Iron Farms
Iron Farms
Ianxofour’s Instant Iron Farm
This iron farm is extremely cheap, and can be built in as little as 10 minutes.
This farm is good for players that only need a small amount of iron.
Rates: 300 Iron/Hour
YouTubeBigbooty17’s Simple Iron Farm
Due to changes made to Villager Iron Golem spawning AI by Mojang, this farm is now extremely RNG dependent, and will not always perform at maximum rates.
This iron farm is also extremely cheap, but uses more villagers to produce more iron per hour.
Rates: 1.2k Iron/Hour
YouTubeBigBooty17’s Portal-Based Iron Farms
Due to the villager limit of 12, this farm should be split up so that there are no more than 12 villagers in a chunk.
Split the farm up into 4 chunks so that each corner of pods is in it’s own chunk.
There are two variants of this farm, both of which will be covered below.
Both of these farms use nether portals to instantly send iron golems to the nether, instantly resetting the villagers iron golem spawn cooldown.
8 Pod Iron Farm
Rates: 3.75k Iron/Hour
This is an isometric render of the farm.
8 Pod Zombie 2D Iron Farm.litematic
14 Pod Iron Farm
Due to the villager limit of 12, this farm should be split up so that there are no more than 12 villagers in a chunk.
Rates: 6.5k Iron/Hour
This is an isometric render of the farm.
6.5k Pillager Iron v1.0.0.litematic
Tips for Building
Ensure some kind of protection from lightning, such as using lightning rods.