Guide/Initial farms

The vault is resource intensive and preparation can take a lot of work. That being said, using vanilla mechanics we can build some really powerful farms to help take the pressure off and smooth things over. As a note this list is by no means exhaustive, it is just a suggestion of very strong farms to build early.

**Note:** While this pack has research for the Easy Villagers mod you don’t need it to pick up and carry villagers around immediately which makes villager based farms much easier to initially set up.

* **Villager Trading Hall -** This build is a staple of basically every minecraft world and that won’t change in the early game of this pack. Being able to get easy diamond armor, full enchants, and difficult to acquire items like cake, bells, etc for Vault Altars is a god send
* **Iron Farm -** A staple in most worlds, but often made way too complicated. Since the vault also gives a bunch of iron, keep this crazy simple and just use a design that doesn’t rely on a zombie or any fancy mechanics. Just pickup two villagers and some breeding food and use the gossip mechanic to make iron golems. Farm recommendation.
* **Villager Breeder -** Honestly, something you only need short term and since you can pick up villagers and place them down you don’t need anything fancy here. Just make a 2 high wall pen for some villagers with a bunch of beds and toss food at them. You can pick up any villager you want so no collection system is needed. **Note:** Add a roof unless you want one lighting storm turning your breeder into a witch trap…
* **Raid Farm -** This farm is beyond useful for keeping you full of totems of undying for early vaults as well as glowstone, gunpowder, and healing potions for easy splash potions of healing without needing heaps of golden apples. Oh and a ton of emeralds so you can stop twerker farming. This farm also doubles as a fairly solid experience farm. Finding a pillager outpost can be annoying, but if you do it’s incredibly useful. Don’t go for any of the super complex designs either. You can make do with a very fast and easy raid stacking design that doesn’t take long to build. Farm recommendation.
* **Gold Farm -** Honestly, one of the most useful farms around and it can work miracles for experience and gold for villager discounts, golden apples, and potions. As a solid benefit you can also use this to set up a bartering farm when you need more Vault Altar materials. The downside here is that gold farms can be a fair bit of work to create. However, if you are in a single player world there are some great shortcut builds that work miracles! On a server it’s harder, but you have multiple people. I recommend getting a group for building a gold farm on a server. You won’t regret that group project for sure. I have found great success with an afk based experience and gold farm. Farm recommendation. (**NOTE:**  check the comments the video is a bit old so you need to make a couple tweaks)
* **Barter Farm (after gold farm):** A super simple barter farm can have huge value. If you toss it near where you afk/loot your gold farm the bartering can happen at the same time. Don’t do anything fancy here. Just use a really simple and fast to build bartering system and you will get plenty of resources. Farm recommendation.