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Sheep breeding and meat farm
Chickens aren’t the only animal in town who can be penned into a surprisingly small space and harvested in a slightly horrific way: sheep are pretty useful to have around for both food and wool, the versatile little mites, so they get the autofarm treatment too. A two compartment system with a dispenser of wheat
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and a dispenser of lava means that you can wire up one button to get the breeding started, and when the babies have scooted across the tiny gap to the other side and grown up, it’s button number two for the lava death drop. You absolute monster, you. The windows in the chicken and sheep autofarm
Automatic dye farming
It may not be the most necessary resource in your world, but this little trick merits mentioning. Setting up a square of dispensers around your two-high plant, firing bonemeal at it will force it to duplicate at high speed, stacking up the dye swatches
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mean you can make sure the machine is working once you’ve built it, but if you’d rather not see 20 baby lambs engulfed in flames then feel free to use an opaque block instead. Everyone will understand. (Also: definitely never shove animals in a crate in real life. Or burn them with fire. That’s definitely bad.)
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at the flick of a switch. Making the redstone clock underneath is a noisy business, but for an inventory full of dye in mere seconds, it’s worth bearing in mind. Be aware of how much bonemeal this machine uses though. It’s a lot. So much.