MINECRAFT 1.21 WOOL FARM | Easy, Automatic, Sorting, Efficient Sheep Farm

It's minecraft wool farm time! In this video I show you how to build an easy sheep farm for Minecraft Java and Minecraft Bedrock! This farm is fully automatic and will get you up to 1000s of wool / hour in any or all 16 colors! This farm uses minimal redstone and has an optional auto sorter too. This farm is working on Minecraft 1.20 Bedrock and Java. This farm works as of Minecraft 1.21.

SECTIONS
0:00 - minecraft wool farm
0:23 - materials
1:50 - location
2:34 - lower farm
4:40 - upper farm
7:15 - sheep, dye, shears
9:30 - improvements
10:05 - auto sorter
15:30 - final things

☺ SOME PLAYLISTS ☺

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[wattlesplays]

what other tutorials are you currently searching for? 👀

[johnkenrickchua]

I would recomend putting unbreaking 3/2 on the shears if you have a villager that sells the unbreaking 3/2 book to make the farm last longer before you have to restock it with shears

[oaksparoakspar]

You can bypass the sorter as well by changing your collection system to stationary hopper minecarts on top of hoppers instead of the rail line and sorter. Each sheep's wool goes straight down in its own chest. Your system will be a bit cheaper as well (compared to the sorter).

[fishmilk]

I also like to color the glass according to the color of the sheep. Adds a nice touch to the inside of your buidling

[webyankee]

Instead of all those item sorters have a hopper minecart sitting on a hopper going into your chest storage for each sheep pen. This keeps all the colors separate in their own chest storage.

[sixolddereks]

I've been using a modified version of this farm since I found a version like it over 6 months ago. A few notes of changes, improvements, or answers ro questions I've seen quite a bit of on here.

1) biggest comment I've seen is that it uses a lot of hoppers. Which is true, and it could be done differently. I, personally, put a hopper 1 block below the grass block the sheep stand on, and put a rail and hopper minecart on top of that for each sheep (then put glass or some block on each side of the cart to hold it in place). I am not sure whether this is any more lag efficient though. Yes, it uses way less hoppers, but hopper minecarts process items (and therefore affect lag) 8 times as fast as a regular hopper. I just have a decent computer, and don't feel affected by it at all. It does completely circumvent needing a sorter, and avoid all that other redstone dust that affects lag, though. So, pick your poison.

2) You can make this setup smaller by eliminating that middle row. All you have to do, is move 1 row of sheep to the side, then closer to the other sheep by 1 block each. If you are tight on space, this will save some room. However, this could lower your rates slightly, because the sheep will each share a corner with each other. This means less grass blocks to spread to the sheep for eating, and therefore slower spread on average. Most average players will still get more wool than you know what to do with even with the lowered rates.

3) Restocking the dispensers should rarely be needed if you fill them all. However, a couple things you can do to prevent ever needing to are fairly simple if you have easy access to the materials to do so. First, is put more shears. Fill all 9 slots in each dispenser with shears, and that is good for around 2400 uses each dispenser. You can extend this even more if you enchant them with any level of unbreaking (which actually still works when a dispenser is using them). You can also put a hopper in between each dispenser facing 1 into each. This is another 5 shears you can queue up, and even allows you to put s barrel above each with ANOTHER 27 shears. This is a total of 41 shears you can easily have ready for each and every dispenser (which is INSANE, but should guarrantee you not need to refill for a couple years of playing). Supercharged if you also put unbreaking on them all. This location also doesn't acrually increase the size of the farm, since it just utilizes unused space.

Note: disable farm when you want to dye the sheep by just breaking the redstone dust.

[maxderp]

On one of Prowl's tutorials, a viewer suggested putting the minecart rails on scaffolding...i did this for my rails used in my melon/pumpkin farm...it works great when you need to restart the cart...

[mornemuller]

Good video.Would like to see more.Please show us how to make a auto smelter.

[Zutanni]

Auto Sheep Farms look better on Bedrock because the sheep are speckled their respective colours when sheared. I wish Java had that, I can't imagine it being that hard to code.

[hrmm_]

if anybody is building this farm, please extend the auto sorter by one block so the white wool chest doesn't get clogged with random stuff

[Xhyllos]

You can eliminate at least half the hoppers here by using a dropper and a water stream to carry the wool. This would actually be preferable, because hoppers are much more demanding on processing and if you have a bunch of other machines nearby, your game can lag more easily when you have too many hoppers. And also, watching your wool blocks being carried by water is just more fun.

[arasdeeps]

Rather than using plain glass, you can use stained glass. It doesn't affect the grass at all. My sheep farm is rainbow colored as all of the pens are the color of the sheep inside. 😊

[ChaosRaptor]

Automatic “food” farm next? Thank you for this! Super helpful!

[zindain]

A note for the end when you mentioned making sure not to drop whatever block you use into the sorter as it will break it. To prevent this issue, it's best if you actually name the blocks that you use. For example I name all the blocks I use "Filter". That way if for whatever reason you accidently drop that same type of block into the sorter, it will not fall into the filters and break them, rather just simply travel to the end.
Another thing, if you plan on leaving this running for some time, add an extra hopper at the end for overflow so that your system does not get clogged up if your chests finally start to fill up. If you want, you could use a dropper to just drop the contents into a cactus and dispose of any overflow.

[Straightforward]

Use waterlogged rails, to slow down the minecart and two hoppers per sheep/chest, plus one extra spare between the sheep's. Makes the farm wider but no sorting necessary! So it is cheaper! 😊

[marklittle]

there's a (probably) cheaper, less noisy alternative way to do this. build a 17x3 grass block platform, then place 8 of any full building block down the middle, one space apart, and one space out from the edge. they should be perfectly centered. place a piece of redstone dust on top of each of those elevated blocks. then place an observer on either side of each of those building blocks, facing outwards. then build a 17x2 grass platform going out from the observers (so one block higher than the initial platform). place your dispensers on top of the observers to create the shearing system, and build your glass pods for the sheep. now you'll have one piece of redstone dust powering two shearing systems at once. you can use trap doors on top of the glass pods to help get the sheep in there and prevent them from falling into already occupied ones. for lighting, you can do whatever but i like to use shroomlight or glowstone on top of the redstone with slabs in between so i can walk on top and refill the dispensers as needed.

for the collection system, on ground level (one block below the initial platform), dig out a 3x1 hole under each pod starting from the block the sheep will be standing on. place your double chests on the outside of each one, then add a hopper going into the chests. you'll probably need to dig out a small trench on the inside to get these in, but you can refill it later if you want to. on top of each hopper, place a rail and a hopper minecart. i like to block in the minecart to make sure it doesn't go anywhere for any reason, but make sure to use something that will let you open your chests. i go for upside down stairs. if you need more storage, you can always expand your chests downwards with additional hoppers. then you can use item frames or just dig a hole in front of the chests and place a piece of colored wool in the hole.

it's a little iron-heavy, but less so than a traditional sorting system, and way less redstone. if you really want to get crazy you can add an additional sheep that doesn't get sheared for display and name it jeb_ with a name tag :)

[NikitaMaree]

Just a thought. But if you didn't want to use so many hoppers.
Wouldn't you be able to push a minecart hopper into the grass block the sheep is standing on Then place a hopper under that going into it's very own chest.

That would only use 32 hoppers. (16 hopper minecarts and 16 regular).

Sorry my iron farm is running lean. And that amount of hoppers scares me 😉👍

[GodmodeGaming]

You can rename your sorting block 🚫 on an anvil. This will help keep your auto sorter from failing, if the same block type is put in the system

[luisv]

This is such an easy, and efficient design!! Can’t believe I never found something like this earlier, thanks 🙏

[Random_guy]

Can we get a bee farm tutorial next wattles?

also, baaah