AFK Farms
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AFK Farms is a mod designed for those who work and either cannot or do not know how to build farms. Quickly create Overworld or Nether farms.
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What's new
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Full farm list, crafting recipes and guides: https://novisck.github.io/afkfarms/
AFK Farms — v1.3.0
New Blocks
- AFK End City Farm — new block for Enderman and Shulker (moved from the AFK Farm / AFK Nether Farm). Recipe: 4 Gold Ingots (corners) + 4 End Stone (edges) + 1 Ender Pearl (center).
- AFK Aquatic Farm — new block for every aquatic mob: Squid, Glow Squid, Turtle, Guardian, Elder Guardian and Drowned. Recipe: 4 Gold Ingots (corners) + 4 Prismarine Shards (edges) + 1 Water Bucket (center). The mobs inside actually swim now — Squids pulse their tentacles and roll/tilt as they drift, Turtles switch into their real swimming pose, Guardians puff their spikes and swish their tails, and Drowned use the same swimming pose a player gets underwater — all six also bob gently up and down so they don't look like they're just standing on the tank floor.
Facing
- Every AFK Farm block (all four variants) now has a **facing side**, just like a furnace: whichever side you're standing on when you place it ends up facing you.
Updated Models
- Rebuilt the AFK Farm and AFK Nether Farm block models from scratch with more detail.
New Feature: Colored Wool Farming
- The Sheep farm now accepts all 16 wool colors, not just white — drop in Black Wool and get Black Wool back, drop in Pink and get Pink back, and so on. The sheep in the terrarium is even dyed to match.
New Feature: Cooked Meat Chance
- Cow, Sheep, Chicken, Pig, Rabbit and Hoglin now have a small **8% chance** to drop the cooked version of their meat instead of raw (Cooked Beef, Cooked Mutton, Cooked Chicken, Cooked Porkchop, Cooked Rabbit) — a little bonus so you don't always have to cook it yourself.
Other Fixes
- Fixed the Farm Guide's crafting recipe (Book + Copper Ingot) not being craftable.
- Fixed the Magma texture (and the Crimson/Warped log textures) in the AFK Nether Farm model looking squashed/stretched — they're animated multi-frame textures that were missing their animation metadata.
- Fixed the aquatic tank's water looking too opaque; toned it down further.
Farm Reassignments
- Enderman and Shulker moved to the new **AFK End City Farm**.
- Squid, Glow Squid, Turtle, Guardian, Elder Guardian and Drowned moved to the new **AFK Aquatic Farm**.
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AFK Farms — v1.2.0 (Yes, we jumped from 1.1.0 to 1.3.0.)
New Features
- XP Tank — new block that automatically stores the XP generated by every AFK Farm in the same chunk. No need to attach it to each individual farm — just place it anywhere in the chunk and it collects from all of them.
- Holds up to level 30 worth of XP. Once full, extra XP from your farms is lost until you collect it (same as an overflowing chest).
- Floating display above the tank shows your current **Level** and a progress bar to the next one, plus the glass fills up with a rising green liquid as XP accumulates. Only shows up while you're aiming at the tank from within 8 blocks, to keep it out of the way otherwise.
- Three ways to use it, based on what you're holding when you right-click:
- Empty hand — absorb all the stored XP as levels, instantly.
- Glass Bottle — consumes 1 bottle + XP from the tank to hand you a Bottle o' Enchanting.
- Damaged item with Mending — instantly repairs the item's durability using the tank's XP (same 2-durability-per-XP rate as vanilla Mending).
- XP Tank recipe: 4 Iron Ingots (corners) + 4 Glass (edges) + 1 Bottle o' Enchanting (center).
Farm Overhaul
- All farm drops (item chances, min/max counts) were rebuilt to match **vanilla's real loot tables** as closely as possible, pulled directly from the game's own data. Several farms are now more accurate than before (Witch now correctly drops 4-8 Redstone; Iron Golem always drops both Iron Ingots and Poppies; Blaze no longer drops Blaze Powder, since vanilla Blazes never do).
- **Activation items are no longer permanent.** Every farm's activation item (Leather, Bone, Ender Pearl, etc.) now has a limited number of uses (64 by default) and breaks once exhausted — you'll need to restock it, just like fuel. This can be turned off in the config.
- **2 new farms**: Breeze (Wind Charge, on the regular AFK Farm) and Wither Skeleton (AFK Nether Farm — powered by the new Soul Bottle below, not a plain item).
- Fuel is now configurable per-type: Coal/Charcoal (60s/drop), Lava Bucket (30s/drop), and two new higher-tier fuels for the Nether farm's toughest mobs — Blaze Powder (15s/drop) and Nether Star (5s/drop).
- New config.json (in `config/nvkmods/`) lets you tune everything above without touching code: drop chances, XP per drop, fuel timings, durability, and which mobs exist at all.
Soul Bottle
- For the Nether's most dangerous mobs (starting with Wither Skeleton), a plain activation item isn't enough. Craft an empty **Soul Bottle** (Glass Bottle + Soul Sand), carry it in your inventory, and land the killing blow on the mob for real — it becomes a filled Soul Bottle for that specific mob, which then powers the farm instead of a plain item.
- Soul Bottles obey the same durability rule as every other activation item: each one is good for a limited number of drop cycles before it's spent.
- The bottle's model swaps automatically between its empty look and a glowing, essence-filled look once a soul is captured.
Fixes
- Fixed Skeletons and Wither Skeletons in the AFK Farm terrarium swinging the wrong arm instead of properly aiming (Skeleton) or holding up their weapon (Wither Skeleton).
- The Farm Guide book now covers the XP Tank, Soul Bottle, and item durability, and lists Breeze/Wither Skeleton in the mob tables.
- Fixed the AFK Nether Farm accepting any farm's activation item (e.g. Leather spawning a Cow inside it). Each farm now only works in the block it's meant for.
15 New Farms
**9 simple farms** — same as before, just place the activation item in the top slot:
| Mob | Activation item | Block |
|---|---|---|
| Zombie | Rotten Flesh | AFK Farm |
| Husk | Sand | AFK Farm |
| Cave Spider | Fermented Spider Eye | AFK Farm |
| Squid | Ink Sac | AFK Farm |
| Glow Squid | Glow Ink Sac | AFK Farm |
| Magma Cube | Magma Cream | AFK Farm |
| Phantom | Phantom Membrane | AFK Farm |
| Turtle | Turtle Scute | AFK Farm |
| Zombified Piglin | Gold Ingot | AFK Nether Farm |
**6 new Soul Bottle farms** — the valuable/dangerous ones. A plain item won't activate these; you need a **filled Soul Bottle** for that specific mob (craft an empty one, carry it, and really kill the mob — see the Soul Bottle section above):
| Mob | Notable drop | Block |
|---|---|---|
| Drowned | Copper Ingot (~11%) | AFK Farm |
| Guardian | Prismarine Shard/Crystals + Cod | AFK Farm |
| Elder Guardian | Same as Guardian + guaranteed Wet Sponge | AFK Farm |
| Ghast | Ghast Tear + Gunpowder | AFK Nether Farm |
| Shulker | Shulker Shell (~50%) | AFK Nether Farm |
| Hoglin | Porkchop + Leather | AFK Nether Farm |
🚧 Coming Next
- TBD
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