Minecraft Elegance: Instant Mob Farm with Scaffolding (Java 1.16-1.19.2*, DOES NOT WORK IN 1.19.3+)

[@robertzhang5687]

dude leave some iq for the rest of us this is brilliant!

[@sanjivinsmoke2719]

Ikr i feel like ive seen the secret of the Minecraft universe unfold infront of my very eyes

[@reallyminty8386]

Facts

[@squirtle6354]

He is creating renewable iq

[@Rushant_arora]

Lol

[@diekinnkopfe8714]

Fun fact iq is measured in how far above avarage you are. So ding dang dong you are wrong

[@arnobghosh265]

Believe me when I say, I have watched quite a few farm tutorials... But I have never been this much amazed and have never learned this much stuff from a single Minecraft Tutorial ever before... Like that scaffolding observer detection, that observer random pulse issue... Those were actually new to me... But what really blow my mind was when he made that bubble column... That was when it started to feel more like Wizardcraft then Minecraft...

[@airforce004]

Using waterlogged to fix observer pulse problem seems like a witchcraft to me. Never been realized that until he explained the cause of problem.

[@arnobghosh265]

@@airforce004 same here.

[@beyonder6739]

Lol me too

[@IsaacSchlueter]

Dude is legit like "just make a bubble column", like it's a throwaway thing everyone knows, and even just that bit alone is one of the most useful tutorials I've seen lol

[@TheElectricCheeseProductions22]

My god, thank for you actually explaining the point of things like why use scaffolding and why put the clock on the ground and most of all, the multiple signals from the water. I did one before and had no idea why it was working improperly

[@ianxofour]

Youre welcome! I'm guessing that you watched Laz1en's video? Or is there yet another cover for this build?

[@TheElectricCheeseProductions22]

@@ianxofour sadly I just realized this was for java and the trapdoor doesnt update the observer

[@ianxofour]

@@TheElectricCheeseProductions22 Oh no! Sorry this didnt work out for you

[@Stonks-hw6tm]

@@ianxofour please god shulkercraft never finds this channel

[@leonardoeneria3100]

@@Stonks-hw6tm I'm both in gratitude and detachment of that channel

[@Qwmp-]

Please keep up this series! I love these super accessible farms. I often dread even starting these projects because of their involvement but these videos inspire me.

[@ianxofour]

Glad you like them! Your comment made my day!

[@valeriomastroeni8454]

@@ianxofour Does this work on bedrock ?

[@ianxofour]

@@valeriomastroeni8454 No sry, this is for Java only

[@valeriomastroeni8454]

@@ianxofour it’s ok, I found a way to adapt it

[@ianxofour]

@@valeriomastroeni8454 thats great! What did you do?

[@trevorjstrickland]

This video is worth watching just for the concept of using scaffolding as a redstone elevator; I haven't seen anyone else mention that incredibly powerful concept. Once again, amazing work.

[@yalkn2073]

Its a well known concept

[@moth.monster]

You can use falling sand instead of pushing normal blocks over with a piston if you don't feel like crafting a piston BTW

[@ianxofour]

Nice! Thanks.

[@XiaoMingMC]

@@ianxofour and use a torch instead of a comparator for the clock

[@summitsummit563]

Is there a more reliable way to collect the items? The rails system keeps messing up and I can't figure out why

[@XiaoMingMC]

@@summitsummit563 dig down and hide the rail under blocks.stop the carts when unloading the chunks.

[@summitsummit563]

@@XiaoMingMC by that you mean stop them when I plan to go out of loading distance.

[@1.0]

Wow, this channel is a real gold mine of great and easy farm designs. Found it by the iron farm list video from kdender

[@ianxofour]

Thanks, and thanks for letting me know about kdender!

[@garysturgess6757]

One other note: the trick at the end has a gotcha. Lava won't burn the scaffolding, but scaffolding _is_ flammable; when the lava reaches the ground, if it sets something on fire, that fire can (and in my case, did) burn the scaffolding. Either have fire spread off or make sure the ground has nothing flammable on it.

[@elrac7333]

Also, in forge they fixed the "bug" of scaffolding not burning in lava. I'm currently waiting for this pillar of lava to dissipate so I can try the trick a different way.

[@abdulrhmanalmunajjed3419]

@@elrac7333 same :D

[@nesletchimaew9209]

​@@elrac7333 that's why you play without mods, especially when building farms. I only use minihud to help spawnproofing after i build and make a backup in standard version

[@liambohl]

In 1.19.3 with top-slab floors, the four trapdoors on each floor are no longer necessary. Awesome farm! I just got well over a chest full of drops in 20 minutes with 16 floors.

[@esaedromicroflora1247]

good point

[@airforce004]

Hanging scaffoldings and observer technique is absolutely genius!! I love how you explain the mechanics even if they weren't used in your contraption. I had always been curious about the top-slab floor and thought it's for saving cost!

[@kaj4103]

The fact that you still answer comments even after a year has gone by is amazing. Your designs are always simple yet effective and tutorials well made. Much love.

[@supernovae8551]

Two things: 1. I love this series of videos, they're amazing and you're amazing 2. THAT BUBBLE ELEVATOR TRICK WAS THE FREAKING SLICKEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN, I LOVE IT

[@Keleksos]

For the kelp, you can bonemeal it instead of placing by hand.

[@MrMaksibon]

this was actually used in future videos!

[@caseyriley1014]

Which is super useful if you also removed a chunk worth of deepslate with moss, and have a mega composter

[@CosmiaNebula]

4:58 Husks and zombies both drop 0-2 rotten flesh per mob, so why build in the desert? 5:21 why exactly 28 scaffolding? I calculated and found that this design would make the floor of the first mob spawning platform exactly 30 blocks above ground. What is the meaning of this number? Is it supposed to be the minimum height necessary to kill witches (with health 26, requiring 30 blocks of fall to kill)? 5:37 Note: the trapdoors are so that the scaffolding can extend out by 7 blocks. Scaffolds can overhang by only 6 blocks, while water flows for 7 blocks. The trapdoors can be replaced by any solid block. Since the airspace beneath the trapdoors is only 1.75, too low for most mobs (except spiders, which require only 3x1.5x3 to spawn), replacing the trapdoors with any solid block should be just fine with only a tiny decrease in efficiency for spawning spiders. 6:18 I just tried making a roofless mob farm, and it still works during the night, just with less efficiency. 6:53 Note: bottom slabs prevent mobs spawning on them. 7:59 Note: make sure the rail tracks are in the pictured direction, perpendicular to the line that the minecarts make, else the minecarts would push on each other and make the build messier. 8:38 Note: the height (relative to the ground) of the afk room does not have to be 127. It can be at a height of up to around 155. This is because the spawning radius is 128, and the bottom spawning platform is at height 30, so 128 + 30 = 158. Decrease by 3 (I think 2 is enough, but 3 to be safe) so that the bottom spawning platform is fully included in the spawning ball. I think putting the afk room at least 24 higher than the roof is useful as well, since mobs don't spawn within radius 24.

[@ianxofour]

What a great series of questions and comments! Husks only spawn with direct sky access. Yes, the fall distance is needed to kill witches. The trapdoors that support the scaffolding also let creepers spawn; I agree that using solid blocks instead would only impact the rates a tiny bit. Making the afk spot lower means that you needs to light up more of the ground to ensure that mobs that spawning there don't interfere with the minecarts. Any caves underground within 128 distance can also compromise the productivity of the farm, so you need to light them up, too. I think its easier to just afk at +127. The video mentions a maximum of 25 spawning platforms before they start to encroach on the afk spot (within 24 blocks). Thank you for taking time to write these questions/comments and for your analysis!

[@CosmiaNebula]

@@ianxofour Nice. I think it'd be good to incorporate those into your description.

[@sarunint]

I think any higher than 127 blocks of AFK spot will despawn the mob before they hit the ground.

[@1Heirborn]

I know I'm over a year late, but this is one of the best farm tutorials I have ever seen! The design is minimalist, yet elegant and you do an incredible job explaining the reasoning behind every block.

[@jelly221]

Man yet again you’re so on top of it, I spent an hour searching Reddit for why this wasn’t working (I thought I was having mob cap issues mostly bc I don’t understand mob caps haha), and all the info I needed was right in the description. Here I go to place a ton of too slabs 🎉

[@matthewsirotkin1599]

Same, for the longest time couldn't figure out why my farm had stopped working, thought it was render distance lol. At least scaffolding is easy to get rid of.

[@lounadian]

I wanted to learn how to build a mob farm, that design looked so simple and amazing but even more you showed people how to build a bubble elevator. I learned something new that I can use many times and its not even the mob farm. Seriously a great video thats strait to the point with all the information you’ll need.

[@mamaharumi]

Great video. I hadn't played minecraft since around 2010/2011, but decided to pick it up again on my steamdeck. Insane how much it has evolved in the past decade. Guides like this are a lifesaver.

[@scottchristofersen2367]

This works so well. I did have a missing piece of scaffolding I had to go up and replace but other than that it worked like a charm first try. I'll be using this in every world I make from now on. A few things of note: check the biome of the entire area you are placing the farm in (I got mostly desert but some beach and wish I'd have taken a bit more time to check), if you build the full 25 tiers you'll need about four stacks short of a full double chest of scaffolding., This seems to get witches quite a bit too as I get Redstone, bottles, sticks, and glow stone dust, quite a bit. I continue to be impressed by the usefulness of the videos in this channel.

[@ianxofour]

Thanks for taking the time to offer suggestions and sharing your experience! And you make a really good point about the beach biome. I'll add that to the description.

[@rellikpd]

I can't believe I haven't heard of you sooner (about a month or so ago) because MAN your builds and ideas are AMAZING. Even when you are building off of well established ideas (like the diamond tower mob farm) you find a way to make them crazier and, somehow, easier!

[@jek__]

Damn this is clever, everything about it is so precisely designed. I never thought about using scaffolding as vertical redstone transmission The temporary roof idea is an aspect of good design thats often overlooked in our world of permanent fixtures, but is very common in biological engineering. Being able to re-use old builds for new builds is so elegant. Engineering elegance aside though, I'm kind of obsessive and would be slightly bothered by one of the platforms being a different color lol, so I'd probably just build the top roof the first time i want a roof, and have empty space to put more platforms in later if i want. Whats the maximum height the roof should be at? That was certainly a convenient way to make a bubble column

[@ianxofour]

Hi Jake! The roof should be just over the topmost scaffolding platform for best performance, and the farm can accommodate 25 platforms before they start to encroach on the afk space.

[@SreenikethanI]

wow, the insight about biological engineering is amazing

[@ali.flaccc]

Made this in 1.21.1 with: - top slabs for the platforms (i made 10) - 5 wide hopper diamond array to collect items, since i had lots of iron - simple sorting of items Works amazing, i have more gunpowder than i know what to do with. Great watch and i learned a lot! Thank you

[@emojifaceguy8435]

Wish i had this when i started my world. Great vid as always :)

[@lonelyrain583]

Damn! I used this tutorial several times in the past, came back to it today because I forgot how to do the redstone part, only come to find out it doesn't work in the current version. Unlucky! Great tutorial though, it served me well in the past. Thanks!

[@Splarkszter]

The way these are so simple, clever, cheap, efficient and comprehensive. This is truly elegance.

[@fivee2673]

I got 4 minutes in before I paused. Loaded up minecraft and put scaffolding between every water dispenser and observer in my creeper farm. It now works perfectly. Thank you

[@fivee2673]

When I start my next base, this will be the farm I build. Brilliant

[@Solace6428]

This guy's farms are genius. They always work if you follow them properly, and I love how he also explains *how* it works! I hope this series is a long running one. My world is slowly being filled with farms thanks to this guy. Farms I otherwise would have never even attempted to make. This one alone is a massive step up from the cobblestone monstrosities I usually create to farm mobs.

[@acid1910]

Everything about this is just so unbelievably genius. I’ve played this game since 2011 and this might as well be the most impressive thing I have ever seen. Incredible, 10/10, I’ll watch this video again and laugh my ass off at how perfect this is.

[@reaperxvi967]

Mob Farm makes string, string makes scafolding, scafolding makes mob farm...interesting!! Very simple and great design btw!!

[@shai5564]

I am in my first ever single player world and these videos have made material gathering as well as the more technical Minecraft concepts so accessible. Thank you for your efforts! (Loved building the zombie piglin gold/xp farm!)

[@greedsin555]

I sore the thumb nail and was like "oh great another person trying to pass of gnembons stuff as his own" and then you hit me with legit innovation very cool I'll have to remember those scaffolding properties in future

[@adamjenkins3032]

i love your survival approach to tutorials where the logistics and how easy something is to build is considered brilliant stuff

[@shiangbochang7192]

These top tier minecraft farm videos. They are really informative and simple to follow, and each of your designs are really ingenius and easy to make. Keep up with these tutorials!

[@shoespeak]

i've built this a few times since its so easy to get started. one tip i have is to actually build the first platform, then the clock - this makes it super easy to make sure you don't miss any scaffolding

[@domeydomdom2108]

This farm works great, I built the "budget version" first to get enough string for the rest, so far no problems with it in 1.18.2

[@gamingknockstar644]

java or bedrock

[@DaveT1m]

@@gamingknockstar644 Java

[@camembegne]

In 22w42a and beyond, make sure to replace the scaffoldings on each spawning pads with top slabs. Mobs cannot spawn on scaffoldings now

[@Macuarium]

Yes... also the collection minecarts seem to require quite a lot more powered rails to navigate all the curves, they stall with just four. @ianxofour, you may want to keep an eye on those changes...

[@harlanknightly3275]

Bro I built the whole farm without realizing they changed the spawning mechanics 💀

[@PanZombiePig]

One of the best tutorials ever... Easy to follow, a lot of information and game mechanics... Love it. Now I have to figure 100% drop catching mechanism.

[@prodlilbooger]

instead of them dropping on the floor have them drop into water that flows into a hole with hoppers with chests to collect the items. the mobs can either die or be 1 hit depending on how long the drop is

[@lucidity7145]

Late to the party, but how concise and clear your instructions are is unmatched by anyone. This was super useful for when starting out before building big technical farms, thank you!

[@SanarySeggnete]

Small note for anyone wants to improve their farm bit by bit: 1. It would save a lot of effort to build the roof as high as possible (24 blocks from afk platform or 2 blocks away from 25th layer) , You only need to build more layers when you get more bamboo. 2. Like the traditional design, this farm can be upgraded into creeper + spider farm, just cover the roof of every layer (under the scaffolding) with trapdoor to limit the zombies, skeletons and witches from spawning (They are too tall to spawn)

[@TomasPiliponis]

Dude! I am playing Minecraft (and watching Minecraft KZbin content) for more than 7 years now, and this is one of the coolest things I saw in that time. This is very, very clever. Kudos! And thank you for sharing.

[@ianxofour]

thanks! i think you'll enjoy the rest of my channel too

[@TragicalLog]

Rest in peace for 1.19.3 Instant Mob Farm

[@QPoily]

I just can't thank you enough for this farm's design. Unfortunately have had to build it with full blocks + trapdoors because of the 1.19.3 update but its design and being able to build it above ground has just been such a godsend. Tyvm

[@safize019]

ik this is 3 months too late, but if you used top slabs instead of full blocks the mobs would not be able to path find and fight against the water, resulting in the same rates as the scaffolding. only difference is the “ease of build” concept

[@Taravangian]

I just found your channel today, watched half a dozen videos, and holy crap, you are so underrated. Thank you for sharing all these amazing tips and designs!

[@melody3741]

Holy crap someone who makes farm is but actually describes how it works and people don’t just copy them blindly and people might actually start to learn how to develop them on their own

[@atharvbhandari994]

I just started my hardcore like 4 days and built iron farm on fisrt day, lava farm, honey farm, instant trading hall, gold farm, instant raid farm since outpost near, got blaze rods, defeated ender dragon, and made this mob farm, its not even 100 days and I am so far ahead in development all thanks to you and your farms(most of them ur design)...

[@nebulacraks1245]

I'm on day 100 and still have iron armor how the hell

[@atharvbhandari994]

@@nebulacraks1245 follow ianxofour for that

[@stick.6476]

Does this farm work in 1.18.2? you need to make the roof bigger and make it above the ocean?

[@atharvbhandari994]

@@stick.6476 it works in 1.18.1 so it also works on 1.18.2. Will nedd lesser torch and a bigger roof like 2-3 more blocks in every direction the said in the video

[@stick.6476]

@@atharvbhandari994 thank you

[@sepiasmith5065]

Honestly I was always surprised and a bit annoyed that mobs could spawn on scaffolding, but GG for making it actually useful 😂

[@educastrillonromero6893]

omg i am so hooked to your channel. perfect combo of efficient, smart, accessible and enjoyable. i love minecraft but don't have much time to play, so i usually end up getting discouraged from huge farms and grindy things "early on". your vids target my specific issue so well. thank you so much!

[@akunekochan]

That bonus tutorial at the end really got me. Amazing work dude

[@Avossk]

At last a minecraft tutorial that doesn't have narration that sounds like it's meant for kids, now that's the good stuff

[@JaWsOmeNeS]

An easy adaption I used was to put trapdoors under the scaffolding to make it a creeper/spider spawner! Great video thank you!

[@adityasingh-yz7tr]

I am looking to create a creeper farm can you share a little more about your adaptation and its rates

[@JaWsOmeNeS]

@@adityasingh-yz7tr it's very simple, you need about two stacks of trapdoors per layer, the base concept of the farm is the exact same. The only difference is that you'll stick trapdoors onto the ceiling of the scaffolding so only creepers and spiders can spawn because they're both shorter than two blocks

[@adityasingh-yz7tr]

@@JaWsOmeNeS thanks a lot will try it today

[@RedBlue006]

In 1.20 or above build it with blocks or top slabs mobs no longer spawns on scaffolding in 1.19.4 or above

[@SpainSpace]

Just built it on my Hardcore server and it works wonderfully. I was planning on turning it to just gunpowder but even by default it drops like 3 stacks of gpowder every 3 minutes, it's unreal! And it was incredibly easy and fast to build. Love your farms Ian

[@ManniVel]

Just build an item sorter to sort out the gunpowder maybe?

[@SpainSpace]

@@ManniVel Yup, I'm building s sorter for bones, string and gunpowder, the remains will go to a lava dropper wired to a clock

[@DeadJuicebox]

Another great design! I love how you can incrementally upgrade it until it's complete. I have a question, what you think would be more lag friendly for a server? The water coalescing design with hoppers or your hopper minecart design?

[@ianxofour]

Good question. I suspect that much of the lag is dominated by the dynamic flowing water from the spawning pads, so I expect the lag to be fairly similar between the 2 designs. Just a guess though :)

[@mag-icus]

Do note that minecarts are notorious for despawning. :-( In general, I prefer hoppers for reliability. If you do use minecarts, try to make them stay in the same chunk. If my math is correct, that should be possible with this design; just place the middle of the farm at one of the chunk center blocks.

[@SreenikethanI]

@@mag-icus MINECARTS despawning??? wha

[@terramancer7240]

@@SreenikethanI A bit late but it's probably due to a server plugin wiping all the entity's every so often.

[@SreenikethanI]

@@terramancer7240 oh… that sounds like a nightmare in some aspects

[@Jbot123]

Several things in this one that I hadn't seen before. Very well done. I hope some of the big minecraft youtubers find some of your stuff to signal boost it. You have a criminally small amount of subscribers so far.

[@finitesound]

Anddddd, I'm going to build this now. Killer design. Literally.

[@SreenikethanI]

"Killer design" 😎 👉👉

[@finntastiq1524]

how did I not find your channel sooner? HOW ARE YOU NOT HAVING HUNDRED K SUBS??

[@hufuhufu]

This video is insanely good, I learnt a lot just from this one tutorial And then I see the video description..

[@FloofWolfe]

Really appreciate the explanation of how the upward-propagating signal works with scaffolding! While I have to go back to top slabs for the spawning platforms in my version, I'm going to keep the scaffolding line up the middle to keep my clock at the bottom with an upward signal, as that will be SO nice to be able to start with only one or two platforms until I get more materials.

[@XiaoMingXing]

Okay, that bubble column though was absolutely incredible. Now I know how to lava cast pillars of cobblestone. >:)

[@ianxofour]

my mob farm is also my cobblestone generator for this reason

[@joem1306]

i just finished building this in my survival world,and the drops are insane, good job!

[@KidsLearningHub07]

Mojang just destroyed this amazing masterpiece in 1.19.3💔

[@seandowdall798]

Just built this farm in my 1.18 survival world and it is amazing, thank you man keep up the good work!

[@BOY_NAME_]

Bedrock or Java?

[@seandowdall798]

@@BOY_NAME_ Java

[@stick.6476]

That s the comment im looking for

[@diggoran]

You know this guy has played for a long time when he still puts single chests side by side by alternating them with trapped chests. You haven’t had to do that in a long time :P

[@tainicon4639]

I didn’t even realize you could put chest next to each other…. I have always put spaces between chests haha

[@swiftwithoutnumbers]

I think he does that so that theres names

[@diggoran]

@@swiftwithoutnumbers you can name regular chests and still put them side by side

[@tannerarmstrong1496]

There used to be a bit of a running joke about the old show Gilligan's Island about the ridiculously technically complex inventions the professor would make with bamboo as the main resource. You would give him a run for his money.

[@piersonm5574]

That bubble columb is genius

[@wrtltable]

this is a very old method, I don’t know why it is so rarely used in videos. So you can build quite complex structures, though only from cobblestone and stone.

[@mef9327]

Wow! Too cool all through and including the bubble column trick.

[@NobleLaika]

Rest in peace to this genius build. May Mojang revert this new change.. Or maybe, Ianx04 will find another way..

[@flozz2]

Just use slab and it'll work !

[@kevinbowker2385]

Pure gold! I just finished building a smaller farm with half slabs. I may tear it down now.

[@mattheus077]

Comments for those building: - You need something like 44 stacks of scaffolding to build the 25-layer version. My problem went from getting bamboo from getting string in a short time; - It's really easy to build - you can build a single layer in 2 minutes - As stated, it may be possible to stack those farms, but I'll just enjoy my strings a little bit now to keep building - Also, follow the soul sand collecting that is in the description - I personally made 2 rings of rails (one like the video and another one block "inner" to collect most of the items - then I made a dropper system to collect those in a storage system) - I didn't build it on the desert or ocean but I used the minhud mod I believe to check the few places I needed to spawnproof for the farm to work fully

[@saaros]

how does the multi-ring set up work for you? in my case, the single ring constantly gets stopped by mobs that don't die and stay around because they picked a drop below

[@mattheus077]

@@saaros basically it is just for collecting more drops. i made an "outer ring" and an "inner ring" of carts to collect almost everything but I believe you have to build the turtle egg bait to keep zombies away from the carts

[@trashpanda4]

@@saaros those are spawning on ground, some torches might fix that

[@DerSeymenPrime]

100% guide, nothing is missing , perfect speaking. BIG fat LIKE

[@2520WasTaken]

8:59 Ianxofour: You can upgrade this elevator to a bubble column using a neat trick that I'll show you Me: It's kelp, everyone knows that Ianxofour: *Uses lava*

[@lumi2030]

Within just 1 hour of watching your videos and knowing you at all, I just had to subscribe. You're such an underrated KZbinr. Your Minecraft tutorials are so useful yet so unknown.

[@GhostVvar]

I know this farm doesn't work on Bedrock, but the instant cobblestone column was an amazing idea. But I thought could be brought over to bedrock however, water and lava works differently on bedrock (imagine that) I was able to get it to work by placing water over the lava source so the water flows on the outside.

[@rxgamer6465]

Will these work in pocket edition

[@redsfan6472]

@@rxgamer6465 probably not lol

[@St-mh4tf]

Underrated channel ! really good stuff brother

[@n8thegreat917]

Amazing video! Incredibly helpful, so thank you! However, I am running into an issue. My first spawn floor functions perfectly with the timer circuit; the observer triggers the dispenser and water begins to flow. However, my second, third, etc. floors' observers do not seem to trigger like the first, almost as if the scaffolds in between the first floors dispenser and second floors observer are not changing state like the rest of the scaffolding (thus not triggering the observer). I double checked that my build is identical to yours however it is still very possible I missed something somewhere. Any ideas?

[@n8thegreat917]

Oh I feel so dumb...literally seconds after posting this comment I realized that my observer block was not facing the correct direction.

[@ianxofour]

@@n8thegreat917 Im glad you figured this out and that the farm is working now! Let me know if you have any further issues.

[@schmittywobberganggermanson]

was about to start gathering resources for my mob farm, glad I saw your design thanks man 🤣

[@kailowren1598]

Unfortunately, 1.19.3 has obsoleted this design, since mobs can no longer spawn on top of scaffolding. This makes me sad because otherwise the design is amazing. However, I'm pretty sure you can still rely on the center scaffolding tower to propagate the redstone signal to the dispensers and just use top slabs for the platforms as you mentioned.

[@leafee9611]

It still works in 1.19 though right?

[@ianxofour]

yes

[@leafee9611]

@@ianxofour thank you for the answer

[@LightningAussie]

A friend told me about your farm.. not disappointed and subbed to your channel, i can see the use of scaffolding to pass redstone for other projects.

[@NoGoodNameHelpPLZ]

Apparently this farm doesn't work in 1.19.3 Due to mobs being unable to spawn on scaffolding now

[@firuletecosmico962]

Change scaffoldings for any other block, like he said in the description

[@swegatron2859]

Yep rip to this farm design. It’s beauty was how fast you could build it, now you actually have to place block by block 🥲

[@sepiasmith5065]

I LOVE the bubble column trick and the trapdoor signal changer and the redstone at the bottom!!!!

[@craezflygirth9906]

Amazing video! Super informative and well structured. A question that has been burning me is why not build the farm in a deep ocean biome? Wouldn't this ensure that all mobs spawn inside the farm? Or is lighting the immediate area at the bottom enough as the afk spot is far enough away? Thanks!

[@chamsderreche5750]

to get the rotten flesh as low as possible, because it's useless

[@kevint3522]

Wow! What fascinating application mechanics and properties.I love that water elevator build.

[@IsaacSchlueter]

I build this in my world, capped at 5 levels, and I'm super pleased with it. Unless you need a truly insane quantity of mob drops, 3 or 4 levels is more than enough. Some notes for others doing this in survival: - Scaffolding is fast to build. It's also fast to destroy. When there's this much overhang, it's really easy to accidentally left-click instead of right-click and drop half a platform, possibly including the bit you're standing on. - Taxi-cab overhang distance means that you must build the rows of the diamond in order. You can't, for example, build out one long-row of the diamond, and then fill in the sides towards the center. Build everything from the middle outwards. - None of the resources used in this are very rare or hard to get, even fairly early in the game. But it does use a lot of them. Each platform is 66 scaffolding, plus 128 scaffolding to get to the first level. The final roof (if I understood correctly, going 21 out from the center) is 861 slabs. - When adding new levels, make sure to flip the switch to turn off the clock. I forgot this once, and as soon as you put the water in the dispenser, you start getting pushed off the platform, and a waterfall will wash away the clock circuit. I never considered using scaffolding in such a big way, this is really clever.

[@Granaidh]

Awesome always seems such on overated word, but I am in total awe of your genius. Loved the easy way to create a pillar for the bubble lift. Gobsmacked!

[@doyounglee7835]

Excellent video, thank you for showing me mechanics I have never seen before. That made me instantly subscribe :) However, would it be possible to make a water funnel at the bottom of the farm so I can kill them with a looting 3 (netherite) sword?

[@ianxofour]

Hi Technoverse! Have you watched my video for "instant gold xp farm"? You can use water to push mobs into a portal elevator to take them to the afk spot, where you can use looting 3. This is on my list of projects to cover in a video. Let me know if this is unclear. I'd be happy to help you set this up.

[@doyounglee7835]

​@@ianxofour Thanks for the quick reply. I actually built the gold farm two days ago (It's working perfectly), but I was thinking I would just afk up top and drop down to collect the resources, how much faster would it be to make the portal elevator? Edit: I think I have a rough idea of how to build the portal elevator. Make a portal on the ground, go inside of it to the nether, make a tube so that they get pushed to another portal that links up to a portal that I set up on the afk spot.

[@ianxofour]

@@doyounglee7835 It would be a ton faster to make the portal elevator, rather than dropping down to collect stuff, which might not even be worthwhile due to all the efficiencies. The portal elevator should more than double the productivity of the farm. The nether "tube" that you need to make may need to be wider than the one for the gold farm. It needs to be able to hold all the mobs over the course of 15 seconds at least so that they can cool down for the second portal. Let me know how it goes!

[@doyounglee7835]

@@ianxofour I decided to forgo the nether portal elevator. but I kept the water funnel and directed to some magma blocks with hopper minecarts underneath. The mobs spawn outside of the farm, and they never seem to spawn inside the scaffolding. I did light up the areas around the farm, but they still didn't spawn. It kinda works, but the rates seem very crippled. I think I might be due to my afk place. The lowest point of the farm (killing chamber) is y = 58, and the lowest spawning platform is at y=72, and my afk room is at y = 177. What am I doing wrong?

[@ianxofour]

@@doyounglee7835 are you on discord? im IanXO4#0804. maybe send me a picture which would be super helpful for troubleshooting.

[@soundsimian8651]

Brilliant design. I just built this in my newest world. Actually twice. I made a tiny three-level version near my home base just to get some string and gunpowder, but it was too close to some hills that affected spawning. I then went out and rebuilt a bigger version of it in a far-away desert. But that's (just) one of the reasons this is so genius. It was so easy to build. I've made several of the other versions, but laying out all the slabs and blocks takes forever and I'd hate the prospect of tearing it down and rebuilding. The fact that scaffolding can be placed in the correct shape by just clicking and the overflow falls off makes this ridiculously easy. Also, how easy it is to expand. Thanks again for a great design.

[@ianxofour]

Thank you for taking the time to write this!

[@DangerKitty124]

I just built this farm wondering why it wasn’t working so I took it down and re made it, so I check this video to see what I did wrong, AND IAN JUST UPDATED THE TITLE 5 MINS AGO WHY

[@darkaeon370]

Read the description! You can still make it work if you use top slabs

[@DangerKitty124]

@@darkaeon370 didn’t see that, thank you so much!

[@46pippi]

Ian your farms are awesome, man knows hows to think outside the box

[@aur9ra]

hey, the top of my farm goes all the way to the build limit - where should I put the AFK spot in this case?

[@ianxofour]

Just go as high as you can go to afk. You can even stand directly on the roof center if needed. Normally you want at least 24 blocks of distance between your afk spot and the topmost spawning platform because mobs cant spawn any closer than that, but the extra platforms in your case arent hurting the farm, so there's no need to dismantle them. Let me know if you have any more questions, and thanks for watching!

[@aur9ra]

@@ianxofour alright, I made enough platforms to where I think it'll still be more than enough if the top few aren't in operation. really great tutorial, thanks a ton for the help!!

[@SreenikethanI]

Oh my God the bubble elevator and the scaffolding+trapdoor vertical redstone is just AMAZING Mind blown more than ever Keep up the work good sir… I came here from SC but I'm deciding to stay here

[@NightHunter-yc9db]

how high will i need to build this to prevent mob spawns below?

[@ianxofour]

Hi NH! The afk spot needs to be 127 blocks higher than the ground, and you need to light up the base of the farm with torches (or convert the surrounding grass to dirt path with a shovel). Let me know if you have any more questions!

[@zeropluslessthan5126]

Holey shorts! Genius video. Genius bubble column move.

[@jupiter2142]

What?? Lol i built the the gnemboms mob farm and this comes??

[@ianxofour]

Hi Jupiter! If it helps, an instant raid farm video is coming next week.

[@robertzhang5687]

@@ianxofour OMG YES RAID FARM

[@jupiter2142]

@@ianxofour it will be interesting to see a raid farm but i build a non redstone one too

[@DenisovichDev]

Dude... You are literally the best. Subscribed!

[@JimBeezie]

I have a quesiton. Firstly, awesome build, getting ready to implement it right now. Thanks for the upload. I have subscribed for future vids =) The quesiton; Could I transform this into a creeper farm with trapdoors like other mob farms?

[@ianxofour]

Hi James. Yes this can be changed to a creeper-only farm by using trapdoors and glass blocks laid out like this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nabZfqCamr-kn6s Fun fact. Instead of trapdoors, you can use scaffolding instead! Scaffolding acts just like trapdoors by blocking skeletons and zombies, but letting creepers (and spiders) spawn underneath. Thanks for subbing! Next up is probably a gold farm.

[@JimBeezie]

@@ianxofour Awesome, thanks for the response.

[@JimBeezie]

@@ianxofour Thanks again for the reply and the tips. My variation on your build is completed now and working great. A 25 layer Creeper farm concealed within a castle tower =) only other change I made was converting the farm floor into a full fledged hopper minecart collection system.

[@ianxofour]

@@JimBeezie Sounds like a great build! Glad it all worked out!

[@TwentySeventhLetter]

Holy crap is there anything scaffolding can't do

[@rectangularcuboid]

This farm is nuts. The most difficult part was crafting 25 dispensers ;) Thanks!

[@ThingsWitWings]

Did it work in 1.82

[@v2rayN]

rip fast mob farm in 1.19.3+

[@4.0.4]

I had no idea you could propagate a signal upwards with scaffolding! Such an elegant design all around!

[@_portsmyth]

*LEAVING MY COMMENT UP IN CASE SOMEONE ELSE IS AN IDIOT LIKE ME* EDIT: I put the tower of scaffolding up from the solid block, NOT the trapdoor. Do not do that lol. Hey, I have followed this tutorial (I think) to the letter on Java 1.18.1 and the redstone signal doesn't flow up from the trap door being changed to the first observer. If I break the piece of scaffolding directly below it , the water dispenses correctly on each level and the water retracts when the scaffolding is replaced, so that bit is working. I just cant get it working automatically.. Any ideas?

[@tigra770]

Great design. It's raining resources! It does take a bit more than an hour (if you need string for scaffolds, and placing 1600ish slabs). But holy crap, does it work!