How to Craft a Bed in Minecraft

Before you can build a bed, you’ll need to collect some wool from sheep:

How Do I Use a Bed in Minecraft?

Equip your bed and set it on the ground. Interact with it to go to sleep until morning. You can only sleep in a bed at nighttime.

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Sheep drop 1-3 wool with each shearing. After that, you must wait for them to graze for a little while before you can collect more wool. You can also get wool by killing sheep, but using Shears allows you to have an endless supply of wool from the same sheep.

What Do I Need to Make a Bed in Minecraft?

All you need to make a bed is the following materials:

3 Wool of any color3 Wood Planks of any type

What Does Sleeping in a Bed Do in Minecraft?

Sleeping in a bed allows you to skip through the night in Minecraft. Going to bed also resets your spawn point, or where you reappear if you’re killed. When you’re trying to cure a zombie villager, you can sleep in a bed to speed up the process.

How Do I Make Beds of Different Colors in Minecraft?

To craft a bed of a different color, combine your wool with a dye, and then use the dyed wool to make your bed. Make dyes by crafting or smelting certain materials or even by combining other colors: