Minecraft is a game of systems on systems on systems. You need to eat to keep your hunger bar full, and you need to keep your hunger bar full to keep your heart bar regenerating. You need food to eat, and you need to find food to have it available. And that’s barely the start. You have tools to maintain, storage to sort, and things to build. Everything in Minecraft requires materials, and materials have to be found and acquired.
Or you can make a farm.
For example, iron is one of the most consistently useful materials in Minecraft. If you know that having a certain number of villagers will automatically generate an Iron Golem, and you know that an Iron Golem drops 3-5 iron ingots, you’re already on your way to making a farm that generates piles and piles of iron every hour.
Some farms can become incredibly large and complex, while others are compact and can be built in just a few minutes.
Build a lava farm
Coal is a great source of fuel and all, but there’s a lot of stuff to cook in Minecraft, and coal is much better suited to making torches and lanterns–especially when an infinite fuel source is within reach. A Lava farm requires little more than some cobblestone, dripstone, and iron, and you can find all of that with basic tools.
The short version is that you build some cauldrons and buckets, mount the cobblestone above the cauldrons and the dripstone in between, and then put the lava above. The lava will drip down into the cauldrons, continuously refilling. There are still yet more efficient fuel sources, but this one is endlessly renewable and easy to make in the game’s early hours.
Build a meat farm
A meat farm sounds pretty macabre, but we promised you macabre, and here it is. The farm above is simple to build and, again, uses resources that you can access early in the game. You can use cows, but there are farms for chickens, hoglins, and other Minecraft entities that drop food items. Yeah, it’s not exactly like the idyllic farms of our imagination, but it also means that you’ll never have to worry about food again.
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