"hardest thing to get is a hopper" The observer which you have to get to the nether to obtain:

Oh, I looked this up to remind myself how to build a farm, and I had no idea about the updated design using mud blocks! Thank you!

Fantastic design. Was going for a design like this and couldn't quite articulate it. Found this video and you steam rolled me right a long. Thank you!

The previous version of your sugar cane farm was how i found your channel! What you said in the end is absolutely correct. Once you make it, you don't forget how to do it. It literally is like riding a bike.

Every other video seems to be the micro build dependant on bone meal and I just need a passive farm to stick under our base. A perfect build, especially for scaling. Thank you so much!

Thank you so much I love your videos and your turtorials are literally all over my world so Tysm

If you make multiple layers, build back one, so you can have hoppers on top of the observers. Doing this will make the farm take up more space, especially if you plan on making more than two layers, however it does help with block loss. To try and add to the explanation, the hoppers above the observers should be underneath the mud for each layer, and the hoppers should lead to another chest, or you can connect them to the first chest. After testing it, it seems to mitigate drop losses by a considerable percentage. There is still the occasional escapees that land by the hoppers, but it's not many.

It took me way too long to figure this out, thank you for making this

MAJOR UPGRADE TIP: Use only one observer and plant bamboo in front of it, that will trigger the piston every 408 seconds, ensuring you get maximum efficiency!

Tip: You can place waterlogged leaves in place of the water containment to save on space :)

Thank you so much I’ve been struggling on getting sugar cane thank you your the best

Thank you for this! Its my first ever sugar cane farm and ive never dabbled with redstone in the many years ive played so this was a nice tutorial

This also works with bamboo and you can make crazy emeralds from that if you have some fletchers.

Nice design 👍, i ve also done a sugar cane farm tutorial video using hopper minecart, witch is not the simplest but it works without mud and it's less iron expensive. Suguh

TankYOU! This worked super well. I did make a couple mistakes at first but it took like 10 min to set up and works very well.

Very helpful, thank you!

5 mud one water bucket 5 hopper one chest 5 redstone 5 piston 64 stone 64 glass 64 sugarcane

stuck this next to my creeper farm on my friend's server for infinite rockets! great tutorial thanks so much!

This is the best minecraft farn tutorial video I’ve ever seen and I liked and subbed and this is the comment thanks for the tutorial❤

Huge help! Thanks a lot!

if the hoppers arent picking up the sugarcane, under the mud instead make rails and powered rails on the ends making a minecart with a hopper going back and fourth bouncing off the walls. under the rails put two hoppers connecting to a chest . hope this helps!

do you use tickspeed commands? how does it grow so fast

FOR THOSE SHORT ON QUARTZ, or looking to do this cheaper. Technically you only need one observer. It can be the one dead center and so long as the sugar cane grows in front of it, it’ll clear the whole row by activating the red stone and sending all pistons forward. I’m early on in my world and I’m at college, so I let my game run and it’s worked swimmingly! It’s technically a pinch slower bc it isn’t checking every single stalk, but it works well for larger farms!

Thank you for this simple and adaptable build!

TIP: when i did this it didn't work with dirt and the sugar cane just sat on top of it without going into the hopper. using mud worked

When I stack the farm, the sugar cane gets caught on the upper levels (the pistons don't push it over the ledge). Yes, I built the glass further out so there is room for it to drop - it just gets caught on the upper level. Any tips?

thank you ive been looking for something like this

Very clear and understandable video, Thank you !!

ive used every block i can think of for the sugar cane farm and hardly none of them fall through the the blocks and im not sure what im doing wrong ?

I might just be impatient, but it seems like my sugarcane isn't growing. I DID build this autofarm one block up from the ground using cobbled deepslate (also used for the rest of it) so that my chest was above ground. I did use sand under the sugarcane and I am in Java. Any ideas? I'll update if I have anything new... ** UPDATE ** Yeah, I was growing sugarcane naturally next to this farm and those were growing, but the sugarcane in the autofarm wasn't. Tried just taking out the blocks that are supposed to sit above the water blocks and that seemed to do the trick! Unsure why the sand wasn't wanting to detect the water next to it, but oh well. So if if you're experiencing the same issue, try just leaving those blocks out. Good luck! ** UPDATE 2 ** Okay, you deeeeefinitely should use mud rather than grass or sand. Sand was not allowing the sugarcane drops to fall into the hoppers. I thought I could get away with sand and it would be no big deal to just break something to grab the drops if some didn't fall, but like NONE of them were falling into the hoppers so... Mud for the win. JWhisp is right.

Just made it, thank you 🙏

Thanks that helped me alot!

This stops working when I add the glass wall, I’m on bedrock, what am I doing wrong😭 if I leave it without the glass will the sugar cane fall properly on the hoppers if I remove the glass wall?

One note on the expenses, you need to go to the nether to get quartz for the observer. Otherwise, I like this setup.

This was very helpful to me & I didn't know that entities could pass through mud! thanks for the help!

Thanks so much this was so helpful

would someone be able to help? when the sugar cane grows the pistons wont get activated to push it im not sure what im doing wrong

the blocks beneath the pistons would be better swapped out for a light block as sugar cane needs light to grow. This farm is ok outside, but not indoors

This really worked thanks😁

Built the whole thing in survival. Thanks so much this will certainly help me get enchanted books from villagers

What should you do if the pistons won't move at all??

Some notes: 1: If you dont want the hassle of spending multiple stacks of iron and finding a mangrove swamp for mud, place a minecart with hopper on a track going up and down the line with a single hopper feeding into one (or more) chests. Minecarts with hoppers can pull items through blocks. 2: The way he is placing his hoppers to his chests is space inefficient. Place a hopper to the side of a chest feeding into it, then place a hopper below the hopper pointing into a chest below the chest. 3: DO NOT build this farm 1 block wide. It is a complete waste of resources. In the video he set his tick speed to max to demonstrate, but in reality the farm is much slower. Make it at least 10 blocks wide for actual results.

Works really well thanks for the help❤

Very helpful thank you

It’s a nice farm but to increase the rates u should try to add a dispenser with bone meal to make it grow faster

Does not work tried everything from adding more light to building it at 10,10 and nothing.. i have surgarcain planted right by the where i built it and its growing but the one in the machine does not.

as tip i found was instead of using water directly, using waterlogged leaves is better since it works and you dont need extra building blocks to prevent it from spilling. it is especially helpful to save blocks if you are building the whole thing out of glass (which was waht i did)

Always use this thanks!

"you can build this shortly after booting into a world, the only kinda expensive thing is the hopper". Bro, the observer requires Quartz which requires obsidian for the portal and then avoiding piglins (which is fairly easy, but for a beginner might be challenging). The obsidian requires a diamond pick which requires at least an iron pick beforehand to mine. The observer is easily the most expensive item in this farm, and you went with HOPPER?

Question: can u use this farm build for bamboo as well?

Thanks it’s going to help in my hardcore world

this is way better than my old sugar cane farm when I used to play bedrock.

My sugar cane isnt going through the dirt into hoppers

You need to be 128 blocks away or less from the chunk with the crop you want to grow in java edition, or the crop WILL NOT GROW. Making this in the spawnchunks will have no effect if you are no around!! Thanks for the video.

This is the first automatic farm I ever built and it works! Thanks so much!

Love this build works for bamboo as well i is it all the time. Btw, mud is a must!

Not working, sugar cane ain’t hitting the hopper

if you use dirt how would you place the hoppers

Good expandable build, but I always do my piston farms (Kelp, Bambo, Sugarcane) with a slightly different redstone set up. Basically instead of how this video does it what it's a block behind the piston and redstone on top behind the observers, I do redstone behind the piston and a block behind the observers. This does require you to put an extra block behind the block beneath the pistons, however what this does is causes the pistons to go off once at a time instead of the whole row, which gets you more sugar cane. It works better since because sugar cane has a chance to gain a growth point (GP) ever tick, and it needs a certain number of GPs to grow an extra layer, lets say 12 (i don't remember and ain't looking it up), if you have it set up the way it is in this video, you can get the problem where the line of pistons will take out multiple 2 tall sugarcanes when they are about to reach 3 tall. If you set it up the way I explained it only takes out one at a time, and you'll only reap 3 tall ones, giving you a more efficient farm.

This video helped me. thank you.

My sugarcane isn’t going into the hoppers at all. What should I do?

My sugar canes don't grow sadly, I tried rebuilding it 3 times now

Nice video JMan. I might make a tutorial like this😃

Thank you bro

why isnt my sugarcane growing

It's not growing at all

I combine this with a bonemeal dispenser. worked like a charm.

@JWhisp you only need one observer. You can use Redstone powder in place of the others.

WHY IS MY CANE NOT GROWING

Omg mate I just tried this on Bedrock Edition and I replaced the block under the pistons with dispensers full of bonemeal. I have tried so many times to automate that part and I succesfully automated it. I got almost 3 double chest full of sugar canes in under 10 minutes after afking it. RIP the bonemeal never working on sugar canes in Java. It would've been OP for those Hardcore Minecrafters out there

"once you make it once, youll always remember it and you wont have to come back to another tutorial again" Me whos built this similar design multiple times in the past but still here... 🤣

Works great. Thanks man !

my sugar cane is not growing and im on Java

my sugar cane wont grow and i did everything exactly correct

this works with bamboo as well. thank you!!!!!

Thank you so much

i built the design exactly as shown here in bedrock and the hoppers don’t collect the sugarcane

My sugar cane isn’t growing

just sometips; if u want more effecient way to get the sugar canes, destroy the glass on the lowest then put slabs on it(any slabs will work) then grow your sugar canes using bones. if u already have a mob/exp farm its really ez. i hope it helps:)

Works greatly 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

It did not work for me for some reason!

The sugar cane doesn’t even grow doesn’t work

Thanks! 😄

Thanks!

It’s a bit disingenuous to make a farm tutorial that requires you to change the tick speed

not growing

If you want to optimize the farm put the line of Redstone behind the pistons instead of the observers and put a block on top of all the Redstone. The observer will power the block and still activate the piston underneath but instead of activating every piston it will only activate the one that supposed to letting all your sugarcane fully grow

ah now it is WORKING NICE THANKS!

Don’t build because sugar cane doesn’t even grow 🤦🏻‍♂️

My honest opinion. Not worth building. I did a whole row of 5 and I'm only getting 6 pieces each time. Which means lots of the cane is going to waste. Save the iron for more shields and just kill some skeletons craft bone meal. Then build a farm the old way with dirt and water make it as big as you want then plant cane use bone meal for more cane to plant them in the empty square once all the square are full you could just leave it alone to grow itself you'll get more sugar cane this way than you'll ever going to need since all you have to do is not break it all so it regrowths a bit every mc day. This automated "farm" is only good if you're planning on traveling and exploring a lot and can't tend to your old school farm because you won't be home for a while but if you're planning on always returning back from your travel to your home base or just survive around the area then old school farm is the way to go

I love the music at the eng because it is the same tengotek uses

Thank you I like and subscribe

It's a good build but you should expand it if you want paper like I have it at 25 instead of 5 and I use this as a paper farm

im building it rn and as you said "you can even build it a chunk high and well my friend mined out a whole chunk and im building it rn, will say if it works haha, it prob will :)

Thank you❤️❤️❤️

this video was very good and helpfull

good machine, thanks

Add a row of bone meal dispensers hooked up to redstone and a button and thank me later. You can still AFK it then you have a button you can press to fast track sugar cane

Perfect vid bud ta

i did this and the sugar cane grows but the piston doesn’t destroy it , and the sugar cane doesn’t go in the hopper .