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How to Make a Gold Farm in Minecraft

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I want to build a gold farm in my survival but i dont know how. Can someone help?
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How to Make a Gold Farm in Minecraft

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  • Use large nether portals to spawn zombie pigmen.
  • Consider using tutorials from creators like Silentwisperer for detailed guidance [4:5].
  • Combine with other farms, like iron farms, for efficiency [5].

Basic Concept of Gold Farms

Gold farms in Minecraft primarily rely on spawning zombie pigmen, which drop gold nuggets upon death. The most common method involves creating large nether portals that naturally spawn these mobs. The larger the portal, the more pigmen will spawn [4:1][4:4]. Once spawned, they can be funneled into a kill chamber where they are dispatched, often using mechanisms like trident killers to maximize loot collection [5:2].

Tutorials and Resources

For those new to building gold farms, following a tutorial can be incredibly helpful. A recommended source is Silentwisperer's guide, which provides a step-by-step process to create an efficient farm [4:5]. Additionally, YouTube is a rich resource for finding various designs and methods, as suggested by several users [2:2].

Combining Farms for Efficiency

Some players choose to integrate their gold farms with other types of farms, such as iron farms, to optimize space and resources. This setup can include a collection system where both iron golems and pigmen drop into the same area, allowing for simultaneous farming of different materials [5]. This approach not only saves time but also maximizes the utility of your farm infrastructure.

Additional Tips

  • To prevent XP orbs from getting stuck, place carpets over hoppers while still allowing items to be collected [4:3].
  • Using looting enchantments on weapons can significantly increase the yield from each pigman [4:2].
  • For those looking to start small, consider simpler designs that can be expanded over time as you gather more resources [2:1].

By leveraging these strategies and resources, you can build an effective gold farm in Minecraft that suits your needs and play style.

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I want to build a gold farm in my survival but i dont know how. Can someone help?

Posted by coolkoen1 · in r/Minecraft · 4 years ago
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[deleted] · 4 years ago

Try this

https://youtu.be/Fu4WeUCIM5U

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coolkoen1 · OP · 4 years ago

I think i can try that

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[deleted] · 4 years ago

Good luck and have a nice day :D

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Any tutorials on how to make a gold farm?

Posted by OrganicCustomer9807 · in r/Minecraft · 4 years ago

Hi can someone please give a good link Or tutorial on how to make a gold farm. I have been trying to find one but wasn't successful the one I found was really huge. So is there any gold farms links you guys can share? Would help a lot

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zeusar · 4 years ago

Just look it up on yt lmao

Also there is no small gold farm

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OrganicCustomer9807 · OP · 4 years ago

Do you know any good ones?

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zeusar · 4 years ago

Not off the top of my head, but yeah... Idk how you couldn't find "a good one"

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Coffee_Elf · 4 years ago

Java or bedrock

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OrganicCustomer9807 · OP · 4 years ago

Java

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Longjumping_Ad_6618 · 4 years ago

Basilcy huge netherack platform, in the middle a 2 wide hole in each side and it he middle of that, turtle eggs. Don’t forget trapdoors

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thE_29 · 4 years ago

I build this small one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraftfarms/comments/lmsnyy/a_lot_of_gold_farms_require_tons_of_magma_to/

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But I already added 2 other layers and will probably soon build another one. Not that it doesnt bring enough gold, I have way more than I will ever need, but just for the fun (also I have a magma cream farm anyway and already a double chest full of magma blocks + a shulker box full).

The only downside I had with this farm, was that my lower egg sometimes got destroyed. So I build this cage like shulkercrafts tutorial has it.

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What's YOUR favourite way of making gold?

Posted by DarkkPhantom77 · in r/StardewValley · 11 days ago

Not necessary the most efficient like ancient fruit wine but a way of getting gold that is not as popular that you enjoy. For example I grow pineapples and turn them into pineapple jam which nets me 230k ish gold per harvest (about 200 jars or something)

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cerareece · 10 days ago

mushrooms 🍄

i have around 30 kegs and preserve jars that process wine and the fish roe in the background but I absolutely love gathering and dehydrating mushrooms. i have about 25 logs and playing forest farm with mushroom cave to get any random drops I can.

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InitialInitial6855 · 11 days ago

Going into the mines with my parrot. I love hanging in the mines, and getting money for killing every monster I see helps lol

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unfamiliarwaystodie · 9 days ago

this is so fun too. going on a bad luck day + high level parrot + and using monster musk gets me a lot of gold.

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DarkkPhantom77 · OP · 10 days ago

Wait wdym with your parrot lol

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Equivalent_Mobile_54 · 9 days ago

I keep about 10 dinosaurs in their own coop and make 16k some days with the eggs. I used to make dino mayonnaise but learned just selling the egg was more profitable. I also sell truffle oil and making all kinds of jam from the various trees in my greenhouse. I also like to visit ginger island often so after 3-4 days out there I return to a 100k+ harvest. 

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Definitely_Not_Bots · 11 days ago

Truffle farm, with the 2x forage talent and Artisan. 1.4k gold per truffle oil, each pig gets me ~3 or 4 truffles per day, but I only got 6 Barns (72 pigs) so my farm only nets ~300k gold per day.

Obviously in the winter they don't find truffles at all, so I gotta budget for that, you know? Can't spend it all by Fall 28 if I wanna survive the winter!

Edit to add: I could sell the truffles straight with the iridium forage talent, but I have Artisan already (for eggs and cheese) so why not maximize? 😆

Edit 2: this was a long time ago, hadn't played since before 1.5 and only now getting back into it!

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DarkkPhantom77 · OP · 10 days ago

I did truffle oil for a while too but eventually found it tedious lol so I just sell the truffle as is

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SneakyPanduh · 9 days ago

I might be crazy, but I stopped making the oil too.

I swear I had two iridium truffles 2 bottles of oil and the iridium truffles showed to sale for more.

Plus, idk, the crap you need for oil makers sucks. I just Like picking them up and selling them.

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shizmabiz88 · 7 days ago

Confused is this not the second most popular way to make money?

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Definitely_Not_Bots · 7 days ago

Maybe it is, but I have yet to see people mention it. I mostly see folks talking about starfruit and ancient Fruit as their primary.

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RyanBordello · 10 days ago

Do you grow enough grass/hay for them?

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Reverend_Bull · 9 days ago

My favorite is selling quality ancient fruit. I love farming, and harvesting, and seeing number go up.
Close second is probably selling diamonds from my crystalaria

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just finished my first gold farm!

Posted by [deleted] · in r/Minecraft · 5 years ago
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NutshellOfChaos · 5 years ago

Right after throwing potion quickly switch to a sword with looting. You'll get way more stuff!

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RedstoneSpider · 5 years ago

You should add carpets on top of hoppers to prevent xp orbs getting stuck. It still allows items to get sucked

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Clinkerboot- · 5 years ago

But he did?

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RedstoneSpider · 5 years ago

Oh yeah, I didn't see them at first

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SpiderMax95 · 5 years ago

I always wondered how these farms work. Do portals just spawn pigmen?

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martigf38 · 5 years ago

yes, an as bigger the portal is, the more pigmen spawn

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[deleted] · 5 years ago

how did you make it?

tutorial please (maybe, your choice)

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[deleted] · 5 years ago

I followed a tutorial by silentwisperer, https://youtu.be/StoefpjrZCo

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mirasaku · 5 years ago

The portals together look like a server

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Iron + Gold Farm with all the sorters and crafters

Posted by 01bks · in r/MinecraftBedrockers · 3 months ago
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There's been lots of gold and iron farm questions lately...or always. Figured I'd share something I made a while back. Its actually a ground level Iron farm. Super easy to make early on as you can use mostly all dirt.

It then has a double portal gold farm above it. The piglins drop into the same collection as the IG's. Lava and trident killer.

Village below, 40 I think. This was before I knew the best way was to trap them. I thought they had to access their beds lol.

Then full collection system basement level.

Gold Ingots and nugget's and auto-crafted into gold blocks

Swords(auto-smelted) - added back to nugget chest for auto-crafted gold blocks.

Iron Ingots auto-crafted into iron blocks

Rotten flesh - 1 chest saved and then any extra auto-fed into lava

Poppy's - Run through a composter and then stored as bone meal - Could be auto-crafted to bone block if nec.

String - could be auto-crafted to wool if needed.

Overflow chests to catch anything extra or missed.

Built a platform once to capture some mobs. Added lots of lightning rods and got all the mob-heads.

Bonus: Watching the IG's get mad and start launching piglins in the collection area

It was a work in progress and could certainly use a lot of upgrades. But it give you an idea of what you can do.

Will you build something similar?

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will3snider · 3 months ago

Cool idea should like to see your kill chamber. Plus, more pic on how yur moving the zombie piglins

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01bks · OP · 3 months ago

Standard trident killer in the center with water flowing to it. Then signs off 1 corner to hold up the lava. I can add some photos next week.

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will3snider · 3 months ago

Please, I would love to try it with my mob and iron farm.

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Can you motivate me to not be lazy

Posted by Imaginary_Emotion876 · in r/Minecraft · 7 months ago

I don't know why, but I want to build farms like iron farms, gold farms, etc but it just seems intimidating

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DownriverSMP · 7 months ago

Just start, it’s Minecraft! There are so many great resources on how to and worst case you try again if you can’t get it the first time!

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Space19723103 · 7 months ago

I used to find it all really intimidating, but I started with the simplest guide I could find... now I redesign them

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withaheavyhearton · 7 months ago

Everything's intimidating until you try it, then you realize your mind made it out to be worse than it really is. Just start!

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Most-Priority-3299 · 7 months ago

Have you done any kinds of farms or automation before? If you're at the very beginning I'd say try a small cactus farm.

Like I'm kind of intimidated by redstone (and on bedrock so it works a little differently/less reliably sometimes) so I started simple with a tutorial for the sugarcane/melon/pumpkin observer and piston farms then followed a tutorial for a small auto-sorter, then went rogue and figured out how to rig up a minecart collector at the end of a line that moves it over into a dispenser on the other side of the tracks to be used for the return trip. Now I think I'm stuck in the same place you are with wanting to make a fancy piston door but I haven't hyped myself up to it yet.

If mutual accountability works for you then I'm willing to have us each pick a project and set a deadline.

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Name some farms that you must have in your survival world

Posted by Effective-Fan-716 · in r/Minecraft · 3 months ago
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I've got raid farm, gold farm and an iron farm in my world. Which farm should I build next ?

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Distinct-Pride7936 · 3 months ago

Witch farm for easy gunpowder for rockets and redstone

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EfficiencyIVPickAx · 3 months ago

That's a super easy farm, tons of drops, and can use leather for frames and sacks, with raw pork for emeralds. My cured gives an emerald for 1 or 2 raw.

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wishiwasnthere1 · 3 months ago

Creeper farm. Need that gunpowder

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SparklezSagaOfficial · 3 months ago

I thought this too until I made my first ghast farm. Not only are they easier to build (no placing trapdoors for ages), they’re more productive and less dangerous.

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TotemRiolu · 3 months ago

Ghast farm?!

I need to look this up, I've been running a creeper farm all this time. Don't get me wrong, the creeper farm is amazing and basically infinite fireworks/tnt, but plus ghast tears would be better, given how hard they are to get.

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SparklezSagaOfficial · 3 months ago

Pre Entering Nether: Iron Farm, Cow Pen, Chicken Pen, Sheep Pen, Villager Crop Farm, Basic Hostile Mob Farm, Manual Sugarcane and Cactus Farms

Post Entering Nether: Hoglin Farm, Ghast Farm, Automatic Nether Wood Farm, Oozing Slime Farm, Infesting XP Farm

Post Dragon Fight: Gold Farm + Barting System (not worth it until late game), Enderman Farm, Raid Farm, Automatic Sugarcane, Bamboo Farm (into auto crafting system for mega smelter), Mooshroom Pen, Cobblestone Generator & Blast Chamber

True Endgame: Witch Farm, Fortress Farm, Trial Chamber Farm, Guardian Farm, Shulker Farm, Universal Tree Farm, Void Trading, Nether & Overworld Tunnel Bores, Auto Brewer, Universal Autocrafting, Mirror Recievers

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donqon · 3 months ago

I mainly just use a gold farm. Gold + rotten flesh to trade to clerics, plus good XP, plus gold for beacons

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IllProgress4439 · 3 months ago

How do you make a gold farm?

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donqon · 3 months ago

Giant nether portal that uses a dispenser to constantly break and repair the portal, spawning lots of zombie pigmen. They fall down either to be one tapped by the player to killed by a trident pusher. Can make bigger portals or multiple portals to get a bigger output of pigmen

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donqon · 3 months ago

Oh 100%. Gold farm is the number 1 farm honestly. I don’t think you really need anything else more

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SparklezSagaOfficial · 3 months ago

If you do them on the nether roof with a high afk spot they’re almost unfairly efficient. Though I guess that is Java only suggestion

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Smart_Idiot1041 · 3 months ago

the only farm you truly need ☺️

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Need some Gold farm help [bedrock]

Posted by Several_Tomato_2106 · in r/MinecraftHelp · 8 months ago

I’m not sure if this is allowed to be posted here but I figured I’d give it a shot, as I do need help.

Could anyone link to any good gold farm builds that don’t require fire spread, or preferably not a ton of magma blocks? I haven’t played since 1.8, and a lot has changed. Every video I see on YouTube is using fire spread.

Please and thank you.

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kingoffuckery · 8 months ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j6RRgzYKKM4&list=PLNHgKjtCKHKdDmw5-PpdVeQ5KAsFJbOB4&index=17&pp=gAQBiAQB

It's an old one but should still work

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slight miscalculation while making a gold farm... and im in hardcore..

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DaddyGray69 · 2 years ago

Make a couple iron golems and see who wins

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eatingdonuts44 · 2 years ago

I support this idea, hell just make an arena for the fun of it. Maybe add snow golems all around too

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Alexis_style · 2 years ago

1 iron golem versus 30 billion pigman

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Milo751 · 2 years ago

Minecraft Mob Battles

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bruhpotato420 · 2 years ago

All of these solutions are trying to find a way to kill them, just run 128 blocks away and they'll all despawn

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MadMavrick88 · 2 years ago

That's not fun or challenging.

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REEDTHISNAME · OP · 2 years ago

its my only option. in the images above thats only about 1/3 of the piglins. the game refuses to load anymore. They are there, they are just invisible and only visible when a few blocks away. Also, i cant even punch them because of lag.

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killerclown3415 · 2 years ago

It’s always more fun when stop running when your about to die

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killerclown3415 · 2 years ago

hit one and check your totem supply.

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[deleted] · 2 years ago

Become the Doom Slayer

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ballistic-dumbass · 2 years ago

Rain havoc!

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diet-chunges · 2 years ago

Rip and tear until it’s done

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Super simple modular gold farm, should I do a tutorial?

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Looking4arts · 3 months ago

What is the pc processor recommended for this so the pc will not lag while using this farm?

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peaulothepessi · 4 years ago

Work on bedrock?

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DardS8Br · 1 year ago

yes

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DardS8Br · 1 year ago

You can speed it up a lot by using two dispensers on each portal for the water

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how to make a gold farm in minecraft

Creating a Gold Farm in Minecraft: Key Considerations

  1. Location:

    • Build your farm in the Nether, specifically in a biome like the Nether Wastes or a Bastion Remnant, where you can find large numbers of Piglins and Zombie Piglins.
  2. Mob Spawning:

    • Use platforms to encourage Piglins and Zombie Piglins to spawn. They spawn in groups, so larger platforms increase efficiency.
    • Ensure the area is well-lit to prevent other mobs from spawning.
  3. Killing Mechanism:

    • Use a lava blade, fall damage, or a player-activated trap to kill the mobs. Lava blades are effective as they can kill mobs without damaging their drops.
  4. Collection System:

    • Place hoppers beneath the killing area to collect gold nuggets and other drops. Connect these hoppers to chests for storage.
  5. AFK Spot:

    • Create a safe AFK (Away From Keyboard) spot where you can stand to keep the farm active without being in danger.

Basic Steps to Build a Simple Gold Farm:

  1. Build a Platform:

    • Create a large platform (e.g., 20x20 blocks) at least 24 blocks above the ground to maximize spawning rates.
  2. Add Trapdoors:

    • Place trapdoors around the edges of the platform to trick Piglins into thinking they can walk off, causing them to fall.
  3. Create a Killing Area:

    • Below the platform, set up a lava blade or a drop chute to kill the mobs.
  4. Set Up Hoppers:

    • Place hoppers at the bottom to collect drops and connect them to chests.
  5. Light Up Surroundings:

    • Light up the surrounding area to prevent other mobs from spawning and to increase the efficiency of your farm.

Recommendation:

  • For a more advanced farm, consider using a design that incorporates a Nether portal to transport mobs to the Overworld, where they can be killed more easily. This can significantly increase your gold yield.

Building a gold farm can be resource-intensive, so gather materials in advance and be prepared for some trial and error!

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