What happens when our dev teams spends the summer eating nothing but honey? We get inspired to add a new mob - the flappy fuzzball that is the bee! We also got very sick. A balanced diet is important, kids.

Changes in 19w34a

Added Bees

Added Bee Nests and Hives

Added Honeycomb

Added some dispenser functionality

Minecraft: Java Edition now requires OpenGL 2.0

New function for loot tables called copy_state

Fixed bugs

Bee

We’re buzzing with excitement!

Can someone tell Cory to stop making bee puns now?

Bees are cute, fuzzy, neutral mobs



Don’t hurt them, they don’t want to hurt you

If a bee does sting you, it will leave its stinger in you and eventually die, dropping nothing :(



Bees love pretty flowers and spend their lives gathering pollen from them



After gathering pollen, bees fly back to their home nest



Bees help you by growing crops while carrying pollen back to the nest



Bees can be bred using flowers

Bees like sharing the location of their favorite flowers with other bees



If a bee can't find nectar, after a while it will return home for a bit

If a bee doesn’t have a home nest, it will wander around until it finds one it can use



Bees don’t like the rain and they sleep at night. They will go back to the nest in these cases

Bee Nests / Bee Hives

In real life, bees dance in their nests to show other bees where flowers are!

Bee Nests spawn naturally in Flower Forests, Plains, and Sunflower Plains biomes

When a bee visits this block and completes its journey undisturbed, the level of honey increases

Max of 5 levels of honey

Level 5 is quite…sticky

Bees use nests and hives to share flower locations with other bees

Sometimes bees that already know about a flower will choose not to use this information

Bee Hives are crafted by players using honeycomb and wood planks

Use a silk touch tool to get the block with the bees stored inside

Bee Nests will be destroyed unless you use silk touch

Use shears when at full honey to get honeycomb



Use a bottle when at full honey to get a honey bottle

Campfire smoke calms bees - place one underneath the nest / hive to keep them in chill mode

Redstone-friendly!

Bees like Bee Nests and Bee Hives the same amount! They don’t play favorites :)

Added the Honey Bottle!

Honey Bottle

Organic, gluten-free, delicious locally-farmed honey!

Use an empty glass bottle on a hive or nest that is full of honey to get a bottle of honey!

Drink it!

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Profit!

Oh yeah, also craft it into sugar!

Added Honeycomb!



Honeycomb

Disclaimer: Cannot be used to comb your hair

Shear a full-honey hive or nest to obtain

Craft with wood planks to create a Bee Hive

Dispenser

Dispensers can now fill bottles with water and honey

Dispensers can now shear honey combs from Bee Nests and Hives

New loot table function

copy_state

Copies state properties from dropped block to BlockStateTag in dropped item

Parameters

block - source of properties (block id)

properties - list of property names. All must be present on block

Fixed bugs in 19w34a

MC-74762 - Chunks Swapping



MC-103313 - Hitbox of slime and magma cube is offset for some seconds

MC-115643 - Can’t hear punching blocks with ‘Friendly Creatures’ volume off

MC-133255 - Cartographers generate maps for existing Mansions and Monuments rather than unexplored ones

MC-142918 - The stonecutter does not allow custom recipe inputs to be shift-clicked in

MC-148562 - Obsidian towers in the end are not generated as intended.

MC-150202 - Chunks sometimes are dislocated / copied to another location

MC-151354 - Can’t rearrange servers with shortcut

MC-152100 - blaze powder does not put in slot with shift

MC-152172 - Cartography table plays the sound multiple times overlapping on shift-click

MC-152173 - Loom plays the sound multiple times overlapping on shift-click

MC-156276 - Cannot shift-click while riding a horse, within inventory

MC-156852 - Ghost blocks remain when insta-mining; reappearance of MC-5694

MC-156876 - "desert_small_house_7"one door open status is open

MC-156884 - Bows sometimes don’t use the correct texture when being drawn in creative mode

MC-156952 - Village tree center has leaves that are persistent

MC-157136 - Villagers restocking is not properly tracked

MC-158988 - Minecraft will remove up to several hundred chunks per region if region file isn’t exact multiple of 4096 bytes

Get the snapshot

To install the snapshot, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the "Installations" tab.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

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