Beds allow the player to skip to the next dawn. In SMP, this will only happen when all players sleep. In another later update, the last bed the player slept in will serve as the player's respawn point the next time they die.The item was added in the 1.3 Update [1][2][3]
There is a very scary glitch in which a person sleeping in a bed put in a corner of a two block high room is suffocated after going to sleep, and respawns with 64 beds, a diamond pickaxe, a diamond shovel, a diamond axe, and 64 torches. All of their items are retrievable on the bed they died in. Taking advantage of this glitch multiple times in a row for profit is now known as "sparkling." Notch has not yet commented on this glitch.
- The bed is 1m*0.7m*2m and you can not walk onto it.
- Trying to use it during the day, will give you a message saying "You can only sleep at night."
- Breaking the blocks under the bed will not destroy it.
- Beds are not stackable in the inventory.
The bed was added in Minecraft release Beta 1.3 [4]
A Bed on the ground
Crafting
| Ingredients | Input » Output |
|---|---|
| Wool + Wooden Planks | Template:Crafting grid |
The bed may only be used during the night, and when used you automatically go to the next day unless there is a possible way for a hostile mob to get to the bed's location. In that case, the player will wake up with a mob nearby and no time will have passed.
Trivia
- With the first update of Beta 1.3 a player spawned with a full stack of torches, a diamond pick, a diamond shovel, a diamond axe, and a stack of 63 beds and a single bed.