Minecraft Elegance: Instant Guardian XP Farm, No Drain (180k XP/h and 90k drops/h, Java 1.16-1.20*)

Hi this is the nx04 and today we’re going to build  a super fast guardian xp farm that’s designed to   let you collect and use xp quickly and efficiently  so that you can enchant combine and mend your gear  

With ease this farm can produce xp faster than you  can absorb it which is at 180 000 xp per hour and   plus it gives roughly 90 000 drops per hour if you  have looting three all this from a farm that you  

Can speed build in under 30 minutes and you don’t  even need to drain the ocean monument in fact you   don’t even need to remove any part of the monument  or kill the elder guardians if you don’t want to  

Though it might be helpful just that you can  fix any errors more easily without the effects   of mining fatigue in case you didn’t know guardian  xp farms are particularly fast because players can   only absorb 10 xp orbs per second regardless  of what value the individual xp orbs have  

In guardians drop orbs that have a higher average  value than other types of mobs this ends up being   surprisingly important guardian xp farms can let  you absorb xp three times faster than an enderman  

Farm for example and this lets you get from level  0 to 30 in as little as 28 seconds and from level   27 to 30 in merely 6 seconds guardians only spawn  within the bounding box of an ocean monument  

And we can concentrate the spawns in a corner of  the bounding box by placing the player high in the   sky a couple chunks away in an ordinal direction  the intersection of the spawning sphere around the   player and the monument bounding box gives a nice  deep volume of water for guardians to spawn in  

The rest of the spawning sphere around  the player remains pretty much empty   it’s mostly air and open ocean and a little bit of  the sea floor you might get a couple of drowns in   the ocean at night and perhaps a few other mobs in  small underground caves but for the most part the  

Mob cap will be nearly filled with guardians from  this little corner of the monument bounding box   like many other guardian farm designs soul sand  bubble columns are used to push guardians up to   the water surface the guardians go through a  layer of scaffolding and jump around randomly  

On top until they touch a portal and teleport away  many other farm designs use flowing water to flush   the guardians towards the portals but guardians  tend to swim against the direction of flowing   water which slows the process so random jumping  on scaffolding actually compares fairly well in  

Terms of performance and it takes less time to set  up the waterlogged scaffolding also serves as a   sort of roof that drastically enhances the rate  of guardian spawns underneath it any guardians   that aren’t within this collection area will tend  to sink down until they despawn when they’re more  

Than 128 blocks from the player once in the nether  the guardians show up in this special portal   elevator that has scaffolding on each side since  guardians jump around when out of water they work   their way up the scaffolding until they reach the  top when this fence gate is closed on top there  

Is no exit for the top layer of scaffolding  so this becomes a temporary holding chamber   for the guardians the scaffolding also prevents  entity cramming and just like ladders and vines   it allows hundreds of guardians to accumulate  here without injury this is important because  

Mobs that go through the portal need 15 seconds  of cooldown before they can teleport again and   so their time in the holding chamber lets many of  the guardians achieve this cooldown period after   15 seconds a hopper clock opens the gates to the  holden chamber releasing the guardians typically  

Well over 100 of them back into the portal  in one big batch to be sent to the overworld   any guardians that have not fully cooled down  will simply work their way back through the portal   elevator to be released in a later batch when  the guardians arrive in the overworld they show  

Up by drop shaft that deals enough fall damage to  bring them to just a few hit points shy of death   from here they jump into a water stream that  pushes them into scaffolding again which causes   them to jump up through the scaffolding  to a space between two waterlogged ladders  

These ladders prevent entity cramming and the  fact that they’re waterlogged not only keeps the   guardians from screaming it also provides the  water source for the item streams of the farm   letting a series of hoppers collect the drops  for storage items from the guardians bump into  

These chests which are just a bit smaller than  the usual block and this lets the items travel   over an additional parallel row of hoppers but  this is just an example of what you can do feel   free to change this out to fit your tastes more  storage items orders shulker box loaders or your  

Favorite cactus it’s up to you the player stands  underneath this double chest separated from the   guardians by a fence the fence has a hitbox  extended half a block above it which keeps the   guardians trapped in place but it still lets the  water flow over it so that the drops can escape  

And despite being so close to the guardians the  player is perfectly safe in here because guardians   can only target players that are at least three  blocks away in distance this farm is configured   mainly as an xp farm you don’t really afk at this  farm because the farm can easily supply you with  

Xp as you need it there’s no point in building  up your experience levels because xp is used   less and less efficiently as you go up in levels  for example 1400 xp can get you from level 0 to 30  

But another 1400 xp can only get you to level  39 and at level 174 1400 xp won’t even get you   to the next level when it comes to enchanting it’s  actually the levels that are important not the xp  

To use the farm kill the whole batch of guardians  with a single swipe of a sweeping edge sword   stand close to the water when you want to  collect xp from the farm and step a little  

Away when you want it to stop another batch  of guardians will arrive as you use your xp on   enchanting combining and mending and when you’re  ready for more xp kill the next batch of guardians   to keep going you’ll get a little bit of damage  from the thorns-like effect of the guardians  

But this is minimal the thorns effect doesn’t  stack when you kill multiple guardians at the same   time and you’re killing over a hundred guardians  with a single swipe you’re not even attacking very   often maybe once every 30 seconds and so you can  easily recover from the small amount of damage  

That you get from the thorns between these attacks  the farm also provides you free food in the form   of raw cod which automatically replenishes if you  hold it in your offhand and this provides enough  

Food for you to stay at full health even if you’re  not wearing any armor okay let’s get to building   you’ll need to find an ocean monument first  of course monuments are perfectly square when   viewed from above and are always located at  the center of a four chunk by four chunk area  

They nearly fill up this area coming just three  blocks short on each side all monuments have the   same outside structure and they’re always at the  same altitude find the illuminated arches at the   entrance to the monument and pick a corner of the  monument to the left or right for your build site  

Choose the side that has the lower sea bed and  fewer underwater hills for the best results go   to the corner of the monument and place a lily  pad at the water surface directly overhead   press f3 and g to bring up the grid lines  and you should see the corner of the chunk  

Three blocks diagonally away from the monument  turn around 180 degrees to face the center of   the monument and lay down three lily pads then  place two blocks underneath the one at the end   replace the temporary block at the  water surface with a scaffolding  

Place a torch on top and extend the scaffolding  by three in each direction and then extend   the scaffolding from the ends to connect the  corners of a square and then fill in the square from the center of the scaffolding extend the  scaffolding by another three in a direction  

Opposite of the lily pads and add a temporary  block at the end and another underneath break the   temporary block on top and set down scaffolding  and a torch and again extend the scaffolding out   by three in each direction connect the corners and  fill it in if it helps you can use an invisibility  

Potion to help deal with the guardians or  you can hide from them on top of lily pads place obsidian blocks along the long sides of the  scaffolding area and build out the portal frames   with a couple of torches on top put guardrails  along the open sides again with a torch on top  

And repeat this process to make another  scaffolding area over the monument   remember to remove any lily pads  from the scaffolding when you’re done from the lily pad near the corner of the monument  go out diagonally away from the center of the  

Monument by one chunk to the far corner to set  down a lily pad this will be right next to the   intersection of four chunks press f3 and write  down the x and z coordinates of the lily pad   you’ll need this information later on when  you build the portal elevator in the nether  

Now continue going out diagonally another chunk  and again set down another lily pad at the far   corner this lily pad is directly underneath where  the player will operate the farm and again this is   right next to the intersection of four chunks go  out one block more diagonally into the opposite  

Chunk and place another lily pad and set a solid  block underneath this is where we’ll stack 97   scaffolding so that we can build the killing area  and collection system work your way to the top of   the scaffolding and confirm that your feet are  at y 160 bridge out onto scaffolding into an  

Adjacent chunk and add two double chests into the  chunk opposite of the scaffolding then break the   two scaffolding and mirror this with another  pair of double chests in the adjacent chunk point six hoppers into these double  chests and add rails and mine carts  

Onto the hoppers on the end with stopping  blocks to keep the minecarts in place build a 2×3 platform over  the hopper mine carts add   one more scaffolding on top of the  pillar and build a 4×4 platform on top from the 4×4 platform bridge out on six chests  

Convert them into double chests and repeat  this for another row of double chests feed a hopper into each chest and place walls  to form the channel for your future item stream   when you’re done repeat the  process on the other side

Now go to the 2×3 platform and place  a scaffolding over the mine carts   and form a border around the 2×3 platform  and build it up to 3 blocks in height place two water buckets in the corners  and then build up the sides of a  

Two wide drop shaft until your feet reach y 190. place a portal frame at the top of the drop  shaft with a torch on top to spawn proof   create a wall behind the portal frame so that  the only opening is towards the drop shaft  

And then finish the drop shaft around  the portal so that the opening from the   portal to the drop shaft is two blocks high  light the portal to go through to the nether   when you reach the nether break the portal that  you just came through and work your way up to y121  

Dig a short tunnel and use it to explore overhead  for a bedrock block at y126 or y127 you can use   the targeted block information on the right side  of the debug screen to figure out the y-coordinate  

Of the block that you’re looking at when you  find one place ladders going all the way up to   the bedrock block and press and hold down both  the forward and jump keys as you throw an ender  

Pearl straight at the ladder and you should reach  the nether roof with a little bit of damage now   take the x and z coordinates that you wrote down  earlier divide each by eight and round down pillar  

Up on 62 scaffolding at this location until your  feet are at y 190 and build a portal frame on top make a 4×4 platform on each side of the portal   build up a three-high wall along the sides  and fill in everything with scaffolding

On the top layer remove the four scaffolding  blocks right next to the portal opening   and replace them with fence gates and then  cover up the top layer with solid blocks create a 2×6 platform so that you can place  a hopper clock and place 38 junk items inside

Add redstone dust as shown so that the gates  alternate between opening for 15 seconds and   closing for 15 seconds break one of the obsidian  at the top of the portal frame so that you can hop   into the chamber and confirm that the gates  are all working with the correct timing  

This is an important step to make sure  that the game won’t crash later on   when you’re confident that it’s working finish  the portal frame again and light the portal to   go through back in the overworld jump down the  drop shaft and add iron bars to the corners so  

That they’re waterlogged add four blocks over  the scaffolding place two wooden trapdoors on   the top two blocks flip them up and place two  iron trap doors on the bottom two blocks break   the two blocks over the scaffolding and go under  the iron trap doors to the other side now replace  

The blocks next to the iron trap doors with  redstone blocks so that the trap doors flip down   add ladders on the sides over the scaffolding and  fences in front of the scaffolding place two iron   trap doors where the player stands four blocks  on the sides and two chests on the sides of the  

Item stream with a double chest in the middle  also add these two blocks on top to keep items   from flying out when you kill the guardians  now replace the block over the scaffolding   pillar with a trap door so that you can enter  the killing area and water log the ladders

For the enchanting area you can configure it any  which way that you like this is just an example   that provides easy access to the enchanting table  grindstone anvil and storage these pistons give   you an easy way to re-roll your offers at  a slightly lower enchantment level if you  

Don’t like your level 30 offer since each piston  will block one or two bookcases when extended go back to the spawning area at  the monument and light the portals   start laying down soul scene directly underneath  the scaffolding making an effort not to box  

Yourself in as you lay down the blocks again  an invisibility potion might be helpful if   the guardians start to harass you too much a magma  block off to the side might be helpful too so that   you can take a breath underwater just remember to  crouch down to prevent damage when standing on it  

If you’re not sure how well your pc or server will  be able to handle all the guardians from this farm   i recommend that you start by adding only a  quarter of the soul sand for the farm at first  

That’s a 7×7 section if all seems well you  can then gradually add more and more until   you start to see performance issues and then  maybe remove some of the soul sand as needed   and keep in mind that the rate of guardians in  this farm will be impacted by other players where  

There are and what they’re doing and it will  likely be impacted by upcoming changes in 1.18   i’ll update the video description as i learn more  as i mentioned before this isn’t really intended   as an afk farm for xp but if you really want to  do this place this trapdoor so that it pushes  

You close enough to always absorb xp and then  set an auto clicker or macro to swipe at the   guardians every 30 seconds or so keep raw cod in  your offhand and hold down the right mouse button  

Either with software or a physical piece of tape  on your mouse the food will keep you in full   health even without any armor but you’ll be able  to attack more frequently if you wear more armor  

Depending on your situation if you want to afk for  drops instead of xp it might be more convenient to   put the grinder in the nether instead just make  a portal directly beneath the portal elevator   that dumps guardians into a pit of soul campfires  sitting on hoppers that feed into chests ignite  

Or break this portal to configure your farm for  either xp or drops depending on your needs also be   sure to check out the video description for other  potential changes that you can make to this farm  

You see you can’t really change a video once it’s  released in the video description is one of the   few ways to provide updated information to the  viewer and this will probably be important with   1.18 coming out soon so check it out to learn  of any corrections that i may need to make and  

Other information that will help your build  go as smoothly as possible thanks for watching hmm so you