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There are more than 70 different mobs in Minecraft. Surprisingly over two dozen of them are outright hostile to the player, villagers, and iron golems. And with almost all of these hostile mobs having a unique drop pool, it can be hard to keep track of which mobs are worth farming for and which ones are probably a waste of time to hunt down.
Detailed below are seven of the Bedrock mobs with the best potential drops for players to farm for.
Note: This article is subjective and reflects the writer's opinions.
7 amazing Minecraft Bedrock mobs to farm
1) Zombie piglins
Zombie piglins are probably the best mob in Bedrock to farm. Not necessarily for their drops, but for what their drops can be used for. Zombie piglins drop golden nuggets and equipment, which can then be turned into gold ingots and blocks. These blocks could be used to power a useful Minecraft beacon, but the ingots could also be used in a piglin bartering farm.
Piglin bartering farms open up a whole new world of potential through items such as string, iron, leather, stone, nether bricks, and obsidian. Zombie piglins also drop a decent amount of XP, which means that a zombie piglins farm could also function as a Minecraft survival base's main XP farm.
2) Creepers
Creepers, Minecraft's undeveloped icon, has one of the most useful mob drops in the entire game. They will drop between zero and two gunpowder normally, but up to five with Looting III.
This gunpowder can be used for TNT if combined with sand. TNT is amazing for messing around with friends on a server, but it is also very useful for farming due to TNT duplication. Some of the game's best farms, like wood and cobblestone farms, wouldn't work without TNT. It can also be combined with paper from a sugar can farm to make firework rockets to take to the skies on an elytra.
3) Witches
Witches have a very long list of useful drops, including redstone, glass bottles, glowstone, sugar, and even potions, if they're killed while holding one. These materials are incredibly useful across many different areas of the game. Redstone is useful for making other expert Minecraft farms, whereas glowstone, sugar, and glass bottles are all useful for alchemy.
This makes the fact that witches can be farmed by taking advantage of their spawning zones found around rare swamp huts super useful for late-game players wanting to build up a stockpile of useful utility resources.
4) Endermen
Endermen are an interesting mob to consider farming. They drop enderpearls, one of the most important items in Minecraft, until the end portal is opened, as they're required to craft the eyes of the ender needed to activate it. However, once this is done, their utility plummets quite a bit. Their teleportation is still useful, of course, vital for glitches like accessing the Nether roof, but quite niche otherwise.
However, they drop a large amount of XP and are essentially the only mob that spawns naturally in the vast majority of the End. This makes them amazing for farming XP, as Endermen XP farms are some of the fastest in the game.
5) Shulkers
Shulkers are the unique mob of the End Dimension's cities, but when they were first added, they weren't actually given any drops. This made them more of a frustrating obstacle to getting elytra than mob players were excited to see.
Thankfully, shulker shells were added in 1.11, along with Minecraft's amazingly useful shulker boxes. These are chests that can keep items within them even when they are broken and placed in an inventory. This means that they essentially solve the inventory issue, converting a single inventory slot into 27. This makes them worth farming in large numbers, especially for builders who enjoy large-scale projects.
6) Slime
Slimes are an amazing mob to farm in Bedrock for one simple reason: slime blocks. Slime blocks are one of the most useful redstone components out there, able to stick blocks together like glue. Many advanced redstone builds, ranging from farms to piston doors, wouldn't be possible without these blocks.
Recent changes to Minecraft hostile mob spawning behaviors have also made it easier than ever to farm slime, as surface swamp farms are not only possible but highly efficient.
7) Evokers
Evokers are a type of villager found naturally in small numbers within Minecraft's elusive woodland mansions. Unlike most other mobs, evokers will not respawn once killed, meaning they only naturally appear in small, set numbers.
Thankfully, though, there is a way to farm them. They spawn as part of dangerous raids against villages, starting at wave five. Each evoker has a guaranteed totem of undying drops, making raids a great way to collect them in large numbers. Raid farming will give plenty of emeralds to use for Minecraft villager trading within the village being protected as well.
