Hay Bale
Renewable |
Yes |
---|---|
Stackable |
Yes (64) |
Tool | |
Blast resistance |
0.5 |
Hardness |
0.5 |
Luminant |
No |
Transparent |
No |
Flammable |
Yes (60) |
Catches fire from lava |
No |
Hay bales are decorative, flammable blocks that can also be used to feed horses, breed llamas, reduce fall damage, and extend campfire smokes.
Contents
Occurrence[edit]
Natural generation[edit]
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[edit]
Breaking[edit]
Hay bales can be mined using any tool, but a hoe speeds up the process.
Block | Hay Bale | |
---|---|---|
Hardness | 0.5 | |
Tool | ||
Breaking time[A] | ||
Default | 0.75 | |
Wooden | 0.4 | |
Stone | 0.2 | |
Iron | 0.15 | |
Diamond | 0.1 | |
Netherite | 0.1 | |
Golden | 0.1 |
- ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.
Crafting[edit]
Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
---|---|
Wheat |
Usage[edit]
Hay bales can be used as compact storage of wheat.
Crafting ingredient[edit]
Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
---|---|---|
Target | Redstone Dust + Hay Bale |
|
Wheat | Hay Bale |
Food item[edit]
Although players cannot eat hay bales, hay bales serve as a compact wheat supply for crafting food items during long periods away from other food sources. A full stack of 64 hay bales is equivalent to 192 loaves of bread in a single inventory slot.
Animals[edit]
Hay bales can be fed to donkeys, horses, llamas, 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 and baby llamas by 90 seconds.
Breeding[edit]
Hay bales can be used to breed llamas and horses.
Falling[edit]
Falling onto a hay bale reduces the fall damage by 80%, meaning whatever falls on a hay bale takes 20% of the normal fall damage.
Theoretically, an unarmored player with full health and no effects should be able to fall as far as 111 blocks onto a hay bale and still survive. However, there is a hard limit that only allows a player to fall 100 blocks 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. Composting with hay bale is very inefficient, as the hay bale's chance to be composted is only slightly higher than wheat. For example, 900 wheat could be composted to yield 83.57 bone meal on average, but if crafted into 100 hay bales, they would only yield 12.14 bone meal on average.
Placement[edit]

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[edit]
Hay bale can be placed under note blocks to produce banjo sounds.
Sounds[edit]
Sound | Subtitle | Source | Description | Namespaced ID | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Block broken | Blocks | Breaking the block | block.grass.break | subtitles.block.generic.break | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
None[sound 1] | Blocks | Falling on the block with fall damage | block.grass.fall | None[sound 1] | 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 |
Sound | Source | Description | Namespaced ID | Volume | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
? | Blocks | Breaking the block | dig.grass | 0.7 | 0.8 |
? | Blocks | Falling on the block with fall damage | fall.grass | 0.4 | 1.0 |
? | Blocks | Mining the block | hit.grass | 0.3 | 0.5 |
? | Blocks | Jumping from the block | jump.grass | 0.11 | 1.0 |
? | Blocks | Falling on the block without fall damage | land.grass | 0.21 | 1.0 |
? | Blocks | Walking on the block | step.grass | 0.3 | 1.0 |
? | Blocks | Placing the block | use.grass | 0.8 | 0.8 |
Data values[edit]
ID[edit]
Name | Namespaced ID | Form | Translation key |
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Hay Bale | hay_block | Block & Item | block.minecraft.hay_block |
Name | Namespaced ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
---|---|---|---|---|
Hay Bale | hay_block | 170 | Block & Item | tile.hay_block.name |
Block data[edit]
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[edit]
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. |
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[edit]
February 24, 2013 | A Reddit user (karthus25) discovers a screenshot of hay bales hidden in the files of the Mojam game Nuke the Dinosaurs. | ||||
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Java Edition | |||||
1.6.1 | 13w16a | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
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 | 14w10a | ![]() | |||
14w25a | 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 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
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. | ||||
1.16 | 20w09a | Hay bales can now be used to craft target blocks | |||
20w10a | Hay bales can now be broken faster using hoes. | ||||
Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
v0.8.0 | build 2 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
v0.15.0 | 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 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
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. | ||||
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 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
1.90 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||
New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
0.1.0 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "Hay Bale", "Hay Block", or "Hay" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Gallery[edit]
The image found in the Mojang game file.
References[edit]