Honey Block

Honey Block
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	No
Transparent	JE: Partial (diffuses sky light) ; BE: Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire; from lava	No
Map color	; 15 COLOR_ORANGE
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

A honey block is a storage block equivalent to the contents of four honey bottles. It is sticky, can prevent jumping, and can be used in conjunction with pistons to move blocks and adhered entities.

Obtaining

Breaking

Honey blocks can be broken instantly, regardless of held items, or when under the Mining Fatigue effect.

Block	Honey Block
Hardness	0
Breaking time (secs)
Default	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)

Legend

incorrect tool, drops nothing
correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
correct tool, drops the block itself
italicized can be instant mined

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Notes
Honey Bottle		Empty bottles remain in the crafting grid after crafting the honey block.

Usage

Honey blocks are not full blocks: despite taking up 16³ pixels visually, their collision box is only 14 pixels wide and 15 pixels high, with the bottom face aligned to the block grid. Small entities such as arrows are free to move through the gap between honey blocks as they are under 2 pixels wide.

Redstone

Unlike slime blocks, honey blocks in Java Edition are non-conductive and cannot have a redstone signal sent through them (including via a repeater or an observer, etc). In Bedrock Edition, honey blocks are conductive, though mobs and players will not suffocate while they are inside of it.

When being moved by a piston, entities on a honey block's top surface move with it. They are not launched in the direction of the push, as a slime block would do. Honey blocks moved by pistons do not move entities that are touching the side or bottom of the block.^[1]

When a honey block is moved by a piston, it attempts to move all adjacent blocks in the same direction. A honey block can move any block a sticky piston can pull except for slime blocks, as slime blocks and honey blocks never "stick" to each other. The blocks that are moved may, in turn, push other blocks, as if they were being pushed by a piston. For example, a honey block sitting on the ground attempts to move the ground block underneath itself, which pushes additional ground blocks in the direction of motion.

When the adjacent block that is moved is also a honey block, that block also attempts to move all its adjacent blocks. For example, a 2×2×2 cube of honey blocks may be pushed or pulled as a unit by a single piston acting on any of the blocks in the cube.

A honey block adjacent to a block that cannot be moved by pistons ignores the immobile block. However, if an adjacent block could be moved but is prevented by the presence of an immobile block, the honey block is also prevented from moving. Liquids are an exception: they are not moved, but neither do they stop a piston from pushing or pulling blocks into their space (usually destroying the liquid, and in a rare case displacing it through the piston).^[2]

Honey blocks are not pulled by a non-sticky piston, nor are they moved if an adjacent (non-honey) block is moved by a piston.

The maximum of 12 blocks moved by a piston still applies. For example, a 2×2×3 of honey blocks may be pushed or pulled by a sticky piston as long as no other movable blocks are adjacent to it. The direction in which a honey block moves depends on the placement and orientation of the sticky piston, as well as the positions of the surrounding blocks.

Slowing down entities

Honey blocks slow down entities walking on top of them and prevent them from jumping. Players walking on honey blocks move at 2.508 m/s, about a 60% reduction from the normal walking speed. In Bedrock Edition, players also slow down slightly if walking up against the side of it. Players, who can ordinarily jump about 1 ¹⁄₄ blocks high, can jump about ³⁄₁₆ blocks high on honey; this is an 85% reduction. They can more easily step up onto other blocks than jump up onto them.

This effect applies even through other blocks on top of honey blocks as long as they are half-block or less in height, which means entities cannot jump off of carpets, bottom slabs or daylight detectors that are placed on honey blocks.

This effect also applies regardless of a player's mode of movement, such as flying with elytra or swimming.

Sliding

Entities pressed against the sides of a honey block slide down at a slow speed and do not take fall damage, similar to going down a ladder. In Java Edition, the entity's horizontal momentum gradually decreases; this allows players to jump 2 blocks further by holding on to the walls. In Bedrock Edition, the entity's horizontal momentum resets instead. The slowdown induced by honey blocks stacks with the Slow Falling status effect.

Falling

As with hay bales, falling onto a honey block reduces fall damage by 80%. For example, if a player or mob falls from a height that would normally cause 10HP fall damage, the fall causes 2HP damage instead.

Crafting ingredient

Although the 2×2 inventory crafting grid is sufficient to craft a honey block, a 3×3 crafting table grid is required to convert a honey block back into four honey bottles.

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Honey Bottle	Glass Bottle + Honey Block	4

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

v t e `honey_block` sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`block.honey_block.break`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	1.0	0.8	16
	Block placed^{[until: JE 26.4]}	Blocks	When the block is placed	`block.honey_block.place`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	1.0	0.8	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	Not normally encounterable^{[sound 1]}	`block.honey_block.hit`	`subtitles.block.generic.hit`	0.25	0.5	16
	Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.honey_block.fall`	`subtitles.block.generic.fall`	0.5	0.75	16
	Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	`block.honey_block.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.0	16

↑ Since all blocks this sound type applies to break instantly, this can never be heard in normal gameplay. Besides playing manually via /playsound, it can only be encountered with a Mining Fatigue level of 86 or above: MC-311511

Bedrock Edition:

v t e `honey_block` sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	?	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`dig.honey_block`	?	1.0	0.8–1.0
	?	Blocks	When the block is placed	`dig.honey_block`	?	1.0	0.8–1.0
	?	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken^{[more information needed]}	`hit.honey_block`	?	0.23	0.5
	?	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	`fall.honey_block`	?	0.4	1.0
	?	Players	Walking on the block	`step.honey_block`	?	0.15	1.0
	?	Blocks	Jumping from the block	`jump.honey_block`	?	0.12	1.0
	?	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	`land.honey_block`	?	0.14	1.0

Unique

Java Edition

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Sliding down a honey block^{[sound 1]}^{[until: JE 26.4]}^{[sound 2]}	Entity-Dependent	While something is sliding down a honey block	`block.honey_block.slide`	`subtitles.block.honey_block.slide`	0.8	varies^{[sound 3]}	16

↑ MC-206779
↑ MC-312434
↑ Can be 1.0 or 0.8 for each sound, except slide1, which can be 1.0 or 0.9

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	?	Players	While something is sliding down a honey block	`step.honey_block`^[verify]	?	1.0	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Honey Block	`honey_block`	Block & Item	`block.minecraft.honey_block`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID^{[i 1]}	Translation key
Honey Block	`honey_block`	`473`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.honey_block.name`

↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
↑ Available with /give command.
↑ The block's direct item form has the same ID as the block.

Achievements


Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
		Sticky Situation	Slide down a honey block to slow your fall.	—	30	Silver

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Sticky Situation	Jump into a Honey Block to break your fall	Collide on a vertical side of a honey block while falling.

Videos

History

Announcement

September 28, 2019							Honey blocks are announced at MINECON Live 2019.
September 28, 2019							In official article about all content announced at Minecon 2019 was shown another honey block texture, which wasn't shown on live.

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.15	19w41a	Added honey blocks.
	19w42a	Honey blocks no longer stick to slime blocks when pushed by pistons.
	19w44a	Honey blocks can now be used to craft honey bottles.
	19w44a	The inventory icon of honey blocks has been slightly changed from to .
	pre1	The sliding sound event for honey blocks no longer uses the same subtitles as footsteps.
1.17	21w08a	Honey block have been moved to the "Redstone Blocks" tab of the Creative inventory.
1.17	21w18a	Goats can no longer make long jumps on honey blocks.
1.20	23w12a	The inventory icon of the honey block has been changed from to .
1.20	23w18a	Entities touching the edge of a honey block now properly get affected by the stickiness.^[3]
Upcoming Java Edition
26.4	snap4	Blocks that require a full face can now be placed on the top,^[4] side,^[5] and bottom^[6] faces of a honey block.
		Fences, walls, bars and glass panes now connect to the sides of honey blocks.
		These changes only affect block placement; the block's collision box has not been changed.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.14.0	beta 1.14.0.1	Added honey blocks.
	beta 1.14.0.2	The model of honey blocks has been changed to match Java Edition's.
	beta 1.14.0.2	Honey blocks no longer stick to slime blocks when pushed by pistons.
	beta 1.14.0.4	Honey blocks can now be used to craft honey bottles.
1.14.20	beta 1.14.2.50	Projectiles can now be shot through the gap between two honey blocks.
1.16.0	beta 1.16.0.57	New sounds have been added for honey blocks.
26.20 Experiment Drop 2 of 2026	Preview 26.20.23	Added sulfur cubes, which have the ability to absorb honey blocks, providing the golf ball/fast flat effect to the mob.
26.30	Preview 26.30.20	Implemented all features from the "Drop 2 of 2026" experiment in vanilla gameplay.
26.30	Preview 26.30.27	Honey blocks can no longer be absorbed by sulfur cubes.

Issues

Issues relating to "Honey Block" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

It takes 1 minute and 14 seconds to slide down 256 honey blocks.
Players cannot place some blocks on honey blocks, such as vines, ladders and torches.^{[until: JE 26.4]}

Gallery

Screenshots

A bee "eating" from a honey block
A pollen-loaded bee stopping by, having some honey

Development images

A player sliding down a stack of honey blocks, as seen in the reveal
Early honey block without the inner block

In other media

Artwork of honey blocks used in Block of the Week
Honey Block display in 15 Year Journey

References

↑ MC-163122 – Honey blocks don't move entities from the side – resolved as "Works As Intended".
↑ MC-75581 – Water and lava teleport or disappear when moved via slime blocks – resolved as "Works As Intended".
↑ MC-1133 – Whether or not a player experiences some effect is calculated based on the block under the center of the player – resolved as "Fixed".
↑ MC-251040 – Several blocks which can be placed on top of slime blocks cannot be placed on top of honey blocks – resolved as "Fixed".
↑ MC-163196 – Several blocks which can be placed on the sides of slime blocks cannot be placed on the sides of honey blocks – resolved as "Fixed".
↑ MC-251041 – Several blocks which can be placed on the bottom of slime blocks cannot be placed on the bottom of honey blocks – resolved as "Fixed".