Description
These are the instructions for a Minecraft villager carrot farm. This villager carrot farm is perfect when you don’t want to spend your time planting, growing and harvesting crops. This farm is completely automated with the help of two villagers. Although quite a simple build because of the use of villagers you will need to find a village that is reasonably close to your build.
This build works by having a farmer villager plant, grow and harvest the carrots for you. This farm requires two villagers to work. One of the villagers will be placed in the middle of the build that will become a farmer and will plant, grow and harvest the crops. The farmer villager will then pass food to the other villager if they can see each other. When the farmer villager passes the carrots to the other villager, the carrots will hit the fence post and drop down into the hopper and eventually into the chest for the player to collect. The player does not need to have any interaction except potentially at the start when the player may plant the first lot of crops to get the farm started and to collect the carrots from the chest when they are needed.
What can carrots be used for
- Food source – carrots are a good food source for the player.
- Breeding – carrots can be used for breeding pigs, rabbits and villagers.
- Farming – carrots can be planted to grow more carrots. Each carrot drops between 2 and 4 carrots when harvested.
- Crafting – carrots can be crafted with gold nuggets to create golden carrots, which are used to brew potions of Night Vision. Golden carrots also provide one of the highest saturation levels when eaten.
- Crafting – carrots are an ingredient in crafting a carrot on a stick, which is used to control pigs when riding them.
To grow carrots you will first need to obtain carrots. These can be found at the following places:
- Village farms – Carrots can be found at village farms.
- Zombies – have a chance to drop carrots.
- Shipwrecks and chests – Carrots can sometimes be found in shipwreck supply chests.
- Dungeon chests – Carrots can also be found in dungeon chests.
Ingredients
These are the ingredients and recipes that you will need to make this Minecraft villager carrot farm. Please ensure that you have all of the ingredients before you start your build.
| Item | Picture | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Hoe |  | 1 |
| Carrots |  | 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 – you will need to craft a chest in order to make a hopper.
Build Plans
Here we will explain in detail how to build this Minecraft villager carrot farm. Please follow the instructions carefully.
- In the first stage of this build we need to dig a hole and place a bucket of water in to it.
- This will be the centre of the planting area.
- The next step is to hoe 4 blocks out from each side of the water block as shown in the picture.
- The next step is to hoe between these lines.
- This should make a 9×9 square for you to plant your crops. As you can see from the screenshot 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 a 1 block opening on one side in the middle. Next place a composter over the water block and then place a stone block above this leaving a 1 block gap between the two so that the composter can be accessed.
- Place torches on all sides of the stone block.
- The composter is used so that when your villager has spare seeds they will place these into the composter to make bonemeal and the villager will use this to help grow the crops.
- Here we will hollow out a 4 block trench that goes underneath the glass blocks.
- So working from the right place your chests down next to each other to make a large chest.
- Next place 2 hoppers that lead into the chest. You will need to crouch to place the hoppers
- This is your collection system.
- Next you need to fill in the trench but leave 2 holes in front of the chest so that it can be accessed.
- Next build the glass walls out around the gap that you left, this should mean that you have a solid grass block behind the hoppers that we placed before as shown in the picture.
- On top of this hopper we need to place a fence (between the glass blocks), you will need to crouch down when placing the fence.
- Ok, lets place a trapdoor above the fence at the top of the glass block and make sure it is left shut.
- 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.
- As soon as he receives seeds he will start to plant them. Next we will place the villager behind the fence post.
- This setup will then produce your carrots with no input from yourself.
- Here is the finished build. If you check your chest you will find the carrots that have been harvested and can be used as above in the description.
Hints and tips
What can go wrong – Villager not picking up 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 to collect crops.
- Also ensure that there is a clear path to the collector villager.
What can go wrong – Villager not breaking the crops
- 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 crops
- This will be because the job blocks are not positioned properly.
- Make sure that the the villager can access the job block and that their profession changes to a farmer, he should have a yellow straw hat to show that they are a farmer.
How to make this build easier – I would recommend that you build a transport system from a villager breeder straight in to the correct section of this build.
Where next
Additional builds –
- You can add a transport system to take the carrots away.
- Also we could add a temporary transport system to get the villagers in to the correct places.