How to build a redstone carrot farm
This is a redstone carrot farm built on Java edition 1.21.5.
To get carrots to grow it is essential to plant them near to a water source. This farm works by allowing the crops to grow naturally and then the player will pull a lever and the water will flow down and harvest the carrots. With this build there will only be carrots harvested, unlike wheat where you will have wheat and seeds to collect. The water will push carrots into the hoppers and eventually into a chest for you to collect.
Food source - carrots are a food source for the player.
Breeding - carrots can be used for breeding pigs, rabbits and villagers.
Harvesting - carrots can be planted to grow more carrots. Each carrot drops between 2 and 4 carrots when harvested.
Crafting - carrots can be crafted with gold nuggets to create golden carrots, which are used to brew potions of Night Vision. Golden carrots also provide one of the highest saturation levels when eaten.
Crafting - carrots are an ingredient in crafting a carrot on a stick, which is used to control pigs when riding them.
To grow carrots you will first need to obtain carrots. These can be found at the following places.
Village farms.
Zombies have a chance to drop carrots.
Carrots can sometimes be found in shipwreck supply chests.
Carrots can also be found in dungeon chests.
In this section we will discuss the materials and the ingredients that we need to make this build. This will give a concise list of the items and the recipe's to make them.
Bucket
Hoe
Lever
Chest
Hopper
Repeater
Sticky piston
Hopper -in this build you need craft a chest to make it.
Sticky Piston - for this build you will need to make a piston first.
Lets now place down the sticky pistons. Place the sticky pistons in the back section ensuring that they are green side up.
Next run repeaters pointing towards the sticky pistons along the whole length of the sticky pistons.
Then place redstone dust behind the repeaters extending by one block and place down a lever in the next block. When switching the lever the sticky pistons should come level with the earth.
Lets now make sure that this works.
If you select the lever that you placed earlier, the front row of blocks will drop down and the water will flow down the edge of the hoppers.
This is final section, we plant the crops and wait for them grow. Select the lever and watch the crops flow down into the hoppers and then into the chest.
Here we will explain in detail how to build a redstone carrot farm in Minecraft. Please follow the instructions carefully.
Ok, first up lets hoe a rectangle, from the sticky pistons, hoe 6 blocks all the way along to make a rectangle.
Dig a 1 block hole down each side of the tilled area.
Next dig a 1 block deep hole along the opposite end to the sticky pistons for 10 blocks (2 blocks longer than the tilled area on one end).
Place your two chests down as shown in the screenshot. Next you need to place your hoppers leading into the chest.
Fill the hole by the side of the tilled area with water ensuring it reaches both ends.
In this section we need to build the stone walls around the build.
From the hoppers place stone blocks over the water and go up 9 blocks.
Next place stone blocks on top of the pistons.
Then place a second row of stone blocks to join the two rows in step 2.
Place a row of stone blocks above the repeaters making a trough.
Now lets place water into that gap.
You should now have something that looks like this.
The first stage is to prepare for the redstone section of the build.
This entails digging 2 blocks down in a 8 x 3 section. Then on the left hand side dig 3 x 2 blocks.
Finally a 1 block down and a 1 x 2 block to enable you to get out of the hole. Dig this on the end of the 3 x 2 block hole. It should look something like the screenshot.
What can go wrong - water flowing into the hoppers.
Ensure that there are six blocks for the water to flow over.
What can go wrong - mobs trampling crops.
Build fences around the build to protect the crops.
Additions to the build -
Increase crops - this build can be made wider by adding more pistons and hoppers, it cannot be made longer as the water will only reach this far.
