Witch Farm
Intermediate Different design per edition
Produces: Gunpowder, glowstone dust, redstone, glass bottles, sticks, sugar and spider eyes (4-8 items per witch)
Quick answer: A witch hut is the only place witches spawn on demand: in Java, witches spawn inside the hut's bounding box at low light, so you floor the whole box, funnel witches to a kill spot and loot their potion ingredients. Bedrock hut rates are much lower - raid farms beat them there.
How it works
- Java Edition: witches spawn anywhere inside the hut's bounding box (a 7x7x4-ish volume) when the light level is 0. Removing the hut's blocks does not remove the spawn zone - the bounding box is what matters.
- Java: witches count toward the hostile mob cap, so lighting every cave and surface within 128 blocks of the farm massively boosts rates.
- Bedrock Edition: witches spawn only on the hut floor itself at low rates. Most Bedrock players get witch drops from raid farms instead.
- Witches drink healing, fire resistance and water breathing potions mid-fight - kill them fast or by suffocation/fall damage so drops are guaranteed.
Materials
- Slabs and solid blocks to cover the bounding box with spawning floors
- Water buckets for collection streams
- Hoppers and chests
- Torches or glow lichen to light the surroundings
- Building blocks for the AFK platform
Build steps
- Find a witch hut in a swamp biome (/locate structure minecraft:swamp_hut).
- Java: demolish the hut and build 2-3 spawning floors inside the bounding box, with water channels pushing witches off the edge into a drop or killing chamber.
- Java: light every cave and surface within 128 blocks - this step decides your rates.
- Build an AFK spot ~120 blocks above the swamp so only the farm's floors are in spawning range.
- Collect at the chests: gunpowder for rockets, glowstone and redstone for brewing, bottles for honey and potion work.
Rates
Rates depend on how much of the 7x7x9 hut volume you can make spawnable. In Java witches can spawn at any valid block in that volume; in Bedrock a killed witch respawns on a single block on the hut floor, so Bedrock huts yield much less.
Tips
- The bounding box survives demolishing the hut: use a tool like Chunkbase with your seed to see it exactly.
- Cats from the hut keep spawning as pets - free creeper repellent.