works in 1.20, heres some tips if it isn't working - make sure you're in a soul sand valley, and the entirety of the nether part of the farm is in one, this is crucial, otherwise ghasts wont spawn at the optimal rate - make sure you're afk'ng at build limit - if the ghasts are escaping in the overworld, rotate the overworld portal and add another layer of building blocks to each side
Not a real gamer, not an able Minecraft player but this thing really worked!!! I followed it exactly, not knowing what the Nether Roof was (found out), the spawn/despawn areas were, the build limit, etc. and it still worked perfectly!! Thanks for the Ghast tears!!! Really appreciate it! (Also the clarity, brevity and precision!). K
what a great comment lmao. coming at this farm from the opposite perspective and I've got the same stuff to say about the precision of the build guide. So many people do not leave natural places for pausing, and it matters.
For anyone having a problem with ghasts not going through the ender portal, since you need to go through the portal once for the ghasts to go through, I threw an item through each portal and it seems to work. Like this so it can help more people!
For anyone who was wondering, the 1.19 fix is not necessary anymore because Mojang undid the light level spawning change. Now in 1.19.3 and higher, Endermen, Skeletons and Wither Skeletons need light level 7 or less to spawn. In this design, the portals provide enough light to prevent these mobs from spawning. I recommend that abfielder remove the 1.19 fix link in the description to avoid confusing his audience.
You aren't going to be a small RUclipsr much longer. That was an excellent tutorial that was well explained, entertaining, concise, and simple enough for non Minecraft litterats to understand
This farm is so good, never need gunpower and tears again! For multiplayer servers having two accounts one in the overworld and one in the nether fixes the despawning problem caused by others being further than 128 blocks away. Also it works on spigot and paper servers
@@omadolen4774 I don't know how advanced or whatever you are in your world, but it's actually not too bad if you have an Efficiency V Diamond or Netherite pickaxe and a Haste 2 beacon. Just put on some music or a podcast and mine away :)
For everyone struggling to build this on 1.19 there are 3 things you need to do 1. Make sure your overworld portal is facing the same way as the nether ones 2. Block around the overworld portal 2-4 times 3. Skeletons can spawn as portals now don’t provide enough light so you have to use solid blocks to light up your platform. Easiest is jacko’lanturn and make sure that all platforms are light level 11 or above If you do all this then it should work again and all your hard work isn’t wasted
Just some troubleshooting tips 1. The afk spot needs to be as high up as possible, if you place it too low down stuff will spawn below the ceiling. 2. If someone else is in the nether, you won't see a lot spawn. 3. If someone else is in the overworld more than 128 blocks from the portal then the ghasts will instantly despawn without sending items back through. Same with all portal based farms. 4. If you are on a spigot or paper server this farm probably won't work (a lot of farms don't). Spigot and paper both change fundamental mechanics of Minecraft to improve server performance, I do not play on either type of server nor do I test my farms against them so build at your own risk, it's worth reading the comments to see if anyone else has tried. If you need any more help then you can join the discord in the description and share images with me, please be patient for a response, I have a full time job and may well be asleep if you are in a different timezone.
is it possbile to have the farm above other biomes like basalt deltas or nether wastes because i don't know if i can find a soul sand valley near my base where someone would be less than 128 blocks away for it to work.
Hallo abfielder, thank you so much for the video. I built the farm in 1.19.2 with 4 layers and used the suggestion in one of the comments to place Jack'O lanterns in the middel of all the platfoms. It works amazing. You and your community are the best 👍
I just built this on a multiplayer server, 1.18.1 Java. Works like a charm. :) Built 8 layers, and after half an hour of AFK, it filled a single chest with loot (2 rows of gunpowder and 1 row of ghast tear). I didn't run into any issues. The hardest part was getting all the obsidian; but we found a big lava lake underground... That helped a lot. After all the materials collected, it was quite easy and fun to build! Thank you for this great tutorial!
In my case, I already have a gold farm, connected to piglin bartering station, and have more than a double chest of shulker boxes, full with obsidian, for projects like this. :)
Got this running on my sever and it's been going well. The only thing I ended up adding was a couple extra layers of blocks around the kill chamber because I was getting a few ghasts escape.
Fantastic video! This is a high quality tutorial that explains and shows you how to build very clearly. AWESOME JOB! looking forward to seeing other 1.18 compatible farms! (Especially warped and crimson stem farm 😀)
Start to looking only few days ago for tutorial for ghast farm and found this tutorial, well explained, easy and simple. Now I have very efficient ghast farm for our survival server. Thanks abfielder!
one surprisingly fast and easy way to get some quick obsidian for this farm is to spawn withers underground in the end and lead them through the pillars while killing them. i found that from each wither i got a couple stacks of obby. just make a tunnel through the pillar and into the endstone on each side, and then spawn the wither on one end, if you hit it with a sword or bow it will come towards you and break the blocks around it. just hit it and then back up and it will probably not even damage you. way easier than building an obsidian farm if you just need a bit of obby but dont want to mine as much.
To save obsidian, can you have taller portals (21x20, for instance) but keep the block platforms? I understand this would slightly decrease rates, but it'd be easier to build enough layers to make up for that if each layer needed 147 fewer obsidian blocks.
I am not sure what's up but the killing portal is not killing anything. I doubled up the stones blocking the portal but the gast are still escaping. So far I've gotten almost a chest full of bones, arrows, and 8 ender pearls. The only gunpowder and tears come from drops when I killed the ghast in the overworld. Update: I built a second farm in another location. I am getting the same issue. No matter how many blocks I build to block the kill portal the ghast and skeletons are not being killed. I go into the portal kill everything in side and get two stacks of arrows, 1.5 stack of bone, 5 ender pearls, and a gast parade outside the kill portal to rival the Santa Fe Balloon Fest. No gunpowder, no ghast tears.
Its caused by entity craming in the overworld the skeletons push the ghasts out but haven't found a why to stop them spawning. Where you trying this on a forge server, that's what I am playing on and I think why it is acting different
if you go through one of the side portals and you don't come back through the middle, it's probably fine. for me the items got sent to the middle even though i went back to the side one
There's a problem with one I made in 1.19.2 where ghasts were pushing each other outside the suffocation chamber. I put composters around the suffocation chamber in order to fix it if anyone else had a similar problem.
Hey if anyone is having trouble with this on a forge multiplayer server, make sure another player is in next to the overworld portal. It fixed me and my friend's issue of ghasts not spawning.
I followed the video and at each point where we are to stop and check something, everything added up and worked properly. Now that it is finished, the only thing I was getting was skeleton bones because they were coming through my "other" portal. I've surrounded the portal with a building and no more skeletons have come through. No ghasts are spawning either...I've placed extra blocks at the suffocation chamber and still no spawns. My entire build is in the soul sand valley. What did I do wrong?
Amazing tutorial, works brilliantly, though I did notice a few ghasts spawn and not enter portals in the farm itself. Do they despawn eventually as they can't move or are they just stuck there? And is there a way to stop this if they don't despawn?
Hi, I just built this farm following your video. It works, but only 1 problem happened. Whenever I go to the killing chamber, there are alot of ghasts (10-20) flying around then start shooting at me. Do you have any idea to fix it ? The farm still working but i guess it will lower the rate.
Place an extra couple of layers of blocks either side of the overworld portal, it's something to do with the overworld portal direction but the extra blocks will stop them escaping.
In my 1.19.1 singleplayer world the ghasts go into the portal but then since the chunk isnt loaded (dont know why it aint loaded) they dont suffocate and just stack up
Im having an issue where the ghasts arent actually going through the portal, and items arent showing in the chest no are ghasts appearing in the overworld (tested solo and with 2 people) To clarify: Ghasts DO spawn, however they dont go through portals, and all portals are 4 high in the frame. They just sit there
1.19 skeletons will spawn at light level 11 or below now so use shroom lights to light up the platform above light level 11 (including the portal blocks) ruclips.net/video/F5T--GJn-p4/видео.html If the ghasts are escaping the kill chamber put an extra layer of blocks either side of the portal (or a couple)
@@seanm.3481 1.18 changed the overworld light level requirement to 0 for mobs to spawn. 1.19 changed it so that nether mobs could spawn at any light level up to 11. Ghasts can spawn at any light level.
i got no ghast spawning, do we need to have another person in the overworld ? or a minimum render distance of the server maybe, it is at 8 rn (im in multyplayer btw)
Is there a specific reason for using 4 rows of minecart tracks instead of 3? Edit: I tried it with only 3, and I don't see a difference on my 3-level farms.
is it only working in single player or it also works in minecraft public sercers with more people? pls answer to me i have a war in 2 days and i need the end crystals
If you're the only person on the server then it will work fine without anyone else on. The problems occur if someone else is in the overworld but more than 128 blocks from the overworld portal.
@@abfielder This completely answers the issues I've been having, and it's something I'm familiar with when using nether portal related farms. It's because if someone is in the overworld, but not at the farm, the creatures/items despawn. But if you're alone on the server, it works fine. My old server had a wither skeleton farm like that (the bridge design). This is similar, because the items come back through the portal into the nether to be picked up.
sorry if this is a stupid question, but can you have more than 1 farm above the nether roof? if so, how many blocks away does each farm have to be away from eachother?
You can have as many as you like. Depends on the type of farm but assuming mob farms then you want them at least 128 blocks apart. Check out my minihud video about the despawn sphere.
Good farm for making Crystals for Crystal pvp and obliterating stuff with tnt. Mojang when creaing the Ghast: Everything it drops, will be used to cause chaos and destruction :)
Does this have to be on the nether roof? I'm currently playing on a modpack that raises the roofs level, so I cant build on top of it. I was wondering if you could build it in the soul sand valley itself
Alright so I built this thing 3 layers high, everything is as specified, (my building block was netherack, easiest to get my hands on), all of the farm is inside the specific biome as well (nearing the edge but it is still inside the biome) I sit at the build limit as specified and I get nothing, occasionally while running to and fro on the ground I see one spawn occasionally and when I do the farm does properly teleport, kill and send out the loot, and said loot is picked up and stored, but after running this thing for hours I only have about 10 gunpowder total and around 16 tears... I dont know what could be wrong, I am playing on a private server so I am curious if maybe some server settings are causing issues, but also I am getting a ton of skeleton spawns, not on the nether portals as those are carpet covered but on the actual netherack, did I mess up?
Do you have any idea why the loot teleports back to the nether to the top middle portal rather than the bottom where the collection system is? All of it just sits up there at the moment rather than teleporting to the original bottom portal to be collected. I don’t know why
I had the same problem and after trying to relocate my overworld portal to multiple y-levels, I figured out that I had built the item collection system under the wrong nether portal. I was one to the side of the middle
would this work outside the spawn chunks as the overworld portal wouldn't be loaded? And when i make multiple layers, can it just be 1 tall portal to save obsidian? planning to build this so
The portals need to be 5 high to let the ghasts through. It’ll work anywhere as when the ghasts go through they temporarily load the chunk in the overworld. As they’re constantly going through it keeps it’s loaded so they suffocate and the drops come back.
@@tevesw that will interfere with ghast spawning as mobs cannot in a block intersecting a torch. and you cant use glowstone either because its considered a transparent block and thus mobs cant spawn on it. If you want a light source cheaper than shroomlights, use jack o lanterns
@@braydos1578 Torch won't interfere with ghast spawning, already tested it. Put torches on every blocks will prevent enderman spawning as enderman won't spawn at light level over 11. If you don't care about enderman spawning since the chance is pretty low, you can put less torches to simply prevent skeleton spawning.
@@braydos1578 No, It won't. You can watch ilmango's ghast spawning video, which I can't find it now, but I find a similar one for slime instead ruclips.net/video/W-ZEWWwB4R4/видео.html
I have a problem with paper in my server. I've just noticed that it doesn't work at all online with paper, but in single player works fine. I have checked the mobs loaded and they are 127 even if i am on the top of the farm and there isn't any other player in the nether. Is there something in the config files that i have to change to make the farm work again?
in 1.19 nether mob spawning mechanics changed. now skeletons will spawn in the nether if a block is under light level 11. So now I recommend having a jack o lantern or a shroom light in the floor every three blocks running between the portals. (DO NOT use glowstone or torches as mobs cannot spawn ontop of glowstone or torches)
I built this farm on my friends minecraft server and only skeletons are spawning i afked for around 3 hours and i only got bones and arrows. if my server is paper, bukkit, ect will this farm work?
Hello abfielder, so there was a problem with ghast escaping a few days ago and now it is fixed, just wanted to say that this farm even with one layer would give you three stacks of gunpowder in 20 mins, it is a very efficient design early game. Can you suggest any improvements?
I cant get my rail working. Im following exactly from the video. Im on java 1.19 This is frustrating... im not good with redstones, so i dont know how to make it work. Someone help pls...im so desperate for this farm in my server...need it for potions...
Hi, if you join my discord there is a #get-help channel post some pictures of your rail in there we may be able to help. Please be patient (and don't tag anyone) we all have jobs/lives etc... so will help as quick as possible.
Does this work in 1.19? I built a 2 layer farm and I'm barely getting any ghast spawns. I did exactly as the video said, but still only 1-2 ghasts. I also get skeletons spawning inside the ghast platform too,
Could be several reasons. 1.18 has potentially slowed farm rates, I’ve seen other RUclipsrs like chapman say their gold farm has gotten slower. Shulker’s farm could be bigger, but not much. Or he could be exaggerating the rates. I don’t watch his videos so don’t know how he does his testing. I use carpet mod to speed up the game so I can do many hours of testing as farm rates vary and are usually lower than if you just test for 20 mins.
@@abfielder I Just built this one with 4 layers on a vanilla server and got about 1,6k items per hour. The diminishing returns must be really bad if the whole 14 layers only gives around 2,7k items/h as said in the video. Anyway I'm happy with the result and thanks for the tutorial.
is it possbile to have the farm above other biomes like basalt deltas or nether wastes because i don't know if i can find a soul sand valley near my base where someone would be less than 128 blocks away for it to work.
Question: im in 1.19 and for some reason when the i go to the overworld to check the portal, I see a bunch of ghastls outside of the suffocation chamber. I added the walls around the portal, what am I doing wrong?
It's down to the orientation of the portals, just place an extra couple of layers either side of the overworld portal and that will stop them getting out.
If you only do a single layer, do you have to build to build limit or do you just build to a certain height? Only did one layer and went afk for 15 minutes only to get one tear and one gunpowder. Help?
Pretty sure having the afk spot at build height has more to do with avoiding the rest of the nether than how many platforms you build. If you afk too low, mobs will spawn below the nether roof and won't spawn in your farm, which explains the low rates you are getting.
So I built this in a 1.18.2 multiplayer world in a soulsand valley and all nether portal connections are correct and my afk platform is in the correct spot but I'm not getting any spawns. I checked my spawn platforms and all the blocks were light level 9. Are the portals too bright for ghasts to spawn? If so, why isn't anyone else having this problem?
i might be to stupid to understand but i built it and only had enough material for 4 layers. It should work aswell but it doesnt. I stood afk for 3.5 hours and nothing. I have done everything as the video showed, i have checked if ghasts are leaking in the overworld i have checked everything 4 times but i cant find the problem. I play in a server with alot of people can it be a thing that its because there are to many online at the same time? Or maybe that i have my base in the nether roof not to far from the farm and it spawns piglins, zombie piglins, the big pig thingy, skeletons and yeah... or is it just that it workded in 1.20 but it doesnt in 1.20.1?
If you're base is spawning stuff that will be an issue as ghast spawn rates are slower. That been said I suspect the most likely issue is the number of people online. Busy servers cause problems with any 2 dimension farm. If there are people in the overworld but none of them are within 128 blocks of your ghasts farms overworld portal then they will instantly despawn as they go through to the overworld. The easy way to test this is to ask someone to stand by the overworld portal.
Ive never had any issues with this famr but i cant seem to get my portals to link to the center one anymore any ideas? Never mind i didnt put my overworld portal in the right spot
It'll be a case of portals not correctly aligned, use a portal calculator (one on my website abfielder.com) and stand on the bottom centre portal in the nether and convert that coord. The Y coord matters as well. If you've placed the overworld portal higher than the Y value of the lowest portal in the nether it'll link to the wrong one.
When I add a second layer, every portal links up to the kill chamber, but then shoots the items back to the middle portal on the top layer. Should I match Y levels just to be safe?
Great Tutorial! I build it in Java 1.18.1 and I have 3 minor issues! 1- When I travel from the nether roof to the overworld using the portal5 blocks away from the FARM it works fine, but when I travel back it teleports me to the portal in the middle of the farm, no big deal the farm works fine, just wondering why would this happening ! 2- Every time i stop AFK and go the the killing chamber to look for the loot, there are almost always anywhere from 3 to 15 Ghasts floating outside the killing chamber! They de spawn immediatly, again Farm still works fine! 3- I have a huge problem with Zombie piglins! they keep going through the portal into the killing chamber and filling my chests with rotten meat! The gold nuggets are nice! but is there a way to prevent the Zombie pigglins to spawn there ? Thanks!
On point one I would use a website like mavenspun to make sure the portals are completely lined up correctly The loot should be back in the nether, not sure why you need to go to the overworld side. Sounds like it may be linked to problem number 1. Though you can put an extra layer or two of blocks either side of the killing chamber to stop them escaping if that’s happening. Any missing blocks would also cause them to escape. Shouldn’t be any piglins. Is it all in a soul sand valley?
@@abfielder If the portal block receives a tick, it checks the difficulty against a random number and if successful, tries to spawn a Zombified Piglins with its feet inside the portal block. That means that, so long as the portal is active and in a loaded chunk, it will spawn Zombified Piglins.
I'm playing on a server called SmeltMC, and I tried building this farm on the nether roof, but when I go to test the rates, no ghasts spawn. Is it because of crossplay with bedrock and java not working out for the farm, or maybe because of spawning issues? I'm not sure at all.
Wasn’t aware cross play was a thing so I’m not sure what mods you’ll have to make that possible but it could be affecting the farm. Make sure your afk point is high above the ceiling so nothing else can spawn. If there is anyone else in the nether that will also kill the spawns.
Works fairly well, however I ran into an issue where the ghast are escaping the suffocation chamber in the overworld. I'm using a 2nd account to load the chunk as I'm playing on a server, came out of my little dirt hole and found many ghast floating around after a few hours long session. Any idea?
Definitely no missing blocks? Even one missing block would cause that. If it’s still happening then put another layer of blocks either side of the portal.
well, idk why but no ghast spawn. I'm in a sand valley biome and all is done as in the video. I tried afk point at layer 256 and 300, nothing happens...
Just ran into a problem with the farm, it was working perfectly before with awesome rates. But now for some reason the ghasts are spawning, going into the portal, and either unspawning or the items they drop dont come back. I am on a vanilla 1.18.1 minecraft server. Can anyone help? Edit: Tried with my friend staying in the nether afk spot and me next to the overworld ghast portal, then it works just fine.
hello in my farm I build the 7 portal but when I come back from the killing chamber I spawn in the portal next to the central portal. can someone help me? ( in 1,18,1 )
I have the same issue! When I go to the overworld it works fine ( using the portal that i built outise the 7 portals ) but when i come back I teleport to the center of the Farm instead of the portal 5 blocks away from the farm. Any Ideas ?
Yeah it's the portal orientation in the overworld, you can either change it's direction so it's north/south instead of east/west (or vice versa) or just put a couple of extra layers of blocks either side of the portal.
the original lowest middle portal is the promary. This is why you need to insure the coordinates align. be sure this link is correct before lighting the other portals. If a portal already exists "nearby" in the overworld, it will link in. So,....returning items come back into the nether through the lowest center portal. The minecart grabs it.
works in 1.20, heres some tips if it isn't working
- make sure you're in a soul sand valley, and the entirety of the nether part of the farm is in one, this is crucial, otherwise ghasts wont spawn at the optimal rate
- make sure you're afk'ng at build limit
- if the ghasts are escaping in the overworld, rotate the overworld portal and add another layer of building blocks to each side
Not a real gamer, not an able Minecraft player but this thing really worked!!! I followed it exactly, not knowing what the Nether Roof was (found out), the spawn/despawn areas were, the build limit, etc. and it still worked perfectly!! Thanks for the Ghast tears!!! Really appreciate it! (Also the clarity, brevity and precision!). K
what a great comment lmao. coming at this farm from the opposite perspective and I've got the same stuff to say about the precision of the build guide. So many people do not leave natural places for pausing, and it matters.
@@Lohkey bro I literally did pause and do everything the problem was that on 1.19 spawning differences made skeletons take up the mob cap
For anyone having a problem with ghasts not going through the ender portal, since you need to go through the portal once for the ghasts to go through, I threw an item through each portal and it seems to work. Like this so it can help more people!
For anyone who was wondering, the 1.19 fix is not necessary anymore because Mojang undid the light level spawning change. Now in 1.19.3 and higher, Endermen, Skeletons and Wither Skeletons need light level 7 or less to spawn. In this design, the portals provide enough light to prevent these mobs from spawning. I recommend that abfielder remove the 1.19 fix link in the description to avoid confusing his audience.
Only problem is 90% of mod packs are 1.19.2 based so for some it is still necessary
You aren't going to be a small RUclipsr much longer. That was an excellent tutorial that was well explained, entertaining, concise, and simple enough for non Minecraft litterats to understand
I appreciate that!
This farm is so good, never need gunpower and tears again! For multiplayer servers having two accounts one in the overworld and one in the nether fixes the despawning problem caused by others being further than 128 blocks away. Also it works on spigot and paper servers
0:28 Farm Rate
1:40 Materials
2:10 Tutorial
MATERIAL LIST:
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SPAWNING PLATFORMS:
512 Building Blocks [per platform]
378 Obsidian [per platform]
296 Glass [per platform]
161 Carpet [only on top platform]
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COLLECTION SYSTEM:
99 Building Blocks
86 Powered Rails
8 Levers
7 Rails
2 Chests
2 Hoppers
1 Repeater
1 Comparator
1 Redstone Torch
1 Minecart Hopper
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KILL CHAMBER:
221 Building Blocks (2 layered walls and a 5x5 centred on top prevents escape in 1.18.1)
24 Obsidian
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You're amazing! Thanks!
Don’t forget the hopper minecart for the collection system
cute girl in your pfp
Thank you.
you deserve more likes
Excellent video! Building it now. Also anyone needing quick obsidian just go to the end and mine the pillars around the dragon spawn!
Lol "quick obsidian"
Hahaha, literally what I’m doing right now 😂😂
@@omadolen4774 I don't know how advanced or whatever you are in your world, but it's actually not too bad if you have an Efficiency V Diamond or Netherite pickaxe and a Haste 2 beacon. Just put on some music or a podcast and mine away :)
For everyone struggling to build this on 1.19 there are 3 things you need to do
1. Make sure your overworld portal is facing the same way as the nether ones
2. Block around the overworld portal 2-4 times
3. Skeletons can spawn as portals now don’t provide enough light so you have to use solid blocks to light up your platform. Easiest is jacko’lanturn and make sure that all platforms are light level 11 or above
If you do all this then it should work again and all your hard work isn’t wasted
What do you mean by “block around”
@@JustSomePenguin just keep putting blocks on all sides so it has more suffocation and the drops get pushed back into the portal instead of outside
Absolutely wonderful tutorial, 10/10 would definitely recomend
Great to hear!
Just some troubleshooting tips
1. The afk spot needs to be as high up as possible, if you place it too low down stuff will spawn below the ceiling.
2. If someone else is in the nether, you won't see a lot spawn.
3. If someone else is in the overworld more than 128 blocks from the portal then the ghasts will instantly despawn without sending items back through. Same with all portal based farms.
4. If you are on a spigot or paper server this farm probably won't work (a lot of farms don't). Spigot and paper both change fundamental mechanics of Minecraft to improve server performance, I do not play on either type of server nor do I test my farms against them so build at your own risk, it's worth reading the comments to see if anyone else has tried.
If you need any more help then you can join the discord in the description and share images with me, please be patient for a response, I have a full time job and may well be asleep if you are in a different timezone.
If someone afks the farm in the nether and the overworld then you don’t need to worry about despawns?
is it possbile to have the farm above other biomes like basalt deltas or nether wastes because i don't know if i can find a soul sand valley near my base where someone would be less than 128 blocks away for it to work.
@@KrayKowyou could put it in nether wastes but Ghasts spawn so much more in soul sand valleys now so I would only put it there
@@KrayKow use a biome finder to locate ssv biome. If you build it in any other biome, it will not work very well
hi is there like an absolute afk platform coordinate?
Hallo abfielder, thank you so much for the video. I built the farm in 1.19.2 with 4 layers and used the suggestion in one of the comments to place Jack'O lanterns in the middel of all the platfoms. It works amazing. You and your community are the best 👍
I just built this on a multiplayer server, 1.18.1 Java. Works like a charm. :) Built 8 layers, and after half an hour of AFK, it filled a single chest with loot (2 rows of gunpowder and 1 row of ghast tear). I didn't run into any issues. The hardest part was getting all the obsidian; but we found a big lava lake underground... That helped a lot. After all the materials collected, it was quite easy and fun to build!
Thank you for this great tutorial!
That's awesome!
You can also mine the pillars in the end for obsidian!
In my case, I already have a gold farm, connected to piglin bartering station, and have more than a double chest of shulker boxes, full with obsidian, for projects like this. :)
Got this running on my sever and it's been going well. The only thing I ended up adding was a couple extra layers of blocks around the kill chamber because I was getting a few ghasts escape.
how many layers cause all of my ghasts escape
@@nolanmcchesney6955 I have a total of 3 layers on each side of the portal.
@@guyver33 lol i just finally did that and it works. Mostly anyways. The items sometimes get stuck but still makes lots lol
Fantastic video! This is a high quality tutorial that explains and shows you how to build very clearly. AWESOME JOB! looking forward to seeing other 1.18 compatible farms! (Especially warped and crimson stem farm 😀)
Glad it was helpful!
Start to looking only few days ago for tutorial for ghast farm and found this tutorial, well explained, easy and simple. Now I have very efficient ghast farm for our survival server. Thanks abfielder!
Great Tutorial!
Thanks!
Hey Spoke I like your videos and I agree it’s amazing
spoke tryna get crystals
one surprisingly fast and easy way to get some quick obsidian for this farm is to spawn withers underground in the end and lead them through the pillars while killing them. i found that from each wither
i got a couple stacks of obby. just make a tunnel through the pillar and into the endstone on each side, and then spawn the wither on one end, if you hit it with a sword or bow it will come towards you and break the blocks around it. just hit it and then back up and it will probably not even damage you. way easier than building an obsidian farm if you just need a bit of obby but dont want to mine as much.
why is it split like that i am confused.
bro this is literally the best video ever for ghast farms. Thank you and for others, 10/10 would definitely recommend.
To save obsidian, can you have taller portals (21x20, for instance) but keep the block platforms? I understand this would slightly decrease rates, but it'd be easier to build enough layers to make up for that if each layer needed 147 fewer obsidian blocks.
I am not sure what's up but the killing portal is not killing anything. I doubled up the stones blocking the portal but the gast are still escaping. So far I've gotten almost a chest full of bones, arrows, and 8 ender pearls. The only gunpowder and tears come from drops when I killed the ghast in the overworld.
Update: I built a second farm in another location. I am getting the same issue. No matter how many blocks I build to block the kill portal the ghast and skeletons are not being killed. I go into the portal kill everything in side and get two stacks of arrows, 1.5 stack of bone, 5 ender pearls, and a gast parade outside the kill portal to rival the Santa Fe Balloon Fest. No gunpowder, no ghast tears.
same idk whats wrong
Its caused by entity craming in the overworld
the skeletons push the ghasts out but haven't found a why to stop them spawning. Where you trying this on a forge server, that's what I am playing on and I think why it is acting different
thanks, mate for the farm tut, I built it with EZ, and no problem occurred.
if you go through one of the side portals and you don't come back through the middle, it's probably fine.
for me the items got sent to the middle even though i went back to the side one
There's a problem with one I made in 1.19.2 where ghasts were pushing each other outside the suffocation chamber. I put composters around the suffocation chamber in order to fix it if anyone else had a similar problem.
Thanks i'll do this, I have to sort out the 100s of ghasts that escaped first tho lol
Friends and I built this on our server and it works like a charm! Great stuff!
Thank you! That’s awesome to read.
Hey if anyone is having trouble with this on a forge multiplayer server, make sure another player is in next to the overworld portal. It fixed me and my friend's issue of ghasts not spawning.
I followed the video and at each point where we are to stop and check something, everything added up and worked properly. Now that it is finished, the only thing I was getting was skeleton bones because they were coming through my "other" portal. I've surrounded the portal with a building and no more skeletons have come through. No ghasts are spawning either...I've placed extra blocks at the suffocation chamber and still no spawns. My entire build is in the soul sand valley. What did I do wrong?
Great video very easy to follow and works well. I got 17 ghast tears with one layer and I was only afk for about 2 minutes
Question, if no one is around the killing chamber in the overworld on a realms server will the Ghast immediately despawn an not drop any of the items?
I think I might be experiencing this
Amazing tutorial, works brilliantly, though I did notice a few ghasts spawn and not enter portals in the farm itself. Do they despawn eventually as they can't move or are they just stuck there? And is there a way to stop this if they don't despawn?
Not seen that happen but yeah they will despawn.
@@abfielder thanks :D
I've had a LOT of ghasts in my farm just chilling on the platforms not actually doing through :P
Hi, I just built this farm following your video. It works, but only 1 problem happened. Whenever I go to the killing chamber, there are alot of ghasts (10-20) flying around then start shooting at me. Do you have any idea to fix it ?
The farm still working but i guess it will lower the rate.
Place an extra couple of layers of blocks either side of the overworld portal, it's something to do with the overworld portal direction but the extra blocks will stop them escaping.
In my 1.19.1 singleplayer world the ghasts go into the portal but then since the chunk isnt loaded (dont know why it aint loaded) they dont suffocate and just stack up
Im having an issue where the ghasts arent actually going through the portal, and items arent showing in the chest
no are ghasts appearing in the overworld (tested solo and with 2 people)
To clarify: Ghasts DO spawn, however they dont go through portals, and all portals are 4 high in the frame. They just sit there
is it bedrock edition?
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The farm work really great in 1.18, but in 1.19 for some reason, the killing chamber doesn't work and skeleton spawn inside of the farm.
1.19 skeletons will spawn at light level 11 or below now so use shroom lights to light up the platform above light level 11 (including the portal blocks) ruclips.net/video/F5T--GJn-p4/видео.html
If the ghasts are escaping the kill chamber put an extra layer of blocks either side of the portal (or a couple)
@@abfielder I though 1.19 made it so that all mobs only spawn at light 0? Am I wrong here?
@@seanm.3481 1.18 changed the overworld light level requirement to 0 for mobs to spawn.
1.19 changed it so that nether mobs could spawn at any light level up to 11. Ghasts can spawn at any light level.
Thank you for the clear instructions and making sure to let everyone know to build in the correct biome (soul sand valley)
This farm was designed in Vanilla Fabric. If your server is on paper, bukkit, etc, this farm may not work
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Haha thank you zuss!
Do you have to have obision on every layer or can you just build giant portals
i got no ghast spawning, do we need to have another person in the overworld ? or a minimum render distance of the server maybe, it is at 8 rn (im in multyplayer btw)
Is there a specific reason for using 4 rows of minecart tracks instead of 3?
Edit: I tried it with only 3, and I don't see a difference on my 3-level farms.
Great tutorial. Thank you!
Thank you
With the portals lit skelitons were still spawning, so i had to add some glowstone
is it only working in single player or it also works in minecraft public sercers with more people? pls answer to me i have a war in 2 days and i need the end crystals
On a public server with a lot of players you would be better off finding a single dimension farm.
Do I need to have someone in the overworld within 128 blocks as well? Or it does work if I'm the only one in the server
If you're the only person on the server then it will work fine without anyone else on. The problems occur if someone else is in the overworld but more than 128 blocks from the overworld portal.
@@abfielder This completely answers the issues I've been having, and it's something I'm familiar with when using nether portal related farms. It's because if someone is in the overworld, but not at the farm, the creatures/items despawn. But if you're alone on the server, it works fine. My old server had a wither skeleton farm like that (the bridge design). This is similar, because the items come back through the portal into the nether to be picked up.
One question. What does it mean per platform?
sorry if this is a stupid question, but can you have more than 1 farm above the nether roof? if so, how many blocks away does each farm have to be away from eachother?
You can have as many as you like. Depends on the type of farm but assuming mob farms then you want them at least 128 blocks apart. Check out my minihud video about the despawn sphere.
Good farm for making Crystals for Crystal pvp and obliterating stuff with tnt.
Mojang when creaing the Ghast: Everything it drops, will be used to cause chaos and destruction :)
Haha enjoy causing havoc!
Does this have to be on the nether roof? I'm currently playing on a modpack that raises the roofs level, so I cant build on top of it. I was wondering if you could build it in the soul sand valley itself
You could but you'll probably need to do some spawn proofing to get rates back up.
Whats the most times you can multiple this?
Thanks! Works like a charm!
Great to hear!
is it work in 1.20
will i need to go through every portal netherside to activate them?
Does the kill chamber work as a chunk loader? Could you set up a sugar cane farm which you could set up a dropper to go into the portal?
sugar cane needs randomTicks, only a player provides randomTicks
Alright so I built this thing 3 layers high, everything is as specified, (my building block was netherack, easiest to get my hands on), all of the farm is inside the specific biome as well (nearing the edge but it is still inside the biome) I sit at the build limit as specified and I get nothing, occasionally while running to and fro on the ground I see one spawn occasionally and when I do the farm does properly teleport, kill and send out the loot, and said loot is picked up and stored, but after running this thing for hours I only have about 10 gunpowder total and around 16 tears... I dont know what could be wrong, I am playing on a private server so I am curious if maybe some server settings are causing issues, but also I am getting a ton of skeleton spawns, not on the nether portals as those are carpet covered but on the actual netherack, did I mess up?
Do you have any idea why the loot teleports back to the nether to the top middle portal rather than the bottom where the collection system is?
All of it just sits up there at the moment rather than teleporting to the original bottom portal to be collected. I don’t know why
Lower the portal in the overworld so it's down at the level of the lowest portal in the nether or below.
I had the same problem and after trying to relocate my overworld portal to multiple y-levels, I figured out that I had built the item collection system under the wrong nether portal. I was one to the side of the middle
what's the simulation distance for this farm?
would this work outside the spawn chunks as the overworld portal wouldn't be loaded?
And when i make multiple layers, can it just be 1 tall portal to save obsidian?
planning to build this so
The portals need to be 5 high to let the ghasts through. It’ll work anywhere as when the ghasts go through they temporarily load the chunk in the overworld. As they’re constantly going through it keeps it’s loaded so they suffocate and the drops come back.
@@abfielder can i extend the portal to the top instead of making many stacked portals
Thank you so much!
For people using 1.19, use shroomlights for the building block to prevent other mobs from spawning
you can simply put torches.
@@tevesw that will interfere with ghast spawning as mobs cannot in a block intersecting a torch. and you cant use glowstone either because its considered a transparent block and thus mobs cant spawn on it. If you want a light source cheaper than shroomlights, use jack o lanterns
@@braydos1578 Torch won't interfere with ghast spawning, already tested it. Put torches on every blocks will prevent enderman spawning as enderman won't spawn at light level over 11. If you don't care about enderman spawning since the chance is pretty low, you can put less torches to simply prevent skeleton spawning.
@@tevesw it will reduce the rates because the chance of a ghast spawning will be lower because they can't spawn with a hitbox intersecting a torch
@@braydos1578 No, It won't. You can watch ilmango's ghast spawning video, which I can't find it now, but I find a similar one for slime instead ruclips.net/video/W-ZEWWwB4R4/видео.html
I have a problem with paper in my server. I've just noticed that it doesn't work at all online with paper, but in single player works fine. I have checked the mobs loaded and they are 127 even if i am on the top of the farm and there isn't any other player in the nether. Is there something in the config files that i have to change to make the farm work again?
im building this farm in 1.20 but ghasts are not spawning how to fix
im having the same issue hopefully a fix is found
Does this work in multiplayer, and if so, how do you fix the ghasts not spawning?
in 1.19 nether mob spawning mechanics changed. now skeletons will spawn in the nether if a block is under light level 11. So now I recommend having a jack o lantern or a shroom light in the floor every three blocks running between the portals. (DO NOT use glowstone or torches as mobs cannot spawn ontop of glowstone or torches)
I built this farm on my friends minecraft server and only skeletons are spawning i afked for around 3 hours and i only got bones and arrows. if my server is paper, bukkit, ect will this farm work?
Hearing that many ghast die and scream is horrifying
is it going to work on a realm? Because i built it and it doesnt work but i am not sure if i built it correctly
Hello abfielder, so there was a problem with ghast escaping a few days ago and now it is fixed, just wanted to say that this farm even with one layer would give you three stacks of gunpowder in 20 mins, it is a very efficient design early game. Can you suggest any improvements?
If you add more layers you should see a massive improvement in efficiency. I have six layers and it fills a double chest in 15 - 20 minutes.
hey! i'm guessing it's a tweakeroo option but what did you turn on to turn off the animation when you place blocks?
I think what you likely saw was me using the fast block placement option in tweakeroo
@@abfielder ah okay that makes a lot more sense xD thank you :)
I cant get my rail working. Im following exactly from the video. Im on java 1.19
This is frustrating... im not good with redstones, so i dont know how to make it work. Someone help pls...im so desperate for this farm in my server...need it for potions...
Hi, if you join my discord there is a #get-help channel post some pictures of your rail in there we may be able to help. Please be patient (and don't tag anyone) we all have jobs/lives etc... so will help as quick as possible.
Does this work in 1.19? I built a 2 layer farm and I'm barely getting any ghast spawns. I did exactly as the video said, but still only 1-2 ghasts. I also get skeletons spawning inside the ghast platform too,
yeah I don't think this works with 1.19.
I'm gonna have to tear down this "farm" and recycle the resources. Oh well...
How come this farm's rate is so much lower than the one in Shulkercraft's video?
They seem to be practically the same design to me.
Could be several reasons. 1.18 has potentially slowed farm rates, I’ve seen other RUclipsrs like chapman say their gold farm has gotten slower. Shulker’s farm could be bigger, but not much. Or he could be exaggerating the rates. I don’t watch his videos so don’t know how he does his testing.
I use carpet mod to speed up the game so I can do many hours of testing as farm rates vary and are usually lower than if you just test for 20 mins.
@@abfielder I Just built this one with 4 layers on a vanilla server and got about 1,6k items per hour.
The diminishing returns must be really bad if the whole 14 layers only gives around 2,7k items/h as said in the video.
Anyway I'm happy with the result and thanks for the tutorial.
do you have a schamatic for this farm??
does it work in 1.20.1 or 1.20.4
It is very good 117 gun powder in 10 minutes
does this work with the incendium nether datapack?
I’m currently building this farm but I don’t have much wool, would anything work in place of the carpets?
Slabs or glass should work
is it possbile to have the farm above other biomes like basalt deltas or nether wastes because i don't know if i can find a soul sand valley near my base where someone would be less than 128 blocks away for it to work.
No. You will get lots of other mobs spawning in basalt deltas and nether wastes. Needs to be a soul sand valley.
Hey there! I built the farm on 1.18.1, and for some reason, the ghasts arent spawning. Any ideas why? Yes it is built on soulsand walley
if you built it on multiplayer, then there is a mob cap, which limits the number of mobs spawning, orrr your afk platform may be too low,
This works in 1.18.1
@@etikle7012 there is still a global mob limit, so if somebody uses a mobswitch they can break all mobfarms
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Thank you dude, taking the time out to comment as well really helps a video, so much appreciated.
Question: im in 1.19 and for some reason when the i go to the overworld to check the portal, I see a bunch of ghastls outside of the suffocation chamber. I added the walls around the portal, what am I doing wrong?
It's down to the orientation of the portals, just place an extra couple of layers either side of the overworld portal and that will stop them getting out.
@@abfielder it works now. TYSM :)
@@bassboostedwhale2382 Awesome, sadly I didn't catch that bug in testing!
If you only do a single layer, do you have to build to build limit or do you just build to a certain height? Only did one layer and went afk for 15 minutes only to get one tear and one gunpowder. Help?
Pretty sure having the afk spot at build height has more to do with avoiding the rest of the nether than how many platforms you build. If you afk too low, mobs will spawn below the nether roof and won't spawn in your farm, which explains the low rates you are getting.
I need your help man i can't light up the portals i basically don't know how to make that thingy in overworld or smthng
wait is the y level necessary for it aswell?
can you change the carpets for slabs
i finished this farm 3 hours ago. Added shroomlights and everything and 0 ghast spawning. Not even skeletons spawning anymore
are you on 1.19?
@@2Node 1.19.1 already
So I built this in a 1.18.2 multiplayer world in a soulsand valley and all nether portal connections are correct and my afk platform is in the correct spot but I'm not getting any spawns. I checked my spawn platforms and all the blocks were light level 9. Are the portals too bright for ghasts to spawn? If so, why isn't anyone else having this problem?
i might be to stupid to understand but i built it and only had enough material for 4 layers. It should work aswell but it doesnt. I stood afk for 3.5 hours and nothing. I have done everything as the video showed, i have checked if ghasts are leaking in the overworld i have checked everything 4 times but i cant find the problem. I play in a server with alot of people can it be a thing that its because there are to many online at the same time? Or maybe that i have my base in the nether roof not to far from the farm and it spawns piglins, zombie piglins, the big pig thingy, skeletons and yeah... or is it just that it workded in 1.20 but it doesnt in 1.20.1?
If you're base is spawning stuff that will be an issue as ghast spawn rates are slower.
That been said I suspect the most likely issue is the number of people online. Busy servers cause problems with any 2 dimension farm.
If there are people in the overworld but none of them are within 128 blocks of your ghasts farms overworld portal then they will instantly despawn as they go through to the overworld. The easy way to test this is to ask someone to stand by the overworld portal.
Ive never had any issues with this famr but i cant seem to get my portals to link to the center one anymore any ideas?
Never mind i didnt put my overworld portal in the right spot
It'll be a case of portals not correctly aligned, use a portal calculator (one on my website abfielder.com) and stand on the bottom centre portal in the nether and convert that coord. The Y coord matters as well. If you've placed the overworld portal higher than the Y value of the lowest portal in the nether it'll link to the wrong one.
When I add a second layer, every portal links up to the kill chamber, but then shoots the items back to the middle portal on the top layer. Should I match Y levels just to be safe?
As long as Y level is lower on the overworld than bottom portal it should link
Great Tutorial! I build it in Java 1.18.1 and I have 3 minor issues!
1- When I travel from the nether roof to the overworld using the portal5 blocks away from the FARM it works fine, but when I travel back it teleports me to the portal in the middle of the farm, no big deal the farm works fine, just wondering why would this happening !
2- Every time i stop AFK and go the the killing chamber to look for the loot, there are almost always anywhere from 3 to 15 Ghasts floating outside the killing chamber! They de spawn immediatly, again Farm still works fine!
3- I have a huge problem with Zombie piglins! they keep going through the portal into the killing chamber and filling my chests with rotten meat! The gold nuggets are nice! but is there a way to prevent the Zombie pigglins to spawn there ?
Thanks!
On point one I would use a website like mavenspun to make sure the portals are completely lined up correctly
The loot should be back in the nether, not sure why you need to go to the overworld side. Sounds like it may be linked to problem number 1. Though you can put an extra layer or two of blocks either side of the killing chamber to stop them escaping if that’s happening. Any missing blocks would also cause them to escape.
Shouldn’t be any piglins. Is it all in a soul sand valley?
@@abfielder If the portal block receives a tick, it checks the difficulty against a random number and if successful, tries to spawn a Zombified Piglins with its feet inside the portal block. That means that, so long as the portal is active and in a loaded chunk, it will spawn Zombified Piglins.
I'm playing on a server called SmeltMC, and I tried building this farm on the nether roof, but when I go to test the rates, no ghasts spawn. Is it because of crossplay with bedrock and java not working out for the farm, or maybe because of spawning issues? I'm not sure at all.
Wasn’t aware cross play was a thing so I’m not sure what mods you’ll have to make that possible but it could be affecting the farm. Make sure your afk point is high above the ceiling so nothing else can spawn. If there is anyone else in the nether that will also kill the spawns.
my nether portal spawned above an Ocean, and Ghasts keep escaping the kill area. Any Ideas ?
it's working on server multiplayer java?
Works fairly well, however I ran into an issue where the ghast are escaping the suffocation chamber in the overworld.
I'm using a 2nd account to load the chunk as I'm playing on a server, came out of my little dirt hole and found many ghast floating around after a few hours long session.
Any idea?
Definitely no missing blocks? Even one missing block would cause that. If it’s still happening then put another layer of blocks either side of the portal.
Would a minecart chunk loader technically work as way to avoid having a player being within 128 blocks?
No sadly not.
well, idk why but no ghast spawn. I'm in a sand valley biome and all is done as in the video. I tried afk point at layer 256 and 300, nothing happens...
Same
Just ran into a problem with the farm, it was working perfectly before with awesome rates. But now for some reason the ghasts are spawning, going into the portal, and either unspawning or the items they drop dont come back. I am on a vanilla 1.18.1 minecraft server. Can anyone help?
Edit: Tried with my friend staying in the nether afk spot and me next to the overworld ghast portal, then it works just fine.
It's probably the server itself trying ti save memory
hello in my farm I build the 7 portal but when I come back from the killing chamber I spawn in the portal next to the central portal. can someone help me? ( in 1,18,1 )
I have the same issue! When I go to the overworld it works fine ( using the portal that i built outise the 7 portals ) but when i come back I teleport to the center of the Farm instead of the portal 5 blocks away from the farm. Any Ideas ?
yea me too
Really useful! 👍👍👍
Glad it was helpful!
Is there a fix for the Ghast drops falling outside the overworld kill chamber and not coming back to the nether?
Yeah it's the portal orientation in the overworld, you can either change it's direction so it's north/south instead of east/west (or vice versa) or just put a couple of extra layers of blocks either side of the portal.
how do the items on the second+ layers get picked up?
the original lowest middle portal is the promary. This is why you need to insure the coordinates align. be sure this link is correct before lighting the other portals. If a portal already exists "nearby" in the overworld, it will link in. So,....returning items come back into the nether through the lowest center portal. The minecart grabs it.