Java Edition guides/Buzzy Bees

Buzzy Bees

Edition	Java Edition
Official name	Buzzy Bees
Version(s)	1.15 1.15.1 1.15.2
◄ Village & PillageNether Update ►

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This guide is a simplified overview of all the changes in the Buzzy Bees update (Java Edition 1.15.x releases), which assumes at least some familiarity with the Village & Pillage update (Java Edition 1.14.x releases).

Mobs

New

Name	Image	Habitat	Drops	Note
Bees		Spawn near bee nests.	1–3XP (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)	Inflict Poison if provoked. Attack in a swarm.

Changed

Name	Image	Changed
All mobs		Better at avoiding walking through lava.
Spawning		When breedable mobs in groups spawn naturally they sometimes spawn babies in the groups. Has a 5% chance for foxes, cows, sheep, pigs, and chickens, and a 10% chance for wolves, llamas, and horses.
Ender dragon		Removed a black dot on the transparent parts of wing texture. Removed texture for part of wing bottom in the dying ender dragon.
Iron golem		Now use the generic.attackDamage attribute. Now starts cracking upon losing health. There are 4 stages, from uncracked to fully cracked, before the golem dies. Can be healed using iron ingots. One iron ingot restores 25% of its health. It takes 4 iron ingots to repair an iron golem from 1 HP to full health.
Magma cube, ocelot, and slime		Now use the generic.attackDamage attribute.
Parrot		Can now sit on a player's shoulder even when the player is riding an entity. Can no longer imitate endermen, polar bears, wolves, and zombie pigmen.
Nitwit villagers		No longer have a leveling gemstone in their belt.

Blocks

New

Name	Image	Obtaining	Tool Required	Uses
Beehive		Ingredients [hide]Crafting recipe Any Planks + Honeycomb	Axe	Houses bees. If the player breaks or harvests honey from it, its bees become hostile to the player. Bees inside the hive do not turn hostile if it is harvested with Silk Touch. Bees do not turn hostile if there is a campfire underneath the hive when honeycombs or honey bottles are harvested.
Bee nest		Spawn naturally in forests, birch forests, tall birch forests, flower forests, plains, sunflower plains, birch forest hills, tall birch hills, and wooded hills biomes.	Any (only drops with Silk Touch)	Functions the same as beehives.
Honey block		Ingredients [hide]Crafting recipe Honey Bottle	Any	Works the same way as slime blocks. Does not stick to slime blocks. Carries mobs along that are standing on it while being moved, in contrast to slime blocks. Mobs usually avoid walking on them. Entities can slide down its sides, similar to a ladder. Falling on it absorbs 80% of fall damage.
Honeycomb block		Ingredients [hide]Crafting recipe Honeycomb	Any	Decorative block.

Changed

Name	Image	Changed
Bell		Rings if powered with a redstone signal. No longer causes the hand animation to play when used on in a non-functional spot.
Campfire		Can now be extinguished with a shovel.
Composter		Ingredients [hide]Crafting recipe Any Wooden Slab Now crafted with wooden slabs (like in Bedrock Edition), instead of fences and wooden planks.
Dispenser		Can now harvest honeycombs when dispensing shears on bee nests and beehives filled with honey. The honeycomb items are dropped on the ground. Can now collect water bottles and honey bottles when dispensing glass bottles on water and beehives. Can now place down armor stands. Fire charges launched from a dispenser now light campfires. Firework rockets dispensed from a dispenser now travel in the direction they were fired.
End stone bricks		Now have the same hardness and blast resistance as end stone.
Farmland		Blocks that can be manually placed on farmland without turning it into dirt can now also be pushed onto it by a piston without turning the farmland.
Iron doors		Must now be mined with a pickaxe for it to be dropped as an item.
Large fern		Now drop wheat seeds.
Melon stems and pumpkin stems		Attached stems now drop their seeds again when broken.
Nether portal		Portals from the Overworld can now correctly link with portals placed in the top half of the Nether.
Rails		Now place facing the player, rather than always north-south.
Redstone comparators		Can now detect how much honey is inside beehives and bee nests. The output strength is equal to the amount of honey in the hive.
Oak and birch saplings		If grown with a flower within a 5×3×5 volume centered on the sapling, they have a 5% chance to generate a bee nest on the side of the tree.
Stripped wood		Ingredients [hide]Crafting recipe Matching Stripped Log 333333333 Can now be crafted out of stripped logs.
Wet sponge		Now dries out when placed in the Nether.
Dark prismarine		Ingredients [hide]Crafting recipe Prismarine Shard + Black Dye Now crafted with black dye instead of an ink sac.

Items

New

Name	Image	Obtaining	Uses
Honey bottle		Obtained by using a bottle on beehives/nests with a honey_level of 5.	Restores 6 () and 1.2 saturation. Removes Poison. Used to craft honey blocks. Can be consumed regardless of the player's hunger.
Honeycomb		Obtained by using shears on beehives/nests with a honey_level of 5.	Used to craft beehives and honeycomb blocks.
Bee spawn egg		Can be obtained only via creative inventory.	Has the same function as other spawn eggs.

Changed

Name	Image	Changed
Boat		When used as fuel, one boat now smelts 6 items in a furnace, blast furnace, or smoker instead of 1.
Spawn eggs for drowned, husk, zombie pigman, zombie, and zombie villager		Can now be used on adult versions of these mobs to spawn baby variants.

Non-mob entities

Changed

Name	Image	Changed
Dragon fireball		The texture has been changed, which now resembles the fire charge texture after the Texture Update.
Experience orb		Experience orbs now appear at the same spatial and temporal location as loot when an entity is killed. Now render as translucent again.

Biomes

Changed

Name	Image	Changed
Dark forest		Generates birch trees once again.
Giant tree taiga		Now generate sweet berry bushes.
Taiga		Now spawn foxes in all taiga variants.

Effects

Changed

Name	Image	Changed
Instant Damage		Added an effect sprite.
Instant Health		Added an effect sprite.
Saturation		Added an effect sprite.

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Bee Our Guest	Use a Campfire to collect Honey from a Beehive using a Glass Bottle without aggravating the Bees	Use a glass bottle on a beehive or bee nest while not angering the bees inside.
	Sticky Situation	Jump into a Honey Block to break your fall	Collide on a vertical side of a honey block while falling.
	Total Beelocation	Move a Bee Nest, with 3 Bees inside, using Silk Touch	Unlike most other advancements, this advancement is granted upon breaking the nest, rather than it entering your inventory.