6 best mobs you should farm in Minecraft in 2025

In Minecraft, you can interact with various mobs. Many of these mobs drop different items upon death, some of which are quite useful for survival. Hence, over the years, the community has created ways to farm these mobs to get as many resources from them as possible. These farms are designed to either automatically or semi-automatically trap and kill them.

Here are some of the best mobs that you should farm in Minecraft.

Note: This article is subjective and solely reflects the writer's opinion.

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6 great mobs to farm in Minecraft

1) Enderman

Enderman can be used for a great XP farm. (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

Enderman is one of the most popular mobs that is frequently farmed in Minecraft. After you defeat the Ender Dragon, you can create a special enderman farm in the main End island.

Upon death, these creatures drop around 5 XP points and have a 50% chance to drop an ender pearl. This great item can be thrown to a place to instantly teleport in the game's world. Hence, enderman farms can be highly useful in Minecraft.

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2) Blaze

Blaze drops 10 XP points and blaze rods upon death. (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

Blaze is a dangerous, hostile mob that spawns in Nether Fortresses in the Nether. This mob shoots three quick fireballs when provoked. When you defeat one Blaze, it drops 10 XP points and has a 50% chance of dropping one Blaze Rod if killed without looting an enchantment.

To create a blaze farm in Minecraft, you need to find a blaze spawner in a Nether Fortress and create a large chamber around it to trap and kill blazes without them attacking you.

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3) Iron Golem

The iron golem is another mob that is frequently farmed. (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

Iron golem is also a great mob that should be farmed in Minecraft. It is the most basic mob to farm early in the game since it drops iron ingots, which are extremely useful in making weapons, tools, armor, and other blocks and items.

Iron golems can be farmed using villagers since the latter can summon iron golems infinitely if they are scared of a hostile mob.

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4) Creeper

Creeper farm is quite useful later in the game. (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

Creeper is the most iconic mob in Minecraft. It is one of the oldest mobs that can be farmed because it drops gunpowder. Though you might not have a lot of use for gunpowder early in the game, it is extremely useful when you defeat the Ender Dragon and find an elytra.

Gunpowder can be used to create firework rockets that launch you from the ground when elytra is active.

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5) Zombified Piglin

Zombified piglin drops gold nuggets and XP. (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

Zombified piglins are the most common neutral mobs in Minecraft Nether. When an adult zombified piglin dies, it drops five XP points, while a baby zombified piglin drops 12 XP points. Furthermore, they have a chance to drop gold nuggets and even gold ingots. Owing to their abundance in the Nether, you can create massive gold farms in the Nether roof to get gold nuggets.

Gold nuggets can then be used to create gold-plated food items like golden apples and golden carrots.

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6) Cow

Cows are the most basic farm animals.

Cows are one of the most basic mobs that you should farm in Minecraft. These farm animals commonly spawn in grassy biomes. Every time a cow is killed, they drop their meat is dropped as a resource. Their meat can be cooked to make steak, which is one of the best food items since it replenishes four hunger points.

Hence, you must create a cow crusher farm to make as many steak as possible for survival.

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