Bed

For the single-use bed variant, see Straw Bed.

Bed

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0.2
Hardness	0.2
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Waterloggable	JE: No BE: Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	JE: Yes BE: No
Map color	3 WOOL 16 colors  8 SNOW  22 COLOR_LIGHT_GRAY  21 COLOR_GRAY  29 COLOR_BLACK  26 COLOR_BROWN  28 COLOR_RED  15 COLOR_ORANGE  18 COLOR_YELLOW  19 COLOR_LIGHT_GREEN  27 COLOR_GREEN  23 COLOR_CYAN  17 COLOR_LIGHT_BLUE  25 COLOR_BLUE  24 COLOR_PURPLE  16 COLOR_MAGENTA  20 COLOR_PINK
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

A bed is a dyeable utility block that allows a player in the Overworld to sleep through the night and change their spawn point to within a few blocks of the bed, as long as it is not broken or obstructed. Villagers sleep in beds at night and require spare beds to produce offspring.

Obtaining

Breaking

No tool can accelerate the breaking process of a bed.^[1]

Block	Bed
Hardness	0.2
Breaking time (secs)
Default	10.3 (JE) 0.3 (BE)
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

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

A bed drops itself when it's destroyed.

Natural generation

Igloo

• A red bed naturally generates in each igloo.

Village

• Beds of various colors generate in village houses, depending on the specific structure and biome:
  • Desert village houses have cyan, green, or lime beds.
  • Plains village houses have white or yellow beds.
  • Savanna village houses have orange, red, or yellow beds.
  • Snowy taiga‌^{[BE only]} and taiga village houses have blue or purple beds.
  • Snowy tundra village houses have blue, red, or white beds.

Trial chambers

• In Java Edition, any color of beds can generate in intersection rooms of trial chambers.
• In Bedrock Edition, beds can generate with limited sets of colors in intersection rooms of trial chambers.
• Secret rooms can contain purple beds.

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Notes
Matching Wool + Any Planks		The wool color must match. The planks, however, can be different.
Any Bed + Matching Dye		A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes.
Any Dyed Bed + Bleach		This removes the color from the bed.‌[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Notes
Any Bed + Bone Meal or  Lapis Lazuli or  Cocoa Beans or  Ink Sac		‌[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]

Trading

Villager		Probability		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
		JE	BE
Shepherd	Journeyman	95%	100%	3 × Emerald	Any color Bed[t 1]	12	10	0.05

Usage

Sleeping

Beds are used by pressing the use item button while looking at the bed.

A player sleeps by using a bed when the internal sky light is 11 or below. This occurs between 12523 and 23477 ticks in clear weather, when stars appear in the sky, between 12002 and 23998 ticks in rainy weather, and at any time of day during thunderstorms. Players can sleep during a thunderstorm even if they are in a biome where it does not rain (e.g. desert). Attempting to use a bed at any other time results in the message "You can sleep only at night or during thunderstorms" in Java Edition or "You can only sleep at night or during thunderstorms" in Bedrock Edition. A player sleeps in a bed for 101 in-game ticks, or 5.05 seconds before the time skips to the next day. Sleeping in a bed with the advance_time‌^{[JE only]} or dodaylightcycle‌^{[BE only]} set to false results in the player being kicked out of the bed after the 101 ticks, but does not change time of the world to day.

Sleeping in a bed is possible only in the Overworld. Attempting to sleep in a bed in the Nether, the End, and custom dimensions‌^{[JE only]} in which they are disabled causes it to explode and set fire to surrounding blocks and to the player.^[2] The explosion has power 5, which is stronger than TNT (4), but not as strong as a charged creeper or end crystal (6). The explosion centers on the head part of the bed. Villagers can sleep normally in any dimension without the bed being blown up.^[3] Upon death from a bed explosion, the message "(Player) was killed by [Intentional Game Design]" appears. In Bedrock Edition, bed explosions can be disabled by setting /gamerule respawnBlocksExplode to false; this still prevents beds from being used in invalid dimensions.

The player must be close to the bed to sleep. If the player is close enough to interact with the bed, but not close enough to sleep in it, the message "You may not rest now, the bed is too far away" in Java Edition or "Bed is too far away" in Bedrock Edition appears. To use a bed, a player must be within a distance of 3 blocks in Java Edition or 2 blocks in Bedrock Edition from the bed.

If a monster is within 8 blocks of the bed head horizontally (in the X- and Z-axis), and 5 blocks vertically (in the Y-axis), the message "You may not rest now; there are monsters nearby" in Java Edition or "You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby" in Bedrock Edition appears and the player is prevented from sleeping until the monsters leave or are killed. Most hostile mobs, as well as some neutral mobs prevent players from sleeping, as shown in the table below.

Mob	Prevent the player from sleeping
	Java Edition	Bedrock Edition
Blaze Bogged Breeze Cave Spider Creaking Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Elder Guardian Ghost Enderman Endermite Evoker Guardian Husk Parched Pillager Phantom Ravager Skeleton Shulker Silverfish Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Warden Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager	Yes	Yes
Zombified Piglin	Yes, when hostile	Yes
Magma Cube Slime	No	Yes
Piglin Piglin Brute	Yes	No
Camel Husk Ender Dragon Ghast Hoglin Skeleton Horse Zombie Horse Zombie Nautilus	No	No
Giant Illusioner	Yes	N/A

If the player has not entered a bed and didn't die for 3 in-game days, phantoms can spawn unless /gamerule doInsomnia is set to false. In Java Edition, this can be verified by checking if the "Time Since Last Rest" statistic is greater than 1.00 h.

Taking damage from any source while in a bed causes the player to wake; this means players cannot sleep while on fire, while poisoned, or while starving, because the damage wakes them before they can fully fall asleep. Attacks from other players and hostile mobs also wake the player in this way, although the latter is rarely seen due to hostile mobs typically preventing the bed from being entered in the first place.

The player also cannot sleep in a bed occupied by another player, resulting in the message, "This bed is occupied".

A player can, however, sleep in a bed being used by a villager. The player may first wake the villager (pressing use on the villager) and then quickly enter the bed before the villager can lie down again. The villager reclaims the bed after the player wakes. The villager is kicked out of its bed when a player attempts to sleep there.

If all sleeping requirements are met and the player enters a bed, the player is positioned in the bed. The player falls asleep as the screen fades to black. In Bedrock Edition, the sleeping animation slowly lowers the player into bed.

Once all players in a world are asleep, after 5 seconds (100 ticks) the time of day changes to sunrise. (time 0)

During this time, the chat window is focused, and the player can leave the bed by clicking the Leave Bed button.

Waterlogged beds‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} cannot be slept in unless the player or villager has the Water Breathing or Conduit Power status effects. Attempting to use a waterlogged bed otherwise does not display any message.^[4]

In Java Edition, beds displaying an error above the hotbar is a feature exclusive to beds. In Bedrock Edition, the bed sends the message in the chat; other blocks that cannot be used do not display such a message.^[5]

The process for determining where to put the player after waking up is the same as for determining where to respawn the player after death (see below). The player attempting to sleep in a bed with no suitable wakeup positions (achievable by interacting with the bed from underneath it), such that the player will suffocate upon waking up, will result in the message "This bed is obstructed" in Java Edition or "Bed is obstructed" in Bedrock Edition. The player always wakes up facing the head of the bed.

Villagers always wake up on top of the bed, meaning they can suffocate if there isn't enough room above the bed.

Passing the night

Sleeping changes the time of day to sunrise and resets the weather cycle, changing the weather to clear conditions. In Java Edition, the weather cycle resets only during rainy or snowy weather.

Sleeping does not accelerate processes that take place over time such as the growth of crops or smelting.

To skip the night in multiplayer, all players in the Overworld must be in bed at the same time. Pressing the Leave Bed button is not necessary in this case. The percentage of players that need to sleep to skip the night can be customized with the game rule players_sleeping_percentage‌^{[JE only]} or playerssleepingpercentage‌^{[BE only]}. Sleeping in a bed while players_sleeping_percentage‌^{[JE only]} or playerssleepingpercentage‌^{[BE only]} is set to higher than 100 displays the message "No amount of rest can pass this night." and disables passing the night.

Villagers are unable to skip the night by sleeping in beds, unlike players.

Players and villagers do not drown or take damage from lava while in a bed, even if the bed is covered in lava. However, if the bed is destroyed while the player is in it, due to for example an explosion or by another player, the player wakes prematurely and the night does not pass.

In Bedrock Edition, on Peaceful difficulty only, sleeping in a bed fully restores the player's health.

Setting the spawn point

Once a player has entered a bed (or right clicked the bed during daytime), their spawn point is set to the location of that bed. Multiple players can set their spawn point on a single bed.

Using a bed in the daytime likewise sets the spawn point, without actually entering the bed.

When a bed explodes, it does not set the spawn point.

The message "Respawn point set" is displayed in chat when the respawn point is successfully changed.

The check for a bed is made only when the player respawns. This means that the bed can be destroyed and replaced or even reoriented, but as long as there is a bed present in the same location, the player can respawn there. If a player's bed is absent, or if the area around the bed is made unsuitable for respawning (see below), a message is displayed saying "You have no home bed or respawn anchor, or it was obstructed" in Java Edition or "Your home bed was missing or obstructed" in Bedrock Edition, and the player respawns at the world spawn point.

When choosing where to respawn the player, the two blocks to the immediate left and right of the head of the bed are considered first. Which block is chosen between the two corresponds to which direction the player was facing when they last interacted with the bed to set their spawn point; For example, a bed facing west will respawn the player on the south side of the bed if they are facing towards the north while setting their spawn point, and vice versa. If the player is perfectly aligned with the bed when the spawn point is set, the right side of the bed takes priority. Interacting with the bed again will still update which side of the bed is chosen for respawning, even if the location of the spawn point itself does not change.

Once a side is chosen, if the block immediately on the chosen side of the head of the bed is obstructed, the next block to be checked is chosen moving in a clockwise (right side) or counterclockwise (left side) direction around the bed. If all of the 10 blocks immediately adjacent to the bed are obstructed, the block above the head of the bed is checked, followed by the block above the foot of the bed. The player is always respawned facing the head of the bed, the same as for waking up.

For a location to be unobstructed, the block at the level of the bed must be air or non-solid (e.g. torches, but not glass) and there must be a space with a solid block below it and two non-colliding blocks for the player to stand in 0-2 blocks below the bed. It does not matter if the bed itself has blocks above it. Putting a slab one block above a bed can act as a two block tall space, as the bed is half a block tall. The bed never spawns the player directly below itself even if all other locations are obstructed. If a bed is obstructed, the player's spawn point is cleared after they respawn. That is, even if the bed is subsequently made usable again, the player continues to respawn at the world spawn until interacting with the bed again.

Specifically, when interacting with it, the location of the head of the bed is saved as the spawn point, and if a bed is in that space (whether it is the foot or the head) then the respawn works. This can be observed by reorienting the bed with its head in the same location. Interacting with it does not produce a "Respawn point set" message as the game doesn't change the saved spawn point. If a bed is reoriented so that its foot is in this space, it still functions on the next respawn, but it can also be interacted with to update the spawn point to the new head of the bed and cause a "Respawn point set" message. Attempting the reverse, reorienting the bed so that it overlaps the original location of the foot, results in a respawn at world spawn. However, the location of the foot of the bed is also saved. If the bed is moved so that part of it overlaps the original location of the head, it can be observed that the same locations need to be obstructed to stop spawning. It is possible to respawn 2 blocks away from the bed this way.

Bouncing

Falling onto a bed bounces any living entity with 75% of the impact velocity. The entity also takes less fall damage when bouncing on a bed. The entity's fall distance is set to 50% of the actual distance fallen, which results in the entity taking slightly less than half of the normal fall damage.

Baby villagers bounce on beds during the day.

If the player is falling while sleeping requirements are met, and presses use on a bed within reach before hitting the ground, the fall damage is delayed until the player wakes.

A player can bounce on a bed while another player or villager is sleeping on it without waking the player or the villager up.

Curing

Each bed in the vicinity of a zombie villager has a chance to speed up the process of curing the zombie villager. Iron bars (such as in a prison cell) also have this effect.

Placement

Beds require two blocks of floor space. Placement requires at least 2 blocks from the player's facing direction. When placed, the foot of the bed is placed on the block selected and the head of the bed on the block farther away from the player. In Bedrock Edition, beds require solid blocks below them when placed. However, the bed remains in place if its supporting blocks are later removed. They also cannot be placed on transparent blocks. In Java Edition, beds do not require supporting blocks and can be placed anywhere, provided there is enough room.

Explosions

Because beds explode when a player attempts to sleep in the Nether or the End, they can be used as any other explosion, to demolish blocks or deal damage, with the advantage of being extremely cheap compared to TNT or end crystals, and being instantaneous. Explosions can be used, for example, to mine for ancient debris or to kill the ender dragon. The explosion has power 5.

In Bedrock Edition, beds do not explode if /gamerule respawnBlocksExplode is set to false.

Piston interactivity

Beds are destroyed when a piston tries to push them. They cannot be pulled by sticky pistons.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

wood sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.wood.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.wood.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.wood.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.wood.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.wood.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

wood sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.wood	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	place.wood	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8
	​Axe strips	Blocks	When an axe strips a log or wood block [sound 1]	use.wood	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	1.0	0.8
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.wood	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.23	0.5
	​Footsteps	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.wood	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.4	1.0
	​Footsteps	Players	Walking on the block	step.wood	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.3	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.wood	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.12	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.wood	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.18	1.0

Unique

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Item tags	Translation key
White Bed	white_bed	Block & Item	beds	beds	block.minecraft.white_bed
Orange Bed	orange_bed	Block & Item	beds	beds	block.minecraft.orange_bed
Magenta Bed	magenta_bed	Block & Item	beds	beds	block.minecraft.magenta_bed
Light Blue Bed	light_blue_bed	Block & Item	beds	beds	block.minecraft.light_blue_bed
Yellow Bed	yellow_bed	Block & Item	beds	beds	block.minecraft.yellow_bed
Lime Bed	lime_bed	Block & Item	beds	beds	block.minecraft.lime_bed
Pink Bed	pink_bed	Block & Item	beds	beds	block.minecraft.pink_bed
Gray Bed	gray_bed	Block & Item	beds	beds	block.minecraft.gray_bed
Light Gray Bed	light_gray_bed	Block & Item	beds	beds	block.minecraft.light_gray_bed
Cyan Bed	cyan_bed	Block & Item	beds	beds	block.minecraft.cyan_bed
Purple Bed	purple_bed	Block & Item	beds	beds	block.minecraft.purple_bed
Blue Bed	blue_bed	Block & Item	beds	beds	block.minecraft.blue_bed
Brown Bed	brown_bed	Block & Item	beds	beds	block.minecraft.brown_bed
Green Bed	green_bed	Block & Item	beds	beds	block.minecraft.green_bed
Red Bed	red_bed	Block & Item	beds	beds	block.minecraft.red_bed
Black Bed	black_bed	Block & Item	beds	beds	block.minecraft.black_bed

Bedrock Edition:

Bed	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Block	bed	26	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	item.bed	tile.bed.name
Item	bed	418	Item	—	item.bed.black.name item.bed.red.name item.bed.green.name item.bed.brown.name item.bed.blue.name item.bed.cyan.name item.bed.silver.name item.bed.gray.name item.bed.pink.name item.bed.lime.name item.bed.yellow.name item.bed.lightBlue.name item.bed.magenta.name item.bed.orange.name item.bed.white.name

Name	Savegame ID
Block entity	Bed

Metadata

In Bedrock Edition, bed items use the following data values:

	DV	Description
	0	White Bed
	1	Orange Bed
	2	Magenta Bed
	3	Light Blue Bed
	4	Yellow Bed
	5	Lime Bed
	6	Pink Bed
	7	Gray Bed
	8	Light Gray Bed
	9	Cyan Bed
	10	Purple Bed
	11	Blue Bed
	12	Brown Bed
	13	Green Bed
	14	Red Bed
	15	Black Bed
	16-32767	Purple Bed(unused)

Block states

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Block data

A bed has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Change of Sheets	Dye your bed a different color.	—	—	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Sweet Dreams	Sleep in a Bed to change your respawn point	Lie down in a bed. The advancement is granted as soon as the player is in the bed, even if the player does not successfully sleep.

History

Development

Java Edition

Java Edition Beta
1.3							Added beds.
							The only color for beds is red.
							Beds can be crafted using any color combination of wool.
							When a player goes to sleep, the game attempts to spawn up to 20 zombies, skeletons, or spiders in a 32x16x32 area centered on the bed. For each mob that spawns successfully, the game attempts to find a valid path from the mob to the player's bed; if one is found, the mob is teleported next to the bed and the player woken up without skipping to morning.
							The ability to leave beds is currently only intentionally available in multiplayer. However, in singleplayer it is possible for the player to aim at the bed they are sleeping in by moving the mouse in the right way, and then break it, which will forcibly wake them up.
							Trying to sleep in a bed in the Nether does nothing.
1.4							Sleeping in a bed now resets the player's spawn position, though it does not work for most users. The spawn point unintentionally changes only if Leave Bed button (only available in multiplayer at the time) is clicked.
1.4_01							Beds now set the player's spawn point as intended, both in singleplayer and in multiplayer.
1.6			Test Build 3				Trying to sleep in a bed in the Nether now causes the bed to explode.
1.7							As blocks now pull textures from the expected places for model application, this has resulted in the bed texture shifting downward in terrain.png. No visual difference has resulted for the actual bed.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4				Bed explosions in the Nether now light nearby blocks on fire.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5				The bottom textures of beds have been changed to the texture of the new oak planks from to .
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6				Beds no longer spawn monsters and the pathfinding logic has been removed. Trying to sleep when monsters are around now displays the message You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby, regardless of if the monsters can actually reach the player or not.
							Trying to sleep in a bed in the End now causes the bed to explode.
1.2.4			release				Cats while in standing position now purposely go and sit on beds.
							Spruce, birch, and jungle planks can now be used to craft beds.
1.3.1			12w18a				As a result of singleplayer being changed to an internal server, the ability to leave beds is now available in singleplayer.
1.5			13w05a				Beds now check their biome for detonation rather than just their dimension.
1.7.2			1.7.1				Acacia and dark oak planks can now be used to craft beds.
1.8			14w04a				If a bed is set to render as the block inside of a minecart via commands or map editing, it now appears as this (previously it would be entirely invisible).
			14w29a				Beds now display the cracking animation on top and bottom.
			14w32c				It is now possible to step from a normal block to on top of a bed without jumping.
			14w33a				Beds now make sounds when placed, and play logical sounds when stepped on and broken.[6]
1.9			15w43a				Bed now generates inside igloos.
			16w06a				The player's body, hand and held item are now rendered while sleeping in bed.
1.11			16w32a				The messages "You can only sleep at night", "You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby", and "This bed is occupied" are now displayed on the action bar instead of in chat.
			16w33a				If the player is close enough to click on the bed, but not close enough to sleep in it, the message "You may not rest now, the bed is too far away" is now displayed.
1.12			17w06a				Neutral zombie pigmen no longer prevent the player from sleeping in a bed.
			17w15a				Dyed beds have been added.
							The "Bed" has been renamed to "Red Bed".
							Beds can now only be crafted using wool of the same color.
							The texture of red beds has been changed. The top of the beds are no longer mirrored.
							Beds now appear 3D in the inventory.
							Beds now have 3D legs.[7]
							Beds have been made bouncy, though they do not completely reduce all fall damage.
							Beds are now a block entity.
			17w17a				The four legs of a bed are now each textured separately, and their model is different.
							The textures of beds have now also been changed.
1.13			17w47a				The different block states for the bed ID have been split up into their own IDs.
							As part of The Flattening, the numeric IDs (26 for the block form and 355 for the item form) of beds have been removed.
							Beds now require solid blocks below them, or they break into an item. Previously, a bed needed to be placed on solid blocks, but the blocks could later be removed.
							Beds can no longer be placed with their foot part inside entities[8] but can still be placed with their head part inside entities.[9]
			18w07a				Sleeping in a bed is now important to keep phantoms from spawning.
							A smooth transition is now applied to the camera when the player enters or leaves a bed.
			18w20a				Players in Creative mode can now sleep even if monsters are nearby.
			18w22a				Beds no longer require supporting blocks below them; they do not break into an item if said blocks are removed, and can be directly placed on top of non-solid blocks.
			pre2				The "You can only sleep at night" message when using a bed has been changed to "You can sleep only at night and during thunderstorms."
1.14			18w43a				The textures of all beds have been changed.
							The bottom textures of beds have been changed to new oak planks texture.
			18w44a				Cats can now sleep in empty beds or sit on their owner when their owner is sleeping.
			18w47a				The bottom textures of beds have been changed to the new oak planks texture, once again.
			18w48a				Beds now generate in the updated plains villages.
							Beds now have an accurate hitbox.[10]
			18w49a				Beds now generate in the updated savanna villages and the new snowy tundra villages.
			18w50a				Beds now generate in the updated desert and taiga villages.
			19w08a				All mobs can now sleep in beds using commands.
			19w11a				Villagers now claim beds and sleep in them during the night.
							Shepherd villagers now sell beds.
							Third-person view now works properly while sleeping in a bed.
1.15			19w35a				If a player tries to sleep in a bed that is occupied by a villager, that villager is now kicked out of the bed.
			19w36a				Trying to sleep in a bed during the daytime now sets the player's spawn location to that bed.
			pre2				Successfully changing a spawn point using a bed now displays a message in chat.
1.16			20w06a				Crimson planks and warped planks can now be used to craft beds.
			20w12a				The message "Your home bed was missing or obstructed" has been changed to "You have no home bed or respawn anchor, or it was obstructed" due to the addition of the respawn anchor, used to set the player's spawn in the Nether.
			20w18a				The message "You have no home bed or respawn anchor, or it was obstructed" has been changed to "You have no home bed or charged respawn anchor, or it was obstructed" due to the fact that respawn anchors can be depleted.[11]
1.16.2			20w30a				Beds now prioritize the side of the bed the player or villager entered from and then spaces circling around the foot of the bed up to the head of the bed.
1.17			20w51a				Added gamerules for sleeping in multiplayer.
1.18			21w44a				Sleeping now resets the weather cycle only if it is currently raining or snowing.[12]
1.19			22w11a				Mangrove planks can now be used to craft beds.
1.19.3 Experiment Update 1.20			22w42a				Bamboo planks can now be used to craft beds.
1.19.3			22w43a				Bed explosions can now be properly blocked by shields.[13]
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w07a				Cherry planks can now be used to craft beds.
1.20			pre1				Beds of any color can now be dyed into any other color.
1.20.3 Experiment Update 1.21			23w45a				Beds now generate in trial chambers.
1.21.2			24w33a				Beds in trial chambers intersections now have randomized colors.
1.21.2 Experiment Winter Drop			24w40a				Pale oak planks can now be used to craft beds.
1.21.9			25w33a				Black and white smoke particles are once again shown when beds explode while trying to set the respawn point in the Nether or the End.[14]
26.2			snap3				Beds are no longer block entities. As such, their textures have been split up and moved into the textures/block/ folder. Additionally they now use standard blockstate models like other blocks instead of a hardcoded entity model.
							Beds no longer have inner faces.
			snap8				Beds now bounce up entities falling onto them with 75% of the impact velocity instead of 66% to match Bedrock Edition.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.4.0							Added beds.
v0.5.0							Beds can now be obtained after activating the nether reactor.
							Added a Leave Bed button that lets the player exit the bed.
							Beds now restore health when slept in.
v0.7.0							The texture of Leave Bed button has been changed.
v0.9.0			build 1				Beds no longer restore health in normal difficulty, making food a more required Survival-needed resource.
							Added smooth lighting to beds.
							The Leave Bed button is now smaller.
v0.11.0			build 8				The lighting on beds has been improved.
v0.12.1			build 1				Tamed ocelots while standing now purposely go and sit on beds.
							Beds are no longer available from the nether reactor.
v0.16.0			build 1				Beds now make a sound when placed, identical to blocks like stone.[15]
Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Beds are now generated in igloos.
			alpha 0.17.0.2				The texture of Leave Bed button has been changed again.
			alpha 1.0.0.0				Sleeping now ends weather.
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Added the other 15 colors of beds.
							The "Bed" has been renamed to "Red Bed".
							The texture of red beds has been changed.
							A new animation when sleeping has been added to beds.
							Beds in igloos are now white in ice plains and brown in cold taigas.
							Beds now bounce the player two blocks up, and have 3D legs.
							Placement, stepping and breaking sounds for beds are now correctly wooden.[15]
			alpha 1.1.0.8				The textures of beds have been changed.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0			beta 1.2.14.2				Beds can now be waterlogged and require Water Breathing to sleep in.
			beta 1.2.20.1				Colored beds can now be turned into white beds by adding bleach. This works only if Minecraft Education features are turned on.
1.6.0			beta 1.6.0.1				Sleeping in a bed is now important to keep phantoms from spawning.
1.8.0			beta 1.8.0.8				Cats can now sleep in empty beds or sit on their owner when their owner is sleeping.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				Various beds now generate in the new villages.
							Villagers can now sleep by occupying a bed, which prevent players from using it.
							Igloos now generate with red beds.
							Beds are now used to count the number of available houses in villages.
							The textures of all beds have been changed.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.4				Beds can now be bought from shepherd villagers.
1.13.0			beta 1.13.0.1				Players now succeed in attempting to sleep on villager-occupied beds, kicking the villager off.
1.21.20			Preview 1.21.20.21				Bed screen (Experimental) toggle in Sleep screen has been updated to match Ore UI, available in preview only.
							The texture of Leave Bed button has been updated to match Ore UI.
1.21.50			Preview 1.21.50.24				Sleep screen is released to the public and no longer in Bed screen (Experimental) toggle.
			release				Sleep screen is released to the public and no longer in preview only.
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.21				Changed wording for lowest number required for player sleeping to skip the night.
26.0			Preview 26.0.27				Camel husks, skeleton horses, zombie horses and zombie nautiluses no longer prevent the player from sleeping when nearby.
26.40			Preview 26.40.26				The textures of all bed items have been changed.

Minecraft Education

Minecraft Education
1.0							Added beds.
1.0.1							Added the other 15 colors of beds.
							The "Bed" has been renamed to "Red Bed". The texture of red beds has been changed.
							Beds now bounce the player two blocks up, and have 3D legs.
1.0.27							Colored beds can now be turned into white beds by adding bleach.
1.12							The textures of all beds have been changed.
1.21.91			Preview 1.21.50.1				Sleep screen has been updated to match Ore UI.
							The texture of Leave Bed button has been updated to match Ore UI.
26.32			Preview 26.30.0				Camel husks, skeleton horses, zombie horses, and zombie nautiluses no longer prevent the player from sleeping when nearby.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added beds.
TU7							Beds no longer spawn monsters and the pathfinding logic has been removed. Trying to sleep when monsters are around now displays the message You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby, regardless of if the monsters can actually reach the player or not.
TU12							Cats in standing position now purposely go and sit on beds, preventing players from using them.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		It is now possible to step from a normal block to on top of a bed without jumping.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		The sleeping animation while in beds has been changed.
							Bed now generates inside igloos.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Added the other 15 colors of beds.
							The "Bed" has been now renamed to "Red Bed".
							The textures of red beds has been changed.
							Beds are now dyeable and bounce the player two blocks up, and have a single 3D legs.
							If the player is close enough to click on the bed, but not close enough to sleep in it, the message "You may not rest now, the bed is too far away" is now displayed.
TU56	CU47	1.55	1.55	1.55	Patch 26	1.0.6	Beds in the Nether or the End no longer explode if "TNT Explodes" is disabled.
							The description of beds has been updated due to different colors of beds now existing.
TU60	CU51	1.64	1.64	1.64	Patch 30	1.0.11	The sleeping animation in beds has been changed again.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Sleeping in a bed is now important to keep phantoms from spawning.
							Beds can now be waterlogged and require Water Breathing to sleep in.
							A smooth transition is now applied to the camera when the player enters or leaves a bed.
			1.83				The sleeping animation for beds has been reverted to how it was before 1.64.
			1.91				Various beds now generate in the new villages.
							Villagers can now sleep by occupying a bed, which prevents players from using it.
							Beds are now used to count the number of available houses in villages.
							Beds can now be bought from shepherd villagers.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added beds.
1.9.19							Added the other 15 colors of beds.
							The "Bed" has been renamed to "Red Bed".
							The texture of red beds has been changed.
							Beds now bounce the player two blocks up and have 3D legs.

Issues

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

Trivia

• Beds explode in the Nether and the End because Notch found it was the easiest solution to dimension-unique respawning.^[16]
  • Jeb is "not a fan" of the mechanic, and removing it was discussed during the Nether Update.^[17]
• If the player quits the game while sleeping, upon return the player wakes up beside the bed.
• Using the /teleport command while another player is sleeping still teleports the sleeping player, but the player wakes immediately.‌^{[Java Edition only]}
• If the player places a bed on ice, running over the bed acts like running over ice, similar to slabs.
• When placed using the /setblock command, only one half of a bed is placed, because beds are two blocks long. A single half can be slept in like a whole bed.
• Villagers can sleep in the Nether and the End without causing the bed to explode.^[3]
• While the block state used to determine the half of a two-block block such as doors and double-tall flowers is called half, in the case of beds this is called part.
• The red bed was the original default bed color. In Java Edition 1.12 and Pocket Edition 1.1.0 version of the game, the default color was changed to white.

Gallery

Screenshots

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  A sleeping player in multiplayer
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  The message that can be seen after a failed attempt to respawn at the spawn point set by a bed
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  A crater created by attempting to sleep in the Nether
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  A crater created by attempting to sleep in the End
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  All the different color variants
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  An unemployed villager and a butcher villager go to sleep, unaware of the zombies outside.
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  A stack of beds
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  A player being awakened by a zombie
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  The message that can be seen when any players attempt to sleep during daytime
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  A player going to sleep in a bed on the first day of a Minecraft world
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  A bed in an abandoned village has its bottom half replaced by wheat crops due to a glitch
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  A bed in a desert village has its missing bottom half due to a sulfur spring
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  The updated Bedrock Edition sleep screen in Bed menu

Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education

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  The sleep screen in Bed menu in Bedrock Edition
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  The sleep screen in Bed menu in Minecraft Education

Mojang images

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  "Moments before disaster"

Development images

Bedrock Edition

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  An early look of the sleep screen.^[18]

In other media

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  The Sham, a villainous, sentient bed featured in the Campfire Tales Skin Pack
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  The rainbow bed, a unique bed featured in Minecraft Earth
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  Efe sleeping on a bed in A Tale of Two Friends
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  Efe gets off the bed, from the same short film
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  Makena resting on a purple bed with a wolf, in A year in blocks
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  Zuri sleeping on a green bed on top of a blast furnace and chiseled tuff, from the same video
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  A cyan bed from 21263 The Badlands Mineshaft
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  An apartment with Minecraft furnishing
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  A duo dressed as a bed and Nether portal
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  A cat on a bed
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  A purple bed depicted in A Minecraft Movie
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  Team Speedrunners shirt promo, featuring a bed exploding near the ender dragon
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See also

• Ore UI, the Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education UI refresh

References