| “ |
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„ | |
| — Tom Stone[1] |
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
| “ |
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„ | |
| — Tom Stone[1] |
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
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
| Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| axis | y
| x | The hay block is oriented east–west. |
y | The hay block is oriented vertically. | ||
z | The hay block is oriented north–south. |
| Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pillar_axis | 0x40x8 | y | xyz | 102 | The axis along which the block is oriented |
| deprecated | 0x10x2 | 0 | 0123 | 0123 | Unused, has no effect in game. |
Video
Hay Bale/video
History
| release | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 24, 2013 | A Reddit user (karthus25) discovers a screenshot of hay bales hidden in the files of the Mojam game Nuke the Dinosaurs. | ||||
| 1.6.1 | 13w16a | Added the hay bale. They have no in-game name. Called “Hay Bale” in the change notes. | |||
| 13w16b | The hay bale receives an in-game name as Hay Block. | ||||
| 13w18a | The hay bale receives a crafting recipe. | ||||
| 13w21a | Made hay bale flammable. | ||||
| 13w24a | Name changed from Hay Block to Hay Bale. | ||||
| 1.8 | 14w17a | When all blocks were converted to use block states, block/data-value combination 170/12 (6-sided hay bale) was removed. | |||
| 14w26c | Rebalanced how much hay bale heal, and accelerate the growth of horses. | ||||
| 1.9 | 15w44b | Falling onto a hay bale does only 20% of the normal fall damage. | |||
| 1.11 | 16w39a | Hay bales can now be used to breed llamas. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.8.0 | build 2 | Added hay bales. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU19 | CU7 | 1.12 | Patch 1 | Added hay bales. | |
Issues
Issues relating to "Hay Bale", "Hay Block", or "Hay" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Gallery
The image found in the Mojam game file.

