A Guide To AFK Farms

[BaronBunny]

Very helped, Thank you!

 

[Kellam Yoshikage]

You can also place just one Granite/Marble Block around the character, and this adds Granite/Marble Biome spawns, but they can become more frequent if the character stands on at least one Granite/Marble Block.

Missed this comment, I'd like to clarify that the game scans half a block under the player, at the player's center horizontally, for a marble/granite block, and this causes spawns. Otherwise, you can cause these spawns by having enemies spawn directly on the associated block type, but just having a block nearby the spawn range isn't enough for good consistency; a 4x4 cube near the spawn surface would guarantee that the game would see the granite/marble, though.

 

[ButterTaco]

I seem to be running into an issue where every so often id see a worm come "digging" through the air and it will persist around for a while before going off and despawning, any ideas why this is happening? Also, did I do my underground desert incorrectly? I thought the background would change if I did it correct but it doesn't seem to be happening.

 

[Heath04🌳]

I seem to be running into an issue where every so often id see a worm come "digging" through the air and it will persist around for a while before going off and despawning, any ideas why this is happening? Also, did I do my underground desert incorrectly? I thought the background would change if I did it correct but it doesn't seem to be happening.

Underground Desert doesn't have a background change, it looks correct however. As for worms, not really a way to prevent them from spawning but at least they're despawning for you so not really interrupting the farm it seems.

 

[7xxoslayo]

I have a problem. I am trying to get the Rod of discord. I did your chaos elemental farm but it seems like it doesn't work. Before that I did spider farm, crimson farm, and dungeon farm. After spider farm the farms seem to be somehow broken. After i finished using spider farm i broke all the walls and blocks that was used to spawn them, but I am still getting the spiders dropped. My try was to infect the farm with hollow but that didn't work. I am still getting dropped spiders till this day and cant do anything about it. Also the Chaos elementals are dropping 3 in 1 minute, which is not good for me. Is this normal or did i do something wrong? I am playing on tModLoader but i am not using any mods that change the games aspect, only visual stuff.

 

[ButterTaco]

I'm in the same scenario that 7xxoslayo is in. I am getting 1-2 chaos elementals every so often. Is that the intended results for it? That seems way too slow? Did I do something wrong?

 

[svp]

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I'm in the same scenario that 7xxoslayo is in. I am getting 1-2 chaos elementals every so often. Is that the intended results for it? That seems way too slow? Did I do something wrong?

Chaos elementals only spawn while youre moving

 

[Heath04🌳]

I have a problem. I am trying to get the Rod of discord. I did your chaos elemental farm but it seems like it doesn't work. Before that I did spider farm, crimson farm, and dungeon farm. After spider farm the farms seem to be somehow broken. After i finished using spider farm i broke all the walls and blocks that was used to spawn them, but I am still getting the spiders dropped. My try was to infect the farm with hollow but that didn't work. I am still getting dropped spiders till this day and cant do anything about it. Also the Chaos elementals are dropping 3 in 1 minute, which is not good for me. Is this normal or did i do something wrong? I am playing on tModLoader but i am not using any mods that change the games aspect, only visual stuff.

So firstly, are you noticing them spawn anywhere else? If you have binoculars or golf balls, anything to move the camera over to the spawning platform make sure everyone is spawning there and not anywhere else. If they are spawning somewhere else then you'll have to place some lava there with bubble blocks.

I'm in the same scenario that 7xxoslayo is in. I am getting 1-2 chaos elementals every so often. Is that the intended results for it? That seems way too slow? Did I do something wrong?

Same for you, make sure they're not spawning anywhere else and block off other possible spawns. You may want a different minion than Stardust Dragon as it kills things too far away from the player as well.

Chaos elementals only spawn while youre moving

This condition is negated while the player is standing near a shadow candle, which is shown in the image.

 

[ButterTaco]

Same for you, make sure they're not spawning anywhere else and block off other possible spawns. You may want a different minion than Stardust Dragon as it kills things too far away from the player as well.

Here is the greater area around my farm, I do not believe anything is spawning above the farm. I still have the stardust dragon equipped but I do not think that is an issue as I have watched it and it has only gone over to the spawn platform area to kill the flying swords. The mobs are all spawning on the spawn platform majority are normal Caverns mobs with the rare Chaos Elemental spawning from time to time.

 

[Heath04🌳]

Here is the greater area around my farm, I do not believe anything is spawning above the farm. I still have the stardust dragon equipped but I do not think that is an issue as I have watched it and it has only gone over to the spawn platform area to kill the flying swords. The mobs are all spawning on the spawn platform majority are normal Caverns mobs with the rare Chaos Elemental spawning from time to time.

Try changing the hoiks that are on your spawning platform to pearlstone as well.

 

[ButterTaco]

Try changing the hoiks that are on your spawning platform to pearlstone as well.

That didn't really change much it seems. Funny enough I did get the Rod of Discord off of the first Chaos Elemental that came by after making that adjustment. It honestly seems like more come when I'm moving around but that doesn't make any sense with the shadow candle being right there.

 

[Heath04🌳]

That didn't really change much it seems. Funny enough I did get the Rod of Discord off of the first Chaos Elemental that came by after making that adjustment. It honestly seems like more come when I'm moving around but that doesn't make any sense with the shadow candle being right there.

So it did sorta work. Jk. I'll test around with it more when I have the time, I've been working a lot lately so I'll have maybe 5 days of the entire month to actually play the game, I do still plan on putting out updates for this guide but there's also the wiki guide that has been updated with correct information linked here: Enemy farming

 

[ButterTaco]

So it did sorta work. Jk. I'll test around with it more when I have the time, I've been working a lot lately so I'll have maybe 5 days of the entire month to actually play the game, I do still plan on putting out updates for this guide but there's also the wiki guide that has been updated with correct information linked here: Enemy farming

All good, thank you so much for the guide and troubleshooting help!

 

[RowanSkie]

I made the farm on my own post-Moon Lord world (following the video), however it keeps spawning enemies on top of the desert section as I've shown here:

Spoiler: camera mode

Is my farm a bit too low or something?

Spoiler: map view

 

[7xxoslayo]

Try changing the hoiks that are on your spawning platform to pearlstone as well.

Idk. It looks like it's spawning better now but the SPIDERS. I hate them. I hate them so much. how do i fix it :'|. (btw do mimic have to spawn in elemental farm? or did i do something wrong?)

 

[Heath04🌳]

I made the farm on my own post-Moon Lord world (following the video), however it keeps spawning enemies on top of the desert section

Place some lava and some bubble blocks on the side on top of the desert portion.

Idk. It looks like it's spawning better now but the SPIDERS. I hate them. I hate them so much. how do i fix it :'|. (btw do mimic have to spawn in elemental farm? or did i do something wrong?)

For the spiders really make sure you got all the walls, if there are walls behind blocks then spiders will still spawn

For chaos elementals, make sure you're not in a hallowed biome, chaos elementals only need to spawn on pearlstone, removing the rest of the pearlstone around you to make it not a hallowed biome will disable biome mimic spawns

 

[Macswaggens]

I've just entered hardmode, lowered my granite platform the way shown in your picture, and jungle mimics are still activating. Is it because I'm in an npc menu?

 

[AlienKiller]

Amazing farm,I have changed my biome to crimson and the spawning blocks to crimson stone but im not getting any enemies that drop Vertebra.Is there a way to spawn in blood crawlers/face monster/crimera or floaty gross????

 

[SrmsReis]

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:

Spoiler: Materials

Separate your block of choice into stacks like this.
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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:

Spoiler: Cavern Line

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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.

Spoiler: Top

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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.

Spoiler: Down

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Now we're going to go across 167 and then place the 167 stack.

Spoiler: Bottom

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Lastly for the skeleton we're going to go up 91 blocks.

Spoiler: Up

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Now we have to clear out the center, so go ahead and use dynamite, sticky dynamite, drill containment unit, whatever you please.

Spoiler: Cleared Out

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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.

Spoiler: Middle

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After you get that you want to place the rest of that 84 stack and create your walkway.

Spoiler: Walkway

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Next we're going to make a "U" shape with the 6, 4, and 11 stacks. Down 6. Across 4. Up 11.

Spoiler: Kill Chamber

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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.

Spoiler: Sand/Bat Capture

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and then hammer that zigzag into a ramp

Spoiler: Ramp

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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.

Spoiler: Sand Placement

Doesn't matter too much as long as there isn't any sand offscreen.
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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.

Spoiler: Hoik Step 1

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Now hammer them into the following shape

Spoiler: Hoik Step 2

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Lastly we want wiring

Spoiler: Hoik Step 3

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Now we add the spot where we will stand, which is the platform and all of the amenities.

Spoiler: Final Touch

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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:

Spoiler: Dungeon

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
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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).

Spoiler: Chaos Elemental

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.

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Don't need a Water Candle for this farm

Spoiler: Souls of Night/Light or Spiders

Spoiler: Biome Mimics (not usable in GFB/Remix)

Just need 300 Crimstone/Ebonstone or 125 Pearlstone and 10 more blocks of your choosing, going to need Treasure Magnet or Hand of Creation
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Delete the bottom floor and extend it by 5 tiles on each side
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Add the floor back and lower your afk platform
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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:
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Corruption:
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Hallowed:
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Spoiler: No Biome Mimics

Just need 300 Crimstone/Ebonstone or 125 Pearstone and 26 Infested Spider Walls for the Spiders.
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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.
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Corruption:
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Crimson:
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Hallowed:
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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.

Spoiler: Pre-Skeletron/No Wiring

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.

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Start off like this, then you want to hammer the top platforms 3 times and then blockswap the bottom layer with platforms.

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should look like this.

Spoiler: Snow Biome

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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.
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Spoiler: Jungle

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To create a jungle biome you just need 140 jungle grass, hive, or lihzahrd bricks.

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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.

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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.

why are slimes spawning on there?

 

[Heath04🌳]

why are slimes spawning on there?

Just place some lava there