Insane Witch Farm Setup! Ultimate Minecraft Tutorial!

Hello everyone my name is pixel riffs and welcome back to the Minecraft Survival Guide I hope you guys are having a good day today we are back here at the site of our witch farm to make a few more preparations and possibly even start on the mechanism that is going to

Be powering this entire thing but doesn’t this witch hut look tiny compared to the enormous perimeter we have built around it well today I’m going to show you exactly how small the witch farm is going to be realistically because we’re gonna go back to bounding box outline reloaded and discuss exactly

What the area is we can work with when it comes to the witch spawning area and the witch farm mechanism in general but first of all I want to take care of a couple of things for a start I want to slab the outside of this ring here with

Red nether brick because I’m gonna be using this as the border for a perimeter that we are in theory going to potentially be digging out the entirety of this in future to allow for better spawning rates for the farm and a more technically efficient farm this is of

Course still a lot of effort to go to especially for the first time player so you might not want to follow this to the letter but if you want to get the best rate out of your your single witch hut and if you have multiple witch huts even

Better you will probably want to do something along these lines and spawn proof as much of the area as you can I’m mainly using red nether brick because I have so much netherrack and so many near the bricks that I decided I would probably put together something that

Might end up being a color scheme for the area we might end up decorating things with a pattern like this but the most important thing right now is just to make sure this area is spawn proof so we don’t have to deal with the ramifications of this being a spawner

Buleria in the long term so I’m gonna go ahead and do that and then we’re gonna hop it into bounding box outline reloaded and I’m gonna show you exactly what the bounding box of a witch hut looks like and how we can use that to our advantage so this is a version of

The Survival Guide world that I’ve regenerated in Minecraft one 13.2 so that I can use the installation of bounding box outline reloaded that I have I’m not certain if the mod is available form 14 yet but regardless of that this is the same world it’s the same witch hut in the same position

Doesn’t have the perimeter and stuff built around it of course because this is just a recreation of the world but it the same witch Hut you get the general idea and as you can see around the outside of this witch hut we have a bounding box which fits the dimensions

Of the witch hut for the most part you can see that it ends where this roofline ends and where the front porch ends on this side it’s about as wide as the roof is as well but we do have a couple of blocks to work with at the top here and

The reason for this really is that I think witch Hut’s actually spawn in a certain range of this bounding box so in theory they can generate with stilts that are a little taller so when a witch hut bounding box generates it kind of potentially positions the witch hut

Anywhere within kind of two blocks worth of wiggle room and of course the bounding box stops at sea level meaning that below the water we aren’t going to get any which spawns naturally that wouldn’t occur anyway because mobs don’t like to spawn in water with the exception of aquatic mobs and drowned

But in terms of the witches they’re only going to be spawning at sea level or above so that’s going to give us a few blocks to work with in here and in fact you’ll find that there is the potential for which is to spawn anywhere within this box now we can arrange that

Optimally to figure out how many spawning platforms we can give the witches we’re typically going to be working with three separate platforms all of which will be able to Peck spawn a large number of witches that will then drop through into a collection mechanism so as far as a collection mechanism goes

For the witches or at least a kill mechanism leading into a collection mechanism you can’t really use some of the tricks that you would use elsewhere for hostile mob farms you cannot for example drop witches through lava because then they will drink fire resistance potions and they’ll be fine

Which is will naturally kind of generate resistances where they can – that kind of stuff and you can even use that on occasion to farm fire resistance potions from witches but that’s not something we need to worry about today instead what we’re going to do is drop the witches 23

Blocks or more which should result in them dying of full damage probably the most reliable way of killing a witch to allow for easy collection we’re either going to have a pair of hoppers underneath that they’re falling onto or potentially a solid floor with a hopper minecart collection system running underneath it

And that’s going to allow us to channel all of the drops into a simple storage mechanism like the ones we’ve built at our other mob farms or items sorters but as far as the spawner buleria for witches goes this is what we’re working with so in terms of where you want to

Build the spawning floors for these farms it seems likely that the best places to do that are going to be maybe down here so that you will have two blocks of space that guarantees and which will be able to spawn in there and then two blocks up from that because

Witches will need a two block high space in order to spawn despite the fact that their hats I think actually glitches into the ceiling is not part of their hitbox itself let me just quickly check that but then a witch spawns in here you it’s pretty likely that it’s going to be

A two block high mob to begin with so you’ll need two blocks high of space and then you’ll need another two blocks above that so our last spawning floor is going to be here and I think I may be wrong about this but I think if you just

Have one block here that is part of the spawning space of a witch hut you will still be able to get which is spawning in this area I think that is the case obviously we would have to do a little bit of testing of that but I’m pretty

Certain that most witch farms employ a three floor pattern like this so you should be able to spawn witches either here or if we lower this block a little bit further down and to have the witches heads spawning within the boundary of the witch hut hitbox we should be able

To get which is spawning one way or the other and there we go having placed a platform at sea level two blocks up from there and to further blocks up from there we are getting natural which spawns on each of these platforms you can do this in creative mode in this

Case in this test world by running a quick commands to kill everything that is not a player and if we do that and we’re a decent distance away from the farm eventually you should start to see yep there we go a couple of witches pack spawning on top of there the reason I’m

Having to kill everything else in the world is that once again we do have a lot of caves in the sea area below us so that is potentially going to cause a little bit of a problem with natural mobs spawning here and there likewise I haven’t cleared out the rest of the

Terrain on the surface so we’re getting stuff like slimes and creepers spawning over there in that swamp biome we’ve potentially gets other stuff spawning over there if it was within range if we kill everything again let’s see if yep we got which spawns on that bottom platform oh I’ve

Got a couple there actually that’s pretty good and the middle platform does show some action as well while of course you know it’s nighttime and we don’t have any sunlight happening we should start to see which spawns on that middle platform up there as well there’s one

Now there we go but as you can see the amount of entities it’s killing each time I run this command obviously that’s fish and stuff in the surrounding ocean as well but there must be tons of mobs spawning below us in fact while we’re in this creative test well let’s quickly go

Into spectator mode and I will show you the sheer number of caves that we have to deal with down here because as you can see there are areas like this this ravine should be okay because it’s mostly lava but for that 128 block radius that we marked out using the

Circle of netherrack we are in theory going to have to light up as many of those caves as possible in fact a lot of these do seem to be underwater caves which is helpful because the only things they could spawn down there really would be drowned and we could potentially

Light those up sparingly so that that wouldn’t be at much of a problem but yeah as you can see here we’ve got some creepers spawning we would have a lot of other stuff spawning down here as well but I don’t think mobs will typically spawn while I’m in spectator mode and

While I’m within a certain proximity to that area so yeah that’s the stuff we have to deal with is all of those caves and things down there which is why you will typically find people if they have the time and the resources clearing out this entire perimeter of any terrain

That it’s possible to have they’ll get rid of the landscape they’ll get rid of the water they’ll get rid of basically anything that could potentially be a spore noble space for mobs right the way down to bedrock and bedrock will not spawn anything on it so that’s typically

The way a lot of people tend to deal with these farms if they have an abundance of time on their hands remember that for this witch farm to work during the day we also have to make this a completely dark space on the inside of the farm so that’s going to

Involve making a larger platform over the top to block skylight and making sure there are no lights around the farm that might be lighting up the areas where the witches can spawn but with a relatively high afk spot we should be able to eliminate some of the lower

Caves while still allowing enough space for the witches to not instantly despawn when drop down into the kill mechanism but if you consider that down here we have a platform at y63 which is sea level it needs to go 23 blocks below that so we are probably going to be around y equals

40 and we all need to light up caves around that area and above to make sure that there isn’t any sport ball space for other hostile mobs it’s going to be quite the task so back here in the Minecraft Survival Guide world I’m going to outline at the bounding box of this

Witch hut using wool so that we know what area we’re working with and so that I can take down the witch hut itself in order to prepare it for other stuff we are going to need to open out an area below here we’re going to need to make

Sure it is not filled with water and then we’re going to create a shaft for all of the witches to drop down into direful damage and for us to collect their drops so the first thing to do really is to basically outline the witch hut in its entirety starting there and I

Think it will need to come out one more block than that if we’re going to do the outline rather than the inside of the the bounding box we want to make sure that we are framing it pretty accurately here remember that the bounding box extends all the way to the outside of

This roof and it also goes two blocks above the roof there but the the the top floor of the witch farm is going to be around here so realistically we want the topmost part of our witch farm to have a ceiling at about this height here so

That’s what we’re aiming for when we outline this by the way while we’re here one other important aspect of this which was pointed out to me in the last video by a user named rotating atoms so thank you for that comment pointed out that if we check the biome indicator over here

On the f3 screen we need to make sure that each block of this witch hut is still technically in a swamp biome because there is a chance with its spawning so close to the edge of this ocean biome that some of the blocks in the area of this witch hut could

Technically count as ocean and I think we’ve actually got lucky here I don’t think we get into the ocean blocks until we are past at the bounding box of the witch hut itself but any blocks which are technically outside of the swamp biome and go back into the ocean biome

Have a chance to spawn more mobs and may not spawn which is a tall so that’s kind of something we want to avoid here luckily I think we’re gonna be able to get away with it with this witch hut but you never know it is worth checking especially if your witch

Hut is on the boundary of this it looks like a blessing with the sheer amount of terrain you don’t have to remove for a perimeter but it can potentially be a problem so watch out for that if you are trying this for yourself and while we’re

On the subject of people in the comments mentioning some useful stuff about this farm people did point out that it’s not really strictly necessary to create 128 block circle around here because the spawning radius of mobs the muck the radius at which mobs will despawn that 128 block limit counts in a sphere

Around the play and not just in a circle so the vertical height can be taken into account as well and if we pick an afk spot that is far above this witch farm we may not encounter as many mob spawns as we normally might therefore with about a limited amount of lighting up

Removal of some high spots that might cause some issues for stuff like that it isn’t really strictly necessary to clear out the entire area around here and we could still avoid some of the stuff that is spawning down in case as long as we make sure that we are 128

Blocks maximum distance away from the very bottom of the farm where the killing platform is going to be where the witches are going to be dying the thing is if mobs get outside of that 128 block radius they will despawn even if they are falling to their deaths

It’s something I’ve tested and creative a couple of times just to make sure this information is accurate but I got a couple of creeper spawn eggs in my creative test world I dropped them from 128 blocks above the ground and if I was too far away they never hit the ground

They just D spawn and we don’t want that to happen to our witches because we want this witch farm to be productive and not just be killing air blocks so effectively we do still need to make sure that some of the radius around here is going to be spawn proofed simply

Because the witches are going to be dying potentially at y equals 40 and there are probably going to be some caves in the vicinity that might be lit up however once again the radius around the player around which mobs will spawn will mean that that is a smaller area than it at

First appears so hopefully we should get lucky and this farm should be pretty productive from the get-go so now we have a wool frame around our witch hut the next task is going to be to extend this frame downwards to make sure that an area around here is completely

Waterproof to dry out the inside and then to dig down so that we can create a killing floor where all of our witches are going to be falling to their deaths and I’m gonna do that off camera because you’ve seen me dry out stuff before go and check out the episode about draining

An ocean monument if you want to know how to do stuff like that it’s all going to be fairly straightforward and I’ll see you guys on the other side hey folks welcome back so I am very glad that I did a little bit of research off-camera and discovered that witches have

Slightly more health than other mobs as I was digging this hole I thought I could probably just leave it at y40 because that’s going to be roughly 23 blocks below sea level out y63 and that is where we would build the floor for our kind of killing chamber and allow

The witches to die from full damage however witches actually have 13 hearts of health or 26 hit points where other mobs like zombies and skeletons and so forth might only have 20 so you actually need a slightly higher drop from which to kill witches and they will die at a

Minimum of 30 blocks full height so we are down here now at Y 31 are we going to be building the killing floor here at 31 and a half blocks I hope we’re gonna be building it as a set of slabs up here taking no chances really but what we

Have here is a very similar setup to what you’ll find in the squid farm which we covered previously in the season we’ve just got a bunch of hopper minecarts that are going to be collecting any items that end up dropping onto this floor of red near the

Bricks slabs as a result of the witches dying on them and this whole area is going to be covered over we’ve got to be able to switch the collection mechanism on and off just in case for whatever reason if we leave the chunks the minecarts get stuck or anything like

That they’re always going to return to a set of powered rails over here that we can flick on and off with a simple redstone current leading to this block here for example so let me quickly come back in here and place a redstone block there and all of the minecarts go away

At once and then they all return at once all all we have to do is take out the power source and they all return to dock here where we have two hoppers taking the items out into whatever the storage system is going to be that we

Set up here but I haven’t got that far yet because I’ve mostly been working on making sure that the dimensions of this bomb are as they should be if you ever need to calculate how much full damage something needs to take before it dies by the way there’s a fairly simple rule

Of thumb you can follow find out how much health it has by going to the Minecraft Wiki for example if your information is going to be there for all of your hostile mobs and that kind of thing and if you consider that for example as a player if you fall from a

Three-block height you don’t take any full damage whereas if you fall from a four-block height you do start to take full damage although it’s incredibly minimal and I think it just kind of gives you that trip sound and maybe does half a heart of damage to the average

Player so all you need to really do to calculate the amount of full damage something used to take for it to die from falling is take the health and add for in this case which is have 26 health because each heart of health is basically two points so if you have 26

Plus 4 equals 30 that’s the 30-block drop that you’ll need to put in your witch farm by the way it’s pretty fun that we ended up digging down this far because I actually found that ravine filled with lava that I showed you guys in the section where

We were clipping through the floor using spectator mode in our test world and we do need to light some sections of this up because as you can see there are creepers spawning and various other mobs will be able to spawn along the shelf sides of the ravine here at roughly the

Height we can expect our witches to be dying on the floor down here and remember we want to stay within 128 blocks of this space here so that the witches will not be spawn before they hit the ground so we are yeah we are probably going to need to light up some

Sections of this ravine just so that when we end up afk in here we don’t end up with hostile mobs spawning this low caves above that are also going to need to be taken into account and also the problem of the Drowned spawning in the ocean around here because ocean biomes

Are drowned spawning spaces and it’s quite likely that we’re going to encounter a few of those now some people as various solutions have suggested things like conduits which could fight the drowned and potentially creates enough light to prevent drowned from spawning I’m gonna roll out conduits the main reason being

This is such a large space that I would need a lot of conduits to actually fill this area up and conduits will only attack something that gets within eight blocks of it so that’s a lot of hearts of the sea to find I would need literally hundreds of conduits for them

To kill the Drowned instantly and furthermore it is better to stop the Drowned from spawning at all than to wait for them to die because conduits while they do kill quickly are not exactly an instant kill and it would be much better for the Drowned to not spawn

At all in the short term I think the solution we will go with is to just light this area up as much as possible because much like other mobs drown do need a low enough light level in order to spawn it does need to be light level

Of seven and below which it only starts to get that way once a skylight has disappeared around sort of four or five blocks below at the surface of the ocean obviously at night that’s gonna be a different factor but I think they do still need a little bit of headroom in

Terms of water above them before they will spawn so we can take care of that a little way and we can use some sea lanterns or even some sea pickles on the seabed down here to effectively limit the amount of space portable space that

The Drowned can have and I do have a lot of sea lanterns so that’s not going to be such a tall order after all but without further ado I’m going to remove the witch Hut from here and we’re going to start setting up the spawning floors

For the witch farm itself so as always when making a farm like this I have to acknowledge the efforts of the technical community that have led to folks like me being able to build a farm like this because I could not dream up this farm design on my own and this shifting floor

Mechanism in particular is one that I will attribute to ill mango since that’s the channel on which I saw this design first showcase actually it was mentioned in one of his recent videos in which he explained that shifting floor designs didn’t work in an earlier version of Minecraft 1.14 but thankfully since then

That change has been reverted making it much easier for me to follow this design and show it to you guys so once again I will recommend that you go and check out ill mango here’s an excellent technical minecrafter whose name I’m sure you have heard mentioned in other Minecraft

Videos where people have made farms of this kind I’ve already built one section of this she ding floor mechanism and I’m mainly doing that so that I can copy it a couple more times and take you guys through it step by step but what you’re looking at here is a decent amount of

Materials a lot of which involve redstone already so chances are you will not be building a witch farm as your first main source of redstone you should have gathered a fair amount of it already because this will need several observers Pistons a bunch of soul sand and andesite blocks we also need a

Dropper and note blocks for this mechanism as well so make sure you’ve got all of those components and then what we’re gonna do is actually build a bunch of these sort of all at once if we can I’ll go through one first and then we’re going to we’re going to kind of

Copy these multiple times until we have an entire floor comprised of these areas of shifting blocks so we’re gonna put an observer facing into this block here this block is going to be channeling a redstone current later we’re going to take this one out here and thankfully

That’s not going to flood into here although I’ve taken care to conceal all of the rails before we get along with that now placing this piston facing this way it’s gonna be a little bit more difficult there we go and then we need to copy an alternating block pattern

Here of a solid block a completely solid block and then soul scent and the way this is going to work is that witches are going to end up on these soul sand blocks which are slightly lower like if you look at the f3 debug screen right now you’ll see that the y-coordinate is

Shifting by a fraction of a block basically the height of a carpet and the great thing about soul sand is that mobs will still spawn on it but once a witch has ended up falling into this kind of sub block section of the soul sand pushing another full block into the same

Space while not allowing them to move side to side which is what these trapdoors are doing here that basically pushes the witch into a sub block space in this this and a site block here and allows them to fall directly through and the way we’re gonna have this set up

It’s actually going to have multiple floors of this time so that any witches that fall through from an upper floor immediately gets shifted through the next couple of floors until they drop through into the killing mechanism down there so once we reach the end here

We’ve got a last block of soul sand and then we’re gonna place an observer into that soul sand and that’s going to trigger a mechanism over here we want a piston right here with a note block on top of it we want one block of any kind

Doesn’t have to be near the brake of course it can be pretty much anything and down here we’re gonna have a dropper the dropper is not gonna have any content it doesn’t matter which way it’s facing or anything like that it just needs to activate because that is what’s

Going to be detected by this observer block and another observer block on top of that is going to be detecting when that observer activates that’s going to send a single redstone pulse into this which is going to activate the note block and the piston there is going to

Be pushed at the same time what that does is whenever we send a redstone pulse through that observer pushing everything over here it’s going to update this circuit and push it back using the piston on this site let me give you a quick demonstration of that

By removing this block in front of the observer like so you’ll see it shifted backwards and forwards very quickly and that is enough time for the witches to end up shifting through this floor now of course we have to add trapdoors to each of these surfaces and we’re going

To do that facing this way because that’s the edge of the last block that’s going to take up the witch farm bounding box the kind of witch hut area inside of here we’re gonna place these two trapdoors on top of each other like so I think one trapdoor might actually be

Enough but I don’t know for certain so I’ve seen it used with two trapdoors in the example so we’re gonna end up consuming quite a lot of wood for this but hopefully it should all be worth it we want to have these trapdoors going right the way to the end here because

These observers are still inside the hitbox of the witch hut and therefore they are still going to be potential spawning spaces I’m pretty sure that the witches can still spawn on them even though they are redstone components because they are also still full blocks I’m gonna get some sleep because it is

Getting quiet but basically the next task is simply to tile this over and the best thing about this mechanism or even though we are going to trigger it all at once is that each of these mechanisms each of these shifting floor segments is tileable which means that it will not

Activate the redstone next to it if it is activated on its own so generally speaking as long as you build it in the right pattern you shouldn’t have too much to worry about in terms of the redstone here going wrong and just like that we our full section of stuff completed once

You’ve got into a rhythm with these things it really doesn’t take all that long to build them up and this has not really taken me very long at all now down there you’ll notice that that has gotten very dark and that’s a good thing that we’ve used slabs for the killing

Floor because otherwise we would need to make sure that area stay lit up to prevent mob spawns but for now we should be able to worry about that a little bit later the next stage is going to be to tile this up on the next level and then

One level above that and those are going to be our which spawning spaces and believe me improbable though it might seem witches will still spawn in areas even when there is a trapdoor inside the hitbox of a block like this so you are gonna see a bunch of stuff spawning in

Here and I hope I will be able to demonstrate this by the end of this video but trust me this is gonna work out great well a quick trip to the end to repair my tools a quick trip to the nether to get more soul sound and a fair

Amount of redstone setup later we have ourselves what should hopefully be a working witch farm as long as I can fill in the site and the top with something that will darken the inside of it make sure no light gets in I think this should all be working famously at this

Point and because I know we’re already running a little bit long on this episode I’m going to go into the Redstone side of things tomorrow because we are going to be revisiting this farm a little more just to kind of do a little bit of tidying up around here and

Maybe do a little bit of decoration maybe do a little bit of lighting up of the surrounding area and choosing our afk spot and I’ll go into the Redstone then because for those of you who haven’t seen a hopper clock before haven’t watched the other episodes of

This series where I’ve used one this might be a little bit confusing to you but what we have here is a hopper clock running on a fairly short timer using sixteen items for this and it activates this row of redstone which updates the observers causing them to push the

Sliding floor once then it goes down this wire here to a repeater which is delaying the signal for the next floor to activate and then down this side as well delaying the signal one more time for that row of observers to activate and hopefully these floors should be in

Sync we can adjust the timings a little bit if we need to and that should lead to any witches that spawn on the top being shuffled through to the bottom until they fall down into the rest of the farm and get killed on that that drop that we have down there it does

Tend to strobe the lighting a little bit in there so apologies for that but hopefully that shouldn’t be a problem for the operation of the farm itself one last thing I really want to do before we finally lay this episode to rest is get this whole thing covered up and do a

Test run just to make sure that nothing awful has gone wrong to make sure that we don’t need to do any more tweaks to the mechanism itself because I don’t want to give you guys a half-finished tutorial so I’m gonna do a very quick test to see if this works and then we’re

Gonna wrap up for today well folks I am on top of the world right now quite literally actually I’m probably at about yeah I’m about why 158 I reckon I could probably top out at about why 164 afk at this farm successfully and as you may be

Able to hear from the rustling of pistons in the background I have the farm running and it is running right here aside from obviously all of the hostile mobs around here which I will have to slab the bits of the mechanism that are sticking out like this or

Potentially light them up once the whole thing is enclosed what we have here is a working witch farm and occasionally the witches will pack spawn in here so hopefully we’ll be able to catch one or two instances where that happens but I did have to add another repeater into

The shifting floor each of the floors is now running the subsequent floors at least is running on about a seven tick delay and watch what happens to this witch when it yep okay I think there’s a couple of them that don’t quite shift right okay we got a big yep there we go

A big spawn of witches and and they all ended up dropping down here and as you can see this thing has been well it’s not been collecting quite yet because I haven’t got the collection mechanism running and that is something we’re going to have to set up in the next

Episode to sort through all of these items sort through the ones which are important to us but I have to say even without having to worry about lighting up all of the caves around here and stuff like that this farm has actually been doing pretty well by itself and

That is thanks to the fact that I’m up so high not spawning in caves in the local area as much not allowing too much other stuff to spawn once we have finished off light all of the surrounding area to make sure that no drowned can spawn make sure that

Nothing will spawn on the mechanism and make sure that nothing will spawn in caves in the nearby area this farm is going to be an absolute beast with just one which huts and I’m so happy that this farm has come together in the way that it has right now I’m gonna take all

Of this pillar and stuff down because yeah despite the farm running pretty well I haven’t closed in the site yet so there’s no real point in me afk up here during the day and there’s no way for me to skip the night other than cheating

Which I’d already want to do so I think this has been a success and I hope you have had a good look at the innards of this witch farm because we are going to transform it into something a little bit prettier in the episodes to come along

With figuring out a sorting system and making sure we have all of the the caves around here and the water around here lit up to optimize how well this farm is going to perform but for today I think we have done enough I think we have ourselves a working which farm this was

The first witch farm I’ve ever built guys so I hope you guys enjoyed it and you’re looking forward to using it in your own worlds thank you so much for watching this episode of the Minecraft Survival Guide my name is Ben Pixar ifs don’t forget to leave a like on this

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