Farming is an essential part of Minecraft: Play with Friends, especially for players looking to progress efficiently in survival mode. In Minecraft: Play with Friends Bedrock Edition, farms not only provide infinite resources but also help players sustain food, tools, and materials without constant manual effort. With the right farms in place, you can automate tedious tasks, gather XP quickly, and prepare for large-scale projects. This guide highlights the top 5 must-have farms every Bedrock player should build, explaining their benefits, how and how they work.

Iron Farms

An Iron Farm is one of the most important farms you can build in Bedrock Edition. Iron is a critical resource used for tools, armor, hoppers, rails, and many other crafting recipes. Without an iron farm, players need to constantly mine underground, which can be time-consuming and inefficient. An iron farm functions by creating a controlled environment where villagers spawn Iron Golems when they feel threatened by a zombie.

The golems spawn in a confined space and are then killed using lava or other mechanisms, dropping iron ingots and poppies. The drops are collected in chests via hoppers. Iron is universally useful, and in Bedrock, villagers can spawn golems at a predictable rate when the conditions are met. Once built, an iron farm provides a steady, automated supply of iron, eliminating the need for mining vast caves.

Key Requirements

• At least 3 Villagers and 1 Zombie.
• Beds and workstations for villagers to maintain their professions.
• A spawning platform and killing chamber for the golems.
• Collection system with hoppers and chests.

XP and Mob Farm

Experience points (XP) are necessary for enchanting and repairing items with Mending, so an XP farm is another must-have. A mob XP farm leverages hostile mob spawning mechanics to funnel mobs into a killing chamber where the player can eliminate them for XP and valuable drops like bones, string, and gunpowder. A common design is the darkroom spawner, where mobs spawn in dark platforms elevated above the ground.

Water channels push them into a central drop chute, bringing them down to low health so the player can easily kill them with one hit, maximizing XP gain. In Bedrock Edition, XP farms can yield fast levels, especially when paired with Looting or Sweeping Edge enchantments. The resources dropped, such as gunpowder (for TNT and fireworks), bones (for bone meal), and string (for wool and bows), are invaluable.

Key Requirements

• A dark spawning area at least 24 blocks away from the player.
• Water channels and drop chute to weaken mobs.
• Killing platform with easy access.
• Storage system for drops.

Crop and Villager Breeding Farm

A Crop Farm paired with a Villager Breeder is vital for maintaining an endless food supply and preparing for villager trading. Villagers can also be bred and assigned jobs for trading, allowing players to unlock powerful enchanted books, emeralds, and other items. Food is necessary for survival and healing, while villagers offer some of the best trade opportunities in the game. With a sustainable farm, players can trade crops for emeralds, purchase enchanted books like Mending, and even buy diamond gear.

Key Requirements

• Farmer villagers with access to farmland and crops.
• Adequate number of beds and food.
• Secure enclosure to protect villagers.

Creeper Farm

Without a creeper farm, gathering gunpowder is inefficient and dangerous. With a good farm, you’ll have an unlimited supply of fireworks, enabling long-distance Elytra travel and TNT for projects like quarry mining or netherite blasting. If you plan to explore with Elytra or engage in large-scale mining with TNT, a Creeper Farm is a must. Gunpowder, dropped by creepers, is essential for crafting fireworks (to boost Elytra flight) and TNT for fast mining.

The farm is designed to only allow creepers to spawn by limiting the spawning height to 1.5 blocks (so taller mobs like skeletons can’t spawn). Use trapdoors to manipulate the spawning conditions. Have cats to scare creepers, making them run into trapdoors and fall into a kill chamber.

Key Requirements

• Trapdoors to restrict spawn height.
• Cats strategically placed to scare creepers.
• Collection system using hoppers and chests.

Sugercane Farm

A Sugarcane Farm is simple yet invaluable. Sugarcane is used for crafting paper, essential for books (enchanting tables), maps, and rockets (for Elytra travel). Additionally, sugarcane can be sold to librarians for emeralds. Once automated, a sugarcane farm provides a passive stream of paper and sugar, facilitating enchantments, cartography, and trading. In Bedrock, farms using observers and pistons function reliably without complex redstone.

Key Requirements

• Sugarcane planted next to water.
• Pistons and observers for automation.
• Collection system.

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