How to get honeycombs in Minecraft

One of Minecraft's most underrated in-game items is honeycomb, one of the two products attainable from a bee nest or beehive. In essence, honeycomb is quite simple to obtain, but there is one main difficulty in collecting it—it makes bees aggressive towards the player.

In most cases, harvesting honeycomb from a bee nest or hive will automatically aggravate the bees inside and turn them against the player. Beesinflict poison damage on the player in addition to stinging damage, meaning that if a swarm is ganging up against a player, there is a possibility that they could die from the attack.

Here is the best way to get honeycomb from bee nests and hives without invoking the terrors of angered bees.

How to Harvest Honeycombs in Minecraft

Honeycombs are useful items created by bees (Image via Mojang)

Once a bee nest or beehive starts dripping honey, it is ready to be harvested. Players looking for honeycombs will need to use shears on the bee nest/beehive to obtain three pieces of honeycomb. However, doing so will anger the bees living inside.

How to get honeycomb in Minecraft without getting attacked

The easiest way for players to obtain honeycomb from bee nests and hives around their Minecraft world is to place a lit campfire underneath the honey-filled block before harvesting it. This will prevent the bees from emerging with reddened eyes to attack the player.

There must be smoke passing through the top of the nest or hive for this trick to work, but if that is happening, then the player is free to use a pair of shears on the block to get their honeycomb.

To harvest honeycombs safely, players can also place a dispenser facing the bee nest/beehive and add shears inside the dispenser. Then, activate the dispenser to harvest honeycombs without provoking the bees.

Shears are currently the only tool that can get honeycomb from filled hives, and the hive must have honey dripping from it for the honeycomb to drop. Players can also use a bottle on a filled bee nest or hive to get honey.

What are the Uses of Honeycomb in Minecraft

The main use of honeycomb in Minecraft is to create beehives, the manmade version of a bee nest. These hives look a lot cleaner and pristine compared to the natural bee nest and are a lot more accessible, as beehives can be made with wood and honeycomb.

To collect bee nests in a player's survival inventory, the player must use a silk touch tool to collect the nest, which can take ages to accomplish—especially early in-game.

Honeycomb is also used to create decorative honeycomb blocks, which look absolutely perfect as decoration in honey or bee farms. Honeycomb is one of the most brilliant items in Minecraft and that is why it's so much sought after by the players. Other than honeycomb, players can also craft honey blocks, which are similar to slime blocks, but made of honey.

How to Make Honeycomb block in Minecraft

Honeycomb block crafting recipe (Image via Mojang)

Honeycombs are beautiful decorative blocks, perfect for creating a bee-themed build. Crafting a honeycomb block is fairly simple and easy. Players need four honeycombs to make one honeycomb block. After obtaining four honeycombs, place them in a square shape on a 2x2 crafting grid to create one honeycomb block.