How To Make A Sheep Farm In Minecraft

Farming Sheep, Cows and Pigs in Minecraft

Farming cows, sheep or pigs will provide a ready source of meat for nutrient.

Cows also provide leather, which tin be made into armour, and is essential for crafting books. Cows can exist milked by right-clicking on them whilst property a bucket.

Sheep provide wool, which is used to make beds, banners and can be used as a building block.

Pigs can be ridden, after a fashion, just you lot would be better off with a horse

The aforementioned techniques also apply to chickens, but they also lay eggs, which is an easier way to increment their numbers. Yous tin can subcontract chickens the aforementioned way as other animals (see the basic tutorial), simply you might desire to employ an improved farm design that collects the eggs for you lot.

What you lot will demand

Food

The essential thing y'all will need for farming is food for the animals. Get some of that before yous start!

Cows and sheep eat wheat. Pigs eat carrots, potatoes or beetroot. Chickens eat seeds (nearly easily obtained from wheat or long grass, but they will swallow any kind of seed, such as pumpkin or melon seeds).

###Forest

You will also desire to harvest some forest to construct fences and gates to build enclosures.

How to build the farm

Build an enclosure

Outset yous will want to build an enclosure, either a small pen or a large field, in which to keep your animals. This can exist indoors or outdoors, but it needs to be somewhere that you can lead the animals to, so outdoors is easier. If you're raising sheep for wool, you volition need a large grass floor and then that they can eat and regrow their wool.

Fences and Gates

Fences form a barrier that is i½ blocks high, then that mobs (or players) can't jump over it. Fences are crafted from wooden sticks, and automatically connect together when placed next to each other. Gates act as a manner to go through fences, and are opened or airtight with a right-click.

An alternative to gates is to identify a block of clay one block away from the argue, so that you lot can jump out of the field.

####Enclosure pattern

You lot can but debate off an area and build a gate to arrive and out, but if you lot build so that the ground is college on the inside than the outside, then y'all can brand an animal pen that is like shooting fish in a barrel to get into from any direction.

Minecraft Animal Pen

This creature pen can exist entered in whatsoever direction. The actor can either utilise the gate to get out, or only leap off the dirt block.

Discover some animals

Find some animals: you will need ii of the same kind to breed. There are no males and females in Minecraft. Agree some of their favourite food out (wheat for sheep and cows; carrots for pigs; seeds for chickens).

pigs on the horizon

When they notice the food, they will look at y'all and follow you. Lead them back to their new home!

If you built the kind of pen suggested to a higher place, it will be like shooting fish in a barrel to go them to follow you in.

TIP: if you're using a gate to exit the animal pen, make sure you equip something other than animal food to stop them from trying to follow you.

Animal Breeding

To get your animals to breed, you but need to feed them. Right-click on an animal whilst holding wheat, and hearts will appear higher up its head so show that it'due south in the mood. Right-click on some other animate being nearby, and, well, nature will take its course.

Piggy Love in Minecraft

Next something complicated to do with birds and bees and storks and cabbage-patches will happen. Mercifully we don't need to know about all that, we simply get to see the results. Awwww!

squeeeee it's a minecraft piglet

For the next 5 minutes, the adults will non respond to further attempts to make them breed. Notwithstanding, pretty soon y'all will accept iv animals that tin can be bred, and you volition quickly be able to raise a big herd.

TIP: To make babies abound up faster, y'all can feed them their favourite food.

Slaughter

The most efficient manner to harvest meat from your cows and pigs is but to enter the pen, equip a sword and slay all of them except a few that you salve for breeding the adjacent herd. If you impale pigs past setting them on burn down, then your pork chops will be set up-cooked, but you volition have to live with the noesis that y'all are a horrible person.

Wool

Shearing

Sheep will drop one block of wool if you kill them, merely they will driblet more if you correct click them with shears. Sheep will regrow wool after shearing, if they have grass to eat, so y'all tin get lots of wool over time.

###Dyed Wool

If you want coloured wool, you lot tin can dye the sheep outset for greater efficiency. Subsequently shearing, the wool will grow back the aforementioned colour you lot dyed information technology. Yous can, of class, dye coloured sheep white with bonemeal.

If you lot breed coloured sheep together, the babies will be the aforementioned color equally one of the parents, not a mix.