Playing Minecraft as a beginner can seem pretty daunting.

However, if you follow these handy tips, you’ll be crafting like a pro in no time.

This will also cover the initial steps to getting bees at your base.

An inside view of a bee farm in Minecraft, showing bees pollinating.

Overall, setting up a honey and honeycomb farm is simple, so let’s dive in!

How To Get Bees

The best way to get bees is to find a bee nest.

These yellow blocks can be found onbirch or oak treeswithin the following biomes.

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By using bonemeal to grow the saplings into trees, you may find a bee nest.

How To Harvest A Natural Bee Nest

There are a few ways to transport bees back home.

First and foremost, it’s possible for you to take the entire bee nest with you.

A Minecraft Bee Nest with bees flying around flowers.

If you break a hive without silk touch, it will bedestroyed forever!

The bees will remain inside the nest until you place it down.

From here, they willpop out and start pollinating nearby flowers.

A Minecraft bee on a lead.

Bees On Leads

You will also be able to transport bees on leads.

With a lead in hand, just interact with the bee.

This will attach the lead to them, allowing you to guide them home.

A Minecrat bee hive and bee nest next to each other on grass.

This is a great alternative if you don’t have silk touch yet.

A bee hive, on the other hand, is thecrafted version.

Bee hives are ideal if you have bees but no nests.

A Minecraft bee hive over a campfire.

First, it’s important to understand the mechanics of this.

With all that in mind, let’s get to making the farm.

With the front closed in, head to the back.

Beehives placed in a line with blue flowers placed below in Minecraft.

The basic structure is now done!

From here,you will need to fill the dispensers.

If you putshearsinside, then the result will behoneycomb.

Minecraft bees flying within a bee farm.

If, on the other hand, you place anempty bottleinside, the result will be abottle of honey.

you’re able to break launch the front of this farm to make it place bees.

All you need is two to start, and thenyou can breed them by giving each one a flower.

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