Can you move a beehive in Minecraft?

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Bee nests and hives can be moved by a player if you want to relocate your bee home base to a better position, but they will be destroyed unless you pick them up using the silk touch enchantment.

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Can you move a beehive in Minecraft

Yes, you can move a beehive in Minecraft.

What are Minecraft bees?

Bees are a spontaneously occurring neutral mob that appear in bee nests connected to oak or birch trees.

They will only attack if they have been assaulted. Because they love flowers, they are more likely to reproduce in areas with lots of flowers and the particular trees they like.

Included in this are biomes such as grasslands and sunflower plains, as well as the seldom-seen flower forests.

Due to their low spawn probability and the fact that they appear once the world is first formed, you won’t find a nest on every tree.

Adding insult to injury, trees only spawn seldom in two of the three biomes in which bees may be found, thus reducing their availability.

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Once full, bee nests and beehives provide two harvestable products: honey and honeycomb.

Each time a bee enters a nest or hive covered in pollen, it starts converting it to honey and honeycomb. After its done, it waits for daylight with no rain (if necessary), then exits to go collect more pollen. When the bee exits, the hive increments its honey level by 1, to a maximum of 5. Once its full, it changes its appearance to show honey oozing out and, if the block below it isnt a full solid block, starts dripping honey particles. (The dripping honey is decorative; it cannot be collected in a cauldron.) These changes signal that the hive or nest is ready for harvesting.

To harvest honey, the player uses a glass bottle on the nest or hive; the bottle then becomes a honey bottle. To harvest honeycomb, the player uses shears on the nest or hive, causing it to drop three honeycomb items. After harvesting, the hive or nest is reset to empty (honey level 0, with the default appearance).

Alternatively, honey or honeycomb can be harvested by powering a redstone dispenser containing either a glass bottle or shears. The dispenser must be placed beside and facing the hive or nest.

Harvesting from a beehive or bee nest causes any bees inside it to become aggravated toward the player, unless there is a fire directly beneath it or a lit campfire within five blocks below, and the smoke is not obstructed. Smoke can pass through no more than one solid block, and only if that block is directly above the campfire. Placing a carpet above the campfire leaves room for the bees to hover beneath the nest and still avoid taking fire damage. In Java Edition, the smoke coming through the carpet also calms the bees. In Bedrock Edition, a carpet is treated as an obstruction that removes the calming effect of the campfires smoke. Without a block covering the fire, the bees can still avoid fire damage if the campfire is placed 4–5 blocks below the nest.

FAQ

How do you move a beehive in Minecraft without killing them?

Once placed, you can’t just break it if you want to move it to another place with all its Bees. To move a Beehive or Bee Nest, you will need to break it with a Silk Touch enchanted tool. If there were Bees inside it, they will remain inside when it drops.

How do you move a beehive with bees in Minecraft?

Beehives and bee nests can be broken by any tool or by the player’s fist, though they break faster with an axe. If a bee nest is broken with a tool not enchanted with Silk Touch, it drops nothing and any bees inside emerge angry at the player.

Can you pick up a beehive in Minecraft?

Beehives and bee nests can be broken by any tool or by the player’s fist, though they break faster with an axe. If a bee nest is broken with a tool not enchanted with Silk Touch, it drops nothing and any bees inside emerge angry at the player.

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