How To Make A Cactus Farm In Minecraft

How to Get Cactus in Minecraft

In order to grow cactus and make a farm for it, you’ll first need to gather a few cactus blocks. Lucky you, we already have a detailed guide on how to get cactus in Minecraft, so make sure to check it out.

Things You Need to Make a Cactus Farm

This farm is straightforward, so you won’t need any complex Redstone components. Instead you need a few basic things to build a simple cactus farm. Everything you need is listed below:

Slabs (as many as you want) Sand (as many as you want) Cactus (as many as you want) Fences (as many as you want) Water Buckets 3 Hoppers 6 Chests Solid Blocks 1 Stair

Minecraft Cactus Farm: Step-by-Step Tutorial

1. Collection System

2. Cactus Growing and Breaking System

3. Expand the Cactus Farm in Minecraft

The farm we built is completely functional, though it’s a bit slow. We can easily change it using two different ways and improve the output.

Extend the Collection System

We can just continue building platforms attached to the first one, that we can cover with more water, Simply, create a new 17 blocks-long and 8 blocks-wide platform attached to the first one, also away from the chests. Build a one-block tall wall around it and fill the edges with water, so that it flows towards the rest of the collection system. After you built the platform, you can then rebuild the same cactus stations two blocks away from the edges and the platform below.

Extend the Cactus Farm Upwards

Besides expanding the collection system, we can also make more layers of the cactus modules. You can even use the fences to place new sand blocks on top of them and continue the entire sand, fence, and cactus placement process. You can definitely place a lot of cacti this way. The other option is to pillar up a couple of blocks from the fences below and create identical cactus stations as below. You can continue expanding your farm in any way you want, according to your resources, needs, and space in your Minecraft world.

Minecraft Cactus Farm Mechanics Explained

Cactus grows just like other plant blocks in Minecraft. When the top cactus block receives 16 random ticks, a new block of cactus grows above it, only if there is space above. That takes about 18 minutes on average and the cactus can grow up to three blocks tall. The most relevant mechanic about a cactus block is that it doesn’t like any blocks attached directly to one of its sides. That means, if you have already placed a cactus on a sand block, you will not be able to place any blocks next to it. However, when a cactus grows, it checks only if there is space above the topmost cactus block, and it doesn’t check whether there are any blocks next to that space. Therefore, when a cactus grows, it will get broken instantly if we leave a block next to it. So yeah, we are purposely leaving some blocks so the cactus breaks, and we can then collect it in an item form.