Minecraft Bedrock Edition provides limitless opportunities for automation through farming, whether you’re looking for food, XP, rare resources, or mob drops. Farms are the foundation of effective gaming, and having the correct ones can save you hours of grinding. This guide ranks the best farms in Minecraft Bedrock based on their usefulness, ease of setup, and long-term value, to help you decide what to prioritize in your survival world.

  • Villager Trading Hall

The Villager Trading Hall is hands down the most versatile and profitable farm in Minecraft Bedrock. With a proper setup, you can trade nearly infinite amounts of emeralds, enchanted books, tools, and gear. It produces XP from trades, emeralds, enchanted books (Mending, Unbreaking, Efficiency, etc.), and high-level tools and armor. Trading with cured zombie villagers reduces their prices dramatically, and XP earned per trade adds up quickly. Best of all, it’s completely renewable and works while you’re safe indoors.

How to Build – You assign individual villagers to specific workstations (e.g., Lecterns for librarians, Smithing Tables for toolsmiths) and then trade with them. Curing zombie villagers drastically lowers trade prices. This system creates a renewable source of everything from enchanted gear to bottle o’ enchanting.

  • Spawner XP Farm

When it comes to XP farming, few options are as efficient and accessible as turning a natural spawner into an XP grinder. Perfect for early to mid-game, this farm is an essential source of experience and mob drops. This farm helps you produce XP for enchanting, and drops like bones, arrows, rotten flesh, string, and more.

How to Build – Once you locate a dungeon with a skeleton or zombie spawner, dig out the area, add water to push mobs toward a kill zone, and either kill them manually (to earn XP) or with automated systems if you’re farming items. Add a Looting III sword and hopper collection system to maximize drop rates and storage efficiency. Skeleton spawners are especially valuable due to bone meal and arrow output.

  • Iron Farm

Iron is one of the most used materials in Minecraft for tools, redstone contraptions, and trading. A reliable iron farm will ensure you never run out. An iron farm helps you produce Iron ingots and Poppies (can be composted for bone meal).

How to Build – The farm uses villagers, beds, and workstations, along with a zombie scare mechanic, to spawn iron golems. These golems are funneled into a kill chamber—usually with lava—where hoppers collect the iron drops. Pair this with your villager trading hall for emerald farming through toolsmith and weaponsmith trades.

  • Kelp XP Furnace Farm

The Kelp XP Furnace Farm is a clever way to generate XP passively while also producing dried kelp, which works as fuel or emergency food. It’s a great background farm that rewards patience, helping you passively earn core resources. This type of farm produces XP from smelting kelp, and Dried kelp (can be crafted into blocks for fuel).

How to Build – Kelp grows underwater and is auto-harvested using observers and pistons. The kelp is funneled into furnaces using hoppers. When you manually collect the smelted kelp, the furnace releases all stored XP. Use multiple furnaces for higher efficiency and faster XP gain. You can also use bamboo or lava buckets as fuel sources.

  • Creeper Farm

If you use Elytra for travel, you’ll need rockets—and therefore gunpowder. A creeper-only farm ensures a steady supply, and it also supports TNT crafting, essential for clearing large areas. As the name itself might suggest, this farm’s main purpose is to produce more creepers for you to manually kill and get XP. Along with producing creepers, it can also be used to harness gunpowder that can be used to build TNT and explosives.

How to Build – The farm uses spawn platforms with trapdoors to lower the ceiling height to 1.5 blocks, which restricts spawning to creepers only. Cats scare the creepers into fall traps or water streams that push them to a kill chamber. Build high above ground (at Y=200+) to maximize spawn rates and reduce competition from other mobs.

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