Java Edition 1.15

1.15 is an upcoming major update to Java Edition with no set release date. The theme for this update is currently unknown and will be announced at MINECON Live 2019 (September 28, 2019). This update adds bees and bee-related items, such as bee hives, bee nests and honeycombs.

Blocks

 * Bee nests
 * Spawns naturally in flower forests, plains, and sunflower plains biomes.
 * Can house both bees and honey:
 * If the player breaks the block while there are bees in it, the bees will turn hostile on the player.
 * Exception is if there is a lit campfire below the bee nest.
 * The amount of honey in the bee nest increases as bees complete their journey and successfully return to the nest.
 * The player can harvest honeycombs and honey bottles from bee nests.
 * Is a block entity and cannot be pushed by pistons.
 * Bee hives
 * Can be crafted using 6 planks and 3 honeycombs.
 * Functions similarly to bee nests.


 * Wax Blocks
 * Unobtainable but can be found in folder.

Items

 * Honeycombs
 * Obtained by using shears on bee hives with set to 5.


 * Honey bottles
 * Restores and 9.6 saturation.
 * Can be used to craft sugar.


 * Crystallized Honey
 * Unobtainable but can be found in folder.


 * Spawn Eggs
 * Added bee spawn egg.

Mobs

 * Bees
 * Has health.
 * Lives in groups near hives and nests.
 * If a bee doesn't have a home nest, it will wander until it finds one.
 * Can hide inside hives.
 * Maximum of 3 bees per nest.
 * When attacked, all bees from the same hive try to attack the original attacker.
 * The same happens when their hive/nest is destroyed.
 * Bees have an data tag, defaults to zero, when attacked is set to around 700 ticks.
 * When they attack, they give poison to the target for 10 seconds and then they die 50–60 seconds after attack
 * When bees attack the player, their eyes will turn red.
 * Bees can be bred using any type of flower, including wither roses.
 * Bees will follow any player holding a flower like other mobs, but if the player holds still the bees will land around them.
 * Bees can land on flowers, and will enter a "pollinated" state where pale white particles will appear on them, and small particle effects of the same color will come off them.
 * Bees will try to pollinate wither roses despite the fact that they are harmed by the wither effect they give.
 * When they pollinate flowers a small popping noise is heard.
 * Bees will return to their nest after entering the "pollinated" state.
 * A pollinated bee can accelerate the growth of crops it passes.
 * After enough bees enter a bee nest in the pollinated state, the bee nest will be filled with honey.
 * Being killed by a bee sting results in new death message: " was stung to death".

Gameplay

 * Particles
 * New particles: dripping_honey, falling_honey, falling_nectar, landing_honey.

Command format

 * Loot tables
 * New function:
 * – Copies state properties from dropped block to BlockStateTag in dropped item.
 * New parameters:
 * – source of properties (block id)
 * – list of property names. All must be present on block

General

 * Languages
 * Added Yiddish language.


 * Tags
 * Added block tags.
 * Added item tags.

Blocks

 * Dispensers
 * Can now harvest honeycombs when dispensing shears on bee nests and bee hives filled with honey.
 * The honeycomb items will be dropped on the ground.
 * Can now collect honey bottles when dispensing glass bottles on bee hives.
 * Can now collect water bottles when dispensing glass bottles on water.

General

 * Game library updates
 * Minecraft now requires OpenGL 2.0.

Planned changes

 * Functionality for smithing tables and fletching tables.