This Minecraft guide will detail a step-by-step walkthrough for building an automated farm in Minecraft, whether it be to harvest wheat, potatoes,carrots, or more. In this guide, we'll also detail some of the best community-made automated farms that can help you gather resources much more efficiently.

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• How to Make an Automated Farm
• Best Automated Farm Designs in Minecraft

How to Make an Automated Farm

Automated farms require extensive knowledge of not just farming, but other complexitems such ashoppers, comparators, poweredrails, andredstone. Automatedwheat farms are among the most common, but you can apply the technique to most other crops.

There are dozens of different ways to build an automated farm in Minecraft, but here's a quick overview of how it works (using wheat as an example):

• You'll first need to craft your automated collection system. This is typically the size of a standard farm (that is, a 9x9 grid) and consists of a hopperminecart and apowered rail system that's run usingredstone. At the beginning of the rail, position achest so any wheat it picks up will be deposited when it returns.

• Move up a layer and build your actual farm above the collection system. For our example, this will be a 9x9 grid with a single tile of water at the center - which is itself on top of a bottom halfslab. Till the soil with a hoe and plant your wheat.
• Build a wall around three sides of your farm.
• Bring avillager to your farm, then build the fourth wall – effectively trapping them in place. Give themwheat seeds to fill their pockets.

• Put acomposter on top of the tile of water.
• Add a fewtorches to the walls of your automated farm, and your basic setup is complete!

Best Automated Farm Designs in Minecraft

Need further assistance with your automated farm? Check out these impressive community builds:

• Easy Automated Wheat Farm (Shulkercraft): Using a bit ofredstone and manual labor from an unsuspectingvillager, this automated wheat farm is probably one of the easiest to create.
• Simple Automated Wheat Farm (JC Playz): Another simple build if the one by Shulkercraft is a bit larger than you need.
• Automated Potato and Carrot Farm (Shulkercraft): This one follows many of the same concepts as the build above, but has been optimized for growing potatoes andcarrots.
• Automated Tree Farm (CaptainOwl): This inventive design provides you with a nearly unlimited supply ofwood – a resource that you can never have enough of.