Better Beekeeping
Java mod listed for Minecraft 1.16–1.20. Downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
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Bees are great! But Minecraft beekeeping leaves a bit to be desired...
Better Beekeeping adds some small enhancements to the vanilla beekeeping experience, with a focus on small farming rather than automation and industry. The mod adds new styles of crafted hives for all the vanilla woods, a Bee Smoker block that lets you avoid getting stung without the open flame, and several new flavors of honey!
It also adds a new recipe for a lead, for the more peaceful farming types out there: replace the slime ball with a block of honey to craft a single lead.
Supported Versions
1.18.2, 1.19.2, 1.19.3, 1.20.x
I am no longer supporting any 1.16 versions.
Bee Smoker
- Crafted using a campfire, flint and steel, and iron ingots
- Place it under your beehive and turn it on or off with a simple right-click
- No more singed bees!
New Beehives!
- Different hives for each of the vanilla woods!
- Easier visual indicator that the hive is full, from any direction.
- Hives now also show when they're almost full - you can see honey beginning to peek out the door.
Flavored Honey
- Bees gathering nectar from the same type of flower, or flowers that make the same flavor of honey, will give you a flavored honey when you collect it from the hive.
- Bee Nests and vanilla Beehives do not produce flavored honey.
- Each flavor of honey will cure poison, like regular honey, but will also either cure a negative effect or grant a positive one!
Cool Honey comes from Blue Orchids, Dandelions Peonies and Pitcher Plants and cures Hunger.
Warm Honey comes from Tulips and Roses and cures Weakness.
Lively Honey comes from Oxeye Daisies, Lily of the Valley and Pink Petals and grants Regeneration.
Spicy Honey comes from Cornflowers, Allium and Lilacs and cures Slowness.
Bright Honey comes from Azure Bluets, Poppies, Sunflowers and Torchflowers and cures Blindness.
Strange Honey comes from Wither Roses and cures Wither.
Cross-Mod Compatibility
Do you want your own custom flowers to create flavored honey? Now you can! Add your own flowers to the Better Beekeeping flower block tags in your data and you're good to go.
Seasons Compatibility: Hibernating Bees
With Better Beekeeping, your bees can hibernate in cold weather and climates, staying in the hive until it warms up again. Since temperatures are location-specific by default, this will only really come into play if you're using a seasonal mod.
This feature is off by default - set it to true in your config file to turn it on!
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.19.3, 1.19.2, 1.20.1
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on CurseForge — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as BetterBeekeeping-1.16.5-1.1.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 95 KB
- Download link checked 23 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.