7 best Minecraft Bedrock farms for Tricky Trials update

Farms are some of the most important builds in any Minecraft survival world. They allow players to automate the gathering of rare, hard-to-get, or useful items. There are also hundreds, if not more, different kinds of farms that the community has created over the last few years. This can make it hard to determine which ones are a priority to build in a new survival world.

Seven of the best Bedrock farms for the 1.21, or Tricky Trials, update can be found below, along with how the farms function and exactly what makes these farms so useful to have around.

Note: The entries are arranged in no particular order.

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7 of the best farms for Minecraft's Tricky Trials update

1) Iron farm

An iron farm producing golems (Image via Mojang)

Iron farms are inarguably one of the best survival farms that players can make. They take advantage of the villagers' ability to spawn iron golems when panicked by hostile Minecraft mobs. The iron golems are then fed into kill chambers, and the iron ingots they drop are collected.

Iron is such a useful resource due to the powerful items that it can make. For example, iron is required to make Minecraft hoppers, one of the most useful items for creating farms, storage systems, super smelters, and more.

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2) Piglin bartering farms

One of the most interesting features of piglins is their ability to take gold dropped by the player and give random items in return. Piglin bartering farms trap piglins and constantly feed them gold, with the item outputs being collected into a central Minecraft storage room.

Piglin bartering farms can give players access to plentiful useful items, such as fire resistance potions, ender pearls, obsidian, spectral arrows, and the soul speed Minecraft enchantment.

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3) Gold farm

A portal-based gold farm (Image via Mojang)

Gold farms take advantage of the fact that zombified piglins drop golden nuggets, ingots, and items to smelt down. These are incredible survival farms for two main reasons. The first is that killing the zombified piglins will give players a huge amount of experience. The second reason is that gold farms will give players more than enough gold to power the previously mentioned piglin bartering farms.

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4) Kelp farms

A basic survival kelp farm (Image via Mojang)

Kelp farms might seem like a strange choice for one of the best survival farms, but they're much stronger than they might first appear. Kelp can be dried, after which it can be eaten or crafted into blocks. These dried kelp blocks are powerful fuels, able to dry more kelp than is needed to craft them. That means kelp farms act as a source of infinite fuel.

As previously mentioned, kelp can serve as a decent food source, giving the farm a secondary use. However, there's also a tertiary utility to kelp farms: if the kelp is automatically filtered out of the furnaces, then a huge amount of XP will build up over time. This means, in a roundabout way, large-scale kelp farms can act as experience banks.

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5) Enderman XP farms

A player farming enderman for XP (Image via Mojang)

Enderman XP farms are some of the best experience farms available to players in survival. They take advantage of the unique mob-spawning properties of Minecraft's End Dimension. The only mobs that naturally spawn here, outside of end cities, are enderman. Additionally, most of the dimension is void, meaning it's easy to make farms that are quite efficient.

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6) Pumpkin/Melon farm

A micro-melon and pumpkin farm (Image via Eyecraftmc/YouTube)

Minecraft watermelon and pumpkin farms are some of the best out there for villager trading. They use observers and pistons to automatically break melons and pumpkins as they grow. These crops can then be traded to farmer villagers at quite a decent rate, making for a great engine for a trading empire. Additionally, melons and pumpkins can make for decent food in the early game.

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7) Generic mob farm

A mob farm over a mangrove swamp (Image via Mojang)

Minecraft's generic mob farms are some of the best in the history of the game. They can be made in the first few days of a world and provide almost limitless access to the drops from zombies, skeletons, creepers, and sometimes spiders. They capitalize on the fact that mobs see opened trapdoors as full blocks to walk on. The mobs then wander into a fall that leaves them with little health.