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"Wheat block" redirects here. For the living crop block, see Seeds.

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Spring is ruined, all thanks to hay. Hay, you traitorous snake. That's why we prefer hay bales in Minecraft, where instead of ruining our lives, they sometimes save them. Landing on a hay bale in the game reduces any fall damage by 80%. That means you could potentially fall from a hundred blocks high and survive. Just. Our legal team cannot stress enough that you should only try that in Minecraft.

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Hay bales are decorative, flammable blocks that can also be fed to horses.

Obtaining

Hay bales can be mined using any tool, or without a tool.

Block Hay Bale
Hardness 0.5
Breaking time (secs)
Default 0.75

Crafting

Ingredients Crafting recipe
Wheat

Usage

Crafting ingredient

Name Ingredients Crafting recipe
Target Redstone Dust +
Hay Bale

Wheat Hay Bale

Food item

While not edible by players, hay bales can be a useful compact food supply for long periods away from other food sources.

Horses

Hay bales can also be fed to horses, donkeys, or mules to heal up to 10 hearts. They are an effective method to heal horses if the player wants to heal them in a short period of time. They also speed up the growth of foals by three minutes.

Breeding

Hay bales can be used to breed llamas.

Falling

Falling onto a hay bale reduces the fall damage by 80%, meaning whatever falls on a hay bale only takes 20% of the normal fall damage.

An unarmored player with full health and no effects can fall as far as 100.27 blocks onto a hay bale, and still survive with 1♥ health remaining.

Placement

Orientables

Seen here alongside wood, quartz blocks and purpur pillars, hay bales can be pointed in multiple directions.

Hay bales can be placed pointing in all three spatial dimensions, in the same way as wood is placed. However, there is no fourth "bark block" variant.

Data values

Block state

See also: Block states

Java Edition:

Name Default value Allowed values Description
axisy xThe hay block is oriented east–west.
yThe hay block is oriented vertically.
zThe hay block is oriented north–south.

Bedrock Edition:

NameMetadata Bits Default value Allowed valuesValues for
Metadata Bits
Description
pillar_axis0x4
0x8
yx
y
z
1
0
2
The axis along which the block is oriented
deprecated0x1
0x2
00
1
2
3
0
1
2
3
Unused, has no effect in game.

Video

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History

release
February 24, 2013A Reddit user (karthus25) discovers a screenshot of hay bales hidden in the files of the Mojam game Nuke the Dinosaurs.
1.6.113w16aAdded the hay bale. They have no in-game name. Called “Hay Bale” in the change notes.
13w16bThe hay bale receives an in-game name as Hay Block.
13w18aThe hay bale receives a crafting recipe.
13w21aMade hay bale flammable.
13w24aName changed from Hay Block to Hay Bale.
1.814w17aWhen all blocks were converted to use block states, block/data-value combination 170/12 (6-sided hay bale) was removed.
14w26cRebalanced how much hay bale heal, and accelerate the growth of horses.
1.915w44bFalling onto a hay bale does only 20% of the normal fall damage.
1.1116w39aHay bales can now be used to breed llamas.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.8.0build 2Added hay bales.
Legacy Console Edition
TU19CU7 1.12 Patch 1Added hay bales.

Issues

Issues relating to "Hay Bale", "Hay Block", or "Hay" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

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