As someone who didnt have enough iron for the hoppers, I really needed this

Dosnt quite work in 1.20.1 iron golems keep spawning outside the pool, what you need to do is simply put 4 more zombies on top of the pool in corners in hight of 3 blocks and 3 blocks from the corner of the pool, also put trapdors on the walls of the pool so golems would fall in

I took it to a different level, and rather than digging, I painstakingly built it in the air, over water. Works beautifully!

For people that are having trouble with golems spawning outside, iron golems spawn in a 16x16 area centered around a village. In this case, each set of three villagers is a “village” so just spawn proof the surrounding blocks on the surface with carpets or whatever you have and everything should work fine after that

Thank you very much for this tutorial! I hope you'll make more content like this! In the beginning there were a few problems with golems spawning outside the 9x9x3 hole. I was finally able to fix this and have a fully working farm. Thanks to a few people in the comments I was able to find out why they kept spawning outside. Here are a few things (from of the comments) I found very useful: - Make sure the terrain around the 9x9x3 pool is flat around this area. Somebody in comments mentioned 33x33 around the center. (So 16 blocks in every direction + the center one) - Try to make the whole area a path by using right-click with your shovel. You can either use torches, buttons, slabs, etc. - Make sure there are no open caves/holes/spaces underground nearby the villagers. The golems might spawn inside. Even if it's just a one block area. After a little bit of reading on the web it seems that Iron Golems can spawn within range of 8 blocks in every horizontal direction or 6 blocks vertically from the villager. So I filled up every hole within 8 blocks from the beds. - Also make sure to dig 7 blocks down for the villager hole. - Optionally you could use spectator mode to check wether there's a hole or empty space around the villagers. I found an iron golem in a small space I didn't notice earlier.

I’ve been procrastinating in my hardcore world to make an iron farm but this really helps a lot, thank you voltrox.

hands down probably one of the easiest starter as well as end game farm you can have. i keep coming back to this video whenever i have a minecraft phase because it always carries my entire server everytime, thanks 👍

Great video. No comentary, straight to the point, showing the materials that you need in the start AND going at a moderate pace while counting the blocks for you.

My little cousins and I made a server and it's so stressful as an adult to play with them and keep teaching them but showing the wonders of minecraft definitely is worth it. I also like how much fun they're having, from mining, farming, getting animals, and all that. As much as I want to go to a cave and get iron, I hate having to stress about them dying and getting blown up by creepers! Definitely needed this 😂😂

I made this exact design on our SMP server just a few weeks ago, good to see it’s ‘Voltrox approved’ now :). I opted for an elevated version though since I didn’t want to occupy that much space on the surface. We didn’t have elytra yet so everything was done using a big scaffolding structure, worked like a charm! I made one central floating chamber for the golems to spawn and then built 4 smaller cabins in each corner with the exact dimensions of the underground variant. Getting the villagers in was a big pain but we managed to get there by making a temporary nether portal in the hub and using minecarts to get them from the breeder through both portals to the platform in the sky, from which we then used minecarts again to transport them to each of the 4 housings. Zombies went slightly smoother except that I forgot to spawnproof their holding cells which caused golems to spawn there and kill them. We also didn’t use boats but simply threw helmets at zombies from our spawner until 4 of them started wearing it, let those 4 chase us through the nether as well and then have them fall using the trapdoor technique. The farm wasn’t working with the trapdoors in the barrier between zombies and villagers at first so I swapped them with another slab and trapped the zombies in a composter with a trapdoor to make them jump, breaking eye contact briefly and giving the vilagers plenty of opportunity to use their beds when required. It has since gathered an insane amount of iron as it’s located right in the spawn chunks, highly recommend this design!

Beautiful design. Thank you for the video. Neat trick with the boat which, prevents the zombie from despawning.

best iron farm i've ever built, very easy to follow, cheap, and very effective. thank you

For the people having issues, a few things to note. I'm playing Java btw, 1.21 Make sure the hole for the villagers is 7 deep total. Also make sure the floor around the hole for the golems is all flat in an a about a 33x33 area. This to ensure the golems spawn in the hole. You don't have to dig the chute for the golems that deep if you don't want to, mine is like 12 deep with lava that kills them off and works just fine. Make sure to pay attention during the video because the boat placement matters. Lastly, make sure all the villagers are able to sleep in the bed at least once before the zombie enters.

A small fix for anyone haing the issue of zombies spawning outside of the pool, you can trap a zombie in a boat over the middle of the main pool and then destroy the path up to the zombie. the golems will aggro to it and fall in, just make sure to put a one block roof over the zombie so it wont burn.

Thx bro I really do appreciate the help on making it. Me and my friends really do think it was a easy and quick iron farm to build for our server

amazingggggg thank you, love your channel and how detailed you are

Great video, man! Very easy to follow. Although the 12 beds was a bit unexpected cause the materials list at the start only shows one bed. But thank god for a field of sheep right next door to where I built this lol

finally after so many trials I've know how to fix the farm if the villager doesn't care about the zombie anymore.... all you have to do is wait until its night time and cover or put a wall(solid blocks) between the villager and the zombie after that wait the villager to sleep their beds and then when they sleep you brake the blocks...

I had problems with the iron golems spawning outside the 9x9 area. I used a couple diamond shovels to path a huge area around it, and I also noticed they can spawn on the trapdoors which I hadn't removed initially. Replaced those with path dirt and now it seems to be fully effective. I wasn't sure if they can spawn on grass blocks with torches on them, so just to be safe I replaced the lighting with torches on stone walls

I love your videos since you stated making them. Great farm, and wow oml SMO lofi-music damn :sob:

this farm works insanely well. i would suggest making a redstone water column with a switch to go up and down though as the ladder is pretty slow. also if you have trouble with golems spawning outside of the farm like i did you can spawn proof the area with pressure plates

for better results expand water area 1 block out on each side and place a named zombie about 8 blocks above the middle of the 3x3 the water feeds into

Thanks for the video. Built this in my skyblock world so it was REALLY hard to build because following along in the sky was difficult. Got it built but do have maybe a problem. I am getting an inconsistent amount of golem spawns. Sometimes 1, sometimes 3. If anyone knows why I would love to know.

Bro this worked with no issue. Thank you so much.

Instructions were unclear. Our villagers are spawning cats, not iron golems. We are now cat murderers. If we accidentally went 29 spaces instead of 30, do we have to fix that?

Everyone: how many iron farm videos will you make? Voltrox: Yes.

Thanks for the tutorial. Quick and easy. Awesome farm!

Okay just in case anyone was wondering, moving 12 villagers halfway across the map and then trying to convince them to get into a bed is not "easy"

Hi Voltrox, I love your videos so much, they always help me and they are always so simple and easy! Thank you so much! #Iron

zoals altijd weer een goede tutorial

literally the best iron farm ever, so easy to build, and with a chunk loader on a server i already have a full shulker box of iron blocks, after just 5 days. :) make sure to put more chests there though lol. thank you for the turorial :D

How far out should all the caves be blocked off? And when you say blocked off you mean to the surface or just literally manually fill in the caves?

yo i appreciate your videos but please put the world downloads in the description so we can test the farms out before building them first.

Nice super mario odyssey music, i think it's "jump up superstar"

tysm this was so helpful and the farm works very well

I'm playing a server with my friends, and we are struggling to get iron! Thanks, Voltrox!

If your having issues with iron golems spawning outside water on 1.20.1 you can use path blocks to stop them from spawning, worked well even with my auto breeder extremely close.

If you have problems with zombies disappearing, check to make sure you covered the floor with the boat and all the stairs in torches. I had golems spawn in there because I left them out, they would kill the zombie and then suffocate.

everything works good but 1 thing is u have to make a area around the hole because golems spawning outside (I slabed 15 blocks in each directions and now its good)

Built today in Java 1.20 and it's working perfectly, thanks for the tutorial 👍

Been subscribed to you for a couple of years now and I am so happy I did so, your vids are so easy and good keep it up!! Few words to describe you:YOU ARE AMAZING!!

Just make the surrounding area of 14x14 blocks spawn proof using slabs, trapdoors or dirt path.

if you want to fix this farm in versions 1.21+ then all you need to do is build a bridge to the middle of the water area and put a boat, then at night lure a zombie to sit in the boat and give it a roof. this made my farm work.

thank you its really works good!

If the villagers aren't locking onto the beds at night you can also just row the boats on top of the holes, get out of the boat, and break it. Line the boats up so the front and back are facing the long ways if the hole.

PSA: 7 blocks deep works best for villagers - If you are having issues with the Golem spawning outside of the killzone

ty, works wonderfully

thanks a lot it works really well in 1.120.4 also

Thanks for this IRON Farm tutorial 😊

For those who's golems are spawing outside the pool, Trap a zombie in the middle of the pool and look were the golems are spawing and make a water way to the pool

If you're having problems with golems spawning outside the pit, make sure to flatten the area, as it seems to fix the issue and increase rates.

Also for the people that have iron golemns spawning outside of the 9x9x2, make sure the whole area is either level or higher than the top of the hole, or at least put slabs on anything lower than the top of the hole.

So just like some of the others I have build this entirely into the air. As such the iron golem can only spawn in the central part (with water) but the rates are nowhere near what is mentioned in the title. After testing I come to about 600 iron per hour. (Java 1.20.2 Hard mode) Any ideas on why there is such a huge difference?

anyone know why a golem keeps spawning inside of the 2 slabs/trapdoor in only one of the 4 boxes? It stops all spawns and makes the farm not work.

i srsly need this built an iron farm since im building all sorts of farm and mostly require rails and hoppers, my iron always run low and i had to enter the cave to search for some, sometimes i can barely find any from my drained cave, and now i finally found a villager

Just something i found out, when you want to get villagers in the hole and you place beds they run away going back to the beds they claimed in the village, so what i find easier is just to put the boat over the hole and break it

Works just fine for me on 1.20.1, but I would recommend putting the villagers 8 blocks down instead of only 7. Also its kinda annoying that you need to spawnproof every nearby cave. But all in all its the best design you can have with that many iron, great work!

PSA for golems spawning outside. What worked for me is the area around needs to be REALLY flat. Not just to build but for spawns to work correctly as well. After filling in all of the surrounding area with dirt to make it flat, all my golums are now spawning in the pool, thank god. That should get you pretty far, if some still spawn out, I sat there and watched which quadrant the golum was for and where it spawned, I then would fill that part with more blocks. After a while, all golums are spawning in the center. Hope it helps.

It worked for a little while (almost filled the double chest) but now it does not work at all. Golems are not even spawning and I didn't change a thing, I'm assuming it has something to do with the villagers since I think I built it a little too close to a village. With that being the case I totally got rid of that village, I'm just not sure if that's the issue since it still hasn't fixed

Should you do all the villagers emidiatly or can you do some zombies while waiting since my villagers wouldnt want to sleep so i was like doing the zombies first but is this bad or not

Simple and straight to the point! Very easy to built and it works like a charm.

i love how the materials needed page didnt even include the 3 beds you need for every chamber thank you so much voltrox for being inconvenient

Iron 😃 I saw it and also Thank you its so easy to build!

A little notification about the depth mattering would be great. Instead I just went around placing slabs since I wasn't gonna deal with going back in.

Thank you so much for this

Question: should the farm be at a certain distance from any village? Let's say about at least 10 chunks? Also, #Iron!

Hey apparently crops grow faster to rows, so would using alternating potato/carrot lines work better than just solid carrots? Would it improve the rate of villagers spawned? Or are the crops fast enough as they are, and it's the breeding cooldown on villagers that caps it?

First thing I noticed was the remix of Super Mario Odessey's main theme but still a helpful video.

I've built this in the air and works like a charm! And some changes i recommend doing: 1- At 2:19 he says to place 2 slabs and 1 trapdoor at the middle but i placed 3 trapdoors and it works fine (and don't forget to place torches at the trapdoors cuz IG can spawn on them and kill the zombie) 2- To avoid problems, i recommend building it in the air like i did, but you have to be really careful and pay attention to every single detail, make it like it's at the ground, but in the air of course.

farm works well (1.20.1 optifine) rates of around 1k iron an hour what i did in addition to this video: pathed out and slabbed a radius of 15 ish blocks from the centre of the built (most important), as well as having the surrounding area lit up (i dont know if the mob cap applies and considers golems) have 7 zombies on boats (2 fell down some holes, dont know if this had an effect) what i didnt do: did not spawn proof the underground caves the golems could be spawning in, this might be the reason why the rate of iron decreased over time. testing: 30min: 519 iron 60min: 973 iron this build would be easier high up in the sky, less work needed to spawn proof caves.

quick question for a dummy like me: is it possible to "stack" the farm? like if you build 10 blocks above another farm?? does that work or no? thanks for the guide.

Great video! Helped a lot

why are the water buckets stacked 😭😭

I’m usually a bedrock player, so seeing an iron farm that works THIS WELL is amazing.

amazing farm works perfectly

Probably best for you to actually include the full amount of stuff needed at the beginning lol, didnt expect to have to make a villager farm just to get enough for my iron farm

i was using this farm for awhile and it worked but they stopped spawning

iron golems spawning outside i though its my fault but i rebuilt it in new world with creative mode and same thing golems spawning outside (1.20.4)

Decided to do this In super flat, really hard, but definitely worth it. Had to break like 20 pieces of bedrock and build all the walls, but worth it in the end

Works as of June 2024 just add the spawn proofing around a perimeter as other comments stated. 16 blocks out in every direction of the water area. Start from the block closest to the drop off into the water, the outermost edge of the 9x9. Buttons or shovel on dirt to make path block

these is my villan arc this didnt work and now i am after YOU run

it wasnt working for me and i dont know why i built everything right and iron golems still are not spawning someone please reply

Can you cover it with glass/any construction block? Will it impact the farm performance?

Do I have to build the villager room on all 4 sides or like just one or max two?

I have a problem : My villagers don't detect the zombie constantly. I did the exact same block placement as in the video but only one of the villagers wakes up from his bed every 10 secondes, the others are just dreaming and not even caring about the zombie.

my iron golems are spawning above on grass

I ve done everything and farm was working nice but now no golem spawns anywhere even tho I spawn proofed the area. Whats the problem?

I have a few problems with this farm. 1. in one chamber the villager are running against the trapdoor and not away from it 2. in 2 chambers there is always one villager which can sleep without being scared, but the chambers are built exactly the same 3. there’s always just one iron golem spawning and it’s really slow Can someone help me? I built it in 1.21

The farm works as intended, nothing spawns outside. However the amount of golems that spawn Is kind of inconsistent. Sometimes 1 Iron golem spawns, 2 or 3 and sometimes all of them (4) however It's never consistent, what did I do wrong or Is that supposed to be like this?

Ive tried to do a irom farm like this one. It was with one section and not four like in the video. For some reason, my villagers arent scared of the zombie and just casually sleep through it.

once you get this farm working it's actually insane. One of the best iron farms for the amount of labor put in. I remember leaving my pc running for days to get a couple stacks of iron. This one does it in minutes. Had issues with golem spawns. Make sure you actually spawn proof the top area using path dirt. Also make sure you double check the trapdoor slab placement if you're having issues. Should work perfectly fine if everything is done correctly.

When i break the beds the villagers just go back to their original village. I tried going to that village and destroy every bed but they still try to escape. Help?

48 torches 28 ladders 12 trapdoors 9 hoppers a bed 9 signs 8 slabs 8 gates 4 water buckets 4 boats 2 chests a lava bucket

the iron golems spawn slower than they should be, you needa specify more about the boat/zombie placement because thats rlly important

Did everything correct but one out of the three villagers never sleeps so no golems spawn what should I do

thank you so muchhh! this was my first functional iron farm that i've searched up :D

I can't put the sign like you did 🤔

So, I had some golems spawning outside of the pool - just shoveled everything to be sure, and now it works like a charm. (Basically, use a very flat area, follow the video closely, and get rid of any spawnable block in the vicinity)

i didn't think about a 4 minutes video would turn into 3 hours job

If I wanted to build multiple of these, how far do they need to be from one another? Or can the builds be adjacent?