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White Bed

White Bed is a white bed that lets a player sleep through the night and sets their respawn point. It explodes if used in the Nether or the End.

Stack Size

1

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

Alpha

Item ID

white_bed

White Bed at a glance

White Bed, a block out of crafting, sits under Utility Blocks. It does not stack, so every one you carry costs a full inventory slot, and nine of them fill a hotbar row.

White is the colour the game starts from: sheep grow white wool on their own, so White Bed needs no dye at all, and white dye (bone meal or a lily of the valley) exists to lighten the other fifteen. Breaking White Bed works against a hardness of 0.2. An explosion meets the same 0.2, so White Bed is no safer against TNT than against a tool. It sits between White Banner and White Carpet in Utility Blocks, number 326 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
White WoolWhite Wool
White WoolWhite Wool
White WoolWhite Wool
White BedWhite Bed

How to obtain

  • Crafting

Notes

Requires 3 matching-color wool and 3 planks (any wood).

Frequently asked questions about White Bed

  1. White Wool, Planks going into White Bed, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get White Bed in Minecraft?

    White Bed is crafted from White Wool and Planks at a Crafting Table, in a single step.

  2. White Bed on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is White Bed used for?

    White Bed is a white bed that lets a player sleep through the night and sets their respawn point. It explodes if used in the Nether or the End.

  3. How long does White Bed take to break?

    Hardness 0.2 is what the game stores for White Bed, next to blast resistance 0.2 on it. With both figures at 0.2, White Bed is not something you rely on for protection. No tool is attached to White Bed, so bare hands on it lose nothing. Java 26.2 records White Bed with the numbers above, and it keeps them here.

  4. One White Bed, the whole of what a single inventory slot holds

    How many White Bed can you stack?

    One White Bed per slot, since White Bed does not stack, and every one then costs 3 White Wool and 3 Planks. A double chest holds 54 White Bed, one to a slot.

  5. The white dye that goes into White Bed, beside White Bed itself

    What dye does White Bed need?

    None. White Bed is white wool, and sheep grow that without any dye.

  6. White Bed coming forward out of the past, in the game since Alpha

    When was White Bed added to Minecraft?

    White Bed was added in the early Alpha development period.

Building with it

A White Bed is three white wool over three planks, and white wool needs no dye at all: sheep grow it. That makes it the bed most players sleep in on their first night, and the one that stays neutral in a bedroom built from any wood. Like every bed it sets your spawn point, and like every bed it explodes if you try to use it in the Nether or the End.