How To Make a Fish Farm in Minecraft & Automize It

Utilize simple components like chests, hoppers, fences, and trapdoors alongside an auto-clicker for a productive AFK fishing setup.

Updated on Mar 09, 2024
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How To Make a Fish Farm in Minecraft & Automize It

Before you start, make sure you have an auto-clicker on your PC. If you're using a console, find something that will hold the fishing button all the time. For PC, you can download OPAutoClicker, set it up to right-click for fishing, and start it up alongside your simple AFK fishing farm!

How to Make an Easy Minecraft Automatic Fish Farm

First, we'll check out how to make an easy automatic fish farm which will only give you fish and EXP points. This means you won't get good treasures like enchanted books. But nevertheless, it's still an excellent farm for food, strings, bone, sticks, and especially leather!

Knowing what you're getting with this build, here are the items you'll need to create this easy automatic fish farm:


Minecraft Items Needed for Easy AFK Automatic Fish Farm

Once you collect these items in your survival world, you'll be ready to make the farm and start your auto clicker. So below you can see how to make this easy AFK fish farm in Minecraft:

  1. Break 4 ground blocks, and place 2 connected chests in the hole
  2. Hold Shift to crouch, then place and connect the hopper with the double chest
  3. While crouching, place the wooden fence on top of the hopper
  4. Place the pressure plate on top of the fence, and place the bucket of water directly on the side of the fence
  5. On the right of the hole where the water is flowing, place the note block
  6. Press Shift to crouch, and place the random block on the note block
  7. Place the iron trap door on the side of the random block facing the pressure plate

Minecraft Easy AFK Automatic Fish Farm

To start this easy AFK fish farm, you'll want to stand on the double chest and aim directly at the side of the iron trapdoor. 

Then pull up your fishing rod, and start your auto clicker set up to right-click all the time. Holding or rapidly right-clicking doesn't make a change, as the automatic farm will work nevertheless. You can find your fish and loot in the double chest!

To make this fish farm even better, you can apply enchantments to your fishing rod. Mainly, you'd want to use the Lure enchantment to catch more fish and loot. You can also use Mending to make your fishing rod more durable and farm for longer periods of time.


Minecraft Recommended AFK Farm Fishing Rod Enchantments

If you want treasures while AFK fish farming, there is a possibility. Although it works on older versions of Minecraft, if you're a fan of them you can try out the AutoFish mod. Just be aware that it might be illegal to use it on some online servers!

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