Bed

Bed

Type	Block Entity
Physics	No
Transparency	Yes
Luminance	No
Blast resistance	1
Hardness	0.2
Tool	Any tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No
Flammable	JE/LCE: No, but catches fire from lava BE: No
Drops	Itself
Block Entity ID	bed
Data values	Block dec: 26 hex: 1A bin: 11010 Item dec: 355 hex: 163 bin: 101100011
Namespaced ID	See § Data values

	“	Beds were added to Minecraft in February 2011, in beta version 1.3, alongside redstone repeaters and sandstone slabs. Originally, a creepy-sounding block called “crying obsidian”, made of obsidian and lapis, was going to be put into the game to let the user change their spawn point. But then beds came along instead. Beds have changed in functionality a little over the years. Originally, sleeping in an area where monsters could get to you would sometimes cause you to wake up early, under attack from a skeleton or a zombie. This functionality was removed in version 1.0, and today instead it’s impossible to sleep if you’re in an area with monsters around.	„
		— Duncan Geere

A bed is a block that allows a player to sleep and to reset their spawn point to within a few blocks of the bed. If the bed is obstructed, the player spawns at the default world spawning location.

Obtaining

Beds can be mined with any tool, or without a tool.

Block	Bed
Hardness	0.2
Breaking time
Hand	0.35

A bed also drops itself as an item when pushed by a piston.

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Matching Wool + Any Planks		Wool color must match. Planks do not need to match.
White Bed + Matching Colored Dye		White beds can be re-dyed using dyes.‌[Java Edition only]
Any Bed + Matching Dye		A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes.‌[Bedrock, Education and Legacy Console editions only]
Any Dyed Bed + Bleach		Removes the color from the bed.‌[Bedrock and Education editions only]

Natural generation

One bed naturally generates in an igloo. In Java and Legacy Console editions, the bed is red.

In Java Edition and Bedrock Edition, white beds generate in some plains and snowy tundra village houses. Yellow beds generate in some plains and savanna village houses. Orange beds generate in some savanna village houses. Blue beds can generate in some snowy tundra, taiga, and snowy taiga village houses. Red beds generate in some snowy tundra and savanna villager houses. Purple beds generate in some taiga and snowy taiga village houses. Cyan, green, and lime beds generate in some village houses.^[verify]

Trading

Journeyman-level shepherd villagers sell 1 of 16 beds for 3 emeralds as part of their trades.

Usage

Placement

Beds require two blocks of floor space. Placement requires at least 2 blocks from the player's facing direction. When placed, the foot of the bed is placed on the block selected and the head of the bed on the block farther away from the player. Like certain other blocks, beds cannot be placed on non-solid blocks. The bed remains in place if its supporting blocks are removed.

Sleeping

The animation when falling asleep.

Beds are used by pressing the use item button while looking at the bed.

A player sleeps by use a bed during a thunderstorm,‌^{[JE only]} or at night (between 12541 and 23458 ticks, when stars appear in the sky). Attempting to use a bed at any other time results in the message "You can sleep only at night and during thunderstorms"‌^{[JE only]} or "You can sleep only at night".‌^{[BE only]} A player sleeps in a bed for 101 in-game ticks, or 5.05 seconds before the time skips to the next day. Sleeping in a bed with the gamerule doDaylightCycle set to false results in the player being kicked out of the bed after the 101 ticks, but does not change time of the world to day.

Sleeping in a bed is possible only in the Overworld. Attempting to use a bed in the Nether and the End causes it to explode and set fire to surrounding blocks. The explosion has power 5, which is stronger than TNT (4), but not as strong as a charged creeper or end crystal (6).

The player must be close to the bed to sleep. If the player is close enough to click on the bed, but not close enough to sleep in it, a message appears saying that the bed is too far away.

The player cannot sleep if a "monster" is within 8 blocks of the bed horizontally (along each axis) and 5 blocks vertically. If a monster is nearby, even through a wall, the message appears "You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby" and the player cannot sleep (even in Creative mode‌^{[Legacy Console Edition only]}) until the monsters leave or are killed. Most hostile mobs as well as some neutral mobs prevent players from sleeping, as shown in the table below.

Mob	Prevent the player from sleeping
Blaze	Yes
Chicken Jockey	Partial
Creeper	Yes
Drowned	Yes
Endermite	Yes
Enderman	Yes
Ender Dragon	No
Evoker	Yes
Ghast	No
Giant	Yes
Guardian Elder Guardian	Yes
Illusioner	Yes
Killer Bunny	No
Magma Cube	No
Phantom	Yes
Shulker	No
Silverfish	Yes
Skeleton Stray Wither Skeleton	Yes
Spider Cave Spider Spider Jockey	Yes
Slime	No
Vex	Yes
Vindicator	Yes
Witch	Yes
Wither	Yes
Zombie Zombie Villager Husk	Yes
Zombie Pigman	Partial

The player also cannot sleep in a bed occupied by another player or villager, resulting in the message, "This bed is occupied." A player also cannot sleep while on fire or while poisoned.

A player can sleep in a bed occupied by a sleeping villager by first waking the villager (pressing use on the villager) and then quickly entering the bed before the villager can lie down again. The villager reclaims the bed after the player wakes.

If all sleeping requirements are met and the player enters a bed, the player is positioned in the bed. The player falls asleep as the screen fades to black. In Bedrock Edition and Legacy Console Edition, the sleeping animation slowly lowers the player into bed.

Once all players in a world are asleep, after 5 seconds (101 ticks) the time of day changes to sunrise.

During this time, the chat window is focused, and the player can leave the bed by clicking the Leave Bed button.

Waterlogged beds can be slept in if the player (or the villager‌^{[Java and Bedrock editions only]}) has either the Water Breathing or the Conduit Power status effect. Otherwise, the bed cannot be slept in, and a message appears saying that the bed is waterlogged.

Passing the night

Sleeping changes the time of day to sunrise and resets the weather to clear weather. The player wakes up next to the bed, facing west.

Sleeping does not accelerate processes that take place over time such as the growth of crops or smelting. If /gamerule doDaylightCycle is false, the player instead wakes up in the night.

To skip the night in multiplayer, all players in the Overworld must be in bed at the same time. Pressing the Leave Bed button is not necessary in this case.

If the bed is destroyed while the player is in it, by for example an explosion or by another player, the player wakes prematurely and the night does not pass.

Setting the spawn point

Once a player has entered a bed, their spawn point is set to the location of that bed.

The bed is in no way tied to a player's spawn point - the game checks only for the presence of a bed at a player's spawn point when the respawn button is selected from the death screen. The bed may be destroyed, replaced, reoriented, etc. and still serve as a spawn point for players so long as it exists when the player tries to respawn. If a player's bed is destroyed, or if the area around the bed is made unsuitable for respawning, a message is displayed saying Your home bed was missing or obstructed, and the player respawns at the world spawn point.

For a bed to be usable as a spawn point, the player must be able to stand next to the bed at the same level as it. There must be a solid block at the same 'floor' level as the bed, with 2 transparent blocks of space (for example, air) for the player to stand in, in one of the ten blocks that surround the bed. It doesn't matter if the bed itself has blocks above it.

Bouncing

Falling onto a bed bounces the player with 66% strength – the bouncing-up velocity is 66% of the impact velocity. The player also take 50% of normal fall damage.

Baby villagers bounce on beds during the day.

If the player is falling while sleeping requirements are met, and presses use on a bed within reach before hitting the ground, the fall damage is delayed until the player wakes.

Housing

Beds are used to count the number of houses in a village.‌^{[Bedrock and Java editions only]}

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Bed	Namespaced ID
White	white_bed
Orange	orange_bed
Magenta	magenta_bed
Light Blue	light_blue_bed
Yellow	yellow_bed
Lime	lime_bed
Pink	pink_bed
Gray	gray_bed
Light Gray	light_gray_bed
Cyan	cyan_bed
Purple	purple_bed
Blue	blue_bed
Brown	brown_bed
Green	green_bed
Red	red_bed
Black	black_bed
Block entity	bed

Bedrock Edition:

Bed	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID
Block	bed	26
Item		355

Block data

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, beds use the following data values:

Block

Lowest two bits value	Facing
0	Head facing South
1	Head facing West
2	Head facing North
3	Head facing East
Bit flag	Meaning
0x4	When 0, the bed is empty When 1, the bed is occupied
0x8	When 0, the foot of the bed When 1, the head of the bed

Item

	DV	Description
	0	White Bed
	1	Orange Bed
	2	Magenta Bed
	3	Light Blue Bed
	4	Yellow Bed
	5	Lime Bed
	6	Pink Bed
	7	Gray Bed
	8	Light Gray Bed
	9	Cyan Bed
	10	Purple Bed
	11	Blue Bed
	12	Brown Bed
	13	Green Bed
	14	Red Bed
	15	Black Bed

Block entity

See also: Block entity format

A bed has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

• Block entity data
  • Tags common to all block entities see Template:Nbt inherit/blockentity/template

Block states

See also: Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
facing	north	east north south west	The direction the head of the bed is pointing. The same direction the player faces when placing the bed.
occupied	false	false true	True when a player is using the bed.
part	foot	foot head	The half of the bed in the current block.

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo
	Change of Sheets	Dye your bed a different color		Yes	Yes	No	Wii U, Switch	20G	Bronze

Advancements

Main article: Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Internal ID
	Sweet Dreams	Change your respawn point	Adventure	Lie down in a bed. The advancement will be granted as soon as the player is in the bed, even if the player does not successfully sleep.	minecraft:adventure/sleep_in_bed

History

Java Edition Beta
November 26, 2011					Originally, crying obsidian was intended to act as a block to reset spawn points, until beds were introduced.
1.2					Beds are added to the game files, but are unobtainable.
1.3					Added beds. At the time, the only color was red. Sleeping in an area potentially exposed to monsters could cause players to wake up early, with a skeleton or zombie spawned next to them.
1.4					Sleeping in a bed now resets your spawn position, though does not work for most users. Apparently, at the moment the spawn point unintentionally changes only if Leave Bed is clicked and the function is limited to multiplayer.
1.4_01					Beds now act as a respawn point as intended.
1.6		Test Build 3			Trying to sleep in a bed in the Nether causes it to explode.
1.7					The bed side texture has been moved in the texture pack file.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6			Beds no longer spawn monsters, instead, trying to sleep when monsters are around displays a message saying You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby.
1.2.4					Cats in standing position now purposely go and sit on beds, preventing players from using them.
1.5		?			Beds check their biome for detonation rather than just their dimension.
1.7.2		13w37a			The item form of block ID 26 (bed) was removed from the game. It can no longer exist in inventories, only as a placed block.
1.8		14w29a			Now displays the cracking animation on top and bottom.
		14w33a			Makes sounds when placed, and plays logical sounds when stepped on and broken.
1.9		15w43a			A bed generates inside igloos.
1.11		16w32a			The messages "You can only sleep at night", "You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby", and "This bed is occupied" now appears on top of the hotbar, the place that the message "Press <whatever your sneak key is> to dismount" also appears when you're riding a mob.
		16w33a			If the player is close enough to click on the bed, but not close enough to sleep in it, the message "You may not rest now, the bed is too far away" is now displayed.
1.12		17w06a			Neutral zombie pigmen no longer prevent the player from sleeping in a bed.
		13 March 2017			Jeb mentions colored beds for 1.12.
		17w15a			Dyed beds added. The former bed is now renamed to red bed.
					Beds now appear 3D in the inventory.
					Beds now have 3D legs, and the top of the beds are no longer mirrored.
					Beds are made bouncy, though they do not completely reduce all fall damage.
					Beds are now a block entity.
		17w17a			The four legs of a bed are now each textured separately, and their model is different. The texture is also slightly changed.
1.13		17w47a			The different block states for the bed ID have been split up into their own IDs.
					Beds now require a block below them, or they break into an item. Previously, a bed needed to be placed on a block, but the block could later be removed.
					Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 26, and the item's 355.
		18w07a			Sleeping is now important to keep Phantoms from spawning.
		18w20a			Players in creative mode can now sleep even if monsters are nearby.
		pre2			Changed the "You can only sleep at night" message to "You can sleep only at night and during thunderstorms."
1.14		18w43a			Changed the texture of all beds.
		18w50a			Changed the texture of all beds again.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.4.0					Added beds.
0.9.0		build 1			Beds no longer restore health in normal difficulty, making food a more reliable survival-needed resource.
					Added smooth lighting to beds.
0.11.0		build 8			Improved lighting on beds.
0.16.0		build 1			Now make a sound when placed, identical to blocks like stone.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		?			Sleeping now ends weather.
					Beds are now generated in igloos.
		alpha 0.17.0.2			The Leave Bed button has a new texture.
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Added the other 15 colors of beds. The former bed is now renamed to red bed.
					Added a new animation when sleeping.
					Beds in igloos are now white in ice plains and brown in cold taiga.
					Beds now bounce the player two blocks up, and have 3D legs.
					Placement, stepping and breaking sounds are now correctly wooden.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.14.2			Beds can now be waterlogged and require water breathing to sleep in.
		beta 1.2.20.1			Colored beds can now be turned into white beds by adding bleach. Works only if Education Edition features are turned on.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Various beds now generate in new villages.
					Villagers can now sleep by occupying a bed, which prevent players from using it.
					Igloos now generate with red beds.
					Beds are now used to count the number of available houses in villages.
					Changed the texture of all beds.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.4			Beds can now be bought from shepherd villagers.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.00	Patch 1	Patch 1	Added beds.
TU12					Cats in standing position now purposely go and sit on beds, preventing players from using them.
TU54	CU44	1.52	Patch 24	Patch 4	Added the other 15 colors of beds. The former bed is now renamed to red bed and has had a slight color change. Beds are now dyeable and bounce the player two blocks up, and have a single 3D legs.
TU60	CU51	1.64	Patch 30	1.0.11	Changed the sleeping animation.
TU69		1.76	Patch 38		Sleeping is now important to keep phantoms from spawning.
					Beds can now be waterlogged and require Water Breathing to sleep in.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.83					Reverted the sleeping animation to how it was before 1.64.
1.90					Changed the textures of all beds.
1.91					Various beds now generate in new villages.
					Villagers can now sleep by occupying a bed, which prevents players from using it.
					Beds are now used to count the number of available houses in villages.
					Beds can now be bought from shepherd villagers.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added beds.

Issues

Issues relating to "Bed" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• If the player quits the game while sleeping, upon return the player wakes beside the bed.
• The player's avatar clips just slightly into the bed if they have something in their hand and their feet protrude off the edge.
• Using the /teleport command while another player is sleeping still teleports the sleeping player, but the player wakes immediately.‌^{[Java Edition only]}
• If the player place a bed on ice, running over the bed acts like running over ice, similar to slabs.
• Before differently colored beds were added, using all 6 planks and all 16 wool combinations, there were 3,456 different ways to craft a bed.
• When placed using the /setblock command, only one half of a bed is placed, since beds are two blocks wide. A single half can be slept in like a whole bed.
• Villagers can sleep in the Nether and the End without causing the bed to explode.

Gallery

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  Player being awakened by a zombie.

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  Sleeping player in multiplayer

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  The message that can be seen when any players attempt to sleep during daytime. (Before 1.11)

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  The message that can be seen after a failed attempt to respawn at the spawn point set by a bed.

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  A crater created by attempting to sleep in the Nether.

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  A crater created by attempting to sleep in the End.

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  The bottom of a bed. Note the invisible leg farthest from the player. (Before 1.12)

• 

  The new bottom of the bed with the 3D legs.

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  All the different color variants.

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  A stack of beds before 1.12.

References

Blocks

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Items

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