How do I retrieve a Minecraft hive?

To retrieve a hive in Minecraft without losing your bees, you'll need a pickaxe with the’Enchantment: Silk Touch (Silk Touch).

Without it, the cluster breaks up, the foragers escape, and they attack. Here’s the complete guide to finding, recovering, and managing a hive without getting stung.

Steps to take to recover a Minecraft hive

To move an intact hive, the’Enchantment: Silk Touch is essential. You can apply it to a pickaxe, but any other tool with this enchantment will work as well.

One subtle point to keep in mind: Silky texture captures the block intact, but only the bees inside at the time of the collapse stay inside. The ones foraging outside are lost. To save as many as possible, break open the hive at night or in bad weather, when all the foragers have returned to sleep.

The procedure consists of three steps:

1. Wait for the night so that as many bees as possible are inside.
2. Use your enchanted tool to break up the hive cluster.
3. Pick up the block and carry it to the desired location with the bees inside.

Important : When you set your hive down, be sure to check its orientation. The small holes in the block indicate the bees’ entrance and exit. A hive misguided will trap your foragers against a wall.

This mechanism works the same way in Java and in Bedrock : the cycle day/night Determine whether your bees are inside or not at the time of harvest.

How to avoid being attacked by bees?

Just like in real life, bees don't like it when you mess with their home. They'll defend their hive as soon as you break the block or harvest the honey, and without protection, you're in for a rough time.

The simplest solution: turn on a campfire under the beehive. There smoke It keeps the bees calm, allowing you to harvest safely.

To build your campfire, you'll need:

3 sticks 1 piece of coal or charcoal 3 logs or wooden blocks

Place it directly under the nest or hive. The smoke calms the bees down, so you can then retrieve the honey where the honeycombs without making them angry.

To learn all about how it's made, check out our tutorial on how to build a campfire in Minecraft.

Where can I find beehives in Minecraft?

Before going hunting, you need to tell the difference between two nearby rock formations. The honeycomb occurs naturally throughout the world, clinging to trees. The hive, on the other hand, is crafted by the player. Both blocks function the same way once placed.

To find honeycombs, focuses primarily on these biomes:

• The plains
• The Sunflower plains
• The Flowering Forest

You might also come across some in these areas, even though bees are less common there:

• The Forest
• The Forest Hills
• The 4 birch forest biomes

Bees mainly build their nests on oaks and the game's birch trees. A sapling planted next to flowers is much more likely to develop into a nest as it grows. Here are the percentages by location:

How to recover honey from Minecraft?

Honey is harvested in two forms: the jar of honey and the honeycomb. In both cases, you have to wait until the honey level of the hive reaches 5, as indicated by the honey spilling over the sides of the block.

Harvesting a vial of honey

Use a empty vial on a nest or a full hive to obtain a jar of honey. Once drunk, it restores 6 hunger points. It's the only drinkable item in the game that restores hunger.

Harvesting a honeycomb

Do you prefer a honeycomb ? Uses shears on the solid block to create spokes. This material is very versatile:

• make a hive,
• to craft a honeycomb block decorative.

Our This guide explains in detail how to find honey in Minecraft.

To boost your yield, plant some flowers near your beehives to attract foragers. Then give a flower to two adult bees : They reproduce, and your harvest grows quickly. Tell us about your adventures in the comments—especially your encounters with an angry bee!