How to get Honeycomb in Minecraft

TOI Sports Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Apr 3, 2025, 19:14 IST

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In Minecraft, honeycombs are essential for crafting beehives, candles, and waxing copper blocks. Players can find bee nests, typically near flowers in biomes like plains and flower forests. To harvest honeycombs without provoking bees, use shears on full nests and place a lit campfire nearby. The honeycomb is useful for various crafting purposes in the game.

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The world of Minecraft is filled with a variety of resources, one of which is the Honeycomb. It is fairly useful inside the game, and you can primarily use it for the purpose of crafting beehives, candles, and waxing copper blocks.
To obtain it, you have to find bee nests, which naturally generate in certain biomes. You must keep in mind that collecting honeycomb requires careful preparation, as disturbing bees will provoke them into attacking you. Here is a simple guide that you can follow to find and harvest honeycomb in Minecraft.

How to Get Honeycomb in Minecraft

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Finding Bee nests

Bee nests are a structure in Minecraft where bees live, and they end up producing both honey and honeycomb. There are widely available in the game, and you can easily find them in the following biomes:

Plains
Sunflower Plains
Flower Forests

You will generally see that bee nests are attached to oak or birch trees. They always appear near flowers, considering the fact that bees rely on them for pollination. Accordingly, if you find an area with a lot of flowers, it is likely that you will find a bee nest close to it.

How to Harvest Honeycomb

The main part of harvesting a honeycomb is to wait until a bee nest reaches honey level 5. Once the nest gets full, you can follow the steps outlined below:

Step 1: Craft Shears

To start, you will need to get shears, and they will enable you to extract honeycomb from bee nests. You can craft shears using 2 Iron Ingots (you must place them diagonally in the crafting table)

Step 2: Use Shears on a full bee nest

Next, you must go to a full bee nest, and right-click it with shears. It will give you three honeycombs. As already mentioned, if you disturb bees, they become aggressive, which is why you must take these precautions:

Campfires – After you put a lit campfire beneath the bee nest, the bees won’t end up attacking you. This is because the smoke calms the bees, and you may then safely harvest honeycomb without worrying about getting attacked.
Fireplace Blocks or Smoke Sources – Besides using the campfire in Minecraft, you can also use anything else that produces smoke as long as you place it close to the nest.

Uses of Honeycomb in Minecraft

Honeycomb might not be the most useful resource in Minecraft, but you can still end up using it for several purposes. The following are some of their key uses:

Waxing Copper – Prevents copper blocks from oxidizing over time.
Crafting Candles – Used to make candles for lighting.
Making Beehives – Allows you to farm bees and honey.

With this guide, you will be able to understand that collecting honeycomb in Minecraft is easy if you know where to find bee nests and how to safely harvest them.

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