Hay Bale

Hay bales are storage blocks equivalent to nine pieces of wheat. They are used as a crafting ingredient, to feed llamas and all horse variants, reduce fall damage, and extend campfire smoke.

Breaking

Hay bales can be mined using any tool, but a hoe speeds up the process.

Natural generation

Hay bales often generate as piles (and in some houses, animal pens, farms, or meeting points) scattered around in villages located in plains, and less commonly in savanna and desert villages. They also can generate under some campfires in taiga villages and as a part of targets/scarecrows in pillager outposts.

Usage

Hay bales can be used as compact storage of wheat.

Placement

s, bone blocks, quartz pillars, purpur pillars, polished basalt, and barrels, hay bales can be pointed in multiple directions.]] Hay bales can be placed pointing in all three spatial dimensions, in the same way as a log is placed. However, there is no "six-sided" variant like that of the wood block.

Food

Although players cannot eat hay bales, hay bales serve as a compact wheat supply for crafting food items during long periods away from other food sources. A full stack of 64 hay bales is equivalent to 192 loaves of bread in a single inventory slot.

Animals

Hay bales can be fed to donkeys, horses, llamas, or mules to heal up to 10 hearts. They are an effective method to heal horses if the player wants to heal them in a short period of time. They also speed up the growth of foals by three minutes and baby llamas by 90 seconds. , due to a bug, skeleton horses (in their hostile state; being ridden by skeletons) can also be fed hay bales.