Insane Obsidian Farm: 32k/hr in Minecraft 1.16.5+

Hi this is ian x04 and today we’re going to build a very simple obsidian farm that produces over 32 000 obsidian blocks per hour that’s about one stack of obsidian every seven seconds and the farm can be built in mere minutes using a modest set of materials like many other fast obsidian farm

Designs this one uses a wither to break the regenerating obsidian platform in the end dimension besides being very productive and easy to make this farm is also quite safe it’s been tested extensively under normal conditions and with extreme behaviors turned on all without issue

And if you play on a server the farm is relatively safe for other players as well other players that enter the end dimension while you’re running the farm aren’t attacked by the wither and when you’re done with the farm the wither is easily killed using an iron golem so

That you don’t need to worry about the wither escaping later on the obsidian platform in the end provides the source of obsidian for the spark since it regenerates whenever anything teleports to the end dimension the teleported item in this case is a snowball that comes from a snow golem

Sitting inside the end portal in the overworld this snow golem is targeting a trapped silverfish but despite appearances the snowballs are immediately teleported to the end dimension where there is a wither that can break almost any type of block around them shortly after being attacked interestingly the same snowball that

Just came through to regenerate the platform can also be used to attack the wither if it’s aimed correctly so one second after the snowball strikes the weather the weather will break a three by three section of the obsidian platform and the nine obsidian drops are then picked up by an array of hoppers

Underneath to contain the weather we surround the head of the wither with blocks and use a chain to hold it down so that the tail is just inside the obsidian the braking zone around the wither is three by three blocks horizontally and four blocks tall starting at the base of the withers hitbox

Since the base of the tail is inside the obsidian and there are three blocks between it and the chain the wither is unable to break the chain and the blocks surrounding its head the weather could drop down to escape but the wither tries to fly over its

Target when it attacks and so the wither pins itself in this trap as long as it has a target the player serves as the withers target in this farm the wither shoots skulls at the player but the skulls are deflected by a line of three short bubble columns

That push the skulls high enough to fly over the player most of these skulls that the wither shoots will be black but a very small portion of them are blue blue wither skulls are highly dangerous projectiles because they can break almost any type of block upon impact so it’s important to understand the

Situations in which they arise first off the wither has a chance of shooting a random blue skull when it doesn’t have a target and we can easily prevent this case by having the wither target the player and this is necessary anyways in order for the wither to remain trapped against the chain

The second case occurs when the wither is attacked too frequently if the wither is attacked faster than every 12 game ticks it may randomly shoot a blue skull a snow golem shoots a snowball every 20 game ticks so this pace will avoid triggering any blue skulls but we still need to be careful

Most mobs can attack every 20 game ticks so merely having two mobs simultaneously attacking the wither is enough for it to start shooting blue skulls and finally the main head of the wither has a one in a thousand chance of shooting a blue skull instead of a black

One during its normal attack on a target the trajectory of a blue skull however takes a slightly different path from the black skulls it flies under the blocking wall and therefore it doesn’t destroy it this blocking wall is only here to ensure that black skulls don’t fly off

And accumulate in the border chunks it’s not a concern for a few blue skulls to accumulate in border trunks even a hundred of them will be fine they eventually fly into the void and despawn but if you really want to stop all of them you can build a regenerating

Cobblestone block with lava and water back in the stronghold we need a couple additional contraptions to help with keeping the farm running and with starting and stopping the farm when operating the farm we need a snow golem to throw snowballs while the player is in the end dimension

To make sure that the snow golem is loaded by the game we can have another player wait in the stronghold but it’s probably more practical to build a chunk loader which is just a device that sends entities back and forth between the nether and overworld dimensions each entity arriving in a dimension will

Load the area around the portal for 15 seconds so these matching portals mutually keep each other loaded in the game by sending boats back and forth between dimensions unlike nether portals items that are teleported through the end portal do not load the end dimension for processing instead these entities are processed

Only when a player is present this is an important issue because if you leave the snow golem in the end portal after you’re done using the farm it will continue to send thousands upon thousands of snowballs to accumulate in the end which can crash the server when it’s finally loaded

To keep this from happening this farm is designed to automatically remove the snow golem from the in portal after a certain period of time this compact timer relies on the fact that items normally take five minutes to despawn so you can configure the timer to lower the snow golem after 60 minutes

For example by placing 12 items inside and the timer will run until each item has a chance to sequentially despawn this timer also has an additional pressure plate on top that temporarily lowers the snow golem out of the portal this gives you five minutes to travel to

The end and summon the wither on the obsidian platform this is needed because regenerating the obsidian platform also deletes that three layers of blocks over the platform and we need to be able to place blocks on the platform to summon the wither correctly okay let’s start building if you haven’t

Already you’ll need to find and secure the portal room in the stronghold break the silverfish spawner load the isa vendor in the portal frame and set your bed and respawn point here you’ll need to build a chunk loader to keep this room loaded while the farm is running this particular trunk letter is

A very elegant one designed by dark so clear out the space under the portal and set a torch in the middle of it stand at the torch and use the information on the f3 screen to face west and keep in mind that this room might have a different

Orientation from what you see in your world but it is critical to face west replace the block to the west of the one that you’re standing on with a piston now turn around and face east and replace the two stone brick blocks in front of you with dirt or glass or some

Other type of non-stone block that can’t become infested with silverfish set down a boat centered in the middle of these two blocks and then use the targeted block information on the f3 debug screen to scan the walls and floor of the room for any infested block

When you find one break the block with your fist to release the silverfish and lure it into the boat now place another boat centered on the piston and then summon a snow golem and push it in place a dropper two blocks away from the piston facing away from the piston and

Set a wooden pressure plate on top of it and another in front of it and surround the lower pressure plate with glass blocks and a trapdoor to contain the items that will be shot out now place a redstone torch on the side of the dropper and you should see the piston

Activate to raise the golem into the portal remove two blocks to access the underside of the dropper and attach another redstone torch to the block under the pressure plate you should now see the snow golem lowered out of the portal make sure that you’ve set a bed and set

Your respawn point here and then head into the portal when you arrive in the end your feet will be at the x y and z coordinates of 149 and zero and you will be in the center of the obsidian platform this is the same in every single game regardless of seed

If your platform is underground surrounded by end stone carve out a tunnel 14 blocks long to the east make the room six wide and five blocks high this will give you enough room to conceptually follow the rest of the tutorial which will instead assume that the platform is floating separately from

The main island to manage the water that will be flowing from the bubble columns remove one block from the floor next to the platform so that the water will drain here on the west side of the platform place lava on top of the obsidian and wait

Around 15 seconds for it to flow down pick up the lava and place water to cast a pillar of cobblestone work your way down on the cobblestone so that your feet are at y 45 and then build out a 5×5 platform directly under the obsidian platform

On the middle of the east side of the platform add a 3×3 array of hoppers the middle row of hoppers should point to the right side and your feet should have the x and z coordinates of 101 and 0 when you stand under the middle hopper

Now add six double chests on the right side and three on the left and add hoppers to feed into the chest on the right so that everything is connected this storage system will hold about 500 stacks of obsidian and will take about one hour to fill up once the farm has

Started feel free to expand the storage or use a different system that may better suit your needs build a staircase back up to the obsidian platform and go to the southeast corner to bridge out so that your feet are at 102 49 and 3. from here bridge out on seven blocks to

The east turn left and bridge out on three more blocks and place a distinctive stone block on top of the one at the end this marks the player station and your feet should be at 50 and zero when standing on it bridge east on another five blocks and

Then pillar up on four blocks so that your feet are at 114 54 and zero hop down expand the top of the pillar to make a three by two blocking wall and then remove the two blocks from under it remove the last five bridging blocks and

Then place and flip up a trapdoor on the player station with the hinge to the east this prevents you from being knocked back when the wither is summoned you can optionally add another trapdoor next to the player station to help prevent the extremely rare but hypothetically possible situation where

An enderman might teleport into the farm and then try to push you off the player station but if you use this trapdoor just be careful that you don’t fall through it instead for underground farms you can achieve the same effect by surrounding the player with magma blocks to repel the enderman

Go back to the platform and pillar up on two temporary blocks in the middle of the east side and then bridge east one more block and then add a line of three soul sand blocks remove the temporary bridging block and place water on top of each of the three

Soul sand blocks now pillar up on another temporary block and then add an end stone block place a temporary block to the west your feet should be at 101 53 and 0 when standing on the temporary block surround the temporary block with end stone and then replace the temporary

Block with a horizontal chain now head back to the stronghold it’s time to prepare for summoning the wither so make sure that you have a diamond or nether right pickaxe four end stone blocks for soul sand three wither skeleton skulls a bow with a few arrows four iron blocks a carved pumpkin a

Temporary block and some food you’ll also need some junk items for the despawn timer one for every five minutes that you want to use the farm the collection system shown in this tutorial will fill up in 60 minutes so i’ll need 12 junk items for the dropper

You’ll also need two more junk items to get the timer started drop a junk item on the top pressure plate first and then drop another on the lower pressure plate avoid getting too close to the timer so that you don’t accidentally pick up the junk items on

The pressure plates and then load the other 12 junk items into the dropper make sure the chunk loader is running and then go through the end portal so that you can summon the wither you have a little less than five minutes to complete this task which should be plenty of time

When you arrive on the obsidian platform you’ll need to isolate the farm to prevent enderman from wandering into it so break a few blocks on the bridge between the platform in the main island or fill in part of the staircase that you use to get to the surface

Now go back to break the obsidian block directly underneath the chain and make sure that you do not break the hopper underneath stack two end stone blocks on the other side of the hole and place two end stone blocks under the chain set down the sole sand in a horizontal t

Shape with the tail of the wither over the missing obsidian block and place the three wither skeleton skulls to summon the wither now go to the player station and wait for the wither to explode do not crouch when you’re at the player station you must remain fully upright at

All times so that the wither doesn’t hit you after the explosion shoot an arrow at the wither and one second later you should hear the sound of blocks breaking this confirms that the wither is locked onto you which makes it safe for other players to enter the end dimension

A few minutes later you should again hear the sound of breaking blocks but this time you’ll hear it every second and this confirms that the obsidian platform has started regenerating and the farm is running if you run the farm afk look straight down while you’re away so that you don’t

Accidentally look at an enderman or go ahead and put on the carved pumpkin also make sure that your server doesn’t kick you for inactivity if this happens be sure to rejoin your server before other players have a chance to enter the end dimension and be sure to shoot the

Wither with another arrow to make sure that it locks onto you again when the de-spawn timer for the farm finally runs out the block breaking sounds will stop at this point you should kill the wither or at least get some help in doing so place a temporary block on the bridge to

The platform and set an iron block on top remove the temporary block and finish building the rest of an iron golem since the wither is locked onto this single golem will be able to easily defeat the wither the iron golem attacks every 20 game ticks and because the snow golem in the

Overworld is no longer hitting the wither with snowballs the frequency of the iron golem’s attacks does not trigger any blue skulls it’s dangerous to summon the iron golem while the obsidian platform regenerates because the wither will start shooting blue skulls as a result well i hope that you’ve enjoyed today’s

Video based on reports of the upcoming changes in minecraft 1.19 will be our last chance to take advantage of portal spam for farming so i hope that you enjoy all the possibilities that this obsidian farm can bring if you’d like to upgrade this farm i’d encourage you to stop by scorpio’s youtube channel

Scorpio is an amazing resource for weather related information and serves as the admin for the wither archive discord server you’ll also find many of the concepts that i’ve used in today’s tutorial in the videos of his channel i’ve learned a lot from scorpio and i can firmly say that this video would not

Have been possible without them so thank you scorpio for your expert guidance and for your dedication and contributions to the minecraft community i’d also like to thank my discord community for reviewing the drafts of this video and providing the feedback to help me improve it still there can be

Some unexpected changes or updates so be sure to check out the video description so that your build goes as smoothly as possible thanks for watching today