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Minecraft Honeycomb is an item found within bee nests and beehives. Once harvested, it can be used in a number of recipes to create new items, or even to wax copper blocks and prevent them from oxidizing.

Here’s how to get honeycomb in Minecraft, where to find it, and how to use it once you’ve gathered it.

How to Make Honeycomb in Minecraft

To get Honeycomb in Minecraft, use shears on a full bee nest or beehive. Bee nests spawn naturally in the overworld, whereas beehives must be crafted manually. If you don’t already have beehives set up, you’ll need to find a bee nest in the wild. There are a number of biomes where this is possible, each with varying chances of a bee nest spawning:

Biome	Chance
Meadow	100% chance
Plains/Sunflower Plains	5% chance
Flower Forest	3% chance
Forest/Birch Forest	0.2% chance

Clearly, your best bet is to find a Meadow. When you find a bee nest, regardless of biome, it’ll be up high on the side of a tree, just below the leaves.

How to Harvest Honeycomb in Minecraft

Obviously if you are playing in Minecraft Creative you can grab Honeycomb from your menu whenever you want, but the main question is how to get Honeycomb in Minecraft Survival? Well, you need to know that there are various states that a bee nest can be in. Naturally generated bee nests typically contain 3-4 bees. These bees fly around the vicinity of the hive and search for flowers. Once they find flowers, they float around them and eventually return to the nest, now covered in pollen.

Each time they enter the nest covered in pollen, the nest begins to create Honeycomb. Whenever the bee exits the nest to search for pollen again, the honey level inside increases by 1, all the way up to 5. When the honey level reaches 5, you’ll notice a visual difference on the nest itself. The holes of the nest will turn yellowish-orange, and it will begin dripping honey particles below.

This means the bee nest is full, and ready to be harvested. You can either collect Honey from the bee nest using a Glass Bottle, or obtain Honeycomb using a pair of Shears. Note that you can’t do both - after harvesting either Honey or Honeycomb, the nest will be empty.

How to Get Honeycomb in Minecraft without a Bee Nest

Now what happens if you spawn in a world where you just can't seem to find a Bee Nest? Unfortunately, you are fresh out of luck as the only way to get Honeycomb in Minecraft is by harvesting it from a Nest. The only consolation to offer is that Meadows and Plains, the two most likely biomes for Bee Nests to spawn, are far more commonly generated (and therefore discoverable) for you, so keep searching and you'll likely stumble upon one sooner rather than later!

How to Get Honeycomb in Minecraft with a Campfire

After using Shears on the full bee nest, 3 Honeycomb will drop to the ground and the Bees within the nest will become hostile, flying towards you and dealing damage if within range to sting you. To prevent this, place a Campfire within 5 blocks, or directly beneath the nest, and the smoke from the fire will keep the Bees calm.

Minecraft Beehive Recipes

Now you have the Honeycomb, you can use it to craft a Beehive where you can lure Bees to create Honey and Honeycomb wherever you wish. At a crafting bench, place 3 wooden planks horizontally across the top and bottom rows, and 3 Honeycomb across the middle row. If you're wondering how to get Honeycomb without a Beehive, you'll simply have to rely on the naturally spawning Nests in the world. Beehives aren't difficult to craft, but if you don't want one near your build for one reason or another, simply memorize where the nearest Bee Nest is.

You can also use Honeycomb to craft Candles by placing String above it on the crafting screen or place 4 Honeycomb in a square configuration to make Honeycomb Blocks. You can coat it on Copper building materials to stop them from oxidizing.

How to Get Honeycomb in Minecraft Bedrock

Most people will likely be playing through Java, but for those of you playing on Bedrock Edition, have no fear! You can use the exact same methods of harvesting and using Honeycomb regardless of what version of Minecraft you are playing. This is particularly relevant as from Update 1.19 you automatically own both Java and Bedrock versions of the game, even if you only bought one prior.

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