Experience farms, also known as XP farms, are among the most efficient ways to gain levels in Minecraft and are, therefore, very useful for repairing tools and enchanting.
There are a variety of ways to build an XP farm, such as creating a large dark room in which hostile mobs spawn and can be killed, or building a farm around an existing mob spawner, as found in a dungeon.
Mob spawners make for much quicker XP farming than other methods, due to the increased rate at which mobs spawn.
While there are many different ways to make XP farms, this article provides one method in which Minecraft players can quickly and easily gain levels using mob spawners to create an XP farm.
Building a Minecraft XP farm using spawners
Step #1 – Gather materials
Basic materials needed to build this XP farm are a pickaxe, any kind of building blocks, two water buckets, and one chest.
Contrary to popular belief, mob spawners cannot be mined in survival mode, even with a silk touch pickaxe. This means that in a survival world, the only way to create an XP farm that uses a spawner is to build it around an existing spawner.
In a Minecraft world with cheats turned on, many players who find mob spawners will break them, obtain that same spawner via commands, and place them wherever they please. The command used to do this is “/give [PLAYER NAME] minecraft:spawner”.
If using this method, remember to also get a spawn egg of the preferred mob from the creative inventory and click on the spawner with it, otherwise no mobs will spawn.
Step #2 – Locate a dungeon