How to make a beehive in Minecraft: Bees locations & harvesting honey

Hamza Khalid
Bee in Minecraft

Bees can be extremely useful in Minecraft if you’re looking to obtain honey and speed up crop growth at your farm. We’ll go over how to make a beehive in Minecraft so that you can begin harvesting honey.

There is a wide assortment of fun activities for you to engage in after hopping into Minecraft, from exploring locations such as biomes and fortresses to setting up your own farm filled with different crops such as sugar cane.

One way to improve your farm is to create a beehive. This is because bees are extremely useful when it comes to increasing the rate of crop growth, providing ingredients for food, and enabling honey collection.

Here’s how to craft beehives in Minecraft.

How to find Bees in Minecraft

Bees in Minecraft can be found around oak and birch trees in the plains, within flower forests, and near sunflower plains adjacent to bee nests. These mobs are generally non-aggressive. However, if you disturb their nests or attack them, they will retaliate by stinging and poisoning you.

minecraft bees
Minecraft bees become hostile when agitated.

How to Harvest Honey in Minecraft

Harvesting honey in Minecraft can be done through two careful techniques:

  1. Honey collection steps:
    1. Prepare an empty Glass Bottle using three glass pieces.
    2. Locate a filled beehive.
    3. Right-click on the beehive to extract honey.
    4. Remember, bees should deposit pollen five times before honey can be harvested.
  2. Honeycomb Collection Steps:
    1. Create shears using two iron ingots.
    2. Utilize the shears on the filled beehive.
    3. Gather the resulting honeycomb.

How to create a Beehive in Minecraft

To create a beehive in Minecraft, simply align three wood planks on the bottom and top rows of your crafting table. Once that’s done, you just need to insert three honeycombs in the central row.

Minecraft beehive recipe
You can use this Minecraft beehive crafting recipe.

That covers everything that you need to know about how to locate bees, craft a beehive, and extract honey in Minecraft. While you search for bees or await honey production, delve into our other useful Minecraft tutorials.

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About The Author

Hamza is a Content Creator & Publisher at Charlie INTEL, who graduated from Bahria University with a Bachelors degree in Business Administration. He's spent the past few years covering news and guides for various video games, including Call of Duty and Apex Legends. He loves digital art, movies, and comic books. You can contact Hamza at [email protected].