Super Simple Infested Allay XP FARM! (1.21 Tutorial)

[@yolomationanimation9784]

the best thing about this farm is that it just doesnt drop anything *but* xp. theres no need to tack on an item filter or extended storage, which I think is the best plus to making this design

[@Sir_James_Ender]

Very true! I have a guardian farm in my buddy's server and I end up burning 90% of the drops because I mostly just need the XP

[@NatoBoram]

Nowadays, you can auto-craft some of it to keep more of it

[@azaelab1711]

L​@@Sir_James_Ender

[@Hamthewateringcan]

If only you could build this in a nether base for that ‘screams of the damned’ ambiance.

[@Sir_James_Ender]

Ahhh, if only… XD You could probably modify the farm to use some other method than water to move the silverfish to the kill chamber. Iron golems and silverfish pathfinding is likely the answer here

[@locrianphantom3547]

@@Sir_James_EnderImagine it but with ghast pushers.

[@JustADude-fk5qy]

Or slime sweepers

[@TJ-hg6op]

@@JustADude-fk5qyor magma movers

[@GapplePie]

now that's what i'm talking about, some environmental storytelling that makes sense

[@The1nsomniacPotato]

I think this is the single best minecraft farm tutorial I've ever seen. Thank you for being so thorough and concise!

[@redpug5042]

wow! I just discovered all the new potions and this one is super powerful. It is a bit annoying that you need to get all the potions, but it just needs a little glass, stone, gunpowder, and blaze powder, which isn't that hard to get in bulk one time to store in chests.

[@davidferrer509]

One question, i did the farm in my survival world, but the silverfish just get stuck inside the campfire. What sould i do?

[@enn1924]

This is such a good farm and it doesn't feel too overpowered. I'll definetly be building this on my next world

[@pixel_eyezd3805]

Another pro of this farm is there aren’t byproducts that need to get stored; no useless stacks of green dye, ender pearls, or prismarine. Not to say you would *never* want those things, but in many cases the storage system is half the farm.

[@dezaku6612]

for whatever reason my flint and steel doesnt work when clicking on the noteblock, the redstone upon the dispenser gets activated and the potions get thrown but the flint and steel just stay in their and doesnt activae anything

[@paddy7818]

Oberservers could have been saved with a block inbetween, or just using Redstone

[@Shepard4711]

Really well done tutorial! Why did you switch the bottom left four blocks with temporary blocks and then back to regular blocks at the end?

[@Sir_James_Ender]

Thanks! Just to make it easier to keep everything oriented in the video. In hindsight it wasn't really necessary

[@robeart]

Farm works great for the most part - except for some reason, I keep having silverfish spawning on the top of the farm, where they bunch up and push each other off, which can be a huge problem, obviously. I tried spawn proofing the top of the farm with slabs, but they still kept popping up somehow. I'm not sure if it's a phasing issue, I'm using 16 allays for clarification.

[@VicthorGuilhermeSantosLima]

awesome video dude ❤

[@Sir_James_Ender]

Thank you!

[@ata3931]

That is clever usage of potions

[@abfielder]

Just came over from the reddit discussion, your videos are good, good sound quality, visuals etc... keep going, try not to get disheartened by the thieves, they've got no creativity so they'll run out of stuff at some point and then you can laugh your head off at them.

[@Sir_James_Ender]

Thanks! The support from you and everyone in the community has been absolutely amazing, and despite the issues I’d still do this again :D

[@SuperLlama88888]

Great, simple-to-follow tutorial!

[@aiden_rock]

comment for algorithm, this is sick!!

[@Hamthewateringcan]

Algorithm

[@titanik1378]

You could add a separate killing chamber where the silverfish are splashed with the new oozing potion, and dropped on campfires that are on top of hoppers. I will build your farm and try it myself, but I am not so good with Redstone

[@huiba1]

Good luck! It should be easy to build, I am also not good with Redstone but if you follow the tutorial step by step it will work. Have fun :)

[@RWorkman-r3c]

Use skulk to sponge the xp

[@creepergold-b9l]

This is fantastic! (: You found an amazing use for allays in Minecraft. Now they don't feel useless anymore (:

[@Sir_James_Ender]

Thanks :D

[@thomas9503]

Can you use powdered snow instead of a comp fire

[@Sir_James_Ender]

In theory. However, I believe that powdered snow deals damage much slower than a campfire, so your rates would be much lower. You'd also have to make other modifications to the farm to make it work

[@aatosohikaura1596]

Great video! You deserve more subscribers!

[@christiandavejavier7947]

if u dont want to find allays u can find a mob spawn or build a mob farm and throw it infestation potion asnd add camp fire below it

[@seaturtleman]

Dump switch is perfect for setting up slime farm, potion of oozing them, dump them into a chamber with magma blocks, minecart hoppers underneath, and you have a very tps unfriendly method of slime farming

[@gaelmcd]

I did the farm underground, but the silverfish have broken everything, now there is hundreds of silverfish in my house that want to kill me please help

[@Sir_James_Ender]

Oh god... Best wishes for your survival!

[@GoofyGangster-bo4zn]

which texture pack do you use?

[@yellowtapestry]

vanilla tweaks, it has options to show redstone component directions

[@RisingWanabe]

I couldn't do that to the allays

[@James2210]

Cool idea but the required brewing is a bit of a downside. Probably still going to use enderman farm unless I want to make a guardian farm

[@hbemeister]

Find one Allay is the hardest

[@mustbge0]

pro tip, don't build this out of cobble or stone. You will be sad.

[@PDX-Red]

i can't hit the silverfish with the sword effects when hitting the amour stand.

[@pleconation]

i have a version of this farm you can make with less than half the blocks if you want to make an updated version

[@zakasdf4096]

Hey man awesome farm idea! Just letting you know the KZbin account Rediscover Redstone is using your farm as his own without giving you credit and has posted it 3 different times in the last 48 hours, I’m so sick of this behaviour from people, thought I’d let you know, keep up the good work my guy👍

[@Sir_James_Ender]

Thanks for the heads up! I am already in talks with him about it, so we will see what happens there :D

[@zakasdf4096]

@@Sir_James_Ender no stress man, the MC community is supposed to be better than that!

[@Quartz512_]

This guy is a real one

[@FinalTry]

All of my Allays despawned somehow without tinkering on the farm. Happened on Realms, any idea why?

[@amazon2552]

u probably have to name them to stop them despawning

[@Theworkingtitle7]

12 of my 16 despawned, 4 remain. Also on a server, 1.21 Java SMP

[@bogosbinted229]

same issue

[@Royalexotics7269]

new sub, u are CARZY! lol

[@Sir_James_Ender]

Haha, thanks :D

[@legowelt0809]

great quality!

[@ethanschule5524]

can i just trap one allay and breed it while it's stuck in the campfire? i just had over 20 escape my stupid little room and there is no way in hell im getting them all back in EDIT: i tried it and it works completely, atleast when the campfire isn't lit, you can breed them in there with no problem. i definitely recommend this method over breeding them in a seperate room and then moving them in with the noteblock and everything, it's a lot less hassle.

[@Sir_James_Ender]

In theory you should be able to. Haven’t tried it myself though so I’m not sure if they’ll escape somehow

[@mr_pigman1013]

The pillagers should’ve kept them

[@gizmo8489]

Woah what is your texture pack for the dispensers and observers that looks rlly helpful

[@tallgymbro]

Its a customizable texture pack called Vanilla Tweaks ! They have a website to creat your own texture pack its amazing

[@copperchromee4198]

is there a way to build this without sweeping edge (for bedrock users)

[@mixomarkozasvili5152]

Trident killers they are possibly better because they work 24/7 and doesn't require the player

[@harulango8614]

It doesn’t work on bedrock I’ve tried

[@mixomarkozasvili5152]

@@harulango8614 yes it does

[@pontanvik352]

The sweeping edge is already on bedrock swords thats why you guys dont have it

[@mixomarkozasvili5152]

@@pontanvik352 no it's not

[@alannulli]

Hi this works great! I tried to build the advance version to put out the campfire with the water but it seems the water is being placed 2 blocks too low to reach the campfire to put it out. Am I missing something?

[@hazzezzs]

Yep your doing something wrong

[@alannulli]

@@hazzezzs thanks, very helpful

[@alannulli]

i ended up just making a bunch of observers and putting a water dispenser beside the campfire

[@Sir_James_Ender]

Are you using splash water bottles? It sounds like you’re using a bucket of water which you should definitely not use

[@alannulli]

@@Sir_James_Ender ohhh, that makes more sense, I ended up getting the water bucket working which is a bit more convenient since I don't have to brew more potions too. Also I built the farm and let a swarm of silverfish all over my base lmao. Xp farm works great tho and it made for a really funny video

[@onepmarena9681]

Will it work on Java server

[@karara5532]

"sweeping edge" rip bedrock players. Trident it is i guess?

[@ploupy4977]

About how long does it take to get to lvl 30?

[@Sir_James_Ender]

60 seconds give or take, but it depends on how many allays you have. Slowest version would be closer to 2-2.5 minutes I think

[@austin12m]

Tried this on bedrock and the allays died from the campfire....

[@the_acheivement_gamer]

This is actually a really clever use for both the new potions and a use for the silverfish, which was kind of useless

[@Sir_James_Ender]

Thank you! This potion really does bring more use to silverfish

[@Hamthewateringcan]

Plus the satisfaction of killing thousands of silverfish. I’ve died too many times because they’re too hard to hit.

[@Memessssss]

@@Hamthewateringcan 🤣Fr

[@waterpkmn]

silverfish is used in some mob switch farms

[@Tehn00bA]

Not only that it makes for good traps as well.

[@Tehn00bA]

Ah minecraft, promoting concentration camps and torture, i mean, family friendly trading halls and xp farms.

[@millo7469]

but sharks are not allowed

[@enn1924]

I find it so funny that the most efficent ways to get resources are torturing and exploiting most features lol And everytime mojang tries to implement something to replace the cruel methods are just bad, like sculk for xp

[@wheating_]

GUYS DONT MAKE THE FARM OUT OF COBBLESTONE

[@chicken9056]

💀💀💀

[@ToadToon]

Someone in their hardcore world: Too Late

[@chicken9056]

@@ToadToon Nah you didn't die to silver fish. 💀💀💀

[@ToadToon]

@@chicken9056 your right, I didn't

[@chicken9056]

@@ToadToonPeace restored. But unfortunately can't say the same for my ability to read when I first wake up.

[@DerpyEinstein]

Putting cigarettes out on your child just so you can repair your pickaxe

[@enricobaschenis4257]

My son sounds like tim allen with a voice filter and i hate him

[@Emailminecraft]

???​@@enricobaschenis4257

[@knucklehead83]

I think you'll find more success doing this kind of video than the create mod videos. You have a natural knack for being clear and concise. And this is a great technical achievement.

[@Luna-mo4bp]

Bedrock troubleshooting: - Note blocks + Observers will not work on Bedrock, instead use a redstone tower for vertical signaling. - Sweeping edge is Java exclusive, use a trident killer directly below. I recommend a 3x3 trident killer. - WARNING! Java and Bedrock have different default tick speeds, what this means to the farm is that the Allay will get damaged by the campfire at a faster rate than on Java. This will result in the Allay's death within ~1:40 minutes, do not have the campfire on for too long or your Allays will die. So, on Bedrock you have to have a mechanism in place that turns the campfire off and on. - WARNING! Since Bedrock has faster tick speeds this means the Allay's will produce MUCH MORE Silver Fish than on Java, I recommend no more than 5 Allays, 6 was enough to spew some Silver Fish through blocks to attack you. Although if you'd like more Allays then you must have extra open spaces for the Silver Fish to exit which prevents the block phasing. They block phase IF there are too many cramped in one spot, they attempt to push each other but can't... instead they phase through blocks. For example, I only had one open trap door for the 5 Allays. TIP: For the trident killer I highly suggest you add a small hitbox block in what ever corner you're closest to, such as fence bars or wooden fences, if not the Silver Fish will likely go toward the corner and excessively jump which allows them to dodge the trident killer. The small hitbox block helps reduce lag and increases XP/per second. EDIT: As of now there's plenty of optimized farm contraptions videos for Bedrock on KZbin, check them out and good luck!

[@Deifus]

Damn you P and C ticks

[@satvera]

thanks i just need to grab the materials

[@AceMcCrank]

You can also just use splash poison potions along with the infested splash potions. Poison doesn't kill mobs. Edit: As for the observer tower, you can use leafstone for the trigger.

[@lanserploy]

I think the farm doesn't work in bedrock , i made it and the allays die for the campfires , and with the poison the silver fish dont spawn

[@satvera]

@@lanserployit does just do the steps that are listed

[@XAssassin1065]

The cruelest, most efficient xp farm ive seen in decades...

[@Aiden-wg4pu]

A small price to pay for infinite XP.

[@aty356]

You don't build this farm because you are lazy, I don't build this farm because i don't want to put cute allays in eternal pain. We are not the same 🧑‍⚖

[@PoweredUP_]

I don't want to build this farm because I'm afraid my base will turn into a hell on earth in case the thing breaks

[@Bread10010]

i didn't want to build this farm because I was lazy, but the idea of having dumbass allays in constant torture next to my base compelled me.

[@copernicub]

I just built it! it work smoothly i never build ender XP farm it's my first time getting crazy amount of XP fast i was relying on skeleton farm it was slow process Thank you so much this saved a lot of time

[@Sir_James_Ender]

No problem! I'm glad it's working well for you!

[@AKANA-SF]

bro to be honest at first i was like is this guy for real, does silverfish even give some good exp ? but when i tried it i got from lvl 0 to lvl 68 in like 9 min not cus the farm is slow bu cus the exp orbs take too long when they are too much XD .thx man this farm is op

[@Sir_James_Ender]

No problem! We really do need a way to absorb the XP faster :D

[@AKANA-SF]

@@Sir_James_Ender i dont think it will take too long to Mojang to nerf it somehow i feel bad for that its really helpful in the start of the game

[@Sir_James_Ender]

It's definitely possible, but I get the feeling that they won't nerf it. This seems too intentional. They might make allays immune to the potion effect, but there are other ways to make it work such as Iron Golems

[@AKANA-SF]

@@Sir_James_Ender yeah true we always find another way to make it work cuz tbh Minecraft players are the most creative community i've ever seen XD

[@xocxgamingx2083]

DO NOT DO THIS IN BEDROCK, THIS FARM IS FOR JAVA. I almost lost my sever due to lag and spent the last 5hours trying to get it back since half of this farm is broken in bedrock. There is NOWHERE STATING this is for Java only and to an average person it’s not something we’ll just “figure out” or “should’ve known”. Please like this so the other average people can see this, thanks

[@gris3597]

Obviously this is java

[@athaarsad9937]

There are other designs that limit the silverfish spawning by turning on and off the campfire in a certain way that only a little spawns Edit: also dont put too much allay

[@studentoflordfetusiii1434]

​@@gris3597it's only obvious to people who 1 know both versions and 2 know only java has sweeping edge. Vast majority of the player base isn't technical and don't know these things

[@someguy5989]

Never build any tutorial that doesnt explicitly state that its for bugrock 💀💀

[@joe56188]

Just use less allays

[@Zera1928]

2012 Etho is grinning so hard right now

[@ZhengliexieRicachonda12STEM28]

does this work on bedrock edition? of course except for the sweeping edge, i’ll replace it with trident killer

[@tunafllsh]

Super cool. Just hurts to see the observer line not alternating note/observer/solid blocks 😭

[@Sir_James_Ender]

I know, I know... old habits die hard lol

[@wayronhelloneighborcontent9810]

do powered note blocks trigger observers in bedrock? i know when you play a note manually it doesn't trigger, but I've never tried powering the note block with redstone

[@ethanschule5524]

i built this in java and it worked great for a while but then all of the allays despawned (or died somehow) any ideas on how to prevent this?

[@luceofficiall]

can't wait for mojang to patch this in 1.21.1 by making so potion-created mobs don't yield xp! (but seriously this farm is fantastic)

[@huiba1]

Just keep playing on this version until you have everything you need 🙈

[@syedfardeenahmed2592]

I don't think they are gonna nerf this because you have to get xp on killing mobs whatsoever. I mean, what good is a silverfish potion if it can't give us any drops from silverfish except xp?

[@Riglin]

@@syedfardeenahmed2592I mean, they did make it so trial chambers mobs won't drop their armor, so idk

[@fietae]

@@Riglin yeah but the point of the trial chambers are the vaults. what point would there be for the potions if there was no reward?

[@luceofficiall]

@@huiba1 smart

[@MakakaObami]

I've been building it for so long, but all the Allays just died in the fire, even though I gave them all blocks in their hands. I'm playing on a private server with a friend

[@augdog4855]

Are the blocks supposed to keep them from dying under the campfire?

[@MakakaObami]

@@augdog4855 As I understand it, the problem is with the server. in singleplayer they survive, but in multiplayer they die very quickly

[@leahyt]

What a nice farm! It deserves more views for sure, and I think it's safe to say that it's not too broken as it requires you to get some things that could still be considered tedious to get (blaze rods, amethyst, allays of course, and you need at least a few diamonds and enchantments). I've been playing on a multiplayer server with a few friends and I've found that skeleton/zombie grinders from a basic spawner are extremely slow when there's more than one player online (but that could also be blamed by server settings that I don't know of) so this would be a good alternative.

[@Sir_James_Ender]

Thanks! It definitely falls into that “Mid-Game” category of farms with the resources needed. You could probably speed run it and have everything in 2-3 hours from a fresh world tho

[@pleconation]

u dont even need to do all that sweeping edge stuff, u can hit the silverfish through the holes on the side of a chest, most of this farm is excessive

[@raulfernandez4197]

At first glance it seems very interesting, then you realize that it is one of the worst ideas you can have.

[@lucasvlogs4056]

I tried using stairs to make a little channel for the XP orbs. Good idea in theory and it worked fine on in the testing world. Fast forward to me being chased my hundreds of silverfish. And also, since I made the farm underground, they destroyed a big portion of the room they were in. TL;DR for the love of god don't let the silverfish escape!

[@K1nggam3r161]

i have built this on a realm with friends it works great but after 24 hours the allaeys are dead or despawned i have made the simple viersion. any tips

[@Ion_Cannon42]

I'm not sure how easy/difficult it is to get allays but aside from that this looks to be a great simple farm

[@MemesInsuranceGuy]

You just need 2 allays, breed them and throw and item into the chamber so they go in

[@kennystudebaker]

Never knew I’d be following an xp farm tutorial by Ben Shapiro

[@Asd3ft]

Do the allay die to the camp fire? because I left it on and walked away and the allay either died or despawned. I have no idea but they weren’t there so I had to go out and find more. I’m on bedrock btw

[@Asd3ft]

Having made the farm completely the allays don’t spawn silverfish when damaged while having the infestation effect

[@Sir_James_Ender]

Allays on bedrock don’t heal as fast as on Java, you’ll need a clock to automatically turn the farm off every so often to allow them to regen back to full

[@ElcoolMo]

Will this work on bedrock? Cause bedrock doesn't have the sweeping edge enchantment

[@lanserploy]

You can replace it with a tridentkiller i think

[@xhmdxextra]

20:09 replace the solid blocks on the edge with packed ice so the silver fishes start slipping

[@Sir_James_Ender]

That's a pretty smart addition!

[@paramnesiacs]

can you drop a world download for this?

[@JOAOPAULO-fl7df]

This farm works in Bedrock Edition?

[@andrewmadilecy5704]

There's a simple solution to this PLAY JAVA. BEDROCK SUCKS

[@bingekingo9040]

Does this work for Bedrock?

[@kelismaincharacter4925]

So, I built this on a server, and when i logged back on, the allays were despawned. Does anybody know what may have caused this? (Or should I just confront every player on the server?)

[@Alphabottt]

I didn't even know you could breed allays i thought you were gonna use some glitch

[@cainzking]

Thanks for this! I'm gonna make a minigame where players have to fight waves of Silverfish!

[@nocommentgamez2571]

Just built it now with just 8 allays and the xp just flows in so quick. I had no other XP farms and was getting it the hard way, but this has just made it a breeze. Now just need to stock up on gunpowder.

[@sauloAndrioli]

Can we use this same setup but for farming slimes?

[@A_Dog_and_a_Creeper]

I guess such creatures aren't as useless as I first took them... in fact I can utilize this to my liking... I hate those creature... the *allays...*

[@jo5uee]

does this work on java or bedrock?

[@Sir_James_Ender]

This is a Java farm. In theory you could build it on bedrock too, but there are 2 things you’d need to change: 1. You’d need to modify the killing chamber to either a trident killer or an open slot to kill the silverfish. I don’t believe sweeping edge exists on bedrock. 2. Campfires are pushable in bedrock, meaning when you install the allays you’d have to be careful not to push it and let them out. EDIT: See the pinned comment for more detailed info for bedrock

[@prestonwade1848]

The allays keep dying. is it because some silverfish can get stuck in the box with the allays? is it because of hard mode? Any ideas or suggestions would be great.

[@jacobmuench5277]

A random prank idea would be to build a fortress/dungeon out of block types that silverfish can infest then use a smaller version on the farm to fill it with silverfish. Then finally send in a friend to explore it…

[@rightcross]

Done...

[@marpyyy]

greatest tutorial ever, everything bad that could happen while building considered. love it

[@Sir_James_Ender]

Thanks! I tried to consider whatever would've gotten myself hung up on if I was doing this from a tutorial and I think that helped find some edge case issues :D

[@kevinzhang1414]

If you're concerned about the number of observers used, you can always have the observer pointing into a block next to a noteblock, which is cheaper and faster.

[@satvera]

very nice farm, but can you make a tutorial video on how to build this in bedrock edition?

[@HIDP00L]

This is mostly an alike create silverfish xp farm wtf ahahhaah

[@benhuckaby]

Tried to make a rudimentary version without a whole enclosed chamber, somehow the campfire killed the allay, tragic..

[@onesty0056]

My allays died on the campfire

[@acenovaYT]

im guessing the ideal sword could also be bane with sweep unb men unless sweeping dosent work on it. If so then atleast there is more of a use for it ingame

[@Sir_James_Ender]

BoA would absolutely work as well, but because sharpness over level 3 is enough to 1 shot the silverfish, it is not needed. Most people would probably just use their normal sword for this farm

[@ramajyello]

Nice and elegant. I haven't updated to 1.21 yet coz I want a raid farm alternative and this seems to be it. Keep this up and you'll become big. I like the Ianx04 style progression. Subbed!

[@Sir_James_Ender]

Thanks!

[@axolotl5475]

sharpness 3 sweeping edge 2 sword works fine. no difference. with 24 allays and 1 potion (i ended the farm before potions time ran out), i gained 45 levels and mended a half damaged diamond pickaxe

[@axolotl5475]

ridicilously op

[@LogChop]

You got a discord? My alleys randomly disappeared

[@amazon2552]

they are prob despawning so maybe u can try naming them ?

[@dont_ask_none]

I’ve never really had any qualms about using Minecraft farms, but this…. This makes me feel horrible. Great design, but I probably wont be using it.

[@Sir_James_Ender]

Haha, yeah… it’s a bit grim… but a lot of XP… ethical dilemma for sure

[@average6875]

THE ALLAY IS USEFULL. DAMN.

[@Iktsoi2]

How fast is it.

[@Serge4444]

IMPORTANT: do not build this farm with stone and stone bricks.

[@michaellabrador2549]

Awesome tutorial thanks! Just built it in my survival server, its awesome, fit in a corner of my base easily! Wondering if it could be adapted into a mob switch too, perhaps? Seems an easy way to generate lots of mobs and kill them again when its not needed...

[@Sir_James_Ender]

I am not very familiar with the mechanics involved in mob switches, so maybe? If it works it would definitely be useful!

[@Honey-ot1iz]

Silverfish spawner from the stronghold was also used for this, so I suppose it would be possible

[@nilclashing5566]

Bro can u please please design this same farm for bedrock too