Farms/Grinding

A page on how to grind various items on oldfag and the farms around them

## God Gear

God gear is defined as maxed out enchanted armor, minus thorns/frost walker with blast prot 4 on any one armor piece, and is essential for pvp battles.

### Gold Farms

Gold farms are one of the most common farms on Oldfag. Theyre made using enlarged nether portals to spawn vast amounts of pigmen, then funneling them into a kill/death chamber to make them drop gold and xp. Gold is useful for golden apples and carrots, and XP is useful for making or mending god gear. Many gold farms are made solely for the fast XP they give rather than for the gold. To be reliable gold farms typically take around 5 shulkers of obsidian on the low end and can go anywhere above, hypothetically even up to around 50 shulkers before render distance and lag makes it impossible to expand further. The claimed largest gold farm is the one at Achilles base at 20 shulkers, but its possible that there is larger ones.

Players gather obsidian usually by mining the pillars in the end, with an Efficiency 5 pick it takes about an hour per shulker of obsidian.

### Mob Spawners

Mob Spawner grinders are a simpler way to grind XP, they are far easier to set up since no obby is needed to make them, although gold farms are far quicker at grinding XP and typically spawner farms are used by new or more casual players. People tend to go out of their way to find large amounts of spawners clumped together, double and triple spawners being moderately rare while anything above is a lucky find, barring cave spider spawners which tend to spawn near eachother.

### AFK Fishing

AFK Fishing is using an autofish module to afk fish over long amounts of time, usually for the enchanted books later used in god gear or the XP it nets you. AFK Fishing is a common tradition for players on !playtime top who use this leaderboard for their clout like Qokko and AllDatJumboJazz, who have been AFK Fishing over day and night for hundreds of IRL days to be at the top. Qokko especially is notorious for this as he has been AFK fishing since the first week on the server, once going inactive for many months and still keeping his spot the entire time.

### Villager Breeders

Villager breeders are another method of getting enchanted books. While they take longer to set up their payoff is greater than fishing, but fishing is far easier to do and gives you more than villager breeders.

## Totems

In the first month of the new map, Mansions could be best found using only the vanilla way, getting a woodland explorer map from a cartographer. Once the seed was cracked in August 2019 mansions could easily be found using it, along with elytrafly. Various programs and methods are used to find and list mansions.

## Enchanted Golden Apples (egaps)

Egaps were originally very rare, with the only way to grind them being endlessly searching loot chests. Once the seed was cracked, a new oppourtunity came to significantly speed up the process of finding egaps, although in the beginning not many people took advantage of this, rather the main focus was its use for totems. The first known player to get a stack of egaps was 864, although he mainly got them through taking them off other people.

Around October/November public forge mods like FindMe and Holoinventory were discovered and shared among small groups of people such as GeNkRaZyKiLLeR and 0ldFagNews that aided in the search for egaps, using the seed. Other players like Namy\_McNameface devised a method using #mine chest.

The methods didn't change much until February when Genk got SlurpMyDongle's friend to code him a custom made egap finder. The program would scan a singleplayer world with the seed and list all the chests with e gaps that it scanned into a text file. It made e gap farming far quicker being able to net about 30 egaps per hour as it made the listing process automatic. This was kept private to the few at this time, barring members of Jewbase trading Slurp for egap coords and Afdud eventually being given it too.

joris2710 claimed to code an egapfinder in March in one night to share with Interstellar, but this hasnt and probably cant be proven.

On April 9th when Genk leaked all his group bases he also leaked the egapfinder into oldfag discord. There was no guide on how to use it and nobody really could tell if it was legit so very few people downloaded it. It was later on April 27th when Genk posted a link to it with a guide on how to use it (https://pastebin.com/mPxTyWgt) when it started to become widespread. At this point most people were still poor on egaps so this essentially destroyed the egap economy and stopped the rich from taking advantage of the people who didnt have these methods.