Minecraft Elegance: Next Generation Copper Farm (Java 1.17+)

[@mykle2890]

Well, 1.20.5 has broken this farm, because swimming to the top of anything but a water source block allows the entity to breathe. The solution is to replace the block above the killing chamber with a water logged mangrove root. This forces the non water source block right under to connect with above, filling and removing any pixel of air, but without messing the horizontal current. edit: You don't have to specifically use mangrove root, it also works with leaves or bottom slabs

[@mykle2890]

Solution successfully tested !! So please do not hesitate to make the comment above more visible so that everyone can see the solution

[@ashleyr8272]

Tested and worked! Thnak you for this simple solution. Now I only have to find mangrove in my survival world.

[@Blackrobe]

@@ashleyr8272 I think normal leaves you cut with shears should do just as well. Just place and waterlog those leaves.

[@Blackrobe]

I tested that waterlogged bottom slabs also work. You don't have to specifically use mangrove root.

[@ashleyr8272]

@@Blackrobe Thank you. I'll try this out

[@Sarivelle]

I honestly thought your stacking raid farm was the most innovative, truly elegant farm you could design. This genuinely tops it though. I am deeply impressed, well done. Amazing work as always, especially in your informative-but-not-overwhelming explanation.

[@soooslaaal8204]

I agree, this one is the most shocking simple and elegant design yet

[@haydinsherifovski2731]

Somehow an efficient version to the most inefficient category of farm there is, and super simple and well explained as well. You can make even me seem like a Minecraft genius, keep it up Ian!

[@Fannom]

yes

[@mrmrpineapple6542]

The Best Drowned Farm there is only gives a couple hundred per hour and around 80 tridents but at least the tridents are useful

[@koolkrafter5]

@@mrmrpineapple6542 Converted drowned in java don't drop tridents, but they do in bedrock.

[@axolotlguy25]

@@mrmrpineapple6542 if you dont count eol

[@axolotlguy25]

@@mrmrpineapple6542 eol has 1000-2000 tridents per hour btw

[@danielschultz1769]

it literally blows my mind how your farms are not only some of the highest (if not the highest) producing farms and they are always far simpler to build than any other competitor. true innovator

[@swegatron2859]

The next big front is shulker farms imo. There’s surely a way to make a 5 minute shulker farm right at an end city without needing 10 levels of scaffolding, transporting shuckers across portals, or spend 2 hours spawn proofing 200 blocks

[@Pyxyty]

@@swegatron2859 have you seen ian's shilker farm? Its much simpler than others, highly recommend it

[@hyjinkz6903]

Two words: Diminishing returns.

[@kevinjamesmartin7127]

@@swegatron2859 GruvaGuy helped make a shulker farm on Bedrock out of an End City ship, remove all of the ship except 1 layer and turn it into a 16-radius circle. Flood the top and allow the water to fall off the sides collect the water in the middle at least 18 blocks down. Afk between armor stands in the middle of the farm. 1300/hr. You can also build your own circle below the ship and plate the hull with trapdoors and spawn proof the rest of the ship with glow lichen and you have a completed sailing End ship shulker farm for very little effort.

[@kevinjamesmartin7127]

Actually GruvaGuy with help from SuperCollide look for Shulker Sandwich v2 The water & ship are my design

[@granite1482]

I can’t explain how much I struggle getting farms to work properly when following a KZbin tutorial. Ianxofour design: starts working immediately every time. Need an iron farm design next!

[@ianxofour]

Search for "iron farm on day 1"

[@ladiesman9179]

@@ianxofour need an iron farm which is elegance but also way more efficient than day 1 one

[@zaron31116]

This design is absolutely insane, once again blowing my mind every time

[@enderyu]

Holy crap. The amount of zombies spawning in the intro made my jaw drop. And the list of materials needed was insultingly simple. You really outdid yourself this time (and I thought that wasn't even possible)!

[@isaiah9160]

This is absolutely insane on how you can make things so simple and so efficient.

[@Erik-pu4mj]

Useful, usable, relaxing, and respectful to contributors. Ianxofour appears as a paragon of the Minecraft technical community. Thank you for doing what you do.

[@mooseroom]

this is actually insane. i've seen so many videos of copper farms and trying to make something drastically more inefficient than just mining, and nothing can match the efficiency of this. the build simplicity and the output rate of copper is actually insane to me. great job once again ian and thank you for this

[@thatlegend57]

brilliant job as always ian, slingshotting farms once deemed too complicated into the meta for a general audience!

[@coffeebored1164]

real

[@Realicestorm]

Hi legend o/

[@thatlegend57]

o/

[@butterfly-fy3wz]

Hi ice o/ ~Legend ignored~

[@Realicestorm]

@@butterfly-fy3wz hi shadow o/@

[@Monkeylordz88]

I am always amazed by how efficient some of these simple farms are. I follow technical minecraft pretty closely, so I often get blinded by the notion that "bigger & complex is better", but you consistently show that this is not the case! I love how you make farming approachable to any minecrafter, and show that it's not just for the technically-versed.

[@tyz_sam]

Ian's tutorial are always great , you don't need to do complicated redstone , no complicated building , no complicated materials , straight to the point , includes and ACTUAl tutorial in the video instead of just talking about how the farm/mechanics work and not just " here you go , I design and made this farm here's a tutorial for it " without telling how the farm works

[@FrenchFriezFreak]

I was really impressed at Tango Tek's improved design with witches back at the start of Hermitcraft 9. But this is just even more amazing. Hardcore MC youtubers gonna be so damn happy everytime you upload

[@swordsmancs]

I wasn’t expecting to sit for a full 20 min, but your calm voice and easy-to-understand explanation of the spawn mechanics and build tutorial drew me in. This was the first video of yours that I watched, but I doubt it’s gonna be the last.

[@BrownR87]

Ugh, I guess I'll add this to my list of farms that "I don't even need and they used to be a big project, but now it's so simple I can't resist trying it" that I keep ending up with every time I watch your videos. 😉

[@smartmonkey777]

i built -xisumas- TangoTeks copper farm, and now i see this...

[@WanderingWolfe]

@@smartmonkey777 Xisuma said this was the farm he was using. :D

[@smartmonkey777]

yo my bad dude it was the TAngo tek farm based of gnembons original design

[@WanderingWolfe]

@@smartmonkey777 Nah, you're good. I didn't mean it as a spit in your face, it's an easy detail to miss in the video, and thought it pertinent info. 👍

[@smartmonkey777]

@@WanderingWolfe i didn't take it that way at all

[@Moon-uc7vs]

you never fail to amaze each time you put out a video. Your videos are concise, short, and never longer than their need to be. You assume that the player knows nothing, and make it so clear and simple to make. on top of that you create alternate farms, and try to fix any bugs that come up. You take suggestions from the community, and never undermine anyones intelligence. you really are amazing. Thank you so much for these videos, thank you so much for these farms, thank you so much for your work and your contributions. you are appreciated beyond words.

[@huytrandang277]

The one thing that i appreciate as a non english-speaker is that your voice is really clear with an easy to understand accent. I won't need to repeat one particular part a few times over to understand what you were saying compare to some other technical minecraft youtuber like gnembon or rayworks.

[@punkin3]

you have singlehandedly changed minecraft farms forever. you're a fuckin legend and you deserve so many more subs

[@supernova5712]

This guy is really spear heading technical Minecraft with his creations, it’s fascinating

[@1PageAtATime]

You are insane. There’s nothing more I can say just absolutely incredible design keep it up

[@zared-4126]

Thank you so much man, I wish I could sub twice. I literally was just grinding copper waiting for this to surface. You are S tier on farms and timing!

[@blumkeet]

i just found your channel through some random youtube recommendations, and, to be honest, this might be the best minecraft tutorial channel I have ever seen. It's innovative, easy to build and works everytime. Thank you!

[@ShabbyCA]

Amazing video as always Ian. Previous copper farm designs always felt like more of a flex than a practical farm with how ridiculous they looked. This design with the sweeping attack feels like the perfect development and fit for most players and servers

[@ashleyr8272]

You're the only one that I know sure the farm is truly next gen if you say so even before watching the video. I've build Gnembon's copper farm and loved using it for a long time, and I'm shocked when I saw your farm. This simple and small footprint and the rate is very mind blowing. Excellent work again.

[@agentx3]

I love how you always explain how your farms work. No one else does that. It helps me to understand things much better.

[@elodkovacs1405]

I like how Gnembon makes the most effincient copper farm possible and he improves it and builds it in 2 minutes with basic materials. A true genius

[@ShiroCh_ID]

and now gnembot were part of Minecraft developers

[@novAviator01]

That turtle shout-out at the end was very well put together

[@laerite]

i'm so glad you're getting recognition for your work, and i'm even happier to see you crediting those that help you get there. Honestly the best channel for farms there is right now. Keep up the good work!

[@citizen5272]

The term "elegence" is truly fitting for your designs

[@axxessdenied]

it's amazing to see how far your channel has come since I discovered it back during 1.17. Been a while since I played (before 1.18 came out). But, your raid farm absolutely took over when I built it on the smp I played on at the time and before long I had built a few of them for various players. So great to see you still at it with the simplicity. Can't wait to build this on my new personal smp :D

[@YounesLayachi]

Brilliant ! The reinforcement copper farm was one of my favourites of gnmebon's fun farms. This takes it to another level, and I really appreciate the amount of effort that went into optimising the details and making it as convenient as possible :D

[@yunusawan1467]

Agreed!

[@gritdoc7018]

Every time I think “I sure wish there was a better farm for this”, I should just check your channel. So tired of building precious copper farms. This was great!!

[@airoh.1227]

I really appreciate how much less daunting your farms are to build than any of the others I've seen. These builds and their explanations are excellent!

[@mzungusi]

I may never build this farm , but it was a joy to watch you explain it and how it works. Thank you.

[@Freakmaster480]

yet another example of taking an unattainable farm for the average player and turning it into a simple to build, easy to operate, and surprisingly efficient farm. I can't thank you enough for the time and effort you and your community have put into designing and optimizing these creations. Edit: I also did the minecart hopper collection setup that was shown later and it worked very well. The one issue that I had with the solution shown was that the hopper minecarts seemed to be getting deleted by the lava filled cauldron once the farm filled up and the lag kicked in. It ended up working out. but I did have to swap out the unloader for one that uses the amethyst crystal for alignment. I'm not knowledgeable or savvy enough to know why that solution is more stable but it seems to be. I kinda smushed the one from Ilmango's video on unloaders with the one that was shown as an example here and it has seemed to work out fine.

[@TTobes-ll7nf]

Built this yesterday in my world with the collection and sorter system. It’s amazing how simple this farm is, and how it gets the best rates out of any copper farm. Amazing job :)

[@skataguy5050]

Did you have any trouble getting enough reinforcements to "stock up" the farm from just one or a couple zombies? Each zombie I get keeps failing to call enough reinforcements before it dies. Currently have the whole farm built up (large platform in the end), but I just can't get enough zombies to stock up the farm for some reason. I've even tried using snowballs to attack them without damaging them, but that doesn't seem to call many reinforcements either.

[@TTobes-ll7nf]

@@skataguy5050 it took me around 3 tries to get a steady flow. I had to hit around 5 zombies before going into the farm to get it started. Just try messing around with various things I guess

[@kurt4296]

AMAZING farm. Im on a 1.20.1 server running fabric. Took a little longer to get a constant flow of zombies than expected maybe about 20 min. Mobcap fluctuates between 1100 and 500 and tps between 16 and 20, not bad at all. Been going for almost 48 hrs now with the occasional break to block up copper, cull and have a snack haha. Again, AMAZING farm. Thankyou so so much ianxofour! You are a legend! ❤❤❤❤

[@buckwild5142]

Thank you Ian! Your farms are becoming so “elegant” that you have to include in the tutorial how to slow them down! Thank you for making the MC farming community a better place, every time you upload it makes everyone’s lives easier.

[@gritdoc7018]

For people on realms with slower systems, I had to set my auto clicker to 2.5 seconds and it worked as designed. At 2.250 seconds, the zombies died without reinforcements. Ianxofour mentioned this to me for the stacking raid farm and it was the fix as well, delay the time out an extra 250 msecs for realms lag. Thanks again!

[@DavidSmith-cr7mb]

youre the only person on my youtube who I get excited about when I see a new upload. amazing job, recolutionary for copper farming. all other farms Ive seen have looked like such a chore, this is simpler than most modern farms. hardesr part is getting a xombie to the end. wow, man.

[@dannyd2798]

Man's back at it again! I continue to be blown away that he can top previous designs by making even simpler and more effective farms

[@Sadrakaze]

The amount of love I have for this man is crazy. He makes so efficient but simple farms. I bet you could make every single farm on his minecraft elegance playlist in under 12 hrs on a random seed new world. This man is crazy and brilliant. I cant wait for him to make another tutorial. He makes other creators look like babies!

[@marlonb1852]

New speedrunning category incomming (IanXO4%)

[@lucidic2525]

Your minecraft elegance video series is, in my opinion, the one and only true professional grade collection of tutorials on youtube. The explanations, the build walkthrough, and the lack of typical youtuber fluff are all top quality and I can't thank you enough. I hope you have fun making these, and if you do, I hope you keep it up.

[@palashverma3470]

The genius is back again with a stupendously elegant design yet again!

[@bischoffsean8259]

This channel is getting crazier and crazier each upload. So glad I found this.

[@mythical7even]

The man did it again. Always excited to see what the next one will be!

[@brandonsims2096]

Not only is this farm amazing, but you are amazing at explaining things in depth. great voice for explaining/teaching

[@axlrose4703]

This is unbelievable at this point! Amazing job! One single note is culling sword can have looting 3 too to get more loot while culling.

[@horribleperson9531]

No don't use looting 3, the reason you have the culling sword is because you want to get rid of the armor and if you kill them with looting they will drop all the armor again

[@lolPoroa]

you are the definition of "if i had more time this letter would be shorter" very nice farms glad I found your channel

[@margriff_mc1966]

I've been absolutely in love with copper farms ever since I found gnembon's video and this video just made me fall even harder for them.

[@joda7697]

Thank you so much for this, me and my friend built this yesterday and already got a stack of copper blocks out of it! Also the server was struggling, ran on 3tps at some point, but it's a pretty weak server anyway. We were planning to design our base in a steampunk style and need copper for it, but this farm now provides us with just that!

[@Rippertear]

Truly elegant. You never cease to amaze, Ian. Keep up the good work!

[@davefroman4700]

I was just looking for a easy copper farm and look what pops up 15 minutes before I started looking....You the man Ian.

[@Realicestorm]

Awesome work Ian as usual.This is as simple and as powerful as it gets

[@piikae]

You weren't kidding when you said next gen, huh? Fantastic video as always!

[@armendvin]

Ian I was thinking that you could make a video about how you develop these legendary yet insanely simple farms, I know many people are interested on the development proccess of these farms.

[@schoo9256]

That would be really cool!

[@NamelessY]

I think its a cumulative effort from Ian and his discord participants They come up with ideas (game mechanics they could exploit) and then work on it

[@de_g0od]

He said that it's not just him

[@joelconolly5574]

Ok this was amazing. I think I want to try something else with this farm. Do keep in mind that: 1. Some server severely limits mob cap so rates won't be same as this. 2. Random server with no claim ability will get yourself killed so you might want to consider alternative solutions. The server currently playing has no End Island claim ability so adjustments are needed. 3. It's always faster to dig since 1.18 and above has veins. But not the most convenient. Great tutorial indeed so definitely something I'd use as well.

[@enkvadrat_]

This farm doesn’t relay on mobcap

[@Andre-gn4sj]

@@enkvadrat_ doesn't some servers remove entities if there are to many of one type in one chunk?

[@enkvadrat_]

@@Andre-gn4sj I don’t know maybe papper/spigot servers do

[@simonrmerton]

Absolutely knocked it out of the park again. Brilliant!

[@masterdabeast5649]

i always get excited whenever ianxofour makes a new video, all keeps me thrilled!

[@classified-potato]

It works perfectly fine on 1.17! Some Notes: -I tested it on SinglePlayer, running fabric -I ran the farm for 1 hour or so using Looting, Mending, Unbreaking, Smite and Diamond Sword -The rates are about 9 stacks with Looting 2 -I have a beacon with regeneration -I have sodium and lithium installed -I used tweakeroo's feature which disables the entity rendering(Since I have this set to true, should I "cull" the farm?) -I didn't change anything regarding the building site. Edit: If you are planning on building something near the area or just being present, I recommend putting 2-3 boats near the building to capture 4-6 zombies. Then kill the zombies in the chamber. In this way, your game won't lag and you will be able to restock the farm or in case of an emergency.

[@brody9752]

you dont want to use smite for this farm. any additional damage you deal will cause to to kill some zombies before they drown and it will cause you to hit each zombie less which results in less reinforcments.

[@classified-potato]

@@brody9752 According to Ian, it does not. You can check the description.

[@dariamorgendorffer3893]

Absolutely loved this, thank you. The world download was very generous, too. It was bonus fun to summon a warden and let the drowned zombies out!

[@educastrillonromero6893]

once again with the designs that had gone over every single redstoner's head. truly impressive

[@uruacufutsal1]

Youre the most genius Minecraft player ive seen. You dont make the most powerful farms ever, but they are all crazy easy to build, and crazy good.

[@zacherybutter7349]

My friend would love this, he’s a freak for the oxidized copper blocks. 😆

[@yunusawan1467]

Better yet, he can use the end island to oxidize the blocks while he is AFK at the farm, as long as they don't block the zombies' pathfinding!

[@carlospallete3030]

This Elegance series is incredible, I have watched sooo many tutorials and videos in the past, this is amazing stuff, very well explained too

[@dappal1912]

Ianxofour, thank you so much for the easy and efficient farms. You deserve way more subs and they will come!

[@TheAlaGatorDA]

Thank you for the brilliant vid! The first time this farm concept was introduced I thought it's a bit intimidating for an average player to build one, but your and Turtle0628's work made it a lot less scary! Thank you so much

[@RussianSpy4632]

Honestly, yes this farm is amazing but I'm even more grateful to Ian for giving credit to those before him in his farm designs. I wish more people did this.

[@LensBlurr]

What a legend! I get goosebumps everytime i watch your farm tutorials. Simple, effective, easy to understand and recreate.

[@childsquish]

finally a copper farm actually worth building and doesn't give me trash rates that are obtainable within 5 minutes worth of mining, this is insane for the simplicity of the farm

[@artemis_furrson]

Yet again. You amaze the community about the ridiculous simplicity of complex farms. I am beyond amazed at your ability to come up with so many clever solutions to common issues that arise when building farms like these.

[@marshall3753]

you never fail to impress me ian

[@orpheus3342]

Ianxofour never ceases to amaze! I built your stacking raid farm, your obsidian farm and now this on a server, and these are by far the most efficient farms on the server. Also, good to see that you give credit to your sources, unlike many other Minecraft youtubers. Keep up the work :)

[@ryanthescion]

Hmmm maybe I now know what to build next

[@Justanuggy]

It's that one guy

[@ryanthescion]

@@Justanuggy I am indeed

[@Forsakenguard]

You guys have done it again! I'm always super impressed with your farms. I love how well everything is explained and how everything is designed so that anyone can do it without stressing over it.

[@yoonseokim1837]

Thank you, Ian! Can you also make a video on the hopper minecart system you used in this video? I did find some videos in the KZbin and still have no idea how to fit that in such a small area...

[@kixos8921]

Hi ! Here from a Xisuma shout out in his episode. Liked your stuff and subscribe. Good job ;)

[@Marcel-yu2fw]

If you want to contain the reinforcement zombies you can build 2 dark tunnels where they can spawn and block all other spawning spaces. The tunnels have to be 2 blocks wide though as theres a bug that reinforcement zombies spawn on the corner of a block (precisely on the north west corner of the intended spawning space). Also on one side you should place the ladders to the other side of the block, instead of on the glass, otherwise zombies can get stuck on them.

[@Vlazeca]

The thanks at the end was a very nice sentiment, all too often people are too caught up in the idea of the lone genius that they forget that progress of any sort is almost always achieved by many.

[@daniellw4537]

This is absolutely mind blowing

[@chronic_washere]

i usually never comment but this is a beautiful farm. Simple yet complex the way mojang intended farms to be

[@rodgermccallister1606]

ianxofour is out here making farms that every single player will want to build in their survival world, but most importantly, ones that players CAN build. You're so incredibly creative in coming up with these farms!

[@lumi2030]

your video quality is so humble, yet the content is so useful and comprehensive. you deserve a million subs.

[@EathleteMoMo]

Man i didn't think that the copper farm will be this easy

[@benemenhall4215]

Incredible work as always. It's also great to hear that you enjoy producing these almost as much as we like to see them!

[@tom4450]

all his videos are amazing he never misses

[@jacobbabcock8943]

Ian, every time you make a video I don’t think I can be any more blown away. Now I really thing It can't get better than this.

[@BlueFinch]

Did you get a Master's Degree in Minecraft from somewhere?

[@exoqqen]

always clean, always simple, straight to the point yet super detailed. S+ content as always

[@_cliffy]

babe wake up ianxofour posted

[@loganboehnlein2738]

Gotta be honest, I was skeptical when I saw how jumbled and messy it looked at first. But then you started explaining it, and I realized how jam-packed this design is. Everything is needed, everything has a crazy efficient and streamline necessity to be in the farm, and even allows adjustments for anything from healing, to storage, to resetting the farm, to loading it for the next session, even automatically supplying the Zombies with items so they don't Despawn. This is insane.

[@zackcancerford7319]

If you're having trouble with zombies getting stuck on the ladders while entering the farm, try using vines instead. Swapping them out seemed to work a lot better for me in my 1.20.4 realm. Cheers!

[@Lahatyn]

Epic. Just epic. Lobe your work Ian!

[@Dave-cg9li]

Do I regret building a complicated copper farm last week that took me hours to build and is still less efficient than this simple one? Maybe... But thanks Ian, I love how unique and clever your farms are!!

[@mosfet4007]

Super powerful disign！ Everytime Ianxofour uploads a video , life in minecraft becomes easier.

[@Ormodius3751]

This farm just beats all other copper farms, and this one is the easiest to build. So impressive how such a simple farm can overpower other bigger farms. Amazing. Now, I can easily get tons of copper so easily. Edit: I build and tested this farm. It does take a few minutes to get started up, but once it is up and running, the rates are insane. Faster than most copper farms out there.

[@Andrew-de2tm]

You are a true genius and you definitely deserve more subscribers!

[@JavierSalcedoC]

Another jewel to add to the catalog. If I may add something: you can start-up this farm by hitting zombified villagers as well. This way, you can build a very simple villager breeder-zombificator in the vicinity of the farm so anytime you want to use it you just need to release 3-4 zombie villagers and you're done

[@ianxofour]

the farm only needs to be stocked once with zombies, and it will remain forever stocked every time you want to use it

[@jardxtreme]

i see your videos once and again because you simplify the farms and explain in detail and easy to understand information how everything related to this farms works and why. great videos. i see your videos one and two times in a week just to remember and learn more