What is the BEST WAY to GET XP in Minecraft?

By using slash summon we can actually create negative experience it’s really cool and while it doesn’t affect your leveling bar it actually removes durability from tools with mending on them which i had no idea about in fact we can straight up evaporate some tools with folder ability from the game

With a negative enough xp orb also if your xp gets higher than 2.147 billion or 21 863 levels when you die it shows that you had a final negative score that’s pretty cool and all but how can you get this much xp in the first place and more importantly what’s the best way

To level up in minecraft that’s an interesting question and unlike my other videos it could actually help you to figure out what the best way to get xp is we first have to understand how xp works in the first place first of all xp does not equal levels they’re two connected

But different things one xp isn’t one level and seven xp is in seven levels etc etc so how does it work the xp system is very weird and not so intuitive to understand simply put xp is a value that when you have enough of it it can increase your

Level which is displayed on your leveling bar there are actually 11 different types of xp orbs each with a different sized body and different sized core each orb has a minimum and maximum value for example the smallest orb has a minimum value of negative 32 768 and a max value

Of 2 xp the largest orbit other hand has a minimum value of 2477 xp and a maximum of 32 767 xp but how do these orbs and xp translate into levels for the first 16 levels the difference between each level’s experience is an increasing odd function for instance level 1 requires

7 xp level 2 requires 16 and level 3 requires 27 xp you may not notice a pattern right away but if you look at the difference between each level you see that from zero to one you need seven xp from one to two you need nine xp and from two to three

You need eleven xp each level is one more odd number apart from the last it can also be modeled by this formula but that’s less important makes sense great because it gets a lot worse because instead of continuing this trend mojang decided to pull a fast one and say

Let’s just raise the difference from every odd number to every other odd number once you get to level 16 the difference no longer goes up by two but by five so from level 16 to 17 it’s 42 xp from level 17 to 18 it’s 47 xp

From level 18 to 19 it’s 52 xp a difference of five instead of two again there is a formula to calculate your level based on experience but the chaos doesn’t even end there because once you get to level 31 the difference becomes 9. from level 31 to 32

You need to 121 xp from 32 to 33 you need 130 xp and from level 33 to level 34 you need 139 xp and this continues all the way to the max possible level why i don’t know ask mo also the formula for this is absolutely disgusting we can

Visualize the xp required for each level as the red line on this graph you can see the values required grow higher and higher exponentially and the green line the xp difference between each level also grows if not more slowly now that we have a general idea of how experience works we

Can figure out what the best way to get it is there are actually not too many ways to get xp so we can narrow it down pretty easily specifically according to the minecraft wiki there are only 5 different ways to get xp killing mobs mining blocks smelting blocks getting achievements

And other thanks for that other includes bottles of enchanting trading fishing and breeding so let’s go down the list and identify the best method in each category and then compare them to see ultimately which method is the best for simplicity’s sake i’m looking at the fastest way to get to level 30

And to level 100 which require 13.95 and 30 970 xp respectively now before i begin this is going to be a bit subjective getting experience early in the game will be far different from getting experience later on when one has a ton more resource at their disposal

Certain methods may not be faster but instead easier so do keep that in mind when i list my methods let’s get into it though first of all killing mobs each mob in minecraft drops a certain amount of experience when you kill it well actually not exactly you think

Mojang would make it that easy for us hell no certain mobs in minecraft don’t have a static p value but instead a range for example all the mobs on screen can drop anywhere from 1 to 3 experience we can average it out and say 2 per drop assuming each is equally likely though

So according to this assuming you kill one chicken per second it would still take you 11.6 minutes of killing chickens to get to level 30 which would be nearly 700 chickens mind you and 4.3 hours of killing chickens to get to level 100 and no one wants to spend that long killing chickens

Useless mobs like bats baby animals wandering traders villagers iron golems and snow golems all drop zero xp endermites drop three most of the hostile mobs drop five with one to extra per each piece of equipment hostile babies drop 12 blazes evokers and guardians drop 10 and piglet brutes and ravagers drop 20.

The wither drops 50 xp and the ender dragon drops 12 000 xp on its first death and 500 on each death after revival however it’s unlikely i’ll be farming ender dragons anytime soon but which mob is the best to farm to get level 30 you need to kill 279 basic mobs

140 guardians blazes or evokers or 70 hoglings or ravagers and of course one dragon this is great to know and all but what does it mean well early game farms like mob spawners or dark room pitfalls can help a ton for instance a basic zombie spawner can get you around 48 xp

Per minute or level 30 in just 29 minutes and level 100 in 10 hours assuming we can kill one guardian per second we’d be getting around 36 000 xp per hour or level 30 in 2 minutes and level 100 in 52 minutes theoretically you could get a ton of xp

All the way from level 0 to level 68 just by killing the dragon but this isn’t a very repeatable feat still though much better number so killing guardians is definitely a method to consider mining blocks is a whole other simpler or more complicated story depending on how you choose to look at it

Like before each block provides a different range of experience but there’s far less blocks to consider with color being the worst averaging 1 xp per block mind and the highest actually being mob spawners giving anywhere from 15 to 43 xp per spawner mined however it’s unlikely that you can consistently find and

Farm dungeon spawners so let’s move on to the next best ore nether quartz psych it’s actually emerald and diamond or nether quartz is often talked about as this xp giving ore but it’s not even second best emeralds and diamonds can give anywhere from 3 to 7 xp however as they are very rare

Nether quartz does indeed to make more sense to mine and it gives anywhere from 2 to 5 or 3.5 xp on average its veins in nether range from anywhere between 1 to 14 ores per vein so 3.5 to 49 xp per vein if you were to mine

One nether quartz per second which is already a huge stretch you’d be getting 12 600 xp per hour or level 30 in just under 7 minutes and level 100 in 2.5 hours after mining over 8 848 quarts or one each second so not too reasonable but not too far fetched

Either if you want to go for level 30. however keep in mind that is one nether quartz or per second which is very unlikely up next is smelting which is far more common when getting experience you can smelt a ton of stuff but there are really only eight categories of xp

Mojing also decided to have mercy and not provide a range this time just a fixed value all these things are terrible to smelt and gives 0.1 xp wet sponges and wood gives 0.15 lapis and nether quartz ore gives 0.2 dream gives 0.3 all of these snacks including clay blocks gives 0.35

Redstone ore and iron ore gives 0.7 and these four and cacti give one and ancient debris gives 2 xp when smelted but come on this is mojang you think it’d be that simple hell no because when you smelt rum mutton for instance you aren’t just getting 0.35 experience no no no

In fact to find out how much xp you actually get you have to multiply 0.35 by the number of cooked mutton taken out of the furnace then award the player the whole number portion and the remaining fractional part is the chance of getting one bonus xp for example if i was

Smelting 21 raw mutton to figure out how much xp i’d get i’d have to multiply 21 by 0.35 get 7.35 give me the whole number part or 7xp or one level and then a 35 chance of getting one bonus experience makes sense i hope so obviously while in theory

Smelting ancient debris would be the fastest way to get xp no one is going to have that much of it so instead we turn to the next best thing cacti which are almost as good and far more common and farmable those of you who have been around for a bit can probably remember

Zero tick farms super overpowered modules that would trick minecraft into growing things like cactus and bamboo very quickly sadly these were patched in newer versions of minecraft and this hard nerfed the caccus xp farm that being said while they aren’t the quickest anymore these farms are definitely still a

Choice because you don’t actually have to do anything for them to work the difference between cactus xp farms and all the previous methods is that you don’t actually have to do anything you can just let your cacti grow in the background while you do other stuff around the base per se

The furnaces will smelt in the background as long as they have fuel and once you click an item out of the furnace it will give you all the xp for all the items that were smelted even if those items were then taken away by hopper into a chest you’ll still get the xp

This can get you a ton of levels almost instantly and it helps to think about it more like an xp bank as opposed to an xp farm the obvious downside is that if it wasn’t on you aren’t getting anything when you need it but if you leave it on for a

While while you’re doing other stuff it will slowly turn away and eventually get you more and more xp depending on how long you wait and when you do need it it’s practically instant although you do have to wait to reset it again afterwards still a definitely notable method to consider

I’m going to be skipping over the advancements category because you can only earn each advancement once but if you’re curious here are the amounts of xp you get per each one completed it’s not too notable but something new you can keep in mind finally the other category bottles of enchanting

Are certainly great for getting experience at around 60 000 xp per hour but again these are pretty rare and aren’t too obtainable in large quantities in fact the only way to somewhat reliably get them is through villager trading which is the next thing you can get around 4.5 xp per trade made with

Villagers but again this isn’t very efficient compared to all the other methods and who actually likes trading with these guys breeding animals isn’t too repeatable either and while in theory it wouldn’t be that hard to set up an elaborate breeding chamber with tons of couples not only would that be weird as hell

It’s certainly not the best method to get experience same with catching fish not too predictable and more like a small reward as opposed to anything meaningful it just eats up your time so all things considered what is the best way to get xp in my opinion the furnace bank or

Darkroom farms are the two best designs because they work early game and give a decent amount of experience but they are so so far away from the fastest in terms of speed the best is something completely different let’s quickly revisit the mob section you may notice in my calculations for

Guardians i’d assumed to be killing around one guardian per second this is definitely impressive and gives you a solid 36 000 xp per hour however this is far from what is possible well-built late-game farms can organize the guardians in such a way that piles them on top of each other

Allowing you to kill many at once with just one swipe of your sword or one harming potion as such you’d actually be killing so many more than just one per second with an enderman farm for instance you could get around 105 000 xp per hour

I’ll link a design to a farm like that as well as all the following farms in the description a well-built piglen farm can get you 250 000 xp per hour and even better than that a well-built guardian farm can get you 380 000 xp per hour using harming potions

These designs are incredibly fast but there is one more ace up my sleeve because really only noobs farm guardians or piglens the best xp farm is an ender dragon farm 5.76 million xp per hour that’s enough to go from level 0 to level 1150

In just one hour or to go to level 30 in less than a second and to level 100 in 20 seconds obviously these figures aren’t really realistic as you can’t kill the dragon in that short a time but technically that’s how fast you’d be getting xp 1 600 experience points every

Second this insane farm was designed by rey’s works for 1.10 with an updated version for 1.12 and onwards it essentially tricks the game to give you a 12 000 xp dragon every revival instead of a normal 500 xp it respawns the dragon for you then pushes it to a killing chamber

Blows it up with a tnt duplicator and eventually carries the xp all the way back to you it’s completely nuts links this farm and everything i’ve talked about will be in the description but of all that said this is the best way to get xp in minecraft

And ender dragon farm thank you so much for watching please do consider subscribing and as always peace out have a good one You