Easy Compact 16 pod Iron Farm - TUTORIAL 1.19, 1.18, 1.17

[@CezaryAkakios]

I'm a relative novice at building farms and here are all the things I wish I had known before starting this build. These things would have saved me *many* hours of frustration and wasted work. 1. _The orientation of the zombie pods is crucial._ Pause the video at 1:33 and take a screenshot. Relative to that orientation, the zombie pods need to be at the top and bottom, *not* the left/right. They should line up with with two of the pillows on each of the villager pods. This mistake cost me many hours, and the video is not very clear that it matters. 2. _You absolutely need an external villager breeder._ I wrongfully assumed I could send two villagers up the water column onto the platform, and then feed them and because they could see all 12 beds they would breed. This has no hope of working, because villagers need to see two air blocks above beds to make them willing to breed. Don't even think about trying to temporarily remove the blocks above the beds for the purposes of breeding. The villagers -- especially the kids jumping on the beds -- will fall off and take damage or die. You would need to build a large containing wall around the pods for this to work and it's a major pain. Just search for a simple villager breeder, it's much easier. I used one from LogicalGeekBoy. 3. _The ground around the base matters._ If you have blocks protruding up above the ground level, as will happen if you build this on natural terrain that hasn't been completely leveled, then the iron golems will see that as valid space to spawn and will spawn on the ground and not in the water stream that takes them to be killed. Once there are golems visible, the spawning is interrupted because the villagers see the golem and won't spawn another. If you have any golems wandering around anywhere, the farm won't work and you need to kill them and fix the problem. To make the ground level non-spawnable, go to the block under the center of the villager pods, and then walk outwards 8 blocks in X and 8 blocks in Z. All of that included perimeter area has to be flattened so that it's at or below the Y level that you started with in the very center. (To be clear, this means more than the 15x15 footprint of the tower.) I think bottom-half slabs can be used to make blocks non-spawnable for the golems, too. I don't think glass will work. Any machinery or support structures you build at the base which rises above the starting ground level needs to be slabbed off as well for the same reason. 4. _The area above the frames of the portals needs to be filled in or bottom-slabbed._ This is similar to #3. Golems that spawn anywhere but in the water stream will break the farm. If you have any wandering around, they must be killed and the root cause addressed. Note: you can shoot a golem with a bow and arrow from a long distance and they won't be able to figure out where it's coming from to chase you. You could also use leads and move them far away from the area, and tie them at a fencepost. 5. _Villager pathfinding is hell._ I used a minecart to deliver villagers from the breeding area to the central water column. Some of them seemed to become randomly attached to the beds in the breeder and refused to attach to the beds in the golem farm pods. At night they would just stare off into the distance trying to get to a bed that they have no chance of reaching, instead of finding the beds in easy reach. To fix this you just have to nudge them around to interrupt their pathing and give them some time (10-20 seconds.) They will eventually get the green sparkle particle effects and go to their beds. It's very frustrating because some villagers take to the beds instantly and some don't. If you send too many villagers up the column and more than a couple do not take to their new beds, you create traffic jams which causes villagers to fall off the paths to their death. Until you have the hang of it, I recommend filling the pods very carefully. Block off all but one pod, send the villagers up one by one, and make sure they latch on to a bed with green particles before sending the next one. Villagers are incredibly stupid and will fall and die if you're not careful with them. Even if they live, it's a pain to chase them down and contain them in a boat so that they can be sent up again. 6. _Building vertically is hard for a newbie._ I had scaffolding (highly recommended) and elytra and it was still awkward. I guess if you're experienced it's no big deal, but it looks a lot easier in creative mode. If you can find a jungle biome to get bamboo for scaffolding, it's highly recommended before starting the build. (There's a biome finder at chunkbase dot com that works well and is a simple web app.) Building over water might be good as you can jump down. 7. _Once they're in their pods, it's hard to count the number of villagers during the day._ This is because they all stand in the same center block area, the only place they can fit. It's therefore hard to impossible to tell how many villagers you've installed in the pod during the day. The only reliable way is to wait for night and count how many are sleeping, which can mean a lot of waiting if you're not organized. Keep careful notes of how many villagers you've put in each pod, because you must fill every bed for the farm to work. 8. _While you are installing the zombies in thier pods, block the view of the villagers._ You can do this by putting temporary blocks on the left and right of the zombie pods, blocking the eyelines of the villagers. Remember that their eyelines change when they are in bed and when they are standing, and you have to block both so you need 2 blocks per side. This will prevent them from summoning golems until you are ready to activate the farm and have everything installed (flowing water, portals lit, etc.) Again, if they summon a golem and the farm is not ready, the golem will wander around not being killed and will break the farm, requiring that you kill them. It's much easier to keep the villager sight lines blocked until you have verified that everything is setup correctly and ready for action. (See 12:55 in the video for the note about breaking the glass there too.) 9. _Everything matters._ This farm relies on the specific action of the zombie jumping up and down on the bubble column created by the soul sand, and the heights of the slabs containing him. This causes him to repeatedly go in and out of the eyeline of the villagers, both when standing and sleeping, which is essential for them to keep respawning new golems. If you don't use soul sand, or you don't align the slabs the way it's shown in the video, it will not work. You have to build it exactly as it is in the video. After fixing all my newbie mistakes, this farm creates an incredible amount of iron. It's almost too much. I built the full 16 pod version and I have thousands of iron blocks after just a short afk period. It's really very efficient. Just hang in there and debug problems as they arise, and you will be rewarded with a great farm.

[@MineTheFab]

Hi Cezary! 😊 Wau! Thanks for sharing your experience! If I could I would pin it on top of The video. And coudos to you for taking on this farm when you’re a relative beginner. I don’t regard this as a beginner farm. And maybe that shows in the video in the sense that I don’t explain everything. And Finally I don’t regard myself as good Block by block KZbinr. I develop farms. That’s why I often let channel like Shulkercraft and Voltrox make versions of my tutorials 😊

[@CezaryAkakios]

@@MineTheFab Thanks! And thanks for the nice farm design. By the way I realize now that you did mention at 2:35 in the video about the zombie orientation so I'm the only one to blame for neglecting that! But if I missed it others will too so I guess it can't hurt to underline that requirement.

[@fatemakarim1759]

I need help on the portals

[@MineTheFab]

@@fatemakarim1759 Hi Fatema 😊 Please read through the comments as this has been addressed many times. And recently I saw a “work around” with one guy just making a dropper water and shooting the items back through the same portal 😊

[@fatemakarim1759]

@@MineTheFab I have for an hour now but I still can't find anything about it. I just need help from 5:45

[@cadearmstrong5419]

List of Building Materials for each layer: 161 Full blocks 96 slabs 12 beds 96 glass 2 soulsand 6 water buckets / ice 44 obsidian (36 if no corners) 2 zombies 12 villagers Other necessary materials: A lot of walls 32 obsidian (24 if no corners) 9 signs 1 lava bucket 1 dispenser 16 hoppers for the nether 1 comparator 1 sticky piston 2 observers 3 rails 3 hopper minecarts 3 hoppers for overworld Additional Hoppers and chests for storage

[@ghostingalong4987]

Thank you.

[@SchweineHax]

Thanks!

[@BIGDIVAD]

GOD SEND

[@siz8744]

4 months later and u still save my life

[@kinaro9308]

pogchamp !

[@denialz1460]

If your portals aren't linking up properly, for instance your 4 golem portals teleport you to the dropper portal, then it's most likely due to the y level. I would suggest building the 2 portals in the nether at the same level, but use a dropper item elevator to dispense the items into the portal. gl :D

[@MineTheFab]

Hi Denialz ... Good advice! :-)

[@icecoldwater638]

I just read this too late and lost my 6 months hardcore world, I should've read the comments after encountering the problem, great advice though and I'll use this on the new world I make.👌👌

[@whowantsmypants8888]

This was the solution I was looking for! Works great now thank you!

[@kristianfenger3383]

OMG I LOVE YOU😭

[@JcoobZ5]

After I did that it worked so thank you very much. Do you know why after I lit the portals in the 2nd pod, the iron is now dispensed in the 2nd pod? It seems to stay in the 2nd pod unless I break the 2nd pod portal, which then it comes out of the 3rd pod, and when I break that the 4th. Why isn’t it staying in the 1st one? My portals are 9 blocks from the top of the one below is

[@indusriver963]

Thank you for this fantastic design. This might deserve to become the iconic portal iron farm. It's simple, elegant, and small. Although it seems to be 17x17, not 15x15 as described. It worked for me in 16.3 survival, but I built only the four bottom pods.

[@carbonbook2535]

golems are spawning on the top of portals and zombie cages if we place slab there they are not spawning at all

[@jestem_kebab3788]

@@carbonbook2535i was lazy so i placed the walls i already had and it worked for me.

[@themarshmellomerchant3089]

Ah, I see he came to save the day after shulkercrafts video.

[@BrandedLegend9]

What do you mean?

[@thehugesmall]

@@BrandedLegend9 he came from shulker craft

[@BrandedLegend9]

@@thehugesmall well ye sik that he clearly states that but what in the video made him type this

[@0vertourr814]

Shulkercraft made the bid about the best iron farm and this won, but there was no tutorial out when he put out the vid so many people where mad that there was no tutorial because it was the best so he made a tutorial

[@BrandedLegend9]

@@0vertourr814 thanks dude

[@apollo8825]

I kept messing up the portal in the nether where the iron shoots out, so I just made it so you collect everything in the nether. Still works great!!

[@UnkleKelp]

For those of you who are experiencing the Iron Golems only spawning at night. After searching through comments I found that I had missed breaking the centre block of glass over the beds facing the zombie. This was a simple 2 minute fix and I immediate saw the golems begin spawning during the day. Hope this comment helps the people like me who oversaw this small important detail.

[@street_nutlmao]

can you rephrase this? I'm having a hard time understanding.

[@pzioplays]

The final puzzle piece i needed for my farm to work perfectly at last, thank you so much man !

[@ohhdeadpool1000]

@@street_nutlmao if you still need its the bed closest to the zombies the glass block above the pillow needs to be broke

[@Voluption]

Excellent video, I'm sad to only be finding your channel now. One of the most fun I've had building a farm. The initial video did a great job of explaining how it works, too - one of my favorite parts. This was my project for today - took me way longer than it should have - but loved every second of it. Thank you! Your help in the comments also helped me problem solve some of the issues I had. Cheers.

[@MineTheFab]

Thank you so much for taking the time to write this 😊

[@Pygz]

I love the amount of support you’re getting in the comments I honestly think you deserve it you’re great!

[@08B6]

RE:Material list because I wasn’t able to find one, so I did what every logical person would do and that is to compose all of the materials into one list, anyways here you go: // Overworld build list: // Polished Andesite 138 Smooth Stone Slab 112 Light Gray Stained Glass 91 Obsidian 36 Glass 35 Orange Bed 12 Chest 6 Hopper 5 Water Bucket 4 Rail 3 Hopper Minecart 3 Soul Sand 2 Villagers 12 Zombies 2 (remember additional name tags for the zombies to not despawn) // Nether build list: // Cobblestone Wall 92 Netherrack 64 Obsidian 31 Polished Andesite 24 Hopper 18 Spruce Sign 9 Chest 2 Observer 2 Dropper 1 Lava Bucket 1 Redstone Comparator 1 Sticky Piston 1

[@jinoobtube]

Sir thank you for your service

[@NilsSpargel]

Thanks so much dude :D

[@mctwinklebuns4091]

Thank you random person on the internet

[@elisiegel5094]

Thank you so much!!

[@CorwinNewall]

(Plus 8 name tags) (well it’s 8 for me because I’m doing 4 layers)

[@taeurus]

Fantastic work as always and I hope some day you get the recognition you deserve for your contributions.

[@MineTheFab]

Thanks taeurus! :-)

[@greyhound371]

Materials?

[@carbonbook2535]

golems are spawning on the top of portals and zombie cages if we place slab there they are not spawning at all

[@fortnitemarc4jam75]

thank you, i was planning on guessing how to do it

[@syaqailhamas3443]

I build this in my world and it works perfectly! You earned a sub!

[@carbonbook2535]

golems are spawning on the top of portals and zombie cages if we place slab there they are not spawning at all'

[@GigaPangolin]

@@carbonbook2535 That probably means you built the spawning platform too small.

[@alexzoilist9584]

Here is a possible fix for anyone having problems with portals. (If adjusting the y-level didnt work). Build a minecart hopper railway that brings it a little farther away from the kill machine. Then empty it into a chest and repeat the dropper system shown in the video. Your collection system might be a little farther away from the actual farm though.

[@connerroth3416]

Just so you guys know, you can easily skip the portals, add fence gates over the middle hole, and add a drop chute to lava below to make the farm single-dimensional, the rates will dip slightly though. Great design for villager pods!

[@M00ngdjr]

where should the fences go?

[@samchrischristopher4786]

​@@M00ngdjr bruh

[@kurtiliusroyce]

Great and effective farm! Rather deceivingly time consuming though. The villagers are by far the most tedious part but I'm thankful I didn't face any problems after getting it built.

[@MineTheFab]

Thanks! Yeah ... villagers ... On a hard day they can make you rage quit lol

[@martinpolle8995]

just finished building a 5 pod one in my hardcore world. i really underestimated how tedious it would be to get zombies and villagers in place. but here is how i did it. first i built the entire thing and also the nether side. to get the zombies i first collected zombies that were able to pick up items and gave them a helmet so they wouldn't burn in the day.(durability of helmet goes down during day so watch out) this way i could collect zombies in the night and place them in their chamber during the day. afterwards i blocked their line of sight with the villager chambers so no golems could spawn outside the farm. For the villagers i used a breeder from logicalgeekboy that i had already built prior to this build and placed the villagers directly into the chambers using activator rails without breaking the chambers. (remove blocks next to their chamber so they can't wake up on those) then i broke all the rails and scaffolding before opening the line of sight of the zombies. now the farm is working like a charm and i have to say it was worth the work.

[@elisiegel5094]

Would carved pumpkins protect a zombie from the daylight?

[@martinpolle8995]

@@elisiegel5094 yes it would, but I don't think you can get them to wear it just by dropping it on them. I think they have to spawn with it already on their head during Halloween for that to work.

[@grimsage5809]

@@martinpolle8995 you can use a dispenser to force it onto their heads, did this with the first zom i've collected for my trading hall since its much more important that those zombies can hold items (visvis a sword/axe) for speeding up zombification

[@1000039915]

Awesome farm. Just built on 1.17. In my first hour I got about 2 stacks of iron blocks. I only did 1 level. Thanks for the build!

[@kyleokane887]

I ended up having to rebuild this thing 3 times; the exact coordinates are super super important! Great farm!

[@jonniriepponen6248]

i didn't get the nether portal thing the exact cordinates can you reply fast

[@MineTheFab]

@@jonniriepponen6248 ? Then you have to change it. When portals are this close exact placement is paramount!

[@MistrBread]

I actually did it first try by using calculator

[@MineTheFab]

@@MistrBread now you’re just showing off 😂

[@MistrBread]

@@MineTheFab LMAO

[@TheElevenz]

Ahhhh, thank you so much for a block by block done by you. As voltrox didn't cover the part with the second portal in the nether and where exactly it will be spit out in the overworld, I had to guess and I think that I did something wrong there. Also Portals and their interconnectivity can be pretty fiddly. But thanks for the tutorial, I will try it out :)

[@MineTheFab]

Indeed that can! Portals. Be fiddly!

[@TheElevenz]

@@MineTheFab It works now :) Also, a nice extra feature: In my case it doubles as a gold farm, because there are so many zombiefied piglins :p

[@TheElevenz]

@@MineTheFab Actually, it's waaaaaay too many piglins. Do you know of a way to prevent them from traveling through the portal into the overworld? It really messes with the spawning rates of the golems and also hinders them from entering the portals... hmmm

[@amansharma1585]

@@TheElevenz cover areas with slab in the nether....so that the piglins can't spawn

[@fatemakarim1759]

@@TheElevenz buttons

[@kristianfenger3383]

This farm is amazing, I have only had it for one day and afk for like 3 hours and got 9 staks of iron blocks. I make it under ground so it took some time for me to slap it off, but now that I’m done, it works better then amazing 😌😄

[@MineTheFab]

Glad to hear it 😊

[@Dwardest]

where did you afk=

[@SJ-eu3wg]

this farm was much easier to build than i thought it was, not only that, but it's also really useful for beacons

[@MineTheFab]

Glad to hear it :-)

[@z0mbyslayer934]

I have counted MOSTLY all Blocks that has been used so far. If I have missed some, you are free to tell me so I can refresh my comment and add them. Anyway, here is the List: 115 / 1,79 Stacks - Slabs 192 / 3 Stacks - Blocks 131 / 2,04 Stacks - Glass Blocks 96 / 1,5 Stacks - Temporary Building Blocks 92 / 1,43 Stacks - Walls 65 - Obsidian Blocks 12 - Beds 24 - Hoppers 6 - Chests 2 - Nametags 2 - Zombies 12 - Villagers 1 - Sticky Piston 1 - Comparator 9 - Signs 1 - Dropper 2 - Observer 3 - Rails 3 - Hopper Minecarts 2 - Soulsand 6 - Water Buckets

[@rakitaviktor3650]

thank you

[@Alrobye760]

You are a legend Thank you

[@tristanvdb1417]

you forget to add a bucket of lava

[@reitaxo3684]

6:06 can you please explain more about this part?

[@jonniriepponen6248]

same thing here if you know what to do tell me pls

[@glyphiize8198]

I’m struggling with that part too

[@scr1pted143]

The block that you got coords from in the over world, you need to divide the x and z coords by 8 because of nether mechanics and find that block in the nether, it should be close unless it linked to another portal

[@scr1pted143]

@@glyphiize8198 .

[@scr1pted143]

@@jonniriepponen6248 .

[@flatcap32]

This is a really confusing farm but you explain it perfectly. There are a few tweaks but overall really good farm. Keep it up :)

[@carbonbook2535]

golems are spawning on the top of portals and zombie cages if we place slab there they are not spawning at all

[@berniok6153]

Really great farm design! I've built four layers, and had some problems, but solutions were in the comments :) btw.I nearly wrecked my keyboard while getting zombies and villagers to their pods.

[@MineTheFab]

Thanks 😊 You did not use the method of letting them find beds themselves?

[@alishank4746]

Hey there! First off, thanks for being smart enough to make something like this! However, I know you said that you have addressed the portal linking issue in the comments, but I have been searching for hours and cannot find an answer to my problem. I just need clarification on the 1/8 rule. When you are standing in the overworld and looking at the first portal you made, your cords are X: 10.503 Y: 65.000 Z: 35.930 So if we take 1/8 of each, that would be X: 1.31 Y: 8.125 Z: 4.491 Which is not where the portal is when you are looking at the bottom obsidian block in the nether. So then I was like okay, that’s not what he’s probably looking at in the coordinates section cause that doesn’t make any sense. So now im acting like a crazy person trying to see where you see 1/8 of anything, and the only place I see that is to the right, near the bottom that says “Sound” and then 1/8. Which my own portal does, but still refuses to link up after I have placed the 2nd portal in the nether that sends you back to the overworld through the initial portal. I know I’m probably not seeing something but I swear I’m not dumb I’m average 🥺😂😅

[@MineTheFab]

Hi AliShank 😊 You just need to move the auto-generated portal in the nether to the coordinates you calculated - the 1/8 of the over world coordinates.

[@steveplaceholder6522]

THanks dude, i had watch shulkercraft's video and i thought it was a pain to make 6 giant portals and then you showed it is possible wth only 4 small portals

[@thefish6148]

Just awesome

[@yorkzie7593]

to confirm, this still does work on 1.18 ive gotten an e chest of iron blocks on when the servers been on for 4 irl days thanks for the farm again

[@creativemind6717]

Thanks fpr mentioning the last part i was very scared when this stopped working in the day time when i went to nether :)

[@MineTheFab]

Yeah! :-) Exactly way I did it. Building stuff like this in survival is scary.

[@creativemind6717]

@@MineTheFab Hey this is just a suggestion but you have designed loads of iron farms i suggest please do a melon/pumpkin farm but a different type (maybe faster or something) just a suggestion..

[@MineTheFab]

@@creativemind6717 Haha! Thanks ... I do in fact design other farms ... Stacking Raid farms, Guardian farms, even a rabbit farm lately ... But don't think I have made a Melon Pumpkin ... I Usually only do a farm when I can either make it smaller, better of funnier somehow :-) (And I know ... I have a problem with Iron farms ...lol)

[@creativemind6717]

@@MineTheFab you are in level of gnembon and rayswork i dont know why you dont have as many subs as them.. I really think you should focus on common farms like melon pumpkin,iron(which you already do) and sugarcane bamboo..ik it is no where as fun as rabbit farms or smaller iron farms but atleast this will get your subs increased...

[@joeyjohnsonson4341]

If the farm only works at night (starts at night but does not continue through the day) you forgot to break the blocks on villager pods allowing them to see the zombie. I did this on my first layer and it was hard to diagnose because it worked fine during night. this is probably because once the villagers sleep they are lower and can see through the gap under the blocks

[@MineTheFab]

hi :-) Thats right! I have only written that like a 100 times in the comments here :-)

[@joeyjohnsonson4341]

@@MineTheFab lmao sorry, I didn't see it in the comments. guess I wasn't looking hard enough

[@comb-t]

Oh wow, I never even realised that and the farm produced like 2 double chests of iron blocks in the meantime and I just had to go through and replace beds because villagers weren't sleeping properly just to see it not working in the day where I could swear it used to.

[@dogwapofthebarnowlbakery3655]

Great farm, well explained. Thanks!

[@jonniriepponen6248]

help me pls at 6:10

[@lucakarhunen7259]

Now i can finally take over our server iron business

[@bea4438]

any material list still?

[@siriuxx]

pls

[@AaronRust]

this farm is crazy good thanks for the tutorial

[@lalabhai9703]

Love from Shulker craft ♥️

[@mr_misty379]

Do you have to put the blocks in the middle

[@prestonmott4223]

Love the farm design, I have a problem with the golemns traveling through the portal and ending up in the portal meant for transporting items, any idea why this could be

[@MineTheFab]

Hi Preston ... Yes! The precision of the portals. If you have a big height difference also with the Y-level coordinates. Please read through the comments as this have been addressed several times 😊

[@hyperfun384]

@@MineTheFab you need to include that in the video, i had to do it over 3 times.

[@Shah_73]

bringing 3 villagers in one compartment is hardest work of my life

[@MineTheFab]

Hi shah 😊 yeah! Villagers are super annoyonh! But …you just need two. Then breed them up. And then place The beds at Night and they Will Walk in by them selves.

[@Shah_73]

@@MineTheFab thx for replying but they are breeding once in a day thats very slow dont u think so?

[@MineTheFab]

@@Shah_73 eh … No! They Can breed 3 times a day and have a 5 minutes cool Down. And once you have more it Will go faster

[@Shah_73]

@@MineTheFab thnx

[@Shah_73]

​@@MineTheFab iron golem arent going inside the portal

[@maxcarbon3654]

*i believe i got the materials list right, someone please correct me if I have enough/too much of a certain item or if I need to add certain essential information:)* OVERWORLD POD ------------------------------------- Building Blocks: 138 (quick note i just used a couple stacks of dirt for scaffolding, feel free to use what you would like) Any Type of Slab: 112 Glass of Any Kind: 128 Obsidian: 36 + a way to light portals Beds: 12 Chest: 6 Hoppers: 5 Water Bucket: 4 (2 if you just use infinte water source) Rails: 3 Soul Sand: 2 Villagers: 12 (+ any way of getting them to the holding pods) Zombies: 2 (+ 2 name tags if they cant hold blocks) NETHER KILLING CHAMBER ------------------------------------ Any Type of Wall: 92 Any Type of Building Block: 60 Obsidian: 31 Hopper: 31 Any Sign: 9 Chest: 2 Observer: 2 Dropper:1 Lava Bucket: 1 Sticky Piston: 1

[@nicbertobgames9519]

you forgot the comparator in the nether killing chamber

[@thyrumx2901]

you forgot the 3 hopper minecarts

[@BreakdownEnjoyer]

Wow this farm is amazing. It's definitely worth building. I got 146 iron blocks in one hour just for the 4 pods (1 layer) on my papermc server.

[@MineTheFab]

hi :) Thank you - and you're welcome ;-)

[@n8mo]

Hey man, incredible iron farm. Is there any in-game mechanic preventing me from doing more than 4 layers? Additionally, is it possible to have two towers in loaded chunks 32 blocks apart so they don't count as being part of the same village? Thanks!

[@MineTheFab]

Hi n8mo :-) Nope. Go right ahead! Both options should not cause problems. Only thing is the placement of the nether portal ... It might be tricky to get ALL portals in all heights to connect to the same portal in the nether ... Depending on whether or not you have other portals nearby.

[@HelowYTCSGO]

i did everything in the video and the farm doesn't work at all :(((

[@MineTheFab]

@@HelowYTCSGO if the farm does not work at all, like no golems at alle then you’re probably on Bedrock and not Java? 😊

[@HelowYTCSGO]

@@MineTheFab i'm on Java

[@MineTheFab]

@@HelowYTCSGO Singleplayer? Or multiplayer?

[@janw79]

Just got a doubt about "9 blocks above the portal". If for example the top obsidian of my first layer portal is at Y=74 (Targeted block in F3), so the next layer base blocks (0:23) would be at Y = 83, right ? Confused because in some videos "above" refers to leaving a space of (in this case) 9 blocks to continue building, while in others is to start at the ninth block counted. Thanks in advance.

[@MineTheFab]

Hi 😊 In This case its 9 blocks of air from the top of the portal to the bottom of the next one (it’s actually 16 blocks between the villagers that’s important- the 9 blocks is just a way to convey that)

[@zakifirasi]

does anyone know the ingredients for the 4 pods?

[@BigKiwi]

at start i went 9 up and started you need a 9 block gap and start on 10th, the 4 ig portals were leading to the item return portal so i move this portal to the same y level as the other portals using a dropper elevator and it linked correctly. other than this amazing farm havent even finished putting villagers in the first floor and is allready giving me lots of iron

[@Nubnuggs]

hey so i tried to add another layer but it seems that when I light up the portals on the 2nd floor/module the iron + poppys begin to come out of the top portal instead of the one below, I've tried to increase the distance between the levels and yet no success, if you faced this problem in the past could you help me out? and the portals in the nether are at the same y-axis (items are being transported out into the overworld via a dropper elevator) but it seems to still malfunction.

[@buildustas5541]

Items list: -136 Building Blocks -72 Slabs -77 Glass -12 Beds -36 Obsidian -1 Sticky Piston -1 Comparator -1 Dropper -3 Observer -12 Villager -2 Zombie -3 Hopper Minecart -94 Wall -Hoppers and chests Temporary blocks: -3 rails -A stack of easily breakable blocks

[@MineTheFab]

Thanks, dude 😊

[@lars7914]

Legend

[@carisbrown8826]

Just built half of it (2 pods full and the whole nether portal system) it works like a charm already have 64 iron which is amazing. Takes a long time to build though and my villagers wouldnt breed so im having to bring them over by boat from my breeder other than that def worth the time

[@Zzzzimm]

If you're running into an issue where farm stops producing anything after one day/night cycle and are running 1.20.2 Java, read on. Everything is built, villagers and zombie are in place, farm starts to produce... Until it doesn't. This happened consistently after a single day/night cycle. The first night villagers would try sleeping then wake up seeing the zombie. Come day, i broke the center glass glass block over pillow having zombie... Farm continued to produce during the day. Come the next night cycle however, everything stopped. Villagers would not sleep. They just stood there in the middle of the pod doing nothing. Come day, still nothing. To get things going again, at night, replace center block over pillow facing zombie. Villagers immediately started to sleep and golems started to spawn again. Keeping the center blocks in place would keep the farm going, but only at night. I was about to give up on this farm, but as luck would have it i broke the wrong block allowing the villagers to move across two blocks. This immediately started the farm back up. I made the same change to the other three pods. Sure enough farm started running on all cylinders day and night. I hope this helps someone else.

[@00braincells56]

BIG TIP: The villagers may need more space! This farm did not work for me with the default design, but I extended their pods by 1 block so they could walk around and it was an absolute game changer for me

[@kuba510yt]

thx bro

[@fanficsempai9688]

Most likely you forgot to remove one of the glass blocks at the top to allow space for the villagers, otherwise the farm should be working fine

[@muffy4671]

Tip: If you put a zombie across the portal(the one in the nether, not in the overworld), golems will walk so they don't need to be pushed. Note: I didn't try it. So if something unexpected happens, don't blame me.

[@Mishimpoo]

It works, just don’t forget to name it or else it’ll despawn

[@anamab-nr2pt]

this worked so well it gives tons of iron I really recommend

[@daylight_exe]

does it take a while to work?

[@hecongzhang8515]

HI, I just had a problem when I was building and testing the farm, the minecart hooper wasn't catching the irons at all, I wonder how to fix that. Thanks.

[@risix]

Where do I need to AFK on this farm? I have only one platform and I don't know where do I AFK. I loved your farm design, can you help me?

[@MineTheFab]

Hi :-) You just need to have the chunk loaded - no particular place!

[@risix]

@@MineTheFab Thank you man!

[@xanderzuk9573]

Great farm, worked on my 1.18.1 spigot server. Follow the instructions carefully.

[@MineTheFab]

Thanks! And yes ... That's always a good idea!

[@semgroot96]

My items keep coming out a portal from the second layer. I have tried everything and nothing helps. Can't find anything about it in the comments. Anyone got a solution?

[@MineTheFab]

Hi 😊 Sounds Weird! Normally it will connect to either the bottom or the top portal - depending on where you place the portals in the Nether. How ever the fix is to make sure the portal in the Nether is in the exact corresponding XYZ values as the bottom portal in the over world- that is 1/8 of the over world coordinates.

[@PureIceChill]

what do you mean when you explain the nether portal placement at 6:19 ... i dont quite understand

[@MineTheFab]

Hi Scott! :-) Please read through the comments as portal placing has been discussed in great lengths already many times :-)

[@daander282]

Only 2 of the 4 portals in the overworld are leading to the killing chamber. the 2 other ones are leading to the portal that is supposed to send blocks back. How can i fix this?

[@minigungamer5583]

Material list please

[@MineTheFab]

@@minigungamer5583 hi 😊 Not really Big on that 😂 But usually someone makes one and posts it here. But … I would recommend building the iron beast 2 instead- no portals, easier to build and same or better rates.

[@fernie7454]

hi - the golems are coming through the 2nd portal in the nether (the one that is used for the chunk loader) . i havent seen any comments on how tp fix this, id appreciate some help ^ ^

[@MineTheFab]

hi :-) Really? I have answered this a lot ... Portals can be tricky theis close together ... try raising the returportal to the same level as the portal the golems enter through ... Just use a droppervator

[@ceeberr]

villagers wouldn't sleep, despite placing and replacing beds, with no line of sight to the zombie, in the correct order, with the block of glass removed after. after HOURS, i finally figured it out - i got new zombies. the last two were holding items, and these aren't. i have no idea how or why this fixed it, but it did. now the villagers properly sleep at night, and also produce items during the day. this was in 1.20.1.

[@MineTheFab]

Hi 😊 Sounds weird! But good you got it working again

[@gamester302]

Bro please tell me the second portal is spitting iron golem so they are not spawning in kill chamber 😭😭.please help me and reply how to fix this

[@MineTheFab]

Hi Shami :-) Please read through the comments. And the pinned comment. We have talked about this quite a bit!

[@CheeseDud]

Would you happen to have a world download for this design?

[@MineTheFab]

Yes! In my discord community. Link to join in the top hand corner of this page and in most video descriptions :-)

[@CheeseDud]

@@MineTheFab Awesome, see you over there!

[@zataprime6454]

when i placed the second portal in the nether for the items it now makes me always go threw the nether item portal plz help

[@MineTheFab]

hi :- Please read through the comments as there is a bunch of collective knowledge abut any problems with this farm there. But .. Of the bat ... Try making the return portal the same height as the original nether portal. Just use the droppers to get the ingots up there.

[@foaduk9118]

6:15 what do you mean I'm so confused

[@MineTheFab]

hi :-) The portal in the Nether should be at exactly 1/8 of the coordinates in the Over world (except the Y-value that should be the same)

[@foaduk9118]

@@MineTheFab I managed to get it working but when I go through the portal in the overworld it puts out the wrong portal in the Nether. It puts me out the end without the lava

[@MineTheFab]

@@foaduk9118 hi :-) Please read through the comments ... Every issue, including with portals have been addressed there many times... But it's basically just a portal placement problem you have ... You need to be VERY precise with them, when they're so close.

[@marethyu4321]

what does he mean with "the placement of the block" at 5:40

[@MineTheFab]

hi :-) Just use F3 to look at the middle obsidian block - you can see the XYZ value in the top left hands side of the screen. Then make the portal in the end exactly at 1/8 of that - byt the same Y-value.

[@marethyu4321]

@@MineTheFab oh i didnt realise you meant the coordinates thanks for the answer :)

[@water8750]

I made both portals. The one with the lava now sends me to the one with the dispenser at the bottom. instead of to the lava pit. How do I fix that issue. Because for you at 10:00 it send you from the portal in the overworld with the water, to the lava pit. But for me, my overworld portal sends me to the area where the iron is supposed to be dispensed from. I have no idea how to fix this at all.

[@MineTheFab]

Hi Water :-) Please read through the comments as all possible issues have been addressed there before :-)

[@D3CProductions]

So I got the farm running and it’s great! Only issue I’m facing now is that 2 portals are opening in the wrong direction. Even though I’ve blocked the other side off in the neather. Ps I built it in a frozen biome so the water turns to ice :(

[@MineTheFab]

Hi again. Not sure i understand. Is the water frozen? Just slab some torches around.

[@D3CProductions]

@@MineTheFab thanks a lot ! I ended up putting a slab of diorite over the water block as it prevents them from turning into ice

[@thiime]

Placed 2 chickens in a boat right on the portal corner in the nether and now the iron golems just be flowing out the portal lol, no golems stuck anymore

[@KY-oi9hf]

how?

[@ThadCastled117]

Holy crap this thing produces... indefinitely

[@spbuster8060]

I built this in my survival and it works so fine！

[@spbuster8060]

Just it took me 2days to build the breeder and the machine and dispenser elevator things! Tiring but so efficient!

[@Slt8ky]

about the TP i just follow you nothing wrong but when me or golem go portal from overworld i just tp nether dropper portal instead the lava portal, i have no idea how to fix it. so glad if can have a fix

[@jg6551]

Can you add more than four layers?

[@MineTheFab]

Hi 😊 yes! Just be aware where the return portal link too

[@jg6551]

@@MineTheFab ok thanks for the quick response :)

[@manuh_andres]

hey man! great design, i was wondering how to get the golems that get stuck on the portal frame on the nether to fall into the lava, just that. The rest of the farm works smoothly!

[@MineTheFab]

Hi Manuh 😊With the 4 layer design they get pushed in by the other golems arriving. But you could place a hostile mob like a hogling that they see on the other side of the lava when they arrive to speed it up.

[@manuh_andres]

​@@MineTheFab Thank you for answering, ill try it out!

[@kevingaldamez4296]

1:33 is the frame with the bed layout

[@Krukan0]

Hi Great video!! I am just wondering why when I go through one of the 4 portals they are coming out the wrong way in the nether any tip on how to fix that?

[@MineTheFab]

Hi Krukan ... :-) Please read through the comments as there is a bunch of collective knowledge abut any problems with this farm there. But .. Of the bat ... Thats not a problem. You have a wall on one side of the portal in the nether, and the golems will be pushed out in the killing area.

[@Krukan0]

@@MineTheFab Ok Thx And Great video! :)

[@Wildrekt]

Hey, the farm portals always link to dropper portal, please there is no comment for this solution,can u say

[@MineTheFab]

Hi :-) Oh yes there is ... but just lift the "return" portal to the same height as the portal the golems enter ind (use a dropper wator like the one already there and you are probably good 🙂

[@Wildrekt]

Ty bro

[@velocityvfx1482]

I made this farm but the iron golems are spawning under the farm not in the water source?

[@MineTheFab]

Then you have spawnable blocks that are closer in height than 8 blocks to the villager pods in an 8x8 area to all sides of the pod ... You have to lower the area or spawn proof it :-)

[@velocityvfx1482]

@@MineTheFab That was a fast respond, thanks!

[@Smudruh]

the farm worked for me and suddenly it stopped working someone knows how to fix it?

[@MineTheFab]

Hi :-) Just had another guy write something similar - he was on a server. The farms works as intended in 1.18.1 - just tested - so I'm guessing, if you're on a server, it's not a vanilla server and maybe it godt updated? In that case talk to the server admin. If it's a Single Player world, and it have worked before the only thing that comes to mind is, that you have been away and the villagers need to sleep to restart the farm.

[@albertabrahamjomy4220]

8:10 do i need to do this or just collect the iron from the nether?

[@MineTheFab]

Hi :-) You can collect the iron in the nether if you choose.

[@havabeef7166]

hey, got a problem that on the second layer, the iron is coming out of that portal not the bottom one

[@MineTheFab]

Hi :) I’m guessing you’re high up in the nether? Maybe on the roof? You will have to make the collection there, or bring it down with hoppers or droppers.

[@havabeef7166]

@@MineTheFab im not on the roof, i might just stick to one layer then as i want the collection to be in the overworld

[@havabeef7166]

@@MineTheFab the portal is were it spawned as its was the right coords

[@MineTheFab]

@@havabeef7166 hi again 😊 What is the y level in the Over world and Nether respectively?

[@havabeef7166]

@@MineTheFab first layer in overworld is 80 nether is y 95

[@ashoblade3762]

aww the intro was so adorable

[@Random-jz1fl]

Does this work1.17

[@Rippertear]

@@Random-jz1fl Yes

[@ondrejsoucek3419]

I don’t get the part of the portal placement 6:20

[@MineTheFab]

Hi! Just be Very precise when placing the first portal in the Nether. The game does not always place it at exactly 1/8 of the overworld portal. And it needs to be because the portals are so close 😊

[@warblingpants6712]

Much appreciated, Thanks man!

[@kunal4856]

Thank you for the video bro

[@jakobus6666]

you can also improve the farm by building wither roses and soulsand on the hoppers and you can farm xp with the Zombie Piglins

[@Manwholovesmalenia]

Can i ask why do you put only 3 villagers instead of 4?

[@MineTheFab]

Sure :-) Three is enough. A fourth won't make a difference for the spawning.

[@Manwholovesmalenia]

@@MineTheFab Thanks for answering 😁

[@rudrachoudhary9549]

Is it necessary to make the collection system in overworld

[@MineTheFab]

hi Rudra :-) No! But then it won't be a chunk loader (if you build 4 layers)

[@IDyn4m1CI]

I've finally decided to build this in my HC world, but man this is a lot of work. I'm building the full 16 pod design, and after 3 days building now its almost ready, I just need to put the zombies in their places. With only 1 zombie in place (that just spawned in the right spot, got extremely lucky just had to nametag him) it already made like 4 and half stacks of iron ingots in 4 in-game days. I can't wait to see this thing fully operational. I almost died building this thing cause I forgot to put the killing mechanism in the Nether before putting the villagers on the pods, so when I went through the portal the killing chamber was packed with golems and I was pushed in there. No way of getting out, I tried to mine the side walls only to hit one of the golems, that know wanted to kill me, but he pushed me against the other wall and couldn't hit me. Any wrong move and I was done. Luckily for me I remembered I got there in the first place to put down the killing mechanism, so I chugged my fire res potion, poured the lava bucket down and watched as all the golems burned to death. So that was scary. Anyways, I'm trying to figure out now the best way to get the zombies in their places, I was thinking of building some platform a few blocks away and wait for monsters to spawn there, nametag the zombies and get a minecart rail all the way to the pods, but that I'll take another whole day of work. If anyone got any better methods please let me know.

[@IDyn4m1CI]

Alright, finally got this done today, its now fully operational. I almost lost my shit trying to get the zombies in their respective spots, but after a lot of trial and error I did it. I gotta say, this thing is awesome. It's completely unethical, I just need to AFK for a few hours and I'll have more iron than I'll ever use in my survival world. Never need to go mining for iron again. Thanks for sharing this design and for making this tutorial man!

[@kuebelulme6924]

Hi, if you have any problems with golems only spwaning on the first layer of the farm, you might want to check if you removed the glass over the pillow side of the beds. Its kind of confusing because the first layer was working fine for me even with the galss blocking the view of the villigaers wich is why i didnt realise the problem sooner.

[@CC-br6pp]

They dont spawn at all i only have one layer and they dont spawn and some villagers dont wale up

[@CC-br6pp]

How do I fix it i play bedrock

[@MineTheFab]

Hi CC :-) No good way to break the news ... This farm does not work in bedrock :-(

[@erwinsmith4592]

I wanted to do this iron farm but I need to know how many plans you recommend me to do in order to have a good efficiency and have a lot of ingots per hour

[@reeetto]

Don't know if this is already answered but the iron golems won't fall onto the lava and just stay standing on the portal frame in the nether. This doesn't always happen but when it does it drastically reduces the iron output.

[@MineTheFab]

Hi ReeToo 😊 It has. Several times. The farm is designed with 4 layers but people tend to build only one so the golems aren’t pushed in the lava so fast. As long as it is only in the nether portal it does not, however, reduce the rates the golems are still “gone” for the villagers. But there’s a couple of things you can try: Ie putting a mob in across from the portal and put open trapdoors on both sides of the killing area. Or place armor stands in the portal from the over world side.

[@reeetto]

@@MineTheFab Tried the armor stand, it fixed it. Thanks man, you're doing God's work.

[@lukethevegan]

@@reeetto Hey! What exactly did you do because I'm having the same problem. I've tried putting a zombie across the lava but it doesn't seem to make any difference. My armour stands go in front of my portals. Did you place armour stands in front of the overworld portals or in front of the portal in the nether?

[@reeetto]

@@lukethevegan First I made sure there were no Iron Golems in the overworld and the nether. Then I placed armor stands in the overworld and let them go through the portal. The armor stands then stay in the portal frame in the nether and thanks to entity collission it'll knock any iron golems that enter into the kill chamber.

[@lukethevegan]

@@reeetto Okay, thank you! Did you break the portals in overworld, place armour stands, and then relight them? Because my armour stands go in front of the portal rather than inside.

[@nicbertobgames9519]

My iron golems only spawn at night, ive seen the other comments and you said something about the middle glass? Would you mind telling me what is the 'middle glass'?

[@MineTheFab]

Hi 😊 the middle one over the bed facing the zombie.

[@nicbertobgames9519]

@@MineTheFab Thanks, it works now

[@brianwilli3651]

The problem I am having is when I break the glass like shown at 12:51, the villagers get pushed out when it becomes daytime and they get up from the beds. Then they fall down, take damage, and refuse to pathfinder to their beds even if I build a tower back up because the zombie frightens them. Any ideas why the villagers escape, and can I place a block that will allow the villagers to see the zombie and become frightened but will not allow them to escape? Thanks!

[@MineTheFab]

Hi Brian :-) The you ether do not have the roof in place or the beds placed correctly! Probably the latter. A villager that is a little more than two blocks high cannot in any way get out of a 1,5 block hole. Please watch the part about placing the beds again: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpKXqIV4arx9p8U

[@brianwilli3651]

@@MineTheFab I forgot to slab the roof of the pods! Thank you!!

[@walliamz5940]

May you provide me with a list of the items used to make this build? Thanks in advance.

[@MineTheFab]

Hi :-) I don't really do that. But probably someone has done it in the comments :-)

[@crocasaurus]

It seems like my zombies don't bounce high enough for the villagers to see them, I have made the pods exactly the right way so I don't know what could be causing the problem.

[@MineTheFab]

Hi croc 😊 Then it’s most likely The bed placement. It has to be like Ib The video. Or you forgot to remove The middle glass in The villager pods. Or both.

[@rxstig]

Awesome farm! I really love the simplicity. I have a question though, does it matter how the zombie is held? Like do we need that exact design or can I just put them a block below and a block above them?

[@dragonairre9634]

Only that specific height would scare the villagers properly

[@legoyoda8431]

exact design. The point of the design is that they keep bobbing up and down or and out of the villagers' views.

[@willem1935]

If it’s not too much to ask but could you start adding world downloads for the farm

[@MineTheFab]

Hi IAFD ... I often do. I have don with this farm. It’s in my small Discord community. Link on top right and in most video descriptions 😊

[@willem1935]

@@MineTheFab ok thanks

[@izaiahyopek5268]

I can’t get the comparator part to work? The comparator gets a signal when I put stuff in the dropper but nothing happens other then that.

[@MineTheFab]

Hi :-) Is the Observers turning the right way? With the "faces" towards each other like in a kiss?

[@adithyananil9857]

Do u need two people for this to work.. I'm new to Java edition

[@MineTheFab]

Hi Adithyan :-) Nope! Just one to keep the chunk loaded in the overworld (unless you build 4 layers and then you don't even need that)

[@adithyananil9857]

@@MineTheFab Thanks!

[@adithyananil9857]

And.. Is the the second layer 9 blocks above the portal

[@MineTheFab]

@@adithyananil9857 yes!

[@adithyananil9857]

@@MineTheFab nice farm BTW