Diamond Kitty's Guide to the Iron Farm Facility
Important:Placing doors near the iron farm will cause the village center to be redefined, which can possibly cause the iron golems to spawn outside the kill zone. Please place no doors within ~128 blocks of the iron farm.
LocationThe "Iron Farm" is located at (Overworld: 1000, -800)
Facilities1) Fully automatic Iron/Rose farm
2) Fully automated Raw Chicken/Feather farm
3) Fully automatic pumpkin farm
4) Smoothstone generator
5) Fishing pond
6) Brewing station
7) Bed/crafting table/furnace
Iron FarmThe double chest in the center of the iron farm will automatically fill with iron bars and roses. Last checked rate was ~30 iron per hour.
Important note one:
The way the door is designed, skeletons standing at the gate have line of sight to fire on the collection chest.
Don't afk there. Go around the corner near the beds or the brewing stand or against a wall. Or stand in front of the chest and place a couple sand blocks to bury yourself in. This will probably be fixed at some point.
Important note two:
Occasionally two golems will fall down the shaft at the same time, causing the farm to jam. This is because I made it too big. This too, will probably be fixed at some point. In the meantime, in the event of a jam simply use the ladder in back to get to the roof, and use a fishing rod to pull one of the golems away from the center. I realize this is a problem for an afk farm intended for overnight use, but it happens only rarely, and I've successfully camped the farm overnight multiple times without difficulty. But it does happen sometimes. To check to see if it is jammed, from the collection chest, walk around to the left then look through the glass up through the water stream. If you see golems bouncing up and down, it's stuck. Go fish them out. Unloading the chunk will not unjam it.
Chicken/Feather farmThe double chest to the left if the iron farm chests will automatically fill with raw chicken and feathers. I considered installing a toggle to allow for auto-cooking as well, but raw chicken is used for villager trading, and neither food nor blaze rods are in short supply. So cook the chicken if you want it cooked.
IncineratorThe single chest to the left of the chicken farm with the glass floor over lava is an incinerator. Anything placed in this chest will be instantly taken from the chest and dumped into the lava. Please deposit surplus feathers and roses in this chest. If the iron/chicken farm chests fill with these, the hoppers will back up and eventually they will no longer generate iron and chicken. at present rates it would take several days of afking for that to happen, but please be aware of it.
Pumpkin farmThe chest to the right of the iron farm will automatically fill with pumpkins over time. Rate is low, but I routinely show up to find a stack or three of pumpkins, as not many people seem to be using them.
Smoothstone generatorSimilar to a cobblestone generator, but this generates smoothstone rather than cobble. Smoothstone is faster to mine. Consequently even with an unenchanted stone pick, this will generate cobblestone faster as (depending on your lag) every second or third block you'll mine the second bloc before the first regenerates. Additionally, I've built it five blocks deep rather than two like the generator at the npc village. So if you use a diamond/efficiency pick, this will allow you to create cobblestone at more than double the rate as the generator in the npc village. Finally, by using a silk touch pick, this generator also allows you to quickly acquire large quantities of smoothstone without needing to cook it. Testing with an efficiency 3 silk touch diamond pickaxe, I was getting approximately 100 smoothstone per minute.
Fishing pondTo the left of the smoothstone generator is a small pond. Fish to your heart's content while the automatic farms do their work.
Brewing stationBetween the chicken farm and smoothstone generator lies the brewing station. Refill bottles in the fishing pond.
Bed/crafting table furnaceBecause why not. I'd have put an enchanting room in too, but ran out of space. Might add a lower level. Will probably add an ender chest at some point too.