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A bed is a block that allows a player to sleep and to reset their spawn point to within a few blocks of the bed.

Obtaining

Beds can be mined with any tool, or without a tool.

Block Bed
Hardness 0.2
Breaking time (secs)
Default 0.3

A bed will also drop itself as an item when pushed by a piston.

Crafting

Ingredients Crafting recipe Description
any Wool +
Matching Wool +
Any Planks

Wool color must match. Wood planks do not need to match.
White Bed +
Matching Colored Dye


White beds can be re-dyed using dyes.‌[Computer Edition only]
Any Bed +
Matching Dye


A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes.‌[Pocket and Legacy Console editions only]
Any Dyed Bed +
Bleach


Removes the color from the bed.‌[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]

Natural generation

One bed naturally generates in an igloo. In the Java and Console Editions, the bed is red. In the Bedrock Edition, it will be white if generated in Snowy Tundra, light blue if generated in a River or Frozen River biome, and brown if generated in a Snowy Taiga.

Usage

Placement

Beds take up two blocks of space. Placement requires at least 2 blocks from the player's facing direction. When placed, the foot will be placed on the block selected and will face away from the player. Like certain other blocks, beds cannot be placed on non-solid blocks. The bed will remain in place if its supporting blocks are removed.‌[Bedrock and Legacy Console editions only]

Explosions

Beds placed in the Nether and the End will explode when the player presses use while looking at the bed, and set fire to surrounding blocks. The explosion has power 5, which is stronger than TNT (4), but not as strong as a charged creeper or end crystal (6).

Sleeping

Sleep Animation

The animation when falling asleep.

Beds are used by pressing the use item button while looking at the bed.

In order for a player to sleep, it must be nighttime – between 12541 and 23458 ticks inclusive, to be exact. The start of this period is indicated by stars appearing in the sky. During a thunderstorm, beds can also be used regardless of time. Attempting to use a bed at any other time will result in the message "You can only sleep at night".

The player must be close to the bed to sleep. If the player is close enough to click on the bed, but not close enough to sleep in it, the message "You may not rest now, the bed is too far away" will be displayed. In Bedrock Edition, the message "Bed is too far away" will be displayed.

The player cannot sleep if a "monster" is within 8 blocks of the bed horizontally (along each axis) and 5 blocks vertically. If a monster is nearby, even through a wall, the message "You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby" will be displayed and the player will not be able to sleep (even in Creative mode‌[Legacy Console Edition only]) until the monsters leave or are killed. Most hostile mobs, with the exception of some, as well as some neutral mobs, will prevent players from sleeping. The table below shows if the mob prevents or does not prevent the player from sleeping.

Mob Prevent the player from sleeping
Blaze Yes
Chicken Jockey[1] Yes
Creeper Yes
Drowned Yes
Endermite Yes
Enderman Yes
Ender Dragon No
Evoker Yes
Ghast No
Giant Yes
Guardian Elder Guardian Yes
Illusioner Yes
Killer Bunny No
Magma Cube No
Phantom Yes
Shulker No
Silverfish Yes
Skeleton Stray Wither Skeleton Yes
Spider Cave Spider Spider Jockey Yes
Slime No
Vex Yes
Vindicator Yes
Witch Yes
Wither Yes
Zombie Zombie Villager Husk Yes
Zombie Pigman[2] Partial
  1. If a zombie pigman is riding the chicken, the player can still sleep like normal if the zombie pigman is not provoked.
  2. Neutral zombie pigmen do not prevent the player from sleeping.

The player also cannot sleep in a bed occupied by another player, which will result in the message, This bed is occupied. The player cannot sleep while on fire or poisoned either.

If all sleeping requirements are met and the player enters a bed, the player will be positioned in the bed. The player will be seen above the sheets, and the screen will slowly fade to black. In the Bedrock Edition the sleeping animation will slowly lower the player into bed. If all players in a world are asleep, after 5 seconds (100 ticks) it will be turned to daytime.

During this time, the chat window is focused, and the player can leave the bed by clicking the Leave Bed button.

Waterlogged beds‌[Bedrock Edition only] cannot be slept in unless the player has the Water Breathing status effect.

Passing the night

Sleeping changes the time of day to sunrise and resets the weather to clear weather. The player will wake up next to the bed, facing west.

It does not speed up processes which take place over time such as the growth of crops or smelting. If /gamerule doDaylightCycle is false, the player will instead wake up in the night.

To skip the night in multiplayer, all players in the Overworld must be in bed at the same time. Pressing the Leave Bed button is not necessary in this case.

If the bed is destroyed while the player is in it, by for example an explosion or by another player, it will cause the player to wake up prematurely, and the night will not pass.

Setting the spawn point

Once a player has entered a bed, their spawn point is set to the location of that bed.

The bed is in no way tied to a player's spawn point - the game only checks for the presence of a bed at a player's spawn point when the respawn button is clicked from the death screen. The bed may be destroyed, replaced, reoriented, etc. and will still serve as a spawn point for players so long as it exists when the player tries to respawn. If a player's bed is destroyed, or if the area around the bed is made unsuitable for respawning, a message is displayed saying Your home bed was missing or obstructed, and the player will respawn at the world spawn point.

For a bed to be usable as a spawn point, the player must be able to stand next to the bed at the same level as it. There must be a solid block at the same 'floor' level as the bed, with 2 transparent blocks of space (for example, air) for the player to stand in, in one of the ten blocks that surround the bed. It doesn't matter if the bed itself has blocks above it.

Bouncing

Falling onto a bed will bounce the player with 66% strength – the bouncing-up velocity will be 66% of the impact velocity. The player will also take only 50% of normal fall damage.

If the player is falling, but presses use on the bed before hitting the ground, the fall damage will be delayed until the player wakes up. This will only be the case if the sleeping requirements are met.

Data values

ID

Bed/ID

Block data

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, beds use the following data values:

DV Description
0 White Bed
1 Orange Bed
2 Magenta Bed
3 Light Blue Bed
4 Yellow Bed
5 Lime Bed
6 Pink Bed
7 Gray Bed
8 Light Gray Bed
9 Cyan Bed
10 Purple Bed
11 Blue Bed
12 Brown Bed
13 Green Bed
14 Red Bed
15 Black Bed

Block entity

  • Block entity data
    • Tags common to all block entities

Block state

See also: Block states

Java Edition:

Name Default value Allowed values Description
facingnortheast
north
south
west
The direction the head of the bed is pointing.
The same direction the player faces when placing the bed.
occupiedfalsefalse
true
True when a player or villager is using the bed.
partfootfoot
head
The half of the bed in the current block.

Bedrock Edition:

NameMetadata Bits Default value Allowed valuesValues for
Metadata Bits
Description
direction0x1
0x2
00
1
2
3
0
1
2
3
The direction the head of the bed is pointing.
  • 0:Head facing South
  • 1:Head facing West
  • 2:Head facing North
  • 3:Head facing East
head_piece_bit0x8truefalse
true
0
1
If the current block is the head part.
occupied_bit0x4falsefalse
true
0
1
True when a player or villager is using the bed.


Achievements

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Advancements

Icon Advancement In-game description Parent Actual requirements (if different) Resource location
Advancement-plain-rawSweet Dreams
Sleep in a Bed to change your respawn point AdventureLie down in a bed. The advancement is granted as soon as the player is in the bed, even if the player does not successfully sleep.adventure/sleep_in_bed

Video

Note: In 1.12, beds became dyeable with all 16 color variants.

Bed/video

History

beta
November 26, 2011Originally, crying obsidian was intended to act as a block to reset spawn points, until beds were introduced.
1.3File:Red Bed Revision 1.png Added beds. At the time, the only color was red. Sleeping in an area potentially exposed to monsters could cause players to wake up early, with a skeleton or zombie spawned next to them.
1.4Sleeping in a bed now resets your spawn position, though does not work for most users. Apparently, at the moment the spawn point unintentionally only changes if Leave Bed is clicked and the function is limited to multiplayer.
1.4_01Beds now act as a respawn point as intended.
1.6Test Build 3Trying to sleep in a bed in the Nether causes it to explode.
1.7The bed side texture has been moved in the texture pack file.
release
1.0.0?Beds no longer spawn monsters, instead, trying to sleep when monsters are around will display a message saying You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby.
1.2.4Cats in standing position will now purposely go and sit on beds, preventing players from using them.
1.5?Beds check their biome for detonation rather than just their dimension.
1.7.213w37aThe item form of block ID 26 (bed) was removed from the game. It can no longer exist in inventories, only as a placed block.
1.814w29aNow displays the cracking animation on top and bottom.
14w33aMakes sounds when placed, and plays logical sounds when stepped on and broken.[1]
1.915w43aA bed generates inside igloos.
1.1116w32aThe messages "You can only sleep at night", "You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby", and "This bed is occupied" will now appear on top of the hotbar, the place that the message "Press <whatever your sneak key is> to dismount" will also appear when you're riding a mob.
16w33aIf the player is close enough to click on the bed, but not close enough to sleep in it, the message "You may not rest now, the bed is too far away" will now be displayed.
1.1217w06aNeutral zombie pigmen no longer prevent the player from sleeping in a bed.
13 March 2017Jeb mentions colored beds for 1.12.
17w15a

Dyed beds added. The former bed is now renamed to red bed.

Beds now appear 3D in the inventory.
Red Bed Beds now have 3D legs,[2] and the top of the beds are no longer mirrored.
Beds are made bouncy, though they do not completely reduce all fall damage.
Beds are now a block entity.
17w17aThe four legs of a bed are now each textured separately, and their model is different. The texture is also slightly changed.
1.1317w47aThe different block states for the bed ID have been split up into their own IDs.
Beds now require a block below them, or they will break into an item. Previously, a bed needed to be placed on a block, but the block could later be removed.
Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 26, and the item's 355.
18w07aSleeping is now important to keep Phantoms from spawning.
18w20aPlayers in creative mode can now sleep even if monsters are nearby.
pre2Changed the "You can only sleep at night" message to "You can sleep only at night and during thunderstorms."
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.4.0File:Red Bed Revision 1.png Added beds.
0.9.0build 1Beds no longer restore health in normal difficulty, making food a more reliable survival-needed resource.
Added smooth lighting to beds.
0.11.0build 8Improved lighting on beds.
0.16.0build 1Now make a sound when placed, identical to blocks like stone.[3]
Pocket Edition
1.0?Sleeping now ends weather.
Beds are now generated in igloos.
Leave Bed 1.0 The Leave Bed button has a new texture.
1.1build 1

Added the other 15 colors of bed. The former bed is now renamed to red bed.

Added new animation when sleeping.
Beds in igloos are now white in ice plains and brown in cold taiga.
Red Bed Beds now bounce the player two blocks up, and have a 3D legs.
Placement, stepping and breaking sounds are now correctly wooden.[3]
Bedrock Edition
1.4beta 1.2.20.1Colored Bed can be turned into White bed by adding Bleach. Only works if you have education edition features turned on.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1CU1 1.00 Patch 1Patch 1File:Red Bed Revision 1.png Added beds.
TU12Cats in standing position will now purposely go and sit on beds, preventing players from using them.
TU54CU44 1.52 Patch 24Patch 4 Added the other 15 colors of bed. The former bed is now renamed to red bed and has had a slight color change. Beds are now dyeable and bounce the player two blocks up, and have a single 3D legs.

Issues

Issues relating to "Bed" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

  • If the world is quit while sleeping, upon return the player will be awake beside the bed.
  • The player's avatar clips just slightly into the bed if they have something in their hand and their feet protrude off the edge.
  • Using the /tp command while another player is sleeping will still teleport the sleeping player.
  • If you place a bed on ice, running over the bed acts like running over ice, similar to slabs.
  • Using all 6 wood and all 16 wool combinations, there are 3,456 different ways to craft a bed.
  • When placed using the /setblock command, only one half of a bed will be placed, since beds are two blocks wide. A single half can be slept in like a whole bed.
  • Though bottom of a bed has a transparent space, it is not possible to target anything through this space.[4]

Gallery

References

  1. MC-66347 – "Beds make incorrect sounds" resolved as "Fixed".
  2. MC-11963 – "bed hind legs not rendered" resolved as "Fixed".
  3. a b MCPE-10077 – "Incorrect sounds on beds" resolved as "Fixed".
  4. MC-4090 – "Bed Hit Box is Incorrect" resolved as "Won't Fix"
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