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"footer": "<span style=\"display:inline-block; padding:0 .4em;\">[[java Edition guides/Village & Pillage|◄ Village & Pillage]]</span><span style=\"display:inline-block; padding:0 .4em;\">[[java Edition guides/Nether Update |Nether Update ►]]</span>"
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This guide is a simplified overview of all the changes in the Buzzy Bees update (Java Edition 1.15.x releases), which assumes at least some familiarity with the Village & Pillage update (Java Edition 1.14.x releases).
Mobs
New
Name
Image
Habitat
Drops
Note
Bees
Spawn near bee nests .
1–3XP (when killed by a player or tamed wolf )
Inflict Poison if provoked.
Attack in a swarm.
Changed
Name
Image
Changed
All mobs
Better at avoiding walking through lava .
Spawning
When breedable mobs in groups spawn naturally they sometimes spawn babies in the groups.
Ender dragon
Removed a black dot on the transparent parts of wing texture.
Removed texture for part of wing bottom in the dying ender dragon.
Iron golem
Now use the generic.attackDamage attribute.
Now starts cracking upon losing health.
There are 4 stages, from uncracked to fully cracked, before the golem dies.
Can be healed using iron ingots .
One iron ingot restores 25% of its health.
It takes 4 iron ingots to repair an iron golem from 1 HP to full health.
Magma cube , ocelot , and slime
Now use the generic.attackDamage attribute.
Parrot
Nitwit villagers
No longer have a leveling gemstone in their belt.
Blocks
New
Name
Image
Obtaining
Tool Required
Uses
Beehive
Axe
Houses bees.
If the player breaks or harvests honey from it, its bees become hostile to the player.
Bees inside the hive do not turn hostile if it is harvested with Silk Touch.
Bees do not turn hostile if there is a campfire underneath the hive when honeycombs or honey bottles are harvested.
Bee nest
Spawn naturally in forests , birch forests , tall birch forests , flower forests , plains , sunflower plains , birch forest hills , tall birch hills , and wooded hills biomes.
Any (only drops with Silk Touch )
Functions the same as beehives.
Honey block
Any
Works the same way as slime blocks .
Does not stick to slime blocks.
Carries mobs along that are standing on it while being moved, in contrast to slime blocks.
Mobs usually avoid walking on them.
Entities can slide down its sides, similar to a ladder.
Falling on it absorbs 80% of fall damage.
Honeycomb block
Any
Decorative block.
Changed
Name
Image
Changed
Bell
Rings if powered with a redstone signal.
No longer causes the hand animation to play when used on in a non-functional spot.
Campfire
Can now be extinguished with a shovel .
Composter
Now crafted with wooden slabs (like in Bedrock Edition), instead of fences and wooden planks.
Dispenser
Can now harvest honeycombs when dispensing shears on bee nests and beehives filled with honey.
The honeycomb items are dropped on the ground.
Can now collect water bottles and honey bottles when dispensing glass bottles on water and beehives.
Can now place down armor stands.
Fire charges launched from a dispenser now light campfires.
Firework rockets dispensed from a dispenser now travel in the direction they were fired.
End stone bricks
Now have the same hardness and blast resistance as end stone .
Farmland
Blocks that can be manually placed on farmland without turning it into dirt can now also be pushed onto it by a piston without turning the farmland.
Iron doors
Must now be mined with a pickaxe for it to be dropped as an item.
Large fern
Now drop wheat seeds.
Melon stems and pumpkin stems
Attached stems now drop their seeds again when broken.
Nether portal
Portals from the Overworld can now correctly link with portals placed in the top half of the Nether.
Rails
Now place facing the player, rather than always north-south.
Redstone comparators
Can now detect how much honey is inside beehives and bee nests.
The output strength is equal to the amount of honey in the hive.
Oak and birch saplings
If grown with a flower within a 5×3×5 volume centered on the sapling, they have a 5% chance to generate a bee nest on the side of the tree.
Stripped wood
Can now be crafted out of stripped logs.
Wet sponge
Now dries out when placed in the Nether .
Dark prismarine
Now crafted with black dye instead of an ink sac.
Items
New
Name
Image
Obtaining
Uses
Honey bottle
Obtained by using a bottle on beehives/nests with a honey_level of 5.
Restores 6 ( ) and 1.2 saturation.
Removes Poison.
Used to craft honey blocks.
Can be consumed regardless of the player's hunger.
Honeycomb
Obtained by using shears on beehives/nests with a honey_level of 5.
Used to craft beehives and honeycomb blocks.
Bee spawn egg
Can be obtained only via creative inventory.
Has the same function as other spawn eggs.
Changed
Non-mob entities
Changed
Name
Image
Changed
Dragon fireball
The texture has been changed, which now resembles the fire charge texture after the Texture Update .
Experience orb
Experience orbs now appear at the same spatial and temporal location as loot when an entity is killed.
Now render as translucent again.
Biomes
Changed
Effects
Changed
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 beehive or bee nest while not angering the bees inside.Sticky Situation Jump into a Honey Block to break your fall Collide on a vertical side of a honey block while falling. Total Beelocation Move a Bee Nest , with 3 Bees inside, using Silk Touch Unlike most other advancements, this advancement is granted upon breaking the nest, rather than it entering your inventory.
See also