Honey Block

Honey blocks are storage blocks equivalent to four honey bottles. Honey blocks are sticky and can be used in conjunction with pistons to move blocks and adhered entities.

Honey Block

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	No
Transparent	JE: Partial (diffuses sky light) BE: Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color (Java)	15 COLOR_ORANGE

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Obtaining

Breaking

Honey blocks can be broken instantly, regardless of held items, or when under the Mining Fatigue effect.

Block	Honey Block
Hardness	0
Breaking time (secs)
Default	0.05

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Honey Bottle		Empty bottles remain in the crafting grid after crafting the honey block.

Usage

Redstone

Unlike the slime block, the honey block in Java Edition is non-conductive and cannot have a redstone signal sent through it (including via a repeater or an observer, etc). In Bedrock Edition, honey blocks are conductive.

When being moved by a piston, entities on a honey block's top surface move with it. They are not launched in the direction of the push, as a slime block would do. Honey blocks moved by pistons do not move entities that are touching the side or bottom of the block.

When a honey block is moved by a piston, it attempts to move all adjacent blocks in the same direction. A honey block can move any block a sticky piston can pull, except for glazed terracotta and slime blocks. The blocks that are moved may, in turn, push other blocks, as if they were being pushed by a piston. For example, a honey block sitting on the ground attempts to move the ground block underneath itself, which pushes additional ground blocks in the direction of motion.

When the adjacent block that is moved is also a honey block, that block also attempts to move all its adjacent blocks. For example, a 2×2×2 cube of honey blocks may be pushed or pulled as a unit by a single piston acting on any of the blocks in the cube.

A honey block adjacent to a block that cannot be moved by pistons ignores the immobile block. However, if an adjacent block could be moved but is prevented by the presence of an immobile block, the honey block is also prevented from moving. Liquids are an exception: they are not moved, but neither do they stop a piston from pushing or pulling blocks into their space (usually destroying the liquid, and in a rare case displacing it through the piston).

Honey blocks are not pulled by a non-sticky piston, nor are they moved if an adjacent (non-honey) block is moved by a piston.

The maximum of 12 blocks moved by a piston still applies. For example, a 2×2×3 of honey blocks may be pushed or pulled by a sticky piston as long as no other movable blocks are adjacent to it. However, the platform in which a honey block shifts is entirely dependent on the placement of the sticky piston, as well as placement of blocks too.

Slowing down entities

Honey blocks slow down entities walking on top of them and prevent them from jumping. Players walking on honey blocks move 2.508 m/s, about a 60% reduction from the normal walking speed. In Bedrock Edition, players also slow down slightly if walking up against the side of it. Players, who can ordinarily jump about 1 ¹⁄₄ blocks high, can jump about ³⁄₁₆ blocks high on honey; this is an 85% reduction. They can more easily step up onto other blocks than jump up onto them.

This effect applies even through other blocks on top of honey blocks as long as they are half-block or less in height - so the player cannot jump on carpets, bottom slabs or daylight detectors that are placed on honey blocks.

This effect also applies regardless of a player's mode of movement, such as flying with elytra or swimming.

Sliding

Entities pressed against the sides of a honey block slide down at a slow speed and do not take fall damage, similar to going down a ladder. In Java Edition, the entity's horizontal momentum gradually decreases; this allows players to jump 2 blocks further by holding on to the walls. In Bedrock Edition, the entity's horizontal momentum resets instead. The slowdown induced by honey blocks stacks with the Slow Falling status effect.

Falling

As with hay bales, falling onto a honey block reduces fall damage by 80%. For example, if a player or mob falls from a height that would normally cause 10HP fall damage, the fall causes 2HP damage instead.

Bees

When a honey block is near bees and a beehive or bee nest, bees occasionally fly close and attach to it for a few seconds, resembling an action of eating honey. When doing this, the bee stops fluttering its wings, and firmly attaches its face to the honey block regardless of whether flowers are nearby.

Crafting ingredient

Although the 2×2 inventory crafting grid is sufficient to craft a honey block, a 3×3 crafting table grid is required to convert a honey block back into four honey bottles.

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Honey Bottle	Glass Bottle + Honey Block	4

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

v t e honey_block sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.honey_block.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.honey_block.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.honey_block.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.honey_block.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.honey_block.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

v t e honey_block sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.honey_block	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.honey_block	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.honey_block	0.23	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.honey_block	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.honey_block	0.15	1.0
	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.honey_block	0.12	1.0
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.honey_block	0.14	1.0

Unique

Java Edition

Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Sliding down a honey block	Entity-Dependent	While something is sliding down a honey block	block.honey_block.slide	subtitles.block.honey_block.slide​	0.8	varies	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Players	While something is sliding down a honey block	step.honey_block​​	1.0	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Honey Block	honey_block	Block & Item	block.minecraft.honey_block

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	Translation key
Honey Block	honey_block	473	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	tile.honey_block.name

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Sticky Situation	Slide down a honey block to slow your fall.	—	30	Silver

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Sticky Situation	Jump into a Honey Block to break your fall	Collide on a vertical side of a honey block while falling.

History

September 28, 2019							Honey blocks are announced at MINECON Live 2019.
September 28, 2019							In official article about all content announced at Minecon 2019 was shown another honey block texture, which wasn't shown on live.
Java Edition
1.15			19w41a				Added honey blocks.
			19w42a				Honey blocks no longer stick to slime blocks when pushed by pistons.
			19w44a				Honey blocks can now be used to craft honey bottles.
							The inventory icon of honey blocks has been slightly changed from to .
			Pre-release 1				The sliding sound event for honey blocks no longer uses the same subtitles as footsteps.
1.17			21w08a				Honey block have been moved to the "Redstone Blocks" tab of the Creative inventory.
			21w18a				Goats can no longer make long jumps on honey blocks.
1.20			23w12a				The inventory icon of the honey block has been changed from to .
			23w18a				Entities touching the edge of a honey block now properly get affected by the stickiness.
Bedrock Edition
1.14.0			beta 1.14.0.1				Added honey blocks.
			beta 1.14.0.2				The model of honey blocks has been changed to match Java Edition's.
							Honey blocks no longer stick to slime blocks when pushed by pistons.
			beta 1.14.0.4				Honey blocks can now be used to craft honey bottles.
1.14.20			beta 1.14.2.50				Projectiles can now be shot through the gap between two honey blocks.
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.57				New sounds have been added for honey blocks.

Issues

Issues relating to "Honey Block" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• Honey blocks are not full blocks: despite taking up 16³ pixels, the collision box is only 14×14×15 pixels.
  • The bottom face of the honey block is the same depth as a full block, though it is only 14×14 pixels.
  • Small entities such as arrows are free to move through the gap between honey blocks as they are under 2 pixels wide.
  • Only when entities are partially "in" the honey block (i.e., they are touching the 14³-pixel hitbox) can they slide down against it.
• In real life, bees eat honey when the temperature is low and flowers are difficult to find. Otherwise, pollen and nectar are their primary food sources.
• The bottom surface of the honey block does not slow down entities.
• It takes 1 minute and 14 seconds to slide down 256 honey blocks.
• The player cannot place some blocks on the honey block such as vines, ladders and torches.‌

Gallery

Screenshots

• 

  A bee "eating" from a honey block.

• 

  A pollen-loaded bee stopping by, having some honey.

Development images

• 

  A player sliding down a stack of honey blocks, as seen in the reveal.

• 

  Early honey block with lack of cube inside.

External links

• Block of the Week: Honey – Minecraft.net on May 21, 2020