EASY 1.20+ Iron Farm! 400 + Ingots per hour for Bedrock! 

A couple of remarks. - 404 is not the theoretical max iron you can get in Bedrock, that is actually 411. - 3 golems with 30 beds, 30 villagers, 30 job stations is not the most you can get on Bedrock. The most is 4 golems, with 40 beds, 40 villagers, and 40 job stations. However, note that there are brutal diminishing returns between 20,20,20 and 40, 40, 40, and it is as a consequence usually advised to use 20, 20, 20 as the gold standard. 20, 20, 20 provides over 92% of the theoretical max achieved by 40, 40, 40. - to max out spawning success, you need at least a 13x13 platform around your central bed. This is sort of covered in the last seconds of your videos, but very briefly. A 13x13 platform ensures over 99% spawning success, since iron golems attempt to spawn 10 times per round. A 17x17 platform ensures almost 100% success. - The fletcher thing has been patched a few versions ago. They no longer keep working during the rain. It is easy to verify in creative. Just create a space with a bed and a fletching table. Place a roof above. Type "time set noon", your villager will start working. Type "weather set rain", and it will stop looking at its job station, meaning it has stopped working. If you break the roof block above its position, it will run away and seek shelter. Note that villagers stopping to work during the rain has very little actual effect on rates, unless you get really unlucky (as in: put your iron farm into simulation distance on a rainy morning, and have the rain last until night time).

@@oaretv First, Thank you for pointing out the fletching table. I'll do some more testing with it! I must have missed them updating it. However, this is of minimal effect since most rain storms will never last 1 full minecraft day. But it is still important! Secondly, we are talking average numbers. Which is 404. Verified by my testing as well as the official Wiki here: minecraft.wiki/w/Iron_Golem Thirdly, The best spawning success will come from a 19x19 platform. This is to ensure the golems that spawn at the very north west corners can spawn on their block chosen and not have a solid block scrub their spawn. As the golems spawn in a 17x6x17 area around the village center. A few further notes, You'll never exceed 98.3% spawn rate as per the Wiki, Because the highest possible "average" iron ingot drop is 4. So if you do a little math, 4 x 3600 seconds = 14,400 divided by 35 = 411.428 then times 411.428 by .983 = 404 Which is also stated on the official Wiki linked above. Furthermore, 4 golems is not the max on Bedrock, You can have farm more than 4 golems spawn at a single village, if you have supporting beds/work stations. But Nobody makes a 4+ golem farm because the math doesn't work for it. Like you said, Very diminishing returns. If I were to start this tutorial by saying "you'll need 40 villagers".. yeah, nobody is gonna watch it. 🤣 Also, 13x13 will not allow you to reach maximum spawn rates, as you will drop significantly below that 98.3% maximum due to scrubbed spawning attempts. To achieve the maximum on spawning you'll need 19x19. also, Going from 20 to 30 villagers is diminishing returns. But I think the gain is worth it, as 30 to 40 is not. But as far as all the technical bits, Lets strip it down to the basics which is output. 404 is the average, not the highest number that makes up that average. If you wanna say "well you could add another 10 villagers and get an extra 5 iron ingots per hour". That's well within the swing of the average bracket and not really tangible. Kinda like saying I could have made it 19x19 instead of 17x17 to gain an extra 0.25% of spawn chance. At that point, your splitting hairs and would be better off spending your energy making a multi village iron farm. But again, for 99.8% of players, I'm sure 404 Iron ingots per hour is just fine. Most people just alter their AFK time. Thanks for the comment!

@@xRsBuiltx Thanks for your reply. Allow me to add a few counterpoints. - on a 30, 30, 30 design, or even on a 40, 40, 40 design, 404 ingots per hour is practically impossible to reach on sustained sessions (>100 consecutive hours) without using lava blade spam. Or the little " dump village trick" described below. With just 1 lava blade, you can't reach that average without a lot of luck. - When I said 17x17, I meant dry land with no walls. But as you point out, most designs will require walls in order to place water streams, so in reality, 19x19 skewed 2 blocks towards NW is indeed the platform size that will ensure maximal spawning rates. - It is possible to go beyond 98.25% spawnability. 98.25% supposes you have one lava blade in the center of your platforms with 4 open fence gates around it. However, here is a little trick. You can use water streams pushing the golems towards the outside of the platform, along with ice in the center (ice has a number of very interesting properties regarding path finding, I discovered and described them in several of my mob farm videos), combined with what I call a "dump" village underneath, where you drop the golems to die. With such a setup, you can achieve 100% spawnability. I will gladly admit it is very much a fringe case scenario. But it is possible nonetheless. I have some contents planned for the future on the subject (although it is low on my priority list - but if you are interested in the "dump village" idea, there is a whacky video on my channel called "Death by W" where I put it to use). EDIT: Let me add that you should consider joining the Analyzing Minecraft Discord server by Rufus Atticus. He has a tool that allows you to measure and predict extremely accurately the output of an iron farm. His contents are more reliable than the Wiki. One thing he has calculated as well is that 13x13 is actually the ideal platform size for an iron golem farm. This is due to two factors: - First, the fact that golems repeat their spawning attempts 10 times before declaring them a failure. With 13x13 blocks, you have very, very little chances of hitting the "failure" point. - Second, 13x13 shortens the distance between spawning and killing spots. 13x13 is tied in efficiency with 11x11. Those are closely followed by 15x15, and then 17x17. 9x9 falls behind, albeit not by much. This is all supposing one central killing lava blade, of course. Having a different lava setup can drastically change the values.

@@oaretv thanks for the reply. The golems getting out of the village on bedrock does not effect rates as long as the iron golems are killed or removed within 30-35 seconds. If they are in the farm over this threshold then it will slow future spawning. But since a spawn attempt occures every 30-35 seconds, killing them faster than that time frame gives no benefit. This is why drop farms are a lot more common on Java rather than Bedrock. Because Java has much more sophisticated spawning mechanics. Furthermore, a 13x13 platform has no benefit in time to death if the golem dies in under 30-35 seconds. This is the same with the single lava blade. Id encourage you to build the farm and rate test it for yourself. All rates are listed from my testing in the pinned comment above. Thanks for the comment. :)

@@xRsBuiltx Thanks for the reply. Much to my shame, I have absolutely no knowledge of Java. I had no idea golem dropping into dump villages was a thing there as well. In Bedrock, dropping golems definitely does have an impact, albeit small. The reason it works is that the faster you remove one golem from the cap, the faster the next spawning attempts can begin. Dropping golems into a dump village cuts off the entire killing sequence (usually performed by lava, which isn't fast), thus allowing for the next batch of golems to spawn a little faster. The difference is not much. I tested it over 120 hours, and got a steady 7% increase in yields. But like I said, it is a fringe case which is basically only relevant to one specific design choice - which I happened to be testing. In other words, if doing normal farms, you'd be better off building a second iron farm.

If it's wasnt spawning golems, you need to follow the pinned comment. :)

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@@xRsBuiltx i did everything it wont work

@@lieutenant8968 is it still not working? I did recenter my village but golems still spawned outside of the 9x9 area so that’s why I expanded it to 16x16

@@lieutenant8968 Not everything, or it would be working. Id check around the area for beds, Make sure that you have the exact number of beds per villagers. (30 each) Make sure you don't have any pending raids. Etc.

Im glad you like it! Make sure you read the pinned comment to get the most reliability and output out of it. Thank you for the comment!

Thank you. Make sure you read the pinned comment to center the village. It's quick and easy to do. If the farm was built low enough in the ground you should never have any golems spawn outside of the farm.

I missed the pinned comment, I have now replaced beds and it works perfectly. Thankyou 🙌

@@scottynorse awesome! I'm glad you got it working!

Make sure every villager has a bed. If it has 31 and 30 beds it'll break the entire farm.

Does it work on normal for realms?

@Despairinqq yes.

There's a pinned comment to fix this.

Golem spawning is random and will start spawning 35 seconds after the last golem of that number spawned. For example, If you have 30 villagers, 30 work stations and 30 beds. Then you will get 3 golems every approximate 35 seconds. So if golem #1 spawns, itll have to be atleast 35 seconds before golem #1 can spawn again. when golem #2 spawns, itll have to be 35 seconds before golem #2 is able to spawn again. At this point you might as well get 5 more villagers. Make sure you dont have any nitwits. That way you have 30 villagers, 30 work stations and 30 beds. There cannot be anymore villager tech around the area within 100 blocks. This includes beds, work stations, villagers, etc. Make sure you dont have any golems spawning anywhere underground.

You can add a bunch more villagers, beds and work stations but there's diminishing returns. It would be more benificial to just make a stacked iron farm.

@@xRsBuiltx you got a vid on that? Stacked iron farm. Particularly a way to upgrade this farm into a stacked one

Did you watch the entire video? 30 beds + 30 villagers + 30 work stations = max rates as long as spawn location is maximized. Which it is if you add the optional part of the farm at the end of the video. Disconnecting is cured by allowing them to walk around and work at their workstations freely. You can visually see this with no particles. For this to effect iron production, 25% of villagers must have not worked or been unlinked in that given day. Beds do not effect rates as they don't need to access them. Beds will only effect the farm if the village center (red bed) shifts to another bed. Also, you may be using a work station such as a barrel where villagers stop working at certain times of day, such as rain storms. Using fletching tables will keep your villagers working continuously every day. Please remember that this is a bedrock farm, not a Java farm. As they are totally different. 😊

@@xRsBuiltxthere are no workstations that cause work rates to be affected by rain or storms. That mechanic hasn't been in the game for a long time. You assume the red bed will be the centre of the farm. The only way to ensure this is to have only one bed when you bring the first villager in, then not bring any more villagers in. As a result, the centre of the village isn't where you think it is, thus your platforms, even with the extension at the end of the video, aren't maximised. The only way to get 400+ is with everything maximised.

@@Acadewolf respectfully, I think you have a misunderstanding of the way villagers work. The center of the village is created when the first bed is placed and a villager links to it. I did not do this in the video due to trying to keep the video short and should have done it, but corrected it in the pinned comments. However, I would certainly encourage you to do more testing. If what you are saying is true, there's no way this farm would be producing 400+ iron ingots per hour with the max platform. I encourage you to build it for yourself and do your own testing. All rates listed in the pinned comment is from my average rate testing of the farm. :)Thank you for the comment! Also, you can find the bug report here for the villagers not working in the rain. bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE-121902

@@xRsBuiltx my tests show that none of them work during rain, whether fletcher or any other. That's why I said there's no difference between workstation types. Sorry for the confusion, I was unclear. That being the case, farmers are currently better as it's a lot easier to make composters early game than gather enough flint for all those fletching tables. I guess I misinterpreted your "they will work all day" to infer that fletchers work during the rain as they used to.

@@xRsBuiltx the center of the village is the pillow of the bed of the chief, yes. However, unless you put down only one bed for the first villager, that bed could be any you put down. The chief will sometimes change if a new villager is brought in, in which case the center of the village will shift. If the center of the village shifts to one of the outside beds, you'll lose a lot of your spawn points. Edit: I see you've put that in your pinned comment. Just noticed it. We're saying the same thing on the initial condition, but that's often not how it stays if you bring in new villagers or the chief disconnects with his bed while there's another free bed, which will always be the case if you build the 10 villager version.

You can stack villages next to each other. But there's certain things you have to do to make sure they don't all make one big village. I've never designed a stacked raid farm so I'm unsure what all needs to be done tbh.

@@xRsBuiltx Not stacked, side-by-side. All of them would be ground level

@@hazmathutty5262 yeah, that would be considered a stacked raid farm. Not so much physically stacked. But stacking their production.

Nope. That's only a Java mechanic. And thank you!

Building it underground will work perfectly! Just make sure there is at least 4 blocks of height on the spawning platform to give the golems plenty of room to spawn and move and make sure there are no caves in a 20 block radius for golems to spawn in and it'll work great. :)

If they are spawning outside of the pit, then you didn't go down far enough when digging. You can move the beds, work stations and villagers down by 1 block and see if that fixes it. Or you can build the area around the farm up until they stop spawning. The iron golems will spawn 6 blocks above and 6 blocks below the red bed pillow. And 8 blocks away from it in every direction.

I built mine above ground, not understanding why it was necessary to build it below ground. Do you think lining the ground with half slabs up to 8 blocks away from each wall of the farm will be enough the help keep the golems in the pit? Appreciate the video man, thanks for uploading!

@@rockthecosbot866 you can manually build a funnel and kill chamber. It's mainly to save on resources. Make sure you read the pinned comment so the village is centered. Then if your still running into golems spawning you'll have to address the spawning blocks. Such as either removing them or filling them in. If there's a block that has a 2x3 area within a 17x17x13 box around the red beds pillow (center of village) then it will spawn a golem there. Keep in mind golems can spawn on quite a few different blocks.

Make sure you also have 30 work stations. Also make sure there isnt any other villager tech in the area. If its still not working then be sure to check underground for locations that the golems are spawning.

Also do I really need to install the thing to show what the chunks? Or can I just build it anywhere

@@Coco-sp2tz it is recommended to chunk align it before building to keep it from breaking. You'll most likely by fine if you don't chunk align it but it can cause problems. You can build over this fine just don't place any blocks where the golems will spawn and give them at least 5 blocks up from their spawning platform. Make sure you read the pinned comment so the farm works correctly.

Yes, the villager breeder was there first. Which makes it the center of the village. So the golems will spawn around that point. There shouldn't be any more beds or villager tech around it.

@@xRsBuiltxdo i keep my other villagers from the breeder alive or kill them? there are about 12 villagers with no beds and only work stations

@@bakedbyacake you can only have the iron farm villagers in the area. There must only be 30 villagers. 30 beds, and 30 work stations within 100 blocks of that iron farm. Remove all villager tech that is not the iron farm and follow the steps in the pinned comment.

If you are in creative mode to test it out, I would put yourself in spectator mode and look underground and see if you have golems somewhere.

@@xRsBuiltx i did this actually hahah! I'm glad I was on the right track, I went underground and everywhere and still no golems underground or around. I switched to survival too, and tried reloading the chunks but still no golems. I've checked underground and around a few times. I've even headed to a nearby village (~200 blocks away) and uh.. magically disappeared all the villagers and their iron golem incase there was an overlap and nothing still, I'm baffled

@@emmbalmer2267 did mob spawning somehow get turned off on the world settings? You need to have 100% of the villagers linked to a bed. So every one needs a bed. You can look at them when they sleep at night time and see if there's any empty beds or too many beds. 75% of the villagers must have worked the past day to make golems. So make sure there are no green nitwits and make sure all villagers have the profession. Keep in mind there's a bug that keeps villagers from working if it's raining. If your in a hot biome such as a desert or savannah, you might not be able to see if it's actually raining.

@@xRsBuiltx thank you so much for all the help btw, and I double checked that too mob spawning is on, I double checked and no nitwits, everyone is a Fletcher, everyone has a bed it looks exactly like the one in the video. I have weather turned off so it cannot rain, I'm in a plains biome too. I have checked it multiple times and feel like I'm going crazy because I know it should work but it just isn't for whatever reason. I appreciate all the time you took to reply and help out tho! :)

@@emmbalmer2267 Try to break all the beds and place the red bed in first in the center first. Then place the rest of the beds all back in. It could be that the village center shifted to one side if you didn't see the pinned comment. (it was't in the video)

Read pinned comment.

Read and apply the pinned comment and that should fix your problem.

@@xRsBuiltx thank you

Did you recenter the village by breaking all the beds and replacing them starting with the center red bed?

@@xRsBuiltx i rewatched the video I think it might be cos I have 2 or 3 nitwit villagers. Would that fix it?

@@user-qy1mr8ov7u yes. Replace them with regular villagers.

@@xRsBuiltx will it work if I just run it with like 27 or so villagers

@@user-qy1mr8ov7u if you run it with 27 villagers, you'll get 2 golems every 30 seconds. So it will significantly cut down the rates of the farm. In order for it to make iron, 100% of the villagers need to have linked to a bed and 75% of villagers need to have worked in the past day. If you are not getting any iron at all, make sure you have 30 beds and 30 villagers. If you have one more villager then bed then it break the entire farm.

Make sure you have the same number of villagers as you do beds. There should be 30 of each and no beds or other villagers around the farm. Also make sure that you don't have any nitwit villagers. (Green coat) In your farm.

You have to tame 5 cats and you’ll bel fine

@@xRsBuiltx already do that but yeah only cats are spawning :(

Pinned comment.

Yes, make sure there are no villagers or beds near by. If there is, it will extend the village. If you have golems spawning outside of the area, its because the farm wasnt built low enough in the ground. Or the ground level is not high enough.

ok ty

Watch the full video + read the pinned comment.

So I've watched the video + read your pinned comment. Built the farm to a T, even added a 10 block wide slab buffer and all the golems still spawn outside the buffer radius. Farm is 16 x16. Any tips ?

@@justinwallin2359 how much further outside? The max they should be able to spawn is 19x19 centered on the red beds pillow. If they are spawning farther than that, then there is some other villager tech extending the village radius. (A bed, villager, work station, etc) Make sure you don't have any of this within a 100 block radius. If all of this is good and your running into spawning inside that 19x19 block radius then your farm isn't deep enough in the ground. You can move it down by 1 or 2 blocks or you can build the farm up by 1 or 2 blocks in the surrounding area where they are spawning.

Lighting up caves do not stop golem spawning. They cannot have a 2x2x3 area available to spawn that is inside of the village radius. They can even spawn in under water caves.

Great question! unfortunately iron golems will pick the top layer to spawn on. So you'll get no increase in spawn rates from a multi layer design. Make sure you read the pinned comment to center the village.

In fact it is more of a zombie farm right now because of the villagers and still no iron golems

Bedrock doesn't have the scare mechanic, only Java edition.

@@xRsBuiltx ohhh now I get it. Thank you brother. Your farm tutorials are very great keep it up brother. And thank you for fast reply 😁

@@xRsBuiltx and ya brother I pray to my beloved god that your future to be bright 😁

It depends, spawning mechanics say 75% of villagers have to be working in the village for it to produce golems. 100% of the villagers must be linked to a bed. Keep in mind some utility blocks don't work during certain events such as the barrel (fisherman) with it raining. So as long as all variables equate to at least 75% of the villagers working in that day and all other requirements are check, it'll produce iron. You can find all requirements here under Spawning>Villages>Bedrock edition. minecraft.wiki/w/Iron_Golem

Did you read the pinned comment?

@@xRsBuiltx I saw it lol, thanks, its working wonders now!!

@@brunim04 awesome! I'm glad!

There's a pinned comment with the fix.

@@xRsBuiltx as I’m reading all these comments, your a real one for responding to all of us even though the answer is already pinned

@@lucaspowell85 I appreciate that my friend! I hope it's working better for you now!

The farm wasn't built low enough in the ground. Move the farm down or bring the ground level up.

Make sure you have 30 beds and 30 villagers.

@@xRsBuiltx I do 😞

@@xRsBuiltx i recounted teice

What blocks are you using for your golem spawning platform? Do you have beds around the area to sleep?

@@xRsBuiltx I was using dirt but I tried a different area in cravtive and it worked so I’m going to build it in my world to see it I can get it to work again

Yes

Build the farm lower or raise the ground level up.

Id do at least 100 blocks.

Villagers don't normally respawn. They might have been killed or a bug might have deleted them. You cannot build this within 100 blocks of villager tech. So it cannot be within 100 blocks of beds, work station, villagers, etc.

@@xRsBuiltx it was very sudden so that’s why I think they despawned, it was too close to my villager trading hall so I will move it and try again! Thanks for reply, had almost 20 villagers in there, went to sleep, went to check and they were gone🤣😑

It depends on your setup.

You either have something around the farm extending or breaking the village such as other beds or raids. Or you have golems spawned inside a cave somewhere.

I have broken every other bed and there is a small ravine, but I checked it and no golems. I have other villagers around 60 blocks away, but ive already tried breaking their beds and jobs yet nothing. Any other reasons why they arent spawning

@@deftli9ht310 your other villagers are included in your village of the iron farm because they are too close. One or the other needs to be moved. You can find info on the village mechanics under bedrock edition here. minecraft.wiki/w/Village

@@xRsBuiltx do you know how far

@@deftli9ht310 id go atleast 100 blocks.

That's on Java, This farm is for Bedrock.

I’m on controller, and I’m like 60% sure I’m on bedrock, but I probably just messed up the farm.

@@servius1173 What device are you playing on? Java edition is only available on PC.

I’m playing on Xbox, also if your villagers spawn an iron golem under ground, and the golem never dies, will the villagers spawn more or no?

@@servius1173 it will cripple the rates of the farm and eventually break it. You must kill the golem and fill in the spots with blocks. There should be no area that a golden can spawn (2x3) in the 20 block radius around the bed aside from the spawning platform.

This will give you max rates for a single village farm. To speed this up you'll need a multi village farm.

@@xRsBuiltx whats your distance at like render and simulation?

@@vstevxx I play on Sim 4 and render distance is generally around 35.

@@xRsBuiltx also i built the farm over an ocean is that better?

Read the pinned comment. That'll fix the farm.

Watch full video + read pinned comment.

@@xRsBuiltx I added the 3 wide trench which made it abit better i still get the odd 1 or 2 golems spawning outside but itll do for now thanks for your help.

@@xRsBuiltx also if theres any other farms that are good to have in a world could you make a video if like one of your old farms need an update could you make an updated video, if that makes sense

@@mxrley3730 yes, on my list of things to do! Thank you for the input!

Golems will only spawn on the top layer after they changed spawning mechanics a long time ago. Multi layer farms no longer give you increased rates if the platform is max size.

There's a pinned comment to fix it.

Yes

Pinned comment.

Id make sure it's at least 100 blocks away from villagers, beds, etc.

Thanks, so if I make it at least 100 blocks away will it still be producing iron if I'm that distance away like at my base

@@jamesrobinson225 no, you'll have the have the area loaded for it to spawn golems. I recommend building it separately and AFKing there when you need iron.

Only the beds.

If you don't use a campfire under it then you can place a button on the side of the block under the fence gate and this will keep it from burning.

6 farms, can you be more specific? 6 of these iron farms?

Of course it is. I'm using it in the video. foxynotail.com/resource-packs/markers

@@xRsBuiltx and i can use this on xbox?

@@NoHardcore you can but bedrock makes it difficult to install packs on Xbox. There's a ton of tutorials showing work sounds and you can also use realms. It's pretty difficult on console though.

Pinned comment.

@@xRsBuiltx i see pinned comment, but the lava is burning the fence gates... i dont see anything about stopping this. yours clearly arent made from nether wood, and wooden gates are burning.

@@deathsblossom you have to read the entire pinned comment. It's at the bottom. Lol

Puggonator!!! Hi!

Sounds like the farm wasn't built deep enough. Make sure you followed the tutorial exactly and also read the pinned comment on this video.

Yes, As long as the golems can only spawn inside the funnel. you'll have to make sure no other spawning spots are around where you don't want them to spawn.

Yep. 1.20.62 will work just fine.

Yes. Just make sure you read the pinned comment.