Java Edition guides/Buzzy Bees

This guide is a simplified overview of all the changes in the Buzzy Bees update (Java Edition 1.15.x releases), which assumes at least some familiarity with the Village & Pillage update (Java Edition 1.14.x releases).

Mobs[]

New[]

Name	Image	Habitat	Drops	Note
Bee		Spawn near bee nests.	1–3 (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)	Inflict poison if provoked. Attack in a swarm.

Changed[]

Name	Image	Changed
All Mobs		Better at avoiding walking through lava.
Spawning		When breedable mobs in groups spawn naturally they will now sometimes spawn babies in the groups. Has a 5% chance for foxes, cows, sheep, pigs, and chickens, and a 10% chance for wolves, llamas, and horses.
Ender Dragon		Removed a black dot on the transparent parts of wing texture. Removed texture for part of wing bottom in the exploding ender dragon.
Iron Golem		Now use the `generic.attackDamage` attribute. Now starts cracking upon losing health. There are 4 stages, from uncracked to fully cracked, before the golem dies. Can be healed using iron ingots. One iron ingot restores 25% of its health. It takes 4 iron ingots to repair an Iron Golem from 1 HP to full health.
Magma Cube, Ocelot, and Slime		Now use the `generic.attackDamage` attribute.
Parrot		Can now sit on a player's shoulder even when the player is riding an entity. Can no longer imitate endermen, polar bears, wolves, and zombie pigmen.
Nitwit Villagers		No longer have a leveling gemstone in their belt.

Blocks[]

New[]

Name

Image

Obtaining

Tool Required

Uses

Beehive

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Any Planks + Honeycomb

Axe

Houses bees.
If the player breaks or harvests honey from it, its bees will become hostile to the player.
- Bees inside the hive will not turn hostile if it is harvested with Silk Touch.
- Bees will not turn hostile if there is a campfire underneath the hive when honeycombs or honey bottles are harvested.

Bee Nest

Spawn naturally in forests, birch forests, tall birch forests, flower forests, plains, sunflower plains, birch forest hills, tall birch hills, and wooded hills biomes.

Any (only drops with Silk Touch)

Functions the same as beehives.

Honey Block

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Honey Bottle

Any

Works the same way as slime blocks.
- Does not stick to slime blocks.
Carries mobs along that are standing on it while being moved, in contrast to slime blocks.
Mobs will usually avoid walking on them.
Entities can slide down its sides, similar to a ladder.
Falling on it absorbs 80% of fall damage.

Honeycomb Block

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Honeycomb

Any

Decorative block.

Changed[]

Name

Image

Changed

Bell

Will now ring if powered with a redstone signal.
No longer causes the hand animation to play when used on in a non-functional spot.

Campfire

Can now be extinguished with a shovel.

Composter

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Any wood Slab

Now crafted with wooden slabs (like in Bedrock Edition), instead of fences and wooden planks.

Dispenser

Can now harvest honeycombs when dispensing shears on bee nests and beehives filled with honey.
- The honeycomb items will be dropped on the ground.
Can now collect water bottles and honey bottles when dispensing glass bottles on water and beehives.
Can now place down armor stands.
Fire charges launched from a dispenser now light campfires.
Firework rockets dispensed from a dispenser now travel in the direction they were fired.

End Stone Bricks

Now have the same hardness and blast resistance as end stone.

Farmland

Blocks that can be manually placed on farmland without turning it into dirt can now also be pushed onto it by a piston without turning the farmland.

Iron Doors

Must now be mined with a pickaxe for it to be dropped as an item.

Large Fern

Now drop wheat seeds.

Melon Stems and Pumpkin Stems

and

Attached stems now drop their seeds again when broken.

Nether portal

Portals from the overworld can now correctly link with portals placed in the top half of the Nether.

Rails

Now places facing the player, rather than always north-south.

Redstone Comparators

Can now detect how much honey is inside beehives and bee nests.
- The output strength is equal to the amount of honey in the hive.

Oak and Birch Saplings

Oak and birch saplings grown with a flower 2 blocks away within a 5×3×5 volume centered on the sapling have a 5% chance to generate a bee nest on the side of the tree.

Stripped Woods

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Matching Stripped Log	33333333

Can now be crafted out of stripped logs.

Wet Sponge

Now dries out when placed in the Nether.

Dark Prismarine

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Prismarine Shard + Black Dye

Now crafted with black dye instead of an ink sac.

Items[]

New[]

Name	Obtaining	Uses
Honey Bottle	Obtained by using a bottle on beehives/nests with a `honey_level` of 5.	Restores 6 () and 1.2 saturation. Removes poison. Used to craft honey blocks. Can be consumed regardless of the player's hunger.
Honeycomb	Obtained by using shears on beehives/nests with a `honey_level` of 5.	Used to craft beehives and honeycomb blocks.
Spawn Egg (Bee)	Can be obtained only via creative inventory.	Has the same function as other spawn eggs.

Changed[]

Name	Image	Changed
Boat		When used as fuel, one boat now smelts 6 items in a furnace, blast furnace, or smoker instead of 1.
Spawn egg (Drowned, Husk, Zombie Pigman, Zombie, and Zombie Villager)		Can now be used on adult versions of these mobs to spawn baby variants.

Non-mob entities[]

Changed[]

Name	Image	Changed
Dragon Fireball		The texture has been changed, which now resembles the fire charge texture after the Texture Update.
Experience Orb		Experience orbs now appear at the same spatial and temporal location as loot when an entity is killed. Now render as translucent again.