Bees, Honey, and Automatic Honeycomb! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide S3 ▫ Tutorial Let's Play [Ep.26]

[@StarNanny]

Another reason to enclose the bees in a protective apiary is they try to pollinate underwater plants and drown. When using an apiary, one needs to ensure there are no flowers nearby outdoors, or the bees will track to those plants and get stuck in that corner of the building, breaking the farm. Apparently, the bees check an outer limit for flowers first, then nearer flowers, which is how they get too far from their hives to return.

[@trevinbeattie4888]

which probably explains why the hives in my greenhouse have become empty 😢

[@StarNanny]

@@trevinbeattie4888 😞 But now you know what to guard against, so you can repopulate safely. 👍

[@jesterlavore1314]

And always remember they're attracted to flowering azalea and cherry blossoms as well and consider them flowers, so if you like to decorate with them, keep the apiary away

[@KaidiHu]

In skyblock bees will just fly onto the void as well

[@StarNanny]

@@KaidiHu Truth! So frustrating! 😆

[@waveclaw]

One thing to know about waxed copper: if you build a roof out of weathered or oxidized copper, a lightning strike on it or a nearby lightening rod will force the blocks back to copper blocks. But waxed copper blocks ignore lightening and will remain at their age even when struck during a thunderstorm.

[@another_jt]

I really like it that bees are attracted to the flowers on Flowering Azalea Leaves, so often I'll use those in my bee-based farms as the flower. It's really nice being able to incorporate a block instead of working in a flower that has to be placed on a dirt-type block.

[@GENERALWA5TE]

We need a Bee Keeper Villager

[@unmeclambda5837]

Tbf we need more updated villager professions or trades, with the various new elements added since 1.14. But yeah a beekeeper would be a great start

[@sixtysyxti3235]

@@unmeclambda5837wow you got the opposite of that in the new update coming

[@GSFBlade]

A bee keeper Villager would be great.

[@crodoutdoors]

As a new player (started playing so when my 6 year old asked questions i could answer them), this series has been incredibly helpful.

[@cl3matis]

I'm unreasonably excited every time Pix uploads another one of these! Keep them coming man, we'll keep watching them :D

[@tutorialexplainer]

same

[@MantisFoxx2]

Agreed!

[@XzeniFX]

In case you have not heard already, Pix's computer is out for repairs and this video is his last scheduled upload. We probably won't be seeing any videos in the next week, possibly longer.

[@multi.instrumentalist]

I love putting campfires directly under the ground with a hay bail under them, and then putting an unlit campfire on top, to make it look like it’s just smouldering or was recently extinguished.

[@syystomu]

That's a cool trick!

[@jokkethemachinist]

Thanks for this idea!

[@trevorgreenough6141]

As Pixlriffs signs off, subs in-game: "bee buzzes happily"

[@roberthiltz2741]

I adore beekeeping in Minecraft but somehow after all this time I had forgotten about the poison curing effect on honey! Another great video my friend ❤

[@katwilli]

If I can remember correctly: i think you can light up your area to stop pillager patrols - while they can spawn in any light level, player placed light sources such as torches, lanterns, etc. can prevent pillager patrols from spawning.

[@TheRealWormbo]

That's correct. Pillager spawning ignores the sky light level, but can be prevented with a block light level over 8.

[@calebayers1]

Been playing Minecraft for years, and this guy never fails to teach me something new

[@sharkdentures3247]

Yes, in Bedrock you can bonemeal a flower & if there is room (empty dirt/ grass blocks) around it, a random number of flowers will grow. (usually of the same type) OR you can do the Java method & bonemeal the grass & get grass, tall grass & flowers (randomly) too. Also, I believe (in Bedrock) placing ANYTHING (even a flower) DIRECTLY in front of a hive's opening BLOCKS the bees from leaving/ entering! (so you MIGHT need to widen this farm by a couple rows to have any chance of making it work. Not sure it if would work in Bedrock anyways, but just a warning.)

[@williamjones5334]

I can confirm the original design he showed (with the comparator) does work on Bedrock (although I think I powered the dispenser slightly differently, so you might want to test it in Creative first).

[@claire7657]

You can just replace the grass block with cherry leaves or flowering azalea leaves to get the same farm

[@BooksMusicMe17]

Worth mentioning that honeycomb blocks aren't uncraftable (whereas honey blocks are). It's easy for new players to think they're condensing honeycomb them for storage only to find they've essentially just destroyed them.

[@cindyandrew4382]

As i finished my bee's weren't coming out - turns out bedrock bee's need a block of space empty in front of their homes to come out. So I modified the design a bit and it now works! And it is a 5x5 square compact. Thanks for all the fun!

[@trevinbeattie4888]

I thought I already knew all about bees and flowers, but this episode taught me at least three new things that I now need to try out in my world. Great job!

[@pyrosousa]

I love setting some campfires behind me while doing some early-game fishing, then i can cook all the fish I pickup as I go without wasting other resources!

[@KageNoOnisu]

11:30 Bees do age while inside the hive. This was fixed in 1.16. From the patch notes of 1.16: MC-166135 - Bees inside a nest or hive do not grow up or get their breeding timer reset. 18:00 You say there isn't a tree with a greater likelihood of generating bee nests, but missed the detail that only certain trees can generate them. Birch, Oak, and Mangrove trees for when grown near a flower can generate with a bee nest, but for Cherry trees, the patch notes for 1.20 only say they can generate with bee nests at world generation, nothing for growing them near flowers to generate new nests, and no updates regarding cherry trees or bees at all for 1.20.1.

[@mrroblox5000]

Pixl just casually has a birch tree with a bee hive on it, which is a 1 in 500 chance

[@monirae71]

I love watching these. They come out right around the time I wake up so it's great breakfast entertainment 😊.

[@mysticfox9718]

I always love the bees in Minecraft because I love how they look. They look so cute! Especially when you see them collect pollen from the flowers. It’s just interesting to watch them do that.

[@Raezeman]

honestly, to me they are slightly terrifying due to their size!

[@mysticfox9718]

@@Raezeman well they can be a bit scary when you take their honey without their permission 😦

[@JTSCORPIO30]

I love these tutorials because they are so in depth absolutely brilliant ❤

[@SqueakingLion]

It is worth enchanting your shears with Unbreaking III, to make them last longer. If you have an XP farm, it shouldn't be too difficult... and they'll last 4x longer, so less fuss and muss. :) It's a pity Fortune enchants don't work on bee nests...

[@joshmahue7764]

Pixs videos are in that rare and special category of videos that you like before watching it because you already know it’d gonna be good

[@cecerats]

minecraft bees my beloved

[@MantisFoxx2]

This intro NEVER gets Old. Love it Pix, keep it up. ❤❤

[@CruentusV]

great video. don't know if it's been corrected, but bees used to fly into campfires used for pacification. found that setting the campfire in a two-deep hole topped by a dirt kept bees from doing that while still allowing the smoke to hit the hive (it also kept me from taking unintentional damage).

[@erin.anderson]

That is why he placed the campfire immediately under the nests, instead of leaving an air gap between them. This prevents the bees from attempting to fly into the nest from that side, because it is obstructed.

[@CruentusV]

@@erin.anderson ah. thx...

[@tannersmith8940]

I play on Xbox, My dispensers keep shooting honeycombs everywhere, I added a bunch of hoppers around and tried blocking with blocks but it still doesnt seem to work the best. And wastes a bit

[@tarasiobhan]

i was wondering what happend to my bees after they stinged me when i tried harvesting the honey, now that i understand, i can now safely keep some bees without any mistakes :)

[@katleiz]

the flowers planted within 2 blocks of saplings has worked! saved me from journeying all over the place trying to find naturally occurring beehives. planting just the saplings themselves weren't working.

[@TheRealYeller]

Just a tip replace the grass block with an flowering azalea leaf and remove the flower for a higher efficency and more output

[@lukerobinson2422]

So just using the block for pollination

[@joshmahue7764]

We miss you pix hope your PC is getting all better!!

[@cardiaccuse9orng4lf82]

TY. This was a great video. Especially the part about how to get a nest. That was seriously helpful. I've traveled so freaking far away from my home to find them.

[@thejonbmc]

I did not know you could use the crafting table to wax copper in bulk. Game changer.

[@tnichols312]

Coffee, a beeautiful morning, and a Pixlriffs Survival Guide Episode. Is there any better way to start a Friday? I’ve roughly been following along with the series as far as progressing my own world, so it looks like I’ll bee a bee farmer today.

[@bleh-zj1hy]

Your friday is just starting ? 😮

[@tnichols312]

@@bleh-zj1hy east coast US, pix’s videos drop at 6am for me.

[@bleh-zj1hy]

@@tnichols312 holy you're half a day behind me 😳

[@RyoneFuushiba]

I find bee farms like the one you build inefficient because of if you trap a set of bees and they look next door and look "hey, that flower's nice" despite being over one then no honey is produced. I like building a much bigger greenhouse style so that bees can freely fly around, gather pollen, and then float back to their hives. It's also a tiny bit more humane than the farm you made but idk, that's how I think with builds in mind. (Missed opportunity for a "ba-bee" joke.)

[@TName30]

Wake up babe, new survival guide episode just dropped.

[@exteeriority4349]

Thanks, babe, go to bed.

[@markdebreczeni5940]

The legend in every survival guide video 👍👍

[@legendracer4861]

It don't sound good no more bud just stop. Please.

[@TName30]

@@legendracer4861 I am committed to this bit and I'm doin it until the series ends

[@emily-midharvest]

Wait... people are still asleep at 11am?!

[@mrnobody.158]

I would love trees with beehive near my crop farm :)

[@MarcoChurchH]

Nice episode as well, I always enjoy coming back even at the basic stuff, there's always something to learn. Would you consider talking about some resource packs in the future episodes? Since you are starting to show some more varied redstone in particular sometimes it's hard to understand the orientation or outputs of blocks. I know there are tutorials already, but having them contextualized is much more helpful to a learning experience. Thx again, love the content (and also the pacing, I'm kinda following along with my friends on realms, we are having a blast)

[@seungtakho]

although I know pretty much the entirety of minecraft mechanics and farms off by heart, i still find this series entertaining

[@imover9999]

Been playing mc for a long time, less so lately, but never knew about putting hay bales under it to increase the smoke height. That's amazing. Would be great for a chimney or a beacon like you said. Love that!

[@mateo_sid]

"back to breeding these B's" actually sounds very dirty 😂

[@kektics3074]

I’ve just started watching, im curious if you’ll explain the quirky behavior of bees in the nether where they don’t stay in their hives at night because there’s no sun/moon cycle

[@TheMNWolf]

I don't think this was mentioned in the episode but I can confirm that beehives will spawn with trees even if grown underground with no view of the sky, provided there are nearby flowers.

[@hookedbycrafting5348]

Bedrock bee behavior is different. Zero items can be between nest and campfire, campfires must be surrounded on four sides to prevent bee damage as well as being directly beneath hive. On plus side, any silk touch tool used to pick up the hive can be used safely without campfires...

[@UNKA757]

Thank you for these videos. Practical and easy to follow.

[@Flareontoast]

Bees' and Rabbits' pathfinding are one of the darndest things in Minecraft. Bees get lost so easily. Rabbits die so easily become they just jump into lava or ten blocks down. I love keeping these two mobs together in some kind of glasshouse/apiary/enclosure to ensure they can survive lol

[@Lee-mmg]

I'm going to do a honeycomb and honey farm. I'm going to have to do some building for a while. Yup! Thanks Pixl!

[@Techdawg77]

19:09 of course. The luck of this guy! 😂

[@ajanderson1299]

Is it a Java feature to not need a single block space between the hive and flower for the bees to exit? In the bedrock tutorials I’ve watched, a space is needed. Love the series so far Pix!

[@_Abjuranax_]

Supers are a Beehive stacked on top of another, and I was wondering how many Hives can be stacked and be affected by the smoke from the same Campfire? thx.

[@gayanthilakarathna6488]

If you build a honey farm in the end or the nether it will make the farm efficient because there's no day time or night time😊

[@Hiznogood]

But you then have to be around to keep the chunk loaded! I rather build all my farms close together in the overworld so they’re active while I’m crafting, trading or is afk. I usually sleep during the nights so no real downtime for the bees. In my new 1.20 I gave an iron farm, gunpowder, wool, mud & wheat farm and a trading hall close together. Guess I build a bee apiary next.

[@iliveunderarock8070]

BRO PLS BRING BACK THE ONE BLOCK AT A TIME Series also great video love your channel

[@victinibaumbs2123]

Bee nests also generate if you grow oak or birtch saplings near flowers.

[@sheepibe2]

bro i used to watch you all the time lol, i came back to see how much you have grown!

[@kristolmeth666]

I really need a good explanation about the portal system. Like, how far away to place a nether portal to be able to make a tunnel between them for fast travel

[@craigds3745]

Using the coordinates, try to be as accurate as possible when placing them. You still need to break and replace them a couple of times. It's frustrating but can be done unless they are too close together, the game seems to get a bit confused.

[@kristolmeth666]

@@craigds3745 yeah, I made portal A in the Overworld. It was on the edge of the village I use as my base, thats not far from spawn. That made portal B in the Nether. I went to a Lush Cave and decided to set up a portal there, portal C. But even 1000 blocks away, it connected to portal B. I think because there is a Lava Lake next to it. But then when I went through portal B again, it didn't send me to either portal A at my base or C at the Lush Cave, it made another portal, so D, about 200 blocks away from my base, underground, in a small cave. So yeah, I am a bit confused on to how to link them properly

[@craigds3745]

@@kristolmeth666 If it's a very big lava lake and there's no room above for a portal, the game's looking for the nearest safe place to put it. You might have to make an island on the lava lake. I've built my nether hub and portals at y =115 to avoid things like lava lakes. This is the episode you need from Season 2: How To Link Nether Portals! Minecraft Survival Guide (1.18 Tutorial Let's Play) [S2 E57] kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5K0YaKaZ8qNq6M They can be a real pain, the video explains them really well. Good luck.

[@christinaapplegate5281]

Great! I learned a couple of new things ❤

[@vishalsingh-jv5yo]

I already know all these things but it's interesting nonetheless to listen to you explain them 😅😅

[@soultundra7869]

One shear of a hive gives you three honeycomb, so you'd actually get 25704 honeycomb from 4 hives if all 4 dispensers were full of new shears... Shear durability of 238 x 9 = 2142 uses per dispenser. 2142 x 4 dispensers = 8568 uses total 8568 x 3 = 25704 Honeycomb or just over 401.5 stacks, nearly 7.5 double chests Honeycomb farms are a little OP 😆

[@hookedbycrafting5348]

Does it use durability in a dispencer vs by hand? Shearing bees by hand uses 0 durability

[@soultundra7869]

@@hookedbycrafting5348 On Java shearing hives and nests by hand uses 1 durability on unenchanted shears. Using a dispenser uses 1 durability each time a set of shears is used.

[@williamjones5334]

Important note on dealing with Pillagers on Bedrock: Pix killed the second captain in this video by deflecting his arrow with a shield. This does not work as a peaceful way to deal with them on Bedrock, as deflected projectiles count as player kills. Good for XP and loot, bad for preventing raids!

[@hikari1690]

Hello pix! Thank you for having all of us 🤣

[@erin.anderson]

The chances of a nest spawning when a tree is grown that way depends on the biome you are in. Some biomes, like savannahs and deserts, will never have a nest spawn, while others, like birch forests, meadows, and flower forests, have a much higher chance. Check the Wiki for exact percentages.

[@Backarataa]

This was super helpful thanks!

[@Thomas_Wagner1786]

I've observed bees lacking in their ability to pathfind sometimes. For example one time, a bee was about to enter there nest, but one other nest blocked ther way with a block of air in between. Instead of going above or around, it was only trying to go through that block, and be stuck at this position. An other example was a bee unsuccessfully trying to went through a one block high wall in order to reach that flower at the other side.

[@jenaiad]

Ah, a reward for not being able to fall asleep!

[@justin1730]

Putting a carpet over the campfire will prevent it from harming bees without losing the smoke.

[@martinhartecfc]

Wish honey removed the wither effect as well as poison. It would be great for fighting the wither without removing all your other potion effects.

[@simonf2773]

“Fork ‘andles” that had to be intentional!! 😂

[@dalebasco391]

It's been 5 years man

[@arthurmalavasic6788]

I wonder if being able to drink honey when you aren't hungry is good for the same saturation hack as eating chorus fruit?

[@Pixlriffs]

Suspicious stew is still better than both! You can eat it when you aren’t hungry because it gives you the status effects, and one of those is saturation :)

[@TheeSlickShady_Dave_K]

Tutorial excellence! Thank you Good Sir 🎩

[@HazardousPanic]

I did not know about the hay bale under the camp fire trick. Learned something new and put it in my world! Have the Devs fixed Bees pathing into water and dying??

[@MantisFoxx2]

Not yet. The pathfinding I think is not top of mind for them.

[@tctheunbeliever]

Maybe I have mutant bees in every world. They don't go in at night (because of the well-lit area, I guess, or maybe there are just too many to fit in the hive) and bee nests often generate from saplings with no flowers around (maybe it's the grass they like). Maybe it's Bedrock rules. Edit: Maybe I say "maybe" too much.

[@SilvtheAceAngel]

I never knew about the sign one :/ you learn something every day :D

[@bleh-zj1hy]

Finally I was so bored during my break time

[@tiffanypierson9262]

Omg i saw that baby be and the awe moment hit 😂

[@Bongwell420]

Any idea what I am doing wrong? I built the first honey farm you showed here goofing around I suppose and it worked perfectly, ran a rail system underneath collecting the goodies falling. So I built the second bee farm you made connecting the rail system and there is no action? It seems for me the bee's that are allowed to roam freely do more than the bee's trapped lol I lure the bee's there but they pollinate and run I built one layer higher with glass and the one bee just sits there floating till I break the glass and he flies free I am on ps4 bedrock and just struggling with a Bee farm =(

[@Bongwell420]

Also I put in some glass bottles but don't seem to collect honey bottles just the Honeycomb

[@briannawendell7543]

Good luck getting your computer back soon!

[@imperfectimp]

I've had 3 bee nests sitting in a chest since February. Maybe it's time to let the poor guys out. At this point the Survival Guide is just bullying me with all the farms I've been postponing.

[@kestrelgaming554]

Bee careful with baby bee's, there don't do well with camp fires. I learned that to my cost. 😢, do bee's still pathfind north and down ??? Or have there fixed or changed it ??? Do the camp fires need to be one block below too ??? I didn't know the 2 block thing with smoke 😮 learning something new each time, Thank-you Pix

[@erin.anderson]

As shown in the video, the campfire can be immediately below the nest or hive, or it can be lower, but if they are placed lower, the bees will potentially pathfind through the campfire trying to get back to the nest.

[@Techdawg77]

Hay bales increase smoke distance?! Why didn’t I know that?

[@erin.anderson]

Look at the next taiga village that you run across; that's where the game teaches you that bit.

[@soulhunter0]

Pix is like a minecraft Sherpa!

[@xskrillxdinodragon3276]

BEES! I've been looking forward to the bee episode

[@PSS-uw9zr]

You said the number of bees contained in a hive was in the block data. Is it visible to the player (F3?)? I can see the honey content but if there's something indicating the number of bees, I'm not seeing it. Without that we could silk-touch a hive and place it somewhere, only to find out it is empty!

[@Pixlriffs]

This wasn't previously tracked by the F3 debug data, but I believe recently the number of bees in a silk touched nest or hive is visible in the advanced tooltips (which shows you exact durability numbers, item IDs and components - enabled with the F3+H shortcut.)

[@MarkusCoyne]

Thank you for a great video.

[@JMTHEVORTEX]

Hope your PC is getting all right ❤

[@mikewalker6847]

Been waiting for new update

[@murkangamer1235]

Pix you can safely take bee hives and nests next to bees without angering them except on Bedrock wdition

[@cool5-g4g]

omg the last time I watched your videos was 4 years ago

[@theimaginatrix7625]

Trying to build this farm without seeing what Pix is doing and thinking I've got it down until I put the hives I have in and the dispensers just do nothing despite being full of shears. :( The worst part is I don't know where I messed up because I built it based on what he was saying and couldn't see where he was putting everything and I've already enclosed what I built with glass so if I needed like, an extra layer next to the observers and dispensers to wire them up properly I didn't leave myself room for that... And I thought after I got a successful autosmelter based on the recent video about it that I'd be fine with this too... Update a week and a half after the fact: _So my dispensers were facing the opposite direction than I wanted them to and I just wasn't paying enough attention._ I fixed it, and now have loads of honeycomb! :D By the time I solved the problem I'd expanded my little enclosure so there was a row of clear blocks behind the redstone stuff, and to celebrate my victory I lined those spaces with pink petals for the bees. That's plenty of indoor things for them to pollinate!

[@shawnholbrook7278]

Thanks for the videos, and I hope that your PC is repaired soon. 😊

[@ADHDarpod]

I'm not sure if it was a glitch specific to my world or to Nintendo Switch, but I made a video for anyone who still can't get the redstone to work with the dispensing

[@akshatchheda1102]

next week's gonna be tough since no sg episodes

[@Faesharlyn]

I think the bee nest on the cherry tree was empty of bees because they could not path find back up the water stream.. the stream was running and carrying the particles all the way down into the meadow.

[@oldellie3131]

im on Java and i still make the bees angry, sometimes even with the campfire, is there a technique im not understanding? Love the series! Love following along with you in my world! thank you

[@jungamalar]

Any sign of the new pc :)? Me and my son are playing along

[@Pixlriffs]

KZbin.com/Pixlriffs/community for the latest news :)

[@MobileMinecraftMan]

How many vertical hives can 1 campfire pacify?

[@archniki_]

In my opinion Bees update much more compact but solid & precise update than thrillion new types of wood and random staff

[@NachoKsp]

Good luck with the repair!! :raisedhands:

[@KeatDaSneak]

When I’ve placed my campfires that close to the hive, the bees like to pop out of the bottom of the hive into the fire and burn to death. Just a heads up to others.

[@mineralnoodles]

Could you possibly trap a bee with polen on top of a crop for infinite bonemeal