IRON GOLEM: Everything you Need to Know - MINECRAFT 1.14 Guide for Drops, Spawning, Farming & More

This guide is suitable for both Java and Bedrock versions of the game and will cover key information surrounding iron golems in Minecraft, including: drops, behaviour, spawning and how to manipulate iron golem spawning mechanisms to create iron golem farms.

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INTRO
- Commonly found in villages and occasionally in pillager outposts
- 50 hearts of health
- Can deal up to 15 and 1/2 hearts of damage on hard difficulty

DROPS
- Two drops, one of which is guaranteed whilst the other is possible based on chance
- Iron ingots dropped in quantities of between 3 and 5
- Poppies dropped in quantities of between 0 and 2
- Iron golem drops are not increased through the use of the looting enchantment

BEHAVIOUR
- Will stay close to villages regardless of how they are spawned in
- Often stands face-to-face with a villager and during this interaction may appear to offer the villager a poppy
- Main role is to protect villagers from harmful mobs
- Will attack nether-based mobs, including ghasts if in range
- Mobs that aren't attacked on sight by an iron golem: all passive animals, creepers, iron golems, killer bunnies, villagers and the player
- Immune to drowning and fall damage
- Have a 100% resistance to knockback unless being attacked by a knockback sword or punch bow

SPAWNING
- In both Java and Bedrock the player can spawn a single iron golem using 4 iron blocks in a T shape with a carved pumpkin above the top-centre block (In Bedrock edition only, the player can replace the carved pumpkin with an uncarved pumpkin or a jack-o'lantern and receive the same outcome)
JAVA
- Spawning is based on villager gossip and the villager who starts the gossip must satisfy the following conditions:
- the villager must have a profession and not be a nitwit
- the villager must have slept in the last 24,000 ticks (1 in-game day)
- the villager must have been to their job site block in the last 36,000 ticks (1 and 1/2 in-game days)
- the villager must have gossiped 5 times about the need for an iron golem
- the villager must have 4 other villagers within 80 blocks of themselves
- If the above 5 conditions are met, an iron golem will have the chance to spawn in a 16x6x16 area centred around the villager who spread the gossip
- Java iron golem farms should aim to:
- Keep villagers as close together as possible
- Provide each villager with an accessible bed and job site block
- ensure that the only spawnable blocks inside of the iron golem's 16x6x16 spawning volume are in the iron golem farm
- iron golems can only spawn on solid blocks but can spawn in water
BEDROCK
- spawning is based on the number of beds and villagers within a village
- In order for iron golems to spawn, a village must have at least 21 beds and 10 non-nitwit villagers, each of which must be occupying one of the beds
- the spawn rate of iron golems does not seem to be affected by increasing the number of villagers in the village
- if the spawn conditions are met, an iron golem has a chance to spawn in a 16x6x16 area, centred around the centre of the village, which is defined by a bed, a bell or other meeting point
- Bedrock iron golem farms should aim to:
- consist of a compact village containing exactly 21 beds and 10 non-nitwit villagers (another set of 21 beds can be added but this essentially creates a second village, merged with the first, and makes the village centre unpredictable, so this is highly unadvised)
- ensure that the only spawnable blocks inside of the iron golem's 16x6x16 spawning volume are in the iron golem farm
JAVA & BEDROCK
- iron golems are 2.7 blocks high and have a width of 1.4 blocks, so it is advised that you kill the golems, using lava, in a chamber that has an internal volume of at least 3x3x3

SOCIAL MEDIA

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[Epsa_]

Me: shoulder brushes against a villager.
Iron Golem: P E A C E W A S N E V E R A N O P T I O N.

[kian]

He protecc...
He attacc...
But best of all, hE GIv Em' ZOmbIeS BIg BoI WaCc

[ChrissehCat]

Iron farms make me sad, especially the poppy drops. Those were gifts for their villagers. :'(

[Mkmcco]

I feel like Iron Golems only drop flowers to make you feel bad.

[unifiedturtle]

Me: Kills a villager
Iron golem: You weren’t supposed to do that

[chickendinner]

I love when they attack it makes zombies flying.

[littleice]

I wish they will add more friendly mobs then enemy mobs

[jedicomedy]

If you think about it, Iron Golems are just buff villagers, with a lot of armor. I mean, they have the same face as villagers, so it makes sense.

[cottasia]

I care about my golem, I named him Jeffrey and made him a home and now I came here

[АлексейНиколаев-чр]

It’s really sad when you accidentally hit a villager and they attack and you have to kill them and they drop a Rose, like they’re so good hearted

[tuevang]

In the new update Iron Golem can now kill players if you attack players or villagers.

[Zachariaz]

Iron Golems look like dead villagers but with muscles.

[eliaspapa]

Hocus Pocus sounds like a discount Mumbo Jumbo

[drrandom]

Me: oH a village! Slaughter time!
Iron golem:ThIs Is SpaRtA!

[throwme]

Me: Creates Golem near a village
Me: Accedentally hit him


Iron Golem: Im sorry Father

[yeethetree]

the iron golems in my village keep attacking me and the only way to stop them is by killing them but they keep respawning and there's like 10 of them 😐

[hermanfroese]

Keep on making informative videos. I love that someone on youtube knows what there talking about.

[metgaming]

Me: has two villagers*
Video: you need 21 bed and 10 villagers to spawn iron go-
Me: *HEY VILLAGERS MAKE BABY*

[twxdemon]

I was wondering how I went from 2 golems to 9 appreciate the vid new sub here.

[GPGOLDENTEE]

Villages are maxed out at 21 beds??? Then I've got like 5 villages crammed together in my world, 19 beds in one "dorm" alone lmao. Meeting times around the bell are epic "HMM" clusters.