Ultimate Minecraft 1.20 Animal Farming Guide – Auto Farm Pig, Sheep, Cow, Rabbit & Chicken

Farming animals in Minecraft is an important part of the game giving you food and other vital items so in this farm animal guide I’ll tell you everything about it in this guide I’m going to discuss information on how to farm cows sheep chickens pigs as well as

Rabbits as I would consider these to be the five main farm animals but before we get into that there’s some really important information that you need to know about any mob that you’re going to be farming the first part is when the mob dies and it’s actually on fire what

Will basically happen is that when it dies it will not drop its standard drops as you’d assume let’s say a raw pork chop for example coming from this pig but if we can actually finish it off with the fire here you can see what’s actually dropped is a cooked pork chop

This does not just have to be with flint and steel this can also be with a fire aspect or flame sword or bow so right here we have a sword that has fire aspect on it let’s kill this sheep and as you can see we got cooked chicken

Instead of raw chicken so whichever one of these five mobs you’re farming it’s definitely a good idea to have that on your word another really important enchantment to have is looting looting works on every single farm animal so for example right here not only is this food

Can be cooked we also got four cooked pork chops instead of the standard amount which is of course about half that if we kill this rabbit you can see we got three rabbit hide instead of just one and of course the same if we kill

The cow or we kill the Sheep you can see both of these mobs dropped more than their standard amount three cooked mutton from the sheep and if we take a look at the drops of this cow we also got here three leather and three steak which is a very very good drop from

Literally just one mob another really good thing to know is that when you’re first starting out a world and you happen to encounter some mobs near the spawn point the best idea is to save two of them and to not kill those mobs until

You have a farm set up for them now the reason for this is the fact especially in Java Edition passive mob spawning is kind of broken and so because of that if you actually want to have a good source of mobs that are near your spawn point

You’re gonna have to keep the ones that naturally generated because ones that generate after the initial generation of the world tend to be pretty rare inside of java Edition and finally it’s really important to prepare for your mob Farms by getting your food farm for the mobs

Set up now it’s nice because unlike what you might assume this is actually quite an easy task the only steps are just to place water in the ground until four blocks swing every direction from that water making yourself sort of a square piece of Farmland now that that’s done

It’s also important to know what you should be planting what I would personally suggest is to plant wheat and carrots but to plant them in a special way let’s plant alternating rows of Wheat and carrots that way they’re going to grow quicker what’s nice is that this pretty simple wheat and carrot Farm

Actually has the food for all of those five mob types you see the carrots work on the rabbits as well as the pigs the wheat seeds that we get from the wheat crops here we can use on the chickens and the weed itself is the breeding food

Of cows and sheep they may want to make more of these little wheat and carrot firming plots if you’re going to be farming a ton more mobs or you might even just want a couple of these but I would suggest setting it up as soon as possible so that by the time you’re

Actually firming your mobs and you have them all together your food is also there available for you so you’re not in a situation where you’re just waiting on some carrots to grow to actually breed your pigs all right but that’s enough about preparation let’s move on to the

Actual mob types and focus on those we’re going to start with the chicken the first question is of course where do you find chickens now I know that everyone watching this video has run into chickens before but I would say that the best place to find them is

Definitely in the plains biome so what information do you need to know about this funny looking feathered mob well to start if you want to feed or breed chickens it’s really easy to get their food just run through any biome with grass and it break that grass and then

From that grass take those wheat seeds now of course long term a good source of wheat seeds is to actually just farmweed and just collect the seeds from your farm and as you can see right here chickens will follow you around if you’re holding wheat seeds in your hand

You can breed them with this by right clicking on both chickens with the seeds they’ll enter love mode they’ll breed and there’ll be a baby chicken on the ground however you do not have to stick to just wheat seeds for your chickens in fact there’s no less than six items that

Can be used to make chickens breed those of course are weed seeds and then pumpkin seeds also work even the melon seeds and the beetroot seeds will work to breed chickens and in Minecraft 1.20 we now have the added torch flower seeds as a breeding food and even the pitcher

Pods themselves can be used to make these chickens enter love mode and give us a baby one of my favorite things about chickens is the fact they lay eggs and because you can go around and pick up these eggs they also serve some different purposes to getting more chickens however there’s another very

Secret feature which is the fact that not only does one in eight eggs give you one chicken one in 256 eggs will give you four chickens so that basically means if you’re going around throwing eggs very very rarely you’ll throw one egg and suddenly four chickens will appear at the spot that

One egg landed and you’re gonna have four baby chickens that were all somehow trapped into one little league but as well as that when you kill chickens they give you two drops the first one is feathers and the second one is raw or cooked chicken depending of course on

Your sword now both of these items are quite useful but the feathers themselves are incredibly useful if you’re trying to make a large amount of arrows without villagers now if all you’re wanting from chickens is the eggs here’s how to make an egg farm from chickens place down two

Chests and have a hopper going into those chests then take some glass and put it on top of the chest as well as around this Hopper you break this block down here and you can see basically there’s a place where chickens are gonna be right here on top of the hopper and

There’s two blocks of glass above so they can’t just jump out then once you’ve done that grab as many eggs as you can get and start throwing them into that Hopper we have two baby chickens already and you want to keep track because if you go over the entity

Cramming limit which is 24 then all the mobs and they’re going to die and you could also die yourself if you fall in there but I would say at least 10 is good so I’m just gonna throw eight stacks of eggs in there and hopefully it’s enough all right our baby chickens

Have now grown up and what you can do is you can put a block on top of the farm like that to cap it off but what’s gonna happen is that whenever this strange looking circle of chickens lays eggs those eggs are always going to be collected to the hopper and funneled

Into this chest and a really good thing to know is that on average a chicken will lay an egg every 5 to 10 minutes inside of Minecraft so a farm like this with let’s say 20 chickens should produce you about 20 to 40 eggs every 10

Minutes so that’s how you make a really simple egg Farm but there’s also some other interesting ways of doing this this way tends to be a bit more traditional just set up a fence and get a bunch of chickens into it and breed those chickens as many times as you can

With wheat seeds to get as many chickens in this pen as possible ideally you want this pen to be absolutely filled with maybe a couple hundred chickens then finding a lay nearby and give it an egg what’s now gonna happen is pretty crazy that Italy is going to realize that

There are tons of eggs laying on the ground over those chickens are it’s gonna grab the eggs and bring them back to you and once it does that it’s gonna go all the way over grab more eggs then bring them back this is like one of the

Best juices of the LA in my opinion because the chickens produce all these floating items so you need to get back and the Olay is really great at grabbing those as the chickens lay eggs and whenever a new egg is laid by the chickens like let’s say right here that

Lay will notice it go over grab it and then fly over to you to give you your eggs another thing you can do of course is have the laby link to let’s say a note block so that it brings the eggs to there instead of to your inventory

That’s how you firm the egg so to both the meat and the feathers well you can always have a farm set up like this where you’re breeding the chickens and collecting their eggs and just modify it into a place where you’re also collecting their drops by placing a

Carpet on part of the fence so we can jump in and out of there and getting yourself a really good supply of cooked chicken as well as feathers but let’s go on from chickens to our next mob the cow cows are also most commonly found in

Plains biome but again being in a huge amount of biomes across the Overworld as you can see their food is definitely wheat because they’re following me very very closely when I’m holding this item actually an interesting little side note if you hold these items in your offhound

They’ll also follow you with it so you can then have something in your main hand to be doing a different action while keeping those mobs close behind you now cows actually give you a fairly wide variety of drops and items for example when you kill cows they drop

Steak as well as leather there’s one other thing though that you can also get from cows and this does not require herding them that is milking them with a milk bucket all you have to do is right click on the cow with an empty bucket in your hand and it’ll instantly convert

That into a Full Bucket what I mean by that is if we just Spam right click as fast as possible we can get ourselves a ton of milk buckets very very quickly the best way to set that up is probably to honestly just capture a cow in a

Chest boat then in that actual chest of course fill it up with your buckets and milk buckets and you have a little station to get infinite milk because you can just grab about the empty buckets spam right click on our cow right here and when we’re done we can put them

Inside of the chest in this chest boat the cows also have a fairly unique variant to them that gives you another item than this and that is the red as well as brown mushroom variants of cows these are found in mushroom islands and the brown mushrooms are found when a red

Mushroom is hit by lightning these mushrooms were even bred with wheat the only difference is that when you’re farming them before you actually kill them just right click on them with shearers and if it is a red mushroom they’ll drop five red mushrooms and if it happens to be a brown mushroom they

Will drop five brown mushrooms so in this way you can get an extra five mushrooms per cow that you’re farming if that’s something you want there are a couple of different ways to farm cows one of them is just to hold some wheat in your hand and let all of those cows

Start following you once you’ve done that bring them to a prepared little fenced an area with some blocks to allow them to bridge the gap into this fenced-in area and once you’ve done that and they’ve all gotten in just go to the other side and break these blocks and of

Course when once they’ve bred and replenished the population for us somewhat then we can kill a certain number of cows but again trying to always get more cows in this area so that we confirm them more and more efficiently but what I would suggest doing if you want something a bit more

Automatic is what I call the water Pit Method this is basically when you have cows be suspended in a block of water with air above it and then a fence or some other block to trap them from going all the way up basically you’ll breed them when they’re in here although I

Think we’ve just bred them so we can’t actually do that again and when they breed they’re eventually going to entity cram in there but usually the adults will die and not the babies and so because of that the adult cows drops will then go into this Hopper and they

Can then be picked up in this large chest and as you can see here when I just spread these cows the first time we already got 17 raw beef and five leather but what makes it really nice is that it is very very easy to set up a lot of

These pods connected to each other and then it’s super easy just to breed the cows and eventually when the number of cows in here gets a little higher we are going to see those entity creme and then there’s going to be some more drops in here alright so how do you build this

Start by choosing where you want the actual cows to go into I would suggest you can always do this into the ground and make it more seamless by just digging two blocks down and break two more blocks to the side this will make us some room for a chest as well as a

Hopper so we’ll put the chest in like this and once we have that chest there we can then put a hopper into the side and if you’re doing this underground I would suggest using a somewhat transparent block like let’s say a glass block or maybe a stair because then with

That on top of there this area is still sealed in but when we take a look down here to go into our chest we can open it up and bring over at least two cows I would suggest basically just push that cow till it eventually falls into this

Place and the second cow is now in now we have three cows in there before we place down the water put a dirt block to the side put no fence up here in fact any type of fence is fine and place a water bucket down here once we’ve done

That those mobs are going to Bob up and we can actually breed them with our weed here as you can see as they kind of shift position that’s pretty easy to reach both and basically this Farm is now done and now all you have to do is

Just right click here feed your cows and eventually when they die of entity cramming grab the drops out of this chest and to make these firm setups more efficient all I would suggest doing is just having a ton of these pods filled with cows in them so you can go buy each

Pod breeding up the cows in there and all the drops are going to funnel along those Hoppers go into the chest and we’re going to be able to collect a ton of drops very very easily but enough about this mob let’s move on to something a bit fluffier sheep have been

In Minecraft for a very long time and again they’re found in most biomes but one new biome that they’re found especially common in is the Cherry Grove biome so if you ever happen to see one of these beautiful pink forests high up on a Mountaintop be sure to go up there

And get yourself some sheep sheep are a very interesting mom because they can be bred with wheat and when they are bred of course they’ll then give you a baby sheep but there are some interesting functionality around this because sheep are not just white in fact there’s 16 in

Colors of sheep however only a couple of those colors will actually naturally generate and so you can do is you can dye sheep different colors and then breed those colors and watch them combine and what makes this interesting is if we breed let’s say a white sheep

And a red sheep we’re actually going to get a pink sheep as the baby and this sort of math of basically when sheep breeding their colors being combined into whatever the color of the baby is corresponding to the adult’s color this functionality is across all the different dye combinations that work so

For example a purple sheep and a white sheep would just give us a 50 50 chance of either purple or white sheep can be sheared to give you wool corresponding to the color of their coat so the most you’ll ever get from a sheep is three

But you’ll always get at least one when you’re shearing a sheep however sheep will also draw bull when they just die so if you’re just a punch the sheep and it dies it’ll drop one piece of wool and it can also drop some mutton I wouldn’t actually recommend farming sheep for

Their food but you can do this if you need to the best thing in my opinion is to just farm sheep for their wool and there’s two main ways of doing this so you want to hold out a piece of wheat and of course attract the Sheep to your

Pen you can actually do this with trapdoors if you want in fact this works with every single mob if you have trap doors laid out like this then you flip them up so that they’re going inwards like this you can see mobs can walk right in like what this sheep did here

But they cannot walk out and when you let’s say breed two sheep that are in here you can see not even withholding the wheat can they get out but if we breed them when they’re inside of here there’ll be a baby sheep and that baby sheep cannot Escape either and in

Bedrock Edition little bits of wool left over on the sheep are actually the correct corresponding color so you can tell what your sheep are even when they’re sheared but anyway you can make a fence like this out of trapdoors if you want or just standard fences breed

All your sheep in here and go through here justuring them all as you need wool however the one problem with this method is it is quite manual and it also requires a huge amount of sheep so you can actually simplify this by building an automatic sheep farm all right now

We’re looking at right here is a very simple and efficient automatic wool farm that I designed myself to build this just break two blocks in the ground and place down chests break another block off of that and put a hopper into that chest then we want to take rails or

Powered and four standard and put the core powered in a shape like this the four unpowered around there to make a circle and a redstone block in the center to power those then grab yourself a mine cart with hopper and get that looping around there either direction

Take some grass blocks and build on top of their three by three of grass but you can technically make this slightly more efficient by putting grass in the corners as well then put four blocks of grass here and have a dispenser facing a different direction on every block like

This so they keep kind of inverting place another grass block in the center and grab some trapdoors of any type and place two of them flipping them up on each Corner this is going to basically be sealing in our sheep so they cannot get out and they have a little

Containment area you want to grab two observers and place them both facing down words then go down into here break the bottom Observer and place it again going upwards you can see that now gives us a clock that’ll be sure these sheep continually now bring over and push into

These Chambers one sheep each for a total of four and dye them the colors you want each sheep can be a different color or they can all be the same it’s whatever combination you want then on top of the farm here place any building block to sort of seal off the roof there

And with redstone dust make an H shape like this that is going to make this start working and you’re going to be consistently hearing this ticking sound with the shearing you notice these are not shearing our sheep and the reason why is that we don’t have any shears in

Here so simply get yourself some shears and place one pair of shears in each dispenser if you have a ton of shears I would suggest filling each dispenser with shears because these are used up fairly quickly and you can see now that all four of those have dispensers this

Farm is working and if we look in the chest here we already have our collected wool now pigs actually also generate quite commonly inside of the new Cherry Grove biome but of course they’re also so found in Planes biomes and all across the Overworld once you’ve actually found

Pigs how do you breed them do you use carrots potatoes or beetroot now most players are going to say carrots but the actual answer is all three of them in fact beetroot potatoes and carrots work exactly the same for breeding pigs as you can see right here now it’s probably

Best to breed pigs with carrots because carrots can also breed rabbits so you’re kind of killing two birds with one stone and just needing a carrot Farm but also a lot of players do farm potatoes for food so if you already have a potato firm that might be your best bet but

Pigs will follow you around very very closely no matter which of these three you’re holding so once you’ve decided what food service you’re gonna have for them what do you actually get from the pig pigs have one drop and that is pork chops of course killing it here with our

Fire aspect 2 sword we’re getting cooked pork chops and cooked pork chops in terms of how many Hunger Birds they refill are the best stackable food source for that now pigs don’t actually give you any other items and cook pork chops which do place them at a disadvantage compared to Let’s say sheep

Or cows but pigs do have the ability to be ridden with a saddle and a carrot on a stick in fact the carrot on a stick is probably the reason why most players assume that you need standard carrots to breed pigs you can actually right click

That carrot on the stick to make the pig consume some of it and it’ll go kind of faster if you’re wondering how to actually farm pigs for their pork chop drop here’s what you want to do just like the basic firming method for all the other animals simply just bring a

Bunch of pigs into an enclosed area breed those with whatever one of these you can get cheapest probably potatoes and then just kill a couple of the pigs every time you breed them to maintain a consistent population that you can get pork chops from but if you want to do

This a bit more automatically here is an alternative method and that is to make the same water pit as we used for the cows then whenever you want pork chops come over here and just start spamming right click breeding all these pigs up and eventually once all the pigs have

Bread once you’ve gotten to a certain point they’re going to start entity cramming as you can see right here and when they start to entity cram the adult pigs are going gonna die but the babies are gonna live and so we’re basically cycling through there turning these

Potatoes directly into pigs and if we look in this chest there’s already eight raw pork chops that have appeared there but let’s go on to our last mob and this one’s actually quite unique the rabbit rabbits in Minecraft spawn in a bunch of different biomes yellow rabbits

Generating deserts and this is like the only type of rabbit I can consistently find but if you want white or black and white rabbits those can be found in more or less any snowy biome but if you want the black brown or white and brown variant of the rabbits those generate in

Flower forests Meadows Tigers added 1.20 the Cherry Grove and if you’re in Java Edition they can generate in the old growth Taiga biomes but anyway let’s go to a biome where we do know there’s always rabbits which is the desert the reason why is they’re the only passive

Mob that generates here as they fill up that entire mob cop in fact they’re so common here it’s actually fairly worthwhile just to run through deserts just to kill the rabbits and get their hides and things but anyway if you go up to a rabbit and right click click on it

With a carrot they’re gonna breed and they’re also going to follow you around hopping towards you if you’re holding carrots in your hand however be warned because if you’re not holding carrots on your hand they’re not just going to be neutral towards you they’re actually going to actively try and get as far

Away from you as possible and when they’re in this running mode they oftentimes will hurt themselves or even die a fall damage so be sure to make sure these rabbits Love You by holding carrots in your hand you can actually breed them with one of their food as

Well and that’s dandelions this is a fairly unknown fact but if you’re trying to get a really cheap food source for rabbits you could always use dandelions as they’re fairly common and setting up a dandelion Farm is pretty easy and they’ll of course follow you and do everything just the same with dandelions

As with carrots so what I would suggest doing is putting one of their favorite foods in your offhand now that that favorite food is in your off pan you could then use your sword to kill these and get your drop from it and here’s what makes rabbits so amazing they have

Three unique drops just to them what are these three drops what we’re starting to see those take place in our inventory that is of course the cooked or alternatively raw rabbit as well as that we have the rabbit hide and these can be crafted into standard leather and there

Is the very rare drop of the rabbit’s foot now the rabbit’s foot right here can actually be brewed into potions of Leaping the rabbits can be kind of tricky so how do you get your rabbit hide cooked rabbit and rabbit’s foot so the first step is of course by holding

Carrots or maybe even just getting them into a boat leading as many rabbits as you can to your farm this time we’re using the method of a double fence skate airlock Farm what you do here is you basically lead all your mobs into the farm through the airlock and once you

Have you can then seal both these doors and it’s easy to get out because you can go like this have this little space so if a rabbit does get into your it’s fine and then you can get all the way out so by using this method if we happen to

Have rabbits get kind of halfway in there we still have a way of making them not get fully escaped into the farm by simply just dragging them back in if we need to another thing I would actually suggest doing is to place down a water water bucket somewhere around here and

Having some Farmland around it you might be wondering why is that rabbits have a super fun little functionality in the game which is that they actually eat carrot crops it’s insane to me that Minecraft coated rabbits as well as you can see they are walking around and will

Just happen when the rabbits eat the carrots is they’ll go down a couple stages in their growth cycle in fact they’ve now finished eating basically all the carrots here but in terms of the Practical side of farming these you just want to run in here breed them with

Carrots of course when you’re holding carrots they’ll be running towards you so it’s nice and easy and then occasionally going around here while keeping the carrots in your hands they don’t run away and killing a couple rabbits to get their drops but if you’re not wanting the kind of fun type of

Rabbit farm there are some more automatic ways of getting them so to make an automatic rabbit farm we want to dig down three blocks kind of go too over from there and start placing down a chest so we have a double chest in here with a hopper going into the side of it

You want to break this block here too and place a transparent block on top of the chest right here and take this block over here so we can actually get to the drops that’ll be in that chest once we’ve done that this is actually a difference between this firm and the

Other ones place a slab on top of that Hopper and then once you’ve done that of course get your rabbits into this area waterlog that slab with the water bucket like this and you’ll notice all those rabbos will start jumping up they can’t get out but you can put the fence post

Up if you want although it doesn’t help at all just because of the rabbit’s hitbox so that’s another difference I’d also of course suggest with this and all the Farms to have a chest with your breeding items in there now we can take our carrots and breed these rabbits as

You can see that’s very very easy and of course eventually they’re going to die of entity cramming in there and the drops are going to end up in this large chest and that’s actually everything about how to farm all these five farm animals inside of Minecraft if you

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