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Stefan Radu edited this page Nov 7, 2026 · 1 revision

Apiary reworks beekeeping around a crafted hive, a station that turns comb into honey, and a villager who trades in both.

Hive

The vanilla beehive recipe makes a hive instead. Bees build honeycomb in it before they make honey, and stickers on the hive show its honey, comb and bees. The hive appearance will change when:

  1. More combs are made (top wooden area will get a more dense pattern)
  2. More honey is produced (more honey will start dripping on the front)
  3. How many bees are inside (small bee markers will appear on the front)

Use a glass bottle to take one bottle of honey, or a bucket to take four levels at once as a honey bucket. Shears cut off one honeycomb.

Honey press

The honey press is a furnace-like station. Honeycomb goes in the top slot, and glass bottles or a bucket in the bottom one, which also decides the output.

Input Container Output
1 honeycomb 1 glass bottle 1 honey bottle
1 honeycomb block 4 glass bottles 4 honey bottles
4 honeycomb 1 bucket 1 honey bucket
1 honeycomb block 1 bucket 1 honey bucket

A honey bucket holds four bottles' worth of honey and crafts to and from a honey block.

Beekeeper villager

An unemployed villager claims a honey press and becomes a beekeeper.

Level Buys Sells
Novice honeycomb Bee in a Bottle
Apprentice honey bottles buckets, shears
Journeyman honey buckets candles
Expert sugar honeycomb blocks
Master an empty bee nest, shears with Unbreaking I–III

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