How Farmly works
Farmly is a Minecraft farm library that aims to have every Minecraft farm ever created. Every farm is found, rated and explained by hand. This page explains what you'll find on every farm page and how it's rated.
1. The description
Every farm has a description: what it does, what it produces and what the build involves.
Small creeper farm run by snow golems, with no cats and no redstone. Creepers spawn on a platform, three snow golems penned in the middle knock them off the edge with snowballs, and they land on soul campfires below. Slabs and a ring of torches around the outside are what stop anything else spawning in range. It is by far the cheapest creeper farm here at 433 building blocks, and it stacks by using the roof of one layer as the floor of the next. It cannot go in a hot biome, the snow golems melt in savanna and desert. Java is what it was built for, but unusually for this kind of farm, Bedrock builders report it working too with the AFK platform much lower.
2. From the comments
Here you can find everything you need to know that is not mentioned in the tutorial: important notes from the comment section, what other builders ran into while building, and what you need to be careful about. It is very useful to read this section before building the farm, as you may find a lot of important details the creator didn't mention in the tutorial.
If creepers stop spawning on newer Java versions, move the AFK platform down to about 105 to 110 blocks above the farm. That is the single most upvoted comment on the video.
Do not build it in a hot biome. Snow golems melt in savanna and desert, and two builders had to tear the whole thing down and start over.
Spiders spawn on the buttons and kill the snow golems. Swapping those buttons for slabs fixes it.
Put a button on the block the snow golems sit on, so zombies cannot spawn inside the pen with them.
On 26.2 the soul campfires can light nearby spawnable blocks to level 1 or 2. Moving the campfire and hopper setup down two blocks brings the rate back.
On Bedrock put the AFK platform about 20 to 22 blocks above the spawn chambers instead, because mobs there do not spawn past 44 blocks.
3. Materials
The full list of materials, split into sections, so you know what the farm costs before you start building. Please note that the material list might not be complete: we use the creator's list, and sometimes even theirs is wrong. Some farms don't have a material list at all. That means neither the tutorial nor anyone in the comments mentions one, and you will have to use the attached schematic instead.
Save this farm to a collection to tick materials off as you gather them.
4. Schematics
When we are able to find a schematic for the farm, we list it here. We do not list schematics behind a paywall. Sometimes there might be a world download link instead of a schematic link, but that is always properly stated.
5. The ratings
The rate: it comes from the creator's measurement in the tutorial. We check it against the comment section. If the comments don't match the creator's number, we change the rate or add a rate warning.
The payoff score: every farm has a payoff score out of 10. It compares how much the farm produces with how hard it is to build and how expensive the materials are. It doesn't say how good the farm is, only how much you get back for the effort. The ? button on every farm page shows exactly how the score was calculated. Sometimes our calculations might be wrong and we are aware of that. Please report these farms in the “Found an issue with this farm?” section below every farm. A human looks at every message sent.
The build difficulty: we go through a checklist with assigned values. The more items we check off, the harder the farm is to build. The result is then compared to the hardest farm theoretically possible, and that gives the build difficulty score.
The materials difficulty: the same checklist approach. The more items we check off, the more expensive the farm is to build. The result is compared to the most expensive farm theoretically possible, and that gives the materials score.
The version: it is either what the creator states or what we find in the comments.
1000 gunpowder/h needs the farm stacked. Three layers measured 1428 gunpowder/h and five about 1700, while commenters put the single layer shown in the video nearer 550.
How farms get in
How we add farms: for every farm we find, we check if we've already included that model. If not, we try to find the best tutorial for it. If you find multiple tutorials for a farm, please report it in the “Found an issue with this farm?” section under every farm.
We do not list, rate or give an unfair advantage to farms for payment. Everything you see on this website is rated by a human. We try our best, but we are aware that some farms are rated inaccurately, as it is hard to rate Minecraft farms when there are so many types.
Tell us what you found and we will re-check it.