Minecraft Elegance: Iron Farm on Day 1 of Survival, Java 1.16-1.20
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Published 2020-12-23
- Minimal building material requirements (30 easy-to-obtain items need placement)
- Fast build time (less than 1 Minecraft day)
- No iron needed beforehand
- No lava needed
- No nametag needed, any zombie will work
- Easy loading of villagers and zombie into farm
FAQs:
"The fence gate catches fire." Make sure you don't forget the sign on top of the gate, which fireproofs the gate so that it doesn't burn. If it still burns, I suspect this is recent bug in Forge. One workaround is to place string on top of the signs to fireproof them, or craft the signs from nether stems.
"The zombie doesn't get in the boat." The bottom step of the staircase needs to be even with the floor of the chamber. The zombie needs to be at the same level of the boat in order to get it in.
"My zombie keeps despawning!" An iron golem is probably spawning in the zombie area and killing it. The golem then suffocates and dies. This happens when part of the zombie chamber is not spawn-proofed. The boat should be in the center of the room in order to stop the golem from spawning there. And there needs to be torches at the base of the steps, as well as on the steps.
"Iron golems are spawning outside of the pool." The villagers aren't deep enough underground. You can fix this issue by spawnproofing within 8 blocks horizontally from the beds. You can use buttons, flowers, slabs, or redstone dust, for example; or you can convert the ground to dirt path with a shovel.
"Iron golems aren't spawning at all." There's a good chance that an iron golem has spawned inside a cave within 8 blocks of the beds, and this golem is preventing further golems from spawning. Find the cave, kill the iron golem, and spawnproof the cave or fill it in. If that isn't the issue, try breaking and placing the beds again.
Efficient yield of 175 ingots/hr, and easily upgraded to 335 ingots/hr with lava. Rates in 1.18 seem to be slightly lower at 320 ingots/hr.
Discord: discord.gg/G9aa2YTTQX
0:00 Intro
0:51 Mechanics
3:33 Finding a village
3:49 Collecting beds and site selection
4:08 Materials
4:23 Build instructions
6:38 Upgrades
7:47 Demo of iron farm built and working on Day 1 of survival
NOTES
4:58 Don't use a bamboo raft.
5:53 Instead of using a hoe to turn the dirt into farmland, starting in 1.17, you can use a shovel to turn dirt blocks into dirt path blocks. This is a little more convenient since you don't need to craft an additional tool and you don't need to wait for the block to become hydrated.
7:17 Preventing other iron golems from interfering. Use a lead on a golem so that it stays close to the village bell, which is a hot spot for the gossip that often summons a golem. (Destroying all other beds in the village will also work if you don't have a need for them, such as for breeding.)
7:31 The fence should be a rectangle that goes out at least 16 blocks horizontally from the villagers. Find the 2x3 area on the surface that is directly over the underground beds, and then count 16 blocks in each direction to see how far the fence needs to go.
7:35 The 2 iron farms are mirror images of each other and there are 9 blocks in between the spawning pits. This keeps the iron golems in one farm more than 16 blocks horizontally from the villagers at the other. Here is a compact 4-farm setup (the beds are under the planks):
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All Comments (21)
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Tip: remove all the beds from the village so others can't spawn a golem
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>doesn't upload for 8 years >randomly uploads the best iron farm design ever made
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Incredible how you still troubleshoot problems people are having on a farm you designed 2 years ago. Your dedication is unmatched
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An update on the iron farm: It works a treat as a raid farm as well! Went back to lure another zombie in, completely forgetting about bad omen effect and a raid spawned. I quickly pillared up a few blocks and the raid mobs crossed into the pit and the lava did the job (along with a few jabs from yours truly)
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"I need iron for a hopper" -"ok, just build an iron farm" This is really nice. Thank you so much
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Thank you for this man, I have never made any iron farm because it was always so intimidating, but you simplified and explained it in a way that even I could understand, and so I thank you for that.
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Him: so yeah this farm is for day one of your minecraft wor- Me on day 250 with full enchanted diamond armor and 6 houses: ah, exactly what I needed
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This thing is amazing. I've built 2 of these in my new survival world as soon as I found a village, and a few days later I have stacks of iron blocks in my chest. Just a tip for anyone trying to build this, make sure you build it on the lowest point in the village, otherwise the golems will keep spawning outside the farm if there are any blocks nearby lower than the area surrounding the spawn platform, ruining the rates. It might require a lot of terraforming, not many villages sit on nice, flat terrain like the one in this video. Also, just place down torches in the chamber where the zombie will stay, if that boat isn't perfectly centered I found out that sometimes golems will spawn down there.
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This is insanely helpful, thank you! I'm always on the lookout for small, more casual farm designs and this is a great one.
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You have such creative designs that are the epitome of working smarter instead of harder. The beds over the hole to lure the villagers in? Literally genius, how does someone come up with that
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I feel bad for you because so many people steal your video ideas and take the views to themselves. Unfortunately, it’s only a matter of time until some big creator steals all your builds and freezes your view count. I really hope that doesn’t happen and YouTube does something to help prevent this.
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This is my new favorite early game iron farm. I would never get an iron farm up and running until day 50-100. I got this up on day 4 and it's getting just as much iron per day as some of the more complex farms. The simplicity is genius. Thanks for sharing!
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This channel deserves more subs, your stuff is cheap and efficient.
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Everything with this farm is amazing but my favorite part is probably suffocating the iron golems with dirt blocks. It's effective, simplistic and I feel like it encapsulates the genius of your farm designs.
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This video is literally a masterpiece, neven seen someone being so quick, and doing it from scratch like you did, proving what you said. Thanks for posting this video
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This farm produces more iron than some more complex farms which are definitely not day 1 iron farm, thank you so much!!
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I'm impressed with your videos, they're nice and well made. I really like how practical and upgradable your designs are. It's refreshing because other designs are more about efficiency at the cost of being impractical for the average player.
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this is actually one of the smartest simple iron farms i've seen, no hopper or name tag? ur so underrated dude
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You make the absolute best guides. Sometimes you just need something fast, practical, and efficient and not something crazy.
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Watching you play survival minecraft is hilarious. Thanks for your technical contributions.
