Using this on a 1.21 paper server. works brilliantly. after extensive testing, consistently getting over 8,500 redstone dust per hour. Yeah, even your title undersells how good it is.
Just to note that you can't just use any block for the walls as solid blocks can interfere with pack spawning a bit - use stairs at the feet level instead,
I think you can achieve slightly faster rates using 2No2Name's "Johnny" raid captain vindicator method and have the witches run straight into the portal. Though I'm not sure I would increase much as the witch farm limiting factor tends to be spawning space, not mob cap
Very elegant farm. Thank you. I have been looking for one for my survival world for quite sometime and this one really has a good balance between simplicity and efficiency. Its also very fun to watch in action :D. There looks to me that there is a minor bug in the litematica schema, where the outer rail line of the witch transport to the elevator is missing from the schema.
This concept works really nicely. I updated my which farm to this. The only improvement I made was to turn the piston configuration 90 degrees so the witches don't travel as long in the water. It only saves a few seconds in their travel time. Could add up? I am so glad they are buffing the rates.
Awesome farm design! Put 3 rows of magma blocks in the waterstream below the hut. While the witches flow towards the powered rail, they will take damage which will reset their despawn timer. Source: Stromne/LogicalGeekBoy
Thanks! I might add some magma blocks, I don't think it's necessary. Witches are almost always picked up within 15 seconds of spawning or so, and once they're in the carts they can't despawn anymore.
This is a great change, I like how witch farms are now stronger than the simpler stacking raid farms. I'm unsure if people have adapted raid farms to the various changes yet, since their redstone outputs will also benefit from this change although likely by a significantly lesser amount. Either way it actually makes a worthwhile amount of redstone to build, and it's not like the design can't be optimised because I'm pretty sure I remember seeing some advanced witch farms even before made to try out their potential. Here's praying that Mojang doesn't revert this. Guessing this is the influence of gnembom or kingbdogz that made this change, so W them.
i thought light levels did not effect slime spawning? i know that light level 1 gives the best spawning conditions as it prevents other mobs spawning while allowing slimes to spawn. but i wasnt aware that 8+ prevents slime spawning?
That's true for slime chunks under y=40. But in swamps, slimes will spawn only if the light level is under 7. This is why swamp slime farms often use mushrooms to spawnproof (they give light level 1 and block all mobs except slimes).
I don't think it would work for iron golems. We need the trapdoors to hold the witches in place, and iron golems wouldn't spawn if we have trapdoors there -- although I'm not sure on this, iron golem spawning rules are very different from hostile mobs... But we do have a way to get them out: Use downward acceleration with slime blocks! This works like a charm, check out Emdys WAIFU. (And we could use that for simpler iron farms as well.) ruclips.net/video/UBg8wPtk35U/видео.htmlsi=wjymLKGZKRhmN7bp
I've enjoyed your builds and videos. Have you ever considered playing on an SMP? Im on an all adult, family friendly, content creator server with builders and technical redstone players as well. You would fit in and enjoy some of the massive redstone projects around.
Hey, I have experienced an issue where the minecarts and witches have got stuck in the water elevator and started stacking inside of it. The farm was working fine for around an hour beforehand, and then a witch somehow got on the scaffolding and thus blocked other carts from coming up, blocking everything off. Anyone know what could have caused this, or any quick fixes?
I have a question about centering the farm over the witch hut. When im placing the schematic. where should height levels be in relation to the witch hut? if it matters.. like does the top shifting floor go where the roof of the hut would be or below or above?
The shifting floors go where the gold blocks are in this picture: ibb.co/fY24MhP The highest is one block over the roof, the lowest 2 blocks below the floor. The rotation depends on the hut, the structure is extended by one block over the roof on the porch side.
@@FrunoCraft oh hey.. i was just about to go to bed i got everything working on the survival server i play on.. still figuring out how to afk though. i keep breaking the armor stand. i also get some other spawns besides witches. but lots of witches. and the tone blocks for the 2nd and 3rd never indicate they are correct. i wonder if the note is changed somehow or somthing?
@@erikanderson3927 The state of the note blocks doesn't matter, they might be differently tuned. As for the other spawns, maybe the farm is rotated? Witch huts can be north-south or east-west. I'd suggest to use freecam to see where the witches come from. The armor stand should only break if you hit it too fast, which can happen with server lag. Try to hit only once every second or so, this should work on most servers.
@@theotherjoedimaggio You can flip the farm around (mirror it in both x/z axes), all that matters is that the rotation is correct. So you need to rotate the schematic 90 degrees such that the 7x9 spawning platforms coincide with the hitbox of the hut, including the porch, depending on the orientation of the hut.
hey! i just wanted to know how I would make this a double witch farm, do i transport them to nether or something? my huts are 200 blocks apart. thanks!
In singleplayer, portals would be the easiest way. Especially in 1.21 where you can keep the witches in minecarts. Thinking about it, this should make this method also feasible for multiplayer because witches can't despawn if in minecarts... But you can also use 2 elevators, move the witches to an afk spot in the middle, and have minecarts in 2 lines unloading to the same block. This is easily possible for up to 4 minecart lines, check Stromnes kill chamber in his WiskeTrain: ruclips.net/video/w4n2me3HYZY/видео.htmlsi=jgmw4XBj4OlGsT8v 200 blocks apart, that means you'll have to light up a lot of caves though, or make a perimeter. Because the AFK spot will have to be low, probably around y=110ish?
I designed a farm similar to this. The trapdoors are at the witches eye level just like this farm. I am now getting a problem where cats are spawning inside the farm and not being able to shift down because they are below the trapdoor. Do you have this problem aswell? im in java 1.19.3 (planning to upgrade to 1.21)
Cats are spawning in the farm? This really shouldn't happen. According to the wiki, cats can spawn only on grass blocks. Maybe you have some grass blocks in there or nearby? BTW you can just move the trapdoors down, but again cats shouldn't spawn in the first place.
I welcome this change. I'm glad Witch farms are back. Gnembon on the team has made a huge difference. Just curious are triple and even quad witch huts still possible? I heard Mojang removed them or at least made them less common. I found a double in my world, I'm using a piston mob conveyor to transport them to one spot, so I should get a nice boost to that.
What I did was find a quad witch hut in another seed in 1.18 and then use mca seletor to import it to my world, if you want the seeds I can give them to you
I am having problems where the witches from time to time back up in the water elevator and stop getting to the rails. Making the farm stop and my sword break. Has anyone else had this problem/ found an east fix
@@HenryRide I've seen this happen when a minecart collided with another entity near the killing chamber. Is it possible that this happened, like the cart may have collided with a phantom perhaps?
@@FrunoCraft No phantoms but I found a sneaky little slime at the top where the witches leave the carts. No idea how it there. The cleanup was interesting, had to get rid of a double chest worth of witches in the water elevator.
@@HenryRide Ah, slimes spawn in the swamp at light level 6 or lower. You must light up everything at light level 7 or higher in a circle with radius ~50 blocks around the afk spot, otherwise slimes could hop down to the minecarts, get picked up and then block the track.
Only witches should be able to spawn inside the hut structure. Can you use MiniHud to display the structure and check if you maybe are off by a block or so? minecraft.wiki/w/Swamp_Hut#Mobs
Used the schematic to build this farm, but I am still getting other mob spawns. Creepers, skeletons, zombies. Checked orientation of the trapdoors and everything too. Is this a feature or a bug?
Only witches should spawn in witch huts. Can you check with MiniHUD that you built the spawning platforms correctly? All spawning spaces need to be inside the witch hut structure (minecraft.wiki/w/Swamp_Hut#Mobs).
Yes, you can use any building block. But it will increase the rates a bit (~10 percent) if you use non-solid blocks instead, like stairs that are arranged in a way that no light gets to the inside.
@@FrunoCraft im assuming, glowstone isnt a solid block then, cause i originally used glowstone but it didnt work as the torch was still one, so i went through all the effort in getting the froglight, anyways thanks alot, farm works great, though the minecarts do get stuck in the elevator after awhile if i dont kill the witches.
@@lomox3255 The problem is most likely that mobs (slimes or perhaps friendly mobs) can spawn and collide with the carts. This is discussed in the tutorial.
Is it normal that my witch farm also spawns creepers, bogged and spiders? Also for some reason that Lava cauldron destroyed all my minecarts, I had to use a cactus instead
No, only witches should spawn in there. Perhaps the witch hut was rotated 90 degrees? You can use MiniHUD to check out where the inner structure is. Curious about the minecarts, it works perfectly for me (I use this way to break minecarts all the time). The hoppers below the cauldron and next to the cauldron are not locked by a redstone signal?
@@FrunoCraft Nope, not locked. Also the schematic had a glass block beneath the cauldron, maybe that's why? For the witch hut: Yes, that's it. I checked with miniHUD before building it but only aligned one corner, didn't think about it being asymetrical. Guess I'll just live with it, gotta make the sorting system a bit bigger to account for creeper and bogged drops. It's now a [mostly] witch farm lmao
@@FrunoCraft well even with the cactus I had the issue that I needed to move the cactus one block back, because it came in so quickly, it kept flying over the cactus without ever getting picked up.
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I know there’s only so much one developer can do, but I feel like we wouldn’t have this change without gnembon
it was kingbdogz i am pretty sure
@@hisamiyomotsu1337 maybe but Gnembon having been a member of Scicraft would have made a case for it I am sure.
Using this on a 1.21 paper server. works brilliantly. after extensive testing, consistently getting over 8,500 redstone dust per hour. Yeah, even your title undersells how good it is.
I was just designing this exact farm. Thought I would have another go at finding one by someone else. Yes please to a tutorial 😊 lovely work.
Working on a tutorial :)
Came from Reddit, this is amazing. so excited to build this when the update releases
Mojang is doing an amazing job lately.. im curious to see what they are gonna do with sand in the future :)
Renewable sand, and movable containers (dispensers). Gnembon are you listening? ;)
@@FrunoCraft yeah, that would be perfect!
@@FrunoCraft
"Movable containers"
Laughs in bedrock 😂
Just to note that you can't just use any block for the walls as solid blocks can interfere with pack spawning a bit - use stairs at the feet level instead,
Tinted glass works too right?
@@Neanderstaal Yes
is there any other blocks that can i use? also does that mean only the walls or the whole area where tinted glass is used?
@@thetele8646 Not sure tbh. I know stairs work.
I think you can achieve slightly faster rates using 2No2Name's "Johnny" raid captain vindicator method and have the witches run straight into the portal. Though I'm not sure I would increase much as the witch farm limiting factor tends to be spawning space, not mob cap
Very elegant farm. Thank you. I have been looking for one for my survival world for quite sometime and this one really has a good balance between simplicity and efficiency. Its also very fun to watch in action :D. There looks to me that there is a minor bug in the litematica schema, where the outer rail line of the witch transport to the elevator is missing from the schema.
Just in time because I plan to build one now then use it for 1.21.
This concept works really nicely. I updated my which farm to this. The only improvement I made was to turn the piston configuration 90 degrees so the witches don't travel as long in the water. It only saves a few seconds in their travel time. Could add up? I am so glad they are buffing the rates.
I love how you fixed the problem with linking portals and instead using minecarts. Was actually thinking about how to do something similar 😂
Awesome farm design!
Put 3 rows of magma blocks in the waterstream below the hut. While the witches flow towards the powered rail, they will take damage which will reset their despawn timer.
Source: Stromne/LogicalGeekBoy
Thanks! I might add some magma blocks, I don't think it's necessary. Witches are almost always picked up within 15 seconds of spawning or so, and once they're in the carts they can't despawn anymore.
Nice concept! Thanks for sharing it
When are you gonna do a tutorial for this? Can’t wait to build it on my technical survival!
This is a great change, I like how witch farms are now stronger than the simpler stacking raid farms.
I'm unsure if people have adapted raid farms to the various changes yet, since their redstone outputs will also benefit from this change although likely by a significantly lesser amount.
Either way it actually makes a worthwhile amount of redstone to build, and it's not like the design can't be optimised because I'm pretty sure I remember seeing some advanced witch farms even before made to try out their potential.
Here's praying that Mojang doesn't revert this. Guessing this is the influence of gnembom or kingbdogz that made this change, so W them.
where do you build the specific layers in correspondence to the witch hut
Its pretty important to tell the viewers where exactly to build this farm on the witchhut. Would make this a lot better. Good work nonetheless.
That's why there is a tutorial linked in the description :)
i thought light levels did not effect slime spawning? i know that light level 1 gives the best spawning conditions as it prevents other mobs spawning while allowing slimes to spawn. but i wasnt aware that 8+ prevents slime spawning?
That's true for slime chunks under y=40. But in swamps, slimes will spawn only if the light level is under 7. This is why swamp slime farms often use mushrooms to spawnproof (they give light level 1 and block all mobs except slimes).
I love the idea of using minecarts.
liked,and shared,good work mate,
also curious can we use the shifting floor design on iron farm? to instantly send them out of the detection radius
I don't think it would work for iron golems. We need the trapdoors to hold the witches in place, and iron golems wouldn't spawn if we have trapdoors there -- although I'm not sure on this, iron golem spawning rules are very different from hostile mobs...
But we do have a way to get them out: Use downward acceleration with slime blocks! This works like a charm, check out Emdys WAIFU. (And we could use that for simpler iron farms as well.) ruclips.net/video/UBg8wPtk35U/видео.htmlsi=wjymLKGZKRhmN7bp
the only thing id like to see is an increase in witch hut generation. just to make it more enticing imo
I've enjoyed your builds and videos. Have you ever considered playing on an SMP? Im on an all adult, family friendly, content creator server with builders and technical redstone players as well. You would fit in and enjoy some of the massive redstone projects around.
Hey,
I have experienced an issue where the minecarts and witches have got stuck in the water elevator and started stacking inside of it. The farm was working fine for around an hour beforehand, and then a witch somehow got on the scaffolding and thus blocked other carts from coming up, blocking everything off. Anyone know what could have caused this, or any quick fixes?
Did u find a fix?
As I explain at the start of the video, please make sure that no slimes, phantoms or other mobs can spawn.
I have a question about centering the farm over the witch hut. When im placing the schematic. where should height levels be in relation to the witch hut? if it matters.. like does the top shifting floor go where the roof of the hut would be or below or above?
The shifting floors go where the gold blocks are in this picture: ibb.co/fY24MhP
The highest is one block over the roof, the lowest 2 blocks below the floor. The rotation depends on the hut, the structure is extended by one block over the roof on the porch side.
@@FrunoCraft oh hey.. i was just about to go to bed i got everything working on the survival server i play on.. still figuring out how to afk though. i keep breaking the armor stand. i also get some other spawns besides witches. but lots of witches. and the tone blocks for the 2nd and 3rd never indicate they are correct. i wonder if the note is changed somehow or somthing?
@@erikanderson3927 The state of the note blocks doesn't matter, they might be differently tuned. As for the other spawns, maybe the farm is rotated? Witch huts can be north-south or east-west. I'd suggest to use freecam to see where the witches come from.
The armor stand should only break if you hit it too fast, which can happen with server lag. Try to hit only once every second or so, this should work on most servers.
@@FrunoCraft in your farm, which side is the "front" where the porch would be?
@@theotherjoedimaggio You can flip the farm around (mirror it in both x/z axes), all that matters is that the rotation is correct. So you need to rotate the schematic 90 degrees such that the 7x9 spawning platforms coincide with the hitbox of the hut, including the porch, depending on the orientation of the hut.
hey! i just wanted to know how I would make this a double witch farm, do i transport them to nether or something? my huts are 200 blocks apart. thanks!
In singleplayer, portals would be the easiest way. Especially in 1.21 where you can keep the witches in minecarts. Thinking about it, this should make this method also feasible for multiplayer because witches can't despawn if in minecarts...
But you can also use 2 elevators, move the witches to an afk spot in the middle, and have minecarts in 2 lines unloading to the same block. This is easily possible for up to 4 minecart lines, check Stromnes kill chamber in his WiskeTrain: ruclips.net/video/w4n2me3HYZY/видео.htmlsi=jgmw4XBj4OlGsT8v
200 blocks apart, that means you'll have to light up a lot of caves though, or make a perimeter. Because the AFK spot will have to be low, probably around y=110ish?
I designed a farm similar to this. The trapdoors are at the witches eye level just like this farm. I am now getting a problem where cats are spawning inside the farm and not being able to shift down because they are below the trapdoor. Do you have this problem aswell? im in java 1.19.3 (planning to upgrade to 1.21)
Cats are spawning in the farm? This really shouldn't happen. According to the wiki, cats can spawn only on grass blocks. Maybe you have some grass blocks in there or nearby?
BTW you can just move the trapdoors down, but again cats shouldn't spawn in the first place.
I welcome this change. I'm glad Witch farms are back. Gnembon on the team has made a huge difference. Just curious are triple and even quad witch huts still possible? I heard Mojang removed them or at least made them less common. I found a double in my world, I'm using a piston mob conveyor to transport them to one spot, so I should get a nice boost to that.
What I did was find a quad witch hut in another seed in 1.18 and then use mca seletor to import it to my world, if you want the seeds I can give them to you
@@YoungMan7282 that would be very interesting and would appreciate it. thanks
@@JohnDavidSullivan having some trouble sending the seeds over, youtube keeps censoring it
this might be a dumb question but what y level should the spawning box be relative to the y level of the witch hut?
I just made a tutorial for this farm, please check out this video: ruclips.net/video/PuWl434ov-8/видео.html
@@FrunoCraft thanks
Great! I was thinking about something similar, great work to solve all the issues so I don't need to. (-;
Tutorial?
I am having problems where the witches from time to time back up in the water elevator and stop getting to the rails. Making the farm stop and my sword break. Has anyone else had this problem/ found an east fix
If you send a minecart into the empty elevator (clear it from witches), does it pop out on top on the powered rail?
This just happened to me after few hours afk.
@@HenryRide I've seen this happen when a minecart collided with another entity near the killing chamber. Is it possible that this happened, like the cart may have collided with a phantom perhaps?
@@FrunoCraft No phantoms but I found a sneaky little slime at the top where the witches leave the carts. No idea how it there. The cleanup was interesting, had to get rid of a double chest worth of witches in the water elevator.
@@HenryRide Ah, slimes spawn in the swamp at light level 6 or lower. You must light up everything at light level 7 or higher in a circle with radius ~50 blocks around the afk spot, otherwise slimes could hop down to the minecarts, get picked up and then block the track.
Do you have an idea why I sometimes get zombies and skeletons in my farm?
Only witches should be able to spawn inside the hut structure. Can you use MiniHud to display the structure and check if you maybe are off by a block or so? minecraft.wiki/w/Swamp_Hut#Mobs
Used the schematic to build this farm, but I am still getting other mob spawns. Creepers, skeletons, zombies. Checked orientation of the trapdoors and everything too. Is this a feature or a bug?
Only witches should spawn in witch huts. Can you check with MiniHUD that you built the spawning platforms correctly? All spawning spaces need to be inside the witch hut structure (minecraft.wiki/w/Swamp_Hut#Mobs).
@@FrunoCraft Yeah I’ll take a look
@@FrunoCraft You we’re correct. First time using minihud, really handy. Get to tear down the farm and rotate it 90 degrees lol
What mod is that you can see inside without going in?
That's the freecam functionality in Tweakeroo. One of the best mods ever :)
@@FrunoCraft Omg!! Thank youuu very much! I've been searching for that mod. And nice farm it works for meee!!
Is there any blocks I can replace the tinted glass with?
Yes, you can use any building block. But it will increase the rates a bit (~10 percent) if you use non-solid blocks instead, like stairs that are arranged in a way that no light gets to the inside.
@@FrunoCraft alright thanks
@@FrunoCraft also instead of the froglight is there any substitute block that i can use in the redstone clock?
@@thetele8646 Sure, you can use any solid blocks for that. I just use froglights because they are solid, give light and are not spawnable.
@@FrunoCraft im assuming, glowstone isnt a solid block then, cause i originally used glowstone but it didnt work as the torch was still one, so i went through all the effort in getting the froglight, anyways thanks alot, farm works great, though the minecarts do get stuck in the elevator after awhile if i dont kill the witches.
On my farm sometimes the minecarts get suck in the water stream, anyone know why ?
Most likely they collide with entities, please check the tutorial
@@FrunoCraft yeah i thought at this first to, and i build a clock without the tripwire so that they wont colide but it ceeps hapening.
@@lomox3255 The problem is most likely that mobs (slimes or perhaps friendly mobs) can spawn and collide with the carts. This is discussed in the tutorial.
Is it normal that my witch farm also spawns creepers, bogged and spiders? Also for some reason that Lava cauldron destroyed all my minecarts, I had to use a cactus instead
No, only witches should spawn in there. Perhaps the witch hut was rotated 90 degrees? You can use MiniHUD to check out where the inner structure is.
Curious about the minecarts, it works perfectly for me (I use this way to break minecarts all the time). The hoppers below the cauldron and next to the cauldron are not locked by a redstone signal?
@@FrunoCraft Nope, not locked. Also the schematic had a glass block beneath the cauldron, maybe that's why?
For the witch hut: Yes, that's it. I checked with miniHUD before building it but only aligned one corner, didn't think about it being asymetrical.
Guess I'll just live with it, gotta make the sorting system a bit bigger to account for creeper and bogged drops. It's now a [mostly] witch farm lmao
@@catdisc5304 Could be. In theory an empty minecart should be picked up by the other hopper not under the minecart, but it may not be 100% reliable.
@@FrunoCraft well even with the cactus I had the issue that I needed to move the cactus one block back, because it came in so quickly, it kept flying over the cactus without ever getting picked up.
Is it still 4 redstone per witch even without a player kill?
yes, 6 redstone dust per witch on avg nonlooting, 7.5 looting