How to make Minecraft Bedrock iron farm

Iron farms are one of the best available to Minecraft survival players. Iron is an incredibly useful resource, needed to make tools, armor, shields, and different mechanical components, such as minecarts and hoppers. This means that having ample iron is essential to any long-lived survival playthrough.

Thankfully, players can take advantage of village iron golem spawning mechanics to automate the process of collecting iron. The design for a simple Bedrock iron golem farm is detailed below.

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How to build a simple Minecraft Bedrock iron farm

Materials

The materials needed for this Bedrock iron farm (Image via Mojang)

Bedrock iron farms are, unfortunately, considerably more expensive than their Java Edition counterparts. Due to differences in Minecraft village mechanics, the builds have to be physically larger and filled with more villagers. This means that you'll need several stacks of building blocks, plenty of workstations, and a barracks worth of beds to make a Bedrock iron farm.

It's worth noting that any Minecraft villager profession block will work here; the fletching table is just used in this example as it has no function. This means that there's no risk of accidentally interacting with it while you build.

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1) Build the spawn chamber's foundation

The platform that acts as a foundation for this Minecraft Bedrock iron farm (Image via Mojang)

The first step to building a Minecraft iron golem farm is to create the spawn area. This will need to be at least 100 blocks away from any other villages and workstations to ensure the farm's proper functionality.

Start by building an 11-block tower. Then build 12 blocks out from the top of this tower. Build 12 more blocks to the left of this. Repeat this process two more times to form the outline of a square. Fill this outline in with blocks to form a 13x13 platform.

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2) Finish the spawn area

The platform's walls and stairs added (Image via Mojang)

Add a one-block-high wall around the platform. Add a second layer to this wall along the bottom and right sides of the Minecraft farm. Fill the other two sides with stairs, but make sure to place a solid block in the corner in between the staircase sides.

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3) Create the collection chamber

The farm's collection system (Image via Mojang)

The reason the farm was built slightly elevated was to leave room for a collection area below it. Punch a 3x3 hole in the platform in the corner where the two solid block walls meet. Move underneath the farm and break the initial tower you made up to the plaform. Place blocks on three of the four sides of the hole you just made in the plaform, and extend these walls down by two more blocks.

Add a double chest along the bottom of the walls you just made, on the fourth open side. This is where the iron produced by the farm is going to accumulate. Place a Minecraft hopper facing into the back of the double chest in the corner. Then, fill in the other nine blocks around the chest and hopper to form another small platform.

Leave one block directly above this platform empty, and then add nine signs. This will stop the lava that will be used to kill the iron golems from flowing down into the collection area and destroying the drops. Finally, just wall off the area above the chest with glass.

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4) Add water and lava

The water, lava, and spawn proofing leaves added to the farm (Image via Mojang)

This iron farm design uses a decent amount of flowing water to run. Use a Minecraft water bucket to place a source block in the corner opposite the collection hopper. This will push all the iron ingots into the hopper. Next, place a lava source block on top of the center sign. It should flow out into the other eight spaces, forming the kill mechanism of the farm.

To add the water that will push any spawned iron golems into the kill chamber, simply waterlog each stair block. The flowing water should perfectly reach the kill box. Spawnproof this area of the farm by adding leaf blocks to the tops of the platform's walls.

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5) Add a way to access the farm

The platform and ladder up to the collection chest (Image via Mojang)

Create a small 5x2 platform out of leaf blocks in front of the chest. Since leaf blocks are spawnproof, you won't need to worry about hostile mobs. Add blocks underneath this platform and put ladders on them so that you can actually climb up.

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6) Create the villager room

The empty villager chamber (Image via Mojang)

Move behind the collection area and build out six blocks. Rotate to the left and place six more blocks. This should be in the direction of the center of the platform. As with the previous platform, these two walls form half of the outline of a platform.

Fill in this area and seal the room off with walls. These walls aren't just solid blocks, however. There are solid blocks in the corners of the platform, with glass connecting them as the actual walls. Leave the bottom block of each wall empty instead of completely sealing the platform off with glass. This is vital for letting the villagers link with beds, though the gaps will be filled later.

To finish the villager storage area, place a torch in the center to stop hostile Minecraft mobs from spawning.

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7) Add villagers and beds

The beds and villagers added to the farm (Image via Mojang)

You'll want to raid nearby villages or set up a Minecraft villager breeder for villagers now. Use a minecart system to funnel them into the villager room until there are exactly 20 of them. Avoid grabbing any nitwits or baby villagers, as the farm requires them to link to workstations to function.

Add a 5x2 platform to each side of the villager chamber. This will give you enough space to place 20 beds. After placing a bed down, wait for it to emit green particles before moving on. This will indicate that the bed has been linked properly.

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8) Add workstations

The workstations added to the villager chamber (Image via Mojang)

Now that the villagers have linked to beds properly, fill in the walls of the villager room with 20 different workstations. As previously mentioned, this example uses Minecraft fletching tables, as the inability to interact with them makes them more convenient to use as building blocks.