How to Make a Bed in Minecraft
A bed is important in Minecraft. It allows players to reset their spawn point and skip a night if desired. Because it’s so helpful to know how to make a bed in Minecraft, we’ll tell you all the exact steps to create one. We’ll even cover making different color options and bunk bed tutorials. You’ll need to gather ingredients and craft everything so we’ll go over that too.
Key Points
- To make your bed you’ll need 3 planks and 3 pieces of wool, plus your crafting table
- The color of your bed will be the color of the wool, which should all match
- The wool comes from shearing sheep. You use logs to create the planks
Sleeping in Minecraft
- You can only sleep at night or when it’s dark (or raining)
- You cannot sleep if there are hostile mobs nearby
- If you don’t sleep for several nights in a row, the Phantom will attack you in the day
Make a bed in Minecraft
The steps of how to make a bed in Minecraft are easy. The material blocks needed are easily found and construction is simple.
What you need
- Three blocks of wool
- Three blocks of wood (any kind)
- A crafting table
Obtaining Wool:
Wool comes from sheep, which are found in almost all biomes. They come in white, brown, and black. The color of the wool determines the color of the bed. To get wool, you can either shear or kill a sheep. Shearing is better, as the wool regrows and you can recollect it. Plus, killing a sheep may only result in mutton, not wool.
You’ll need shears, which you make with 2 iron ingots.
To craft shears:
- Open the crafting table
- Place one iron ingot in the second cell of the first row
- Place one iron ingot in the first cell of the second row
- Collect shears
Shear sheep
Now that you have your shears, you need to find sheep. Right-click/place action item on the sheep to get at least one block of wool. The sheep will change form to show it has been sheared. You cannot get more wool from it until it grows back.
Make bed in Minecraft
Now that you have your materials, you can make the bed:
- Open the crafting table
- Place one block of wool in each cell of the first row
- Place one block of wood in each cell of the second row
- Collect the bed
- With the bed in your hand, right-click on the ground to place it
- Right-click the bed to sleep
How to Make Beds Different Colors in Minecraft
Knowing how to make a bed in Minecraft is one thing, but if you want more exciting colors, you can dye the wool before making your bed. Different colors are created through different materials. Gather and combine them in your Furnace or Crafting Table, (green is the only dye smelted with a Furnace). Once you have your dye, put it in your inventory to use on the wool.
How to craft different colors:
Black: Wither Rose or Ink Sac
Blue: Cornflower or Lapis Lazuli
Light Blue: Either combine Blue Dye and White Dye or use Blue Orchid
Cyan: One Green Dye and one Blue Dye
Light Gray: Either one Azure Bluet or combine Gray Dye and White Dye or combine Black Dye and 2 White Dyes
Dark Gray: Combine one Black Dye and one White Dye
Brown: Cocoa Beans
Magenta: Use Allium or Lilac or combine Blue Dye, Red Dye and Pink Dye. You can also combine Blue Dye, Red Dye (2 of them), and White Dye. Lastly, you can combine Pink Dye and Purple Dye
Orange: Either combine Red and Yellow Dyes or just use Orange Tulip
Pink : You can use Peony or Pink Tulip or you can combine Red and White dyes
Green: Using your Furnace, combine one Cactus and one Fuel
Lime Green: Combine White and Green Dyes
Red: Use one of any of the following: Rose Bush, Beetroot, Red Tulip, or Poppy
Purple: Combine one Red Dye and one Blue Dye
Yellow: Use either a Sunflower or Dandelion
White: Use either Lily of the Valley or Bone Meal
Dyeing Steps
- Open your Crafting Table
- Put the wool in the first box on the bottom row
- Put your dye in the second box, beside the wool
- Use the newly dyed wool to make your bed
If you’re feeling zany, you can dye the sheep! Hold the dye and select the sheep to make the change. You can even breed sheep of different colors, go nuts.
How to Make a Bunk Bed in Minecraft
Learning how to make a bunk bed in Minecraft is a bit tricky as it’s not a regular item you craft. You’ll have to apply some ingenuity. One way to do this:
- Make a U shape with blocks of your choice, at least 2 blocks tall
- Put your bed in the middle
- Destroy the blocks below your bed
- The bed is now suspended in mid air
- Put another bed beneath it
Other options are to use signs, trapdoors, or similar materials to build a bunk bed frame around your already placed beds. You can use stairs and ladders for access to the second bunk and get creative with embellishments. Just remember, it’s as basic as stacking two beds on top of each other with blocks, destroying the temporary blocks, then building a framework of your choice around it. Turning it into a 4 person bunk bed is as easy as repeating the process.
Conclusion
Learning how to make a bed in Minecraft PC vs console is exactly the same so these tips should hold true for everyone. Be sure to get creative with colors, materials, placement, whatever floats your boat.
