How to Build an Automatic Firework Rocket Farm: Perfect for Elytra Flights

In Minecraft, there are many ways to travel from point A to point B. While you couldn’t even sprint in the past, you can now soar through the air with wings and cover over a thousand blocks in just a few minutes! However, this is only possible if you have the right equipment. The Elytra is an endgame item available only after defeating the Ender Dragon. When combined with firework rockets, it becomes one of the best means of transportation in Minecraft. You no longer have to walk; you can simply glide through the skies. We’ll show you how to automatically replenish your stock of rockets in this post.

Elytra – Soar High in Your Minecraft World!

The Elytra was introduced with the expansion of the End dimension and completely revolutionized the game. Previously, the fastest way to travel was with a horse or a minecart, but now you can glide through the world. The Elytra should be part of your basic equipment after defeating the Ender Dragon. It replaces your chest plate, which gives you less protection but much more freedom.

How to Find and Use the Elytra Properly

You can find the Elytra in an End city. First, you need to defeat the Ender Dragon, as only then will a portal to the distant islands in the End open. There, you need to search for a city, which is hard to miss due to its size and purple color.

A bit of luck is also involved, as only End cities with a floating ship contain an Elytra. Build your way to the ship and look inside the cabin. At the end, you should find a frame with the Elytra! That’s the only way to get this highly coveted item.

The controls can be a bit unusual at first. The Elytra wings function more like a glider and less like real wings. You can activate them by pressing your jump button again to glide gently downward. You only gain height passively by moving your mouse correctly. But without thrust, you won’t get far with the Elytra and can only cushion your fall damage.

How to Use Firework Rockets for Elytra Flights

To actively use the Elytra for transportation, you need firework rockets. They give you the desired lift and allow you to soar into the sky! The combination of Elytra and rockets is therefore indispensable and is part of the basic equipment for pro players.

When you’re gliding with the Elytra, rockets give you a boost. How far you can fly then depends on your skill. Rockets with duration 1 are perfectly sufficient for this purpose. Otherwise, it would cost too much gunpowder, which you can only get from Creepers, Witches, or Ghasts in the Nether.

Building Guide: Automatic Firework Rocket Farm in Minecraft

Since you need enough firework rockets for your Elytra flights, an automatic farm is a wonderful thing! For this, let’s take a closer look at the new Crafter, which allows you to craft recipes without your interaction. And this, of course, also works with rockets.

To run the whole thing automatically, both a gunpowder farm and a paper farm are necessary. For gunpowder, a Creeper farm is the best solution, see (Building a Minecraft Creeper Farm: Infinite Gunpowder Supplies for TNT and Rockets) . For paper, a sugarcane farm, see (Minecraft Sugarcane Farm Guide: How to Build an Automatic Sugarcane Farm for Unlimited Paper and Sugar) , is an important starting point. You can also convert the sugarcane into paper with a Crafter. Both resources are the foundation for this automatic farm.

Building Materials

• Supply of gunpowder and paper
• 3 chests
• 2 hoppers
• 2 comparators
• 2 redstone dust
• 1 redstone repeater
• 1 Crafter
• 2 redstone torches
• 4 building blocks

Step-by-Step Guide

First, place the Crafter at your desired location. Attach a hopper to the left and right of it, and place a chest on each hopper. This is where the paper and gunpowder go. As described in the introduction, you can directly link these chests to automatic farms. But you can also fill the chests yourself, depending on what you prefer. Leave them empty for now, as we’ll first finish building the Crafter.

Place a comparator on the ground behind each hopper. These compare the fill level of the hoppers and ensure automatic crafting. Behind them, place a building block each.

Attach a redstone torch to each of these building blocks, with a redstone dust in between. This will keep activating the signal so you won’t have to worry about anything! In between, facing the redstone dust, comes an observer.

Then, place another building block between the Crafter and the observer. On top of that goes another dust. Place a redstone repeater on the observer and set it so that one lever is on the 3rd notch. Above the dust between the torches and behind the repeater, place a normal building block. With that, the automatic Crafter for the firework rockets is complete!

Now, we need to set up the Crafter and fill the chests. The recipe for normal level-1 rockets consists of just one paper and one gunpowder. Switch the Crafter to two adjacent fields and fill these two slots with the crafting recipe.

Finally, you just need to fill both chests with the respective material. As mentioned, you can either connect two automatic farms or manually fill the chests on the left and right. Once both chests are filled, the Crafter will start producing the rockets. Place another chest directly in front to collect them. The Crafter works similarly to a hopper.

Conclusion

The newly introduced Crafter is a wonderful thing! It allows you to combine several automatic farms without lifting a finger. This way, you can also produce infinite rockets for your Elytra and glide through the skies. Fly longer and farther with an endless supply of firework rockets on your own server. Rent your Minecraft server and explore the skies without limits! You can cover hundreds of blocks within seconds and always be on the move.