Minecraft Best IRON FARM - 1.20+ Iron Farm Tutorial 

Hey guys! Shout-out to TheySix for designing this farm! I forgot to give the credits in the video!

Tip: Put a lightning rod in the middle of the farm in the sky, incase of the event of a thunderstorm, the lightning will hit the rod instead of any of the villagers turning them into witches and ruining the farm.

Only started one side and it works pretty good. Slowly working on othersides. I might make a cobble farm first to get this done faster.

In my experience, you need to make sure the villagers can occasionally sleep through a night, or the farm will stop working after a few days. I solved this in my farm with a daylight sensor which raises / lowers trapdors to hide / show the zombie.

For those that talk about their farms only working at night, it is because one of the requirements for the panicked villagers to summon a golem is for them to have slept in the past 20 minutes. When you first finish the farm, there will be no iron golems spawning in the area until the first night afterwards, when the villagers will try to sleep (and be waked up 2 seconds later constantly by the zombie, which is normal) and start the 20 minute timer in which golems will spawn, covering both the current night and the following day, as they last 10 minutes each. This also applies when you go back to the farm during daytime after being away from it for an extended period of time, as the villagers in the farm did not start any 20 minute cronometer because the farm along with them was unloaded, so you'd have to, yet again, wait until the first night after loading it for all the iron golem requirements to be met again.

OMFG I couldnt get it to work for 2 HOURS. MAKE SURE YOUR BEDS ARE PLACED RIGHT. The pillow (top of the bed) needs to be placed closest to the villagers. Not on the corner. Please save your time.

I only had space to build three sides of this but it's insanely fast. Thank you.

Ty for the video, it works great, i build another iron farm which didnt work in 1.20. This one is perfect!

Works perfectly in 1.19.4! Excellent design. If you put zombies in first, put dirt in between their line of sight and where you want villagers to go. Otherwise the villagers won't want to sleep in the pods. If they refuse to lie down, change the direction the bed is facing. Soul Fires def worth it as well!

Just a bit of friendly advice: maybe put the lava in the killing chamber after you've finished building the whole structure. I was following the tutorial and accidentally threw my enchanted diamond axe into the water, so it ended in the lava and I lost it forever. 😅

For those whose Iron Golems are spawning outside the farm,You most likely built the iron farm around a terrain which is too mountainous. You can fix this by spawn-proofing the surrounding area with slabs. Me personally, I made a border 19 blocks out, completely around the farm, and filled it in with slabs.. Also, spawnproof any ravines that might be under your iron farm. After doing this, my iron farm worked perfectly. Additionally, I suggest adding in a lightning rod above the middle of the farm, as well as bubble elevators to get in and out of the collection area relatively easily.

Love this tutorial, build this farm a few times in my worlds because its super easy and reliable, but it definitely doesnt produce 4500 iron per hour. I built this on land, over land, and over ocean, the best rates I got were averaging 1700. Which is still pretty good for a farm this easy to build, but I cant get them to produce more than that.

Dude!!! I appreciate the non annoying or overly stimulating music along with amazing edits!

READ THIS BEFORE READING OTHER COMMENTS Be careful in the comments to the people saying "for people in 1.20 etc... dont do this do this instead" Sometimes it's super useful but for this farm in 1.20 and 1.20.1 the tutorial is perfect. Remember that most of the time the people who built the farm the wrong way will comment more than people with no issues. For that video dont bring the villager closer, don't put trapdoors instead of glass, don't put a solid block instead of slabs etc... These where the thing that made me lose a lot of time. I built it like the tutorial after trying some things i saw in the comments and it works perfect so don't do the same mistake please. Great vid tho voltrox :) sorry for my english verbs and sht (the only tips i can give you is that campfires are pretty necessary for the iron per hour, bring a lot of buckets for saving time, and place torches under the platforms so mob dont wait here during daylight)

Awesome build man thanks!

Thank you so much man this really helped with my world

This is a awesome tutorial going to help with me and my friends world we already have a gold farm and a endermen farm. Thanks Alot! :D

Wow great farm. Again with most of your new vids, I already have an iron farm in my main world (it might be one of your old vids) but this looks way easier to do so I’ll make it in my next world!! Oh. I almost forgot, “Iron!”

My advice if you are struggling to get the villagers to go into the beds, is to build two walls (essentially just 2 extra raised dirt staircases) around the staircase going up to the bed chamber. The villagers will have nowhere to wander but up the staircase, and this method even lets you do it at daytime as well. Also I'm sure 99% of you will already know this, but you don't need a nametag if the zombie picks up an item off the ground, it stops them from despawning just like a nametag would.

thank you so much!

Great video! I appreciate all the notes of dimensions for everything, made it real easy to follow along. It's working great and is giving me more iron output than I expected!

I noticed that you matched placing and counting blocks with the beats of the songs whether intentional or not it makes watching tutorial a jam. Props to you and TheySix!

Thx alot😊😊

I haven´t played minecraft from almost five years ago and let tell you this is the most beautiful tutorial I´ve ever witness.

ay man congrats on the vid dude, it's amazing. Thank you so much for explaining everything so clearly and even teachin us how to lead the villagers and the zombies into their spot, I loved the farm and really appreciate how easy you made for us to understand the things u did.

TIP FOR EVERYONE, DO NOT PLACE LAVA BEFORE THE VERY END WHEN YOUR READY TO USE, OR ELSE YOU MIGHT LOSE SOMETHING VALUABLE WHILE BUILDING

Thank a lot bro you helped me so much

thank you BRO

FIR ALL THOSE TRYING TO GET THIS TO WORK IN 1.20!!!! Bring the villager chambers in by 2 blocks closer to the zombie and use trap doors instead of glass blocks all the way around it.

Hey for your items list, it should be two stacks and eight stairs you have it as a stack and 20. you’re 68 stairs short according to your items list

Great Tutorial. Works like a charm :D !

When luring the zombies in to the cage, try using the trapdoor tech, they think its a block so they'll follow u but fall down the hole Also, you can trade 20 ems for a name tag from a max lvl librarian or if you're on hard mode it might be easier to just throw a leather helmet there's a good chance they'll have the ability to pick it up and not despawn, i have a zombie with sharp 5 netherite sword still not despawned after 2 months, it's essier if you have a mob farm and they happen to have feather falling and didnt die

works great in 1.20 however even with the soul fires I only get 1300iron per hour compared to the advertised 4500+ iron per hour but its still enough until i decide to make a mega iron farm

I love the farm, doesn't take to long to make and it has let me up for life, thanks for the design.

I loved this farm, it actually works, and its efficent in contrast to the other farm I built that was literally the worst farm ever. Just to remember that maybe building it in survival in the tutorial may help us to build it even faster :D

If you are planning on building this farm, PLEASE let me save you some time. Build the entire farm as shown, except put the villager pods 2 blocks closer to the zombie. The line of sight does not reach far enough for the way it is built in the video, and the farm will only spawn golems (and not at peak efficiency) during the night. If you're on java, f3 + B toggles hitboxes and will show you the line of sight for them. Maybe test the farm with just one zombie and villager pod to begin so you don't waste time troubleshooting all of them. You will need to also be far enough so that the zombie is not distracted by you. Getting this to work took way longer than it should've, not to mention the item counts in the beginning of the video are mostly wrong... I was short many stairs, quite a few fence gates, some glass, and smooth stone. I don't have time to find the proper count but prepare extra! The farm works great but if you want to save yourself a headache, follow these steps. Also for the glass, only one block is needed. I kept only the glass block with no bed below it, the one facing the middle of the farm, not the corner. Hope this helps Edit: also incorporate a lightning rod high above the middle of the farm so you don't risk losing any villagers.

You can also put the zombies in boats, I put them in a platform 5 blocks up (one more than the soul sand in the name tag's version) and it works perfectly

Nice farm man , works very smoothly and it is efficient enough 💪. Good tutorial 👍

ty works great

Nice IRON farm. I needed a lot of rails and this helped a ton. Thanks

Love this tutorial! I've built this farm twice (in seperate worlds) and it is so good!

This helped me so much in my hardcore world

Best iron farm I have EVER built. Amazing!

Man this is a great IRON farm

I had the issue where Golems only spawned at night. I looked and found that if you remove the 3 glass between the villagers and the zombie it fixes it for me! Hope this helps anyone with that issue :)

Thanks working well

OMG, thank you so much this has to be the best iron farm I’ve ever seen as soon as I finish placeing just one of the zombies an iron golem spawned and before I knew it there was like 6 to 8 iron golem spawning all at once and they spawn quick too ty you earned the sub

Also make sure your storage system can handle it, to put it simply, when you think you have enough storage, you don't, add more. I left this running for a night with 3-5 double chest's worth of storage empty and when I woke up, iron wasn't even able to get picked up by the hoppers, and this was with only 3 of the 4 wings possible.

Can place another layer on top of this? stacking it from y=10 to y=300?

Love your IRON farm 🙌

Thank you so much for this Crazy Iron Farm! Works great on 1.20.1

I was a little worried of the farm not working because of the comments saying it didn't, but after I followed the tutorial exactly as is shown in the video the farm worked perfectly :D Im in 1.20.1

there are defenetlly A LOT of problems with this farm but it is a really great farm if u get it to work properly. i first had the problem that the golems didnt spawn at all so i checked the hight of the viligers and the zombies and it wasnt that but then i loocked in the comments and saw what was wrong i jsut removed the 3 glasses that were standing between the viligers and the zombie and another problem i think it had is that the viligers are all in 1 chunk so they defenetly need to be alone in 1 chunk. these are the problems that i had, i dont know if it helped anybody but if it did then youre welcome.

Works really well. I built mine over an ocean by building the portion he dug underground and got about 1500 in 10-15 minutes

I have tried a bunch of different iron farms and this is by farm the most reliable and efficient design i have ever used, thanks for sharing it to us!

Great farm! I had to remove the fence gates though as iron golems continued to get stuck on those.

1.20.1, works like a charm! thanks for the farm

would recommend trapdoors or half slabs on top of the walls. golems can get stuck and this will improve rates

Great farm thx

Little tips, if they don't spawn, make sure that the villagers slept atleast 1 night, it work after :)

Important tip: you should make this farm several blocks in the air. If you make it ground level and you leave blocks under it, golems will sometimes spawn outside the water platforms. In case you made it ground level, you'll have to empty the ground under the platforms. Edit: an area of 8 blocks (horizontal and vertical) away from any other possible spawn surface should be enough, because this is the max range from villagers in which golems can spawn currently.

great IRON farm,any suggestions on how to make the iron golems fall down? They sometimes get stuck at the fence part,some of them go nice and easily some don't. It's like they are targeting the zombie and cant reach it and they are just staring at the zombie and dont move.

Notes from me! If you don't want your golems to get on block next to wall then place slabs on the walls. You can make layers for this build (yes I checked)

I completed this farm EXACTLY as shown and it is nowhere near 4500 per hour, it only will produce 700 per hour as shown. You have to have all the villager pods 2 blocks closer to the zombies and even then you will only get 1600 per hour! And yes those figures include the soul camp fires.

For people whos villagers arent sleeping ive found a fix. Yall have to remove the glass and slabs during the night. They will sleep. Put them back on when theyre asleep. Worked for me!. make sure villagers are sleeping before sending the zombie in

earned a sub

That took me a long time to make (4 hours) but it was worth it, insane rate! Works perfectly

I think with moving villagers its more effective to use water elevator get a bit higher than needed then either boat if at same level or use water and make a tunnel for them. Work slow with ya first on as looks like you are going to need a zombie :) so just make a spawning platform near you at 20 -50 blocks above and check if zombie spawns name tag. I've not played since 1.16. Is the line of sight work the same ?? and can you still break a pliagers shield and use him. I believe he scares from a longer distance.

Um voltrox ik this is too much to ask but i followed the video very well the farm looks awesome but no golems are spawning any tips of why that is?

thanks you so much

thank you bro, most iz farm, aproved

can be majorly boosted by making a nether portal elevator with a looting kill chamber, also improves spawn rates

on Java 1.20.4 and it's perfect. I did a 15 minutes AFK test and got 442 iron. Works all the time and no spawning outside. Thank you :D

i wish there was a litematica of this

Works great! 1.20.6 and 1.21 not a single issue just make sure you place the beds correctly and get about an extra stack of stairs

Works amazing 1.20.4, if your villagers aren’t trying to sleep, break the beds and place them back, this should fix it.

i just built it on 1.20.1 on spawn chunks and works so good... FOR EVERYONE HAVING ISUES WITH GOLEM SPAWNING OUTSIDE THE WATER simply put some trapdoor right nextto the stone walls (walls located on the botom, not those at the sides) and put them all in vertical position, this way the golems will track the block as a complete one and will ended up in the water :)

thanks for the tutorial, I hope it works for 1.19.2

bro this farm is very nice thank you so much

Hey, first of all I want to thank you so much for making this tutorial, cause this farm is insane. However, I’ve found some things that are worth noting: - If you don’t want to make the area around the farm spawn proof with buttons, slabs or carpets, make sure that the area has enough light to prevent mobs spawning and MAKE SURE IT IS FLAT (NO HILLS NEAR THE FARM). This will also get rid of golems spawning around the farm. - Also, I think the thumbnail lies a bit for the loot, it doesn’t produce 4500+ iron per hour, but rather about 1500 (I’m playing on hardcore).

18s building blocks 3s walls 2s slabs 1s 20 stairs 1s 12 fence gates 38 glass blocks 24 beds 24 villagers 13 ladders 9 signs 9 hoppers 6 chests 4 name tags 4 soul sand 2 water buckets 1 lava bucket Here is an accurate list of everything you need

STILL REALLY GOOD IN 1.21

Just one question, Do you have to make the entrance to the collection area 24 blocks away or is that a choice

one of the villagers at night be sleeping all night and dont wake up

To anyone whose farm is not working, cover the glass on all sides, video says to leave one glass open on the side of the zombie, but when i closed it, it's working.

For anyone that has a problem that the villagers dont sleep: the pillows of the villagers' beds have to be next to the hole where you put the villagers, not in the corners of the box

around a year ago probably me and my friend would go into a creative world and try to construct a 4 section iron farm like this we had like 10 different designs and they would never work the only reason we would do this is cuz nobody would post bigger farms just a single one so thanks lol

It is amazing 😍😍😍😍 thanks a lot brother for this amazing iron farm.

I found through the comments that there wasnt a clear enough solution to the issue of golems only spawning on 1 side of the farm. Heres how i fixed it!! 1. Must be 3 villagers in each cage. 2. The placement of the beds are very specific. Just one wrong placement could mess up the spawning. At night, observe each villager cage to see which bed is not being used at all.(You’ll know, as working beds will be used by villagers sleeping and getting up repeatedly.) When you find it, flip it the other way. I suggest using scaffolding for all of this process because villagers can stand on it when they get back up.(I unfortunately lost a villager when i placed a leaf block near the cage when fixing my issue.) My farm now spawns 1 on each side and occasionally 2 on a side at a time. Lmk if thats normal or if i should be having 2 each side per spawn. ❤

I did have to make some adjustments with the villager cages, as well as place lightning rods high up and near the center of the farm to prevent the villagers from turning into witches. This farm works with 1.20.1. One thing to note, it may be extremely frustrating to build! I built this above ground and it took over 2 IRL days to complete this farm. You will have times where you leave a spawnable block and your zombie dies from an iron golem, or your villager jumps off when you destroy the minecart it was in.

Iron! Thanks for the tutorial

thank you, it work at 1.19.1 version

anyone know why one of the sides aren't spawning any golems? every other side is fine and spawning golems but one of the sides on my farm isn't spawning anything ive triple checked at this point and made sure everything was how it was suppose to be but idk whats wrong

can confirm that this farm still works great in 1.20.2 with great rates i would suggest combining it with voltrox's villager breeder

For 1.20.6 make two zombie cages and separate them in the middle where the zombie is in the video, for some reason the zombie only works on one villager cage so if you have two more closer to each villager cage it'll spawn 2 iron golems instead of one. (yes, I built the farm right, It's an issue with the game and I didn't build anything wrong.)

6:00 had to replace the glass with trapdoors to make it work on 1.20.4 (only took me 3 hours to figure out)

works good in 1.20.6

Just build it and works great. I had one issue tho : The farm wasn't working at daytime (villger had slept). By looking closely i saw that i missplaced the villager platform, it was one block too far from the zombie platform. Changed it and worked like a charm. I'm in java 1.20.1 btw

I expanded to storage and left the farm running over night and 3 of the 4 sets of villagers and zombies r gone. I added lightning rods but that's it I followed everything and it was working beautifully last night.

Built farm and it’s great. The only thing is that from time to time golems will spawn on top of the zombie chamber. Any help/advice greatly appreciated.