Building Automated Farms in OneBlock 1.21

OneBlock SkyBlock is one of the most demanding Minecraft challenges, tasking players to build their world from just a single respawning block. This approach quite literally puts your gameplay success in the hands of the game’s code and random number generators.

However, there are strategies that you can follow to help streamline your approach, and building automated farms is often important as part of this. In line with this thought, today, we’re looking at how you can build automated farms in OneBlock Skyblock - and whether this will change when Minecraft 1.21 is released.

How to Build Automated Farms in OneBlock 1.21

Farming is one of the most critical activities to establish in a OneBlock SkyBlock challenge run, given that natural resources are incredibly difficult to obtain. However, while it is possible to manage these manually in the early game, you’ll probably want to look at automating things as soon as possible. Fortunately, there are several ways you can go about this.

Remember: building a farm is critical in your OneBlock game to begin generating renewable resources, and once you get somewhere with your automated farm, you’ll be able to enjoy a much smoother game experience overall.

What Can You Farm in OneBlock in 1.21?

Generally speaking, what you can farm in OneBlock game modes in Minecraft 1.21 will be similar to the base game; however, keep in mind that the animals and crops you’ll have access to will be limited by what spawns in.

With that being said, you will always start the game with at least one animal. Try to take good care of this so you can establish an automated livestock farm once you get a second. And remember: along with farming crops and livestock, mob farms are also a very viable option, provided you get the right equipment.

Wool Farm

One of the most useful materials for a OneBlock SkyBlock game is wool, especially in the early game (since you can use wool as an extra building material until you have stronger options available).

Better still, you can set up an automatic wool farm without even needing more than one sheep, and automated wool farms are also very easy to make with relatively simple materials. The only downside is that you’ll need at least four blocks of floor depth to make it.

Automatic Chicken Farm

Having plenty of food is vital, and luckily, setting up an automatic chicken farm can offer the ideal way to harvest lots of food quickly and easily (even in the relatively early game). The farm automatically harvests adult chickens once they mature, making it quick and easy to collect food as well as feathers - which will undoubtedly be important for defending your OneBlock island.

Automatic Wood Farm

One of the first farms you’ll likely want to set up is a tree farm, as this can provide a great deal of benefits to your OneBlock game. Indeed, once you get your first sapling, things will very quickly become easier to manage, with wood being a renewable resource (and also providing additional saplings from which you can grow new trees). It’s also worth noting that, in the very early game, this also provides a little more useable space temporarily with the tree canopy.
The easiest way to create an automatic wood farm is to use dynamite systems, which can allow you to streamline the approach of harvesting wood. However, it’s important to consider that the dynamite, if not set at the correct level, could damage your island, so be careful when calculating this. This automated farm is likely one of the later automations you’ll build in your OneBlock SkyBlock playthrough due to the come complex design and intensive resource requirements.

Automatic Honey Farm

Honey’s a pretty valuable resource in OneBlock SkyBlock games, and that remains true in Minecraft 1.21 as well. Indeed, a successful automatic honey farm is easy to set up and provides both honey and honeycomb blocks; it also doesn’t need to take up much space and is pretty easy to make early into your game.
The biggest challenge is perhaps spawning the bees for your honey farm, but this should be relatively simple by planting saplings within two blocks of flowers. Keep in mind - it may take a little while until you get lucky enough to get a bee hive.

Automatic Mob Farm

Another type of automated farm that you may want to build for your OneBlock SkyBlock playthrough is an automated mob farm. Indeed, these farms can actually built surprisingly easily, making them a great way to harvest resources and XP from mobs.
However, keep in mind that mob farms are one of the most resource-intensive automated farms simply due to their sheer size. As such, you’ll likely need a lot of materials before these begin working effectively; so, in the early game, you’ll just have to settle for killing off mobs that spawn on your sky island manually.

Automatic Lava Farm

When we think about automated farms in Minecraft, chances are, a lava farm might not be one of the first that comes to mind. However, lava isn’t always the easiest resource to obtain in Minecraft’s 1.21 OneBlock SkyBlock, and it can be very dangerous to simply have lying around. This is especially prominent given that most people’s islands in SkyBlock will be crafted from wood!
Luckily, building an automatic lava farm is a pretty quick job, and it doesn’t need to be big like some of the other farms on this list. Better still, it’s relatively easy to craft from pretty common materials, so you can get a lava farm going quite quickly in your OneBlock journey.

Final Thoughts

If you’ve been looking to build an automated farm in OneBlock SkyBlock, there’s a lot you should keep in mind to help. Luckily, we have outlined some of the most important automated farm building strategies as follows to help you prepare your game for the rigors of the OneBlock challenge.