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Introduced in Minecraft The Wild update, Allays are some of the cutest and most helpful creatures you can tame. These flying fairies are capable of collecting and delivering items, from valuable Amethyst Shards to Cookies. Because of that, once you know how to do it, Allays can be an excellent means to manage an automated AFK farm. Before you get to that though, you must know where to find and tame one.
How To Find and Get Allays Back to Your Base in Minecraft
[Updated on August 30 – Updated the images and description]
Herding Allays back into your home is easy: you just have to locate them first. Allays can be found in Dark Oak Cages surrounding Pillager Outposts or underground jail cells within Woodland Mansions. Up to three Allays can show up in each room with a 50% spawn chance.
Clear the area of any hostiles and now you can free the passive mobs and tame them using a simple method. Just hand the Allays an item — any item really, even Leather — and they will start following you around. This follower behavior stays active when you’re within a radius of 64 blocks from the sprite. You can also attach a Lead to the flying mobs to drag them in any direction you’d like, regardless if they’re holding anything.
If you no longer need their assistance or companionship, simply take back the item that an Allay is holding. An untamed Allay goes back into its wandering state and aimlessly flies around an area.
What Do Allays Do?
Whenever a tamed Allay in Minecraft is holding a particular item, it becomes somewhat “bound” to that entity. For instance, suppose you gave one of these passive mobs a stack of Rotten Flesh. If any Zombie dies within a 32-block radius and drops the same item, your Allay will go collect it. Just like us, an Allay can hold up to 64 stacks of a single item type, after which it will deliver them to you.
Alternatively, you can also utilize musical Noteblocks to have the blue pixies deliver items to the sound-making block. With a system of skillfully placed Hoppers, Chests, and Redstone contraptions, you should be able to create an automated delivery service on your farm!
Taming multiple Allays in Minecraft will make the delivery process even faster, allowing you to move endless resources without doing the work yourself. Now, depending on what type of farm you want to make, we also have guides for Iron or even XP Farm.
