Ultimate Wither Skeleton Farm! 🌟 Minecraft Guide S3 🎮

Hello everyone my name is pixel riffs and welcome back to the Minecraft Survival Guide I hope you’re all having a good day in today’s episode I’ve had Wither Skeleton Farms on my mind since building one in Minecraft SOS but fortunately here on the Minecraft Survival Guide we actually have a really

Great place that we can potentially build a wither skeleton Farm we’re going to hop down here to the site of my original nether Hub we’re going to navigate our way through the basalt Delta and we’re going to hit this tunnel and head out towards the nether portal I

Already made to the desert biome but we are going to stop short of that because along the way we encounter this this nether fortress in a Soul Sand Valley biome is one of the ideal places to build a wither skeleton Farm the other biome being a warped forest and the

Reason that this is the ideal place for a wither skeleton Farm I mean look at it it’s already spawning an absolute ton of mobs and the reason for that is that the Warped forest and Soul Sand Valley biomes really don’t spawn a great deal of other stuff they nowhere near spawn

Enough mobs to take up the full hostile mob Camp which leaves a ton of room for nether fortress mobs to spawn I mean just look at this look at all of the wither skeletons just standing by that little area over there look at the amount of blazes currently attempting to

Set me on fire so I’ve been coming here basically anytime I want to fight with the skeletons and get skulls but I’ve been doing that very manually right now and in not so controlled conditions and controlled conditions are really what we need in this place because as you can

See right now it’s absolute chaos anytime we try to come here so in today’s episode not only are we going to reduce the spawning space in this nether fortress down to a very small control controlled area we’re also going to make it a lot safer to travel to the desert

So the first thing I’m going to do is run home and get myself a bunch of fire resistance potions which are the only way we’re going to be able to deal with that amount of Blaze Fireballs fortunately for me I already brewed up a bunch of those and left them in a fire

Resistance box here in my Ender Chest so we have a ton of 8 Minute fire resistance potions those are going to come in very handy the other thing I’m going to grab while I’m here at my storage room is a large amount of material that we can make into either

Buttons or slabs and I’m going to recommend using wood for this even though wood is going to potentially burn in the nether the main reason I’m going to suggest using wood for this though is the fact that you can break down wood logs into four planks and there into

Four buttons or eight sets of slabs meaning that you end up with a ton of material in just a single inventory once we’ve acquired all of that we’re going to return to the nether fortress chug a fire resistance potion turn a bunch of the wood into buttons and from here

We’re going to start placing buttons on every available Block in the Fortress starting with an area like this which is relatively inactive right now because I came from this dire a lot of the mobs have spawned over there in the distance and by placing buttons or slabs on the

Top surface of each of these blocks what we are doing is spawn proofing them we are making it impossible for Hostile Mobs to spawn on any of these blocks the goal here is to slowly but surely eliminate all of the spawning spaces in the nether fortress so that it will only

End up spawning mobs in one very specific area and for that area we’re going to choose AC Crossroads much like this one and if you’re lucky your nether fortress will have multiple of these in close range of each other and that makes the ideal scenario for building a wither

Skeleton Farm because each of these effectively has the largest structure bounding box of any structure inside the Fortress to properly explain that I should probably explain something about these larger structures because some of the smaller structures in the game things like you know igloo and jungle temples basically always generate the

Same they can’t generate with a great deal of variations to them because they’re relatively small structures right but when you found multiple Nether fortresses you will find that no two fortresses really look alike you know they’ve got the same sets of rooms but they’re not ever an identical shape they

Don’t blend together in the same way every time and that is because structures like Nether fortresses the same goes for strongholds and ancient cities and stuff like that are all made out of these component structures these sort of smaller Elements which all come together to make up a larger thing and

So it will often be the case that you find a nether fortress that has multiple Crossroads next to each other but sometimes they won’t generate next to each other because the interior segment of the Fortress takes over there or some other kind of intersection gets in the

Way the important thing to know about this is that each of these structures has its own individual bounding box that is to say there’s an invisible box drawn around each of these that determines the area in which very specific spawning conditions happen and in this case the spawning condition is does this segment

Spawn nether fortress mobs or not and the fun thing about Nether fortresses is that if you place a nether brick block basically anywhere inside the larger bounding box of the entire structure so take the maximum height the maximum depth and the maximum length and width of the Fortress and place a nether brick

Block anywhere within that larger bounding box you will get nether fortress mobs spawning on it so you could place a block somewhere in the middle of this Sky area here and just have a weather skeleton spawn up there because technically it becomes part of the nether fortress when you place

Nether Bricks there however the cool thing about the individual structures like these Crossroads the individual compon components of a Nether Fortress Is that they have their own individual bounding box and inside that it doesn’t have to be Nether Bricks that the hostile mobs spawn on you can have

Netherrack you can have endstone you can have anything that is a solid block that does not prevent mob spawns naturally and the nether fortress mobs will end up spawning on it and so that’s going to be crucial to the design of this because we are going to limit the amount of mobs

That can spawn on an area while making sure that wither skeletons can still spawn and we’re going to do that using with the Roses before we can even get to doing that part though we do need to make sure that the rest of the Fortress Is spawn proofed and I need to chug

Another Fire Resistance potion because this explanation has taken me more than 8 minutes to record fortunately though despite being fireballed constantly throughout this process as you can see none of the buttons have really burned away yet and the zombie piglins you see here have not spawned on this section they’ve actually

Spawned further down and have walked down to this Crossroads so this Crossroads is now virtually spawn proof and you’re not going to find anything else generating over here with the blazes neutralized the only things we need to worry about in this nether fortress are skeletons wither skeletons

And magma cubes you might also find that Ghasts occasionally shoot you from the Soul Sand Valley but as long as you keep a keen eye out for each of those this process should be relatively painless looking at the area that we’ve got here we actually have an intersection there

And there which I think are going to be ideal for our Wither Skeleton farm so this area here is going to be the area we’re going to turn into the spawning platform for wither skeletons so at this point absolutely everything else is getting buttoned off and that includes

The two areas where in this Fortress we have Blaze Spawners one of those is up here and you can choose for yourself whether you want to destroy the blaze spawner whether you want to keep it to turn it into a blaze farm or if destroying a mob spawner just feels like

Sacrilege to you and you don’t want to do it but the main thing to keep in mind is that if you’re within 16 blocks of this when you use the Wither Skeleton Farm the blazes are going to spawn and potentially cause a problem there may also be Nether fortresses elsewhere in

Your world where it’s possible to get two Blaze Spawners in very close proximity making a double Blaze spawner Farm very possible but unfortunately just buttoning the area around this Blaze spawner is not going to be enough to prevent spawns because mob spawners actually spawn mobs in the air blocks

Around and they ignore the usual spawning requirements which mean that mobs normally have to spawn on top of a solid block so once we’ buttoned off the areas nearby we’re going to put as much distance between ourselves and the blaze spawner as we can and hopefully we won’t

Have to come around this way again after a while you’ll notice that some of the areas around you get fairly quiet in terms of mobs and you can work in relative peace as long as you’ve got your fire resistance reup for the Blazers sniping you from a distance and

The reason behind that is really that the mobs around here have to spawn 23 blocks away from the player at a minimum and after a while these buttoned areas will take up a lot of that spawning space and the spawns will end up concentrated in this or that area so

There’ll be quite a lot of stuff spawning in this Central room or down that end of The Fortress where you see the wither skeletons moving around because we haven’t got to spawn proofing those areas yet and that’s why even though I intend to build the farm here

I’m still going to spawn proof this area with the two intersections because to be quite honest I don’t really feel like coming back to all of the nether fortress mobs being concentrated in this one location at least not until I’ve built the farm we’re going to have them

All spawn there but we want that to happen eventually not right now anyway that is my first Salvo of buttons done we’ve covered a pretty large area but there are still lots more to do so I’m going to run back for some more materials and I’ll meet you guys again

Once we’ve buttoned the entire area of this nether fortress okay and not too long later our nether fortress is entirely buttoned over I’m not seeing any spaces left here where stuff can still spawn which is probably actually why I’m still getting attacked by gusts every so often and

Maybe having to repair the buttons here and there but with a decrease in nether fortress spawns here those spawns are going to be forced out into other areas and that’s going to include any areas of nether wastes terrain around here and potentially even an increase in Ghasts and skeletons spawning in the

Neighboring Soul Sand Valley but these last few zombie piglins are the only ones remaining from the few stragglers that spawned in this Fortress initially and for now give will take a couple of blocks that might still be underneath some of these broken out sections we really don’t have any nether fortress

Spawns left which means we can get to work on converting these Crossroads into our spawning platforms and for that we’re going to need a bunch of surface that we can plant with a roses on that can be so soil it can be Netherrack or it can be dirt variants brought here

From the Overworld like grass of course we are going to need a bunch of the Wither roses themselves but fortunately there’s a really helpful Farm that’s going to help us get a bunch of those in a short amount of time first we need to head back to this melon and pumpkin farm

We’ve established in the Overworld and grab a stack of pumpkins then we’re going to find a convenient spot to place a single block we’re going to pillar up a couple of blocks and add a set of four blocks around the outside like so we’ll extract these two blocks from the middle

But leave that one stone block there then we’re going to place two snow blocks we’re going to place a pumpkin on top of that and Shear that to produce a snow golem then I need to make sure that I have a shovel that does not have silk touch because we need to acquire

Snowballs and silk touch will get us the snow layers that this snow golem produces this shovel with efficiency three should do the trick and looking at the corner of this block here we can simply hold down left click to shovel a whole bunch of snowballs which will get

Us enough to craft a lot more snow blocks unfortunately snowballs only stack to 16 so you’re going to have to clear your inventory to make a decent amount of them and we want to bring a few stacks of those with us to the end and here in the end one of the crucial

Things I forgot to mention is that we’re going to need enough supplies to spawn the wither because of course the Wither is necessary to generate wither roses so I had to go and unbutton some of the nether fortress so we could generate a few more Wither Skeleton skulls and get

Enough to spawn the wither but we’re going to be doing that underneath the central end portal here because that’s a safe space that we can spawn the wither and do a bunch of stuff around it without it getting free and trying to kill us I’m actually going to gather up

A bunch of endstone right here so that we can plug up some of the area underneath the end portal where I’ve widened it out to make space for our wither killing chamber because we ideally want to make this as smaller space as possible while still being able

To spawn the wither here in our obsidian t-shape in the center so I’m going to fill in some of these corners and back walls bearing in mind that once the Wither generates it probably generates on this block here and is probably going to destroy a few of the blocks around it

In initially we’re going to leave one corner over here open and this is where we’re going to be generating a bunch of snow golems but I’m going to be closing off the rest of this for now and if we need access to the farm we can drop down

This hole and get in and out of the space that way reaching into my Ender Chest I’m going to grab a couple of things from the Redstone box and I’ll also need a bunch of iron from the beacon box in this case so we can make

Some shears we’re going to lay out a stack or two of pumpkins on the ground and we’re going to carve all of these pumpkins so that they become viable to create Snow Golems of course doing this is going to create an awful amount of pumpkins con seeds we’re just going to

Let those despawn since we don’t need to do anything with them then we’re going to return to the Redstone box here and grab two Redstone Dust an observer and two dispensers leaving a two block gap for a snow golem to generate down here we’re going to remove this block and

Replace it with one of those dispensers into which we’re going to put all of the sets of shears we just crafted we’re also going to have an observer facing in that way and another dispenser on the top here that dispenser is going to be filled with all of the carved pumpkins

We just generated and now we’re simply going to look at this block here in front of the dispenser and place two snow blocks what’s just happened there is that we’ve created a snow golem thanks to the carved pumpkin being placed on top of the two snow blocks by

A dispenser but on the way down the snow golem that’s generated gets sheared by this bottom dispenser and that removes the carved pumpkin again leaving you with this face made out of coal the snow golem will then move on into the area underneath the portal where it’s going

To be killed by the Wither generating a Wither Rose every time one is killed this will also generate a lot of snowballs because this area is going to constantly be exploded by the Wither and so lots of snowballs are going to drop around here as the snow golems move over

The terrain and generate snow layers but the best part is with the explosive projectiles of the Wither contained within the Bedrock here the Wither roses that drop from the snow golems are not in danger of being destroyed and it’s actually fairly safe for the player to

Walk around in here and collect them so I’m going to dig out the t-shape of obsidian right there to make sure that I know where it is because we don’t want to end up misplacing this Wither by mistake but we are going to summon the wither right here and and probably run

Away quite quickly so we don’t end up getting caught up in the explosion the only other problem is we got to make sure there aren’t any other blocks in the range of the t-shape of the Wither but then we should be able to do this

There we go now the Wither is spawned we can get on out of here and those two snow golems are not long for this world another quick word of advice you’re probably going to want to turn your mob sounds down for this one because it’s going to get very noisy

Inside this farm and you’re going to be standing relatively close to it but now all we should need to do is stand here continuously placing these two snow blocks and the majority of those carved pumpkins are going to be returned to us allowing us to put them back into the

Dispenser later as you’ll be able to see in the subtitles there a bunch of snow golems are now dying underneath the portal and they’re going to be pushed into that space by the other Snow Golems continuing to generate here now this isn’t quite the setup for this Farm

Where you can stand here and hold right click I am having to place these two blocks deliberately each time but if you want a better version of these Farm where some of these problems are dealt with more elegantly check out Ian x4’s video on this Farm it’s a really great

Explanation of the farm and where I first discovered its potential now eventually you are just going to run out of either snow or carved pumpkins if you end up with carve pumpkins dropped on the surface here you can replace them in the dispenser and we might end up having

To go down here to reclaim the rest of them but as we walk into this space we’ll be able to run around pick up a bunch of snowballs and there will be some wither roses here as well so we’ll drop a couple of stacks of snowballs and

Create fresh stacks of Wither roses in my inventory so I can make sure I can collect everything and as as you can see it’s pretty safe to walk around the Wither without taking any damage while you’re down here you’ll want to craft a bunch of these snowballs back into snow

Blocks leaving space in your inventory for those and the only thing you need to be cautious of is that you do this quickly enough that the Wither’s health bar doesn’t just deplete from it suffocating in Bedrock but where it is right now it really can’t hurt us at all

There we go just from grabbing all of the Snowballs that were down there I’ve actually been able to craft more snow blocks than I came here with I came here with three stacks I now have about six so the snow really is going to multiply

From this farm and you should be able to to retain the same amount of carved pumpkins here for the dispenser and so the cycle continues with us building up with the roses and we’re going to need a few stacks of them in order to completely fill a couple of Platforms in

The nether so I’m going to grab as many of these as I feel like grabbing right now and I’ll meet you back in the nether for part three back in the nether we’ve returned to the site of our Wither Skeleton Farm These two Crossroads are going to form

The foundation of a platform which will ultimately end up spawning a lot of wither skeletons I brought a bunch of of Netherrack with me and I have the Wither roses stored in a shulker box inside my Ender Chest here along with a bunch of the snow blocks which we’re keeping for

A future project so the goal now is to create a platform at the lowest part of the spawning bounding box for this section of the nether fortress which happens to be just over halfway along this pillar section and right where the pillar section Narrows out this is basically the lowest block on which

Wither skeletons will spawn if you place a non nether brick Block in this area we are going to connect that to this leg of the the nether fortress over here and fill the entire thing in of course we’re going to remove the blocks of the nether fortress here as well and this nether

Brick here is going to have to go and be replaced by Netherrack so that we can plant the Wither roses on it we’re going to create multiple spawning platforms for this Farm just to optimize the amount of wither skeletons that we can potentially generate here and the next

Platform will need to start three blocks up so we’ll count 1 2 3 the next platform is going to be there and we should be able to fit another platform three blocks above that one of course if you want to scale down the farm a bit as long as you have spawning conditions

Like this where there are very few other biomes around besides Soul Sand Valley or warped forest and if you’re willing to do a little extra spawn proofing you’ll be able to get pretty decent rates for a single player project out of just one platform and possibly even just

One Crossroad in fact I’m not entirely confident that a full shulker box of Wither roses is going to fill more than two platforms of this so we’re going to focus on getting two platforms set up and once we’re farming skeletons maybe I’ll come in and add a third platform

Later the other thing to bear in mind is that making this entire platform out of Netherrack is going to leave you very vulnerable to ghast attacks the real test of whether or not this platform is built out the correct height is whether or not you find nether fortress mobs

Spawning on it and as you can see these blazes have spawned on it while I was briefly away from the platform so that pretty much guarantees we’re getting what we want out of it and there are some wither skeletons already down here which is perfect because I want to swipe

It a couple of these to see if we can get some more skulls in case I need to spawn another wither and generate some more wither roses and yeah judging by the amount of nether I brought with me and the amount I now have left we’ll probably need a full shulker box of

Wither roses to cover two platforms but with all the Nether Bricks we’ve just collected I’m going to turn a bunch of that into slabs we’re also going to use slabs of Mangrove wood if we need to and one and a half blocks up from the platform we’re going to create a row of

Slabs here that’s designed to keep any mobs inside the farm and give us something that we can run around the outside on making sure that these are bottom half slabs of course so that nothing is going to spawn on them and we don’t need to spawn proof them with

Buttons I’m going to turn a bunch of the mangrove logs into PL break those down into slabs and create another row of slabs over the top of this one and eventually this will just be a cool Decorative Touch to the farm but for now running around on top of these Mangrove

Slabs will prevent any of the wither skeletons from reaching us if they spawn inside here which they are likely to do soon because our next move is going to be to place all of the Wither roses that we’ve gathered on this platform this will need to be done very carefully and

Systematically both to make sure that you don’t take too much damage from the Wither roses and to make sure that there are no gaps in the Wither roses where other mobs could spawn but you’ll find that the Wither Ros will even kill the zombie piglins that wander into this

Area and they won’t really do anything to stop that from happening so you can say goodbye to other mobs in this area for now and if you want to spawn wither skeletons on this platform in the meantime just make sure to create three block High areas so that the two and a

Half block tall wither skeletons can spawn in here and if you’re playing with fire spread on which I haven’t for a while keep in mind that flowers can burn and so can any wood blocks that you place around here and if that small fire means that I need to go and get more

Wither roses cuz I don’t have enough for a second platform I’m going to be so annoyed but right now if all we wanted to do was create a manually farmed area for Wither Skeleton spawning this would be a pretty good one because as we will

Find as we dig our way around this area is we’ve got a pretty decent amount of wither skeletons spawning here already and as we Circle the platform like this we leave spawning spaces in the distance open to generate so that when we come back we have a decent amount of wither

Skeletons just waiting to be attacked now unfortunately they are going to jump a little bit as we hit them so there’s a chance that some of them can sort of leap up and hit us with the knockback from The Sword but that’s generated a handful of drops down there there’s coal

And bones and everything now unfortunately we are a little bit close to the blaze spawner that we noted earlier and that’s going to cause problems if it starts more fires in the farm so we’re going to go and deal with that real quick having drunk a fire resistance potion I’m going to approach

The spawner from this side deal with any blazes that spawn in the meantime and we’re going to create a 9×9 by3 area of full blocks centered on the spawner we’re going to totally cover the top of that with slabs or buttons as well and that’s effectively going to block any

Potential spawnable spaces that the spawner could use to create a blaze and that should prevent the spawner causing any more trouble from that point onwards now if I fly away from our Wither Skeleton spawning platform try and despawn a bunch of the other stuff that might have generated in the nearby area

And then approach that Wither Skeleton spawning platform again we can now see that a ton of Wither skellies have spawned in this area and it’s just about despawning the mobs in the surrounding biomes and allowing more spawning spaces to become available in here just look at the massive pack of wither skeletons

We’ve been able to generate and if I’m standing back here in the corner I don’t think they’ll be able to hit me that is an absolute ton of wither skeletons that we’ve just disposed of and unfortunately we’re disposing of the drops right now as well both because I don’t really feel

Like dipping down into the Wither roses to get them and because some of them are going over the edge into lava but the key to these types of Wither Skeleton Farms is not just to leave this big open spawning platform and try and hack at the skellies from the sides we’re going

To create an area in the middle of the farm that the wither skeletons are drawn towards and for that we’re going to need to capture some piglins fortunately for me even with the Wither skeletons spawning in large numbers here in the Soul Sand Valley there are some nearby

Biomes which are not part of the Soul Sand Valley in particular up here we should have some piglins spawning as a result of there being a nether waste biome and there we are down there there’s a whole pack of piglins right now the piglins are going to be

Aggressive towards me because I’m not wearing gold but that affords me the opportunity to trap a couple of them in boats making sure that they don’t despawn and saving them for later because if you haven’t seen this in action already piglins and wither skeletons will actually fight each other

They will become aggressive towards each other if they’re in the same area and so we can use piglins trapped in the center of the farm to lure the wither skeletons in towards the Middle where they will drop down into a killing mechanism that we’ll set up with the player at the

Bottom with a looting three sword attacking them for all of the drops each of these piglins is going to be positioned in the center of one of these Crossroads since that’s what we’ve centered the spawning pad here on and before we work on the next layer of the

Farm we should really figure out where the wither skeletons are going to go otherwise we’ll be retrofitting a killing area onto something that’s already producing a ton of hostile mobs unfortunately for me the area directly underneath these Crossroads is a lava lake so I’ll have to bust out a few more

Fire resistance potions and create a perimeter where we can drain the lava allowing us to operate in relative safety but this has been a lot of work and there’s still a lot of work left to be done before we can turn this thing into an absolute Wither Skeleton

Powerhouse so for now we are going to leave this episode here but folks thank you so much for watching this episode of the Minecraft Survival Guide there will be a follow-up episode where we complete this farm and you folks will really enjoy what it can do at full capacity

But thank you so much for watching this episode my name has been pixel riffs don’t forget to leave a like on this video If you enjoyed it subscribe if you want to see more and I’ll see you folks soon take care bye for Now