Minecraft guide

Farming

Farming is away to get unlimited food supply. You do not need to go searching for animals for food, which you may still want to cook when you can get food from your Minecraftia backyard, without even needing the furnace.

Tips on farming.

You need to mow soil with a hoe to make it suitable for farming. It also has to be wet, and thus you need it to be beside a water pool. Farms are also naturally generated in NPC villages, where crops are already grown. Wet soil is darker.

Seeds are obtained by breaking grass, mowing grassy dirt, and breaking fully-grown crops

Here are the crops you can get.

Wheat-Most common in NPC villages. These are ripe when you see it being brownish at the tip of the plant. One full grown wheat give you 1-2 wheat and 0-2 seeds. The numbers are based on experience. By putting three wheat in a horizontal position in a crafting table, you get bread. Wheat will be grown in one Minecraft day, basically approximately 20 minutes. It may have a shorter growing time. Wheat can also be used to attract peaceful mobs like cows, sheep and chickens for breeding.

Sugarcane-This plant does not need mowed soil. Instead, it just has to be put on sand. One block-1x1-patch of sugarcane is bright green. It may grow to become taller until it is three blocks high, if there is water present beside it. Breaking the bottom cane gives you the whole three sugarcane, which means if you break the second one, you get the top two. So, to allow infinite growing, you may keep breaking the second one, and wait for the bottom to grow back its full size. This does not have seeds, you can find them naturally in sand near water. One sugarcane gives you one sugar in the crafting box. Sugar can be used for potions

Cactus-Found naturally in deserts. Its physics are generally the same as the sugarcane, but you cannot put two cactus directly adjacent to each other. These are not edible, it you can use them to make mob traps, as they injure mobs, like how they do to you.

Potato-A crop planted in mown soil. These are more rare, compared to the wheat, but they can still be seen in villages. They have broad leaves, with a light brown bottom. One potato crop gives you 1-2 potatoes and 0-2 seeds. Potatoes can be cooked, as well as eaten raw, like meat.

Carrot-Basically the same as the potato, but they cannot be cooked. They can be eaten immediately, but they can also be ingredients for golden carrot.

Melon-These are special crops which cannot be found normally. They can only be found in generated structures' chests.one melon can last forever, and it only needs to be planted in mown wet soil, and right after that, it will start growing. It will grow melon blocks directly adjacent to it. Any blocks beside the melon seed, will remain there, thus reducing the number of melon blocks grown. Breaking a melon block gives you 3 watermelons, and the plant will continue to grow the block to replace the space. Melons can be eaten, together with being ingredients for glistening melon.

Pumpkin-Undergoing research, but it has a number of uses, like wearing it on your head as a helmet that provides no protection, or making utility golems. Wearing a pumpkin may prevent endermen from teleporting away while attacking it, making it useful for acquiring ender pearls.

There are such things as cocoa seeds and soya seeds which can only be found in chests in generated structures, but I have not experienced its function.

Do note that the materials used for hoes only determines its durability, not its efficiency or speed.

Breeding is another aspect of farming