Throughout the world of Minecraft, you’ll acquire tons of experience points by doing pretty much everything. Smelting ores, cooking food, mining, farming, and most importantly, killing monsters. Unfortunately, acquiring XP in a timely manner can be quite time-consuming, especially as your enchanting demands grow as you enter the endgame. Because of this, today we’re going to go over how to make the best, simplest XP Farm that will help you generate a consistent XP source. Let’s begin.
What You Will Need
To get started, you’re going to need a fair amount of blocks and items to build this farm. But you needn’t worry. Although it may take you a while to gather all of the resources, they’re all fairly cheap.
11 stacks of solid blocks
15 stacks of slabs
4 stacks of trapdoors
10 stairs
2 water buckets
4 ladders
4 hoppers
4 chests
1 bed
2 stacks of scaffolding
Now that you’ve acquired all of the necessary resources, you’ll need to find an elevated area in your world. I recommend searching for a tall mountain, but in an area that allows you access to the highest point without doing too much parkour.
Building the farm
Time to get started with the farm! This will be a step-by-step guide on how to construct everything.
Place all your scaffolding down until it reaches as high as it can go, then go to the top of that tower.
Next, build a 4×2 extension from the top. Place all four chests at the end with hoppers on top of them, and then place two blocks and two stairs in between you and the chests.
Place slabs on top of the hoppers and then surround them with solid blocks, but leave an opening in the front. In this opening, place a trap door on both sides.
Build up this outline to be 22 blocks tall.
At the top, add blocks to the corners and replace the outline at said top portion with stairs that face outward. Then place four ladders within the ‘tube’ under the stairs facing each other.
Build out a 7×2 extension with slabs on all four sides.
Build walls around all of these extensions.
Connect the edges of all the walls with slabs.
Place slabs with water sources in them at the end of every ‘hallway’.
Place and open trap doors on the sides of the walls above the water path on all sides.
We need to prevent spiders from spawning, so place trapdoors on top of the platforms in this exact formation. Do not place them randomly! Do your best to mimic the exact placement you see here!
Now, build a 3-block-high wall surrounding the entire structure.
After that, make another layer that is similar to the one you just built, with the slabs and the trap doors. Do this 3 more times. Make sure to leave at least a 2 block clearance between each layer.
Now that you’ve added more layers, just build a wall and a roof. You’re done!
Final Tips
Not that you need any more advice, but if you’d like to get the most value from your farm, here are some tips.
Use weapons enchanted with ‘Looting’ to receive more drops from the mobs.
Place torches on the outside of the farm to prevent mobs from spawning, increasing the mob spawn rate inside the farm.
Decrease render distance to improve performance.
Do not sneak (press shift) when using the farm. A creeper might see you!
Go AFK while the mobs stack up and spawn in, then come back and farm them all!
Conclusion
That’s all folks! Your one-stop shop on how to produce a crazy amount of XP while also acquiring massive amounts of mob drops like gunpowder, rotten flesh, and bones. That’s all the good, rare stuff, right? At the endgame, it can always be a pain to get XP, with the most efficient method being going into the Nether and mining Quartz. But that’s dangerous and boring. This farm takes away the tedium of it all. I hope this guide helped you, and with that being said, have a great day!
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