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
First appearances	See History
Drops	Itself
Block entity id	bed
Data values	Block dec: 26 hex: 1A bin: 11010 Item dec: 355 hex: 163 bin: 101100011
Name	bed

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.

Obtaining

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

Block	Bed
Hardness	0.2
Breaking time
Hand	0.35

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

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Matching Wool + Any Wood Planks		Wool color must match. Wood 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 and Legacy Console editions only]
Any Dyed Bed + Bleach		[Bedrock and Education editions only]

Natural generation

One bed naturally generates in an igloo. In the Java and Console Editions, the bed is red. In the Bedrock Edition, it will be white if generated in ice plains, light blue if generated in frozen or not river and brown if generated in a cold taiga, and magenta if generated in stripe land.

Usage

Placement

Beds take up two blocks of space. Placement requires at least 2 blocks from the player's facing direction. When placed, the foot will be placed on the block selected and will face away from the player. Like certain other blocks, beds cannot be placed on non-solid blocks. The bed will remain in place if its supporting blocks are removed.^{[until 1.13]}

Explosions

Beds placed in the Nether and the End will explode when the player presses use while looking at the bed, 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).

Sleeping

The animation when falling asleep.

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

In order for a player to sleep, it must be nighttime – between 12541 and 23458 ticks inclusive, to be exact. The start of this period is indicated by stars appearing in the sky. During a thunderstorm, beds can also be used regardless of time. Attempting to use a bed at any other time will result in the message You can only sleep at night.

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, the message You may not rest now, the bed is too far away will be displayed. In Bedrock Edition, the message Bed is too far away will be displayed.

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 You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby will be displayed and the player will not be able to sleep (even in Creative mode^{[Java and Legacy Console editions only][until 1.13]}) until the monsters leave or are killed. Most hostile mobs, with the exception of some, as well as some neutral mobs, will prevent players from sleeping. The table below shows if the mob prevents or does not prevent the player from sleeping.

The player also cannot sleep in a bed occupied by another player, which will result in the message, This bed is occupied. The player cannot sleep while on fire or poisoned either.

If all sleeping requirements are met and the player enters a bed, the player will be positioned in the bed. The player will be seen above the sheets, and the screen will slowly fade to black. In the Bedrock Edition the sleeping animation will slowly lower the player into bed. If all players in a world are asleep, after 5 seconds (100 ticks) it will be turned to daytime.

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

Passing the night

Sleeping changes the time of day to sunrise and resets the weather to clear weather. It does not speed up processes which take place over time such as the growth of crops or smelting. If /gamerule doDaylightCycle is false, the player will instead wake 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, it will cause the player to wake up prematurely, and the night will 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 only checks for the presence of a bed at a player's spawn point when the respawn button is clicked from the death screen. The bed may be destroyed, replaced, reoriented, etc. and will 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 will respawn 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 will bounce the player with 66% strength – the bouncing-up velocity will be 66% of the impact velocity. The player will also take only 50% of normal fall damage.

If the player is falling, but presses use on the bed before hitting the ground, the fall damage will be delayed until the player wakes up. This will only be the case if the sleeping requirements are met.

Data values

ID

Bed	ID Name	Numerical ID
Block	bed	26
Item	bed	355

Block data

See also: Data values

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

Block entity

See also: Block entity format

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  Block entity data
  • Tags common to all block entities see Template:Nbt inherit/blockentity/template
  • 
     color: 0–15: The data value that determines the color of the half-bed block. When a bed is broken, the color of the block entity of the bed's head becomes the color of the bed item when it drops.

Color tag values

	Data value		Description
	Dec	Hex
	0	0x0	White bed
	1	0x1	Orange bed
	2	0x2	Magenta bed
	3	0x3	Light blue bed
	4	0x4	Yellow bed
	5	0x5	Lime bed
	6	0x6	Pink bed
	7	0x7	Gray bed
	8	0x8	Light gray bed
	9	0x9	Cyan bed
	10	0xA	Purple bed
	11	0xB	Blue bed
	12	0xC	Brown bed
	13	0xD	Green bed
	14	0xE	Red bed
	15	0xF	Black bed

Block state

See also: Block states

Name	Value	Description
facing	north south east west	The direction the head of the bed is pointing. The same direction the player faces when placing the bed.
occupied	true false	True when a player is using the bed.
part	head foot	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 actually successfully sleep.	minecraft:adventure/sleep_in_bed

Video

Note: In 1.12, beds became dyeable with all 16 color variants.

History

Beta
November 26, 2011					Originally, crying obsidian was intended to act as a block to reset spawn points, until beds were introduced.
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 only changes 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					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.
Official release
1.0.0			?		Beds no longer spawn monsters, instead, trying to sleep when monsters are around will display a message saying You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby.
1.2.4					Cats in standing position will 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" will now appear on top of the hotbar, the place that the message "Press <whatever your sneak key is> to dismount" will also appear 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" will now be displayed.
1.12			17w06a		Neutral zombie pigmen no longer prevent the player from sleeping in a bed.
			13 March 2017		Jeb mentions coloured 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.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.13			17w47a		Beds now require a block below them, or they will break into an item. Previously, a bed needed to be placed on a block, but the block could later be removed.
			18w07a		Sleeping is now important to keep Phantoms from spawning.
			18w20a		Smoother animation when the player enters a bed.
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					Sleeping now ends weather.
					Beds are now generated in igloos.
					The Leave Bed button has a new texture.
1.1			build 1		Added the other 15 colors of bed. The former bed is now renamed to red bed.
					Added 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 a 3D legs.
					Placement, stepping and breaking sounds are now correctly wooden.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.2.20			build 1		Colored Bed can be turned into White bed by adding Bleach.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.00	Patch 1	Patch 1	Added beds.
TU12					Cats in standing position will 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 bed. The former bed is now renamed to red bed and has had a slight colour change. Beds are now dyeable and bounce the player two blocks up, and have a single 3D legs.

Issues

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

Trivia

• If the world is quit while sleeping, upon return the player will be awake 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 /tp command while another player is sleeping will still teleport the sleeping player.
• If you place a bed on ice, running over the bed acts like running over ice, similar to slabs.
• Using all 6 wood and all 16 wool combinations, there are 3,456 different ways to craft a bed.
• When placed using the /setblock command, only one half of a bed will be placed, since beds are two blocks wide. A single half can be slept in like a whole bed.
• Though bottom of a bed has a transparent space, it is not possible to target anything through this space.

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 you try 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)

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

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  All the different color variants.

References

Blocks

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Items

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