Hay Bale

Hay Bale

Transparent	No
Luminant	No
Blast resistance	0.5
Tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	Yes (60)
Catches fire from lava	No

"Wheat block" redirects here. For the item harvested from crops, see Wheat.

	“	Spring is ruined, all thanks to hay. Hay, you traitorous snake. That's why we prefer hay bales in Minecraft, where instead of ruining our lives, they sometimes save them. Landing on a hay bale in the game reduces any fall damage by 80%. That means you could potentially fall from a hundred blocks high and survive. Just. Our legal team cannot stress enough that you should only try that in Minecraft.	„
		— Tom Stone

Hay bales are decorative, flammable blocks that can also be used to feed horses, breed llamas, and reduce fall damage.

Occurrence

Natural generation

Hay bales often generate scattered around in plains villages, and less commonly in savanna and desert villages. They also can generate as a part of targets/scarecrows in pillager outposts.

Obtaining

Loot

From block loot

Hay bales can be mined using any tool or by hand, but a hoe is the fastest way to break it.‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.16]}

Namespaced ID	Source	Default
blocks/hay_block	Hay Bale	1 (100%)

Recipes

From crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Wheat

Usage

Breaking

Block	Hay Bale
Hardness	0.5
Tool
Breaking time
Default	0.75
Wooden	0.4
Stone	0.2
Iron	0.15
Diamond	0.1
Netherite	0.1
Golden	0.1

Block loot

Namespaced ID	Source	Default
blocks/hay_block	Hay Bale	1 (100%)

Food item

While not edible by players, hay bales can be a useful compact food supply for long periods away from other food sources.

Horses

	“	Foals that eat hay bales will actually grow into horses faster.	„
		— Tom Stone

Hay bales can be fed to horses, donkeys, or mules to heal up to 10 hearts. They are an effective method to heal horses if the player wants to heal them in a short period of time. They also speed up the growth of foals by three minutes.

Breeding

Hay bales can be used to breed llamas.

Falling

Falling onto a hay bale reduces the fall damage by 80%, meaning whatever falls on a hay bale only takes 20% of the normal fall damage.

An unarmored player with full health and no effects can fall as far as 100.27 blocks onto a hay bale, and still survive with 1 health remaining.

Campfires

Placing a hay bale under a campfire makes it a signal fire, increasing the height to which its smoke particles can rise from 10 blocks to 25 blocks.

Composting

Placing a hay bale into a composter has an 85% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Placement

Seen here alongside logs, bone blocks, quartz pillars, and purpur pillars, hay bales can be pointed in multiple directions.

Hay bales can be placed pointing in all three spatial dimensions, in the same way as a log is placed. However, there is no "six-sided" variant like that of the wood block.

Note blocks

Hay bale can be placed under note blocks to produce banjo sounds.‌^{[JE & BE only]}

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Subtitle key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Breaking the block	block.grass.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.grass.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	Mining the block	block.grass.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	Block placed	Blocks	Placing the block	block.grass.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.grass.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:^{[needs in-game testing]}

Sound	Description	Namespaced ID	Volume	Pitch
?	Breaking the block	dig.grass	?	0.8
?	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.grass	?	?
?	Mining the block	hit.grass	?	0.5
?	Jumping from the block	jump.grass	?	?
?	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.grass	?	?
?	Walking on the block	step.grass	?	?
?	Placing the block	use.grass	?	0.8

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Translation key
Hay Bale	hay_block	block.minecraft.hay_block

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Hay Bale	hay_block	170	tile.hay_block.name

Block data

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, hay bales use the following data values:

	DV	Description
	0	Hay bale facing up/down
	1	Unused
	2	Unused
	3	Unused
	4	Hay bale facing east/west
	5	Unused
	6	Unused
	7	Unused
	8	Hay bale facing north/south

Block states

See also: Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
axis	y	x	The hay block is oriented east–west.
		y	The hay block is oriented vertically.
		z	The hay block is oriented north–south.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
pillar_axis	y	x y z	The axis along which the block is oriented
deprecated	0	0 1 2 3	Unused, has no effect in game.

History

February 24, 2013					A Reddit user (karthus25) discovers a screenshot of hay bales hidden in the files of the Mojam game Nuke the Dinosaurs.
Java Edition
1.6.1		13w16a			Added the hay bale.
					The hay bale currently does not have an in-game name, but is called "Hay Bale" in the change notes.
		13w16b			The hay bale has now received an in-game name, which is "Hay Block".
		13w18a			Hay blocks have now received a crafting recipe.
		13w21a			Hay blocks are now flammable.
		13w24a			The name of "Hay Block" has been changed to "Hay Bale".
1.8		14w17a			When all blocks have been converted to use block states, so the block/data-value combination 170/12 (6-sided hay bale) has been removed.
		14w26c			The amount of how much hay bales heal has been rebalanced.
					Hay bales now accelerate the growth of horses.
1.9		15w44b			Falling onto a hay bale now does only 20% of the normal fall damage.
1.11		16w39a			Hay bales can now be used to breed llamas.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 170.
1.14		18w43a			The textures of hay bales have been changed.
		19w02a			When a hay bale is placed under a campfire, the campfire's smoke now rises higher than normal (25 blocks instead of the normal 10).
		19w03a			Placing a hay bale into the new composter has now a 80% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
		19w05a			Hay bales now have an 85% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
		19w09a			Hay bales can now be used to play the banjo, if they are under note blocks.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.16		20w10a			Hay bales can now be broken faster using hoes.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.8.0		build 2			Added hay bales.
0.15.0		build 1			Hay bales can now be used to feed horses.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Hay bales can now be used to breed llamas.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.13					Falling onto a hay bale now does only 20% of the normal fall damage.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of hay bales have been changed.
					Hay bale now generate in pillager outposts as targets, and in the new plains, desert and savanna villages.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Hay bale can now be used to fill up composters.
					When a hay bale is placed under a campfire, the campfire's smoke now rises higher than normal (25 blocks instead of the normal 10).
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.9			Hay bales can now be used to play the banjo, if they are under note blocks.
?					Hay bales with the side texture on all faces has been removed, and replaced with the y axis aligned bale.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.51			Hay bales can now be used to craft targets.
Legacy Console Edition
TU19	CU7	1.12	Patch 1		Added hay bales.
		1.90			The textures of hay bales have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added hay bales.

Issues

Issues relating to "Hay Bale", "Hay Block", or "Hay" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Gallery

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  The image found in the Mojang game file.

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  A building showing the possible orientations of hay bales.

References

Blocks

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