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I don't get too elaborate with crop farms and was wondering how some of you guys build your crop farms?

I generally like to keep each crop separate, fence it in and I hand-pick it when it's ready. No fancy auto-farms for me, mainly because I don't have slime for sticky pistons

I have hundreds of Slimeballs, but manually do it so it's still recorded on leaderboards.
But all-in-all I don't farm in my survival worlds; I'll only do it if I'm dying of hunger or if it nets money in an RP server, in both cases it's nothing pretty and still hand-picked.

I try to automate everything.. Forget the leaderboards! But I keep them rather small due to the entity cap. Plus it's annoying to "sneakFarm" a huge area.

been working on the same map for last 2 months and currently working on a giant underground farm.
built 22 water harvesting wheat farms with 48 plants each, plus 75 birch trees and clearing area for melons, animals etc.

above ground, have a massive hand pick wheat, melon, sugar cane farm and 3 100 tree farms. i like to be able to harvest for 15-20 mins without stopping at a time.

I do a simple semi-auto farm for wheat, but try not to make it too big. I tend to forget to harvest it though once I get melon seeds. I love how you don't need to replant melons...

As for how it's set up, I try to keep them near each other, but separate unless I don't have the space to separate them.

I usually start small farms wherever I'm setting up a temporary base (above ground or below) It usually just consists of about 12 wheat plants and 4 melon plants placed around an infinite water supply. I can always bonemeal the wheat if I need bread in a hurry; but it's usually not an issue.

I took over a village and expanded one of the farms from that, and fixed up a couple others and just use those. About 64 wheat plots planted, with 16 melons and 16 pumpkins in that same farm. Another field has all wheat, around 64 or so plots....then another small melon field and a small pumpkin field. All above ground near my animal breeding grounds. Underground I have 8 pumpkins, some wheat growing, a cane patch, and more animals for breeding for food or wool. Like the fact sheep will breed the same color as the parents. I may replace some of my wheat fields with pumpkins, I have way more wheat than I need, and I usually only eat bread. Need the pumpkins for Jack-o-lanterns

Okay. Make an underground area that is 6x7 with a place for the ladder. Make the 6x7 area have dirt. Make the ceiling three blocks from the dirt. Evenly space nine blocks of glowstone, or jack o lanterns. In every wall except the one where you enter the garden through, make a centered cavity in the wall with a water source. Till the ground, and you are good to go. This is wheat obviously. Make sure it is 6x7. If that is not productive enough, make a second or third farm in the same way. Hope it helped!

I usually make a small wheat farm off of my house, then a ways away I make an animal farm with 2 chickens, 2 cows, and 2 pigs. When I get pumpkin and melon seeds I make a farm with both of them. So I pretty much farm everything I can, but I don't take up very much space with it (the wheat farm on my current world has 14 wheat in it when it's fully grown, and I have 5 each melons and pumpkins). My primary meat source is meat, so I don't have any reason to have a ton of melons or wheat.

A really good farming method is very simple and requires little work, and is very rewarding. You just need to fence in some mushroom cows, and milk them with a bowl, and viola! mushroom stew! Endless amounts of it too. Very good food source, and very renewable.

I usually make lines of of water. On either end is two rows of wheat and 3 rows of wheat in between every line. And I also place half-blocks over the water so I can walk over the water lines and also so nothing falls in the water.

With mushrooms I just bonemeal 'em and they grow

My personal indoor farm is usually 5x5 in size. I place water in the center block, till the ground around it and plant the seeds around it. Torch up the room and nearby area so that it will grow at night. Harvest when complete. Only 24 wheat a harvest. I often expand a second 5x5 but I find that I really don't need wheat as much.

Quote from One_with_the_Block

I usually make lines of of water. On either end is two rows of wheat and 3 rows of wheat in between every line. And I also place half-blocks over the water so I can walk over the water lines and also so nothing falls in the water.

With mushrooms I just bonemeal 'em and they grow

Instead of half blocks try using lily pads. Basically the same thing but I like actually seeing the water.

Quote from Effervescence

Instead of half blocks try using lily pads. Basically the same thing but I like actually seeing the water.

Same here! My 6yr old taught me that.. But they are non-renewable.... So halfslabs might be needed at some point. Have you figured out a way to dictate what direction the lillypads face? I haven't and its kinda annoying that they just place down in random directions..