How to make a wither skeleton farm

A wither skeleton farm is a mob grinder that involves creating a spawning pad inside a nether fortress, while removing all other mob spawning points nearby.

Wither skeletons have a chance to drop a wither skeleton skull, three of which are required to create a wither, which drops a nether star used to craft a beacon.

Wither skeletons also drop coal which meant this is also a coal farm, bones which can be turned into bonemeal and stone swords although there's not really much use to the swords.

How to get wither skulls bedrock

Preparation[]

In Java Edition, you will need a variable amount of materials depending on the size of the grinder, but a small sized farm needs around:

1. Begin by finding a nether fortress in the Nether, preferably with a large portion of the fortress over a lava ocean.

2. Find and mark the bounds of the nether fortress chosen.^{[more information needed]} Bounding boxes are only able to be made visible easily on Java edition.^{[more information needed]}

3.

Destroy all of the platforms that make up the nether fortress to limit spawning. In vanilla, it's anything

minecraft how to make a wither skeleton farm

minecraft how to make a wither skeleton