Enchantments help players make their tools and weapons powerful in Minecraft and XP allows you to combine and put these enchantments on weapons. If you’re low on XP and it’s hindering your progress, check out these best XP farms in Minecraft.
From mining to mob killing, almost every action in Minecraft grants players XP. You might not realize its importance until you unlock enchantments for your bows, swords, armor, and tridents, among other things.
XP in Minecraft allows you to combine enchantments and put them on the tools you want. Also, if you have repair enabled, you will need XP to increase the durability of your weapons.
Now that it’s clear that XP is such an important resource, let’s take a look at the best ways to farm XP in Minecraft.
Top 10 Minecraft XP Farms
10. Minecraft XP Farm Spawner Mob
Minecraft players can set up a mob generator XP farm in dungeons where they find mob generators for zombies, skeletons, or spiders. We recommend farming Skeletons as they are relatively easy to kill and drop great loot.
How to create mob spawner XP farm:
- Find a mob spawner block in a dungeon. Remove the chests from the nearby area and light them with torches to prevent monsters from spawning.
- Clean the area around the spawner. Ideally, you can clear four radius blocks and two blocks above and below the spawner. In the end, you should have a 9×9 area with five blocks in height.
- Dig additional blocks where you can place two fences and a dirt block. Then fill the entire area with water (use buckets) so that the water flows towards the block of soil.
- Lift up 27 blocks above the dirt block and replace it with Soul Sand. At the top, dig three blocks forward and place a sign.
- Dig 23 blocks under the panel. The end of this tunnel is where the mobs will fall. Place a hopper and connect it to the chests. You can also add slabs to prevent mobs from hitting you.
- Now return to the spawner and place a slab on it. Remove the torches to start the spawning process.
- Finally, stand in front of the slab and continue to kill the monsters that appear.
The strategy for creating a mob spawner XP farm is also presented in the video below by YouTuber Jumper:
9. AFK Fish Minecraft XP Farm
From books and saddles to fishing rods and name tags, you can get a ton of resources and fish XP in Minecraft. Compared to other farms, this one is quite easy to build using the following:
- Blocks
- Coffers
- Hopper
- Glass
- Panels
- tracks
- Minecart with hopper
- lava bucket
- hatch
- Bucket of water
- Fish
- Psuedonym
The amount of these materials largely depends on the design you have chosen for your fish farm. Because you’ll be fishing at a much faster rate, the chances of getting rare drops will also increase significantly.
For reference, you can find a guide to crafting the AFK Fish XP farm by WaffleNite below:
8. Farm Enderman Minecraft XP
The Enderman XP farm is perfect for Minecraft players who have defeated the ender dragon. You will not only get XP, but also an infinite amount of Ender Pearls.
Enderman appears at the end which is full of empty space. Water is the only weakness of these monsters, which is why creating an Enderman XP farm is not as difficult as it seems.
You will need these materials to create your own Enderman XP farm in Minecraft:
- stacks of leaves
- Stacks of Enderpearls
- Slabs
- Strings
- Hoppers
- Coffers
- Carpet stacks
- Bucket of water
- lava bucket
- Torches
- Blocks
- Fences
- hatches
- tracks
- mine cart
- name tags
Here is a guide to making an Enderman XP farm by Shulkercraft.
7. Farm Blaze Minecraft XP
Blaze is easily one of the best mobs to farm for XP in Minecraft. You can get XP and Blaze Rods from these mechanics and these help craft invisibility potions and other status effects.
It’s best to farm Blaze near a spawner to save time and resources. Naturally, there are hundreds of models, but the objective is common: kill the Blaze monsters and collect the drops.
Use these items to quickly set up a Blaze XP farm in Minecraft:
- Torches
- magma block
- Chest
- Hopper
- Slab
- hatches
- Glass
- Carpet
Here’s a guide to making a Blaze Farm in Minecraft by YouTuber Pillager.
6. Farm Guardian Minecraft XP
Guardians drop a good amount of XP when killed and setting up a farm for them is certainly worth it. You usually have to drain an entire ocean to set up this farm, but some players have come up with methods that don’t include draining.
Regardless of the design, it’s wise for you to collect these materials to craft your Guardian XP Farm:
- More than 1000 glass blocks
- Over 1000 blocks of Soul Sand
- building blocks
- Hoppers
- soul campfires
- Coffers
- Slabs
- More than 50 torches
- Targets
- Redstone Repeaters
- Redstone comparators
- Dropper
- Redstone Dust
For example, YouTuber ianxofour built a Guardian XP without draining the ocean and it grants 180,000 XP/hour:
5. Minecraft XP Cactus and Bamboo Farm
Cactus and bamboo farms in Minecraft grant decent XP and require the least amount of effort. You’ll need Ovens and Redstone to run a farm, but note that the mechanism makes a lot of noise thanks to the Minecart.
Therefore, place the cactus and bamboo farm somewhere away from your base and easy to access.
Items required to create a Cactus and Bamboo XP farm in Minecraft include:
- Building blocks of choice
- Coffers
- Hoppers
- Ovens
- Levers
- stone blocks
- tracks
- Motorized tracks
- Detector rails
- Minecart with hopper
- Redstone Repeaters
- redstone torches
- Sticky pistons
- redstone blocks
- Redstone Dust
- Bamboo and Cactus
A farm by YouTuber Regund can collect XP, Cactus, Bamboo, Bone Meal, and Emerald all at once, and here’s how you can do it in minutes:
4. Minecraft XP Kelp Farm
Kelp Farms are great for Minecraft players who don’t want to spend hours creating an XP farm. The plant usually spawns underwater in the Overworld and aside from that, you will need the following to craft the Kelp XP Farm:
- Building blocks of choice
- Redstone Dust
- The sink
- Sticky pistons
- Water buckets
There are countless ways to create a kelp farm in Minecraft. One of the easiest ways is to follow YouTuber Sirius Bluu who created a farm out of nothing but glass blocks, pistons and buckets of water.
3. Minecraft XP Common Farm
The Minecraft Overworld is filled with skeletons, zombies, and creepers, and you can slay these common mobs for a ton of XP.
The goal is to create an enclosed platform either above a body of water or in the air. Mobs will spawn inside the area and you can kill them with fall damage or other methods for XP.
The common XP mob farm in Minecraft does not require a lot of materials except for scaffolding as it allows for large structures to be created. Here is a list of materials:
- Over 100 scaffolding blocks
- Coffers
- Water buckets
- Slabs
- Hoppers
- Bed
- Stacks of Choice Blocks
- hatches
One of the most effective XP mob farms in Minecraft is created by YouTuber Voltrox.
2. Stone Farm Minecraft XP
New to Minecraft players who don’t have the outrageous amount of materials needed to make XP farms can easily make a Stone XP farm.
With just cobblestones, ovens, and smooth stone, you can create a farm that melts stone and generates XP for you. Here is a list of all the materials:
- coal blocks
- Cobblestone
- Coffers
- Ovens
- Hoppers
- smooth stones
- Levers
This short tutorial from YouTuber OXAPRO can help you get a simple yet effective design for a Stone XP truss.
1. Farm Wither Minecraft XP
If you’ve completed Minecraft beating the Wither and want to craft some unique mechanics like Beacons, we recommend building a Wither Farm.
The Wither drops 50 XP and Nether Stars when killed. These resources are really valuable even if you have reached the end of the game.
The materials needed to craft a Wither XP Farm include:
- Cobblestone blocks
- redstone torches
- Pressure plates
- Sticky pistons
- Slabs
It’s no surprise that creating a Wither XP farm can be a chore, and here’s a tutorial from YouTuber Shulkercraft:
Well, these are some of the most useful XP farms you can build in Minecraft. For more content on the sandbox game, find out how to breed turtles, how to get a command block, and how to craft a composter.
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