How to build a villager bread farm
This is a villager bread farm built on Java 1.21.5.
To get the wheat grow it is essential that you place a water source and a light source which will enable the wheat to grow quicker. There is little to no interaction required from the player as the villagers carry out all of the tasks. The only thing that the player will need to do is to get seeds which are collected by breaking grass. This works in the way that villagers mechanics mean that they can only pass food stuffs between each other. This means that the villagers cannot pass wheat and seeds to each other, so they pass bread.
Bread is the main product of this build and can be used for the following:
Food - bread is a great source for food and restores 5 hunger.
Breeding - villagers require 3 bread to start breeding.
Compost - placing bread into a composter has an 85% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
Trading - bread can be traded with farmer villagers
Bread can also be found in the following places:
Crafted - craft 3 wheat in to a loaf of bread.
Trading - farmer villagers will sometimes trade bread for emeralds.
Chests - bread can sometimes be found in dungeon chests, mineshaft chests, stronghold chests and various village chests.
Hoe
Composter
Hopper
Bucket
Trapdoor
Fence
Glass
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.
Torch
Chest
Hopper - in this build you will need to craft a chest in order to make the hopper.
Smithing table
Grindstone
Here we will explain in detail how to build a villager bread farm in Minecraft. Please follow the instructions carefully.
In the first stage of this build we need to dig a hole 1 block deep and place a bucket of water into it.
This will be the centre of the planting area.
The next step is to hoe 4 blocks out from each of the flat sides of the block.
The next step is to hoe out the area between these lines.
This should make a 9x9 block square for you to plant your crops.
As you can see from the screenshot the ground is already becoming watered from the water block.
You can see this from the darker blocks of tilled soil.
In this section we will build a glass wall 2 blocks high all around the crop growing area.
Leave an opening on one side in the middle.
Next place a composter over the water block and then place a stone block 1 space above this, leaving a 1 block gap between the composter and the stone block.
Place torches on all sides of the stone block.
The composter is used so that when your villager has spare seeds they will place these into the composter and then this will turn into bonemeal and the villager can use this to grow the crops.
Here we will hollow out a 4 block trough that goes underneath the glass blocks with your gap on the left.
So working from the right, place your chests down next to each other to make a large chest.
Next place two hoppers leading into the chest. This is your collection system to collect your crops.
Next you need to fill in the holes that we made but leave 2 holes in front of the chest so that it can be accessed.
Now build the glass walls out from the other wall, this should mean that you have a solid grass block behind the hopper that we placed before.
On top of this hopper we need to place a fence, you will need to crouch down when placing the fence.
Ok, lets place a trapdoor above the fence and at the top of the glass block.
The next step is to add the villagers.
We will first place the villager in the centre of the crop area. He will change into a farmer, you can see this from the hat he is wearing. Ensure that the farmer has seeds to plant. As soon as he receives seeds he will start to plant them.
Next we will place the villager behind the fence.
This setup will then produce your bread with no input from yourself.
Here is the finished build.
What can go wrong - Villager not picking up crops
This is normally because your villagers inventory is full.
This will mean that your villager can no longer pick up the crops to pass them to the other villager.
To resolve this you will need to create another villager to collect crops.
Also ensure that there is a clear path to the collector villager.
What can go wrong - Villager not breaking the crops
The most common reason for this is that mobGriefing is switched off.
If mobGriefing is off the villager cannot break crops use /gamerule mobGriefing = true in commands to rectify this.
What can go wrong - Villager not planting or harvesting crops
This will be because the job blocks are not positioned properly.
Make sure that the the villager can access the job block and that their profession changes to a farmer, he should have a yellow straw hat to show that they are a farmer.
How to make this build easier - I would recommend that you build a transport system from a villager breeder straight in to the correct section of this build.
