So let’s start, here are all the super easy steps:

Step 1

Easy peasy! Jump into the water and chop down a heap of kelp.

Info: Kelp naturally grows from the bottom of the sea very tall upwards and requires only that above it is a water block. The height for each plant can vary a lot and the maximum should be ~24 blocks.

Step 2

Put some campfires and cook the kelp on them (4 per 1 campfire).

Info: Why campfires? Because it is 100% free to cook kelp on them – no fuel needed. You just click 4 times for each campfire.

Step 3

Once the kelp is cooked the campfires spit out the dry kelp items onto the floor. Just collect it all 🙂

Step 4

Craft dry kelp pieces (per 9) into Dry Kelp Blocks!

Step 5

Cook anything you want using the dry kelp blocks – it can cook up to 20 items! That’s way more than Coal (8 items)!

Q&A

Q: What if my base is not near the sea?
A: Go find the sea (ocean biome) or deeper rivers – you just need to get a bunch of kelp to re-grow it near your base!

Q: How to grow kelp?
A: You just need to create an area of water and plant kelp at the bottom. Also see the more advanced video at the bottom.

Q: Is it possible to automate the process partially or fully?
A: Yes, it is similar to sugar cane farming. Semi-automatic system is very easy to do, but also a fully automated “factory” is possible to construct although it requires a more advanced understanding of Minecraft.

Q: How to make a campfire in Minecraft?
A: 3 sticks + 3 logs + 1 coal or charcoal

Video #1 – Semi-Automated System

Video #2 – Fully Automated System

My Infographic showing all the steps:

Also check out my Minecraft Blog:

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Minecraft Breaking News

This is a funny Minecraft picture which I actually created myself 🙂

Minecraft Skyscraper

Created by SiphaCraft, this is the first skyscraper s/he built in Minecraft. I think it’s fantastic especially if it is a first time build.

Minecraft Tank

Created by Xx-GOD-xX, this is a “love it or hate it” type of a build. I don’t like a tank in Minecraft but I do like the effort that has gone into building it, which is why I am posting it.

Minecraft Cathedral (Survival)

A really big Cathedral project – you can see that a lot of work also gone into it. Great job!

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Unlimited Food, No Farms needed, Convert Sticks into Food!

Getting the wood/sticks

On one side we need to prepare the resources (wood in this case):

1. Chop down trees or bamboo.
2. Make wood planks from wood logs.
3. Make sticks from wood planks or bamboo.

Preparing the Trading

On the other side we need to prepare the villagers to do our trades:

1. Build several Fletching Tables and Composters and place them in the village.
2. (villagers who do not have a profession will now become Fletchers and Farmers)
3. Trade your sticks for emeralds with the Fletcher.
4. Trade the emeralds for Bread or Pumpkin Pie or Cake with the Farmer!

If you need more info have a look at my infographic and/or the additional tips and information I have written next.

Additional Tips & Info / Q&A

Q: How to make a Fletching Table in Minecraft ?
A: Use 2 pieces of Flint and any 4 wood planks.

Q: How to make a Composter in Minecraft?
A: Use any 4 fences together with any 3 wood planks OR 7 wood slabs.

Q: How to get Flint in Minecraft?
A: Dig up some Gravel which has a chance to drop Flint. You can find Gravel near water or when mining.
Pro Tip: if you already have some Gravel then all you have to do is keep putting and gathering and you will get lots of Flint.

Q: How to get lots of wood in Minecraft? (to make a lot of sticks)
A: Create a tree farm. Birch trees are really good for this. Plant 4 seeds together in a square and 4×4 trees will grow. Leave 3 tiles of space between trees. You will have lots of wood! 🙂
A2: If you found some bamboo you can make a bamboo farm. Bamboo, in Minecraft, is a fantastic resource! And you can convert the bamboo into sticks! As well as use it in the furnace to cook things!

Q: What if my Fletcher and Farmer don’t offer the trades I need?
A: Easy fix! Break down their tables and wait for them to revert back to normal villagers without a profession. Then put the tables again. Repeat until you have what you need! 🙂
Additional tip: you can only do this in the beginning before leveling them up – you cannot use this trick to change Mater level trades. So just get make sure the initial trades are what you want such as Emeralds for Sticks at the Fletcher and Bread or Pumpkin Pie at the Farmer.

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Minecraft Starter House

This was created by headshrinker23 in Minecraft survival. I find it very nice 🙂

Minecraft “Fort Behemoth”

Created by nexusium, I find this a massive and good job. I really cannot imagine doing this myself in Minecraft. Really big nice project.

Minecraft Castle

What I like about this Minecraft castle built by JackBenWood is that it has a non-standard shape and looks really cool 🙂

Building a Witch Farm

A really big project and a lot of work also gone into preparing the video. Great job!

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Tip #1: putting trapdoors over water helps gather crops easier

Also pick something see through like these Acacia trapdoors to make it look nice.

Tip #2: putting slabs on the top part of the block

Instead of a trapdoor wooden (or stone) slabs can be used. Just make sure to put it on the top part of the block and the water should be fine below it. You can double check by breaking and re-installing because the slabs are not see-through so you do no see the water.

I personally prefer trapdoors instead of slabs due to the see-through effect. But slabs are much cheaper (3 planks for 6 slabs) while trapdoors take more resources (6 planks for 2 trapdoors).

Tip #3: putting Lily Pads on the water

Another option is to use Lily Pads. I like this option but not everyone can find Lily Pads easily in their Minecraft world – depending on which biome you have spawned in (they are found in the Swamp Biome). For example the Minecraft world I am playing in right now has no Lily Pads at all – I probably have to travel quite far to find them.

However, while pretty, they break rather easily, so some Minecraft players might find that frustrating.

Tip #4: using Glass Pane for the water block

Yet another interesting idea is to use Glass Pane. It creates a sort of a cross in the water block making it easy to walk over it while also keeping the water visible. Glass Pane is also quite easy to get in large quantities with 6 glass making 16 Glass Panes.

Make sure you use Glass Pane and not regular Glass which will destroy the water block.

Tip #5: using Stairs in 4 different directions

You can also use Stairs to cover the water. These can be places in 4 different directions:

The ability to place stairs in various ways also allows for interesting patterns.

Tip #6: Using Carpets

You can actually also use Carpets, but they are a little bit more difficult to place. You need to attach them to a carpet in the next block.

The good thing about using carpets are the many color options. The bad: harder to place & cannot see the water.

Tip #7: The new Scaffolding also works great to cover water

If you can find some Bamboo in your Minecraft World and since Scaffolding is now available in Minecraft we can use it to cover water blocks and make our farming life easier.

I like this option because:

• It’s see-through – we can see the water
• It’s cheap to make with Bamboo and 1 string from spiders
• It’s super easy to place in the water block
• It looks nice 🙂

Tip #8: Using Fences to cover the water

Yet another option is to place any wooden (or other) Fence in the water block. While it can look nice due to the many wood types / options you get a little bit of a bump up when you walk over it and some Minecraft players might find that annoying.

So there you go – many options / tips to help Minecraft players gather crops easier. I hope you liked my blog post and found these tips useful. Post in the comments which option you like the most and if you have any other Minecraft tips or suggestions.

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I have prepared the below flowchart showing the 4 steps, but here are the bullet points with additional explanation text also:

4 Steps:

1. You will need a lot of coal, but luckily it is VERY easy to find and gather coal. Especially if you can use a Fortune enchanted pickaxe you will get a lot more coal from the blocks that you find.
2. Next you need to setup a Blast Furnace in a nearby village to make one of the villagers into an Armorer. To craft the Blast Furnace you need 5 iron ingots, 1 Furnace and 3 smooth stones (bake 3 cobblestones in a furnace 2 times – very easy). Tip: there must be a villager without a profession to take up the new Armorer. If they are all “busy” you can break one of their workstations to make them available. Something you don’t need very much like a Leather-worker can be converted into an Armorer / Armorsmith.
3. Keep trading all your coal with the Armorer and receive Emeralds. Tip: if a Coal trade does not open up, break the workstation to make the villager available again and put it again until a Coal trade opens. As you keep trading with the Armorer he levels up and becomes a Master Armorer.
4. Once you get the villager to the Master Armorer level he will open up Diamond Equipment trades. You can then trade all those Emeralds you got for the Coal into Diamond Armor (Helmet, Boots, Leggings, Chestplate). And the great thing is that they are also enchanted!

(you can click to enlarge the picture, it is a very large size)

More Tips:

• To have more options get several Armorers in your village.
• If there are not many villagers you can get them to breed and make more villagers.
• This also works for diamond weapons via a Weapon Smith,
• And Diamond tools via a Tool Smith.

I hope you found my Minecraft guide useful and will enjoy your new Diamond Armor pieces! 🙂

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