I'm sure there's a thread or several on this already, but whatever goes.
I'm curious to know some other people's opinions on what you think the quickest way to get XP is, and your favourite way.
(with the exception of the ender dragon, of course)
Personally, I grind blaze spawners or mine, quarts in particular. Because it's rather abundant and seems (imo) to give more xp.
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The fastest route to 30 Exp that I've found if you don't have some type of mob farm is mining quartz in the nether. There are of course, a few dangers lurking in the nether.
i go with spelunking where i mine lots of coal or other ores until i fill up my inventory. After that, i would go breeding my livestock then kill some of them.
or Sometimes, I also smelt ores/stones in my smelter room, or just grind in my spider spawner xp trap.
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I personally just play the game. I tend to get a ton of XP from simply mining out ravines and caves. Killing any mob I see also gives quite I bit. I have played a world for a few days off and on, and I already have lvl 30.
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I mine quartz in the Nether, which gets me to level 30 in 10-15 minutes; at 3.5 XP per ore it is really overpowered for its abundance, about as easy (if not easier) to find than coal in the Overworld (actually only as common as iron but it is exposed everywhere; ironically, even coal averages more XP (1) than iron (0.7), despite being more common).
This is also probably faster than spending all the time to make an XP farm, especially an Ender-Ender; I get all of my gear enchanted in a few hours before I even go to the End (though the only highly enchanted item I actually bring to the End is a Power V bow); it also helps to know that you can enchant books for 1 level to get Efficiency, Protection, Power, and Sharpness, then combine them to max them out, making it very easy to get those enchantments (particularly Protection on armor; do people really risk so many diamonds, or even iron, for a chestplate that might get Thorns or something? Combining books may cost more XP and anvil uses if you get lucky on the first level 30 enchantment but the overall costs are usually less).
Also, while you can't indefinitely do this (without eventually having to go very far away from the portal) I have no need for extra XP after I enchant my gear as normal gameplay gives me far more XP than I need for repairing (for example, the sword I use costs 35 levels or 1205 XP to repair, while it gives back 7800 XP from the mobs it kills, a factor of more than six, leaving plenty left to repair armor; even when I used an extremely expensive Efficiency V, Fortune III, Unbreaking III pickaxe for all mining I was able to get enough XP, while the XP I now get with just an Efficiency V, Unbreaking III pickaxe is absurd, 50-60 levels or even more before the next repair; and no, I'm not going to enchant just to avoid "wasting" XP when I have no need for more enchanted gear, especially since that means I'd have to stop what I'm doing and run all the way back home to enchant).
I'm curious to know some other people's opinions on what you think the quickest way to get XP is, and your favourite way.
(with the exception of the ender dragon, of course)
Personally, I grind blaze spawners or mine, quarts in particular. Because it's rather abundant and seems (imo) to give more xp.
If I'm playing alone I just use dungeon grinders with water movers, afk for a while and try and get Level 30. Enchant books, rinse and repeat.
Can get tedious though.
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or Sometimes, I also smelt ores/stones in my smelter room, or just grind in my spider spawner xp trap.
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Not much time: Blaze grinding (with fire resistance), Mining coal/quartz/diamond, grind a dungeon, kill wild wolves, go to the end and kill endermen
Much more time: stay up several nights in a row and kill everything you see, smelt stacks of stone and all iron/gold ore, get bricks
DO NOT: kill villagers or babies, they drop nothing, smelt cobble if never going to build anything
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This is also probably faster than spending all the time to make an XP farm, especially an Ender-Ender; I get all of my gear enchanted in a few hours before I even go to the End (though the only highly enchanted item I actually bring to the End is a Power V bow); it also helps to know that you can enchant books for 1 level to get Efficiency, Protection, Power, and Sharpness, then combine them to max them out, making it very easy to get those enchantments (particularly Protection on armor; do people really risk so many diamonds, or even iron, for a chestplate that might get Thorns or something? Combining books may cost more XP and anvil uses if you get lucky on the first level 30 enchantment but the overall costs are usually less).
Also, while you can't indefinitely do this (without eventually having to go very far away from the portal) I have no need for extra XP after I enchant my gear as normal gameplay gives me far more XP than I need for repairing (for example, the sword I use costs 35 levels or 1205 XP to repair, while it gives back 7800 XP from the mobs it kills, a factor of more than six, leaving plenty left to repair armor; even when I used an extremely expensive Efficiency V, Fortune III, Unbreaking III pickaxe for all mining I was able to get enough XP, while the XP I now get with just an Efficiency V, Unbreaking III pickaxe is absurd, 50-60 levels or even more before the next repair; and no, I'm not going to enchant just to avoid "wasting" XP when I have no need for more enchanted gear, especially since that means I'd have to stop what I'm doing and run all the way back home to enchant).
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