Tutorial:Dirt farming
Dirt farming is the ability to renewably farm dirt without having to mine it from surrounding environments.
Automatic farming
Converting from gravel
This manual method uses the crafting recipe of 2 dirt and 2 gravel to create 4 coarse dirt, which can be converted back to 4 normal dirt by using a shovel or hoe, and then mined with a shovel. It is also very cheap to do and since gravel is renewable through piglin bartering, if you set up a piglin farm, it can allow you to gather up several stacks of dirt without destroying the environment in the process. You can also automate it with a Crafter.
Azalea method
When an Azalea tree grows, whichever block it grows on turns into rooted dirt, which can then be turned into dirt path blocks and then mined by using a shovel without Silk Touch . Or, you can use the rooted dirt with a hoe and you will get a Hanging Roots item along with a block of regular dirt. This can be partnered with a stone generator, moss blocks and a TNT duper to renewably farm dirt. Here is a tutorial video for Java Edition on how to build a farm that will give you infinite dirt, moss and wood.
Here is another fast dirt farm for Java Edition that can also produce mud, clay, and bricks:
Here are two playerless azalea tree farms for Bedrock Edition that generate rooted dirt, which can then be turned into regular dirt easily by the player:
Moss method
Another way to automatically produce dirt is slightly complicated containing 3 steps.
The first step is to use bone meal on a moss block with surrounding stone turning most of the stone into moss. Without destroying the moss you must convert the moss into podzol with a 2×2 spruce sapling. After that the method of destroying the podzol is up to the player.
This method is very similar to the azalea method but with larger results and a different core strategy.
