This Minecraft tutorial demonstrates how to build an aesthetic sugar cane farm, which is ideal for those looking to grow a large amount of sugarcane without spending a lot of time. The design is easily expandable and can be set up with observers and pistons for a fully automated operation. Sugar cane farms must balance compactness, ease of harvest, and difficulty to build. A double rowed design, although not the most efficient, is relatively easy to build and can fit as many blocks of sugar cane as possible.
Choosing a design is the first step in building a sugar cane farm. Starting with a solid row of cane and water can be a waste of space, but a better design can increase the cane to water ratio to 4:1. Farming cacti is easier and requires no redstone, making it easier to fit them into a circular design.
Sugar cane must be planted on dirt or sand directly next to a water source and in a well-lit environment. There are numerous tutorials available on Minecraft, and players should consider upgrading their farm design to improve efficiency.
📹 Minecraft: Easiest Automatic Sugarcane Farm! (1.20+)
Today I show you all how to build a fully automatic, afk sugarcane farm. This farm design works all most versions of minecraft and …
📹 Minecraft: How to Build an Aesthetic Sugar Cane Farm | Automatic Sugar Cane Farm (Tutorial)
Minecraft: How to Build an Aesthetic Sugar Cane Farm | Automatic Sugar Cane Farm (Tutorial) This video shows you how to build …
FOR THOSE SHORT ON QUARTZ, or looking to do this cheaper. Technically you only need one observer. It can be the one dead center and so long as the sugar cane grows in front of it, it’ll clear the whole row by activating the red stone and sending all pistons forward. I’m early on in my world and I’m at college, so I let my game run and it’s worked swimmingly! It’s technically a pinch slower bc it isn’t checking every single stalk, but it works well for larger farms!
“you can build this shortly after booting into a world, the only kinda expensive thing is the hopper”. Bro, the observer requires Quartz which requires obsidian for the portal and then avoiding piglins (which is fairly easy, but for a beginner might be challenging). The obsidian requires a diamond pick which requires at least an iron pick beforehand to mine. The observer is easily the most expensive item in this farm, and you went with HOPPER?
If you make multiple layers, build back one, so you can have hoppers on top of the observers. Doing this will make the farm take up more space, especially if you plan on making more than two layers, however it does help with block loss. To try and add to the explanation, the hoppers above the observers should be underneath the mud for each layer, and the hoppers should lead to another chest, or you can connect them to the first chest. After testing it, it seems to mitigate drop losses by a considerable percentage. There is still the occasional escapees that land by the hoppers, but it’s not many.
Good expandable build, but I always do my piston farms (Kelp, Bambo, Sugarcane) with a slightly different redstone set up. Basically instead of how this article does it what it’s a block behind the piston and redstone on top behind the observers, I do redstone behind the piston and a block behind the observers. This does require you to put an extra block behind the block beneath the pistons, however what this does is causes the pistons to go off once at a time instead of the whole row, which gets you more sugar cane. It works better since because sugar cane has a chance to gain a growth point (GP) ever tick, and it needs a certain number of GPs to grow an extra layer, lets say 12 (i don’t remember and ain’t looking it up), if you have it set up the way it is in this article, you can get the problem where the line of pistons will take out multiple 2 tall sugarcanes when they are about to reach 3 tall. If you set it up the way I explained it only takes out one at a time, and you’ll only reap 3 tall ones, giving you a more efficient farm.
get completely rid all the mine track /cart garbage !! use top row sticky and bottom row regular regular pistons to push on 2 y levels use a water stream to collect !! to hopper /chest WAY WAY WAY WAY less resources of both nether quartz,iron,gold and red stone also only needs one observer period placed on a bamboo :/ daylight sensors are garbage :/ this crap is made by people that don’t play hardcore and only use creative and it shows :/
I might just be impatient, but it seems like my sugarcane isn’t growing. I DID build this autofarm one block up from the ground using cobbled deepslate (also used for the rest of it) so that my chest was above ground. I did use sand under the sugarcane and I am in Java. Any ideas? I’ll update if I have anything new… ** UPDATE ** Yeah, I was growing sugarcane naturally next to this farm and those were growing, but the sugarcane in the autofarm wasn’t. Tried just taking out the blocks that are supposed to sit above the water blocks and that seemed to do the trick! Unsure why the sand wasn’t wanting to detect the water next to it, but oh well. So if if you’re experiencing the same issue, try just leaving those blocks out. Good luck! ** UPDATE 2 ** Okay, you deeeeefinitely should use mud rather than grass or sand. Sand was not allowing the sugarcane drops to fall into the hoppers. I thought I could get away with sand and it would be no big deal to just break something to grab the drops if some didn’t fall, but like NONE of them were falling into the hoppers so… Mud for the win. JWhisp is right.
Some notes: 1: If you dont want the hassle of spending multiple stacks of iron and finding a mangrove swamp for mud, place a minecart with hopper on a track going up and down the line with a single hopper feeding into one (or more) chests. Minecarts with hoppers can pull items through blocks. 2: The way he is placing his hoppers to his chests is space inefficient. Place a hopper to the side of a chest feeding into it, then place a hopper below the hopper pointing into a chest below the chest. 3: DO NOT build this farm 1 block wide. It is a complete waste of resources. In the article he set his tick speed to max to demonstrate, but in reality the farm is much slower. Make it at least 10 blocks wide for actual results.
Omg mate I just tried this on Bedrock Edition and I replaced the block under the pistons with dispensers full of bonemeal. I have tried so many times to automate that part and I succesfully automated it. I got almost 3 double chest full of sugar canes in under 10 minutes after afking it. RIP the bonemeal never working on sugar canes in Java. It would’ve been OP for those Hardcore Minecrafters out there
My honest opinion. Not worth building. I did a whole row of 5 and I’m only getting 6 pieces each time. Which means lots of the cane is going to waste. Save the iron for more shields and just kill some skeletons craft bone meal. Then build a farm the old way with dirt and water make it as big as you want then plant cane use bone meal for more cane to plant them in the empty square once all the square are full you could just leave it alone to grow itself you’ll get more sugar cane this way than you’ll ever going to need since all you have to do is not break it all so it regrowths a bit every mc day. This automated “farm” is only good if you’re planning on traveling and exploring a lot and can’t tend to your old school farm because you won’t be home for a while but if you’re planning on always returning back from your travel to your home base or just survive around the area then old school farm is the way to go
For best possible efficiency: Keep the observer on the left only. Place a piston diagonal to the observer so it is in line with the sugarcane row. Activate the observer with anything than the piston will constantly move which will continue to activate the other pistons. Note: may lag your minecraft, not sure
If you want to optimize the farm put the line of Redstone behind the pistons instead of the observers and put a block on top of all the Redstone. The observer will power the block and still activate the piston underneath but instead of activating every piston it will only activate the one that supposed to letting all your sugarcane fully grow
I disliked because this is much harder to build, why, well let me tell you. Instead of using hoppers which adds to the material list, I made a ten block long sugar cane farm without hoppers by putting the water in front of the sugar cane and not covering it, put solid glass blocks in front so non gets stuck on the ledge when you use panes. If you place the water in one corner and let it flow to the other it also acts like hoppers and when broke the cane drops in the water and and into one single hopper into a chest. If you want to see how I built my ten block one go watch my article on it.
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