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Cacti have always been farmable completely automatically. With pistons in 1.7, sugar cane can now be farmed in a fully automatic fashion as well. Mobs and animals can be farmed as well in giant mob grinders. To my knowledge these are the only items that can be farmed in a fully automatic fashion in vanilla Minecraft.

Cobblestone can be farmed fully automatically using mods, or in a semi-automatic fashion using TNT. Wheat can be farmed semi-automatically on a massive scale, but unfortunately requires replanting and tilling.

What I'd like to know is if there are any contraptions people have contrived to harvest any other item in a fully automatic way without using any mods.

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I'm debating whether or not this question is appropriate. It seems to be inviting a "list of X," which we tend to close here because they have no real "right" answer. As stated, it seems to just ask for people to list various devices they've created. – FAE Sep 22 '11 at 19:27
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@FallenAngelEyes - I agree that the title somewhat gives that impression, and I thought of this too and struggled with its wording, but I tried to present it more as a "am I missing anything?" question than a list question.. – Dan Rasmussen Sep 22 '11 at 19:45

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Aside from the things you mentioned:

  • Records can be farmed (semi-automatically), with this ingenious contraption.
  • Cooked Food - raw food is easily collected with vanilla mobtraps, this trap cooks the meat too! This one uses pig spawners, but just modify your vanilla trap to kill with this method to harvest cooked instead of raw meat from all mobs.
  • Melons & Pumpkins can be farmed using BUDs.
  • Mushrooms are easily farmed, since they spread by themselves.
  • Eggs can be farmed
  • Snow with snowmen
  • Ice with a BUD to detect the freezing water
  • Cocoa beans
  • Nether Wart

I'll continue to think about this, let me know if there's anything to be added.

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You can't farm pumpkins. There is no renewable supply of pumpkin seeds. You can't craft pumpkins into seeds like you can with melons. – John the Green Sep 22 '11 at 20:29
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@John, but the steams will produce pumpkins as long as they're alive. You can farm the pumpkins they produce, but not the pumpkin seeds. – fredley Sep 22 '11 at 20:34
Ah ok. I haven't been able to try that because of the bug making pumpkin seeds not spawn in 1.8. Btw, this answer is an excellent resource! +1 – John the Green Sep 22 '11 at 20:36
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Don't think you can farm eggs quite like that any more, too many chickens in a small area and they supposedly start to die, so you end up making raw chicken and feathers instead of eggs. Seen at minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Egg#Trivia – agf Sep 23 '11 at 1:04
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@agf: "If too many chickens are in a small area they will start clipping into walls, and suffocating and dying. This can be alleviated by using glass walls for a chicken coop, since transparent blocks do not cause suffocation." So you just need to use glass block for your farming contraption. – Lysarion Dec 12 '12 at 15:47
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