bees are a really useful mob in
minecraft added in 1.15 you can farm
both honey and honeycomb from them and
although there is a lot to know about
them no worries because this is the
ultimate minecraft 1.18 bn honey farming
guide let's check it out now bees can be
found in almost every single biome that
has the oak and the birch trees so it
does not spawn in the dark oak forest
but it would spawn in the flower forest
the sunflower plains the plains the
meadow the birch forest and other biomes
like that they spawn in these bee hives
right here on the side of trees rarely
of course i put a few more beehives
around here but you do actually find
them somewhat commonly in these areas if
you're having trouble finding a beehive
or you want a whole bunch more of them
all you have to do is get yourself a
sapling of either a birch sapling or an
oak sapling place it down on the ground
with a flower of any type right next to
it then let it grow naturally or bone
meal it and when you bone meal it there
is a five percent chance that you will
get a beehive that generates right on
the side of it like that and what's
really cool about this is if you want to
farm yourself a large amount of bee
hives you can do that pretty simply just
by putting a flower next to your wood
farm for your birch and oak trees and of
course with one in 20 trees having the
hives on them you can get yourself a
very large amount with not too much
effort now once bees have gone to
flowers and back a couple times you may
notice that some of these beehives will
be full to the brim with honey just like
this and all you have to do to harvest
the honey is right click on it with a
glass bottle or right click on it with
shears to harvest honeycomb instead
however there is a minor problem if we
right click on this with our bottle or
our shearers without pacifying the bees
they'll all come out incredibly angry
they'll try and sting us and if they
sting us they will die and bee stings
can actually be somewhat dangerous if
there's a large amount of them and they
don't even stop being angry unless they
haven't hit you for over 25 seconds so
the trick you can do to avoid this is to
pacify the bees one of two ways before
you harvest the honey from them and
those two ways are quite simple all you
have to do is either have a campfire
below the hive and we'll try that right
now in survival hopefully those angry
bees don't find us we'll place the
campfire right here
and what we can do now is we can just
harvest the honey let's try it with the
bottle again
and there we go we even have the
advancement be our guest because we know
that the bees are pacified and happy
that we're getting the honey and you can
see that none of them came out none of
them are angry and that's a really
simple way of doing that however
something you should be careful about if
you do have a campfire beneath your
beehive is that these are a little bit
stupid and they will fly right into the
campfire and hurt themselves so all you
have to do is get a moss carpet or a
normal carpet any type you want and put
it on top of the campfire just like this
seems strange but it actually works that
will prevent the bees from flying
directly into the fire and burning
themselves like that and of course
carpets are quite easy to get the other
method to harvest the honey really
easily is to get yourself a dispenser
and have it be facing the hive so i'll
try doing that right now and basically
just have it so that the face of it is
facing the hive from one direction or
the other so something like that should
work then we'll put a lever on the side
and we'll put what type we want to
harvest in there so we'll just do glass
bottles again since we've been doing
that before we'll switch the lever and
that will harvest the honey just like
that and you can see in here we now have
a honey bottle and of course you can put
lots of bottles in there and harvest a
lot of times but if there's nothing in
there then well of course you'll just
get some glass bottles out of there so
that's a really good trick as well to
harvest the honey from there now what
you can do is you can also harvest the
honey with shears and we'll try that
right now and when you do that you don't
get honey you get honey comb you can see
these bees are now very angry at us and
we're probably going to die of the
poison effect but what we got from it is
we got three honeycomb and honeycomb is
really useful and we'll go into the uses
of honey and honeycomb a little bit
later all right let's say you've
harvested some honey and some bees have
killed themselves unfortunately by
stinging you well all you have to do to
get yourself more bees is to simply
bring out a flower in your hand and the
bees will now follow you now this
following mechanic is really useful for
tons of different things but the other
thing you can do as well is if you get
two b's just like this to be right next
to you you can right click on both and
basically they will breed and then we
will have a baby bee which i think is
one of the cutest mobs in the entire
game probably a bit more realistically
sized to be anyway but definitely a cute
mob and of course you can breed these
multiple times once the breeding timer
has reset to populate your colony of
bees even more so which is of course
really important if you want to have a
honey farm just be aware if you're
holding a flower you'll have an entire
swarm of cute fuzzy bees flying after
you now there's two different types of b
homes in minecraft there's b nests and b
hives i've actually incorrectly been
calling these beehives but they're
called b nests beehives are ones you can
craft yourself now when you get
honeycomb from a beehive or a bns that
is when right clicking on it with shears
all you have to do is put three
honeycomb in the crafting grid like this
with three oak planks on the top and
bottom and that will give you a bee hive
now beehive functions identically to a b
nest it just looks a little bit
different when placing that down if
there are bees that don't have a home
they're trying to look for one then they
can use this bee hive just like a bee
nest and that's a really good way of
making yourself a large bee farm because
of course finding all kinds of these in
the wild can be somewhat difficult
however something to remember with both
the beehive and the be nest is that you
cannot break it without silk touch or
it'll just break leaving nothing and the
bees will fly out actually with a bee
hive the beehive will break off and you
can pick it up but all the bees will
come out of it and be very angry but
what you can do to fix this is with the
b nest all you have to do is break it
with a tool with silk touch axe being
the best what's really awesome about
this is not only will the bees not be
angry at all but the bees will actually
stay inside of it which is so cool
because you can transport your bees in
fact upon placing down the hive like
this you can see there's even the honey
still in it like there was and if there
were bees inside of that which i don't
think there were at that point you could
move those as well and up to three bees
per hive as that's how many fit in there
with the b nest here if we break with
our fist it will drop off just to be
high but of course now all these bees
are angry at us but if we were to break
it with let's say a tool silk touch and
there were bees inside of it the bees
would not only not be mad like this one
right here but they would also stay
inside of it which is of course a really
good thing also let's say you did want
to move your bees but they're all around
pollinating flowers what do you do to
move them from one location to another
and actually not have them all just be
left outside the hive and be picking up
a hive with very few bees in it well all
you have to do is pick it up when it's
nighttime or raining because bees only
work in the day so basically when it's
not daytime the bees will fly around and
then come up here and go into the hive
the same when it's raining and they'll
stay in there until it's not nighttime
anymore or until when it's not raining
and because of that though all your bees
will be inside that hive then you can
easily pick it up just like this and
move them around very very simply now
something quite interesting about bees
is that when they have the pollen on
them after pollinating a flower on their
way from the flower back to their bee
nest or hive they can actually bone meal
crops and they can do this 10 times from
their pollination in fact you saw it
just happen right there if the little
pollen particles land on a crop you can
see it basically gains another growth
stage as if it was bone mealed that's a
really cool effect because you can make
your crops go incredibly quickly by
simply having a path between your
beehives and your flowers like this that
will give you this free bone meal just
from your bees doing their work but what
is the strictly technical process by
which a bee generates honey in a hive in
minecraft well a beehive can have up to
three bees in it same with the bee nest
and the bees will fly out of it multiple
times a day and find a flower this can
include tall flowers and also flowering
azalea bushes and flowering azalea
leaves then just as you saw right up
there the bee will basically run around
and kind of circle the flower or the
flowering azalea and eventually it will
get some pollen on it and then once it
has the pollen on it'll go right up to
its hive and it'll stay in there for
about two minutes after it's been there
for about two minutes it'll exit the
hive and give the hive one honey level
you can't visually see honey levels
although you can measure them with a
comparator and once your b nest or
beehive has five honey levels it'll look
just like this with the honey dripping
out of it of course before it has that
the be nest looks like it's empty
something like this so for instance this
might have a very large amount of honey
levels but you'll know when it's full
when there's the honey dripping out of
it with the particles there and also on
the texture and of course if a beehive
or nest has three bees in it that are
constantly pollinating and coming back
and forth it can get more than five
honey levels per day but the beehive is
capped at five honey levels so any more
honey they bring back after that just
won't be added to it so you'll want to
make sure to harvest those as regularly
as possible and the best way of doing
that is by making an automatic honey
farm and these are actually a lot
simpler to make than you might see by
looking at this in fact they're one of
the simplest farms you can make that's
fully automatic basically all this is
one repeatable row of blocks that can be
made as many times as you want over
there and we can see how it works right
here and i'll demonstrate how to build
one of these yourself because they're
incredibly useful and it's probably the
best way of getting yourself bulk
amounts of honey as well as honeycomb as
this farm works with both also i would
totally recommend building this bee farm
in the nether or the end the reason why
is that in the nether and the end there
is actually no night time there's also
no rain and because bees don't work when
it's raining or when it's nighttime you
can basically double the efficiency of
your farm if you put it in the end now
of course this is only if you're going
to be afk with the farm that is you know
being next to it for a long time not
doing anything as it runs but if you
just want it in the overworld just to
kind of be next to your base to run
while you're in there that could work as
well but if you want a really efficient
design i would suggest building it
exactly how i'm about to show you in the
nether or in the end you're going to
want to start by making a row of blocks
where your hopper mine curt's going to
be there i'll just make mine maybe 10
blocks long as it's something simple to
do something just around here like this
so we have five there then three four
five just like that that should be ten
blocks
then from here this is kind of going to
be the bottom of your farm then we're
gonna go up two blocks like this from
this block we're gonna go one over there
and then we're gonna go four over here
just like this and break this block here
then go up one block on the side here
like this from this block right here you
want to go up two blocks and one over
get yourself a slab of any type and put
that slab here so we kind of have this
shape then what we'll do is we'll finish
off by placing one block here and also
having one block up here just like this
now that's how much of the andesite
you're going to need we'll go with the
rest of the materials then you're going
to need a redstone comparator coming out
of this block like this and you need
redstone dust basically along here going
here here here here and here we'll then
get ourselves a dispenser and with that
dispenser we're going to place it facing
downwards right here so it's kind of
facing with the face right there so it's
pointing into this block
we'll get some dirt some grass some moss
or any other block that can have flowers
on top of it and we'll place that right
here we're gonna get ourselves some
glass but you don't actually have to do
glass but it's just visually nice and
we're gonna place it right here
we're then gonna get a b nest that has
bees inside of it which you can of
course get by getting b nests or hives
and breaking them with silk touch when
it's nighttime or raining you can also
breed up a whole bunch of bees making
more nests and more hives until you have
let's say at least 10 of these b nests
or hives to put into your farm we'll put
that in right here and the bees will pop
out but that's okay we'll put a flower
on top of there it should probably just
be a one tall flower it can be a corn
flower or a poppy or whatever you really
want and more or less the farm is almost
done all we have to do is in here but
either shears or bottles but both work
we'll put shears in here why not the
only other thing you have to do is
literally just copy what i did right
there basically as many times as you
want you could do 10 or 20 or 30 or even
100 along here just as long as this
hopper mine cart won't be overloaded
with the items now of course to make
this system down here is also actually
quite simple and we'll just pretend we
have this section right here extending
all the way along here
we're going to get ourselves some
powered rails and put them all the way
down here sort of like they are over
there
we're going to find a place to put our
redstone block and i'll show you where
to put that in a second what we're going
to want to do first is make the
collection system which is very very
simple so no worries on this one and all
you have to do for this is basically go
over here and get ourselves a hopper
make it face down into this block and
break these two blocks and put in some
chests and of course you could put more
chests linked to this hopper if you want
to not have to check up on this as often
then put a powered rail on top of the
hopper here get yourself a block let's
say andesite and put it right here and
of course this block can be anything you
want really doesn't have to be endocyte
just a solid block
then with this block right here we're
going to have on the other side of it
right here a block there and we're gonna
have a block down here
and we'll get our comparator which is
basically facing out of the hopper so
more or less it's checking to see if
there are items in this hopper then
we'll get a torch and put the torch
right here and we're gonna get ourselves
another block to put on top of the torch
put a redstone dust right there and that
will now power this rail which basically
means if we put a block here on the
other side of our minecart track and
also get a piece of redstone that we'll
put in a second here we'll have
ourselves a system where this will
automatically go back and forth
unloading things when we need it to just
like it is over here but the placement
of this redstone block is crucial so
we're going to start by doing is
actually breaking this piece of redstone
right here so we can see this powered
off then we'll place a redstone block
over here and we'll put some redstone
and we'll put some powered rail on top
of it and we notice here that the power
extends two blocks over we're actually
really close all we have to do is place
this block right here break this and
just have one redstone block on our
track of course more of this is a very
large track but overall what we're
trying to do is have that redstone block
only power up to here and not power that
rail on top of the hopper because that's
what makes the system work then we put a
redstone dust right here it'll power
that and all we have to do now is put in
our hopper minecart which is of course a
decently easy item to craft we'll grab
that and put that right here and that'll
basically go back and forth on here
picking up any honey that's spat out
into here as you can kind of see this
farm would be doing in a second i'll
demonstrate that let's say we have some
honey that this farm has produced and
we'll just drop it right there as an
example the hopper mine cart will pick
it up quite quickly it'll go over here
it'll stop it will unload it into this
hopper and into this chest here and once
it's done unloading it quite quickly
just like this then it'll power that and
it'll go back onto that system and this
is a very very simple minecart unloader
just like that and of course it's loaded
by this
you may notice this farm isn't actually
working well that's because i haven't
put any bottles in here but what we can
do to make this farm work and kind of
see it in action is we'll simply get
ourselves some shears let's say because
it's actually a little bit more
complicated with shears and i'll put the
shears in here now shears when you shear
your beehive it basically pops out
multiple things it pops out three
honeycomb instead of one honey bottle
with your glass bottle so the system
needs to be better to obviously be able
to pick up all those different things
but what's awesome about the system is
it can it can pick up all three of those
items that these shears get from
harvesting the honeycomb which is really
cool we'll just keep putting these in
here just like that and of course
filling these up all the way is the best
idea in fact if you're doing this with
the glass bottles and i'll show this on
the last one here what you're going to
have to do is make sure that every
single slot of this dispenser is filled
up with the glass bottles because if not
some of the glass bottles will stay
inside of the dispenser and if they do
that they'll eventually spit out but
it'll kind of slow down the system so
it's a good idea to fill this all the
way up with the glass bottle so you
immediately get the honey popping out
there now of course none of these things
have updated because we had this in too
late what we can do to kind of fix that
is we can basically show off the system
working just like this by basically
breaking a block and replacing it you
can kind of see there it shared it you
can see that's gone now and this has
picked up the items right in the hopper
it has unloaded them into there and
there we go we can just kind of go
through here quickly showing off how
this works by just kind of break
replacing you can kind of hear that
working there it's kind of shoring up
there and making those honeycombs go out
you'll notice there's no honeycombs that
have spewed out and are kind of just
sitting on the ground somewhere that was
also the bottle that came out there oh
also as an added note here on the side
you'll notice that glass bottle came out
that's because what i forgot to do is
right on the side here you want to have
blocks just like that what that'll do is
that'll make sure this dispenser knows
that it needs to spit out the block on
this side and not on this side so be
sure on every side to make sure that you
have blocks right along here just like
that nothing too complicated but just a
little bit on the side there to close
off your machine but overall other than
that one glass bottle which we've now
fixed you'll see there are no items that
have kind of leaked out or just floating
somewhere they've all landed right in
this chest just like that and there we
have 42 honeycomb and of course that
honey bottle if it went in there as well
so that's how you make the automatic
honey farm which is actually a really
cool design and hopefully you guys find
that quite useful there's a nice look at
this side of it and there's a nice look
at this hopper minecart unloader and
loader right here but the thing is you
have all this honey and honeycomb now
what do you actually do with it and
there's a lot of really cool uses that
i'm going to show you right now the
first thing is that the honey bottle is
a food source which is a really nice
replenisher of hunger here's the other
cool thing about that let's say we make
a bee angry just like this and it stings
us and gives us the poison effect well
what we can do is we can actually cure
the poison by drinking a honey bottle
that will take away the poison effect
just like that it looks like i'm
probably going to die from all these
bees now they're angry at me so it might
be a good idea overall just to escape
this situation can you really believe
that i haven't made any puns in this
video yet anyway the other things we can
do with honey is we can take four honey
bottles and craft those into a honey
block but what a lot of people don't
know is you can place that honey block
right back into the crafting table with
those four glass bottles and convert
them right back into four honey bottles
which is really useful so you can use
this to store your honey just like this
but the honey block itself is incredibly
useful it basically functions just like
the slime block except for it can
actually move items on top of it so if
we had an item on top of this and it was
moved by a piston the item would
actually stay with it and i'll
demonstrate that right now so all we
have to do is place down a block with a
sticky piston and a lever here we'll
place down some items on top of this and
actually you can see they slide on the
side as well which is a really cool
effect we'll place an item there and we
make this go back and forth like this
the item actually stays with it which is
of course not how it works with slime
blocks it even lets mobs stay on there
so if you go like this you can see i'm
actually being moved with it which is
incredibly useful for things like flying
machines that make you stay stuck to
them what's also cool as you kind of
just saw there is that items and players
will slide down in a really cool way
sort of like this it's kind of hard to
show yeah you can actually see there i
just slid down the side and i even get
the advancement sticky situation this
also works with items like this you can
see them have this really cool slow
slide down the honey block effect i've
seen people make some very cool item
sorters with that and overall because
this block is actually a little bit
smaller than you think it is you can
even crawl along it just like this
whereas you normally couldn't because
most blocks don't have that little bit
of a ledge that you can stay on it also
doesn't stick to slime so if you're
having a machine that has both honey
blocks and slime blocks they will not
stick to each other if you're on top of
it it slows you down and prevents
jumping you can see where i'm trying to
jump but it doesn't really work i just
can't jump very high it also slows you
quite a bit down you can see where i'm
moving pretty slowly even without
shifting here you can see i am moving
but it's a bit slower than it normally
would be also something that's a little
bit interesting is if you land on top of
a honey block it will reduce your fall
damage we'll try that right now just
like that you can see we only took half
a heart of damage or as it usually would
take more and as i try and jump off this
you see how truly sticky the honey block
is so this could be good for some
temporary traps although not too much as
you can actually break it instantly just
like you would with a slime block which
is kind of a cool effect now what about
honeycomb what can you do with this well
i already showed how you can turn it
into beehives which is of course a very
useful purpose but you can also turn it
into honeycomb blocks just like this
these are a really cool decorative block
that actually have no use outside of
decoration but they are quite cool
looking just like that and they could be
good for a decoration for well whatever
you want it to look like if you want to
make yourself a giant beehive this could
be a perfect block to use but overall
it's kind of a nice golden looking block
that's perfect for all kinds of
different builds and believe it or not
that used to be the only uses for
honeycomb just making these blocks and
making bee hives but with minecraft 1.17
1.18 they added a bunch more uses to it
that make it one of the most valuable
items you get from the bees
all you have to do is place honeycomb
and string in the crafting grid like
this and that will give you a candle now
what's awesome about candles is not only
can you light them but you can also dye
them so let's say we get ourselves a
little bit of dye from this tulip here
we turn to red dye put it in the
crafting grid like this we will get
ourselves a red candle and that works
with every single color also when
placing them down we can place up to
four on one block very similarly to how
you place sea pickles and you can even
light them and have them be an
increasingly good light source the more
candles there are on a block so that's a
perfect piece of decoration that you can
do with the honeycomb the only other
thing you can do with them that was
added in minecraft 1.17 is if you have
copper blocks of any single type or any
type of oxidation you can wax them so
basically just right click on them with
the honeycomb in your hand and it will
wax them you can get the achievement wax
on you'll see there's these cool golden
effects that appear just like that when
you wax the honeycomb blocks be if you
want them not to be waxed anymore and
what waxing does is it makes it so they
cannot oxidize this will stay looking
shiny forever unlike let's say the
statue of liberty or something like that
where it turns green slowly if we right
click on this you'll see we have the
advanced wax off kind of get this
metallic-looking white particle and now
this can oxidize as you wish but overall
it's a really nice thing to do if you
want to keep your copper blocks at a
certain stage of oxidization or stop
them from oxidizing at all anyway i hope
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