Greetings.
I am a man in a suit who has fallen into the world of Minecraft Bedrock Edition.
This time, I am continuing the effort to make the base village more convenient by building a slime farm.
It is not absolutely essential, but having one early in the world is useful. Slimeballs can collect while I am doing other things, giving me plenty of slime blocks to use later.
A useful early farm
Last time, I built an automatic pumpkin and melon harvester with pistons.
With each new machine, village life was becoming a little easier. The next improvement would be hidden underground.
Digging a slime farm below the village
After checking the area, I believed there was a slime chunk below the village. I began a vertical entrance from inside the base and added a trapdoor so the villagers would not fall in.
Then I boldly dug straight down.
At Y36, I started clearing a room three blocks high.
The room covered the 16-by-16-block slime chunk. It was not enormous, but digging it still took considerable effort.
I made only one spawning level. Even with more floors, I knew I was unlikely to use every slimeball the farm could produce.
Around the chunk, I dug a channel three blocks wide and four blocks high.
After returning to the village and coming back down, I found a slime waiting for me. Good. What a charming little creature.
Water would carry the spawned slimes toward a single collection area.
As long as I had chosen the correct chunk, more slimes would appear while I waited at a suitable distance.
At the gathering point, I installed rails, powered rails, and a hopper minecart to collect the drops.
Finally, I placed magma blocks where the water would deliver the slimes. That completed the farm.
The hopper minecart collected the slimeballs dropped above it.
Now slimeballs would build up while I spent time around the village.
Slime blocks are easy to break by hand, which makes them useful as temporary scaffolding during construction.
That is all for this time.
Greetings.