More experience points in a short time are hardly possible in Minecraft. It took the player a year of preparation for a whopping 226 level-ups in one go.
Even though Minecraft is not a traditional “grinding game” for experience points, XP does have a pretty significant use. After all, it can be used to enchant tools, creating the best pickaxes or armor to work even more efficiently or defeat enemies like the Ender Dragon.
Most of the time, you simply collect XP “on the side” while farming ores, killing animals or enemies. However, there are also mechanics to store XP over a longer time in an XP farm, and one player has fully utilized this system.
What happened? In the Minecraft subreddit, the user “JustinTimeCuber” released a short clip of his Minecraft world. Here you see him standing in front of a large machine equipped with some levers.
For a whole year, he let this machine work with numerous furnaces, processing items for him. To see how much experience points he had accumulated with it, he quickly killed himself and reset his level to 0.
With a final click, he then transferred all the accumulated XP orbs from the machine to his character. Levels fly by, and in the end, he reaches an astounding final score of level 226.
This corresponds to approximately 197,000 experience points – an absurdly large amount.
How does it work? Unlike many other “XP farms,” the one shown does not work through killed enemies but makes use of another property: smelting items in the furnace.
When items like iron or gold are smelted in the furnace, they generate a small amount of experience points each time. Normally, these experience points are immediately collected when you take the smelted item out of the furnace. However, when the items are transferred by a hopper, the furnaces store these experience points internally until a player manually takes an item out of the furnace.
And that’s exactly what you see in the clip: a whopping 226 levels are gained for the character in the course of 8 seconds, who afterwards is set for life – at least until the next seemingly friendly creeper resets the XP.
By the way, the trick only works in the Java version of Minecraft. In the Bedrock variant, it can’t be implemented as easily.
How do you get your experience points in Minecraft? Do you have any XP farms running, or do you farm traditionally through battles and the mining of rare ores?
