Uploaded December 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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1.14 Note:
To adjust the farm to work in 1.13, replace cobble walls in the spawning platform with blue ice with two snow layers on top of them. Since 1.14+ cobble walls should work again as a prevention method since small cubes use large cubes hitbox to check for spawning. This will disable magma cubes spawning altogether. It will still spawn small baby pigman, so nothing in the design (distance wise) should change.

Also due to changes in the mob spawning in fortresses the farm will spawn 42 thousand drops per hour including over 4 skulls per minute.

Check this timestamp for details: youtu.be/1NITCpWFZ0o?t=73

In this episode of Fun Farms, I am showing a fast and relatively simple to build wither skeleton farm, also known as a nether fortress farm, because apart from wither skulls you will be also farming here up to 42000 (as of 1.14+) of other drops, mainly blaze rods, bones, coal and gold.

Since all the mobs are brought to one spot, its easy to AFK providing you auto click with you sword, and place rotten flesh in the other hand, which would replenish your saturation.

Resources:

WORLD DOWNLOAD:
bit.ly/ff16fortress

References:

Flying machines:
Sugar Cane Farm: youtube.com/watch?v=mYs_MDpBFJs
Ilmango's introduction: youtube.com/watch?v=UoqGvhLiG9A

Nether Mob Switch: youtube.com/watch?v=flXSpm5e5QM

TT's Wither Skeleton Skull: youtube.com/watch?v=8IZspUvXCtU

Carpet Mod with farm diagnostic tools: youtube.com/watch?v=ehVi5vhq1Aw

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Recorded with Minecraft 1.12 Optifine and 1.12 Carpet Mod.

Minecraft IGN: gnembon

Find me on Twitter: twitter.com/gnembon_mc

Intros/Outros by Reye and TDL

Resource Pack: Minecraft HD 64 minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/resource-packs/2209477 with a few modified textures
modified textures:
- bedrock bit.ly/bright_bedrock
- hoppers and pistons bit.ly/gnembon_redstone_tpack
- bright nether bit.ly/bright_nether_tp
- bushy leaves bit.ly/bushy_leaves_tp

Music:
Edvard Grieg - Holberg Suite. musopen.org/music/2658/edvard-grieg/holberg-suite-op-40-string-orchestra-arr