How to Get Honeycomb in Minecraft

Getting honeycomb in Minecraft requires shears and careful timing. Use shears on bee nests or beehives when they reach honey level 5, but place a campfire nearby to keep bees calm and avoid getting stung during harvest.
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Step-by-Step Honeycomb Harvesting

Safely collecting honeycomb requires the right tools and technique to avoid angry bees:

Materials Needed:
• Shears (crafted with 2 iron ingots)
• Campfire (crafted with 3 sticks, 1 coal/charcoal, 3 logs)
• Flint and steel or fire charge to light the campfire

Harvesting Process:
1. Find a bee nest or beehive - Look in flower forests, plains, and sunflower plains biomes
2. Wait for honey level 5 - The nest/hive will be dripping honey and appear full
3. Place a campfire below - Position it within 5 blocks underneath the nest/hive
4. Light the campfire - The smoke will calm the bees and prevent aggression
5. Use shears on the nest/hive - Right-click to harvest 3 honeycomb

Important: Never harvest without a campfire or the bees will become hostile and attack you. Each harvest yields 3 honeycomb and resets the honey level to 0.

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Building Efficient Bee Farms

Create sustainable honeycomb production with organized bee farming setups:

Bee Farm Design: Build beehives near flower gardens with campfires positioned safely underneath each hive for easy harvesting.
Flower Requirements: Bees need flowers within 3 blocks to work efficiently - plant diverse flowers like poppies, dandelions, and sunflowers.
Breeding Bees: Use flowers to breed bees and expand your population for increased honeycomb production.
Automated Systems: Advanced players can use dispensers with shears for automated honeycomb collection without manual intervention.
Safety Measures: Always maintain lit campfires and keep extra shears on hand since they lose durability with each use.

Many servers feature community bee farms where players collaborate on large-scale honey production, sharing resources and techniques. Our hosting supports both simple homestead bee keeping and complex automated farming systems that require stable performance for redstone mechanics.

Uses for Honeycomb in Minecraft

Crafting Beehives
Combine 6 planks and 3 honeycomb to craft beehives - artificial bee homes you can place anywhere.

Making Candles
Craft decorative candles using 1 string and 1 honeycomb, perfect for atmospheric building projects.

Waxed Copper Blocks
Use honeycomb to wax copper blocks, preventing them from oxidizing and maintaining their original color.

Trading and Economy
On multiplayer servers, honeycomb often becomes valuable trade currency for building and decoration projects.

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Why do I need a campfire for honeycomb?

Campfires produce smoke that calms bees, preventing them from becoming hostile when you harvest honeycomb. Without a campfire, bees will attack you and potentially die from their own poison, reducing your bee population.
The campfire must be lit and positioned within 5 blocks below the bee nest or beehive to effectively calm the bees during harvesting.

How long does honeycomb take to regenerate?

Bees need to enter and exit their nest/hive about 5 times to increase the honey level by 1. At honey level 5, you can harvest honeycomb. This process typically takes 2-3 Minecraft days if bees have access to flowers.
Having more flowers nearby and multiple bees per hive speeds up the honey production process significantly.

Can you get honeycomb without shears?

No, shears are the only tool that can harvest honeycomb from bee nests and beehives. Breaking the nest/hive will only drop the structure itself, not honeycomb.
You can use dispensers loaded with shears for automated honeycomb harvesting, but the shears themselves are always required for the harvesting process.

What happens if bees get angry during harvesting?

Angry bees will attack you and other nearby players, inflicting poison damage. When bees sting, they die after 10-60 seconds, permanently reducing your bee population.
Always use campfires to prevent bee aggression, and if bees do become hostile, move away quickly and wait for them to calm down before returning to harvest.

Setting Up Bee Farming Servers

For successful bee farming communities, ensure adequate flower biome generation for natural bee spawns, provide tutorials and community areas for sharing farming techniques, protect bee farms from griefing with appropriate server rules, maintain stable performance for redstone automation systems, and create trading systems where honeycomb becomes valuable server currency.