Everyone needs to sleep — even NPCs and avatars in Minecraft. However, you can’t simply create a wooden shack and sleep on the floor. That’s bad for your virtual back, for starters. Instead, we show you how to make a bed in Minecraft so you can quickly pass the time while the skeletons roam outside your door. Beds aren’t just for fast-forwarding the clock, however. They serve as spawn points too, overriding your realm’s default spawning location. You’ll appear within a few blocks of your bed unless something blocks the spawn point, forcing you to reemerge in the world’s default location — which could be miles away. Further reading Wood – Find yourself a tree and chop it down. Your lumberjack skills will result in small blocks of wood (Survival Mode) scattered across the terrain that you need to gather. You can use tools and weapons — even your fists — to chop down trees, but not swords. Wool – You’ll need shears to gather wool from live sheep, or kill them and gather wool from their remains. You could build an automatic wool farm, but that’s an entirely different guide. As shown above, we already applied dye to two sheep before shaving them bald. Naked sheep! This method is based on white wool. If you want a colorful bed, move on to the next section in this guide. Step 1: Open your Crafting Table and drag one wood block from your inventory to any of the nine squares in the crafting grid. 1 wood block = 4 wood plank blocks Step 2: Drag the resulting four wood plank blocks into your inventory. You’ll need three wood plank blocks to create a bed. Step 3: Place one wood plank block each into the bottom three squares in the crafting grid, as shown below. Step 4: Place one wool block each of the same color into the middle three squares in the crafting grid. Step 4: Drag your new bed into your inventory. Sheep are typically black, white, gray, light gray, and brown. If you want purple or blue sheets, you’ll need to dye the wool first. That means gathering items and combining them in the Crafting Table or Furnace. Create your dyeHere is the current color palette, what you need to create each dye, and how to create them. Remember to drag the resulting dye down into your inventory so you can apply it to wool later. Note that green is the only dye that requires the Furnace. Black (Crafting Table)
Blue – Light (Crafting Table)
Blue – Normal (Crafting Table)
Brown (Crafting Table)
Cyan (Crafting Table)
Gray – Dark (Crafting Table)
Gray – Light (Crafting Table)
Green (Furnace) Lime (Crafting Table)
Magenta (Crafting Table)
Orange (Crafting Table)
Pink (Crafting Table)
Purple (Crafting Table)
Red (Crafting Table)
White (Crafting Table)
Yellow (Crafting Table)
Dye your woolYou already completed the hard part: Creating your dye. Now you can color your collected wool. Step 1: Open the Crafting Table. Step 2: Place a block of wool in the first box on the bottom row and your dye next to it in the second box, as shown above. The base color of your wool doesn’t matter, as the wool changes to the color of your dye. You can also dye wool still attached to sheep. Just hold the dye in your hand and select the sheep (right-click, left trigger, or tap and hold), which will permanently change its color. You can breed sheep of different colors to generate offspring with a possible secondary color. Craft your colorful bedNow that you have dyed wool — magenta in our example shown above — you can create a bed with colored sheets. Step 1: Place one wood plank block each into the bottom three squares in the crafting grid. Step 2: Place one wool block of the same color each into the middle three squares in the crafting grid. Step 3: Drag your new bed into your inventory. Place and use your bedThere’s no need for instructions here — just move the bed into your hotbar, select it, and perform the following to place it in the world. Remember, a bed requires two blocks of space.
Once you have the bed in position, you can sleep by performing the following:
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