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Beehive

A craftable artificial home for bees that functions like a bee nest, filling with honey as bees pollinate. Use shears for honeycomb or a bottle for honey when full.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

1.15

Item ID

beehive

Beehive at a glance

Utility Blocks holds Beehive: a block, and crafting it is where Beehive comes from. A single slot takes 64 Beehive, a hotbar row 576 Beehive, and 3456 Beehive fill a double chest of Beehive.

Beehive has a hardness of 0.6. A creeper does to Beehive what a tool does, because both work against 0.6. The game files it under an axe, without a minimum tier attached to Beehive. Beehive sits between Bee Nest and Birch Door in Utility Blocks, number 24 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe for Beehive

Crafting
HoneycombHoneycomb
HoneycombHoneycomb
HoneycombHoneycomb
BeehiveBeehive

How to obtain Beehive

  • Crafting

Notes on Beehive

Harvesting at honey level 5 with shears or a bottle angers bees unless a campfire is placed below.

Frequently asked questions about Beehive

  1. How do you get Beehive in Minecraft?

    Beehive is crafted from Planks and Honeycomb at a Crafting Table, Beehive in one step.

  2. What is Beehive used for?

    A craftable artificial home for bees that functions like a bee nest, filling with honey as bees pollinate. Use shears for honeycomb or a bottle for honey when full.

  3. Beehive as a block, next to the axe its 0.6 hardness asks for

    How long does Beehive take to break?

    Look up Beehive and you get 0.6 hardness, with 0.6 blast resistance on Beehive. Since neither figure on Beehive is raised, Beehive behaves the same under a pickaxe and under a blast. The game files it under an axe, without a minimum tier attached to Beehive. Java 26.2 sets Beehive at these values, and we copied them onto Beehive.

  4. How many Beehive can you stack?

    384 Planks and 192 Honeycomb is what 64 Beehive costs, so filling one Beehive slot is 64 crafts of Beehive. A shulker box of Beehive is 1,728 Beehive, over 27 slots of Beehive.

  5. When was Beehive added to Minecraft?

    Beehive was added in version 1.15.

Building with Beehive

A beehive is six planks and three honeycomb, and it is the crafted twin of the bee nest. Bees fill it in five stages, and then you take honey with a bottle or honeycomb with shears. Put a campfire underneath first, or the bees come out angry every time you harvest.