for gold drops. Although my farm was 2x2 platforms not 3x3, and my design had overlapping layers so mobs falling gradually onto lower platforms to prevent them from falling more then 19 blocks. As you wont have access to water until you build a bucket and a caldron.
Hi Wattles,I have a question,cant we build this farm on the ground(below y250)?will it not work then?why did you chose y250 specificly,I dont say that you are wrong,but just had the curosity.
I assume it’s because at that height you can guarantee that mobs don’t have any other places to spawn, so you don’t have to go around spawn-proofing every tiny cave in the surrounding area (which is tedious and no fun)
@@kemperhiggins895 Very late reply, but I wanted to point out that this seems strange to me, since mobs can't spawn more than 128 blocks away from you anyway, so the height could be half that AFAIK.
@@spicy-brawlstarswell if it’s 128 blocks within range they will spawn in the cave meaning that out of the pool of available spawns less will go to your farm
This farm is really great! I put campfires on top of the hopper to make it automatic. Only problem with doing that is witches. They don't die to the campfire. But man it sure did give me so much stuff! I mean the double chest is filled with mob drops after leaving it on over night!
You should state (along with your reccomended 4 layers) the maximum amount of layers you can build up to the 320 Y build limit. Since the build limit caps you instead of how many layers you want to build. Great design and video! 🔥🗿🔥
This farm is based on mobs wandering around so they fall off platforms. mobs only wander around 35 blocks away from the player, beyond that they just stand there. There is no point in making more platforms. The more platforms there are, the less efficient this already inefficient farm becomes.
I have just finish it in my Survival world and it works awsome, i did 3 layers and i think those are more than enough for what i need now, for sure in the future if needed i can add more layers😁
Why does everyone say to light up caves when building in the sky?! Isn't that the ENTIRE point of building in the sky?! After you get high enough, don't all the mobs in the caves despawn?! Am I missing something, or do people really just want me to waste my time lighting up all 9,001+ caves?
Lighting caves are really only needed for spawner farms and i believe on java if you are at height limit mobs can still spawn in caves but you can combat that with different rendering settings
YOOOO THIS IS ACTUALLY FIRE i built 5 layers and it works so well ONE TIP if your building this above land you have to torch up some spots or the mobs are gonna spawn under so yea
I’m in the middle of building this and am having an inconsistency. You say the base should be 11x11 but after building out four spaces from the steps I end up with 13x13. What did I do wrong? A 3 block spot above the hoppers, plus the 2 spots with the stairs plus 2 sets of 4 spots going out I end up with a diameter of 13 spots. Not 11. How then would linking the corners into an equal square end up with 11x11? Am I dumb? What am I missing? I don’t want to go any farther in the build until I understand my error.
Holy crap dude. You have made the best mob farm to ever be created. The customization is crazy! And the farm is effective, too. Not only that, but you get crazy xp and drops! Thank you for blessing the Minecraft community with this video/grinder.
It works so well! I also built 3 layers and i get so many xp and loot, I started this 1.21 world yesterday so I will make the farm even bigger when I get the materials
I made this farm with 4 floors and it works really slow but I do manage to get those music discs if I dance around to get the right angle with the skeletons. I think the problem of slow volume is that there is nothing pushing the MOBs off their spawn platform. ALSO I added blocks in the four 4x4 holes for more spawning area since the MOBs will never fall off in those areas anyway.
Using 1.20 Bedrock edition here and the farm works, however, carpet isn't preventing the spiders from spawning and trapdoors on the top of the layers isn't restricting it to creepers only - I'm getting skellies, zombies, spiders, and creepers and it's configured to creeper-only according to the recorded guide.
Does anyone know why my farm isn’t working for me? Here is some information: Im playing on Bedrock Edition, It is pitch black in the farm, I’m 150+ blocks above the ocean, my platforms are made of planks, game mode is hard, and I made the farm exactly as told. Edit: also, the walls are made of deepslate.
For people struggling with mob spawns after the last update, it does still spawn mobs if you wait long enough, but as of now it’s not nearly as effective as it used to be. It does help if you switch to hard difficulty cause you get a few extra mob spawns. We’ll just have to wait and see if a more effective design for mob spawns comes out soon!
Awesome farm, work perfectly, I got 7 music disks the first time I used it. One problem is that the creepers sometimes start their fuse if I get too close to the farm. One blew up and wrecked the entire bottom part of the farm. I fixed it but now I am in perpetual fear when using it.
Nice design, a lot smaller than the one I use, same 3x3 drop shoot but I put 4 8x8 platforms which means the one I use is a 21x21 farm and that design was 3 3x3 + 2 spaces in between and walls means 15x15. I wonder how much better is this design compared to the one I use???
Here is a list to make it a little easier to gather your items 4 chests 9 hoppers 8 gates 36 carpet 4 water buckets 4 full stacks trap doors 12 stair cases 12 slabs 18 stacks of building blocks, more if you want to expand the platform
Not sure if anyone will see this but I built this farm for myself and it works very well. I built one for a buddy and that works well. I built another one for another buddy last night and that one is getting clogged up and slowed down because it’s spawning enderman. The other 2 don’t so idk what I did wrong. All 3 are in Ocean biomes. Any ideas??
Above an ocean surrounded by mushroom islands would be most ideal since you won't have to spawn proof anything. I find that when I do mob farms, even if there's a tiny bit of land close by, I still have to spawn proof.
Even if you’re really high up? I built it at y250 over an ocean, but there is a little bit of land close by. I thought mobs automatically despawned 128 blocks away from the player.
I built this, it's only OK. The design is not great for AFK, as the funnel is too large, and if you stand too close creepers will see you. If you go for drops and lay out fires as recommended, you will end up with a chamber full of witches. I've modified it with some water streams on a redstone clock to funnel the mobs to a central killing area.
this is awesome, for an XP farm, i went from thinking enderman grinders were good, to spider spawners, now to this. No need for spawners, great for early game
Thanks for doing a mob farm that works on Bedrock. It’s always a problem getting them to work from the spawning mechanics. Also in a collector of music discs so this farm is awesome!!!
It’s crazy how all these years later, the old school grinder types are still just as relevant, especially early to mid game.
That and how many times the same video it remade and uploaded and we still watch it hahaha
i thought this said 6 years ago lmao
Same here
for some reason it doesnt work it always happens with my mob farms :(
someone pls tell me how to fix it its completely dark and idk
Nice! Built it at then 2 creepers spawned instantly and blew everything up. Love this game!
If you're grinding for just experience, you should use a sword that does NOT have the looting enchantment. Every piece of equipment a mob spawns with increases the amount of XP that mob will drop, but only if the equipment is NOT dropped. Looting increases the chances of these dropping too which decreases overall XP.
smart, thanks for the info :)
Would using a grindwheel mitigate the loss of XP by getting the XP off the enchanted equipment?
@@TFVids It definitely mitigates it but probably not enough to overcome what you lose. The numbers for how often equipment is enchanted and how much XP you get from grinding don't seem to be known, so you can't do the math. Testing would be required. I think it would be fairly easy to test this by setting up something in a creative world and then switching it to survival. That said, my personal perception is no, it does not. Especially for mobs that always spawn with equipment (i.e. zombified piglins and skeletons).
If your building a farm just for XP then a massive portal gold farm was the best one I ever had. You make 4 nether portals as big as they can get connected in a cube with a turtle egg at the bottom and a system that turns the portals off and on. You get something like 50 zombie pig men per minute. They rush toward the turtle egg and fall into the kill chute where you’re standing next to a trident killer the lag while the thing is running is ridiculous but your xp will be in triple digits in about 5 minutes.
@@davidyounger2965 definitely the way to go! in the case of a high yield XP farm, the difference between looting and no looting is pretty much moot. My point only makes sense when you have an early game multi-purpose farm. Sometimes you want loot, but most times you want XP and its so slow that it definitely makes a difference.
i built this in survival for the first time today, and a little tip, don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet - if you're trying to farm music discs, put some trapdoors all around the little gap the mobs will see you through. you can flip them open when you want to farm discs and flip them closed for regular farming. otherwise you risk all the mobs seeing you and reacting and most importantly: the witches throwing their potions WILL piss the creepers off and they WILL blow open the bottom of your farm. i've begun to kill all the witches individually before i disc farm to avoid this again. be careful with those creepers!
How many platforms did you do
ik this was a long time ago, but can the creepers explode if they see you through the trapdoors?
@@BigFellaJohnson I've had some look at me so its maybe possible for them to explode
@@mi.mikyu69 yeah they can, they destroyed my farm twice
@@BigFellaJohnsondose this work in bedrock edition???
I had issues with creepers. At first I thought I as using it wrong, but nope, the creepers can actually see you if you get too close. I put slabs on top of the hoppers and trapdoors where the slabs are and it works much better. It's harder for the creepers to see you and when they do blow up the slab stops them from destroying too much. Small change I'd recommend. Also if you make this change and also build the farm with a 2x2 chute instead of 3x3, the mobs can never see you at all. Might require some more modifications, but it's a solid solution
Ok so bedrock spawn rate sucks but if you use buttons instead of carpet, you get about 250-300 spawns per hour. Thats off a 15 minute timer and i left one spot for spiders just for the occasional string. Could make this into a trident killer and get decent afk rates for sure. Only issue if had since i finished the build is first i forgot to open my gates which destroys the rate, and on occasion the mobs die on impact. First one killed me but an easy fix. 2nd doesn't seem to effect the drops too much. Great job on the tutorial wattles, glad someone is out there doing stuff for both platforms
Do you just use one button to replace the carpet or cover the whole surface? I've tried a few different suggestions and it's still very slow with tons of spiders spawning
Dude I built this to a t and its not spawning anything… been up here for 3 days not one has come threw
@@stillamitchinmybook6320me too
@@stillamitchinmybook6320Did you ever get it fixed?
Good timing, I've been considering building an XP farm over the past few days since I started my present world and this design looks excellent. This video gets added to my farming list (which includes Wattles' previous Iron Farm).
Get yourself a bunch of librarians. Disombifie them, buy from them bookshelfs, destroy them to get 3 books. Sell them back to them.
You get to level 30 in a couple minutes, and get insanely emmerald rich.
@damn thats a good idea
@I just checked and haven’t seen bookshelves go under 3 emeralds!? Lol
@@stillamitchinmybook6320he's talking about The zombie Trick
I’m pretty sure that when you build in the squares at the top you should get a 13x13 and not an 11x11. I went back and trimmed it down and didn’t have a 2 block gap between my 3x3 platforms. Idk could’ve just built it wrong
No you built it right I think. He just explained it really poorly. I did the same thing and and did exactly what he said in the vid but I'm pretty sure he just doesn't know how to do math lol.
Same mate.. he confused me with math!
@@Posanubonwattles is notorious for showing the right thing and saying some random bullshit we love him tho❤️
@@Posanubonwattles is notorious for showing the right thing and saying some random bullshit we love him tho❤️
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How to make this work on BEDROCK: Carpets and slabs actually will not stop spider spawns on BEDROCK. For that, you'll have to use buttons. If you want spiders, constructing the tube out of extinguished campfires should keep them from sticking, I believe. Light still gets through that block, so you might have to use something else at the top of the tube. Also, you're probably going to want to put a trident killer at the bottom so you don't have to slash at them with a sword. Guys, like Prowl, will have videos on how to make a good kill shaft with a TK.
Good points
How many blocks away should I be when I afk? Don't I have to stand a certain distance away, or is the 19 blocks above me enough?
W comment bro.
@@mikehosier1239the farthest number of blocks you can AFK at Bedrock edition is 26 blocks and will improve the spawn rate of mobs. I recommend lowering your render distance from 8 to 6 (or 4).
Very good point. Thank you for making it. I love the TKs. They are OP for AFK farming in Bedrock.
Love your tutorials for farms. Some others do ones that are so complicated, it's like, if I have all this stuff already, why do I need the farm?
Thanks wattles, took an almost 10 year break from survival and coming back to it was difficult this year. I’ve never really built mob farms like this before but it was in fact incredibly easy and useful.
I build a lot so TNT is important. I made my top layer of three the creeper layer, and am now in the process of getting supplies to expand it even more. Thanks again, good stuff 👍
ayyyy awesome!!! great to hear 🫡
@@wattlesplaysdoes this work on new 3ds edition?
In Minecraft Bedrock... 1) Add a layer of slabs on top of the roof AND a second wall on the East and West sides to make it dark during the day time. 2) Make sure all corners (roof, floor, drop area) are square and not missing corner blocks. 3) Carpets don't stop spiders spawning (nothing seems to stop them). 4) Use obsidian for the kill zone walls and floor, plus cobblestone slabs (not carpet) on top of the hoppers - that way if a creeper explodes, you don't loose your hoppers and chest with loot - you just need to replace 1 or 2 cobblestone slabs. 5) Best built over the ocean in case you fall during construction! 6) Build a bubble tower from sea level to get to height quickly. Thanks Wattles! With this modifications your design works really well.
Slabs will stop the spiders from spawning I think, as they need a viable 2x2 area.
may i ask what you mean by second wall?
@@Da_Puff I used cobble stone - I just made the East and West (the sides facing the sun in the morning and afternoon) two blocks thick - as well as making the top 1.5 blocks (1 block plus 1 slab - to stop spawning). The easiest way to tell the difference is to go inside the spawner, sit on the top shelf close the hole above you and see if it is dark or not - if you can see inside, then you need to make the East, West and Top walls thicker.
I’m in bedrock and after closing the farm up I still have nothing spawning, I’ve built up and made sure it was enclosed and it is.. any tips?
Holy crap this has to be the best farm ive ever built. A creeper blew up the bottom killing scection and i had trouble fixing the farm becausr mobs just krpt falling down and stopping me. I was litteraly suffering from sucess. Unlike the other non spawner farms, this one actully worked well instead of takimg half an hour per mob. It took 3 minutes, 3 MINUTES, for me to get enough mobs to semi fill the killing chamber. You are 100% the best farms youtuber ive ever watched keep up the amazing work
I followed it to the letter and it worked very well. I put it in the middle of open ocean. This is my first real minecraft farm and I chose it cause I trust wattles and also because it can be adapted for no spiders or creepers only as well as more spawning levels added later.
Nice design, but I think you don't need to build this high, at least not over an ocean. Ocean level is y=63 and the despawn radius is 128. So building at y=192 would be adequate. Building higher will just reduce your rates. If you are building over land, you really only need to be 128 blocks higher than the highest spot in the area. Also, building this over a desert will give you far fewer zombies and thus more skeletons and creepers.
all great points thank u 🫡
The mod miniHUD gives you the ability to create despawn spheres. It realy helped me with my farm builds.
Fewer zombies but more Husks, so I think the rates are relatively the same if you group husks and zombie loot tables together. Also I guess this means there's an upper limit on the amount of layers you can add because anything beyond 128 won't spawn mobs (my math guesstimate is about 30 layers as the limit).
@HyperS13 in deserts when the game wants to spawn a husk has a higher chance to be picked than a zombie so when it picks a mob it will be husk but husk cannot spawn with blocks above their heads. That's why you don't find many in desert biome caves unless they wander. You will get significantly less zombie/husk drops by building in a desert.
@@graehart oooh clever, ty for the info
I love these tutorials so much. I made most of the stuff in a server I played for a while and they worked very well. You're my favourite minecraft tutorial channel. Kepp up the good work! :)
ayyyyy thank u!
For a better updated version, do the following:
1. Place slabs over all the hoppers. (XP doesnt get stuck, and loot goes through the slabs into the hoppers)
2. Remove the slabs around the bottom pieces (not the hoppers) so that theres a small area to hit them.
3. Build a small enclosed room around one side to prevent phantom attacks, and light it up with torches to prevent mob spawning.
Also if some mobs are too far and you cant reach them, go up to the wall, and crouch for a second, you'll be on a level they can see you for just a second, they will come to you so you can hit them, but don't worry, if you only click if for a second, the creepers wont blow up.
we need more people like you tysm
I built it and it worked great! (After I realized I needed to make it out of tinted glass instead of stained glass) So after I destroyed all of the walls and rebuilt the walls out of stone, It worked great! And as I was using it, a Creeper that the mob spawner spawned exploded. When I finally fixed the damage (It's hard to build with mobs falling from the sky) the mob spawner resumed working order. Then another Creeper exploded. I guess I should stand a little farther back... LOL
My man,awesome vid. However tha platform that goes from stairs is 13x13 not 11x11 blocks(4:05), but its just a detail, super duper video my man.
Love this desing
Built a 4 layer with spider proofing and the top layer creeper only. Worked like a charm. Used the peep hole method to get music discs but a creeper saw me and exploded opening up the whole side of the farm and unleashing a hoard of the undead plus creepers at y=250. A battle ensued but luckily I got it patched and repaired. Still works amazingly but I’ll stick to just killing them through the crack in the floor and get my discs another way 😂
Remember. If you build in the middle of ocean , if you use a lily pad concrete powder, you can build directly from the surface of the ocean rather than the bottom of the ocean ( placing sand)
you can leverage the kelp by placing blocks on top of it
thank u it really works and has boosted my world so much
I built this today in Bedrock. Works great. I'm not sure what I did wrong but trying to get the skeletons to kill the creepers just made them explode. I tried hiding from view immediately, but no luck. Kaboom! Several times.
So I modified the base to make it more like a regular mob farm with water carrying the mobs down away from the base of the column and over to a better spot to take the mobs out. Added bonus... Any exploding creepers did no damage now that they were in water. Also worked great for collecting music discs.
u give a goog idea for me
this works faster than any mob farm i’ve ever used and i love how customizable it is and how you can make it a lot more efficient by adding more levels
Does it work today?
@@blexyyt1887 yes
Little tip, at the base of the farm where the mobs are killed if you use half slabs for the floor and than use a trap door on the top where the mobs feet are rather than the slabs that he used the creepers won't see you on occasion like they will with this build
Thank you so much for this tip. I always have this annoying problem with the creepers and it works!
Did you replace them or put them on top of the slabs?
@@Thunderboy-2000on top of
it doesnt work!!!!!!!!!!!1111111
that doesn't work for me
Thank you for this simple tutorial, I have an elytra so i needed to get lots of gunpowder for fireworks and this video saved me
Tip: If you dont want to spend lots of time getting materials use netherack, It gets the job done but also takes like half sec to mine netherack
I’m confused you said the platform needed to be 11x11 but when I filed it in after going 4 blocks out it was 13x13
he probably accidentally said 11x11 instead of 13x13
Especially since 3x3 is 9 blocks plus 2 blocks between each platform.. its 13x 13block platform not 11
@@MiniZoeykinns yeah just fill the squares in normally and it will be 13x13 no need to add/remove anything
Thank you (: This was the first time I ever built a mob farm and it works like a charm. I fell into lava in the nether and have to grind for xp to make new tools and armor, so I went with this.
Love the tutorial as usual wattles! Would love to see you do a drowned farm or maybe even a glow squid farm too in the future. :)
If u go in a big cave you already have a glow squid farm from how many fall from the sky😂
Creepers keep blowing up in there and destroying everything the farm now sits high above my base as a monument to my failure
You can use just 1/3 of the amount of trapdoors and the farm is just as efficient- as long as they make a “bridge” from platform to platform.
I’m don’t think I’m risking breaking my second 6 floor attemp
first time ive ever build a mob/xp farm, works a little slow but pretty good for early-mid game loot
At a farm builder myself, Nicoislost helped explains how mob spawns work in depth. I get the idea, but it lacks a few things to improve the farm. This farm does make up for how cheep and easy it is to make though. Love this series wattles!
If you want to make a design identical to this one you'll need:
TIP: If you don't have silk touch use temporary blocks on the first layer above the chests as you'll remove them later
- 890 Tinted Glass
- 243 Platform Blocks (Cobblestone here)
- 153 Building Blocks (Planks here)
- 112 Accent Blocks (Stripped Logs here)
- 8 Fence Gates
- 12 Stairs
- 12 Slabs
- 216 Trapdoors
- 4 Water Buckets
- 9 Hoppers
- 2 Chests
- 9 Carpet
Optional:
To prevent spider spawns: 27 Carpets
To make the farm creeper only: 243 Trapdoors
To farm discs: 12 Slabs (And 12 less glass)
For every layer you add you'll need an additional
- 81 Platform Blocks
- 72 Trapdoors
- 156 Shaded Glass
Update: I *have* tested this list and it is accurate. I didn't need any extra materials. Have fun!
It works really well but there are spiders but that really doesn't bother me much and also i added blocks on the corners cause it lets light in and iam also gonna expand the layers to 6 or more after i get more resources. Its a great design tho and thanks for that❤
wattles i doubt youre still reading comments on this video but this thing works like a charm, i didn’t even build it correctly (125 blocks up instead of 250, not over an ocean)
First farm ive ever made and playing for years, this is awesome. Thank you. Like and subbed
WORKED! Thank God! Used cobbled deep slate and only did three layers and it works like a gem. Can't imagine how awesome it'd be with 4+! One tip I would give anyone, grab a little bit more than 22 stacks of building blocks, 24 or 25 will cover you. Another tip is definitely be careful with the creepers and crouching.
Also to go with this, put some auto farms with it such as sugar cane, melon, pumpkin, bamboo etc. Let them run in the background while you get those sweet sweet profits.
Great tutorial and a nice design. Sadly i thought this would output a bit more mobs.. but at least it didnt take too long and to start off with its decent. (I did add about 10 layers)
Wattles I’ve been designing a mob farm in my hardcore world for a few days and it’s like you read my mind!!! Thank you for this video it came at the perfect time!
I just build this in my bedrock edition world and it works, i made it 6 layers and it so fast, like 20+ mobs spawn just in 1min
This is the first ever xp farm I’ve made. Thank you sir for such a fine tutorial
I built this recently and it works great. I was already enjoying it for the purpose of quickly getting a few levels to do some more enchants, but today I really appreciated it because I stupidly fell in the lake of lava in the nether. It took maybe a couple of hours, but I have replaced pretty much all of my enchanted gear. In some cases, the replacements may even be a little better than the ones I lost.
When it first happened, I was really tempted to delete the world to free myself from the game for a while, but then I decided to see how fast the xp farm could get me back in business. lol
Works great! Started off as a 7 layer, and I’m almost done expanding it to 10 layers. Can’t wait to see the new rates. Eventually I’ll convert it to just a creeper farm probably.
Edit: I have finished expanding it to 10 layers. Rates have SIGNIFICANTLY improved. I strongly recommend it. The enemies are flowing down here pretty fast, my mending gear is healing up crazy fast.
Did you make anymore layers
I made it 15 layers. It's so insanely productive I need to add an item sorter with a garbage disposal onto it. Very effective.@@J_V0706
@@agentx3 damn i might try it in my survival work, might take awhile and I'm definitely gonna have to re watch the video but i hope it will be efficient
Trust me, its so worth it. Negates the need for an Enderman farm unless you need hundreds of levels for some reason@@J_V0706
do the creepers not blow up I wanna build this on my hardcore world
I had gun powder issues, but now i just turned the pillar that marked the end portal into a nice mob farm, thank you very much :)
First of all great farm mate and love the vids, i have made a 6 level farm on bedrock but mob spawns are really low nowhere near as efficient as yours looks is there something i could of done wrong. Any help would be appreciated 👊
We’re you able to figure if anything slowed it? Mine is slow as well.
I also have the same exact problem. I am getting like 4 mobs per minute. It is way too slow for a farm of this size
did anyone ever firgure out the problem>
bro for real you deserve as much likes as you can get
you are the best and greatest mincraft builder ive ever seen
i really thank you greatly man
Built it exactly like yours and I am struggling to make it efficient, Im on bedrock do you have any advice on how to fix?
on the levels put button instead of carpet and bottom put extinguished campfires to stop spiders from sticking ifnu want them
Thanks wattles. I just have an issue of getting gunpowder and bones without caving( i hate caving so much)😅,and you solve my problem.
On bedrock you can't build this in/above a river biome. It won't spawn anything.
I always try to build two of these in the first days of my survival world, one customized just for creepers, the other for every hostile mob. This is, probably, on of the most overpowered farms you can build early on, eventually, I try to find a skeleton and zombie spawner and make a skeleton farm and a drowned farm.
I will give a rundown of this farm since people seem confused. This farm 100℅ works. But its very, very slow. Id say that it is unworthy to build because of how often mobs spawn. If youre on bedrock, the carpet doesnt stop spiders from spawning. Also, fill corners of where you kill the mobs at. Doing so will prevent creepers from blowing up. Id recommend finding a different farm because this one is quite honestly just not really good. Cheers
I've literally came up with this exact design on my super flat world, where there is no water until you build your own mob farm and grind iron from zombies. They fall 19 blocks and are aggroed to you when you look at them. After you get water you can automate it like in this video or convert it to make drowned zombies, who will also drop fully repaired items along with copper, which you will need to convert pigs into piglins for gold drops. Although my farm was 2x2 platforms not 3x3, and my design had overlapping layers so mobs falling gradually onto lower platforms to prevent them from falling more then 19 blocks. As you wont have access to water until you build a bucket and a caldron.
Hi Wattles,I have a question,cant we build this farm on the ground(below y250)?will it not work then?why did you chose y250 specificly,I dont say that you are wrong,but just had the curosity.
I assume it’s because at that height you can guarantee that mobs don’t have any other places to spawn, so you don’t have to go around spawn-proofing every tiny cave in the surrounding area (which is tedious and no fun)
@@kemperhiggins895 Very late reply, but I wanted to point out that this seems strange to me, since mobs can't spawn more than 128 blocks away from you anyway, so the height could be half that AFAIK.
@@vestofholding Yeah, that’s correct. Could be an inefficiency, then.
@@kemperhiggins895what happens if you dont spawn proof every cave
@@spicy-brawlstarswell if it’s 128 blocks within range they will spawn in the cave meaning that out of the pool of available spawns less will go to your farm
This farm is really great! I put campfires on top of the hopper to make it automatic. Only problem with doing that is witches. They don't die to the campfire. But man it sure did give me so much stuff! I mean the double chest is filled with mob drops after leaving it on over night!
you can use soul campfires
2:10 the like button lights up on mobile
You should state (along with your reccomended 4 layers) the maximum amount of layers you can build up to the 320 Y build limit. Since the build limit caps you instead of how many layers you want to build.
Great design and video!
🔥🗿🔥
This farm is based on mobs wandering around so they fall off platforms. mobs only wander around 35 blocks away from the player, beyond that they just stand there. There is no point in making more platforms. The more platforms there are, the less efficient this already inefficient farm becomes.
I followed the 4 on each side as instructed and it maths out to 13x13 at the base for the perfect square, am I doing something wrong ?
I have just finish it in my Survival world and it works awsome, i did 3 layers and i think those are more than enough for what i need now, for sure in the future if needed i can add more layers😁
Why does everyone say to light up caves when building in the sky?! Isn't that the ENTIRE point of building in the sky?! After you get high enough, don't all the mobs in the caves despawn?! Am I missing something, or do people really just want me to waste my time lighting up all 9,001+ caves?
Lighting caves are really only needed for spawner farms and i believe on java if you are at height limit mobs can still spawn in caves but you can combat that with different rendering settings
YOOOO THIS IS ACTUALLY FIRE
i built 5 layers and it works so well
ONE TIP if your building this above land you have to torch up some spots or the mobs are gonna spawn under so yea
I’m in the middle of building this and am having an inconsistency. You say the base should be 11x11 but after building out four spaces from the steps I end up with 13x13. What did I do wrong?
A 3 block spot above the hoppers, plus the 2 spots with the stairs plus 2 sets of 4 spots going out I end up with a diameter of 13 spots. Not 11. How then would linking the corners into an equal square end up with 11x11?
Am I dumb? What am I missing? I don’t want to go any farther in the build until I understand my error.
I did the same thing and got 13. I think it's just a mistake in the video, because the farm ended up working great.
It should be 13
Holy crap dude. You have made the best mob farm to ever be created. The customization is crazy! And the farm is effective, too. Not only that, but you get crazy xp and drops!
Thank you for blessing the Minecraft community with this video/grinder.
wouldnt that be 13 blocks square
That’s what I was thinking. I thought I was going crazy.
Okay good I thought I was hella dumb
It works so well! I also built 3 layers and i get so many xp and loot, I started this 1.21 world yesterday so I will make the farm even bigger when I get the materials
still works?
Cool...pls do a honey farm.
When I built this, This video was posted 8 months ago. I thought that it was outdated but works amazing! Thank you wattles
Didn’t work for me 🥺
@@Boyhobby17 I think you did something wrong
isn't the top platform beyond the spawn radius though? So no mobs are going to fall down if you wait at the bottom...?
There are no trapdoors at the edges to trick the mobs into thinking that the opened trapdoors are solid blocks
I made this farm with 4 floors and it works really slow but I do manage to get those music discs if I dance around to get the right angle with the skeletons. I think the problem of slow volume is that there is nothing pushing the MOBs off their spawn platform. ALSO I added blocks in the four 4x4 holes for more spawning area since the MOBs will never fall off in those areas anyway.
*DAMN! I was searching and you uploaded this video. What a Timing*
I completed this farm, couldn’t do it as high but it works great I’m on bedrock I started mine at y201 thank so help fun
Question, does it work on bedrock?
because I'm interested
Replace the carpets with buttons and yes. A trident killer would be a good addition, too.
@@davidyounger2965 thank you
Using 1.20 Bedrock edition here and the farm works, however, carpet isn't preventing the spiders from spawning and trapdoors on the top of the layers isn't restricting it to creepers only - I'm getting skellies, zombies, spiders, and creepers and it's configured to creeper-only according to the recorded guide.
i think in bedrock buttons prevent spiders but search it up just in case
Mine is not working and idk what I did wrong
River biome
I was trying to build this because I needed this to get enchants onto everything. And this is very helpful for this.
Does anyone know why my farm isn’t working for me? Here is some information: Im playing on Bedrock Edition, It is pitch black in the farm, I’m 150+ blocks above the ocean, my platforms are made of planks, game mode is hard, and I made the farm exactly as told.
Edit: also, the walls are made of deepslate.
I’m in this exact situation. Just isn’t spawning anything. Not sure why.
For people struggling with mob spawns after the last update, it does still spawn mobs if you wait long enough, but as of now it’s not nearly as effective as it used to be. It does help if you switch to hard difficulty cause you get a few extra mob spawns. We’ll just have to wait and see if a more effective design for mob spawns comes out soon!
I tried this but for some reason it takes forever for mobs to spawn
Same, I afked for 20 minutes and nothing spawned
@@CioSof is it on the ground or above water in the sky
didn't take long to build at all and works great! definitely need more than 3 layers though, mines very slow but still produces!
So I’ve built this but I’m not having any mobs spawn? Does there have to be a specific height to it? I’m at y-138
A tip for the farm is to add carpets on ur hoppers bc the to like getting stuck in the hopper holes :3
The spider spawning in bedrock is THE WORST. No matter what I do, if it can spawn creepers, it spawns spiders.
For a creeper farm or mob grinder?
Use buttons instead of carpet
buttons still didn’t work for me
Every like this Comment gets I’ll do 10 push-ups
Bro no pushup do some pull-up
ONE MORE😊😊
Love this one. I built a “Savana themed” one with acacia wood & terracotta, and it’s perfect for my survival world!
Awesome farm, work perfectly, I got 7 music disks the first time I used it. One problem is that the creepers sometimes start their fuse if I get too close to the farm. One blew up and wrecked the entire bottom part of the farm. I fixed it but now I am in perpetual fear when using it.
def wanna try this one!! it seems a lot simpler than the other mob farms i’ve tried
Nice design, a lot smaller than the one I use, same 3x3 drop shoot but I put 4 8x8 platforms which means the one I use is a 21x21 farm and that design was 3 3x3 + 2 spaces in between and walls means 15x15. I wonder how much better is this design compared to the one I use???
U can make just off the shore a few 50 meters out. Y level just need to be 192 for mobs to spawn as sea level is 63, and the despawn radius is 128.
Here is a list to make it a little easier to gather your items
4 chests
9 hoppers
8 gates
36 carpet
4 water buckets
4 full stacks trap doors
12 stair cases
12 slabs
18 stacks of building blocks, more if you want to expand the platform
Thank you!!
This is my favourite tutorial, I’ve made this farm 3 times now
Not sure if anyone will see this but I built this farm for myself and it works very well. I built one for a buddy and that works well. I built another one for another buddy last night and that one is getting clogged up and slowed down because it’s spawning enderman. The other 2 don’t so idk what I did wrong. All 3 are in Ocean biomes. Any ideas??
It’s so tempting to dive while building this!
Above an ocean surrounded by mushroom islands would be most ideal since you won't have to spawn proof anything. I find that when I do mob farms, even if there's a tiny bit of land close by, I still have to spawn proof.
Even if you’re really high up? I built it at y250 over an ocean, but there is a little bit of land close by. I thought mobs automatically despawned 128 blocks away from the player.
Amazing! Installing this in my skyblock world immediately.
Works like a charm
I built this, it's only OK. The design is not great for AFK, as the funnel is too large, and if you stand too close creepers will see you. If you go for drops and lay out fires as recommended, you will end up with a chamber full of witches. I've modified it with some water streams on a redstone clock to funnel the mobs to a central killing area.
soul campfires kills witches, dont use normal campfires 👍
this is awesome, for an XP farm, i went from thinking enderman grinders were good, to spider spawners, now to this. No need for spawners, great for early game
Thanks for doing a mob farm that works on Bedrock. It’s always a problem getting them to work from the spawning mechanics. Also in a collector of music discs so this farm is awesome!!!
It works for you on bedrock? I've been trying desperately for a week to make it work and NOTHING is spawning in it at all. 😢
@@headache1271same😔
@@headache1271Me too😔😔😔
Same.. i just did it exactly as in this video, and nothing comes down. I even changed on hardmode, but still nothing
I figured out how to make it with a trident killer on my own, first try too 😁
This is the first farm ive found that actually works in bedrock so i thank you🙏🙏
Just write bedrock next to the farm name you want