Core Keeper automated farming guide: Mechanical parts, wood, XP, and more

Many recipes become pretty resource-intensive toward the late game in Core Keeper. If you want your base to take care of itself while exploring, here’s everything you need to know in our Core Keeper automated farming guide where I show you setups for Mechanical parts, wood, XP, and more.

Best automated farm layouts in Core Keeper

You can make awe-inspiring automated builds that cover the entire screen if you really want to impress your friends. That said, most automated engines can be made on a much smaller scale, and I recommend those if you’re a new player.

With this in mind, all the builds in this guide are compact, but the mechanics are the same if you want to make them larger.

Best automated Wood farming layout

Wood is used in many recipes in Core Keeper, from the humble torch to tables and workbenches. You will need thousands of torches to illuminate passageways, so here’s an easy automated build to ensure you never run out of wood.

I’ve used Scarlet for the walls and decorative torches, but they are just for show. You can achieve the same results with regular materials like dirt blocks, crude drills, and regular torches. Even the Robotic Arm is unnecessary if you’re happy to walk over the pile of materials to collect them.

Required Materials

• Root Seed x10 (adjust to scale)
• Watering Can
• Drill x10
• Conveyor Belt x10
• Robot Arm
• Chest
• Generator

This automated wood collector is easy to make and can be scaled up or down depending on how much space you have. The idea behind the build is simple. Wood comes from the seeds at the top and grows toward the drills.

The drills cut wood when it reaches them, and the pieces are ferried to the Robot Arm at the end of the conveyor belt. We use the Robot Arm to dump the wood in the chest.

As for power, I’ve placed a generator right behind the Robot Arm, which powers the line of drills and the Robot Arm without requiring wires. Conveyor belts in Core Keeper do not require a power source.

You need to start the seeds with a watering can, but unlike regular seeds, they don’t need water afterward. Ultimately, the Torches are optional, but how else will you marvel at your creation?

If you find you’re getting battered while exploring, make sure you’re rocking all the necessities to increase your survivability.

Best automated Seed and Mechanical Parts farming layout

Seed Farming becomes redundant if you’ve got a decent farm at your base. That said, there’s an easy way to automate Seed collecting with a chance of Ancient Gemstones along the way:

As with our Automated wood farm, you can scale the design up or down to suit your needs and resources.

Required Materials

• Orange Ground Slime x30 (approx)
• Conveyor Belt Conveyor Belt x20
• Robot Arm x2
• Chest x2
• Generator
• Tin Spike Trapx2

We require a pool of specifically Orange Ground Slime for a few reasons. The material spawns Orange Slimes, which are the weakest and most susceptible to the Spike Traps at the end of the conveyor belts.

You can Collect Ground Slime of any color with a shovel.

Orange Slimes can drop Glow Tulip, Bomb Pepper, and Heart Berry seeds upon death. They also have a low chance to drop Copper Keys and Ancient Gemstones.

The contraption is pretty straightforward. Slimes spawn on the ground, wander onto the Conveyor belts, and are skewered by the Spike Traps. At that point, the Robotic Arm picks up the drops and puts them in the Chest.

We’ve doubled up Conveyor Belts for consistency, but it’s entirely unnecessary if you don’t have the space or materials. All Slimes take a long time to respawn, so you can add more Ground Slime if you wish.

How to modify the build for Mechanical Parts

You can use the same design for Mechanical Parts with one easy change. Replace the Orange Ground Slime with Stone Moss flooring from the Forgotten Ruins.

The Forgotten Ruins biome always spawns close to the Core, so it’s even accessible during the early game. The Stone Moss flooring will naturally spawn all variants of the Caveling mobs, which can all drop Mechanical Parts.

The farm is pretty slow, so I typically just buy Mechanical Parts from the Cloaked Merchant if I run short. That said, the method works well if there is no issue with time.

Best automated XP farming

Automated XP farming works a little differently from the other methods we’ve covered. The process is automated, but you do have to be present to earn the XP.

We use a few endgame materials here, like Materializers, as more basic XP farming methods are hardly worth the effort.

Required Materials

• Materializer x7
• Slime Figurine x7
• Fence (The higher quality, the better)
• Lever
• Wire x2

The best thing about this setup is you can customize the shape to your needs. I’ve recommended Slime Figurines for this build. Place one in each Materializer, which will spawn a matching enemy on repeat when powered.

You can technically use any Figurines for the XP farm, but Slimes are the least dangerous and have no ranged attacks.

Figurines are rare drops from defeating enemies. Most players use them as trophies, but they interact uniquely with the Materializer.

I use Crystal Flooring for lighting, but this is mostly just for show, so you can see how the farm works. The fence is necessary, too, as it traps the Slimes in place while allowing you to attack over it.

For convenience, I’ve installed a basic lever system so we can turn the farm on and off.

In Core Keeper, you earn XP by defeating enemies, and each one slowly adds points to your Vitality stat. You also earn XP, depending on what weapon you use. For example, a Bow grants Ranged XP.

The farm works great for Ranged weapons, but you can slash over the top of the fence or use a spear to rack up melee XP, too.

You can rank up your pets and minions in a similar way, and you may want to consider widening the farm if you have appropriate weapons.

As previously mentioned, this isn’t technically automated, as you still need to kill enemies manually, but it’s fast and effortless all the same.

If you desire better company than your drills, why not keep a farm with living animals, too?