Best Ways to Get XP (2023)

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Our Best Ways to Get XP in Minecraft Guide walks you through some of the most common ways to gain experience in the game! These options do not use glitches but work within the rules of standard survival gameplay. If you want to enchant or repair your items, you need to have a reliable way to get XP!

What does XP do in Minecraft?

Experience is primarily used for enchantments, which can be used to add additional properties to your armor, tools, and weapons. You can also use XP on anvils, which are used to repair and upgrade all of the previously mentioned items. Enchanting requires the most experience, and it also requires you to be of high level to get the best enchantments. If you want to max out all your items, you need to farm some XP.

The best ways to get XP in Minecraft

Here are some of the best ways to gain XP in the game right now. Some of these opportunities can be a bit dangerous, so choose the option that best suits your playstyle.

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animal husbandry

This is probably one of Minecraft’s easiest and safest ways to farm XP. However, you must prepare yourself by creating some wheat and vegetable farms in order to have enough food to raise all the necessary animals.

Once you’ve got your vegetable and wheat farm producing, you’ll need to attract at least two of the following animals to your base: cows, sheep, pigs, and chickens. You can use the foods listed below to attract the animals. Make some fences and make a square area for each animal species (with a gate), probably something like 15×15 or larger. Once you have that done, you can start the breeding process. Each animal needs a different feed for breeding; Here is a list of what you will need:

• Chicken: Seeds (wheat, beetroot, melon or pumpkin)
• cows: Wheat
• pigs: carrots, potatoes or beets
• Sheep: Wheat

Go to each of your four different enclosures and breed the animals. This will get you the XP you want, but it will be a bit slow at first. Once you’ve done all four, go around and repeat them and repeat this process until you get a message that the animals can’t breed anymore. When you get this message you have to go to all the pens and kill the adult animals that can no longer reproduce. This also gives you extra experience! Now you have to wait a little while for the baby animals to grow up. Once it does, repeat the same process as before. Only this time there will be more animals and you should get even more XP. Keep repeating this until you have all the required experience!

Trade with villagers

Trading with the local villagers is also one of the surest ways to earn XP in Minecraft. You can build a Villager Trade Hall, which gives you access to many useful items and maximizes the number of villagers within easy reach. Each transaction with a villager grants you six XP points. Villagers are also the best source of items in the game, so trading them is always useful.

Mine Nether Quartz

This is obviously going to be a somewhat dangerous endeavor as you will have to go into the Nether. If you have the guts, this is one of the quickest ways to gain experience. Once you enter the Nether, look around for blocks like the ones in the image above. This is Nether Quartz, and mining it yields 3.5 XP per block, which is the largest amount of XP gain you can get from mining. There’s quite a lot of it to find, so harvest as much as you can and try to play it safe. Always mark your path when walking around the Nether, because it’s easy to get lost.

Kill pigmen

This is another nether farm, but it’s a solid way to get more XP. Find some of the Pigmen that make their home in the Nether. They’re passive at first, but if you attack one, they’ll all come after you! Stacking at least three blocks below you is an easy way to avoid getting killed. You can reach them with your sword, but they can’t reach you! Shoot one with your bow to have them attack you, then smash the Pigmen until they’re all dead. You might want to bring lots of extra swords if you don’t have a good diamond sword.

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Enderman farm

You might see this as a bug, so I would understand if you don’t want to pursue this method further. However, it is a very good way to gain a lot of experience very quickly. The problem is that you have to build a somewhat complicated contraption to benefit from it. They must also have been to The End and defeated the Ender Dragon. If you have fulfilled these requirements, you can watch the following video to create the farm.

Fighting the Ender Dragon

To find an Ender Dragon, you must enter the Ende Realm. They are considered the final bosses of Minecraft because they are the most dangerous mob to defeat. If you manage to kill it, you’ll be rewarded with a whopping 12,000 XP, which is the largest single point total you can get in Minecraft without cheating. You can even re-summon the ender dragon by placing four end crystals on the edges of the exit portal. A resummoned dragon will give less points, but it will still be worth it.

Monster spawner farm

You can create a monster spawner farm if you haven’t reached The End yet. You need to find a monster spawning block, but once you do, you can build around it and make a pretty powerful XP farmer. It takes quite a long time to build, but it’s worth it once you gain a ton of experience enchanting.

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