Minecraft Bedrock 1.14 Update Patch Notes: Bees

December 11, 2019 at 12:12am
By Jason Stettner

The latest update has arrived, this is Bedrock 1.14 which adds a number of features to the experience. Here are the patch notes that apply to the game available on Xbox One, Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch, Windows 10 PC, Android, IOS and Virtual Reality devices.

The details on this are below, with straight quick information as well on what’s changed. Note that this will take time to roll out across the various platforms.
Bees
-Bees are cute, fuzzy, neutral mobs
-Don’t hurt them, they don’t want to hurt you
-Bees love pretty flowers and spend their lives gathering pollen from them
-After gathering pollen, bees fly back to their nest
-If a bee can't find pollen, it will return home
-If a bee doesn’t have a home nest, it will wander around until it finds one it can use
-Bees don’t like the rain and they sleep at night. They will return to their nest in these cases

Bee Nests and Beehives
-Bee Nests generate in Flower Forests, Plains, and Sunflower Plains biomes
-When a bee visits a nest and completes its journey undisturbed, the level of honey increases
-Using shears on a full hive or nest will harvest Honeycomb and using a glass bottle will give a Honey Bottle
-Campfire smoke calms bees - Place one underneath the nest or hive to keep them in chill mode
-Redstone friendly! Dispensers can shear honeycombs from hives and nests

Honey Block
-Greatly reduces movement speed and jump height, but also reduces fall damage
-You can “slide” down a wall of honey blocks to slow your fall (Parkour)
-When a honey block is piston-moved, adjacent blocks also move
-When a honey block is piston-moved, entities on top are moved along with it

Honeycomb Block
-A decorative block that can be crafted with Honeycomb

Changes:
-Updated to a fresh menu background full of bees
-Leads can now be used on Polar Bears, Parrots, Ocelots, and Dolphins (MCPE-46866)
-Dispensers can now fill bottles with water and honey
-Tweaked the amount of XP dropped by animals to match Java Edition
-Most animals will now drop 1-3 XP when killed, but Dolphins now drop 0 XP
-Item tags can now be hidden in the inventory using the '/gamerule showtags' command

-Additional details can be found below within the general hub for this growing franchise. You can also read a special guide about the title as well.

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