How To Make A Bed In Minecraft And What Theyre Used For

To make a bed in Minecraft, you'll need three pieces of wool, and three planks. - All three pieces of wool need to be the same color, which will also be the color of your bed. - Shearing sheep is one way to get wool, while planks can be made by putting logs on a crafting table.

A bed should always be part of a survivalist's Minecraft inventory. Not only does it let you skip the entire night, but sleeping in a bed resets your spawn point and keeps Phantoms away.

These are easy to make, but you will need to hunt for crafting ingredients. Here are the ingredients you will need.

How to make a bed in Minecraft

To make a bed in Minecraft, you'll need three pieces each of two different ingredients: Wool and planks.

Wool can be obtained from sheep. One to three pieces of wool can be obtained by cutting sheep's wool with shears. Killing sheep will net you one. You can also combine four pieces of string (usually dropped by spiders) together to craft one piece of wool.

All of your wool needs to be the same color to be used for a bed. Natural spawning can be done with white, gray or brown wool, as well as brown and sometimes pink wool. If you want a different colour, you will need a dyeing agent to mix your wool with.

You can break any tree to get logs. Minecraft And if you place those logs on a crafting surface, you'll get planks. Every log makes four planks.

Once you have three pieces each of wool and three planks, arrange them on your crafting board. Line up the three wool pieces horizontally. Then, line up the three planks horizontally.

This will craft a bed that's color matches the wool you used.

What are beds used for in Minecraft

Like in real life sleeping is extremely important in Minecraft for many reasons.

Firstly, if you stay awake for three days (or more) and are not sleeping or dying, then terrifying creatures called Phantoms can spawn in the skies above you. They will slowly descend on you and attack until you either die or go to bed.

Second, your bed is your home - literally. Even if you don’t sleep in it, touching a bed sets its location as your spawn place. This means that when you die, you will spawn at that particular bed.

If you sleep in a bed at night, or during a thunderstorm, it skips time forward to the morning and resets weather cycles. When you have a safe bed to rest in, you don’t need to fear the monsters they spawn at night.

Beds can be used in The Nether and The End to perform a secret function. If you try to place a bed in either of these dimensions, the bed will immediately explode with force stronger than a block of TNT. There's a good chance that it'll kill you in a single blow if you're not wearing armor.

These explosions are usually a downside, but when used carefully, they can be useful. Because the explosion can also hurt enemies, most Minecraft speedrunners use beds in order to quickly kill bosses such as the Ender Dragon. It's risky but it's incredibly rewarding when you succeed.