How to Build an Enderman Farm! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide (1.18 Tutorial Lets Play) [S2 E67]

Hello everyone my name is pixariffs and welcome back to the minecraft survival guide hope you’re all having a good day in today’s episode we begin at the bottom of a very large hole where we have dug down to why 32 in the moss mining chunk here in the mountain we’ve

Started to uncover some oars that are a little different to the ones that we will find at the top there’s a bunch of copper occasional bits and pieces of iron starting to make themselves known even our first lapis which is very exciting but i have started to run into

A problem it’s okay right now because i went back and repaired it at the village more recently but i am finding more and more that i need to repair my hoe and my other tools in short order and the stuff that i have to do this already takes a

Little bit too long there are of course some methods getting xp that we’ve explored previously in the series which can be pretty effective in short bursts like smelting resources for example if we grab a bunch of iron ingots out of here yes we’re gonna get a bit of xp

Which will go towards repairing my tools but typically those resources are relatively limited and require a decent amount of effort on the part of the player one setup could be to get a farm set up for something like cactus and have that continuously go through a system smelted by furnaces and then

Disposed of in some sort of collection chest or even you know dispensed out into lava and that would allow the furnace to store xp over time until you simply collect it from the furnace anytime you’re ready and whatever xp that furnaces has accumulated so far gets transferred to you for repairing

Your tools you could do the same with kelp if you wanted to that’s quite a popular design actually since it gives you dried kelp which you can then use as a furnace fuel block and we’re looking to kelp in future but it’s not the way i want to resolve the situation today some

Of the other common approaches include mob spawner farms like the ones we’ve set up in the past to this spider spawner the zombie spawner further down in the world and the cave spider spawner over at the abandoned mine shaft which allow us to easily kill mobs for little

Bursts of xp and also acquire a handful of resources if we feel like getting hold of those but typically these mob spawners rely on the speed of the spawners themselves which will produce mobs every about 10 to 40 seconds which is honestly not the fastest even when

They produce large bursts of mobs like this even here at my cave spider spawner farm where i have three cased by the spawners working in tandem it’s pretty clear that not all of the spiders are getting up here as efficiently as they could be because of spiders tendency to

Climb walls and there are minor things we can do to improve that or simplify this design but realistically it’s not providing spiders at the rate we want and for repairing my tools it’s honestly not the most convenient thing we could make it starts to feel a little slow

Especially when you’ve been playing the game for long enough that you know what it’s capable of and so really for the last little while my approach to farming xp has really been to interact with villagers because they provide a pretty hefty amount of xp with each trade they

Can trade multiple items multiple times per day and usually it gets your xp filled up pretty quickly you can also acquire some very useful stuff from them in the form of stuff like golden carrots rare blocks that are a bit of a pain to mine and enchanted books from the folks

Like the librarians even diamond tools from our blacksmiths and so forth but i’ve increasingly begun to find this method a little inconvenient first of all it requires you to stick around the village so that the villagers can refresh their trades and you can take advantage of the ones which get locked

Up every so often when they unlock them and in this case it’s not really something that i want to spend a bunch of time farming wood for sticks so that i can trade with the fletcher every time and the string trade which is obviously fueled a little bit by the spider farm

Is useful but ends up getting locked after a few short trades basically anytime i want to repair my tools i have to spend multiple in-game days at this village which seems like an inefficient use of my time when we could be going to a more efficient experience farm and

Topping up our tools within a couple of minutes and while one solution to this might be to expand the village population or set up a villager training hall where trading can be a little bit more convenient and there are multiple types of villagers like the fletchers

And so forth that’s something i plan to do later in the series at a base project where we’re going to have villagers available more readily and so today we’re going to take a different approach we’re going to top up on fireworks i’m going to reattach my shield and i’m

Probably going to drop off some of my more valuable tools and armor just in case because this next method is going to be a little dangerous we’re going to return to the end and set up an enderman farm so welcome back to the end population u and 70 enderman and potentially the end

Of dragon if it’s your first time here but we’ve dealt with that a couple of times by now the first thing we’re going to do is collect a bunch of ender pearls i have a few in stockpile already but i would like to get more and this is more

Or less an illustration of how our life is going to be for the remainder of this video but we’ll get to that because we’re going to be building nembons ender mini farm design and that design relies on one thing in particular actually relies on two things in particular and

The first unfortunately once again is that you need to be playing in java edition once again sincere apologies to the bedrock folks but this is one of those farm designs that works best in java edition because of the way java edition spawns hostile mobs the second

Thing is that we need to know about endermites and enemites are something i haven’t really encountered in this series yet because i don’t use ender pearls much as far as my day-to-day gameplay goes however for an enderman farm they are pretty much essential and an endomite has a small chance to spawn

Every time you throw an ender pearl and endermen do not like it when they do and they all rush in towards it i cannot believe that was my first ender pearl and i got an endovite to spawn can we just acknowledge that honestly some days the tutorial thing it takes a while it

Takes a few minutes to get the results you want and sometimes it happens with the first ender pearly throat that was absolutely brilliant so as we can see endemites when they spawn attract a lot of endermen in towards their area if enemy have spawned they will try and get

To the endomite and kill it and endemites are basically silverfish like from the spawner and the stronghold in the overworld they don’t really take a whole lot of killing unlike silverfish endomites also don’t burrow into stone around them so typically when an endomite spawns if it isn’t killed by an

Enderman or a player then it’s going to despawn within two minutes anyway so for the farm we want to set up we need to make sure that our endermite remains persistent and that’s why we are going to name tag it and trap it in a minecart

So that it stays fixed in one place all the endermen will be drawn towards it but it won’t despawn so if you haven’t got hold of name tags already you can typically find them in dungeon loot chests you can fish them up from fishing or you can trade them from librarians

They are relatively common once you know how to find them and with emerald trading with the villagers you can get hold of them very very easily so we’re going to take a name tag or two to the ends to make sure our endermites are persistent i’m bringing three of these

With me frankly because there’s a chance that we might lose an endermite at some point during this process and i want to make sure that we don’t have to return to the overworld once we’ve started this process because building this farm is something we can just do all in one go

We’re going to be trapping the end of might in a minecart so i’m going to bring some powered rails some regular rail under minecart to make sure we trap it we’re going to need a bunch of leaves some solid blocks we’ll also need enough blocks that we can turn into slabs to

Pave the way out to where we’re going to build this we’ve also got some carpet which is essential for spawn proofing against enderman and in some cases we’re even going to be placing that carpet on top of string so that the enderman can’t teleport to a solid block underneath the

Carpet because occasionally the game does end up playing fast and loose with the enemy teleportation thing we’re also going to make a bunch of hoppers and bring a collection chest with us so we’ll probably need six hoppers and then we’ll leave two of those as chests for

Collecting all of the ender pearls and believe me there are going to be a lot of ender pearls okay i think we have more or less everything we will need might bring a few more stacks of deep slate and a stone cutter with us to convert it all into slabs i think

That’ll do let’s go back to the end so you may remember from the episode we did about building a hostile mob farm in the overworld that in java edition natural mob spawning happens best when it’s lower down in the world there is no better place to demonstrate that than

The end because once we reach the edge of the island over here we are looking down into an empty void with absolutely no blocks in it whatsoever and that is one of the best places we can possibly set up a farm because we can build it as

Low down in the world as we want to as long as we make sure we stay above y0 because below that you can’t place any blocks and you end up falling into the void and dying the best place to build an enderman farm is out in the void away

From this central island because naturally the central island allows endermen to spawn in a pretty spread out fashion as long as they’re within 128 blocks of the player endermen will spawn in the distance so much so that you can’t even aggro them when you look at them like this they’re just simply too

Far away for the player’s eyeballs to register you can look at this enderman over here with a spyglass and he’s not going to do anything about that he’s also going to look really kind of high contrast when you see the avoid sky that close up but what we’re going to do is

Build this farm as far away from the end island as we dare we’re going to build at least 128 blocks from any spawnable blocks that are part of the island here and we’re going to do that so that we can force all of the enderman it is

Possible to spawn at once to spawn on a single platform this entire island’s worth of endermen can be crammed into a much smaller space but the first thing we need to do is make sure we can get down that far and the way we’re going to

Do that is by placing a column of lava right here and then once it’s finished flowing all the way down to the bottom of the world where the void begins we are going to pour a bucket of water down next to it and convert all of the flowing lava into cobblestone this will

Take a little while because it takes a while for the lava to spread downwards it’s got about 70 or so blocks to fall and in the meantime i’m gonna tuck all of my valuable stuff with the exception probably of my elytra into my ender chest here and if we end up falling into

The void and losing our elytra we do have a couple of backups so that’s not the biggest deal in the world i’m probably going to keep my shield on me just so that i can defend myself against enderman if we find ourselves up against them but we really don’t want to lose

Any of our equipment in the void here which brings me to another lightly interesting fact did you know that you can break shulker boxes by punching them and they will still drop the shulker box it’s very very useful to know if you don’t have any pickaxes and stuff on you

Anyway it seems like this lava should now have reached the level of the void i don’t see it generating any further down which means we can place a bucket of water two blocks along we’re not converting the lava source there into obsidian we’re converting all of the lava adjacent to this into cobblestone

We can also pick up the lava source because we’re done with that now we’re going to place that back in our backup gear chest and once the lava is finished flowing away here it’ll be safe to go down we can keep the water source here

For now and we need to grab some blocks because we’re going to be building some stuff down at the level of the void for this we’re going to break out the stone cutter we’re going to turn some of these cobbled deep slate into slabs i feel

Like deep slate tile seems like a nice formal way of getting out there and we’re going to make sure we have at least 128 of these because of course we have to make sure we’re 128 blocks from the island now a quick note about endermen spawning and teleporting first

Of all if we place down some slabs endermen will not be able to spawn on these lower half slabs specifically of course if you build top half slabs then they will be able to spawn on those but we’re going to be using lower half slabs

To bridge out into the void that said if any enemy have already spawned in the area and you end up aggroing them or they’re aggroed by something else it is possible for them to teleport two lower half slabs it doesn’t happen as often but it can happen because their

Teleportation looks for anything solid that they can stand on in the area so it’s not always safe to spawn proof against endermen with slabs because sometimes they can teleport to those locations as usual the best defense against enderman is often to stand in an area where there is less than three

Blocks worth of available height if there aren’t three air blocks for them to stand in then they potentially risk suffocating themselves if they warp to this spot and the game doesn’t let them do it but if we make this area here out of lower half slabs they could still

Potentially teleport to that meaning they’re just waiting on the roof and potentially out of reach of the farm we want to make over the communities various years of testing this players have found that one of the most effective ways to spawn proof against endermen is to build up multiple layers

Of carpet carpet being something we put on top of blocks makes it naturally spawn proof but it also blocks air space here for endermen and they have trouble teleporting to areas like this so typically for the rest of this farm we are going to be spawn proofing areas

Against endermen with multiple layers of carpet and that will be especially useful when it comes to safeguarding our endermite right now i’m done explaining that the lava is more or less gone so it’s time for us to make our move we’re going to leave the water source here we’re going

To dip down in the water and it would be nice to have a respiration helmet on us right now but i think we can just about make it stepping out of the water to one side just ever so slightly to regain our oxygen like that

And what we’re going to do is get down to the level of the void as fast as possible and then we’re going to be placing a lower half slab basically on the bottom block of this pillar of cobblestone and this part is where you really start to clench a little bit okay

Being extra careful that we’re putting that in the right place i think we now have a safe slab to stand on and the lava should disperse from the blocks around us and if i check my coordinates right here we are standing at block coordinate y zero that’s very very cool

And i’m very glad we were able to do this first try our floating point coordinates the one next to xyz are showing us at 0.5 this is the lowest point in the world that we can possibly build you can’t place a block technically at y 0 we’re basically

Standing on y zero right now and we’re going to leave this water column here just as a way for us to get back up to the island we need to be 128 blocks away from our starting point so we’re just going to be placing two stacks of slabs

Heading out this way from the island we’re actually heading north doesn’t really matter which direction we do this in but we are heading in a northwards direction and because we’re building all of this out of lower half slabs it’s okay to look up take a break and you

Know relax your crouching fingers a little bit you could also toggle crouch from the settings if you wanted to just don’t look up at the areas of the island where endermen are spawning because chances are if one of them meets you on this bridge it’s going to knock you into

The void that’s pretty much game over okay we have now placed 128 lower half slabs leading us out here into the void and this is where we’re going to start building the farm now naturally we’ll set up a more formal entrance to and from this area for right now since we

Still got our elytra on we can fly back up to the island once again making sure that we don’t look dead at any enderman in the process which is easier said than done when they spawn in such large numbers we’re going to do this in stages just so we’re not taking absolutely

Everything out there with us but we’re going to start off by bringing some carpet the hoppers for the collection area and the chests a little bit of string to place the carpet on this is one of the slightly more nerve-wracking segments of this and i think that’ll do

To start off with you can absolutely widen this path out if you want to and we’ll probably do that in future but i’m pretty comfortable with it as it is we’re going to be placing a couple more slabs either side here so that we can place string against those and from here

We’re going to be building out a platform of carpet this is going to feel a little bit nerve-wracking stepping up onto this and it’s vitally important you don’t accidentally punch out the string and then walk onto this because if you break the string the carpet on top of it

Is going to break but from here we should be able to edge out over this platform place a couple more pieces of string there and this is going to be the area where we stand to use the farm and kill the enderman on one side of this

We’re going to be placing the collection chest and we can make a double chest there and then from this we can set up a pad of hoppers that’s going to be facing into the chest here we’ll place carpet on top of these as well hoppers should not be spawnable for endermen but it’s

Going to make building the farm out here a little easier oh that is phase one complete it feels good let’s head back and get some leaves i’m feeling a bit more confident now so i think we’re probably going to bring the pickaxe with us so that we can mine up some of this

Deep slate if we misplace it we’re gonna be bringing a couple of stacks a bunch of leaves and the carpet as we did before we can probably put the string back away as well and now this platform is large enough that we can swoop down

And land on the carpet i think just for safety we’re going to be placing a row of slabs directly above us having slabs in this 2×3 area here where we’re standing is going to make sure that we don’t end up with enderman teleporting directly behind us or anything so i

Think that’s going to help out we’ll probably put some carpet on top of this as well and layer that up just in case endermen teleport to these slabs we’re going to place some leaves headed out in this direction past the platform we’re gonna build that up on this side so it

Forms a barrier wall and if you hadn’t guessed already the area with the hoppers is where the enemy are going to be falling in so that we can kill them now we do need something solid behind this just to make sure that it isn’t made of blocks that we can easily break

With a sword like we could with leaves because we’re going to be swinging our sword at this area here so i’m going to build up two rows of cobbled deep sleep like this we’re going to put some leaves over the top of that and that’s where the endermen are going to be stepping

Off into this area once they discover the endomite that’s going to be positioned over here we’ll build the same leaf wall on the opposite side you don’t need to build this out of leaves technically but leaves are probably one of the more accessible spawn proof blocks transparent blocks like glass

Will also work pretty well but this is basically just guaranteeing that the endermen don’t step out into this area and we’re going to be covering those with carpet once again in a minute or two we will build up effectively a staircase of leaves at the back here and

Leaves are going to be forming the platform that the endermen are going to walk across to get to this area of the farm as well and we are going to be placing some trap doors alongside here so i’m going to have to go back to the overworld for that because i need to

Bring some wood with me now from alongside the chest here i’ve built out a row of leaf blocks that we can use to create the platform over here because it’s not really possible to build downwards into the void we can’t push these blocks around with pistons or

Anything like that but right here we’re going to be starting a platform that goes out 16 blocks in this direction that’s going to be a walkway for all of the endermen to run down that make sure the player can stand at least 23 blocks away from the area where the endermen

Need to spawn we’re gonna build this area three blocks wide basically and that’s going to allow for all of the endermen to run down towards this central section of the farm once we reach the end of that platform we’re going to be building three blocks further inward and then we’re going to

Place a platform of solid blocks and this is the point we need to be extra careful to light this platform up once we are done building it because otherwise endermen will start spawning here when we’re not prepared for them yet this whole platform is going to be a

7×3 area and you might want to check chunk boundaries just to see if it crosses a chunk boundary or not but i don’t believe that ultimately matters as far as the farm’s operation goes i’m pretty sure this platform is going to fill up the mob cap fast enough that any

Kind of calculations based on chunk borders do not really matter that much you can let me know in the comments if it’s made a difference for you but personally i don’t need to worry too much about it now we’re going to be building out an area three blocks wide

Of leaves all the way around this platform and this is really to encourage the game to pack spawn enderman because when the game searches for a valid place to spawn mobs it also checks that there are enough blocks around the outside that it can spawn at multiple mobs and

While the leaves themselves aren’t spawnable they still trick the game into thinking there’s a lot more spawnable space than there actually is and the game will try and pack spawn enderman it’ll still spawn them on this platform of deep slate blocks but it’ll spawn a great deal more of them than it would

Have otherwise okay now we have our spawning platform all set up three blocks in every direction including diagonally around this central platform this is where all of the endermen are going to be spawning they’re not going to be spawning here yet thankfully because we have torches up to prevent

That but in the meantime we can make a few preparations for the remainder of the farm the first thing we’re going to be doing is taking away this little bridge of leaf blocks that we built around the outside because we don’t want any endermen taking a shortcut to what

We’re about to do next because right here is where we’re going to start building up these layers of carpet which are going to prevent the enderman from both spawning here and teleporting to this location and we’re going to build this whole thing out in a c shape i

Think i’m going to put one more slab here adjacent to this and build it up like so we’ll do the same on the opposite side and we’re going to build this up so the c shape is about five layers tall we’re also going to add this

Little section on the back to layer up behind our little platform there and we need to make sure that there are some trapdoors here so i’ll probably head back to the overworld now and on the way back i’m gonna pick up the supplies we need to spawn an endermite and trap it here

Oh okay i’m back i had a bit of a close call with a piglet in there because i wasn’t wearing any gold armor but yeah i’m back we’re going to grab a handful of blocks here just to make sure we have enough we’re going to get our minecart

Our minecart rails something to power the minecart rail with and of course we’re going to need the name tags i might also grab a bunch more ender pearls because frankly i got very lucky in the previous attempts to spawn endemites and i don’t know if eleven

Ender pearls is going to do the job so we’re just going to aggro a few more endermen from the safety of our shelter grab a few more ender pearls and hopefully that should be enough honestly scarcity of ender pearls is something we’re going to laugh about once we’re done building this farm so

We’ve got enough ender pearls now i’ve just got over two stacks yeah two stacks and five we should be fine as long as all of this goes according to plan which it might and it might not but as we come to a land on our little carpet platform over

Here very very carefully you don’t want to take too much full damage obviously at this point we’re going to be building a flat platform here that we can spawn the endermite on and of course this is something that we need to make sure we’re not too far away from otherwise it

Would spawn enderman and that’s really not what we want so a little three by three area over here will be all we need to set up the rail that’s going to capture the endermite in it i’m going to make sure this powered rail is directly over this section of carpet here at the

Very front of the c shape of carpet that we’ve made i’m gonna power the minecart rail we’re gonna put the minecart on here and we’re going to leave that to spin but we’re gonna build up a larger platform around that because i really don’t want this endomite to knock me off

Into the void and we have to name tag the endermite before it gets into the minecart because once the endermite is in the minecart its hitbox is small enough that it’s simply not going to be possible to right click on it with the name tags so really what we want to do

Is build out a large enough area that we can spawn an endermite name tag it and then lure it over to the minecart without it generating in there so here comes the moment of truth i’m going to grab the name tags in one hand i’m going

To end a pearl a couple of times we can probably end a pearl just like on the spot here until we end up spawning an endermite and frankly it would be better to do this with armor because it’s going to provide a bit of protection from the

Damage the ender pearls do to us so what the heck i’m just going to put my diamond and netherright armor back on and if this endermite kills me then i’m just bad at minecraft okay we’ll pop the backup gear chest back in here and we’ll

Sweep back down to the farm and try and spawn this endermite as you can see though the platform has already spawned a few enderman so we need to dispose of them very carefully before we start this whole endermite spawning process i’m just going to carefully nudge them into

The void without looking directly at them there we go so they don’t aggro on us eerie noises aside we will be good to go here and i should have just lit this platform up before i flew away there we go a little bit lighter and hopefully we won’t get any enderman spawning down

Here if we need to fly away and get some more ender pearls but hopefully we shouldn’t because this should be a relatively smooth process yes there we go we have an endermite now let’s name tag it there we go and let’s push the minecart around the circuit the

Minecart has picked up the endermite it’s in and once we turn off that powered rail we should be able to nudge it into the position we want it the minecart is slowly but surely making its way around the circuit to the powered rail it should stop on top of the

Powered rail and then we can break this entire platform back down i’m gonna raise my shield just to nudge it into place a little more firmly there we go that’s yeah roughly in the center of the block it’s fine it doesn’t need to be exact and then we’ll sacrifice the

Remainder of this deep slate platform to the void and get ready to drop our endermite into the farm okay all those blocks have been taken out the only ones that are left are the ones supporting the powered rail on which the endermite rests now before we do anything else we

Do need to make sure that our doors are here and open and that’s going to trick the endermen into thinking they can walk off the edge of this platform to get to the endomite up here to move the endomite into the farm we need to remove this block which should drop the

Minecart down onto this top block of carpet we’re going to take out that carpet and maybe the carpet around it so that the minecart falls on through and then hopefully we should be able to place a couple more pieces of carpet over the top of that yes there we go

Just placing it with the pixel of hitbox we have for that carpet below and now the endomite is suspended in this layer of carpet in the farm and once we turn this farm on by removing those torches endermen are going to pile into this area running over to try and get to the

Endomite they’re going to end up in this area down below where we should hopefully be able to kill them nice and easily this is really the moment of truth and in a second or two the noise is going to get a little bit overwhelming so i’m probably going to

Turn down my hostile creature sounds so that you guys can still hear me talk we’re going to remove the lighting from this platform there are no other lights around here we could set up a system to turn this thing on and off if we wanted

To but really all i need to do now is run away and run back through the farm because when i do the endermen are going to arrive in pretty significant numbers and look at them all piling up in there already that is basically the full mob caps worth of

Enderman and as you can see from the subtitles our endermite is still scuttling happily up there in his mine cards now what happens when we kill a few of these endermen is the xp and ender pearls start piling up in large numbers and naturally this is going to

Work better if you have a sweeping edge sword or a sword with sharpness because the endermen don’t take any damage getting into the farm in the first place and that’s what makes this slightly different from other ender ender farms that you might have seen where the

Endermen take a lot of fall damage so that they can be killed with one hit you can kill them with a punch if you want to so that you can repair whichever tools you like but once you really get this farm going it’s impossible to collect the xp it produces fast enough

So we’ll be standing in a cloud of xp like this for a little while looking at a cloud of enderman particles it mends our pickaxe within an instant and the xp levels continue to trickle in naturally this is also going to fill up the ender pearl storage chest here pretty much

Instantly so you may want to figure out some kind of method of disposing of the ender pearls we’ll get to that in a future episode and for the sake of my own safety i think i’m probably going to expand out the area that’s covered by carpet and slabs just to make sure that

We are extra safe in here against the attacks of any more endermen but already our levels are in the 30s and beyond and once again i want to say a big thank you to nembon for making this a farm design known so that folks like me can build it

I’m gonna leave a link to his original video about this in the description if you want to check that out and show him some love the man is a next level minecraft genius and he even works for mojang now so that should give you some idea of how useful his skills have been

Over the years it looks like we might need to do a little bit more spawn proofing of the areas around there looks like a couple of endermen have made it to some areas they shouldn’t have but at least they can’t get to the endomite that’s the main thing and that is where

We’re going to leave it for this episode of the minecraft survival guide i’m going to be repairing all of my tools here i think for the foreseeable future but that’s where we’re going to leave it for today thank you so much for watching 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 you