*Note:* Add some solid blocks under your bee hives and/or behind them if you have items landing in places they shouldn't:) Thanks so much for watching! If you like this tutorial, share it with others so they can enjoy it to! Maybe drop a like or subscribe, it helps so much 😊💙 I think this bee farm turned out really well! Nothing I would change about it! This honestly seems like the best method of farming honey/combs, with the least drawbacks and the least resources invested. All things considered it turned out well! Hopefully it serves you well :D
you are so good but sadly your views isnt that good are you happy with it? trust me I am not its like no good for a perfect video and where are you from?
what I like to do is set up a daylight sensor with one piece of redstone and then a observer on that Redstone piece so it only goes off during the day every minute or whatever,
Just built this design and can confirm it still works as of the latest version! There’s the occasional item falling out of the back regardless of what blocks I put at the back (I tested quite a few different configurations) but that seems to be down to janky dropped item physics rather than any design fault with the farm. Works great all round and pretty cheap to put together, would just recommend anyone else who wants to build it to run down the back occasionally to collect the odd item that slips through.
@@silentwisperer i designed a farm myself that combines a zombie spawner (for villager discounts), iron farm, trading hall, wheat farm and honey and honeycomb farm where the bees from the honey farm bonemeal the wheat for higher rates. I had issues with spillage aswell and the honeycombs phased through multiple solid blocks but in the end i was able to control and nudge the spilling items back into the farm with a combination of stairs (which did most of the nudging) and trapdoors and it seems to be very consistent. You're way better at redstone than i am so maybe you can come up with something useful, using stairs for this aswell.
Hey silent - I’ve watched a lot of your videos, first time chiming in. As a very lazy redstone engineer, I find that a pair of observers watching a a pair of daylight sensors is a perfect clock for this type of application. No moving parts, compact, easy to remember. The beat isn’t consistent, but that doesn’t *really* matter. Thanks for the design!
@@neetscholar4149 With a pair you'll get triggers through the day and night. With only one, you'll only get triggers during the day. Sometimes it matters, sometimes it doesn't. I guess with bees you'd only need the daytime one, eh?
@@michaelhaight7316 when an observer observes a daylight sensor, it sends a pulse every time the daylight sensor's power changes. So it fires a few times every in-game day, at varying intervals. And it fires at different times if it is set in day or night mode.
aa of 1.21+ aug.9, 2024, I shall confirm that this is working so well. I did not understand a single thing about building the farm redstone-wise but it's working and only that matters!
If anyone wants to turn this off automatically when it's raining or night(bees don't go out when it's raining or during nightime) then you should add a line of 3 redstone dust and then a daytime sensor on nightmode(color blue) on either one of your piston timers(the one with the comparators above then)
Good thinking, I had some trouble with it breaking the hopper clock when it didn't switch the direction of items. But if you direct the daylight sensor redstone line into one of the hopper clock hoppers to "lock" it, it will effectively pause the clock in the middle of a cycle.
This was battering my head for a bit wondering why... but definitely add the observer circuit at the end if using for honey bottles. Have farm off, put a bottle in each dispenser, fill minecart with bottles, switch on. It spits out every activation regardless of full/not full, only ever one empty bottle in each dispenser, no honey in dispensers. Very clever. Probably best to turn off and re-set if u run out of bottles. Thanks Silent.
Thanks for your tutorial! It gave me idea to make my design. I let a hopper mine cart running through all hoppers, giving all the dispenser 1 glass bottle. Then trigger all of them twice, and collect everything, passing by an item filter giving away the honey bottles, the item filter will activate a dropper, drop the glass bottles on the rail and keep the hopper mine cart with a stack of glass bottles. Then keeping cycles all the time. It requires very little glass bottles, and pretty stable through my testing.
You are too good at your job. Over the years your videos have taught me so much about redstone I don't need your tutorials to build anything anymore. I've even started making my own redstone contraptions for dumb stuff no one actually needs lol.
This is more resource demanding than a water line, but if you move the "clock line" back 1 block, you'll have room to place a line of hoppers under the hives. Each end of the hopper line should feed toward the middle (to the wall where the bee cages are separated), then feed downward at a piece of powered rail, which the hopper minecart will pass over.
@@zacharystarbuck5096 that's a great solution, thank you! I ended up needing to do a double row of hoppers to get all the stray honeycombs. I made room for it by moving the clock out from underneath the dispensers over to the left side when facing the azaleas. I actually did a double build with 16 hives, and the one clock is powering both sides of it.
This farm worked so well on 1.2 on Bedrock for me with the improvements you mentioned in your Final Touches section! I had a hard time finding a farm that worked with bottles, everything else worked with comb but always goofed when it came to honey bottles but this one works great! Thank you for making this guide.
I would love to set this up with the automatic crafter coming out. I think it would be possible to have it craft the honey bottles into honey blocks and then send the empty bottles back up to be refilled. But I don't have the skill to figure that out. I will just build this for now and give it extra space to expand on later.
Thanks again for the great farm! I'm working my way though them on the quest for resources to build your stem farm. Bees, it turns out, are worse than villagers, but allays are fantastic. Could not stop the honey comb poping out the back, so I popped a note block on top of the hopper minecart and a single bit of redstone connects it to the clock. It's not often I'm pleased with myself- usually I'm doing things like: wondering where most of my bees have disapeard to and then finding the one block hole in my base before killing the remaining three with an accidental right click.
If the farm isnt working for you, put a redstone dust on the glass block in the back of the farm. Its not shown in the tutorial but you need it for the dispensers to work
I just built two of these last night, one for honeycomb and one for honey bottles and afked overnight and noticed a few things. The bottles had backed up on honey bottle side until it broke the filter. I think that might be easy enough to fix by redirecting the bottles into the chest that fills them vice just the hopper under the supply chest. The excess bottles I think were coming from the other side at the top. As for the honeycomb side, I did run into the issues with it going below the farm, much of which despawned I'm sure, but there was a fair amount in the clock. I managed to fix that by moving the clock out and down by one and filling in with solid blocks. However this made the honeycomb go to the top of the farm. I might have to play around with that side to see if it can be fixed. Right now I'm thinking if the dispenser were oriented to go into the back of the hive that might fix it. I just don't have the time right now to work on it.
Oddly enough I started using a double daylight sensor system with observers, it has been extremely reliable and I just switch one to negative so it harvests twice a day. Using the same system on my stacked sugarcane farm and it works beautifully.
This is really random but could you please explain how to set up the daylight sensor system, and where on the honey harvester I'd need to place it? I'm rather new to this level of Redstone. Thank you, in advance.
A tip for others who are finding honey bottles in their dispensers. Slow down the hopper by using two observers with the faves facing each other and an output of red stone to the top unloading hopper. Works like a charm
Love how you actually show3d exactly how it's built!! This is something that makes or breaks it when we try to rebuild something like this also showing how to expand the build is always a must 😅. Because just looking at it you can't see all redstone or how it works or etc.. we truly appreciate this 🙌 🙏 👏 ❤️ keep up the great work
For those having problems with the hopper clock working. Build an Ethos Hopper clock with the pistons/redstone above and comparators/hoppers below with everything else being identical.
This video came out on the day that I was just starting a honey bottle farm, so I switched gears and built this farm with a total of 20 hives/dispensers. I couldn't figure out the setup to make sure 1 bottle is in each dispenser at a time so I went with filling them all with mass amounts of bottles. After that adjustment this farm has produced wonderfully for me and my honey themed mega base. Thabk you as always!
I made this farm with a slime farm to make a tree farm to make a charcoal farm get fuel for the rotating smelter which I use to smelt cobblestone which I use to make my house
I’m still using your old design. That needed some fixes for relog issue on my server, but is working pretty well. Btw today’s design looks like using similar idea of ianxofour’s Java honey farm. Actually interesting and smart design.
For whom suffering from item filter malfunctioning, skip to 12:17, pause it, and watch very carefully. I think you may have a redstone dust in a wrong place by a good chance. Because or else it would not break. The item sorter here is flawless. The 4 tick repeater in the collection system side (You see it in the left bottom corner of 12:17.) You'll see a solid block that is connected to that repeater. If you have a redstonen dust right behind the solid block, break it. If you have a redstone dust there, it will get powered by the hopper clock that makes two short signals whenever the clock moves, and the signal will lead to a redstone torch which is powering the bottom hopper, which is powered by it to prevent item from flowing from the item sorter hopper, and turn off the redstone torch shortly. That way when the hopper clock ticks you loose two or sometimes one item from your item sorter hopper (the signal happens twice a time but they are too short so) and after the hopper clock moves 3 times or so there you get an empty slot in your item sorter hopper, completely breaking it. To check if it is your case, stop the system first, put all the items in right place, reactivate the system. And get back quickly to the sorter hopper, check what's happening in the hopper. If you see items going down by 1 or 2 with the sound of observer ticking, that is it. If there's no redstone dust in the place I told you then just check around if anything is interfering with your item filter redstone torch. This item filter CANNOT break if not so.
Never messed with a redstone filter. One, thank you I definitely misplaced a piece. Two, is it possible to have the filter still there and get honey combs. So like get both honey bottles and combs depending on if the filter is on or not. Cause that would be helpful
A word of warning if you want to build this farm in the nether and you have a hoglin farm, you should make sure to not build them close together. It looks like the bees take up the mob cap and prevent hoglins from spawning. Learned that one the hard way 👍
@silentwispere i found that honey bottles were ending up in the chest minecart. To fix this I changed the collection system to run hopper out to the right of the farm and put a bottle auto sorter under it then run the bottle back to the chest minecart with a water system or dropper line either works. Also i run the honey bottles to a auto crafter to make honey block then put a bottle sorter under the honey collection chest to take those bottles to run back to the chest mine cart. It makes it so you never run out of bottles. I hope this made sense. Im not the best at writing things out.
The honey combs are going into the clock and on some of the redstone and comparators. The pinned comment says to cover up these places with solid blocks, but the redstone stuff would be in the way. Also the last hive isn't getting sheared.
Can't say much on the last hive not getting sheared, but if you move the "clock line" back 1 block, you'll have room to place a line of hoppers under the hives. Each end of the hopper line should feed toward the middle (to the wall where the bee cages are separated), then feed downward at a piece of powered rail, which the hopper minecart will pass over.
@@zacharystarbuck5096 I had the same problem and what I did seems to be working so far I moved the clock back 2 blocks and added a third row of powered rails and put a redstone torch under the tracks so they all have power and now any honey that goes under the build just gets picked up by the hopper minecart that way it all feeds into the system rather than having two places to collect from.
I have tried several things to reduce the loss, and while I have been able to reduce some where possible to put blocks under, blocks behind AND using the water stream, I am still loosing some honey comb BUT far more efficient than doing it on my own.
I built this farm but can't get it to turn on, is anyone else having this issue? Thanks so much for building this farm, I'm sure it'll be working in no time for me :D
BUG FIX: for anyone in 1.20 that is having their item sorter break, the honey bottle decreases by 1 each time the farm triggers, due to psedo redstone signals, if you move the item sorter 1 tile away from the farm and add 1 more hopper to the in stream , it will work. You will need to move around some of the redstone to trigger the rails
Its a pretty slick farm. I built it underground below my "more aesthetically pleasing" honey farm that was malfunctioning from day 1 😂 thanks for a simple and very efficient farm
BRO THANK U SO MUCH! I needed a new bee farm as i suck at redstone, i’ve built like 3 other honey farms and none of them worked! Hope this one works for me lol, thx for the tutorial!
Unfortunately the honey comb does not end up inside where it gets picked up by the hopper mc. I‘m thinking about changing the location of the clock so I can block off evey direction of the hive except the one inside the farm🤔
Thanks silent! Also, FoxyNoTail uploaded a witch farm video today, and showed the mountain area where you cleared two levels of stone in which he noticed the difference. I laughed when I thought back to video recently. I left a comment but gave no hint as to who did it.
Works perfectly, the best design ive found, 1.21.2 bedrock, i just think u skip some final touchs in the video, i realize and managed to copy it, but might not have seen it so it would be good to be in the video. Thank u so much :D
@@MannyBotGames he showed the farm working, and working well. Why would I expect him to fake this and lie? Ive watched his videos for a long time, and not once has he uploaded some fake garbage. All I need to know that its good is to see it working great.
While this is super impressive and functional, I like combining mine with the villager powered crop farms as it improves them, produces at the same time, and is very aesthetically pleasing/logical. Honestly any excuse to combine all my "passive"/AFK farms together with my trading hall is one I'll take, but that's just me
I wish you would go into more detail about how to load the hoppers. I cannot get the chest to load the dispenser and I put one bottle in and once it’s is used, it doesn’t get another from the minecart chest. I also keep getting bottles of honey in my dispenser.
I don’t often tell you that you’re one of the greatest, and maybe I should; but how often does one stop a lion to tell him he’s king? How often does one approach a cheetah to tell him he’s the fastest? You get my point. Of All the greats, Mumbo Jumbo, sci-craft, wattles , JC-Plays, you are one of, if not my favorite. (It’s a hard one between you, wattles, and mumbo. However I don’t think either of them are necessarily better than you) sci-craft is obviously the greatest to do it but we don’t talk about it. Anyway, love what you do, I’ve saved every project since you started and I’ve built them on every world I’ve played.
This farm works amazingly for honey bottles. However, after placing solid blocks everywhere I could to make it work for honeycomb. Comb still ended up clogging the hopper clock. It looks like the design has you place the hoppers directly above the clock. Which does not leave space under the hives for full blocks. Leading to comb ending up in the redstone and/or being picked up by the hopper clock. Which would mean I'd need to extend the height of the redstone line to be able to place the hives 2 blocks above the clock so solid blocks can be placed under the hives. Which feels like too much hassle so i'm going to find another design. Like I said at the beginning. The farm works a dream for the bottles, and as always Silent provided in-depth information so WE can make the best decision. So I can still recommend this farm, just bee prepared for a re-tool for honeycombs, or find another design for that specifically.
I have yet to test this, but this is the change I will be making in my survival world: Move the hopper clock backwards, away from the bottom collection rails. Fill in the space underneath the hives with solid blocks. Pray
@@connorbell5530 I hadn't considered moving it back chances are that would work and be easier than moving the whole thing up a block. Smart call honestly.
Just used this design and it was so helpful, only thing I had to do was remove the lever from the hopper clock like someone else mentioned and it is working great for me. Will be awesome once the crafter comes out as well.
I never see my redstone block move and I’m not sure why, my carts are also constantly moving back and forth with no breaks, not sure if this is what should happen but I have watched the video over like 5 times and did everything right. I am getting some honey in my chest at the end also but not much
When I try to put in the filler blocks (the hopper right above the hopper that goes into the collection system) they just go down to the second hopper.
Bee farms are a good example of their being some farms having lots of ways to do the job and you can implement the solution that works for you. I have a signal strength farm, but I appreciate the motivation behind this design.
yea theres a lotta ways to do it for sure haha the main downside of signal strength farms is the bottles. you either need a ton of bottles, or the farm breaks when you run out of bottles. both major downsides. i honestly think this style of farm is the best, and the way to go :)
@@silentwisperer It’s a good farm and I like anything with a hopper clock in it! I like the sentiment behind it. The reason I have a signal strength farm is reduced complexity for getting honeycomb and bottles with the same harvesting and collection system, even if it has a large one time expense of glass. I’m fine smacking a desert with a shovel to get the sticky sweet stuff.
I think I saw a video that said that bees can't work at night or during rains so building this in the nether/end should increase the rates because there is no weather or day/night cycle.
For me it worked perfectly. For hours it stopped working. The collection Hopperminecard wouldn't travel across the powered rails and keeps collecting from the sorting system hopper. Somebody knows a fix for that?
I'm going to use azalea leaves, but I'm curious about what the mechanic is that made you suggest 2-tall flowers instead of the regular flowers as a substitute 🤗
I need a pig Lin loot overflowing item sorters witch you bulid in tb smp with everything you build from potion sorters to junk disposer plz I really need that 😊love you silentwisperer keep your work like that
Wouldn't it have been better to have the item sorter sort for empty bottles instead? That way the chest at the front could collect everything else (filed bottles and honeycomb)
This works perfectly for honey but the one I built for honey comb shoots most of the honeycomb out the back of the farm or into the hopper clock. I’ve put solid blocks wherever I can but the honeycomb still falls out in the space above the red stone or into the hopper clock.
It’s not a fix but what you can do is make a water stream at the back of the machine leading into another chest. It worked very well for me and ended up storing more than 2 stacks from it
what I like to do is set up a daylight sensor with one piece of redstone and then a observer on that Redstone piece so it only goes off during the day every minute or whatever,
it seems like the items are sometimes coming out the bottom of the hives instead of the front, which could cause issues down the line because some goes into the hopper clock
Its better to have the hopper minecart feed into the chest that stores empty bottles that feeds into the chest minecart rather than the it feeding directly into the hoper line going straight to chest minecart. That way you wont have an excessive amount of empty bottles clogging the hopper line and ruining the item filter. Because before, the chest with empty bottles completely fills the last hopper, so its not recycling, since the last hopper is always filled with empty bottles from the chest, there's nowhere for the hopper minecart to unload the empty bottles.
I don't know if maybe I did something wrong or maybe my game just doesn't like me but I couldn't get it to work for the life of me. I followed the tutorial to a T and I couldn't find out where I could've messed it up. I'm trying to get honey comb for candles for a house I'm building so I wanted an auto farm to make my life easier 😂😂
Explain further. Are you playing Bedrock? Console, PC or other device? Are the bees entering the hives/nests? Are the minecarts running? Is the hopper timer operating as explained in the video? Without knowing the details of your problem it's difficult to help you. I'm on console, Bedrock 1.20 and with some minor alterations (moving the timer and adding more rails for honeycomb), and a little patience, both honey bottles and honeycomb are working well
I feel like I’m missing something, I took out the item sorter and blocked the back of the hives I’m dealing with honey comb out of the bottom and the sheers don’t work on there own, ran threw this like 10 times so far and haven’t got it goin rip lol any tips ?
