Automatic wheat farm

About this farm

An automatic wheat farm is a basic farming build in Minecraft. It uses a farmer villager: a villager with the farmer profession harvests ripe wheat and plants new seeds automatically. The villager passes surplus crops to other villagers or leaves them on the ground, where hoppers collect them. An alternative version uses water released from a dispenser: the stream washes away the ripe plants and hoppers collect the crop. Wheat is the key ingredient in bread (3 wheat = 1 bread), cake and hay bales. The farm is simple to build and needs only a few materials.

Key features

• Fully automatic with a farmer villager
• Wheat for bread, a staple food
• The villager plants and harvests on its own
• Hoppers under the farmland collect the surplus
• Scalable: add more fields

Required materials

Tips and tricks

1. The villager needs a composter as its workstation to become a farmer.
2. Water hydrates farmland up to 4 blocks in every direction, so one water block in the middle hydrates a 9x9 area.
3. Torches speed up growth at night, because wheat grows faster with light.
4. Bone meal speeds up growth instantly: load it into a dispenser.
5. Bread (3 wheat) restores 5 hunger points, which makes it one of the better early food sources.

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