Cane farm Minecraft - a design that will provide a useful resource without excessive waste of time and effort. With the help of the collected plant, you can create two essential materials - sugar and paper - from which you can craft a number of different items necessary for a comfortable and full-fledged game.
In the guide we will tell you how to build an endless reed farm for automatic resource extraction and what materials are needed for this.
What is an automated sugar cane farm and why is it needed?
To create all the important items and increase your ability to survive in the world, but without wasting time searching and collecting sugar cane, it is recommended to create an automated cane farm. This is a building in which the resource grows independently and is automatically sent to chests, which allows you to significantly save effort and accumulate large volumes of the plant.
Sugarcane is an important resource primarily needed to create sugar and paper.
- Sugar is used in the preparation of the following dishes: Cake, Spider Eye, Pumpkin Pie.
- In the brewery, sugar is useful for creating some potions: Regular Potion, Potion of Swiftness, Love Potion.
- Using paper you can make the following items: Book, Cartographer's Table (Cartography Table), Map (Blank Map), Flag (Banner), Skull Flag Pattern, Flower Flag Pattern, Creeper Flag Pattern, Something Flag Pattern, Globe Flag Pattern, Flag Pattern Muzzle, Pyrotechnic rocket.
In addition, placing reeds in a composter has a 50% chance of increasing the amount of humus.
How to Build an Automatic Sugar Cane Farm in Minecraft
The automatic sugar cane farm in Minecraft is designed in such a way that the configured mechanisms work independently, without the active work of the player. The plant is provided with the conditions necessary for development - water and fertile soil. Observers monitor the growth of the resource, and when completed, they activate pistons that collect the crop and send it inside the chest structure below using funnels.
Next, we’ll take a closer look at how to make an automatic reed farm and endlessly replenish resource reserves without putting unnecessary effort into it.
Planning and preparation
To build a cane farm, you need to plant plants on the following types of blocks:
- grass block;
- land;
- rocky (rough) ground;
- earth with roots;
- podzol;
- mycelium;
- sand;
- red sand;
- moss;
- mud.
Sugarcane can only grow if the area in which it is located is loaded into memory. In other words, it is not recommended to move too far away from the field in order for the farm to continue to work. Typically, the resource grows by 1 block approximately every 18 minutes (in Java Edition).
It is necessary to place soil blocks in close proximity to water, since the source of moisture should not be too far from the planted plants. The absence of light does not in any way affect the rate of reed emergence.
To create an afk cane farm you must have the following materials:
- a bucket of water;
- sugarcane;
- funnels;
- glass blocks;
- red (redstone) dust;
- building blocks (optional depending on the desired appearance);
- observers;
- pistons;
- chest for collecting the finished product;
- mud.
The main material, sugar cane, can be found in almost every biome, near water sources. If, due to some circumstances, you cannot find the resource, you can purchase it from the Traveling Merchant by exchanging 1 unit for an emerald.
The reed can only grow up to three blocks in height. If you place additional plants on top of already planted plants, you will be able to by this limitation and grow the resource on a multi-tiered structure.
Construction Stages
The process of building an automatic sugar cane farm consists of several stages. First of all, you should place 5 soil blocks in one line. It is best to use dirt for this purpose rather than soil or sand. Leave an empty row nearby and enclose the 5x1 space with your chosen building block.
The second step is to install a water source in the empty row inside the structure. Then plant 5 sugar canes on the ground.
Draw a line of building blocks down the center, completely covering the water. Install 5 pistons on it. They should be placed with the front (wooden) side facing the reed seedlings, so that when activated, the mechanisms break the plants.
Now you can start installing observers. Place a device above each piston so that it faces the plants. This way the observers will be triggered as soon as a block of reeds appears in front of them.
Behind, behind the line of pistons, lay out another building block. Place red dust on top of each of them. In this way, you will be able to turn the farm into an automatic one, capable of extracting reed in AFK.
Next, you should dig a hole near the structure, and also remove blocks under the ground line prepared for planting reeds. In the center of the dug space, directly in front of the central cube of the bed, leave one or two blocks, and place a chest on top of them. It should be below the level of the soil with the reeds.
If desired, it can be turned into a Large Chest by simply placing two small parts next to each other.
Next behind the chest, directly under the growing reeds, place along the funnel. The central device in the row should connect to the chest, and the rest should lead to it.
Thus, when a reed grows in front of the observers, the red dust will automatically be activated, which will trigger the activation of the pistons. As the piston extends, it will collect the sugar cane, which will fall into the funnels under the bed. Each of them will transfer the collected resource to the central one, which, in turn, will send the harvest directly to the chest.
If desired, you can resort to using glass to fence the farm, because the retractable pistons break the grown reeds, and they are scattered to the sides. To prevent this from happening, place a wall of building blocks on the sides of the structure and place a glass fence between them. You can also make a glass roof.
In addition, it is recommended to take care of leaving an emergency age just in case, because a breakdown may occur in the structure, requiring direct interaction to be repaired. For this purpose, a door or a ladder will be suitable, along which you can get to the farm from the top. This way you won’t have to break the glass, and you can get closer to the structure at any time and fix problems.
Farm inspection and testing
After completing the construction of the structure, wait a while until the planted reeds grow. After this, make sure that the mechanism operates as it should: after activation by observers, the pistons move forward and collect the plants. Those are sent to the chest, and the amount of resource in its inventory increases by double what was planted.
Common problems and their solutions
If the design does not work and the process of automatic reed assembly does not occur, double-check that all the parts are correctly placed. It may be worth changing the position of the observers: they should be directed towards the plants side with eyes. Also make sure that there are funnels under each block of the bed, they lead to the central one, and its outlet rests on the chest.
Farm improvement and optimization
In order to increase the efficiency and amount of resource received, you can increase the size of the farm, expanding it according to the same principle on which it was built. Add additional blocks with plants to the structure, along with this, lengthen the rows of pistons and observers, and thus grow even more reeds than originally intended.
Similar to most other afk buildings, the cane farm is only active when the player is near it. If you move too far away, production will be suspended, so you should build a structure near your base.
Сonclusion
By creating an automatic sugar cane farm in Minecraft, you can effectively and effortlessly accumulate a resource that will be useful for many purposes. Thanks to good supplies of the plant, the problem of lack of paper and sugar will be solved, and the process of crafting books, maps, pyrotechnic rockets, bookcases, trading paper and a number of other useful items will be facilitated.
We hope this guide helped you build an endless cane farm in Minecraft. If anything remains unclear, ask questions at comments. Follow other game guides in a special Minecraft section on our website.
