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| Renewable | Yes |
|---|---|
| Stackable | Yes (64) without bees inside No with bee(s) inside |
| Tool | π SlotSprite Axe Required.png: Sprite image for Axe Required in Minecraft |
| Blast resistance | 0.6 |
| Hardness | 0.6 |
| Luminous | No |
| Transparent | No |
| Flammable | Yes (5) |
| Catches fire from lava |
Yes |
| Map color | 13 WOOD |
| Note block instrument | Bass |
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Beehives are craftable blocks that house bees, which fill their homes with honey made from gathered flower nectar. Full beehives can be harvested for honeycombs (using shears) or honey bottles (using glass bottles). Bees will attack players who harvest or break their homes without utilizing campfires or Silk Touch, respectively.
Beehives can be broken by any tool or by the player's fist, though they break faster with an axe. When mined, they always drop themselves.
If a beehive is broken with a tool not enchanted with Silk Touch, any bees inside emerge, and together with nearby bees, become angry at the player. If a Silk Touch tool is used, any bees inside remain inside and any other bees nearby do not become angry.
If broken in Creative mode with bees inside, the beehive drops itself and bees inside remain inside.
Bee nests and beehives can house up to 3 bees at a time. They can enter through any unobstructed side, top, or bottom, but can exit only from the front, and only if it is unobstructed by a solid block (including a non-full solid block in Bedrock Edition).
Bees fly into a nest or hive at night, during rain, and after collecting nectar from a flower. They first look for one at the same coordinates as the last one they entered, but if there is no nest or hive there, or it already contains 3 bees when they arrive, they search the nearby area for another one.
Igniting a nest or hive allows any bees inside to escape, possibly catching fire as they flee.
Once full, bee nests and beehives provide two harvestable products: honey bottles and honeycombs.
Each time a bee enters a nest or hive covered in nectar, it starts converting it to honey. After it is done, it waits for daylight with no rain (if necessary), then exits to go collect more nectar. If the bee hive or nest is in the Nether or in the End the bee exits as soon as it converts the nectar. When the bee exits, the hive increments its honey level by 1 and has a 1% chance to increment it by 2. Once it has the maximum honey level of 5, it changes its appearance to show honey oozing out and, if the block below it is not a full solid block, starts dripping honey particles. (The dripping honey is decorative; it cannot be collected in a cauldron.) These changes signal that the hive or nest is ready for harvesting.
To harvest a honey bottle, a player uses a glass bottle on the nest or hive; filling the bottle with honey. To harvest honeycombs, a player uses shears on the nest or hive, causing it to drop three honeycombs. After harvesting, the hive or nest is reset to empty (honey level 0, with the default appearance).
Alternatively, honey bottles or honeycombs can be harvested by powering a dispenser containing either a glass bottle or shears. The dispenser must be directly facing the hive or nest.
Manually harvesting from a beehive or bee nest causes any bees inside it to become aggravated toward the harvesting player, unless there is a fire directly beneath it or a lit campfire within five blocks below, and the smoke is not obstructed. Smoke can pass through no more than one solid block, and only if that block is directly above the campfire. Placing a carpet above the campfire leaves room for the bees to hover beneath the nest and still avoid taking fire damage. In Java Edition, the smoke coming through the carpet also calms the bees. In Bedrock Edition, a carpet is treated as an obstruction that removes the calming effect of the campfire's smoke. Without a block covering the fire, the bees can still avoid fire damage if the campfire is placed 4β5 blocks below the nest.
Beehives and bee nests have a redstone comparator output with a strength equal to the honey level in the block, with a maximum signal strength of 5 once the block is completely full and ready for harvesting.
π BlockSprite oak-planks.png: Sprite image for oak-planks in Minecraftwood sound type | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Closed captions | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| βBlock broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | block.wood.break | subtitles.block.generic.breakβ | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| βBlock placed | Blocks | When the block is placed | block.wood.place | subtitles.block.generic.placeβ | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| βBlock breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | block.wood.hit | subtitles.block.generic.hitβ | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
| βSomething falls on a block | Entity-Dependent | Falling on the block with fall damage | block.wood.fall | subtitles.block.generic.fallβ | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
| βFootsteps | Entity-Dependent | Walking on the block | block.wood.step | subtitles.block.generic.footstepsβ | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 | |
π BlockSprite bricks.png: Sprite image for bricks in Minecraftnormal sound type | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Closed captions | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key | Volume | Pitch |
| βBlock broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | dig.stone | subtitles.block.generic.breakβ | 1.0 | 0.8β1.0 | |
| βBlock placed | Blocks | When the block is placed | place.stone | subtitles.block.generic.placeβ | 1.0 | 0.8β1.0 | |
| βBlock breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | hit.stone | subtitles.block.generic.hitβ | 0.27 [sound 1] | 0.5 | |
| βFootsteps | Players | Falling on the block with fall damage | fall.stone | subtitles.block.generic.footstepsβ | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
| βFootsteps | Players | Walking on the block | step.stone | subtitles.block.generic.footstepsβ | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
| βFootsteps | Blocks | Jumping from the block | jump.stone | subtitles.block.generic.footstepsβ | 0.12 | 1.0 | |
| βFootsteps | Blocks | Falling on the block without fall damage | land.stone | subtitles.block.generic.footstepsβ | 0.22 | 1.0 | |
| Sounds | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Closed captions | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| βHoney drips | Blocks | When a honey drip particle hits a block | block.beehive.drip | subtitles.block.beehive.dripβ | 0.09β0.3 | varies [sound 1] | 8 | |
| βBee enters hive | Blocks | When a bee enters a beehive | block.beehive.enter | subtitles.block.beehive.enterβ | 1.0 | 0.7/0.8 | 14 | |
| βBee leaves hive | Blocks | When a bee exits a beehive | block.beehive.exit | subtitles.block.beehive.exitβ | 1.0 | 0.9/1.0/1.1 | 14 | |
| βShears scrape | Blocks | When honeycombs are harvested from a beehive | block.beehive.shear | subtitles.block.beehive.shearβ | 0.8 | 1.0/0.8/0.9 | 16 | |
| βBees work | Blocks | Randomly while a bee is inside | block.beehive.work | subtitles.block.beehive.workβ | 0.6 | 1.0 | 12 | |
| βBottle fills | Blocks | When a bottle is filled with honey | item.bottle.fill | subtitles.item.bottle.fillβ | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| Sounds | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Closed captions | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key | Volume | Pitch |
| βHoney drips | Blocks | When a honey drip particle hits a block | block.beehive.drip | subtitles.block.beehive.dripβ | 0.3 | 0.7β0.9 | |
| βBee enters hive | Blocks | When a bee enters a beehive | block.beehive.enter | subtitles.block.beehive.enterβ | 0.75 | 0.7β0.8 | |
| βBee leaves hive | Blocks | When a bee exits a beehive | block.beehive.exit | subtitles.block.beehive.exitβ | 0.75 | 0.9β1.1 | |
| βShears scrape | Blocks | When honeycombs are collected from a beehive | block.beehive.shear | subtitles.block.beehive.shearβ | 0.8 | 0.8β1.0 | |
| βBees work | Blocks | Randomly while a bee is inside | block.beehive.work | subtitles.block.beehive.workβ | 0.6 | 1.0 | |
| βBucket fills | Blocks | When a bottle is filled with honey[sound 1] | bucket.fill_water | subtitles.item.bucket.fillβ | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
| Name | Identifier | Form | Block tags | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| π BlockSprite beehive.png: Sprite image for beehive in Minecraft Beehive | beehive | Block & Item | beehives |
block.minecraft.beehive |
| Name | Identifier |
|---|---|
| π BlockSprite beehives.png: Sprite image for beehives in Minecraft Block entity | beehive |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Item ID[i 1] | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| π BlockSprite beehive.png: Sprite image for beehive in Minecraft Beehive | beehive | 474 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] | tile.beehive.name |
| Name | Savegame ID |
|---|---|
| π BlockSprite beehives.png: Sprite image for beehives in Minecraft Block entity | Beehive |
| Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| facing | north | eastnorthsouthwest | The opposite from the direction the player faces while placing the block. |
| honey_level | 0 | 012345 | Every pollinated bee that leaves the hive after working increases the honey level by one. When at level 5, honey can be bottled or honeycombs can be harvested. |
| Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| direction | Not Supported | 0 | 0123 | Unsupported | The direction the block faces.
|
| honey_level | Not Supported | 0 | 012345 | Unsupported | Every pollinated bee that leaves the hive after working increases the honey level by one. When at level 5, honey can be bottled or honeycombs can be harvested. |
A beehive has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.
minecraft:bees component.
flower_pos tag, it has a 90% chance to use this hive's flower position, creating a sort of gossip system for hives.minecraft:bundle_contents components. Despite the tooltip suggesting there is a maximum of 3 entries, there is no limit to the size of this component.
id tag. If the id is not minecraft:bee then the entity will never leave the hive. The Passengers, Pos, Rotation, and UUID tags are ignored when the bee spawns (the bee will always spawn in front of the hive with a random UUID, facing south, and without any passengers).
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | ||||||
| π Image | π Image | Bee our guest | Use a Campfire to collect Honey from a using a Bottle without aggravating the bees. | β | 15 | Bronze | |
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) |
|---|---|---|---|
| π Image π Image | Bee Our Guest | Use a Campfire to collect Honey from a Beehive using a Glass Bottle without aggravating the Bees | Use a glass bottle on a or bee nest while not angering the bees inside. |
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.15 | 19w34a | π Image π Image π Image π Image π Image π Image π Image π Image Added bee hives. | |||||
| 19w35a | Bee hives are now flammable. | ||||||
| 19w36a | π Image π Image π Image π Image The top and bottom texture for filled bee hives are now missing.[1] | ||||||
| 19w37a | π Image π Image π Image π Image The top and bottom texture for filled bee hives are now fixed. | ||||||
| 19w41a | "Bee hive" has been renamed to "Beehive". | ||||||
| 19w46a | Bees now exit hives only from the front. | ||||||
| Hives no longer drop in Creative mode, unless they contain bees. | |||||||
| 1.16 | 20w06a | Crimson planks and warped planks can now be used to craft beehives. | |||||
| 1.19 | 22w11a | Mangrove planks can now be used to craft beehives. | |||||
| 1.19.3 Experiment | 22w42a | Bamboo planks can now be used to craft beehives. | |||||
| 1.19.4 Experiment | 23w07a | Cherry planks can now be used to craft beehives. | |||||
| 1.21.2 | 24w35a | Now show information about their level of honey and number of bees. | |||||
| Now use their "full" texture when held or in the inventory, and they are at max level of honey. | |||||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.14.0 | beta 1.14.0.1 | π Image π Image π Image π Image π Image π Image π Image π Image Added beehives. | |||||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.54 | Now appear yellow on maps. | |||||
| 1.18.30 | beta 1.18.20.27 | Breaking a beehive with Silk Touch no longer angers bees. | |||||
| 1.20.30 | Preview 1.20.20.21 | Decreased the blast resistance of beehives from 5.4 to 0.6. | |||||
| 1.21.40 | Preview 1.21.40.20 | Beehives can no longer be used as fuel in a furnace. | |||||
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.20.5 | 24w06a | FlowerPos in beehives has been renamed to flower_pos. | |||||
Issues relating to "Beehive" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.