Minecraft Player Has Genius Idea for Farming Bamboo (2024)

A Minecraft player has shared the genius idea of combining a Redstone build with Slime blocks to effectively farm bamboo. Many Minecraft players use an ax to break the bottom of a stalk to cause the rest of it to fall, but this farm method may be even quicker.

Bamboo was introduced to Minecraft in 2019's Village and Pillage update which also featured 14 new stairs and slabs, revamped villages, and Pillagers. The material spawns in Jungle biomes which also include Jungle trees, Vines, and Coco Beans. With bamboo being the easiest wood to harvest, players can quickly fill an inventory with the material. Bamboo is commonly used in Minecraft Scaffolding which doesn't require much material to create and can be easily broken. Scaffolding helps players reach high areas in their Survival builds and can be climbed like a ladder. One gamer has an idea of making harvesting Bamboo easier with an automated farm that blends the stalks faster than any ax can chop.

Reddit user SpaceshipCapt recently shared a clip of their Minecraft Bamboo Redstone farm in action. Once activated by the flip of a switch, two stacks of Slime blocks rapidly spin around four Bamboo stalks. The material is then ejected into nets of Bamboo Trapdoors before falling into Hoppers which funnel it into a Crafter that turns the Bamboo into Blocks. The build uses Bonemeal from a Dispenser to rapidly grow the Bamboo before it's blended, as the wood normally takes some time to grow. Each corner of the blender features a timer that displays zero or fifteen depending on whether it's harvesting material or not.

What Minecraft Materials Are Needed for This Build?

• Bamboo
• Barrels or Chests
• Clocks
• Concrete
• Copper Bulbs
• Crafters
• Hoppers
• Observers
• Pistons
• Redstone
• Slime Blocks
• Trapdoors

Minecraft Pistons ensure that the Slime Blocks continuously rotate around the Bamboo, with Observers telling them when to activate. Copper Bulbs are used to halve the clocks so they can count the harvested Bamboo, with the video indicating 15 when a stalk is broken. According to SpaceshipCapt, this build was made in Java, and they express doubt that the same thing would work in Bedrock with its Redstone limitations. This player is also using the Vanilllatweaks resource pack and the Axiom mod's flight alteration options to optimize their farm. While the experience may vary without these mods, implementing a similar system in a standard client should succeed similarly.

As Mojang continues to update Minecraft, this unique Bamboo farm could be improved on by blocks added in the future. SpaceshipCapt has shared their world download link so that other players can dissect the build to see precisely how it's made or where it can be improved.

Minecraft

Minecraft is a sandbox video game that puts players in procedurally generated worlds and offers them no guidance whatsoever in where to go or what to do, creating a sense of freedom that was unparalleled in 2011. Minecraft has gone on to become the highest-selling video game of all time.

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Mojang

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Mojang

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Sandbox , Survival