Easy Zombie Spawner XP Farm! - Minecraft 1.20 Guide (Survival Lets Play #9) 

whats your favorite kind of spawner farm?! spider, zombie, or blaze?! 👀

Steve's other inventory item is obviously sweet berries, because Steve is smart and always builds a sweet berry farm after watching wattles show him how easy it is.

You forgot a great feature of tinted glass: You don't need silk touch to break it. You could break it with your fist and still have a piece of tinted glass.

steves other item is a pickaxe because he has to get stone to make a stone axe, while some say its a crafting table, most likely the table has placed on the ground somewhere

His other item is a wooden pickaxe. He would need it to make the axe

Small correction on the light level needed to block spawns. Light level 12 is needed only for blaze and silverfish spawners. Magma cubes spawn in any light level, so you'd need to block spawns with blocks in the entire spawnable area. Other mobs (zombies, skeletons, spiders) only spawn in complete darkness (light level 0), so you only need 1 torch on the side or top of a spawner to block all spawns in the spawnable area.

For any console player if you can’t grow kelp on the soul block use a gravel block and replace it later

In my spawners I set up a simple red stone light switch so I can turn it on and off as needed. I got that idea from Pixlriffs. I also have a couple lava cauldrons with drip stone so I can burn the extra junk. I like this new spawner design. Much more simple and thanks for putting in the back block breaking out behind the bubble elevator. Steve has 2 leads in his inventory because he just had a visit from the Wandering Trader. 😂 great episode!

Love the longer episodes! I personally think 25-30mins is the sweet spot. Loving the new guide series.

before yanking out all the torches, you could put in a light with a switch outside the spawn room to turn on/off safely

goshhh what a nostalgic episode, I remember building a zombie spawner xp farm with one of your previous tutorials, a good while ago. Really fun to see another project like this, I've been enjoying the new season of the guide so much!

Excellent. Wattles, i love how you are doing this seasons videos. The intro, the running thru builds in prep, all of it. You are doing the Guide name proud. Thanks

I started watching this series to get back into minecraft after 3 years, but now at this point I'm not even watching it for that purpose anymore, and I just watch it cause you have such a good personality and it just makes me feel better to watch your content and listen to you talk. Thank you very much for the positive vibes, love ya much ❤

Wattles I’ve watched your videos for years at this point and I have gotten so much inspiration from you and I would like to say thank you. I was so excited for you when others that watched noticed you and followed your builds. Much love wattles it’s been so much fun watching you go from 200k to 1 million. I plan to keep watching I love all the inspiration you still give me.

To increase the spawning, you should dig 6 blocks lower than the spawner. This is because the spawner will detect mobs as far away as 4 block from it. By digging two more blocks down, the mobs under the spawner are not detected because they are 6 blocks away with a height of almost two. So, they are not detected, so they do not prevent the next mobs to spawn.

wattles you’re my fav youtuber forreal you have such good bouncy energy and your delivery is always perfect!! not to mention the great in game work ⛏️

Thanks for this updated zombie XP farm! I was using your design from a video from a couple years ago, but the 2 wide bubble elevator (column of water and column of signs) I think was giving me problems. Zombies would start to go up it, but would sometimes fall back down since there was the column of signs, take fall damage, then go up again, and when they finally fell down to the kill block they would die from having taken too much total damage. So I was only getting XP from maybe half of them, if I was lucky. This new single column wide bubble elevator (water only) works great and now they can't fall back down and take extra damage! The random block taken out behind the soul sand is key too. With that out you get sucked over and up the bubble elevator, but if there is no hole then you hit your head and get stuck, so it is very important the hole is there and in that exact spot!

Thank you so much Wattles, this has been really helpful for me, I haven’t been able to make a functioning zombie farm but your video really helped me out a lot. Keep up the good work.

Kelp can be bonemealed in the bubble column. Saves on how many kelp are needed when setting up a bubble column.

Awesome video love the length and the amount of editing also name the camel camlet

Love your videos! And how simple building looks while you do it! Someday I hope to build as good as you 💛

Yay, new Wattles guide! This is my comfort series 💕

Im watching your chanell since guide season 2 almost ends, I am so so happy this series has started again. I'm a huge fan of the Minecraft guide series you do wattles, there was a point that I was just staying awake late at night just to watch your guide series (season 3 it was) 😂😂❤ Edit: the other item steve has in the inventory is cobblestone (not a crafting table because in old villages you could find it placed down in a librarian house, and you can find an iron pickaxe inside a blacksmith to mine the cobble)

i started watching wattles around 3 years ago, his voice has changed very much and also Wattles you are the best

Yo wattles thank you so much I was confused about how to build a mob farm but you helped me thanks.

For the riddle: crafting table because he needs to craft things I usually put a column above the spawner when making a farm. As you pointed out in the episode spawners will spawn mobs in the air. Sometimes they could land on the slab. Having a column anchor the spawner to the roof makes it so they can't linger on the spawner

wattles!! hello my man im glad to see another guide episode

Love you wattles. Your slightly hyper, energetic videos would make anyone want to try minecraft :)

2016 i used to see lots of lets plays and i started to miss it and now i found a youtuber that do it for me :D

WOOOO early gang! i don’t play minecraft very often and when i do i play bedrock but i’ve been hooked since the end of the guide season 1 and have loved watching you grow. keep up the amazing work!

When making a spawner room, I like to add a light switch outside with lamps in the ceiling to turn off spawning for any reason. Also, like to add a bright room using like Amethyst to reflect the back wall since the tinted glass makes it dark to see through. Just my way of both making it look nice and be funtional.

Great video, helpful, super clear and simple

Love the fact u talk to ur fans❤

@wattlesplays I was looking at your old worlds and the nostalgia kicked in so much. Can you do a video where you react to your old worlds?

I was in the middle of building a zombie farm using your last tutorial when this came out 🤣thanks for making these

you can also add a pointed dripstone to the landing platform to reduce the amount of digging you have to do for the bubble column

thanks for putting this all in simple terms. Grr :)

I dig the improvements made to this spawner farm, over the one in the last guide, especially adding the stairs like that. It's frustrating when mobs sit there forever, fighting the water. Personally, I add a piston at the top of the water shoot to push mobs quicker through the system. Also, to answer that Steve riddle, *trick question/plot twist.* Steve is in creative, since he's an omnipotent god, with access to everything.

This is perfect! I literally just found a skeleton spawner yesterday!!

Steve's other inventory item must be a crafting table to craft the stone axe, i guess

These are always posted on the perfect day

on 17:00 u said add 22 to y coordinate is it always 22 right or it varies on where we are standing

You can disable spawners by just making sure every spot is at least light level 1 or higher, not 12 or higher. You only need light level 12 or higher to disable a blaze or silverfish spawner. So, if you're a bit low on torches, you can be thrifty at setting them up in your spawner room as you build around it.

Could this method also apply to others like a skeleton spawner?

I like making the landing zone 3 blocks wide. This way, when the zombies fall they have room to spread out. This is useful for afk farming or any other sort of multi-tasking while farming because you can amass far more zombies in the trap before they start to die to entity cramming.

Steve has a stone axe, planks, and sticks, but he's not guaranteed to have a wooden axe or pick as wither of those can be broken. The crafting table doesn't need to be in his inventory either. Though if we're talking about things he might've had, I think logs could be one of them. Only issue is that planks can be found without crafting them. Perhaps what Steve really has is everything, as there is nothing else he could need to start his grand adventure.

Bruh I literally was about to search for a spawner xp farm video❤

I’ve found my first zombie spawner of my world. When I went to mark the coordinates on the surface it’s in the middle of deeper water of the shore of my land. Any suggestions that would work better than the elevators for this situation? Or do I need to just build it through the water and get some enchanting to do so?

yo wattles can i ask how long does it take u to make each episode? as in like how long do u spend in-game per ep?

Cool beard and video keep it up!

Wattles putting "sh" before words is my new favourite thing🎉😂

Btw, when going down deep for mining, spawners, or whatever else you go deep into the ground for..... It's faster for construction and transport if you bring a stack or two of ladders and just dig a 1x2 hole and lay ladders down as you go.

This is a grr-ate episode!

Just broke my phone screen v badly but I’m still trying to watch the newest wattles Minecraft guide 😅

this was a great video! fav color is yellow and steve was holding deez

Thank you 👊🏻

Tip: if you want to collect the items easily but a hopper underneath and connect it to a double chest

grr. Also, Wattles, I got a question for you man. I've been wondering, what are your pc specs?

Its kind of funny I was converting a zombie spawner earlier and had this as background noise, didnt even realize until I finished the farm and moved my cleric nearby, and started the video back up after pausing it xD

On Bedrock Edition, I finished building a combination zombie spawner farm, villager trading hall, and iron farm. Now I'm going to be adding other farms around it to maximize profits. With 20 librarian villagers, a sugarcane farm would be very helpful. 5 assorted villagers make me emeralds already. Some clerics around to trade rotten flesh. Also have a few farmers so some food farms would help.

I used a backlight on my lift, looks great. Tinted glas, water lit, tinted glas, torches. So you can really see whats going on.

If you hit this with looting the drops are great. Iron ingots, potatoes, carrots, iron tools, iron armor, gold armor. Disenchant all the tools and armor for XP then smelt the tools for an iron chard. I just dug a water pit (open to sky) so I can fish while I wait for zombies to fill up. Rotten flesh to sell, Cod to sell. Hopefully catch mending.

Lovin the series

My favourite colour is green. Thanks for asking, mate :)

Hey wattles! W Video! Just a quick question, which would you rather be in the next update. An end update, or a desert update?

good tutor good personality entertaining content, congrat u just gain 1 and only one subscribers 🎉

19:45 you do have access to an easy source of bone meal, that’s why you put that composted at the front gate to Wattles Berry Farm, I think you even used those same words when you placed it “If I ever need an easy source of bone meal…”

Things that are certain in life: -Death -Taxes -Minecraft spawner xp farm tutorial on every update

Yes!! New guide ep!

Every time you make a video, you make me want to play minecraft😂. Enchanting soon?😃 Ps: Did you plan something special for episode 10?

I've found that fence/wall x 2 works better than just one. I also mine a hole out one block up to have a little help with the mobs intake.

Like a spawner sammich 13:14. Reminds me of the weird relics you see in Church crypts and catacombs (heavily underrated minecraft builds too)

does anyone know if they did a patch that prevents this setup? I have watched rewatched and this build is a typical setup but my zeds are getting stuck before the elevator time and time again or stuck on top they never come to the dropzone

Made it like this. It seems like the zombies are getting hung up slighty beforr going yp the bubble elevator. Is that normal?

the answer would be a pickaxe, because to get a stone axe you need stone.

Hey wattles i know you probably won't see this, but can you do a building tutorial on the nether portal i really liked the design

My favorite color is purple, thanks for asking :)

I’m guessing the answer is nothing because he said Steve has NOTHING in his inventory but a stone axe, 8 planks, and 4 sticks. So at face value the answer is nothing. But if we think logically and dig deep you could argue that it’s a wood pick or a sapling. A crafting table would be placed not in inventory unless he picked it up. Good day all

Good farm, only problem I had was baby zombies were getting stuck on the gate for some reason

Hi just made it and now found skeleton one can I use the same thing will it work ?

It is possible that Steve has only looted a bonus chest, so another item in his inventory would most likely be salmon because he is cultured. (toycat is yes)

Thank you!

work area? simple - just across the hallway as it were, just mine out a 3x3x3 room. That is more than enough room for a chest or two, a workbench, and even a bed. Dig a hole in the wall for a furnace or even storage barrels. Don't forget to put up a door too help keep mobs out. It is a multi purpose room. Work. Storage. Smelting, Cooking, Sleeping/respawn set, and as a sanctuary to retreat too to eat and heal up.

My favorite color is purple 😃 thanks for asking wattles!

He could have anything in his inventory, he could have a chest full of stuff beside him. It starts he as 3 items in his inventory not his world. If it was the other way around you could narrow it down to just a pick axe. You need that to get stone for the stone axe.

The fence used at 15:06 should be substituted with a wall block to prevent baby zombies from getting stuck

The tip "Light it up so that no creeper would blast it away", really, I mean really hit me hard😢😢

I actually learned from ep. 4 I think? That you could harvest the sweet berries without breaking the bush… I felt so dumb

Haha, your excitement is inspiring....☺

Instead of slabs I usually use trap doors to prevent baby zombies from leaving their position

Installing the Vanilla Tweaks coordinates data pack is one of the first things that I do on a new world. The F3 scren is awash with way too much text and it is silly that Mojang doesn't make a toggleable coordinates HUD standard.

Does it have to be Soul Sand? I have made 4 nether portals in my hardcore world and CANT find any

When starting a stair case down for Mines after I get a few blocks down I like to build a little shack around the surface that way I don't have to worry about mobs if it's night time

a life hack would be to place a hopper where the zombies fall down with a slab on top! that way babies won't be able to get out and the loot won't clutter your inventory!!

Thanks 👍

Hey Wattle, is it possible to make that farm with glass so i could see all the process or it wouldn't work? i'm loving the guide ps: from Portugal

Wolf name ideas: Cherry,Berry,Perry and Terry🐺😁

Drop a weeping vine down to the farm, it’ll be much more useful than a long staircase

Also, I was wondering, what's your favourite building block? My favourite is deepslate bricks, and my favourite wood type is probably cherry wood, it's just perfect for a splash of colour

chopper sounds like a good camel name