How to Make an Experience Farm in Minecraft

Last Updated: September 5, 2020

Experience is a very important aspect of Minecraft. It can be used to make your tools more efficient, be able to take more damage, and many other things. However, it can be a dangerous thing to get, as you'll have to kill monsters or mine certain block to get it.

Steps

1
Find a spawner. There are spawners of every mob with the exception of bosses, creepers, slimes, endermen, and magma cubes. The most common spawner can be found in an abandoned mineshaft, although these spawners can be more difficult to make.
2
Turn your game mode to Peaceful. If you are playing on hardcore mode or do not want to change it to peaceful, you can light up the area very well. If there are any vaguely dark spots, mobs will spawn.

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3
Dig out a 8 block by 8 block hole under the spawner. This is the actual area where the mobs will spawn. Make the hole two blocks above the spawner and three blocks below the spawner as the mobs can sometimes spawn in the wall, suffocate, and not get you any exp.
4
Fill your buckets. Place the water along the 8 long wall. Water will flow for eight blocks, and the mobs will not fight the current.
5
Dig a 2 deep trench after the current ends. Place water at one of the ends. This will move the mobs to a place you can kill them at.
6
Dig another 2 deep hole at the end of the channel. Go out of the hole and create a small 3x3 room. Replace the top block. This should make it so that you can see the monsters' legs but they shouldn't be able to hit you.
7
Turn the mode back to Easy. Test out your mob trap. If they can get you, turn it back to peaceful and make changes. You could also make a trap with redstone to kill the mobs, meaning you wouldn't have to spend so much time down there. If you can kill them, then you can turn it to whatever difficulty you want. Kill the mob and harvest exp!

Community Q&A

Question

How do you get the spawner block using a command? What is the command?

Community Answer

The command is /give @s monster_spawner. You will also need a spawn egg to get a mob to appear in the spawner. Here is the command for that: /gamemode creative @s, then go in the creative menu, and find a spawn egg. Then switch back using this command: /gamemode survival @s. If you are on PC, change the @s to your player name.
Question

If I make a zombie farm, then the zombie kid will also spawn. How can I avoid that?

Community Answer

Backwards door. Place a door in the open position and no mob will travel through when it's ’open’.
Question

What if I still want to earn achievements?

Community Answer

As long as you don't switch from survival to creative, you will be able to earn achievements.