Minecraft: Best Beginner Tips and Tricks for Farming

Being a farmer in Minecraft can be confusing for beginners. Follow these tips and tricks to make your experience smoother.

Growing your own crops can be highly sustainable (Source: Mojang)

Maintaining a farm in Minecraft can feel like a chore for a beginner. The game is all about exploring, and it doesn’t tell you anything ever. So, let us help you out and guide you a little before you start with your agrarian adventure.

Before jumping into the “tips and tricks for beginners,” you must unlearn the farming pattern that you probably adopted from Minecraft villagers. All those NPCs farm in an inefficient manner. You will see one strip of tilled land next to a strip of water in the villages. This isn’t the best way to farm.

It can surely get the job done, but you would struggle a lot in gaining the resources, whether in early, mid, or late-game. Then what is the best way to farm? For this, we will exploit the game’s algorithm of how “water” acts. Note that this is uniform across all versions of Minecraft (Java, Bedrock, Pocket Edition, etc.).

Best Farm Land for Beginners in Minecraft

The farmland you should avoid (Source: Mojang)

Refer to the picture above when you wish to build a farmland. That’s the pattern that you should avoid. Instead, go for a bigger piece of land and follow the following steps to build an ideal and efficient farm:

Use a Hoe to “till” a usual dirt block. However, you must look out for a water source because you won’t be able to irrigate this tilled land, and it will revert to a normal, but eroded, dirt block.

So, instead of going for your typical strip method, make a hole in the ground and put water inside with the use of a bucket or however else you can.

Water can irrigate up to four blocks away. So, four blocks in each direction means you can farm in a 9×9 piece of land with only one “block” of water in the middle!

Once you have your single source of water ready, use your Hoe to till the four blocks around it in each direction. Be careful to put water first; otherwise, the tilled land will revert to untilled right away.

Place your seeds by interacting with the tilled land. Avoid Watermelon, Pumpkins, and Sugarcane. We will explain the reason below.

Now that you have your perfect farm ready, let us learn some tips and tricks that you can use as a beginner. Kindly note that these may or may not work for a player who is a little experienced with the game.

Best Farming Tips for Minecraft Beginners

This is the ideal and most efficient farmland (Source: Mojang)

When you till land at first, it will be discolored. It will look as if it will turn into an eroded Dirt block right away. However, wait patiently if you have used the above-mentioned water irrigation technique correctly. Now, take note of these following tips and tricks to help yourself further:

Watermelons and Pumpkins need an adjacent block empty because their harvest pops off in that block. So, plant their seeds in a strip and leave a strip empty for their produce to pop off.

All Sugarcane needs to be grown in Sand and right next to a water source. Moreover, it doesn’t give a seed. You just have to cut their required blocks and leave the rest of the stem intact for it to grow back again.

Bone Meal can grow a plant to its full potential except Watermelons and Pumpkins. Grow them to the point that their vine emerges from the ground and then wait for them to pop off.

If you keep running out of Bone Meal but have ample seeds at your disposal, craft a Composter. Put this composter in the ground near your farm or wherever you put extra seeds. Keep putting extra seeds in that Composter by interacting with it until you get a Bone Meal. You can craft a Bone Meal but this is the easiest way to get one while also putting your extra seeds to good use.

Craft fences around your farm to stop stray and dangerous mobs from wandering in and destroying your crops.

Put torches around the farm to help the crops grow even during the night. And ideally, put them in a place where they get natural sunlight a lot.

Lastly, make sure that your farm is in close vicinity to where you spend most of your time. This can be close to your nearby mine, a village, or even near your base.

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