Minecraft Redstone & Farm Guides
Automate the grind. These guides cover auto farms for food, mobs and XP, plus the redstone that powers them: comparators, observers, pistons and logic gates. Whether you want a simple cobblestone generator or a full automatic storage system, every contraption is shown wiring and all.
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How to Make a Bonemeal Farm in MinecraftA bonemeal farm composts plants into bone meal automatically. Here is what you need, the best things to compost, and how to feed and collect it hands-free.Read guide
How to Make a Cobblestone Generator in MinecraftA cobblestone generator makes endless cobblestone where lava meets water. Here is what you need, how the lava-water reaction works, and how to automate it.Read guide
How to Make a Combination Lock in MinecraftA combination lock wires levers so only one secret ON/OFF pattern powers a door. Here is what you need, how the logic works, and how to hide it.Read guide
How to Make a Conduit in MinecraftA conduit gives you water breathing, night vision and faster mining underwater. Here is the recipe, where to find the parts, and how to activate it.Read guide
How to Make a Crafter in MinecraftBuild the 1.21 crafter from iron, a crafting table, a dropper and redstone, then wire it for hands-free auto-crafting. Recipe, slot toggling, and a clock.Read guide
How to Make a Dripstone Lava Farm in MinecraftA dripstone lava farm drips a lava source through pointed dripstone into a cauldron for renewable lava. Here is what you need, how to stack it, and how long it...Read guide
How to Make a Dropper Item Elevator in MinecraftA dropper item elevator pushes items straight up a tower of droppers into a chest. How to wire the clock and when to use it over water.Read guide
How to Make a Flower Farm in MinecraftBone-meal a grass field to grow flowers in bulk for dyes and decoration, then sweep them into hoppers with water. Here is what you need and how biomes change the...Read guide
How to Make a Froglight Farm in MinecraftA froglight farm feeds small magma cubes to frogs, which turn them into glowing froglights. Here is what you need, the three colours, and how to automate it.Read guide
How to Make a Glow Berry Farm in MinecraftPlant glow berries to grow cave vines that hang down, light up your cave and give renewable food. Here is what you need and how to harvest and regrow them.Read guide
How to Make a Hidden Staircase in MinecraftA hidden staircase uses sticky pistons to push steps out of a flat wall on a trigger, then pulls them back flush. Here is how it works and the two builds.Read guide
How to Make a Hopper in MinecraftA hopper is five iron and a chest, and it moves items between containers on its own. Here is the recipe, how it pulls and pushes, and what it powers.Read guide
How to Make a Hopper Clock in MinecraftA hopper clock loops items between two hoppers to make a steady redstone pulse. Here is what you need, how to build it, and how to set the timing.Read guide
3DHow to Make a Mob Grinder in MinecraftBuild a tower mob grinder that spawns, flushes and drops mobs onto a hopper floor. Exact drop height for a lethal fall, water flush layout and the dark-platform...Read guide
How to Make a Mob Switch in MinecraftA mob switch fills the hostile mob cap so nothing spawns around your base or competes with a farm. Here is what you need, how it works, and how to toggle it.Read guide
How to Make a Moss Farm in MinecraftA moss farm uses bone meal to spread moss across blocks and grow azalea for endless moss. Here is what you need, what moss converts, and how to automate it.Read guide
How to Make a Mud and Clay Farm in MinecraftTurn dirt into mud with a water bottle, then dry it over a pointed dripstone to get renewable clay. Here is what you need and how the conversion works.Read guide
How to Make a Note Block Song in MinecraftMake note blocks play a tune: tune each one's pitch, set the instrument with the block underneath, and trigger them in time with a redstone clock.Read guide
How to Make a Piston in MinecraftA piston is planks, cobblestone, iron and redstone, and it shoves blocks when powered. Here is the recipe, the sticky-piston upgrade, and what it can push.Read guide
How to Make a Piston Extender in MinecraftA piston extender chains pistons to push a block further than one piston can reach. Here is what you need, how the timing works, and how far it goes.Read guide
How to Make a Redstone Elevator in MinecraftA redstone elevator rides a slime-block platform up a shaft and stops at each floor. Here are the three builds, the slime-vs-honey rule, and a comparison.Read guide
How to Make a Redstone Sorting System in MinecraftA redstone item sorter splits a mixed stream so every item type lands in its own chest. Here is what you need, how the filter hoppers work, and how to scale it.Read guide
How to Make a Redstone Trap in MinecraftA redstone trap springs from a hidden trigger to defend your base: trapdoor pitfalls, dispensers or TNT. How to wire one and how to reset it.Read guide
How to Make a Respawn Anchor in MinecraftA respawn anchor is the Nether's bed. Here is the recipe with crying obsidian and glowstone, how to charge it and set spawn, and why it explodes up top.Read guide
How to Make a Sculk XP Farm in MinecraftA sculk XP farm kills mobs on a sculk catalyst to grow sculk, then mines it for experience. Here is what you need, how the catalyst works, and the trade-offs.Read guide
How to Make a Secret Door in MinecraftA secret door looks like a normal wall until you trigger it, then sticky pistons slide it open. Here are the three builds and how to hide it.Read guide
How to Make a Super Smelter in MinecraftA super smelter runs a bank of furnaces in parallel so a big pile of ore cooks fast. Here is what you need, how the hopper lines feed it, and how to scale it.Read guide
How to Make a TNT Cannon in MinecraftA TNT cannon uses a water trough and charge TNT to launch a projectile TNT in an arc. Here is what you need, how the water cushion works, and adding range.Read guide
How to Farm Trial Spawners in MinecraftTrial spawners throw waves of mobs at you, then eject loot. Here is how to farm them in trial chambers, go ominous for better rewards, and what the cooldown means.Read guide
How to Make a Turtle Scute Farm in MinecraftBreed turtles with seagrass, hatch their eggs in sand, and collect a scute from every baby that grows up. Here is what you need and how to protect the eggs.Read guide
How to Make a Villager Crop Farm in MinecraftA farmer villager plants and harvests your crops on its own and throws the surplus for you to collect. Here is what you need, how it works, and how to gather the...Read guide
How to Make a Water Elevator in MinecraftBuild a bubble-column water elevator: soul sand carries you up, magma pulls you down. Here is the kelp fill trick, a two-way build, and the common fixes.Read guide
How to Make an Allay Item Farm in MinecraftAn allay item farm uses allays to collect one item type and drop it at a note block into a chest. Here is what you need, how allays gather, and how to duplicate...Read guide
How to Make an Amethyst Farm in MinecraftAn amethyst farm grows clusters on budding amethyst and breaks them for shards. Here is what you need, how buds grow, and how to harvest clusters automatically.Read guide
How to Make an Auto Brewer in MinecraftAn auto brewer feeds a brewing stand with hoppers so potions brew and collect on their own. Here is what you need, the hopper layout, and how to extract only...Read guide
How to Make an Auto Chicken Cooker in MinecraftAn auto chicken cooker breeds chickens and lava-cooks the grown ones into cooked chicken on their own. Here is what you need, how it loops, and how to keep it safe.Read guide
How to Make an Auto Concrete Machine in MinecraftAn auto concrete machine hardens concrete powder against water and breaks it loose for you. Here is what you need, why water is the trick, and how to harvest it.Read guide
How to Make an Auto Crafter Farm in MinecraftWire a farm into the 1.21 Crafter so raw items are crafted into products and stored on their own. Here is what you need, the loop, and what to auto-craft.Read guide
How to Make an Automatic Gate in MinecraftAn automatic gate opens when you step on a hidden plate and closes itself on a redstone timer. Here is what you need, how to wire it, and how it works.Read guide
How to Make an Automatic Minecart Station in MinecraftAn automatic minecart station stops your cart at the platform and launches it on a button press. Here is what you need, how the brake and launch rails work, and...Read guide
How to Make an Automatic Shulker Loader in MinecraftAn automatic shulker loader fills a shulker box, swaps it out when full, and loads the next. Here is what you need, how the full-detect and swap work, and what...Read guide
How to Make an Automatic Storage System in MinecraftAn automatic storage system files everything you dump in into a wall of labelled chests. Here is what you need, how it builds on item sorters, and how to expand it.Read guide
How to Make Redstone Logic Gates in MinecraftRedstone logic gates, NOT, AND, OR, XOR, NAND and NOR, are the building blocks of every contraption. Here is what each gate does and how to build it.Read guide
How to Make TNT in MinecraftTNT is five gunpowder and four sand in a checkerboard, doing nothing until ignited. Here is the recipe, every way to set it off, and what the blast does.Read guide
How to Use a Daylight Sensor in MinecraftA daylight sensor outputs a redstone signal from sky light, strongest at noon and zero at night. Right-click to invert it for auto lights, as shown here.Read guide
How to Use a Lectern with Redstone in MinecraftA lectern plus a comparator turns the page you are on into a redstone signal, so flipping pages selects different outputs. Here is how this trick works.Read guide
How to Use a Redstone Comparator in MinecraftA redstone comparator reads how full a container is and outputs a signal from 0 to 15. Here is how compare and subtract modes work and what it can read.Read guide
How to Use a Redstone Repeater in MinecraftA redstone repeater delays a signal by 1 to 4 ticks, boosts it to full strength, makes it one-way, and can be locked. Here is how to set delay and wire it.Read guide
How to Use a Redstone Torch in MinecraftA redstone torch is an always-on power source that flips off when its block is powered, the basic NOT gate. Here is how to invert signals and power up.Read guide
How to Use a Sculk Sensor in MinecraftA sculk sensor detects vibrations within 8 blocks and fires a wireless redstone signal. Here is what sets it off, how to quiet or calibrate it, and uses.Read guide
How to Use a Target Block in MinecraftA target block fires a redstone signal when a projectile hits it, stronger near the centre. Here is how scoring works, what to shoot it with, and uses.Read guide
How to Use an Observer in MinecraftAn observer watches the block in front of it and fires a short redstone pulse out the back when that block changes. Here is how it works and what to build.Read guide
How to Use Copper Bulbs in MinecraftCopper bulbs are 1.21 light blocks with built-in memory: a redstone pulse toggles them on or off and they hold it. Here is how they work and oxidation.Read guide
How to Use the Crafter Block in MinecraftThe 1.21 Crafter auto-crafts a recipe on a redstone pulse. Here is how to load its grid, disable slots, trigger it, and read it with a comparator.Read guide
How to Make an XP Farm in MinecraftLearn how to build the best XP farms in Minecraft including enderman, zombie spawner and sculk designs for fast leveling.Read guide
How to Build an Iron Farm in MinecraftStep-by-step guide to building a villager-based iron farm in Minecraft with zombie scare mechanics, spawn platforms and collection system.Read guide
How to Make a Mob Grinder in MinecraftBuild an efficient mob grinder in Minecraft using dark room spawning, water channels and fall damage for unlimited drops and XP.Read guideHow to Use Redstone in MinecraftMinecraft redstone tutorial covering the basics of redstone dust, torches, repeaters, comparators and practical circuit designs.Read guideHow to Build an Automatic Farm in MinecraftLearn how to build automatic farms in Minecraft using hoppers, observers, dispensers and water streams for crops, sugarcane and more.Read guideHow to Make a Fishing Farm in MinecraftBuild an AFK fishing farm in Minecraft, step-by-step instructions, loot tables, rod enchantments and version-specific mechanics explained.Read guideHow to Make a Raid Farm in MinecraftBuild a Minecraft raid farm for emeralds, totems of undying and XP, triggering Bad Omen, farm design, loot and wave mechanics explained.Read guideHow to Build a Storage System in MinecraftMinecraft storage system guide covering item sorters, hopper mechanics, overflow protection and bulk storage room layouts.Read guideHow to Make a Creeper Farm in MinecraftBuild an efficient creeper-only gunpowder farm using trapdoor mob filtering, cat placement and a kill chamber for automatic drops.Read guideHow to Make a Sugar Cane Farm in MinecraftBuild automatic sugar cane farms in Minecraft, observer-piston designs, zero-tick history, bone meal mechanics and layout optimization.Read guideHow to Make a Gold Farm in MinecraftBuild a Nether portal gold farm using zombified piglins, spawning mechanics, portal design, aggro system and collection explained.Read guideHow to Make a Wool Farm in MinecraftBuild a fully automatic wool farm using sheep, observers, dispensers with shears and hopper collection for unlimited dye-ready wool.Read guideBest Minecraft XP Farms, Fastest Leveling MethodsThe fastest XP farms in Minecraft ranked. Enderman farms, sculk farms, zombie spawner traps, blaze farms and more for quick leveling and Mending repairs.Read guide
How to Build a Piston Door in MinecraftStep-by-step piston door tutorial covering 2x2 and 3x3 flush designs. Includes redstone wiring diagrams, block placement order, and common wiring mistakes.Read guideHow to Build an Item Sorter in MinecraftHopper-based overflow-proof item sorter tutorial. Covers the 41-item filter, comparator mechanics, channel layout, and how to handle non-stackable items.Read guideHow to Build a Flying MachineMinecraft flying machine tutorial using slime blocks and honey blocks. Covers push limits, observer engines, directional control, and practical uses.Read guideHow to Build an Automatic Super SmelterMulti-furnace automatic super smelter tutorial. Covers hopper distribution, fuel systems, blast furnace vs smoker choices, and throughput calculations.Read guideHow Redstone Clocks Work in MinecraftComplete guide to redstone clocks: repeater clocks, comparator clocks, hopper clocks, and observer clocks. Covers timing, pulse lengths, and practical applications.Read guideHow Mob Spawning Works in MinecraftDeep dive into Minecraft mob spawning: light levels, mob caps, spawn algorithm, despawn rules, and how to exploit them for efficient farms.Read guide
How Enchanting Works in MinecraftDeep guide to Minecraft enchanting mechanics. Covers bookshelf placement, level costs, enchantment seed manipulation, lapis requirements, and how to get specific enchantments.Read guide
How Villager Trading WorksComplete guide to villager trading mechanics: profession cycling, zombie curing discounts, supply and demand pricing, leveling, and how to get 1-emerald trades.Read guideHow Beacons Work in MinecraftComplete guide to Minecraft beacons: pyramid tiers, effect ranges, best blocks to use, power selection, and how to build a full 4-tier beacon pyramid.Read guideHow Nether Portal Linking WorksComplete guide to Nether portal coordinate math and forced linking. Covers the 8:1 ratio, portal search radius, building portals at exact coordinates, and troubleshooting mislinked portals.Read guideBrowse other topics
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