Money making methods

1. 

   Bamboo farm

   FarmAFK

   Fast-growing bamboo cut by pistons. Per module.

   6,000/h$80M
   Per hour$80M
2. 

   XP bottle trading hall

   Trading

   Master clerics sell Bottles o' Enchanting for 3 emeralds. Pay for emeralds with other trades.

   600/h$9.38Muses 1,800/h-$3.4M
   Per hour$5.98M
3. 

   Chopping trees

   Gathering

   An efficiency axe in a forest. Slow but no setup at all.

   1,500/h$2.34M
   Per hour$2.34M
4. 

   Slime farm

   FarmAFK

   Built in a slime chunk with the area around it lit up. Slimeballs for pistons and leads.

   1,500/h$1.88M
   Per hour$1.88M
5. 

   Nether gold farm

   FarmAFK

   Zombified piglins on a nether roof platform, killed by a fall or a sweep. Gold and lots of rotten flesh.

   1,500/h$1.5M8,000/h$62.5K
   Per hour$1.56M
6. 

   Mining ancient debris

   Mining

   Strip mining at nether y15 (beds or TNT speed it up). Every 4 make a netherite ingot.

   15/h$750K
   Per hour$750K
7. 

   Chicken farm

   FarmAFK

   Eggs hatch into chickens that get cooked as they grow up.

   400/h$40K300/h$471K
   Per hour$511K
8. 

   Iron golem farm

   FarmAFK

   Villagers scared by a zombie keep spawning golems that drop into lava. Cheap to build early.

   400/h$300K100/h$200K
   Per hour$500K
9. 

   Cow farm

   FarmAFK

   Cows bred and culled automatically. Leather for books and item frames.

   300/h$300K600/h$54.5K
   Per hour$355K
10. 

    Enderman farm

    FarmAFK

    In the End, endermen lured by an endermite fall to a one-hit spot. Pearls and fast XP.

    3,000/h$270K
    Per hour$270K
11. 

    Silk-touch packed ice

    Gathering

    Silk touch on an ice spikes biome. Builders and boat roads buy it.

    1,500/h$56.3K
    Per hour$56.3K
12. 

    Sugar cane farm

    FarmAFK

    Observers and pistons cut the cane as it grows. Per module; stack more for more.

    1,500/h$46.9K
    Per hour$46.9K
13. 

    Cactus farm

    FarmAFK

    Cactus breaks itself against blocks and flows into hoppers. No redstone needed.

    2,000/h$46.9K
    Per hour$46.9K
14. 

    Strip mining for diamonds

    Mining

    Branch mining around y-58 with a fortune pickaxe.

    40/h$30K
    Per hour$30K
15. 

    Blaze farm

    FarmAFK

    Built around a fortress spawner. Rods for brewing and for anyone running an ender eye business.

    600/h$9.38B
    Per hour$9.38Bfew listings, price may not hold
16. 

    Wither skeleton farm

    FarmAFK

    A cleared fortress so only wither skeletons spawn. Skulls are rare but valuable.

    30/h$13.5M1,000/h$1.56M1,500/hnot listed
    Per hour$15.1Mfew listings, price may not hold
17. 

    Creeper farm

    FarmAFK

    A dark platform high in the sky with cats to steer the creepers. Gunpowder for rockets and TNT.

    2,000/h$3.13M
    Per hour$3.13Mfew listings, price may not hold
18. 

    Shulker shell farm

    FarmAFK

    Shulkers duplicating on an end island. Every shell is half a shulker box.

    300/h$1.5M
    Per hour$1.5Mfew listings, price may not hold
19. 

    Kelp farm

    FarmAFK

    Water columns of kelp harvested by pistons. Also fuel once dried into blocks.

    4,000/h$187K
    Per hour$187Kfew listings, price may not hold
20. 

    Automatic wool farm

    FarmAFK

    Sheep sheared by dispensers as the wool grows back. Dye the sheep for coloured wool.

    1,000/h$50M
    Per hour$50Mfew listings, price may not hold
21. 

    Honey bottle farm

    FarmAFK

    Dispensers bottle honey from full hives. Per module.

    200/h$2.5M
    Per hour$2.5Mfew listings, price may not hold
22. 

    Bone meal (moss) farm

    FarmAFK

    Moss spreads with bone meal, gets composted, and makes more bone meal than it uses.

    1,500/h$2.34M
    Per hour$2.34Mfew listings, price may not hold
23. 

    Basalt farm

    FarmAFK

    Lava next to blue ice over soul soil makes basalt you can mine non-stop.

    3,500/h$233K
    Per hour$233Kfew listings, price may not hold
24. 

    Digging sand

    Gathering

    A good shovel in a desert. Always wanted for glass and concrete.

    3,000/h$3M
    Per hour$3Mfew listings, price may not hold
25. 

    Squid hunting

    Combat

    Squid in rivers and oceans, killed by hand. Ink sacs for signs and dyes.

    800/h$40M
    Per hour$40Mfew listings, price may not hold
26. 

    Raid farm

    FarmAFK

    Pillager raids triggered over and over. Totems are the prize; emeralds and redstone pile up too.

    50/hnot listed800/h$1.51M2,000/h$116K1,000/h$1.56M
    Per hourneeds prices
27. 

    Guardian farm

    FarmAFK

    Drained ocean monument. Prismarine and fish in bulk, plus a lot of XP.

    2,500/hnot listed1,500/h$3M1,000/h$33.3M
    Per hourneeds prices
28. 

    Pumpkin and melon farm

    FarmAFK

    Observers spot the fruit and pistons break it. Per module.

    1,000/hnot listed1,000/hnot listed
    Per hourneeds prices
29. 

    Cobblestone generator

    FarmAFK

    Lava meets water and you hold left click. The classic starter money.

    4,000/hnot listed
    Per hourneeds prices

Rates are for a common design or a steady pace, valued at the cheapest listing. Selling a lot at once usually means pricing a little lower.