Description
These are the instructions for a Minecraft villager beetroot farm. This is a villager beetroot farm. The villager beetroot farm is an excellent build and is fully automated. Villagers will deal with everything in the farm. They will plant, grow and harvest the crops.
For this build we will be building an enclosure so that a villager will plant the beetroot seeds and then harvest the beetroot. There will be 2 villagers placed in this build one will be a farmer and one will be a fletcher. The farmer villager will throw the beetroot at the fletcher villager which will be collected by a minecart and hopper and put into a chest for you to collect.
Beetroot can be used for the following:
- Food – food can be eaten by the player to restore the hunger bar
- Crafting – by using the crafting table 6 beetroots can be crafted into beetroot soup
- Breeding – beetroot can be used for breeding pigs
- Dye – can be crafted into a dye in the crafting table using 1 beetroot
- Composting – beetroot can be placed into a composter to make compost and eventually bonemeal
To be able to grow beetroots you will need to get beetroot seeds. Here are the ways you can get the beetroot seeds.
- Beetroot seeds can be got by harvesting from a village.
- Dungeon chest
- Mineshaft chest
- End city chest
- Trail ruins chest
- Woodland mansion chest
- Can be got from a wandering trader for one emerald
Ingredients
These are the ingredients and recipes that you will need to make this Minecraft villager beetroot farm. Please ensure that you have all of the ingredients before you start your build.
| Item | Picture | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Hoe |  | 1 |
| Beetroot seeds |  | 80 |
| Composter |  | 2 |
| Stone block |  | 1 |
| Torch |  | 4 |
| Glass block |  | 88 |
| Bucket of water |  | 1 |
| Hopper |  | 2 |
| Villager |  | 2 |
| Chest |  | 2 |
| Trapdoor |  | 1 |
| Fence |  | 1 |
Hopper – to craft a hopper you will first need to craft a chest.
Build Plans
Here we will explain in detail how to build this build a Minecraft villager beetroot farm. Please follow the instructions carefully.
- In the first stage of this build we will need to place the bucket of water into a 1 block hole..
- This will be the centre of the planting area.
- The next step is to hoe 4 blocks out from each of the flat sides of the block.
- The next step is to hoe out between these lines. This should make a 9×9 block square to plant your crops with the water block in the centre.
- As you can see from the picture the ground is already becoming watered from the water block.
- You can see this from the darker blocks of tilled soil.
- In this section we will build a glass wall 2 blocks high all around the crop growing area.
- Leave an opening on one side in the middle.
- Next place a composter over the water block and then place a stone block above this with a 1 block gap in between so that the composter can be used.
- Place torches on all of the 4 sides of the stone block.
- The composter is used so that when your villager has spare seeds they will place these into the composter and then this will turn into bonemeal and the villager will use this to help grow the crops.
- Here we will hollow out a 4 block trough that goes underneath the glass blocks.
- So working from the right place your chests down next to each other to make a 1 large chest.
- Next place two hoppers that lead into the chest. This is your collection system that will collect your crops. You will need to crouch in order to place the hoppers.
- Next you need to fill in the holes that we made but leave two holes in front of the chest so that it can be accessed.
- Next build the glass walls out from the other wall by 2 blocks, this should mean that you have a solid grass block behind the hopper that we placed before surrounded by glass blocks 2 high.
- On top of this hopper we need to place a fence post, you will need to crouch down when placing the fence post.
- Ok, lets place a trapdoor above the fence post and at the top of the glass block , make sure it is closed.
- The next step is to add the villagers. We will first place the villager in the centre of the crop area. He will change into a farmer, you can see this from the yellow hat he is wearing. Ensure that the farmer has seeds to plant.
- As soon as he receives seeds he will start to plant them.
- Next we will place another villager behind fence post.
- This setup will then produce your beetroots with no input from yourself.
- Here is the finished build. If you check your chest you will find the beets that have been harvested and can be used as above in the description.
Hints and tips
What can go wrong – villager not breaking crops.
- This is normally because your villagers inventory is full. This will mean that your villager can no longer pick up the crops to pass them to the other villager. To resolve this you will need to create another villager collect crops. Also ensure that there is a clear path to the collector villager.
- The most common reason for this is that mobGriefing is switched off. If mobGriefing is off the villager cannot break crops use /gamerule mobGriefing = true in commands to rectify this.
What can go wrong – villager not planting or harvesting the crops.
- This will be because the job block is not positioned properly. Please make sure that the the villager can access the job block and that their profession changes to a farmer who should have a yellow straw hat to show that they are a farmer.
Where next
Additional builds –
- Transport – you can build a transport system so that beetroot can be carried where you want it to go.
- Sorter – implement a sorter so that beetroot and seeds can be sorted.
Other suggestions –
- To improve on this build you can use the same principal and link 4 farms together using just 1 villager in the middle of the build to collect the crops from the farmer.