Introduction
One of the most exciting and rewarding activities you can do when playing Minecraft Pocket Edition is farming. Irrespective of the approach taken – survival or creating a productive homestead – farming will be at the heart of your experience with the game. This beginner’s guide will explain the basics in Minecraft Pocket Edition farming: how to grow your crops, breed your animals, and make efficient use of your resources. If you are using the Minecraft APK, no need to worry-these tips are going to help you out just the same! Let’s dig in and get started on your farming adventure.
Getting Started with Farming
For beginning farming in Minecraft Pocket Edition, essential gathering of materials is required. First, you’ll need to search for seeds. Seeds can be taken from tall grass which seems to grow almost everywhere in this game. You can also find seeds by looting villages and taking their crops like carrots and potatoes. The latter two are very helpful since they can be replanted and thus will grow again. After that, you require a hoe to till the soil. Making a hoe Crafting a hoe is accessible in either creative or survival mode. You simply need to add two sticks and two of any material – wood, stone, iron, or diamond – to a crafting. Basic hoe in Minecraft Pocket Edition: Open up your crafting table. Place two sticks vertically in the middle column. Insert your selected material horizontally across the top two slots in the left or right column. With your home being ready, it’s now time to get your farm ready.
Preparing Your Farm
The location of your farm is key. You want to be able to find a square area of land near a source of water because crops need to be properly watered to grow. In a perfect world, your farm should be four blocks away from a source of water. This source of water can be a river, a lake, or even a bucket that you’ve crafted. Till the soil: Give your hoe and tap onto grass or dirt blocks where you want to plant your crops. You will notice that the dirt will change from grass to brown, meaning it is now tilled soil. Make sure you remember some spacing between the tilled blocks and the water. One of the easiest layout schematics is to have a square of four tilled blocks with one water block in the middle. This will ensure your crops grow at the best rate.
Planting and Growing Crops
With the soil prepared, it is now time for planting! You can plant all types of crops, such as wheat, carrots, potatoes, and beetroot. To plant your seeds, all you need to do is tap on the tilled soil with the seeds held in your hand. For example, to plant wheat seeds, start tapping the tilled soil while holding the wheat seeds. Once crops were planted, it would take some amount of time for them to be ready for harvest. The growth time would differ crop to crop, but usually, the crops would take a few in-game days to reach full growth. Bone Meal could be used as fertilizer if quick harvesting was desired; the fertilizing agent was from bones collected from skeletons. To fertilize using bone meal, simply tap the crop with the bone meal in your hand, and you will see crops shootout to full maturity at once.
Harvesting and Replanting
Periodically, your crops will be ripe for harvest. You will know when your crops are ready to harvest once they change color. For instance, wheat changes from green to the golden color, and potatoes and carrots when their tops are showing green. You can harvest by tapping on a mature crop; it will drop its product with some seeds, for example, in the case of wheat. Once you have gathered your crop, you should replant some of the seeds into your soil so that the productivity is maintained. Just tap again on tilled soil with seeds inside, so that you would have plenty of food and resources. Check your crops from time to time, and then water them.
Animal Breeding for Resources
While planting crops, another activity of Minecraft APK can be animal breeding. There are multiple ways through which you can get resources by breeding animals, so that is also a good source of reliable food, wool, etc. So, to initiate animal breeding you need cows, pigs, sheep, and chickens. These creatures can be found roaming in the Overworld, typically in regions with grass. Breeding animals requires offering them specific food items. This is what each animal eats to get into love mode: cows will eat wheat in a feeding so that after that, they will give a baby calf; sheep will be fed wheat to get ready for breeding and therefore will produce a lamb; pigs will eat carrots, so after the feeding, they will also breed and produce a piglet; chickens will be fed with seeds, and they will love each other and therefore breed to have a chick. You feed the animals, they will enter the love mode and a baby version of the animal will appear. You’ll not only get more food and resources by breeding animals, but also populate your farm with more animals. Just remember to have enough free space for the new animals to walk around!
Managing Your Farm Effectively
As you are growing your farm, it is a really important time to manage all the resources you have. You don’t want to run out of food or seeds. Here are a few tips on how to manage a farm, in a sense. Designate areas of the farm as crop and animal locations so you can keep track of what you have and what you need. Rotate crop to keep the health of the soil at its best. Don’t keep planting the same crop in that same spot every time. Though this is your strategy in yielding your increased resources, you can change it to increase your yields. When your food and other useful resources start piling up, consider building a chest in which you will store some extra. Your inventory will remain organized and you will not lose your good materials. Plant seeds whenever you harvest, and use as many seeds as you can to increase your farm. The more the seeds you have, the more your farm will be. Lastly, there are hostile mobs that may wander into your farm destroying or hurting any crops and animals so be careful and build fences around your farm to keep them out and your crops and animals safe.
Conclusion
Farming in Minecraft Pocket Edition is a great experience increasing gameplay. Growing crops and breeding animals enable you to produce a sustainable source of food and resources. Get the right materials, till the soil, plant seeds, and take good care of your farm; then instantly you become a good farmer. Regardless of whether you are using Minecraft Pocket Edition or Minecraft APK, tips like these will see you through some great times in-game. Start farming today and be sure to enjoy the harvest before you. Happy farming!
