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Bee hives are craftable versions of bee nests.
Obtaining
Bee hives can be mined by any tool or by the player's fist. If broken with a tool enchanted with Silk Touch, the bees will remain inside. Otherwise, they will come out of the hive and swarm the player unless a campfire is put under it.
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Any Planks + Honeycomb |
[upcoming: JE 1.15] |
Usage
Bee housing
The hives can house up to 3 bees at a time. Bees will fly into the nest at night, during rain and after pollinating to work.
Harvesting
Pollinated bees will fly into bee hives and start working for a while. When done, they will exit the hive, increasing the honey level by 1. When the honey level has reached 5, the block's appearance will change to be full of honey, and will produce dripping honey particles if suspended above the ground. If shears are used on a full bee hive, it will drop three honeycombs. If an empty glass bottle is used on a full bee hive, it will fill the bottle with honey, giving a honey bottle. Any bees inside the hive when harvesting will become aggravated towards the player. If there is a lit campfire directly underneath the hive, the bees inside will not become aggravated when harvesting it.
Data values
ID
Beehive/ID
Block states
| Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| facing | north | eastnorthsouthwest | The opposite from the direction the player faces while placing the block. |
| honey_level | 0 | 012345 | Every pollinated bee that leaves the hive after working increases the honey level by one. When at level 5, honey can be bottled or honeycombs can be harvested. |
| Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| direction | Not Supported | 0 | 0123 | Unsupported | The direction the block faces.
|
| honey_level | Not Supported | 0 | 012345 | Unsupported | Every pollinated bee that leaves the hive after working increases the honey level by one. When at level 5, honey can be bottled or honeycombs can be harvested. |
Block entity
A bee hive has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.
- Block entity data
- Tags common to all block entities
- Bees: Entities currently in the hive.
- An entity in the hive.
- EntityData: The NBT data of the entity in the hive.
- See entity format.
- MinOccupationTicks: The minimum amount of time in ticks for this entity to stay in the hive.
- TicksInHive: The amount of ticks the entity has stayed in the hive.
- EntityData: The NBT data of the entity in the hive.
- An entity in the hive.
- FlowerPos: Stores the location of a flower, so other bees can go to it.
- X: X coordinate of the flower.
- Y: Y coordinate of the flower.
- Z: Z coordinate of the flower.
History
| Upcoming Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.15 | 19w34a | Added bee hives. | |||
Issues
Issues relating to "Beehive" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.