Building Your Own Bee Farm in Minecraft

Bees are some of the most productive creatures in Minecraft. They work hard, give us a lot of honey, and are pretty cute. Today, we'll show you how to set up a bee farm that can collect resources for you automatically. This guide will walk you through everything you need to know, from finding the best spot to gathering all the stuff you'll need. Let's get started and learn how to build an automatic bee farm in Minecraft.

Setting Up Your Bee Farm in Minecraft (2022)

First, make sure your game is up to date (version 1.18 or later). This will help you avoid any problems. This method works for both Minecraft Java and Bedrock editions. The idea comes from the YouTuber ChimneySwift11. We've broken down the instructions into steps to make it easier to follow. Check out the sections below to learn how to build a bee farm and get honey and honeycomb.

Why Build a Bee Farm?

Bee farms in Minecraft are useful for a few reasons:

• Automatic Honey: Collect honey without having to do it yourself.
• Honeycomb: Get honeycomb for crafting.
• More Bees: Increase the bee population.
• Crop Help: Bees can help with growing crops in some cases.

No matter what you want to use your farm for, the basic way to build it stays the same. Plus, most of the things you need are easy to find.

What You'll Need

Here's a list of the stuff you need to build a bee farm:

• 1 flower or Flowering Azalea block
• 5 Stone blocks (or any building blocks)
• 2 Slabs
• 1 Dispenser
• 1 Chest
• 4 Glass blocks
• 1 Hopper
• 1 Redstone Comparator
• 1 Bee Nest
• 2 Bees
• Bottles (for collecting Honey) or Shears (for Honeycomb)

Finding Bees

Bees are the most important part of this farm. They usually appear in meadow biomes, but you can also find them in forests and plains. Beehives are often attached to birch or oak trees in these areas. You can search for a tutorial about how to find bees in Minecraft for tips on how to find and catch them quickly. If you can, try to find a bee nest that already has bees in it.

Where to Build Your Farm

When picking a spot for your bee farm, think about these two things: how well it will work and how safe it is. Bees follow the day and night cycle if they're in the Overworld. If you build the farm in the Nether or End dimension, the bees will keep working all the time. They'll still rest sometimes, but the day and night cycle won't slow them down, and you'll get more honey.

Basalt Deltas

It's usually easiest to build the farm in the Nether, since you can get there quickly using Nether Portals. For safety, you can build walls around your farm to keep mobs out, or you can build it in the Basalt Deltas. This is one of the safest places in the Nether. The only mobs that appear there are magma cubes, which are easy to beat.

Building Your Bee Farm: Step-by-Step

Our goal is to get honey, honeycomb, and maybe even more bees from this farm. We can make the whole thing automatic, so you only have to set it up once. Let's build it one part at a time.

1. Storage and Base

• Place a chest on the ground.
• Put a hopper on top of the chest.
• Place the flowering azalea block on top of the hopper, so it's floating. If you're using a regular flower, put a dirt block on the hopper first, then put the flower on the dirt.

2. Glass Chamber

• Build a glass box around the azalea or flower, using four glass blocks.
• Cover the top with another glass block. You might need to place a temporary block to hold the glass in place while you build.
• Place the bee nest on top of the hopper, facing the glass chamber. It's easier if the bees are already in the nest.

3. Collect Honey and Honeycomb

• Place a dispenser on top of the bee nest.
• Put glass bottles in the dispenser to collect honey automatically when it's made.
  • If you want to collect honeycomb instead, put shears in the dispenser.
  • Fill every slot in the dispenser with bottles or shears.
  • Make sure the dispenser is facing down when you place it. A simple method to make sure that is by standing beneath the farm and looking up while placing it on top Glass block .

4. Redstone Mechanism

• Build a Redstone circuit to make the machine collect honey or honeycomb when it's ready.
• Build a small structure with slabs and stone blocks.
• Place a Redstone comparator and link it to the machine.
  • You can duplicate the structure of a screenshot as a reference.
  • You can use any blocks for the structure. There should be two blocks leading to the dispenser, with a slab at the end.
• There should also be a block behind the bee nest, two blocks with a gap next to the hopper, and a slab next to the nest.
  • Place the Redstone comparator on the first block behind the hopper.
  • Place Redstone Dust on the stone surfaces.
• Wait for the magic to happen.

How It Works

The bee nest fills up as the bees gather pollen from the flower. Once the nest is full, it activates the Redstone circuit, which tells the dispenser to use the shears or bottles. This collects honey or honeycomb in the chest below.

Keep in mind that using shears can damage the bee nest over time. Once the chest is full, you can open it and take out the honey bottles or honeycomb. Simple, right?

Expanding Your Farm

This bee farm is easy to expand. For each new bee you add, just build another structure like the one above. You can connect them all together to make it easier to access.

You can also breed more bees inside the nest by feeding them flowers through a small opening. Just leave a space for a slab instead of a full block.

Get Started!

Now you're ready to build your own automatic bee farm and collect unlimited honey and honeycomb in Minecraft. Feel free to change the design to suit your needs. Just make sure you have enough Redstone dust to detect when the honey level is full. Have anything that you want to share? Leave your thoughts and discoveries!