Portal-based Gunpowder and Ghast Tears Farm for Minecraft 1.16.4+ [Fun Farms 37] @gnembon

Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

Today we have 37th Episode of Fun Farms, where I explain why building a portal based ghast farm is the right thing to do, and why this might be challenging at times, and how to overcome that.

World Download - 1.16.5:
bit.ly/ff37_ghasts

Scarpet apps ab-used (Some of them are not yet ready for release at the time of the video release - links will be added later):
- rebuilder (to restore builds with flying blocks) TBA
- veinminer (modified to skip block breaking and increase range)
github.com/gnembon/scarpet/blob/master/programs/survival/veinminer.sc
- portal_blocks (to break and place portal blocks) TBA
- potential_field (to colour blocks on a plane according to potential value)
drive.google.com/file/d/1GDPyzefH9IB8GBEJb4Sjwa8rOAVRlF7B/view?usp=sharing
- potential_graph (to visualize potential field, quite laggy)
drive.google.com/file/d/1Xpg5fjSp86fVWYzt2ue2ts4jyssStXTV/view?usp=sharing
- camera (for replay-mod style cinematics)
built-in carpet, use `/script load camera`, then `/camera` for details

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Recorded with Minecraft 1.16.5 using Carpet Mod 1.4.28

Carpet Mod with Scarpet API:
github.com/gnembon/fabric-carpet
github.com/gnembon/carpet-extra
github.com/gnembon/quick-carpet
github.com/gnembon/scarpet

Carpet Mod for 1.12:
github.com/gnembon/carpetmod112

Minecraft IGN: gnembon

Find me on Twitter: twitter.com/gnembon_mc

Intros/Outros by Reye and TDL

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

C Saint-Saens, Le Carnaval des Animaux, by Seattle Youth Symphony / Vilem Sokol:
musopen.org/music/2446/camille-saint-saens/the-carnival-of-the-animals

Portal-based Gunpowder and Ghast Tears Farm for Minecraft 1.16.4+ [Fun Farms 37]

$Minecraft - Classic Witch Farm Competition (Fun Farms Ep. 2) Fun Farms Ep. 2 - Witch farms for 1.9. Evaluation of 4 different designs comparing to 1.8 shifting floor. This is second episode in my series - Fun Farms, where I am taking one mob at a time and showing unique farms based around some interesting game mechanics. They might not always be super efficient, or extra fast, but what they should do, is make you think: Wow, thats interesting, thats cool. We took 4 designs of the witch farms that do not rely on any glitches in the game, so they should work in any future versions of minecraft, providing rules dont change that much. We compared them to a generic shifting floor design. NOTE: flush based farm (Xisumas and Jaws), since 15w51b are affected with spiders being able to spawn on retracting pistons that hold the water, when they are triggered by the witch, which clogs the farm until they despawn. They can only be there for a few ticks, until water floods the pison, but this seems to be enough, especially if you perfected the environment Commands used in evaluation: Create a counter: scoreboard objectives add items_collected dummy Increase the counter: scoreboard players add @p items_collected 1 Display a counter (eager (in place) evaluation of the counter): tellraw @a [items collected: ,{score:{name:*, objective: items_collected}}] Give a player book with the counter (notice, the quoted code to retrieve the score indicates lazy evaluation of the expression, rather than eager: give @p written_book 1 0 { title:ic, author:g, pages: [{score:{name:*, objective: items_collected}}]} Resetting and removing of the counter: scoreboard objectives remove items_collected Disclaimer. The area around the hut is not 100% spawn proof. I realized about it when I was preparing world downloads. I wanted to keep the ravine, and it happened, there was a handful of spawning spaces in it, however it shouldnt have any impact on the efficiency of the farms. Only a few mobs can spawn in there, and together with the witches spawning in the hut, it is still far below the hostile mob cap, meaning, they should not influence each other. It would only matter if the mobs outside the hut could fill up the mob cap, preventing witches from spawning. When loading the world downloads, change view distance to 12. Under 12, the mobs spawning is kind of crooked. View distance of 12 gives the usual hostile mob cat in the range of 70s. References (+world download with the designs): 1.15 updated swiper design (solves the issue of spiders spawning in weird places: http://bit.ly/ff2witches Also check this video for details on the update: https://youtu.be/63Q8Thtt7wY?t=356 Other worlds (included in the download): Empty farm (good for evaluating your own design): Full shifting floor, incompatible with 1.9: - shifting floor concept (Snocrash): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQjnZr9-9F0 Fixed shifting floor using open fence gates: - open fencegates in Wither Skeletron farm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t25prueTJBc Water flush design by Xisuma: - tutorial (Xisuma): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLZiw14Tn_s - improved design (Xisuma): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgAJFqiLm4g Jaws design: Swiper design: - swiper concept (Alonofer) from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8N0niQ-74s Minecraft IGN: gnembon Find me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/gnembon_mc Resource Pack: Minecraft HD 64 http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/resource-packs/2209477-minecraft-hd-64x-5-17-fixes (With modified bedrock texture) Music used: - Holberg Suite https://musopen.org/music/2658/edvard-grieg/holberg-suite-op-40-string-orchestra-arr/$

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