Minecraft: Insane Auto Creeper Farm! – 1.16 Survival Let’s play | Ep 10

Hey guys jwisp here and before this video starts i just want to say two quick things first of all i am re-uploading this video i originally uploaded it a few hours ago so if you’ve already seen it i apologize but i realized watching back i had some

Errors where i put some footage in the wrong place and footage from different videos i didn’t mean to do that and also i give a big apology because my streams and videos have been sort of inconsistent lately and i just want to say and i think everyone feels this

That literally things have been so crazy lately that if i’m being honest i just feel totally unmotivated i feel really lazy and i haven’t really done much with my free time i really have no excuse other than that but i feel like a lot of people feel

That way with what’s going on but regardless here’s the video and i hope you all enjoy hey guys what’s up jwisp here and welcome to episode 10 of the minecraft 1.16 survival let’s play here we are in the last episode we officially i guess you could say

Beat minecraft we killed the end dragon we got a few shulker boxes we have the beautiful egg right here unfortunately though we did not get a lytra but i’ll try to get an elytra in the future but i have done a little bit of work since the last episode i actually found

Another end city however again it did not have this ship with the elytra but i upgraded my armor a bit we’re doing pretty good here we have prop 3 aqua infinity for the helmet we have a really good chest play with mending the rest are all right boots are pretty

Good i also have mending on the sword but i don’t have fire aspect or sharpness i just combined two swords and uh it’s all right right now but i’ll try to get sharpness on it to replace one of the enchantments and then the rest of our tools and weapons are

Pretty much the same but we’re doing pretty good with armor right now but something i want to work on is getting a lot of gunpowder and there’s two reasons for this one we can get gunpowder to make rockets uh so that sorry fireworks so that we can use the elytra better

We can fly around and also gunpowder will be useful because it’ll allow us to make tons of tnt and if you don’t know using tnt is probably the best method to get ancient debris in the nether mining is pretty good but honestly if you just place a block

Of tnt blow it up and keep doing that it’s the best method because ancient debris will not be blown up by tnt so what i want to do to start out the episode is to make a creeper farm and i’m not going to make a giant amazing you know

Afk creeper farm i’m going to show you guys a pretty simple design it’s actually fairly easy it’s fairly small but it’s still very efficient and works well but to do that we’re first going to need to tame some cats i think we need at least two cats for the farm

And we have some running around the village here i’ve seen them the reason they spawned is because we have the villager breeder and so some of these cats have just spawned around the village i don’t see any offhand right now but i’m sure if i got some fish in my inventory

We could find them easily i always see them running around i’m sure they’re just hiding behind stuff right now probably don’t want to see me i wonder if there’s any are there any in here oh we have a baby villager but i don’t see any cats so what i’m going to do is

Head down to the river kill some salmon because i think there’s some salmon just lying in the river i’ll collect as much as i can i might do a little bit of fishing and i’ll be back with you guys and hopefully we can tame some cats

All right so i’ve killed a few salmon around my uh house here and i’m actually kind of confused because i think there’s a slight glitch with fishing i’m going to show you guys whenever i put my rod in the water it’ll go under as if a fish is on the

Line but then i right click and try to get it up and the fish just won’t come out so let me show you i don’t know this might be a glitch with the new snapshot i’m not sure what’s up with this but let’s just give it a second i’ll show you

So i wait for a fish to come it should come in a few seconds right there goes under i right click and i keep right clicking and you can see that i was right clicking and my fishing rod kept moving but it wouldn’t let me pick it up so i’m

Not sure what’s up with that also the fishing rod is not taking durability i’m not sure what’s up with this this is the same fishing rod that was in my item frame so i don’t know if i messed it up or something but i think for now hopefully five raw

Salmon will be enough i honestly don’t know i’m sure if i just hold it out and walk around for a while uh cats will come up to me but i don’t know that’s just a weird glitch i i don’t know i just put it in the video because i felt like

Maybe someone that works on the minecraft team or someone with influence will see and hopefully say something i’m not sure if they know that glitch um i guess i could try with other fishing rods but i don’t know i tried in different parts of the water and the same thing happened i’m not

Really sure what’s up with that um but uh hopefully it’ll work in the future okay i just heard a little meow uh oh okay there there we go so i’m not sure how the new i know cat taming is a little bit different i’m not sure if i have to

Just squat like this and it’ll eventually come up to me if i can just walk up to the cat and hope oh no oh okay so i see i have to be very careful come on please so i walked up to it and it looked at me for like two seconds and

Then it ran away after i started walking so i’m just gonna keep squatting hopefully if i can get close enough to it oh no no i squatted at the wrong time why is taping a cat so hard for this farm i need two cats so hopefully there’s more around the village

I don’t think it’ll be that hard to try to get one but come on just walk towards me i don’t know if jumping also triggers the same reaction where it just kind of runs away the only way i can get close enough to it though is if i walk so i don’t know

What i’m supposed to do okay where’d it go where to go should be down here oh okay okay it’s coming up to me i’m not gonna move oh yes okay oh i got one look at that oh what a cute little kitty has a little collar too can you change

The color of cat’s collars like you can with wolves and dogs hold on i actually don’t know is is that a thing or am i just crazy you can’t alright so let’s let’s get this cat let’s put it right outside our house so i at least know where one is and then

Hopefully we can get a second one come on oh look at it it’s so cute okay there we go uh i wanna i wish i could find a black cat because in real life i have a black cat her name’s lucy so i don’t know i’m gonna keep walking around here for a

Little bit hopefully i can find another one and i’ll let you guys know so of course i come near the villager breeder and actually i don’t know if oh it ran away but there was a cat that went over there somewhere and then there’s also one right up here

In orange cat the other cat ran that way but it looked just like the one i had before so i’m gonna try to get this cat let’s see if i can get close enough to it without okay yes no i i’m just sitting here why’d it run away 2 000

Years later you only have two fish you gotta ah yes okay thankfully okay the the cats look the exact same but i’m fine with that at least at least i got some so let’s go put them right in front of our house too just so i know where they are and then

We can finally get started on the farm gosh why is taming a cat so hard like a dog you just go up to it with a bone but cats oh they’re so mischievous and untrusting okay you know what my cat is stuck in here and won’t leave so i’m

Just gonna i’m just gonna do that i’ll get leads i think i have leads there was a wandering villager that i killed and i stole his leads so hopefully i can get that from the chest and then also i will get all the materials i need

To make this creeper farm and i’ll show you guys how to do it okay so to make this build it’s pretty simple you just need four stacks of pretty much any oh okay wait anyways you’ll need four stacks of pretty much any block two stacks of any

Trap door uh this is honestly probably the most expensive part of this i mean wood isn’t expensive you need a few stacks of logs to get all of this but i just chopped down some trees around here two water buckets one lava bucket 12 carpet 12 glass which is optional but i just

Like it so you can see what’s going on two hoppers two chests and four signs and obviously you need the two cats and i have the one there and the one over there we just use them to sit in little corners and they pretty much scare the creepers away after they spawn

Into their trap or they will be flowed with the water into the lava block die their drops will go in the hopper and then into the chest so before we build this i’m just going to travel uh probably there’s a plane’s biome somewhere near here i don’t want to build it right in

My village as i would recommend you guys also not build it near your base simply because it’s not the most attractive design it doesn’t look bad but it might look kind of odd just sitting in your village if you want to decorate it later you can

But for the most part it’s not the best thing so i’m gonna travel find a good place to build it away from my base and i’ll be right back with you guys all right so you’re going to start off by just making a three by two hole in

The ground and then on either side take your building block and just make a little two by two square and do the same thing on the other side i’m gonna be building this in steps with a lot of cuts just so you guys can clearly see what i’m doing

So this is what you need to start out with all right so after that start at one pillar build out one two three blocks and then one two three four and you’re gonna do the same thing on the other side actually so much grass here so one two three

One two three four and then after you have that just fill this in and this will be one side of this whole creeper farm so then after you make this shape you’re gonna do the same thing on the other side so one two three one two three four

And then on this side as well one two three one two three four and then just connect it and this is pretty much the main shape of your whole build it’s pretty much just built up a little bit um it’s a pretty simple design anyone can follow and this is what i was

Talking about again it’s not going to be the ugliest thing in the world but it’s also not going to be the most attractive so you’re pretty much gonna have this shape just built up with cobblestone so i have my village over there i just built it right over here so it’s

Not directly in view but also it’s close enough to my village where if i’m just sitting in my village doing whatever these chunks are still loaded in constantly getting gunpowder and that’ll be great for my elytra and also great for getting tnt to find some ancient debris

So after you’ve created this shape just give it a second layer build all of these blocks up by one so after you have this shape we are on to our trap doors so what you’re going to do is go find the direct middle block and on the bottom half of this top block

Place your trapdoor you can also do the same thing on this other side these are going to be the little place that the cats will sit so the creepers will spawn in this general area the cat will sit here it’ll scare the creepers putting them all into this little pit

Where then they will meet their doom so after you have these two trapdoors fill in the rest of this entire area with your trap doors and stop once you get to about here don’t fill in this little middle part do the same thing on here just totally fill it in with trapdoors

So after you have this finished now is time for our cats so if you’re in creative mode just spawn your cats put them in there or if you have eggs or if not i’m gonna go grab some leads really fast and grab my cats and put them in these little holes alright so

Here we have our cats i also grabbed a bed just because it’s about to be nighttime but let’s just boost ourself up here come on cats get up here and we just need one to go in that little hole perfect and then we can sit him down

And we’re all good and since the cat is sitting down it’ll still scare the creepers but it’s sitting down so it won’t move it won’t try to jump out and it’ll be safe so we just have to get this one right in the hole there we go awesome

There we go we got our cats in there and then after you have this step it’s pretty much really simple to finish this farm let me just get up here all you need to do is create a top layer of blocks above every single block here including the cat i’m sorry and just

Place a big layer of cobblestone above all these trapdoors this just lowers the light level during daytime so that creepers can spawn and if you’re wondering why we have trapdoors it pretty much just makes it so that the only mob that will spawn under here are creepers zombies and skeletons won’t spawn endermen

Definitely won’t spawn it’s too short for them and spiders also will not spawn so only creepers can spawn so just get a layer of any block above here and then i’ll be right back with you guys so then after you’ve finished that it is now a time for the carpet and i grabbed

Some torches i’m just going to place them under here for now to prevent creepers from spawning when i’m making this because obviously i don’t want them to blow this up so what you’re gonna do is place one block of carpet directly under the cat two blocks in front of that place

Another one two blocks to either side of that place another one and two blocks in front of either of these carpets place another one and then do the same thing on this side and again this just makes it so that it ensures that creepers are the only mobs spawning here and this

Will prevent any other mob from spawning so after that to finish it off with the trapdoors and just place them oops not like that place them like that on this side of this little pit and also on this side so then after that get yourself in this little pit here and

Have to be very careful with this shovel you’re going to dig this whole thing down three blocks okay this shovel’s a little bit too fast for me and then after you’re done with that dig this section right here this will be the front forward nine blocks so one two three four

Five six seven eight and nine and there you go so then once you’re done with that go to your eighth block so one two three four five six seven eight and on this eighth block right here dig down this is just so we can continue the

Water flow so we can flow the creepers farther away from this farm so if we place our water buckets we should be able to have the water drop down and there we go continue this flow now after you place the water just go back over here and

Just keep digging until the water stops flowing that’s pretty much all you have to do after the water stops flowing this is going to be a little area where we will then build our hoppers and the contraption that will kill the creepers like we have a little bit of friend here okay let’s

Get him out of here i’m sorry chicken it’s your time all right so next we’re gonna do is right here kind of dig this out a little bit i’m gonna just kind of dig randomly so i have a bit of a room to work with i’m gonna dig this out but

At this step we’re pretty much almost done with the farm there’s only a little bit more we have to do just right here we’re going to place our chest but we’re going to place them connected oh my god why am i so bad at chest placing there we go

And then into the chest place your hopper and we’re really close to finishing we’re almost done just grab your signs grab your lava and grab your glass and what we’re going to do all right so we have this little room i’m just going to block that off really quickly

Place some blocks here for a second and just place your glass right in front of the hoppers and then right on top of the chest and build this up three high and we’re almost done we’re getting really close just place your signs on these two blocks right here and then place one

Sign there and one sign there and the next step obviously is placing your lava so again the creepers flow down here and eventually will fall right into the lava where the top part of them will burn but their drops will fall into the hopper which will go into the chest so now we

Just need to get rid of all of our light sources in here we need to get back up to the top which might be a little bit hard for us let’s see i can just use some blocks get rid of all your torches or any sort of

Light source you have let me just get rid of this really fast so i can swim up here there we go and then i’m just going to build up i’ll break those blocks i’ll get them once they get in the hopper pretty much just break all of these our cats are all set

Let me just get across here make our little bridge and break that and then after that i’m just going to finish off this roof here a little bit it’s dark enough creepers will start to spawn pretty soon so let me just head out of here and after that your farm is pretty much

Finished so now i just need to look i need to find where the top of this farm is this is why i have extra glass just so i can kind of see what’s going on i’m going to dig this all out really fast just so i can be above it let’s do that

It’s okay creepers will not spawn up here so we have this little area i just want to see what’s going on with the spawner and let’s just break that as well so then right up here i’ll just place a tiny bit more glass just so we can get a feel for

How this is all going let’s place these blocks back really fast and then up here i’ll just place a little bit of glass there we go the rest doesn’t really matter i just want to be able to see where my chest room is i’ll dig a staircase down there so i can

Access the chest um but you need to remember something mobs will not spawn if you are right next to the actual mob spawner you have to actually be a distance away so for this to work i believe you have to be about 120 blocks

Away from all of this to get it to work i’ll make a proper staircase in a second so if you are afk literally right in front of this farm it will not work you’re going to need to travel at least i believe it’s 120 blocks i’ll post the correct number on screen

Um for this to start spawning you need to be far enough away that creepers can spawn um but not too close where they won’t and you also need to make sure you’re not too far away so that the chunks where the farm is in are not loaded because the chunks

Still need to be loaded and if we just afk about here for a little bit we should get some creepers all right so i just looked it up i’m sorry if that was a bit confusing i was just trying to work it all out in my head

And figure out how to say it but it didn’t really work for this to work i looked up the exact numbers you need to at minimum be 24 blocks away from this but maximum six chunks away and a chunk is 16 blocks so if you’re standing like right here uh

Yeah this isn’t gonna work but i’m gonna go afk for i’d say i don’t know let’s go afk for like 20 minutes and see how many creepers we get all right so i’ve actually only been afk for a few minutes but i came back to hear creeper burning and when i looked

He was actually swimming up to try to escape the lava so to fix that i just placed some dirt blocks directly on top of the lava make sure you do that you got to be careful if you don’t do that the creepers are going to swim up but if we

Look in the chest we do have some gunpowder already so this is definitely working so anyways guys that’s all for this video i know i just said i would go afk for like 15 or 20 minutes um but since i know for sure that it works what i’m gonna do is just while

I’m editing and rendering this video and making a thumbnail i’ll go afk in my world oh we got some more salmon and then what i’ll do is once the video is done editing and all that stuff i’ll look at how much time i afk for and then i’ll also look

And check how much gunpowder is in there so i collected all of it currently there is none uh i mean there might be some creepers spawning right now but yeah again this is a relatively small farm so it’s not going to be the most efficient you’re not going to get

Thousands of gunpowder per hour but if you just make a simple farm to get some gun powder and you afk for a few hours or overnight you should be able to get a decent amount and one way you can actually make this farm a little bit better

Is just repeating this same pattern we did either making another exact form maybe to the left of it or to the right or just some random direction or what you can also do is continue this whole trap door phenomenon we’ve got going on and just continue to build this

Up layer by layer build it up many layers and eventually it’ll become a ginormous farm that’ll be a lot more efficient but there’s also different builds out there for bigger creeper farms in my last survival let’s play i did create a lot larger creeper farm but i actually found

I was getting more gunpowder than i really needed and i wasted a lot of resources building that that used like double the carpet it used multiple stacks of building blocks and you also have to be in a specific location above an ocean to do that so it’s kind of crazy to be able

To do that this one is just a really small and simple design but yeah if you guys found it helpful let me know down in the comments below anyways thank you guys for watching this is jwisp and i will see you all in the next one