Minecraft Automatic Farms: Everything You Need To Know

If you play in Minecraft survival worlds, you undoubtedly spend hours upon hours manually gathering a bunch of resources. While gathering is part of the game, it can get a bit old when you want to focus on building.

Fortunately, there’s a bit of a cheat in the form of automatic farms. Automatic farms are super easy to build and don’t require mods, so you won’t have to worry about getting banned on a server. You can also make them in Minecraft creative or Minecraft survival mode.

What Are Minecraft Automatic Farms?

Automatic farms in Minecraft are builds that generate resources without your involvement. While you can always do some manual harvesting or mining to gather resources, automated farms do it all for you.

The automatic farms in this guide are all possible in a Minecraft survival world, though we will focus specifically on Minecraft: Java Edition. Some guides may work in Minecraft: Bedrock Edition, but we cannot guarantee that.

Of course, there are many ways to build farms. This guide shows one way to make each type of farm.

How To Build Auto Farms in Minecraft

Here are five automatic farm types in Minecraft.

Auto Sugarcane Farm

The automatic sugarcane farm allows you to generate unlimited sugar cane while doing other things in your Minecraft world.

This is one of the simpler automatic farms — you can build it in less than five minutes with some pretty basic resources.

It requires placing a foundation around water, placing sugar cane next to that water, and building pistons next to the sugar cane. Then, thanks to observer blocks, the pistons will activate when the sugar cane grows tall and push the resource into a chest via hoppers.

This guide details the entire process.

Auto Mushroom Farm

Automatic mushroom farms work with either red or brown mushrooms. These auto farms generate mushrooms as you play and push them into a hopper — thanks again to the observer.

The farm involves planting two mushrooms on either side of the observer and an empty podzol block in front of the observer with a sticky piston below it. Over time, one of the mushrooms will grow into the empty podzol, activating the sticky piston that harvests the mushroom.

This mushroom will fall into a hopper and remain in a chest for you to collect.

This guide shows you how to build the entire farm.

Auto Wheat Farm

This automatic wheat farm is probably the most complex of the automatic farms in this guide, but it’s certainly efficient.

It starts by digging out a 9×9 pit, setting up some droppers and hoppers, and building a wheat farm on top of it all.

Then, you’ll grab some villagers who can harvest and replant wheat seeds.

Finally, you’ll build a few redstone systems to automate the seed refill process so your villagers never run out of seeds.

This is far from a basic farm, requiring a bit of effort to build. But it’s worth the effort, as you’ll never have to harvest wheat manually.

You can find the build guide for this automatic farm here.

Auto Iron Farm

Like the wheat farm, this automatic iron farm is one of the more involved Minecraft auto farms out there, but it’s better than spending hours mining iron.

The build starts by building a 5×5 pit two blocks deep next to a village. Then, you make a two-block-high outline next to the pit with some beds to keep villagers in.

You’ll want to trap them in with slabs before creating a set of paths around the structure, as path blocks prevent iron golems from spawning. This is important, as we’re crafting a specific spot to spawn iron golems for the iron farm.

Next, you’ll need to do some creative sign placements to build an iron golem spawner and some lava to defeat it automatically.

Finally, you’ll trap a zombie with the villagers so they’re in danger, causing an iron golem to appear for protection. Unfortunately for the golem, it will never make it to the villagers. Instead, it’s defeated by lava with its iron ingots dropping into a chest.

You can build the guardian farm using this guide.

Auto Slime Farm

An auto slime farm is another complex process, but that’s more the fault of Minecraft than it is a farm builder.

As you may know, Minecraft only spawns slimes in specific chunks called slime chunks. A chunk is a 16×16 set of blocks that make up a Minecraft world and only some spawn slimes. You have to figure out which ones spawn slimes by, well, finding slimes in them.

You can build an auto slime farm once you’ve found a slime chunk.

This involves going deep down into a slime chunk — below 21 block height, in fact.

Then, you’ll need to clear out a whole 16×16 block chunk at seven blocks high and two rows of blocks outside the chunk.

After clearing out the chunk, you must build a platform on its outskirts. In the middle of that platform, you’ll make a trap for an iron golem to stay in, baiting the slimes into the fireplace trap.

Finally, you’ll build a fireplace trap to defeat slimes as they spawn and some chests with hoppers to gather the slime drops.

If you gather materials beforehand, this farm build should only take around a half hour. Follow this guide for the exact steps.

We hope these automatic farms help you speed up your Minecraft gaming experience. There are other types of automatic farms, such as gold farms or a Wither farm, so be on the lookout for different ways to better your Minecraft game.