Most Efficient High Capacity Iron Farm - Build Tutorial

This expandable iron farm runs at a base efficiency of 99% and is easily upgradeable to 100%. Efficiency refers to the amount of ingots per villager pocket.

The 3-layer design is about 5600 ingots/hr for 1.18.2 and below, and 4900 ingots/hr for 1.19, but is easily expandable for whatever production you desire. Java only**

0:38 Materials Required
0:44 Size & Location
1:18 Villager Pockets
2:47 Populate Villagers & Zombies
3:43 Spawning Platform & Portals
5:54 Redstone Portion
10:43 Nether Portion
12:08 How to use the farm
12:49 Efficiencies and alternative options
14:09 An important note on lag

World Download 1.18.2:

World Download 1.19:

Check out the iron farm efficiency video to see how this design came to be:

The counting system from @ThatMumboJumbo:

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[oxxyluv]

For anyone wondering this farm still works in 1.21 however you'll need to push the boat back into the portal and add 2 chickens in the boat instead of just 1.

[qzoummw]

I was waiting for this video since your 1.000.000 iron per hour video, the tutorial doesn’t disappoint and to me sets a new standard of quality.
Tyvm for your design

[maurovicentealvarez]

3rd biggest fan. Your content is awsome, Someday you will be famous

[captainpumpkinhead]

A few tips for future tutorials:
1. It's much easier to use North/South/East/West.
2. It's better to mute the hostile mobs when recording. I'm playing as I watch, and I thought the mobs were in my game, hahaha....
3. When laying out dimensions, it's much easier if the temp block has a pattern that makes it easier to count. Textures like Copper Blocks are great for this, textures like Wool are awful for this. Specifically I'm looking at 2:03. But I also want to say that I appreciated you laying out the measurements in editing! That helps a lot, thank you!!

Other than that though, thank you so much for this awesome tutorial!!

[asparagusasparagus]

In 1.21 while you are making the kill chamber your boat w/chicken many teleport through. The so solution is to go in the portal and back with the boat. The farm works in 1.21.

[letsplaysmr]

Tip for future tutorial videos... do 'em all just like this one. So glad you included the boat version as I was gonna need a tutorial on how broken portals work lol

[EmdyMC]

Really interesting tutorial format, great editing and overall well structured video. Keep it up!

[tayshawn]

Base Ingredients
20 Coal
159 (2 Stacks + 31) Sand
408 (6 Stacks + 24) Oak Log
221 (3 Stacks + 29) Iron Ingot
24 String
144 (2 Stacks + 16) Bamboo
873 (13 Stacks + 41) Stone
175 (2 Stacks + 47) Redstone Dust
8 Nether Quartz
8 Slimeball
64 (1 Stack) Cobblestone
9 Wheat
108 (1 Stack + 44) White Wool
808 (12 Stacks + 40) Obsidian
1 Lava Bucket
6 Name Tag

[eliotmajor]

just wanted to point out that at 4:51 it shows 19 blocks for the length but its actually 20 but otherwise great work and thanks for the vid!

[abemorgan]

I’ve watched the whole iron farm series many times and it’s great to see all the effort you put into diving deep into making the farms as efficient as possible while still showing your thinking process. It would be great to continue a similar series with other farms like slime, wither skele ect

[therealyojames]

I built a farm like this on a server, however I was always having the problem of the golems sometimes glitching and not being able to go through the portal, messing up the entire farm. Do you know why that is?

[Stephan-wfec]

I love hearing the technical reasons why a decision was made such as why the extra hopper in the different versions - feel like that could have been elaborated on a bit more. But as a just pure tutorial seemed easy to follow. Any chance you could include a litematica? much lighter weight than a whole world download

[Aubble]

Would you be willing to make a tutorial for the "smaller version" that you showed at the end of your original "Using Science to Design a MAXIMUM Efficiency Iron Farm" video? On top of that, though I know so many have already asked; but does this work in 1.20.1?

[xxfiredragon]

I would have liked a block by block tutorial, I was kinda confused. but ty and really great job!

[ryannathanielpeace]

Finished this 30 minutes ago as of commenting and already have a full double chest

[liamvaz]

Hey, Great Tutorial! However, is there anything can do about the zombified piglins spawning in the portals? Also, it is safe to unload this farm while it is running right?

[plutotheotaku]

This was an amazing tutorial thank you so much! The only part I’m confused on is the orientation of the bottom red stone Portion, I wasn’t sure where I was putting stuff and what direction but beside that amazing!

[erayze]

Great tutorial HOWEVER fck the iron golems, they kept spawning amd killing my zombies, make sure your villager dont see the zombie or theyll spawn a golem to jump him

[Mister_Smith_YT]

This is working in 1.20.4 I spaced each of the 3 layers out a lot more than him and am getting right about 5000 ingots an hour. Make sure you check the description and build the repeaters like he said for the 1.20.2 fix.

Only thing I did stupidly was I built the whole damn thing, villagers, zombies and all in the goddamn spawn chunks right next to my bases portal to the nether highway on the roof. I ended up cloning it with commands and had to replace all the villagers and zombies. I really dont want to talk about it, it was a rough couple days.

[Monly...]

does this still works in 1.20.4?
update : it is working perfectly, i ve just made it