Minecraft features various mob farms that help players gather essential resources and experience points. Five effective and simple mob farms for early gameplay include:
1. Basic spawner based farm: Requires a mob spawner, building blocks, water buckets, and torches. It generates specific mobs for drops and experience points, with low resource costs and high yields.
2. Simple dark room farm: Requires building blocks, trapdoors, and slabs. It involves creating a dark area for mob spawning, allowing for easy elimination of mobs without spawners, effective in any biome.
3. Pillar based Creeper farm: Requires slabs, cats, and building blocks. It uses cats to guide creepers into a killing chamber, preventing other mobs from spawning, and provides a consistent supply of gunpowder.
4. River based Drowned farm: Requires water sources and slabs. Drowned mobs spawn in rivers, dropping rare items like tridents, copper, and gold, which can be funneled into a collection channel.
5. Blaze spawner XP farm: Requires a blaze spawner from a Nether fortress, building blocks, and water (or lava for Bedrock Edition). It involves enclosing the spawner and directing blazes into a drop chute, yielding blaze rods and experience points.