Heath04🌳
Pumpking
Introduction:
With the upcoming changes in 1.4.5 (like hoppers and such) I wanna put out this guide to help players make actually efficient AFK farms. I will be starting with a basic cavern AFK farm and will show other AFK farms at the bottom of the post.
Gathering the Materials:
Making the Farm:
First you want to find a spot to make the farm, I suggest at the very start of the Cavern layer which you can see by a line:
Then you want to start mapping out the farm, we are going to start with the 168 stack and clear out a spot. You can clear out till a straight line, it's fine if you overshoot, then just start placing 168 tiles until you have enough.
Then we're going to go to the left side and dig 92 tiles down, again, it's fine if you overshoot. Then place the 92 stack.
Now we're going to go across 167 and then place the 167 stack.
Lastly for the skeleton we're going to go up 91 blocks.
Now we have to clear out the center, so go ahead and use dynamite, sticky dynamite, drill containment unit, whatever you please.
Next you want to find your middle, if you followed my measurements you can follow this image and place the first block of your 84 stack inbetween.
After you get that you want to place the rest of that 84 stack and create your walkway.
Next we're going to make a "U" shape with the 6, 4, and 11 stacks. Down 6. Across 4. Up 11.
Red is 6 down
Blue is 4 across
Green is 11 up
Now from that 11th block we are going to go 33 tiles to the right and 61 to the left. Then make 5 in a zigzag.
and then hammer that zigzag into a ramp
Final Touches:
Now you can stop here and just add lava to the chamber and sit under it with a battle potion, but if you want to add some more efficiency to your farm we are going to move onto the next step which is adding the sand. You can easily get a lot of sand by shimmering ale bought from the tavernkeep.
The next step is creating a hoik, now take your 2 stacks of 84 blocks and stack them on top of each other, on top of the walkway.
Now hammer them into the following shape
Lastly we want wiring
Now we add the spot where we will stand, which is the platform and all of the amenities.
I did test it out to confirm that it does work. Make sure that you're standing in front of the sandstone walls to be considered inside an underground desert biome, turn the 1 second timer on, and you do not need a water candle for this farm. You do not have to shimmer these walls, it is best leave them to avoid certain desert spawns.
Other Farms:
It's fine if you don't see the background change when standing behind the sandstone walls, you're still in the biome, you will still get souls. Also no, this won't corrupt anything.
For a Snow biome you're going to want to delete the barrier and then remake it but longer like shown, you'll have to extend the actuators to match the end of the gate.
To create a jungle biome you just need 140 jungle grass, hive, or lihzahrd bricks.
This is a jungle setup, the jungle part can be designed however you like. If you want to farm either Man Eaters or Jungle Tortoises it's best to do that on the jungle surface itself.
alternative setup for jungle that is more compact. You can also make it into layers for farming jungle materials like life fruits and jungle spores.
Conclusion:
While I am rather short on time at the start of making this post, I am open to requests on any other AFK designs. If you have any questions or corrections let me know.
Also credit to zero_rin and ARK | Quasar of the Terraria Discord for helping me to create these. Another Thank you to Kellam Yoshikage for corrections and additional info.
With the upcoming changes in 1.4.5 (like hoppers and such) I wanna put out this guide to help players make actually efficient AFK farms. I will be starting with a basic cavern AFK farm and will show other AFK farms at the bottom of the post.
Gathering the Materials:
Separate your block of choice into stacks like this.
Making the Farm:
First you want to find a spot to make the farm, I suggest at the very start of the Cavern layer which you can see by a line:
Then you want to start mapping out the farm, we are going to start with the 168 stack and clear out a spot. You can clear out till a straight line, it's fine if you overshoot, then just start placing 168 tiles until you have enough.
Then we're going to go to the left side and dig 92 tiles down, again, it's fine if you overshoot. Then place the 92 stack.
Now we're going to go across 167 and then place the 167 stack.
Lastly for the skeleton we're going to go up 91 blocks.
Now we have to clear out the center, so go ahead and use dynamite, sticky dynamite, drill containment unit, whatever you please.
Next you want to find your middle, if you followed my measurements you can follow this image and place the first block of your 84 stack inbetween.
After you get that you want to place the rest of that 84 stack and create your walkway.
Next we're going to make a "U" shape with the 6, 4, and 11 stacks. Down 6. Across 4. Up 11.
Red is 6 down
Blue is 4 across
Green is 11 up
Now from that 11th block we are going to go 33 tiles to the right and 61 to the left. Then make 5 in a zigzag.
and then hammer that zigzag into a ramp
Final Touches:
Now you can stop here and just add lava to the chamber and sit under it with a battle potion, but if you want to add some more efficiency to your farm we are going to move onto the next step which is adding the sand. You can easily get a lot of sand by shimmering ale bought from the tavernkeep.
Doesn't matter too much as long as there isn't any sand offscreen.
The next step is creating a hoik, now take your 2 stacks of 84 blocks and stack them on top of each other, on top of the walkway.
Now hammer them into the following shape
Lastly we want wiring
Now we add the spot where we will stand, which is the platform and all of the amenities.
I did test it out to confirm that it does work. Make sure that you're standing in front of the sandstone walls to be considered inside an underground desert biome, turn the 1 second timer on, and you do not need a water candle for this farm. You do not have to shimmer these walls, it is best leave them to avoid certain desert spawns.
Other Farms:
Place 12 dungeon walls over the sandstone walls, 20 inside the kill chamber, and 78 (26 in 3 layers on the walkway. You also want 78 (26 in 3 layers) on the walkway as well as 250 dungeon bricks near you to create a dungeon biome. Important to note is that you do not need Dungeon Walls at the spawning platform if you do not plan on using slab or tile walls. Any wall will work if you wanna farm with just regular brick. The importance of slab and tile walls can be found here
You're going to want to add a Water Candle since you no longer have the buff from the underground desert, you also want turtle armor and some form of knockback resistance for the souls (if you don't want to farm ectoplasm then don't add the walls into the kill chamber).
You're going to want to add a Water Candle since you no longer have the buff from the underground desert, you also want turtle armor and some form of knockback resistance for the souls (if you don't want to farm ectoplasm then don't add the walls into the kill chamber).
You only need 26 Pearlstone Blocks to replace the 26 tiles on the walkway and 99 of any wall to place next to your person, the walls are so you can use Spider Minions to kill any Enchanted Swords.
Don't need a Water Candle for this farm
Don't need a Water Candle for this farm
Just need 300 Crimstone/Ebonstone or 125 Pearlstone and 10 more blocks of your choosing, going to need Treasure Magnet or Hand of Creation
Delete the bottom floor and extend it by 5 tiles on each side
Add the floor back and lower your afk platform
You cannot use traps in this setup, making lava the only source of killing enemies. Biome mimics will be hoiked in and you will be too far to trigger.
Crimson:
Corruption:
Hallowed:
Delete the bottom floor and extend it by 5 tiles on each side
Add the floor back and lower your afk platform
You cannot use traps in this setup, making lava the only source of killing enemies. Biome mimics will be hoiked in and you will be too far to trigger.
Crimson:
Corruption:
Hallowed:
Just need 300 Crimstone/Ebonstone or 125 Pearstone and 26 Infested Spider Walls for the Spiders.
You're going to want to first place the Infested Spider Wall behind the spawning platform of your farm, for any farm involving walls you will want the walls to go behind you spawning platform (with the exception being dungeon enemies). Spiders will take up all of the spawns and you won't have to worry about Biome Mimics.
Corruption:
Crimson:
Hallowed:
You're going to want to first place the Infested Spider Wall behind the spawning platform of your farm, for any farm involving walls you will want the walls to go behind you spawning platform (with the exception being dungeon enemies). Spiders will take up all of the spawns and you won't have to worry about Biome Mimics.
Corruption:
Crimson:
Hallowed:
You're going to follow the same guide until you get to the hoik part then you're going to need 110 platforms, 84 for the 1st layer and 26 for the top layer. You may want to extend the blocker like in the snow farm.
Start off like this, then you want to hammer the top platforms 3 times and then blockswap the bottom layer with platforms.
should look like this.
Start off like this, then you want to hammer the top platforms 3 times and then blockswap the bottom layer with platforms.
should look like this.
For a Snow biome you're going to want to delete the barrier and then remake it but longer like shown, you'll have to extend the actuators to match the end of the gate.
To create a jungle biome you just need 140 jungle grass, hive, or lihzahrd bricks.
This is a jungle setup, the jungle part can be designed however you like. If you want to farm either Man Eaters or Jungle Tortoises it's best to do that on the jungle surface itself.
alternative setup for jungle that is more compact. You can also make it into layers for farming jungle materials like life fruits and jungle spores.
Conclusion:
While I am rather short on time at the start of making this post, I am open to requests on any other AFK designs. If you have any questions or corrections let me know.
Also credit to zero_rin and ARK | Quasar of the Terraria Discord for helping me to create these. Another Thank you to Kellam Yoshikage for corrections and additional info.
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