Straw Bed

Straw Bed

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (16)
Tool
Blast resistance	0.2
Hardness	0.2
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Waterloggable	No (pops off)
Flammable	JE: Drops when hit with fire BE: Yes
Catches fire from lava	JE: Drops when hit with lava BE: Yes
Map color	18 COLOR_YELLOW
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

A straw bed is a single-use utility block that allows a player in the Overworld to sleep through the night without resetting their spawn point. It breaks without dropping anything when the player wakes up in the morning or leaves the bed mid-sleep.

Obtaining

Breaking

Straw beds can be mined using any tool, but a hoe speeds up the process. Straw beds drop themselves when broken, except when they are broken after sleeping.

Block	Straw Bed
Hardness	0.2
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	10.3 (JE) 0.3 (BE)
Wooden	10.15 (JE) 0.15 (BE)
Stone	10.1 (JE) 0.1 (BE)
Copper	10.1 (JE) 0.1 (BE)
Iron	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)
Diamond	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)
Netherite	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)
Golden	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (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

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Hay Bale	4

Natural generation

Straw beds generate naturally in abandoned camps.

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
Straw Bed	Abandoned Camp	Barrel	2–4	35.5% { "item": "Straw Bed", "stacksize": "2–4", "chance": 0.35542388369628897, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Barrel" }

Usage

A straw bed is a single-use bed variant that does not reset a player's spawn point when used. Once the player sleeps in it, the straw bed breaks without dropping anything once the player is no longer in the bed; this occurs either when the night is passed or the player leaves the bed manually.

Similar to sleeping in a regular bed, sleeping in a straw bed changes the weather to clear, and prevents phantoms from spawning for three in-game days.

Unlike beds and respawn anchors, straw beds do not explode if the player attempts to use them in an incorrect dimension (i.e the Nether or the End). It instead destroys itself and drops nothing, as if the player had slept in it.

Unlike beds, straw beds are not bouncy and unlike hay bales, they intentionally do not reduce fall damage.^[1]

Straw beds do not count as beds for the purposes of villager mechanics; villagers do not claim or sleep in straw beds, nor are they considered when determining whether villagers are willing to breed.

The inventory icons for straw beds are deliberately designed to be visually distinct from each other in Java Edition and in Bedrock Edition.^[2]

Composting

Placing a straw bed into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Straw Bed	straw_bed	Block & Item	causes_suffocation blocks_dolphin_jump ice_melts_when_destroyed_above blocks_motion_in_heightmap blocks_lava_fire_spread blocks_motion washed_away_by_fluids blocks_motion_in_heightmap_no_leaves locks_motion_no_leaves blocks_fluid_flow entities_can_teleport_to	block.minecraft.straw_bed

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Straw Bed	straw_bed	1453	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	item.straw_bed (Numeric: -1198)	tile.straw_bed.name
Straw Bed	straw_bed	774	Item	—	item.straw_bed.name

Block states

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

History

Reveal

Java Edition

Java Edition
26.3			snap3				Added straw beds.
			snap6				The texture of straw beds has been slightly changed.
			snap7				Straw beds now generate as part of abandoned camps in barrels in addition to being naturally generated there.
							Straw beds are now positioned correctly in the inventory.
							Straw beds are now correctly positioned at the center of item frames.[8]
			snap8				Straw beds are now broken faster when mined with a hoe.
							Straw beds are now immediately placed right after regular beds in Creative inventory.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
26.40			Preview 26.40.30				Added straw beds. They can only be placed with commands due to not having an item form.
							Due to their appearance being defined in the Drop 3 of 2026 experiment, they have this appearance when the experiment is not enabled.
26.40 Experiment Drop 3 of 2026			Preview 26.40.30				Added the textures and item form of straw beds.
26.50			Preview 26.50.22				All features from the "Drop 3 of 2026" experiment have been fully implemented.
			Preview 26.50.25				Straw beds are now broken faster when mined with a hoe.
							Straw beds now generate as part of abandoned camps in barrels in addition to being naturally generated there.
							Straw beds now have the subtitles for breaking.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
26.60			Preview 26.60.22				Straw beds can no longer be placed on blocks occupied by an entity, such as cushions.
26.70			Preview 26.70.20				Now it has subtitles for land and jump.

Issues

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

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  Five straw beds lined up in a row

Mojang images

• 
  Alex in a straw bed

Pre-snapshot images

• 
  First sketch of straw beds made by Mogswamp^[3]
• 
  Mogswamp's response to someone asking for a source regarding the feature's reveal
• 
  Previous image zoomed in, with a blurry straw bed visible^[6]

References