How to Make a Bed in Minecraft

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Learning how to make a bed in Minecraft is essential when starting out. Beds allow you to save your respawn point and sleep through the night (unless you’re the type of player that likes to mine all night!). Making a bed is super simple, but does require a few steps. Here’s my quick and easy step-by-step tutorial on how to make a bed in Minecraft.

Crafting Recipe for a Bed

To make a basic bed in Minecraft, you will need 3 planks and 3 (color of your choice) wools. Doing this will yield you 1 bed.

How to Make Planks

You can make 4 planks by placing a piece of wood in any of the slots on the crafting table. Wood can be collected by punching trees with your hand or preferably an axe.

How to Obtain Wool

You can obtain wool by either killing or shearing a sheep (I prefer the latter!). Shearing does not kill the sheep and can yield you 1 to 3 wool versus 1 wool if you killed the sheep.

To make a shear, you will need 2 iron ingots.

How to Make Colored Wool

To make colored wool, you will need 3 wool and 3 (color of your choice) dyes. Dyes can be made by crafting them from flowers and plants. Other ways you can make dye are by crafting dyes of different colors together, smelting plants, or by trading with a Wandering trader.