Description
This is a very simple Minecraft sheep farm. This sheep farm needs the player to run it completely. It is basically a pen that will hold the sheep, and the player will need to interact with the sheep to feed, breed and kill.
Unique trait – name a sheep “jeb_” with a name tag. See what happens.
This sheep farm produces sheep, once killed the sheep will drop raw mutton and wool. Here is a break down detailing what cooked mutton can be used for:
- Breeding – can be used for breeding and healing tamed wolves and will speed up growth of baby wolves.
- Food source – cooked mutton gives 6 hunger points and 9.6 saturation.
A by product of this build is wool as it also gets dropped when the sheep is killed. Wool is a very useful item in Minecraft and here are some of its uses:
- Beds – probably the first thing you will use wool for.
- Paintings – can be used to create paintings to decorate your buildings.
- Banners – can be crafting into a banner.
- Carpets – Can be used to craft carpets to decorate your house although carpets are also useful in farm and redstone builds.
- Blocking vibrations – Ideal material for blocking vibrations if you’re brave enough to try and face the Warden.
Here’s where you can find sheep and wool:
- Grassy biomes – sheep generally spawn in small groups in savannahs, meadows, forests and plains.
- Villages – sheep will sometimes spawn in animal pens that already contain sheep. Wool can sometimes be found in the houses of shepherds and fletchers and blocks will be found at meeting places.
- Shearing sheep – shearing sheep will provide you with an endless supply of sheep as the wool grows back as long as the sheep can eat and can then be sheared again.
- Trading – shepherd villagers will often trade wool for emeralds.
- Pillager outposts – wool is often used in tent structures.
- Woodland mansions – there are sometimes large wool structures in some rooms.
- Ancient cities – wool is used to block vibrations from skulk sensors.
- Crafting – wool can also be crafted from 4 strings.
Ingredients
These are the ingredients and recipes that you will need to make this Minecraft sheep farm. Please ensure that you have all of the ingredients before you start your build.
| Item | Picture | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Fence |  | 23 |
| Gate |  | 1 |
| Wheat |  | 1 Stack |
| Sheep |  | 2 minimum |
Build Plans
Here we will explain in detail how to build this Minecraft sheep farm. Please follow the instructions carefully.
- First lets build an enclosure using fences. Ensure that you leave a gap for the gate.
- This enclosure can be as small or large as you like depending on how many sheep you intend on keeping.
- Next place the gate in to the gap we left so you can get into the enclosure.
- Be sure to always keep the gate shut to stop your sheep escaping.
- Now lets add some sheep into the enclosure.
- You can lure sheep in to your pen by holding wheat in your hand and the sheep will follow you into the pen.
- Be quick to shut the gate after so that the sheep don’t escape.
- After feeding the sheep wheat they will start to breed.
- The hearts above the sheep mean that they are breeding and a baby sheep should appear soon.
- Once you have as many sheep as you require you can use them as in the description above.
Where next
Additions to the build –
- Carpet tile – a nice addition to this build is to place a carpet tile on top of a fence post. This will enable you to go in and out of the pen without opening the gate as you can jump over a fence if it has a carpet tile on. This means your sheep can’t sneak out of the gate while you’re trying to get in.