Minecraft is a system-on-system-on-system game. You need to eat to keep your hunger bar full, and you need to keep your hunger bar full for your heart bar to regenerate. You need food to eat, and you need to find food to have it available. And that’s just the beginning. You need to maintain tools, sort storage spaces, and build things. Everything in Minecraft requires materials, and materials need to be found and acquired.
Or you can start a farm.
For example, iron is one of the most consistently used materials in Minecraft. If you know that when you have a certain number of villagers, an iron golem will automatically spawn, and you know that an iron golem drops 3-5 iron ingots, you’re already on your way to creating a farm that generates mountains of iron every hour.
Some farms can become incredibly large and complex, while others are compact and can be set up in just a few minutes.
Build a lava farm
Coal is a great fuel source and all, but there’s a lot of cooking to be done in Minecraft, and coal is much better for crafting torches and lanterns – especially when an infinite fuel source is within reach. A lava farm requires little more than some cobblestone, stalactite, and iron, and you can find all of that with basic tools.
In short, you build a few cauldrons and buckets, install cobblestones over the cauldrons and stalactites between them, then pour lava over them. The lava drips into the cauldrons and constantly refills them. There are even more efficient fuel sources, but this one is endlessly renewable and easy to craft in the early hours of the game.
Build a meat farm
A meat farm sounds pretty macabre, but we promised you macabre, and here it is. The farm above is easy to build, and again uses resources you can access early in the game. You can use cows, but there are farms for chickens, hoglins, and other Minecraft creatures that drop food. Yes, it’s not quite like the idyllic farms of our imagination, but it also means you’ll never have to worry about food again.
