How to Make a Minecraft Wither Skeleton Farm

Wither skeletons are importantmobs in Minecraftdue to their valuable drops. So, making a farm for them is something every advanced Minecraft player should do, as it’ll be super helpful in a long-term world. In this guide, we’ll be covering one of the best wither skeleton farms in Minecraft made by the Redstone genius ianxofour on YouTube. So, let’s not waste any more time and jump straight in.

Where Should You Build the Wither Skeleton Farm

Possibly the most difficult part of making this amazing farm is finding a perfect location. It is crucial for you tolocate aNether Fortressinside a soul sand valley or a warped forestMinecraft biome. No other Nether biome will give you good results, because of the many hostile mobs that can spawn inside them which will quickly take up the mob cap.

The farm we’re going to build must be at least 100 blocks away from any other biome, apart from the two we mentioned above. So keep that in mind when choosing the perfect fortress. Feel free to use tools like Chunk Base (visit) to find the perfect location for your wither skeleton farm.

Resources You Need to Make the Farm

Unlike many other wither skeleton farm designs out there, ianxofour’s design is fairly simple and doesn’t require any wither roses or piglins. The resources you will need are as under:

Build a Wither Skeleton Farm: A Step-by-Step Guide

Step 1: Bounding Box of Nether Fortress

Before we begin building the farm, we need to determine the bounding box of a Nether Fortress. It’s a massive cuboid around every possible spawning space of the fortress. Our goal is to make a farm at thehighest possible Y levelof the bounding box (see explanation below). Thus, to figure out the bounding box of a fortress, follow the steps below:

Step 2: Make the Spawning Platform

Once you have all of the coordinates saved, let’s start building the wither skeleton farm in Minecraft.

Step 3: Building the AFK Spot

Now that we’ve got the spawning platform in place, we should make the AFK spot, where we’ll be killing all the wither skeletons produced by the farm in Minecraft. This means we need to go to the Nether roof.

This is not a particularly challenging task, but it can lead to you getting stuck. So, you can bring all supplies necessary forbreaking bedrock. Therefore, you can easily access the Nether roof and all the farms on top of it. You can also make a Nether portal up there that’ll take you to the Overworld, but make sure you do that away from the farm.

So, believe it or not, that’s it! All you need to do now is togo to the AFK spotand wait. The wither skeletons will start spawning and then they’ll go through the portal. You’ll need to wait for them to reach the other portal and get into the killing chamber. This can take a few minutes.

How Does the Wither Skeleton Farm Work

The wither skeleton farm design that ianxofour created is one of the easiest and most efficient farms in Minecraft. It utilizes simple mechanics and takes advantage of them without needing any extra work. So, here’s how this farm functions.

The main requirement for the wither skeleton farm is that it has to be in either a warped forest or a soul sand valley. This is because the warped forest spawns only Endermen mobs and the soul sand valley spawns ghasts and skeletons.

The game uses special mechanic to limit the number of spawns of these mobs since it would be kind of crazy if there were 20 ghasts floating in one area. So, the two biomes named above spawn fewer mobs than the other Nether biomes, which is a perfect location for a hostile mob farm.

After you find the fortress in the right biome, it is necessary to determine the bounding box of the fortress. This is because fortress mobs can spawn anywhere in this massive box, not only on nether bricks. So, we position the spawning platform of the farm at thehighest possible Y level, so that when you set up the AFK spot, all other spawnable places will be out of range. This is important as it eliminates the need to spawn-proof a large area around the fortress.

After that, we make a large platform for mobs to spawn on. We also place walls in a specific grid on the platform, so that we stop magma cubes from spawning since they require a 3×3 empty area. The turtle eggs are placed on top of walls on the corners to lure zombified piglins toward them. Thanks to the accurate placement of the AFK spot, those zombified piglins despawn before they reach the eggs.

Iron golem stands in the center on top of chests, so that it’s just a bit lower than if it stood on the full blocks. We surrounded the golem so that no mobs get close to it and kill it. Also, we placed repeaters at the eye level of the golem, so that shorter mobs like skeletons cannot see it. This would stop them from harming the golem.

Only three-block tall wither skeletons can see the golem, which they get agroed towards. So, they can run toward the golem, but the only place they can pathfind to is the Nether portal.

Once the wither skeletons go through to the portal to the Overworld, they won’t move as the area is not loaded. They also require a 15-second cooldown before they can enter a portal again. So, that’s why we spread apart the two Nether portals.

The mobs will push each other until they reach the second portal after which the cooldown will have passed. The two Nether portals are slightly off in the Y coordinate, which allows us to accurately link one with the lower portal on the spawning platform in the Nether and the other one with the portal above the Nether roof.

We set up the AFK spot 125 blocks higher than the Y level of the Nether portal on the spawning platform. This is because all mobs are guaranteed to despawn when they’re more than 128 blocks away from the player. So, our AFK spot is at the maximum possible distance from the spawning platform, so we eliminate all the unnecessary spawning in the surroundings.

When the wither skeletons arrive above the Nether roof, they’ll go down the tube we made where you can swipe at them with your sword to kill them. Whenever you want to use the farm, stand on the AFK spot and wait for the wither skeletons to arrive.

So, that’s how you make a wither skeleton farm in Minecraft. This design is one of the best possible wither skeleton farm designs out there, as it’s not at all time-consuming, but still provides you super efficient results. So, what are you planning to do with all those wither skeleton skulls andbeacons? Tell us in the comments below!

Just like ianxofour mentioned in the description of the video tutorial, this can be because you didn’t substract one from the highest Y coordinate of the Nether fortress bounding box. If you don’t do this, the mobs will simply not be able to spawn, as the spawning platform is outside of the bounding box of the fortress. So, make sure you stand on the nether bricks and not walls. Also, multiple fortresses that are too close together may mess up the bounding box.

Wither skeleton farm is one of the most OP farms you can make. It yields bones, which you can turn into bone meal, coal, which is a great fuel source, and of course, the wither skeleton skulls. They are necessary for spawning the Wither boss and obtaining a Nether star item, which you can make a beacon with. Not only that, but this farm is also an amazing source of XP.

Yes, wither skeletons need a low light level to spawn. However, torches don’t stop many other Nether mobs from spawning.

No, only zombies and their variants (husks, drowned, zombified villagers, and zombified piglins) are attracted to turtle eggs.

Radojka Travar

I’m a gaming enthusiast with a strong passion for writing. My expertise lies in creating simple, to the point and clear content teaching you about various features, mechanics and community-based inventions related to Minecraft. In spare time, I love flying around in my Minecraft world and exploring stories of other pixelated games.

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