How to get Beeswax in Minecraft

 This means you will have to work with bees in the game, so be careful if you don't want to be stung by bees. There are specific ways to collect beeswax you can use

You'll be able to craft useful items like candles, or prevent copper items from oxidizing. This is all you need to know about how to collect beeswax in Minecraft and its applications.

How to get Beeswax in Minecraft

To be able to obtain beeswax from natural or farmed beehives, when they reach honey level 5, you just need to use scissors to cut it. This will drop three pieces of beeswax, but will also make the bees in the hive angry and they will attack you. To avoid this, build a fire under the hive or hive, as the smoke will soothe the bees and they will not become hostile towards you.

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Step 1: Look for beehives, honeycombs are shaped like boxes and are often located on honey plants or in flower valleys, they are often found in the Plains, Flower Forest or Sunflower Plains biome. Or you can get a homemade beehive using 6 boards and 3 honeycombs.

Step 2: Take a pair of scissors and a bucket to get the beeswax

Step 3: Stand near the honey tree or beehive.

Step 4: Right-click to use scissors to collect beeswax from the honey tree or honeycomb.

Step 5: The beeswax will be in your inventory after you collect it.

If you want to harvest beeswax without getting stung, you can make a launcher and use it to launch scissors into the hive. At that time, the beeswax will drop as an item and the bees will not attack you.

Recipes for making beeswax in Minecraft

There are many recipes with beeswax in Minecraft, of which one main recipe is creating a honeycomb, as shown below - because this recipe requires you to sandwich three pieces of beeswax between six wooden blocks. You can also combine four pieces of beeswax to create a beeswax block, a beeswax block is a block used for decoration.

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Another recipe is to combine beeswax with spider silk to create a candle, which can then be lit with a flint.

Finally, you can combine a piece of beeswax with a bronze item (block, plate, or step) to create a waxed version of that item, which, when coated with beeswax, will help Prevent copper items from oxidizing.

Lesley Montoya

Update 19 August 2024