Creeper Farm — Unlimited Gunpowder & Firework Rockets on DonutSMP
Firework Rockets are the fuel for Elytra flight, and they require Gunpowder. A dedicated Creeper farm ensures you never run out — producing 200+ gunpowder per hour.
Materials Needed
- • Lots of solid blocks (for platforms)
- • Trapdoors (any type, 100+)
- • Water buckets
- • Cats (2+ tamed cats)
- • Hoppers and chests
- • Campfire or lava (for kill system)
- • Carpet or slabs (for spawn-proofing surroundings)
- • Buttons or pressure plates (to prevent spider spawning)
1. Why Creepers Only?
A general mob farm produces mixed mobs. By using Creeper-specific spawning tricks (trapdoors on the ceiling to limit spawning height to 1.5 blocks — Creepers are short enough to fit but Zombies and Skeletons aren't), you can build a farm that only spawns Creepers and Spiders.
To prevent Spiders, place Buttons on the floor in a checkerboard pattern — Spiders need a 2×2 open area to spawn.
2. Building the Spawning Platforms
Build platforms in a dark enclosed structure: 1. Each platform is a flat floor with 2 blocks of air, then trapdoors hanging from the ceiling (open trapdoors, so the game thinks there's only 1.5 blocks of headroom) 2. Buttons on the floor in a checkerboard pattern prevent Spider spawns 3. Build 4-6 layers, each 4 blocks apart vertically 4. Each platform should be at least 24 blocks from the AFK point and within 128 blocks 5. Leave channels or edges for water to push Creepers off
3. Funneling with Cats
Creepers are scared of Cats (ocelots too). Place tamed Cats on the platforms to scare Creepers toward the edges. Position cats in the center of platforms so Creepers flee outward toward the water channels.
The Creepers get pushed by water streams toward a central drop shaft.
4. Kill Chamber
Use a fall damage kill chamber (24-block drop from the lowest platform to the kill floor). Creepers survive a 22-block fall and die at 24 blocks.
Alternatively, use Campfires or Magma Blocks at the bottom — they kill Creepers without explosion. Hoppers underneath collect the gunpowder.
For Looting III bonus, reduce the fall to leave Creepers at 1 HP and kill manually.
5. Maximizing Rates
- Build in an ocean for best results — fewer caves and spawning spaces compete with your farm - Light up or slab-cover a 128-block radius around the farm to force all spawns into your platforms - The AFK point should be exactly 24 blocks above the highest platform or below the lowest - More layers = more spawning spaces = more gunpowder - Combine gunpowder with paper from a Sugar Cane farm for unlimited Firework Rockets
