Hay Bale

Transparent	No
Luminance	0
Blast resistance	2.5
Tool	Any tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	Yes
Catches fire from lava	No
Drops	Itself
Data value	dec: 170 hex: AA bin: 10101010
Namespaced ID	hay_block

"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^[1]

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

Obtaining[edit]

Hay bales can be mined using any tool, or without a tool.

Block	Hay Bale
Hardness	0.5
Breaking time
Hand	0.75

Natural generation[edit]

Hay bales can generate scattered around in plains villages often very commonly, also in savanna and desert villages, but not as common as in plains villages. They also can generate as a part of targets/scarecrows in pillager outposts.

Crafting[edit]

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Wheat

Usage[edit]

Crafting ingredient[edit]

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Wheat	Hay Bale	9

Food item[edit]

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

Horses[edit]

“

Foals that eat hay bales will actually grow into horses faster.]^[1]

„

Hay bales can also 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[edit]

Hay bales can be used to breed llamas.

Falling[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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

Placement[edit]

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 log is placed. However, there is no fourth "bark block" variant.

Note blocks[edit]

Hay bale can be placed under note blocks to produce banjo sounds.‌^{[JE & BE only]}‌^{[upcoming: BE 1.13.0]}

Data values[edit]

Block data[edit]

Block states[edit]

History[edit]

Java Edition
February 24, 2013				A Reddit user (karthus25) discovers a screenshot of hay bales hidden in the files of the Mojam game Nuke the Dinosaurs.
1.6.1		13w16a		Added the hay bale. They have no in-game name, but are called "Hay Bale" in the change notes.
		13w16b		The hay bale receives an in-game name as Hay Block.
		13w18a		The hay bale receives a crafting recipe.
		13w21a		Made hay bale flammable.
		13w24a		Name changed from Hay Block to Hay Bale.
1.8		14w17a		When all blocks were converted to use block states, block/data-value combination 170/12 (6-sided hay bale) was removed.
1.8		14w26c		Rebalanced how much hay bale heal, and accelerate the growth of horses.
1.9		15w44b		Falling onto a hay bale 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		Changed the texture of hay bales.
		19w02a		When a hay bale is placed under a campfire, the campfire's smoke will rise higher than normal (25 blocks instead of the normal 10).
		19w03a		Placing a hay bale into the new composter has 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.
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		Changed the texture of hay bales.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3		Hay bale now generate in pillager outpost as targets, and in new plains, desert, and savanna villages.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1		Hay bale can now be used to fill up composters.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1		When a hay bale is placed under a campfire, the campfire's smoke will rise higher than normal (25 blocks instead of the normal 10).
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.9		Hay bales can now be used to play the banjo, if they are under note blocks.
Legacy Console Edition
TU19	CU7	1.12	Patch 1	Added hay bales.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0				Added hay bales.