Minecraft - High Efficiency XP Farm Tutorial [Works in Minecraft 1.8 & xbox]
Why Arqade Stack Exchange recommends it
Gaming Stack Exchange (Arqade) answerers point people to it when asked for the best Minecraft XP sources or how to farm Endermen for pearls and experience.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2012 to 2020.
What it is
A 41-minute Minecraft tutorial by docm77 showing how to build a high-efficiency Enderman XP farm, based on a design by Panda. It walks through the landing pad, drop reset, spawning layers and water safety, and lists the materials needed per layer.
What people said
Recommends Kcats · 2013-06 · Arqade Stack Exchange · on “What is Best way to earn XP?”
You may want to look at this enderman farm by Panda [this video] or this blaze farm by Etho [LINK] . By far those two are one of the best XP sources in the vanilla game.
Recommends Magicp · 2014-04 · Arqade Stack Exchange · on “Are Endermen afraid of certain enchantments?”
To my knowledge, enchantments will have nothing to do with agro in mobs (At this moment in time). The most effective way is to aim for the lower legs of the enderman as it doesn't register as you looking directly at it when you strike it so it wont teleport away. As for the pearl drops, it's all up to the RNGesus whether you get one or not, but just keep grinding and you'll likely get one. If you need to farm lots of them make your way to the End and create an enderman farm [this video] as they will definitely get you a lot of pearls.
Cites fredley · 2012-04 · Arqade Stack Exchange · on “Are there any effective multilevel mob grinders in 1.2.5?”
What you need to do is the following: Arrange a large tower of rings that are 1 block wide, separated by 3 blocks vertically: #### # # # # # # # # # # #### Surround the ring with Pistons facing inward. Place pressure plates on the ring itself, so that stepping on the pressure plate activates the piston and pushes you (or the mob) into the center Make sure gaps are filled so that mobs can only spawn directly on the pressure plates. Make the stack of rings as high as you can Bonus step for exp farms: Work out which height drop will cause mobs to lose all but half a heart of damage. Place creepers within the ring here, and place no spawning rings below this level. This way all mobs will drop th
Cites a cat · 2012-11 · Arqade Stack Exchange · on “What are the benefits of venturing into The End?”
The biggest incentive for going there has to be the Enderdragon. Killing it is required for "winning" the game, gives you a ton of XP (the equivalent of 4000 zombies), and drops the Dragon Egg block, which is in itself useless other than as a trophy. Bragging rights, I suppose. You can also get a material found nowhere else, the End Stone that the place is made out of. It also serves no purpose and isn't particularly pleasant to look at, though. Other than that, it's crawling with Endermen. You can use this for XP grinders — from holes in the ground from where you hack away at Ender-shins, to huge spawning platforms that automatically drop the Endermen to ½ hearts of health. Example of such
Cites Gecko · 2020-07 · Arqade Stack Exchange · on “Which changes from updates will break (semi-)automated farms when upgrading from 1.8.8 to 1.16.1+ in Minecraft Java Edition?”
Background Me and some friends have been playing Minecraft since around 1.1 , we started our current world at 1.2 which initially was SMP but we later moved it to SSP with LAN host. Back in the days we were rather active and always upgraded to the newest version when it got released up until 1.8.8 . That's when for various reasons our Minecraft sessions became less regular and we abandoned the world for a while. When coming back 1.9 had released and we weren't too fond with the changes. Combined with not playing Minecraft as often any more we decided to no longer upgrade as we would have to check patch notes on every session. Now several years have passed (5 in fact) and with the Nether Upda