INTRODUCTION

SOMETIMES IN MINECRAFT YOU NEED STUFF. Lots of stuff. Lots of zombie flesh to trade with villagers, lots of villagers to trade with, or lots of XP to make the most OP enchanted sword. Now you can engineer a solution! The mob farms in this book will help you get the loot, from gun powder to blaze rods. Some of the farms use redstone but are not terribly difficult, so you should be able to complete each farm on your path to world domination!

The farms in this book work for the 1.12.2 version of Minecraft Java Edition. Several are adapted from farms created or modified by expert redstoners and Minecrafters such as Etho, Tango Tek, Avomance, and impulseSV, who are also some of my favorite YouTubers! If you like to learn while watching videos, I recommend them.

Along with step-by-step screens from Minecraft, this guide also includes technical drawings and diagrams to help show where blocks go. Engineers use technical drawings, schematics, and blueprints to specify exactly where mechanisms are placed and how they are built.

Don’t forget to share your own Minecraft engineering accomplishments with me online. If you build any of these farms or other custom engineering designs, I’d love to see them! You, or a family member, can tweet me at @meganfmiller to showcase your work.

Protect Your Builds

PROTECT ANY BUILDS YOU MAKE THAT INCLUDE REDSTONE, BECAUSE MOST REDSTONE ELEMENTS (SUCH AS REPEATERS, REDSTONE DUST, AND MORE) WILL BREAK AND FLOAT AWAY WHEN THEY ARE TOUCHED BY FLOWING WATER. AN ACCIDENTAL PLACEMENT OF WATER CAN WIPE OUT YOUR BUILD. WHEN YOU DO BUILD A CONTAINING STRUCTURE FOR YOUR FARMS TO PROTECT REDSTONE, MAKE SURE TO LEAVE SPACE BETWEEN YOUR REDSTONE ELEMENTS AND THE STRUCTURE. THIS STEP HELPS PREVENT PLACING BLOCKS THAT COULD INTERFERE WITH A REDSTONE SIGNAL. THE EXTRA SPACE WILL ALSO ALLOW YOU TO MOVE AROUND THE BUILD IF YOU NEED TO CHECK OR FIX SOMETHING LATER.

ALSO, REMEMBER TO LIGHT UP YOUR BUILDS AS YOU GO. A CREEPER IS JUST AS INTERESTED IN BLOWING UP REDSTONE AS IT IS IN DEMOLISHING YOUR BASE.