How to Build an XP Farm: Level Up Quickly and Easily

Experience points are an important system in Minecraft, enabling you to enchant your weapons, tools, and armor at an enchantment table. You can collect these small green points through various activities, such as killing monsters, mining certain blocks, breeding animals, trading, or using a furnace. There are many ways to level up in the regular game. But what if you want to specifically reach level 30 and have nothing else to do at the moment? We’ll give you some cool XP farm designs that you can seamlessly incorporate into your world.

1. Simple Mob Trap

We’ve already covered building a classic mob trap in a previous article (How to Build an Automatic Monster Trap: Endless Resources) , so we won’t explain it in detail again. Read the corresponding article if you need help. This mob trap is a great way to get both resources and experience points. Due to fall damage, you only need to hit the monsters once to kill them. This makes the trap efficient, and you also get drops from zombies, skeletons, creepers, and witches.

You can easily expand our presented design by adding one or two more levels. Otherwise, the design is quite simple, and you can build it over the ocean of your choice to maximize mob spawning. We recommend this mob trap for beginners!

2. Spawner Trap

While exploring your Minecraft world, you may have encountered a strange room made of cobblestone and mossy cobblestone. These are dungeons that have been in Minecraft for a long time. They ensure that specific monsters spawn, and you can take advantage of this!

Monster spawners exist for:

• Zombies
• Spiders
• Skeletons
• Cave Spiders
• Silverfish (Stronghold)
• Blaze (Nether)
• Magma Cubes (Nether)

For an XP farm, one of the first three spawners is ideal, but since spiders can be a bit annoying, a zombie or skeleton spawner is the best choice. The monsters spawn in a certain area and can be funneled into a collection area for killing, similar to the first mob trap. If you’re lucky, you might even find multiple spawners nearby and use them together. However, you need to stay within a certain radius to keep the spawner active. You can recognize this by the flames displayed by the spawner.

Guide for Spawner XP Farm

1. First, you need to find a suitable spawner. Either you already have one, or you can use a tool called Chunkbase and enter your seed. The tool will show you the coordinates and type of spawner.

2. Light up the room and place a slab on the spawner to prevent anything from spawning so you can build in peace. Dig out a specific area around the spawner, ideally 4 blocks in every direction and 3 blocks up. There should be enough space for the monsters to spawn.

3. On one side, build a trench and fill it with water. This will later collect the monsters. To move the monsters within the room, place water on the opposite side.

4. Finally, create a small collection station for the monsters. Some farms use a waterfall to inflict fall damage, but this is not necessary for an XP farm. The collection basin works similarly to the regular mob trap, with hoppers and a chest. Carefully remove all torches and wait for the monsters to gather.

3. Smelting Farm with Cacti

As described in the introduction, you can also gain experience points by smelting items. This is especially useful if you’re playing in peaceful mode and don’t want to fight monsters. This design works in any world and is incredibly practical for gaining XP in between activities.

The design is based on an automatic cactus farm that you can process into green dye in a furnace. If you want to automatically add fuel, you can also build a seaweed or bamboo farm. However, we’ll focus primarily on the cactus smelting farm. You can use lava, coal, or blaze rods as fuel for the furnace, depending on your preference.

Guide for Cactus XP Farm

1. Use a 9x9 area to build your cactus farm. The system works similarly to the above farms, but with cacti instead of monsters. Build a water trench on one side and let the water flow towards it. At the end, you can add a hopper to collect the cacti.

2. Build the cactus farm by creating an alternating pattern with building blocks so that the cacti have space next to them. Place sand on these blocks and then the cacti. With this design, you can accommodate 24 cacti.

3. To automatically harvest the cacti, place a block above each cactus in the gaps with a fence. You can expand the design infinitely. Every time a cactus grows, the top block will be broken by the fence and fall into the water trench.

4. Smelt the cacti in the furnace with a fuel of your choice. The great thing is that experience is stored in the furnace even when the items pass through. To collect the XP, attach a lever to the furnace to stop the automatic extraction of green dye and manually remove it. You will receive experience points simultaneously. You can either use or discard the green dye.

Conclusion

With enough experience, you can enchant all your tools and armor as you wish! Searching for experience manually can be tedious. The right XP farm makes the job significantly easier. Whether you focus on one of the mob traps or build an automatic system with cacti and hoppers, both work perfectly! Level up faster and dominate the game with an XP farm on your own server. Rent your Minecraft server and reach new heights in no time! There are even more advanced XP farms, but these are meant for pros. These include farms with Endermen or Pigmen, which we might explore at a later time!