{{Infobox guide
|edition=java
|name=Buzzy Bees
|vers=
* {{vl|je 1.15|}}
* {{vl|je 1.15.1|}}
* {{vl|je 1.15.2|}}
|prev=Village & Pillage
|next=Nether Update
}}
{{for|the Bedrock Edition version of this guide|Bedrock Edition guides/Buzzy Bees}}

This guide is a simplified overview of all the changes in the [[Buzzy Bees]] update ({{JE}} 1.15.x releases), which assumes at least some familiarity with the [[Village & Pillage]] update (''Java Edition'' 1.14.x releases).

== Mobs ==
=== New ===
{| {{Simple Guide table|New Mobs}} 
|-
| [[Bee]]s
| [[File:Bee.gif|128px|center]]
| Spawn near [[bee nest]]s.
| {{xp|1|3}} (when killed by a [[player]] or tamed [[wolf]])
|
* Inflict Poison if provoked.
* Attack in a swarm.
|}

=== Changed ===
{| {{Simple Guide table|Changed Mobs}} 
|-
| All mobs
|
| Better at avoiding walking through [[lava]].
|-
| Spawning 
|
|
* When breedable [[mob]]s in groups spawn naturally they sometimes spawn babies in the groups.
** Has a 5% chance for [[fox]]es, [[cow]]s, [[sheep]], [[pig]]s, and [[chicken]]s, and a 10% chance for [[wolves]], [[llama]]s, and [[horse]]s.
|-
| [[Ender dragon]]
| [[File:Ender Dragon.gif|128px|center]]
|
* Removed a black dot on the transparent parts of wing texture.
* Removed texture for part of wing bottom in the dying ender dragon.
|-
| [[Iron golem]] 
| {{animate|Iron Golem.png;Iron Golem Cracked Low.png;Iron Golem Cracked Medium.png;Iron Golem Cracked High.png|128px}}
|
* Now use the {{cd|generic.attackDamage}} attribute.<!-- what does this mean for gameplay? this is too technical here -->
* Now starts cracking upon losing health.
** There are 4 stages, from uncracked to fully cracked, before the golem dies.
* Can be healed using [[iron ingot]]s.
* One iron ingot restores 25% of its health.
** It takes 4 iron ingots to repair an iron golem from 1 HP to full health.
|-
| [[Magma cube]], [[ocelot]], and [[slime]]
| {{animate|Magma Cube.png;Ocelot.png;Slime.png|128px}}
| Now use the {{cd|generic.attackDamage}} attribute.
|-
| [[Parrot]]
| {{animate|Red Parrot.png;Blue Parrot.png;Green Parrot.png;Cyan Parrot.png;Gray Parrot.png;Sitting Red Parrot.png;Sitting Blue Parrot.png;Sitting Green Parrot.png;Sitting Cyan Parrot.png;Sitting Gray Parrot.png|128px}}
|
* Can now sit on a player's shoulder even when the player is riding an entity.
* Can no longer imitate [[endermen]], [[polar bear]]s, [[wolves]], and [[zombie pigmen]].
|-
| Nitwit [[villager]]s
| {{animate|Plains Nitwit.png;Desert Nitwit.png;Jungle Nitwit.png;Savanna Nitwit.png;Snowy Nitwit.png;Swamp Nitwit.png;Taiga Nitwit.png|128px}}
| No longer have a leveling gemstone in their belt.
|}

== Blocks ==
=== New ===
{|{{Simple Guide table|New Blocks}} 
|-
| [[Beehive]]
| [[File:Beehive (S) JE1 BE1.png|84px|center]]
|
{{Crafting
|A1=Any Planks
|B1=Any Planks
|C1=Any Planks
|A2=Honeycomb
|B2=Honeycomb
|C2=Honeycomb
|A3=Any Planks
|B3=Any Planks
|C3=Any Planks
|Output=Beehive
}}
| Axe
|
* Houses bees.
* If the player breaks or harvests honey from it, its bees become hostile to the player.
** Bees inside the hive do not turn hostile if it is harvested with Silk Touch.
** Bees do not turn hostile if there is a [[campfire]] underneath the hive when honeycombs or honey bottles are harvested.
|-
| [[Bee nest]]
| [[File:Bee Nest (S) JE1 BE1.png|84px|center]]
|Spawn naturally in [[forest]]s, [[birch forest]]s, [[tall birch forest]]s, [[flower forest]]s, [[plains]], [[sunflower plains]], [[birch forest hills]], [[tall birch hills]], and [[wooded hills]] biomes.
| Any (only drops with [[Silk Touch]])
| Functions the same as beehives.
|-
| [[Honey block]]
| [[File:Honey Block JE1 BE2.png|84px|center]]
|
{{Crafting
|A2=Honey Bottle
|B2=Honey Bottle
|A3=Honey Bottle
|B3=Honey Bottle
|Output=Honey Block
}}
| Any
|
* Works the same way as [[slime block]]s.
** Does not stick to slime blocks.
* Carries mobs along that are standing on it while being moved, in contrast to slime blocks.
* Mobs usually avoid walking on them.
* Entities can slide down its sides, similar to a ladder.
* Falling on it absorbs 80% of fall damage.
|-
| [[Honeycomb block]]
| [[File:Honeycomb Block JE1 BE1.png|84px|center]]
|
{{Crafting
|A2=Honeycomb
|B2=Honeycomb
|A3=Honeycomb
|B3=Honeycomb
|Output=Honeycomb Block
}}
| Any
| Decorative block.
|}

=== Changed ===
{|{{Simple Guide table|Changed Blocks}}
|-
| [[Bell]]
| [[File:Bell.png|84px|center]]
|
* Rings if powered with a redstone signal.
* No longer causes the hand animation to play when {{control|used}} on in a non-functional spot.
|-
| [[Campfire]]
| [[File:Campfire JE2 BE2.gif|84px|center]]
| Can now be extinguished with a [[shovel]].
|-
| [[Composter]]
| [[File:Composter.png|84px|center]]
|
{{Crafting
|A1=Any Wooden Slab
|C1=Any Wooden Slab
|A2=Any Wooden Slab
|C2=Any Wooden Slab
|A3=Any Wooden Slab
|B3=Any Wooden Slab
|C3=Any Wooden Slab
|Output=Composter
}}
* Now crafted with [[wooden slab]]s (like in Bedrock Edition), instead of fences and wooden planks.
|-
| [[Dispenser]]
| [[File:Dispenser.png|84px|center]]
|
* Can now harvest honeycombs when dispensing shears on bee nests and beehives filled with honey.
** The honeycomb items are dropped on the ground.
* Can now collect water bottles and honey bottles when dispensing glass bottles on water and beehives.
* Can now place down armor stands.
* Fire charges launched from a dispenser now light campfires.
* Firework rockets dispensed from a dispenser now travel in the direction they were fired.
|-
| [[End stone bricks]]
| [[File:End Stone Bricks JE2 BE2.png|84px|center]]
| Now have the same hardness and blast resistance as [[end stone]].
|-
| [[Farmland]]
| [[File:Farmland.png|84px|center]]
| Blocks that can be manually placed on farmland without turning it into dirt can now also be pushed onto it by a piston without turning the farmland.
|-
| [[Iron door]]s
| [[File:Iron Door.png|84px|center]]
| Must now be mined with a pickaxe for it to be dropped as an item.
|-
| [[Large fern]]
| [[File:Large Fern JE2.png|84px|center]]
| Now drop wheat seeds.
|-
| [[Melon stem]]s and [[pumpkin stem]]s
| [[File:Attached Melon Stem.png|84px|center]]<br>[[File:Attached Pumpkin Stem.png|84px|center]]
| Attached stems now drop their seeds again when broken.
|-
| [[Nether portal]]
| [[File:Nether Portal.png|84px|center]]
| Portals from the Overworld can now correctly link with portals placed in the top half of the Nether.
|-
| [[Rail]]s
| [[File:Rail.png|84px|center]]
| Now place facing the player, rather than always north-south.
|-
| [[Redstone comparator]]s
| [[File:Redstone Comparator.png|84px|center]]
|
* Can now detect how much honey is inside beehives and bee nests.
** The output strength is equal to the amount of honey in the hive.
|-
| Oak and birch [[sapling]]s
| {{Animate|Oak_Sapling.png;Birch_Sapling.png|84px}}
| If grown with a [[flower]] within a 5×3×5 volume centered on the sapling, they have a 5% chance to generate a [[bee nest]] on the side of the tree.
|-
| [[Stripped wood]]
| {{animate|Stripped Oak Wood.png;Stripped Spruce Wood.png;Stripped Birch Wood.png;Stripped Jungle Wood.png;Stripped Acacia Wood.png;Stripped Dark Oak Wood.png|84px}}
|
{{Crafting
|A2=Matching Stripped Log
|B2=Matching Stripped Log
|A3=Matching Stripped Log
|B3=Matching Stripped Log
|Output=Matching Stripped Wood,3
}}
* Can now be crafted out of stripped logs.
|-
| [[Wet sponge]]
| [[File:Wet Sponge JE2 BE2.png|84px|center]]
| Now dries out when placed in [[the Nether]].
|-
| [[Dark prismarine]]
| [[File:Dark Prismarine JE2 BE2.png|84px|center]]
|
{{Crafting
|A1=Prismarine Shard
|B1=Prismarine Shard
|C1=Prismarine Shard
|A2=Prismarine Shard
|B2=Black Dye
|C2=Prismarine Shard
|A3=Prismarine Shard
|B3= Prismarine Shard
|C3=Prismarine Shard
|Output=Dark Prismarine
}}
* Now crafted with black dye instead of an ink sac.
|}

== Items ==
=== New ===
{|{{Simple Guide table|New Items}}
|-
| [[Honey bottle]]
| [[File:Honey Bottle JE1 BE2.png|84px]]
| Obtained by using a bottle on beehives/nests with a {{cd|honey_level}} of 5.
|
* Restores {{Hunger|6}} and 1.2 saturation.
* Removes Poison.
* Used to craft honey blocks.
* Can be consumed regardless of the player's hunger.
|-
| [[Honeycomb]]
| [[File:Honeycomb JE2 BE2.png|84px]]
| Obtained by using [[shears]] on beehives/nests with a {{cd|honey_level}} of 5.
| Used to craft beehives and honeycomb blocks.
|-
| Bee [[spawn egg]]
| [[File:Bee Spawn Egg.png|84px]]
| Can be obtained only via creative inventory. 
| Has the same function as other spawn eggs.
|}

=== Changed ===
{|{{Simple Guide table|Changed Items}}
|-
| [[Boat]]
| {{animate|Oak Boat (item) JE4 BE3.png;Spruce Boat (item) JE2 BE3.png;Birch Boat (item) JE2 BE3.png;Jungle Boat (item) JE2 BE3.png;Acacia Boat (item) JE2 BE3.png;Dark Oak Boat (item) JE2 BE3.png|84px}}
| When used as fuel, one boat now smelts 6 items in a furnace, blast furnace, or smoker instead of 1.
|-
| [[Spawn egg]]s for [[drowned]], [[husk]], [[zombie pigman]], [[zombie]], and [[zombie villager]]
|
| Can now be used on adult versions of these mobs to spawn baby variants.
|}

== Non-mob entities ==
=== Changed ===
{| {{Simple Guide table|Changed Non-mob entities}}
|-
| [[Dragon fireball]]
| [[File:Dragon Fireball JE2.png|128px|center]]
| The texture has been changed, which now resembles the [[fire charge]] texture after the [[Texture Update]].
|-
| [[Experience orb]]
| {{animate|Experience Orb Value -32768-2.png;Experience Orb Value 3-6.png;Experience Orb Value 7-16.png;Experience Orb Value 17-36.png;Experience Orb Value 37-72.png;Experience Orb Value 73-148.png;Experience Orb Value 149-306.png;Experience Orb Value 307-616.png;Experience Orb Value 617-1236.png;Experience Orb Value 1237-2476.png;Experience Orb Value 2477-32767.png}}
|
* Experience orbs now appear at the same spatial and temporal location as loot when an entity is killed.
* Now render as translucent again.
|}

== Biomes ==
=== Changed ===
{|{{Simple Guide table|Changed Biomes}} 
|-
| [[Dark forest]]
| [[File:Dark Forest.png|184px|center]]
| Generates [[birch tree]]s once again.
|-
| [[Giant tree taiga]]
| [[File:Giant Tree Taiga.png|184px|center]]
| Now generate [[sweet berry bush]]es.
|-
| [[Taiga]]
| [[File:Taiga.png|184px|center]]
| Now spawn [[fox]]es in all taiga variants.
|}

== Effects ==
=== Changed ===
{|{{Simple Guide table|Changed Effects}}
|-
| [[Instant Damage]]
| [[File:Instant Damage.png]]
| Added an effect sprite.
|-
| [[Instant Health]]
| [[File:Instant Health.png]]
| Added an effect sprite.
|-
| [[Saturation]]
| [[File:Saturation.png]]
| Added an effect sprite.
|}

== Advancements ==
{{Load advancements|Sticky Situation;Bee Our Guest;Total Beelocation}}

== See also ==
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[[es:Guías de Java Edition/Buzzy Bees]]
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