Beehive

Beehive

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Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64) without bees inside No with bee(s) inside
Tool
Blast resistance	0.6
Hardness	0.6
Luminous	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	Yes (5)
Catches fire from lava	Yes
Map color (JE)	13 WOOD

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A beehive is a craftable block that houses bees. They fill with honey as bees pollinate flowers and return to their homes and, when full, can either provide honeycomb when sheared or honey bottles when glass bottles are used on them.

Obtaining

Breaking

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 and nearby emerge 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.

Block	Beehive
Hardness	0.6
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	0.9
Wooden	0.45
Stone	0.25
Copper ​	0.2
Iron	0.15
Diamond	0.15
Netherite	0.1
Golden	0.1
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Any Planks + Honeycomb

Usage

Bee housing

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's 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 loading up with pollen from a flower. They first look for one at the same coordinates as the last one they entered, but if there's 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.

Harvesting

Once full, bee nests and beehives provide two harvestable products: honey and honeycomb.

Each time a bee enters a nest or hive covered in pollen, it starts converting it to honey and honeycomb. After it's done, it waits for daylight with no rain (if necessary), then exits to go collect more pollen. If the bee hive or nest is in the Nether or in the End the bee exits as soon as it converts the pollen. 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 isn't 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 honey, the player uses a glass bottle on the nest or hive; the bottle then becomes a honey bottle. To harvest honeycomb, the player uses shears on the nest or hive, causing it to drop three honeycomb items. After harvesting, the hive or nest is reset to empty (honey level 0, with the default appearance).

Alternatively, honey or honeycomb can be harvested by powering a redstone dispenser containing either a glass bottle or shears. The dispenser must be placed beside and facing the hive or nest.

Harvesting from a beehive or bee nest causes any bees inside it to become aggravated toward the 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 4–5 blocks below the nest.

Redstone component

Beehives and bee nests have comparator output with a strength equal to the honey level in the block. Once the beehive or bee nest is filled with honey it emits a signal strength of five.

Note blocks

Beehives and bee nests can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass" sound.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

v t e wood sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.wood.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.wood.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.wood.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.wood.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.wood.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

v t e normal sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	0.27 [sound 1]	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.stone	0.3	1.0
	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	0.12	1.0
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	0.22	1.0

Unique

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Beehive	beehive	Block & Item	beehives	block.minecraft.beehive

Name	Identifier
Block entity	beehive

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Beehive	beehive	474	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.beehive.name

Name	Savegame ID
Block entity	Beehive

Block states

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Block data

A beehive has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

Item data

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Bee our guest	Use a Campfire to collect Honey from a using a Bottle without aggravating the bees.	—	15	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	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.

History

Java Edition
1.15			19w34a				Added bee hives.
			19w35a				Bee hives are now flammable.
			19w36a				The top and bottom texture for filled bee hives are now missing.[1]
			19w37a				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 Update 1.20			22w42a				Bamboo planks can now be used to craft beehives.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			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				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.

Block Data History

Issues

Issues relating to "Beehive" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

See also

• Bee nest
• Tutorial: Honey farming

Gallery

Renders

Beehive

Screenshots

• 
  Sunny with two beehives.

In other media

• 
  Artwork of Alex gathering honey from a beehive.

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