Build an Automatic Blaze Farm: Endless Blaze Rods and Experience Points

The Nether presents unique challenges, and Blazes are among the most significant adversaries. With this guide, you’ll learn how to build an efficient automatic Blaze farm to collect Blaze Rods and experience points. They consist of many yellow rods and a head. Furthermore, they are surrounded by smoke, indicating that they are as hot as their environment. Blazes are extremely important for progress in Minecraft, so you won’t be able to avoid encountering them. We’ll show you how to easily find Blazes, effectively use their loot, and even build an automatic Blaze farm!

Blazes in Minecraft: Everything You Need to Know

Finding Blazes: The Best Places in the Nether

Blazes can only be found in the Nether, and even there, only in Nether fortresses. They spawn sporadically throughout, but you’ll likely encounter them most often near their spawners. These spawners are unique to the fortresses and cannot be found elsewhere. If you want to navigate the Nether successfully, be sure to check out our previous guide (Surviving Minecraft Nether: Tips and Tricks for Experienced Players) to prepare yourself thoroughly for the hellish dimension.

Be very cautious when approaching a Blaze. They shoot fireballs that can set you ablaze. Additionally, these fireballs can knock you off the fortress, which is, of course, undesirable. The Blaze fires three of these shots in quick succession, and they travel up to 46 blocks! It’s best to use a shield to protect yourself.

Using Blaze Rods: The Most Important Recipes and Benefits

Blazes are crucial for reaching the end of Minecraft. Their loot, Blaze Rods, can be used for a variety of purposes. Therefore, an automatic farm in the Nether is worth it to kill Blazes and collect the rods. The loot is influenced by the “Looting” enchantment, allowing you to obtain up to 4 Blaze Rods at once!

• Ender Eyes: To craft Ender Eyes, find a Stronghold, and repair it, you need Blaze Powder in addition to regular Ender Pearls. Blaze Powder can only be crafted from Blaze Rods. A farm is crucial for crafting enough Ender Eyes.
• Brewing: Both rods and powder are essential for brewing. A brewing stand can only be built with a Blaze Rod. Additionally, Blaze Powder is necessary for brewing potions, as the process won’t work without it.
• Magma Cream: For Magma Cream, you need a Slimeball and Blaze Powder. From this, you can craft Magma Blocks.
• End Rod: The End Rod provides unique lighting. It looks really cool, but to craft it, you need both a Blaze Rod and a popped Chorus Fruit.
• Fuel: Blaze Rods are also great as simple fuel for your furnaces. They can smelt 12 items consecutively, making them very effective! In the list of best fuels, they rank 4th, behind a Lava Bucket, Coal Block, and Dried Kelp Block.

Blazes are also a great source of experience points, especially in the mid-game. Each Blaze killed gives you 10 experience points. Besides the loot, you can use such a farm for XP, which is very practical and allows you to gather a lot of experience in a short time.

How to Build an Automatic Blaze Farm: Step-by-Step Guide

While earlier Blaze farms were difficult to build, it’s no longer an issue. The guide follows a similar principle to a mob trap, just in the Nether. Note that Blazes don’t die in lava but are pushed by it like water. We take advantage of this mechanic!

Tip: Find a Blaze spawner that is already exposed. This makes it much easier to build the farm. Unfortunately, in our case, we weren’t as lucky, but a good pickaxe will do the trick!

Building Materials

• Possibly glowing blocks
• Dirt (as scaffolding)
• Several stacks of non-flammable building blocks
• 2 slabs
• 4 lava buckets
• Hopper + chest
• Sword with “Sharpness”, “Sweeping Edge”, and “Looting”

Step-by-Step Guide

To build without being disturbed by Blazes, surround the spawner completely with glowing blocks (e.g., Glowstone). Or switch to “Peaceful” mode during construction, which is also very convenient and saves you a lot of frustration.

To create enough space around the spawner for the Blazes, clear a 9x9x8 room. Mark the distances with dirt so you don’t get confused. 3 blocks up, 4 to each side, and another 4 down. This creates the box where the Blazes can spawn.

Build walls around this room. Use a building block of your choice that is suitable for the location. Wood is not ideal, as it would burn. The edges of the large box measure 11x11x10 blocks. We chose andesite and glass, which is obviously better if you want visibility. Leave one block open at the bottom center.

Place a lava bucket in each of the bottom corners. Place a slab on the spawner so that the Blazes don’t spawn.

Lastly, build the collection mechanism. Dig 4 blocks deep under the farm. Surround the hole on all sides with 3 building blocks each, with only two on the front side and a slab, under which you can crouch and attack. With a hopper and a chest, the farm is complete!

When you switch monsters back on, the Blazes will spawn. They sink down and are collected by the lava. You can then stand below and attack them with your sword. The Blaze Rods are automatically collected by the hopper, and you gain valuable experience points.

Conclusion

A Blaze farm is easy to build and should definitely exist in your Minecraft world. Blazes are not only a wonderful source of experience points, but they also drop useful Blaze Rods that you can use for various things in your world. Secure endless Blaze Rods for all your projects on your own server. Rent your Minecraft server and maximise your energy production!