Description
In this build be will be building a Minecraft redstone wheat farm. This redstone wheat farm works by allowing the wheat to grow naturally and then when the player selects the lever the water will flow down washing the wheat into hoppers and eventually in to a chest. When using the redstone wheat farm the player for this build will have to plant the wheat seeds and then pull the lever to harvest the wheat.
This is what wheat is used for –
- Food – wheat can be crafted in to loaves of bread, cookies and cakes and used as a food source.
- Food – wheat is used for feeding cows, sheep, goats and mooshrooms. When holding wheat all of these animals will follow you and you can place them in a pen.
- Breeding – wheat can be fed to cows, sheep, goats and mooshrooms to encourage breeding.
- Healing – wheat can heal a horse 1 health or lower its temper by 3% when attempting to tame it. It can also decrease the time it takes for a foal to grow by 20 seconds.
- Composting – excess wheat can be placed in a composter and made into bonemeal.
Where can you get wheat seeds from –
- Breaking tall grass.
- Can be found in village farms.
- Loot in certain chests.
Ingredients
These are the ingredients and recipes that you will need to make a Minecraft redstone wheat farm. Please ensure that you have all of the ingredients before you start your build.
| Item | Picture | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Stone |  | 34 |
| Bucket of water |  | 8 |
| Repeater |  | 8 |
| Redstone dust |  | 10 |
| Chest |  | 2 |
| Hoe |  | 1 |
| Lever |  | 1 |
| Hopper |  | 8 |
| Sticky pistons |  | 8 |
| Wheat seeds |  | 48 |
- Hopper – for this build you need to craft a chest to make it.
- Sticky Piston – for this build you will need to make a piston first.
Build Plans
Here we will explain in detail how to build this Minecraft redstone wheat farm. Please follow the instructions carefully.
- The first stage is to prepare for the redstone section of the build.
- This entails digging 2 blocks down in a 8 block by 3 block section. Then on the left hand side dig 3 blocks by 2 blocks.
- Finally a 1 block down and a 1 block by 2 blocks to enable you to get out of the hole. Dig this on the end of the 3 block by 2 block hole. It should look something like the picture.
- Lets now place down the sticky pistons. Place the sticky pistons in the back section ensuring that they are green side up.
- Next run repeaters pointing towards the sticky pistons along the whole length of the sticky pistons.
- Then place redstone dust behind the repeaters extending by 1 block and place down a lever in the next block. When switching the lever the sticky pistons should come level with the earth as shown in the picture.
- Lets now switch the lever and ensure that the sticky pistons extend and retract normally.
- Ensure that the pistons are extended so that they are level with the ground and then move on to the next section.
- Ok, first up lets hoe a rectangle 6 blocks by 8 blocks, from the sticky pistons.
- Dig a 1 block hole down each side of the tilled area as shown in the picture.
- Next dig a 1 block deep hole along the opposite end to the sticky pistons for 10 blocks (2 blocks longer than the tilled area on one end).
- Place your 2 chests down as shown in the picture. Next you need to place your 8 hoppers all the way along leading into the chest.
- Fill the hole by the side of the hoed area with water ensuring it reaches both ends.
- In this section we need to build the stone walls around the build.
- From the hoppers place stone blocks over the water and go up 9 blocks.
- Next place stone blocks on top of the pistons.
- Then place a second row of stone blocks to join the two rows in step 2.
- Place a row of stone blocks above the repeaters making a trough.
- Now lets place water into that gap.
- You should now have something that looks like this.
- Lets now make sure that this works.
- If you select the lever that you placed earlier, the front row of blocks will drop down and the water will flow down to the edge of the hoppers.
- Press the lever again and the wall should pop back up.
- This is final section, we plant the crops and wait for them grow (this can be speeded up by using bonemeal). Switch the lever and watch the crops flow down into the hoppers and then into the chest.
- Once the water has dried up the are can be replanted and the process can start again.
Hints and tips
What can go wrong – water not reaching the hoppers.
- Ensure that there are only 6 blocks of wheat planted. The water will then reach the hoppers.
What can go wrong – mobs trampling crops.
- Place fences and a gate around the build.
Where next
Additions to the build –
- Increase crops – This build can be made wider by placing more pistons and hoppers, it cannot be made longer as the water will only reach this far.