Greetings.
I am a man in a suit who has fallen into the world of Minecraft Bedrock Edition.
Crafting is essential for making life in Minecraft more comfortable, but it calls for all kinds of materials.
Iron was one resource I always seemed to run short of.
It had to be mined underground and smelted before I could use it as ingots.
I wanted a way to collect plenty of iron without repeating all that work.
An iron golem farm promised exactly that.
It took some effort to build, but once it was running, I did not want to live without it.
Collecting plenty of iron with an iron golem farm
Many iron golem farms are large projects, and whether they work can depend on the game version.
For this build, I followed a comparatively simple design that worked in Bedrock Edition 1.18.31.
The farm needed to be at least 112 blocks from a village.
To be safe, I chose an open site about 120 blocks from my base village, with no other village nearby.
Beds, job-site blocks, and bells also had to stay out of the surrounding area.
### Digging the pit, placing beds, and bringing in villagers
This farm used relatively few materials: one hopper, one campfire, eleven carpets, four ladders, a large chest, two water buckets, one lava bucket, twenty beds, twenty job-site blocks, five light sources, three buttons, and one crimson fence gate.
I began by digging a pit seven blocks wide, seven blocks long, and seven blocks deep.
I placed a light source in the center and arranged twenty beds around it.
Around the beds, I dug a two-block-high space and installed twenty composters as job-site blocks.
Once the four corners were lit, this part of the chamber was ready.
Next, I needed to move two villagers from the village to the farm.
I put them in boats and pulled the boats with leads.
Their cold stares made this part rather uncomfortable.
Both villagers went into the pit I had prepared.
They entered love mode almost immediately.
After some time, the chamber filled up.
The preparation was complete once the number of villagers matched the twenty beds.
When there were twenty villagers, I covered the chamber at the third block from the top.
This became the spawning platform for the iron golems.
An iron golem spawned at this stage, confirming that the farm was working.
I installed a hopper for collecting drops and built a small waiting area beside the farm, with a chest that I could check from there.
Buttons and a gate held the lava in place, while water carried the golems toward it.
Glass walls around the platform kept other mobs from falling in.
I thought the farm was complete.
However, some golems occasionally spawned outside the trap.
I expanded the platform and added more water so that every golem would be carried toward the center.
That stopped the missed spawns.
With the farm complete, all I had to do was wait.
I also installed a Nether portal so I could return to the base village more easily.
After leaving the farm running for a while, I found a satisfying pile of iron ingots in the chest.
For a farm of this size, the result was more than enough.
At last, I no longer had to worry about running short of such an important material.
That is all for this time.
Greetings.