FarmWatch: Farm & Redstone Monitor

Monitor your farms, storage, redstone, and automation — without replacing the vanilla builds you already use.

FarmWatch is a survival-friendly Minecraft Bedrock addon that lets you create monitors for supported blocks and define what you expect them to do.

Watch for activity stopping, storage filling up, or redstone signals being in the wrong state. FarmWatch warns you when something needs attention and lets you know when it recovers.

Everything is managed through the reusable FarmWatch Terminal.

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One Dashboard. Every Monitor.

The FarmWatch Terminal gives you one place to see the condition of all your monitored systems.

The dashboard puts the most important monitors first:

PROBLEM → WARNING → CHECKING → OK → PAUSED

You can immediately see how many systems are working normally and which ones need your attention.

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Three Ways to Monitor Your Builds

FarmWatch uses three main monitoring rules.

Activity Watch

Watch a supported block for activity.

If activity stops, FarmWatch progresses through warning and problem states based on the timing you choose.

Available timing options include:

• Fast
• Normal
• Slow
• Advanced custom timings

When activity returns, FarmWatch detects the recovery automatically.

Capacity Watch

Monitor how full supported storage is.

FarmWatch can show:

• Normalized fill percentage
• Current item quantity
• Occupied slots
• Empty slots
• Warning and problem thresholds

The default Nearly Full configuration warns at 75% and becomes a problem at 90%.

State Watch

Tell FarmWatch what state a supported redstone target should be in.

For example:

Expected ON + Current OFF = PROBLEM

Expected ON + Current ON = OK

Optional grace periods can be used before a mismatch becomes a full problem.

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Double Chest Monitoring

FarmWatch supports full monitoring of:

• Double Chests
• Trapped Double Chests

A paired chest is treated as one combined 54-slot inventory.

You can use both Activity Watch and Capacity Watch on the same Double Chest.

Capacity Watch can tell you how full the entire paired inventory is and warn you before your storage reaches its configured limit.

If one half of a monitored Double Chest disappears, FarmWatch does not silently turn the monitor into a normal 27-slot chest.

Instead, FarmWatch reports the target as missing and sends a one-time alert.

When the pair becomes available again, monitoring resumes with a fresh baseline.

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Redstone State Monitoring

State Watch currently supports:

• Lever
• Redstone Wire

Choose the state you expect — ON or OFF — and FarmWatch watches for mismatches.

A state that does not match your expectation can become a warning or problem depending on your configured grace period.

When the expected state returns, the monitor automatically recovers.

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Supported Blocks & Rules

Target	Activity Watch	Capacity Watch	State Watch
Standalone Chest	✅	✅	—
Double Chest	✅	✅	—
Trapped Chest	✅	✅	—
Trapped Double Chest	✅	✅	—
Barrel	✅	✅	—
Hopper	✅	✅	—
Lever	✅	—	✅
Stone Button	✅	—	—
Wooden Pressure Plate	✅	—	—
Tripwire Segment	✅	—	—
Piston	✅	—	—
Redstone Wire	✅	—	✅

Available rules depend on the target being monitored.

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Same Target, Multiple Rules

A supported target can use more than one type of monitor.

For example, the same Double Chest can have:

• Activity Watch
• Capacity Watch

FarmWatch shares physical observations where possible instead of unnecessarily checking the same target multiple times.

Duplicate monitors using the same rule on the same target are prevented.

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Easy to Use

FarmWatch includes built-in help directly inside the Terminal.

The basic workflow is:

Choose → Link → Expect → Watch

1. Choose what you want FarmWatch to monitor.
2. Link a supported block.
3. Tell FarmWatch what behavior you expect.
4. FarmWatch watches the loaded target.
5. You are warned when the expectation is not met.

The Terminal also contains a Supported Blocks / Rules reference for checking which monitoring options are available for each target.

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FarmWatch Terminal

The FarmWatch Terminal is the main way to access the addon.

Craft it once, keep it in your inventory, and use it whenever you want to open your monitoring dashboard.

The Terminal is reusable and is not consumed when used.

Recipe

Copper Ingot	Glass Pane	Copper Ingot
Redstone Dust	Compass	Redstone Dust
Copper Ingot	Redstone Torch	Copper Ingot

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Monitor Details

Every monitor includes a detailed view based on its rule.

Activity Watch can show

• Current activity status
• Trusted loaded inactivity time
• Warning timing
• Problem timing

Capacity Watch can show

• Normalized fill percentage
• Current item quantity
• Occupied slots
• Empty slots
• Warning and problem thresholds

State Watch can show

• Expected state
• Current observed state
• Grace period
• Match or mismatch status

Monitors can also be refreshed, edited, paused, and inspected through additional diagnostic details.

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Status System

✅ OK

The monitored target currently matches its configured expectation.

⚠ WARNING

The target is approaching a configured limit or has temporarily stopped matching the expected condition.

❌ PROBLEM

The configured expectation is not currently being met.

? CHECKING

FarmWatch does not currently have enough trusted information to make a safe decision.

⏸ PAUSED

Monitoring was manually paused.

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Alerts & Recovery

FarmWatch can notify you when monitored conditions change.

Examples include:

• Activity stopping
• Activity recovering
• Storage approaching its configured limit
• Storage reaching a problem limit
• Redstone state mismatches
• State recovery
• Paired storage targets becoming unavailable
• Paired storage targets becoming available again

Alerts are transition-based to avoid repeatedly sending the same message while the condition remains unchanged.

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Installation

1. Download the .mcaddon file.
2. Open it with Minecraft.
3. Wait for both FarmWatch packs to import.
4. Enable FarmWatch: Farm & Redstone Monitor and FarmWatch Resources in your world.
5. Enter the world.
6. Craft the FarmWatch Terminal.
7. Use the Terminal to create your first monitor.

Experiments are not required.

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Important Notes

FarmWatch observes supported vanilla blocks while the relevant area of the world is loaded.

Inventory changes show that an inventory changed, but they do not prove that a specific farm or machine caused the change.

Redstone Wire is sampled, so extremely short pulses can occur between samples and may sometimes be missed.

FarmWatch reports what it can safely observe. It does not guess the exact root cause of a problem.

Time while the world is closed is not counted as monitored inactivity.

Alerts are intended for players who are currently online. FarmWatch does not provide offline or external notifications.

Linked targets maintain their identity instead of silently changing to another nearby block.

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What FarmWatch Does Not Do

FarmWatch does not:

• Automatically build farms
• Automatically repair systems
• Add custom automation machines
• Add cable or machine networks
• Remotely control your builds
• Diagnose exact root causes
• Send external or offline notifications

The goal is simple:

Keep your existing vanilla builds — and make it easier to know when they need your attention.

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Privacy

FarmWatch runs locally inside Minecraft.

• No telemetry
• No analytics
• No cloud services
• No external networking

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License

FarmWatch is proprietary closed-source software.

Copyright © 2026 DraGoN3DD. All Rights Reserved.

Redistribution, resale, modified redistribution, source redistribution, and reuse of FarmWatch's original assets are not permitted without prior written permission.