5 Mob farms to build early in Minecraft

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17-07-2025

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Minecraft is a very creative game where players have a wide range of creatures, items, and places to explore. In the early stage of the game, players face many issues gathering basic resources and experience points.
Mob farms are essential and helpful structures in Minecraft that provide players with all the valuable resources, experience points, rare drops, and food. But in the early stage of the game, players usually face difficulties even to gather basic resources and build these, as this can be very time-consuming. This article provides 5 of the best mob farms for early-stage players in Minecraft. These farms can be built easily and will provide great output to the players.
5 best mob farms to build early in Minecraft
Here are the following 5 best mob farms, which are very easy to build and will provide players with all the basic and important resources:
1. Basic spawner based farm
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Requirements
: To build a basic spawner-based farm, a player will need any mob spawner, building blocks, water buckets, and torches.
How
It
Works
: These spawners will spawn the specific mobs, and through building a kill chamber, players will be able to collect their drops and XP.
Benefits
: Low resource cost and high yield of XP and drops.
2. Simple dark room farm
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Requirements
:
To build a dark room farm, players will need building blocks, trapdoors, and slabs.
How It Works:
Players will have to construct a dark, enclosed space where mobs spawn and fall into a water stream or pit, and from there players can kill them.
Benefits:
It will spawn all types of mobs without spawners, and this also works in any biome.
3. Pillar based Creeper farm
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Requirements:
To build a pillar-based creeper farm, players will need slabs, cats, and building blocks.
How It Works:
As we know, creepers fear and flee from cats, which will allow players to bring them into a killing chamber. Adding slabs will prevent other mobs from spawning.
Benefits
: Through this, players will have a steady and efficient supply of gunpowder to farm for explosives.
4. River based Drowned farm
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Requirements
:
In order to build a river-based farm, players will need water sources and slabs.
How It Works:
The drowned spawn in rivers, and they drop rare items like tridents, copper, and gold. Players can funnel them into a narrow channel and kill them for easy collection
Benefits:
Players get rare items easily.
5. Blaze spawner XP farm
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Requirements
:
To build a Blazer Farm, first players have to find a Nether fortress and look for a blaze spawner, building blocks, water (or lava in Bedrock Edition), and a potion of Fire Resistance (optional).
How It Works:
Once players find a blaze spawner, they have to close the spawner within a 9×9×3 area centered on the spawner block. Use water (Java) or flowing lava (Bedrock) to push blazes into a drop chute or killing chamber
Benefits:
Drops blaze rods and high XP.
These were the 5 best mob farms that players can consider building early in the game.
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