Mojang heard our demands, and Allay is now in Minecraft ahead of its official release later this year. The Allay is cute, small, and extremely useful for helping you collect items. The community has been waiting a long time for a companion, and Allay ticks all the right boxes for the job. But before you go ahead and meet Allay in Minecraft, let's address the elephant in the room. In this article we will talk about Allay's role in Minecraft farms. Is Allay better than funnels, can they improve Redstone, and should you even use Allay to build your own automated Minecraft farm? We're here to answer all that and more. But before we do that, make sure you read all about Allay. With that being said, it's time to get the most out of the Minecraft 1.19 update by learning how to use Allay in Minecraft farms.

We have divided our Minecraft farm guide into several sections for your convenience. You can explore each of them at your convenience using the table below.

Note: Our observations are based on the latest Minecraft 1.18.30.22/23 beta. It is the first appearance of Allay in beta, and the features may change in the official release.

Simply put, Allay is a non-hostile Minecraft mob that takes an item from the player and searches for the same around the loaded pieces of your world. You can give it any item or block in the game. Then, when Allay finds a copy of that item, it will bring it back to you. But you can also assign it a special notepad to collect items around it (more on this below and how it fits into the automation of our farm).