Farm Doctor

Farm Doctor

Your farm isn't working? Right-click it with the Farm Scanner and get a plain-words diagnosis: what's wrong, where it is, and how to fix it. Building a new one? The Build Guide shows every block of 20 proven designs, and can build them for you.

✨ Features

• 🩺 One-click check-up — right-click the spawning floor of your farm, a block next to your villagers, your crops or a spawner. Farm Doctor checks it against the real vanilla rules and writes a short report in chat: ✔ fine, ⚠ risky, ✖ this is what's stopping the farm.
• 🧪 12 farm types — mob, iron, raid (totems), gold, enderman, slime, witch, guardian, spawner, crops & plants, animals and villager breeders.
• 📋 Pick the farm yourself, or let it guess — Shift + right-click opens a clickable farm menu sorted by what you want to farm (iron, totems, slimeballs, sugar cane…). By default it's on Auto: the doctor works out the farm type from where you click.
• 💡 Light problems, marked — every lit spot where no mob can spawn gets flames on it. Since 1.18 hostile mobs need block light 0; Farm Doctor shows you exactly where it isn't.
• ☁️ Roof and outside spawns — spawnable spots open to the sky (your roof, the ground around the farm) are marked with sparks. At night they eat your mob cap.
• 📊 Mob cap, explained — "Mob cap is FULL: 70/70. 41 mobs are in a cave 90 blocks north." The mobs filling your cap glow for 30 seconds so you can find them through walls.
• 🚶 AFK spot finder — after a scan, walk around: the action bar shows your distance to the spawning spots live (too close / too far / good) and the current mob cap. For spawners it shows the 16-block activation range.
• 🧱 Floor check — slabs, glass, leaves, buttons, rails, pressure plates and water are not counted as spawning spots, so "0 spawnable spots" means your floor is the problem.
• 🔩 Iron farms — enough villagers within 10 blocks of each other? Beds claimed? Slept in the last 20 minutes? Can they see the zombie? Is a living golem blocking new ones? Every answer comes with the fix.
• 🎲 Raid, slime, witch, guardian, spawner — is this a village and do you have the omen; is this a slime chunk (and where is the nearest one); are you inside the witch hut or ocean monument area; does the spawner have room, low enough light and not too many mobs around it.
• 🌾 Crops & plants — crops too dark to grow, dry farmland, melon/pumpkin stems with no room for fruit, kelp that stopped growing, cane and cactus height, the random tick game rule.
• 🐄 Animals & villager breeders — who is ready to breed, cooldowns, babies, deadly entity cramming, free beds and food.
• ⌨️ No item needed — /farmdoctor checks the block under your feet, /farmdoctor menu opens the farm list, /farmdoctor stop turns the markers off.
• 🖥️ Server-friendly — all the work happens on the server and uses vanilla particles, glowing and the action bar. Spawning rules are never changed.
• 🌍 Available in 8 languages (EN, TR, DE, ES, FR, RU, PT-BR, ZH-CN)

🏗️ New in 1.1.0: Build Guide

Don't just fix farms, build them right the first time. /farmdoctor guide (or Shift + right-click → Build) opens a panel with 20 farm designs:

• 👻 Ghost preview — every block shows up as a small glowing ghost where it belongs; wrong blocks get a red box, blocks to dig out too. Layer by layer, or everything at once.
• 🎥 Free camera placement — fly around through blocks like a replay camera. Arrows move the preview (hold to slide), R turns it, PgUp/PgDn sets the height, Home brings it to where you look, Enter places it.
• 🤖 Build it for me — the farm builds itself, block by block, with sound and particles. Free in creative; in survival it takes the blocks from your inventory and accepts alternatives (any solid block, any bed colour, any wood, any carpet…). Or build it yourself and watch the counter.
• 🧑‍🌾 Creatures handled — villagers, the zombie, chickens, animals, hopper minecarts and the endermite are listed when the blocks are done. One click moves the ones within 32 blocks into their spots (and they never despawn). In creative they're added for you.
• 📋 Side panel — progress, a top-down map of the current layer and what it still needs, on the left or right of your screen (] switches side, [ folds it).
• ✅ Farm complete! — when the last block is in, the matching check-up runs by itself.
• Every design was built and run in game: iron in the chest, cactus, eggs, mob loot, cobblestone, smelted iron, sugar cane from the automatic farm.

🛠️ How it works

Craft the Farm Scanner (iron nugget on top, stick – paper – stick in the middle, redstone at the bottom) and right-click your farm. Not the farm type you meant? Shift + right-click and pick it from the menu. Problem spots and mobs are highlighted in the world, and the report tells you what to change.

📦 Supported versions

• Fabric (+ Fabric API): 26.3, 26.1.2, 1.21.10, 1.20.1
• NeoForge: 26.3, 1.21.1
• Forge: 26.3, 1.20.1

Install it on the server (single player counts as one). Players should have it too so the report appears in their language.

🔗 Links

• Website & FAQ: https://spicesfire.com/farmdoctor/
• GitHub: https://github.com/SpicesFire/FarmDoctor
• Discord: https://discord.gg/PGWsF3fwDP

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