How to Make a Bed in Minecraft: A Complete Guide

Beds in Minecraft are an essential item that allows you to sleep in the game and sets your rebirth point. It provides a safe place where you can return to if you die. In this guide, we will tell you everything about how to make a bed in Minecraft, including its uses, mechanics, and crafting recipe.

What is a Bed in Minecraft?

As you would expect, a bed is a placeable item block that you can sleep on in the overworld in Minecraft. It allows you to reset your spawn point in the world, so every time you die, you return to where you placed the bed. If you don't have a bed you slept on, the game sends you back to the world spawn point. Don't forget that other players, even in-game villagers, can sleep on these beds.

In theory, it's one of the simplest items in the game, but once you start using it, a bed can even save your life in the right situation. And the best part is that you can craft a bed from your first day of spawning. If you are fast enough, you can craft a bed before sunset, so you can sleep in-game and leave at night, to avoid fighting enemy Minecraft mobs that spawn in the dark.

Where do Beds Usually Spawn?

Generally, beds spawn most commonly in Minecraft villages. You can find them in almost every villager's house. However, the colour of the bed can change with the village's biome. Here is the full list of villages where beds spawn in the game:

•    Desert/Plains Village: Cyan, Green, and Lime coloured beds
•    Plains Village: White and Yellow coloured beds
•    Savannah Village: Red, Yellow, and White coloured beds
•    Taiga Village: Purple and Blue coloured beds
•    Snowy Tundra Village: Red, Blue, and White coloured beds

Don't forget that you can find a red bed inside an igloo as well. But igloos are rarer and harder to find than villages. Hence, we suggest you explore our best Minecraft village seeds article to easily get your hands on beds. These can be broken and picked up with any tool as well as bare hands.

What items will you need to make a bed?

If the search for a bed doesn’t go as planned, you can always craft it yourself. To make a bed in Minecraft you will need to get your hands on the following items:

•    Three wool blocks (of the same colour)
•    Three wooden planks (any)
•    Crafting table

To get wooden planks, you will need to place a wooden/log block in the crafting area. They are one of the easiest blocks to make in the game. You can use any type of wooden planks to make beds in Minecraft. They don’t even have to be of the same type of wood. Meanwhile, getting wool is a different story altogether.

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How to Get Wool in Minecraft?

Follow the following steps to get wool in Minecraft:

• Step 1: First, walk around the world until you find a sheep. They usually spawn in groups of 3-4 mobs.
• Step 2: Then, kill the sheep until you have 3 blocks of the same type of wool to create beds. Each sheep drops 1 wool block when it dies.
• Step 3: Alternatively, you can also craft scissors in Minecraft and use it on a sheep to collect wool without killing it. This method can get you 3 wool blocks at the same time. But, if you only have one sheep mob, you will have to wait a few minutes for the wool to grow back.

Additionally, thanks to a recent update, you can also find naturally spawning wool in Minecraft. Wool blocks can be found in the following locations:

•    As part of wool sculptures inside the Woodland Mansion
•    In the Plain Village Shepherd's House, Fletcher's House, and Meeting Points
•    As the roof of small structures around Pillager Outposts
•    Within the walls and floors within the Ancient City Corridors
             

Minecraft Bed Crafting Steps

Once you have all the materials, crafting a bed in Minecraft is easy. Follow these steps to make a bed for yourself in-game:

• Step 1: First, place three wooden planks in the second or bottom row of the crafting area. It doesn't matter what type of wooden planks you use as the type is not reflected in the final design.
• Step 2: Then, place the wool blocks right on top of the wooden planks, filling the row completely. The colour of these wool blocks must be the same otherwise the recipe will not work. Also, the colour of the mattress on the bed will be determined by the colour of the wool.

How to Colour a Bed in Minecraft?

In terms of colours, Minecraft offers us 18 different types of beds in the game. These include the following colours:

• Grey
• Pink
• White
• Orange
• Magenta
• Light Blue
• Yellow
• Lemon
• Black
• Red
• Green
• Brown
• Blue
• Cyan
• Light Grey
• Purple

With such a variety, it seems like it would be a crime not to customize your beds according to your taste. Fortunately, you don't have to look for different types of sheep to get coloured beds. Instead, you can create a bed of your choice by combining an existing bed with dye on the crafting table. This crafting is random, and you can place the two items anywhere in the crafting area.