Bell

A bell is a transparent, animated block entity that produces a sound when used. Unlike most utility blocks, bells cannot be crafted.

Obtaining[]

Natural generation[]

Bells can generate naturally in all village variants, usually near the center of the village in the meeting point.

Breaking[]

A bell can be mined by hand or with any tool, but using a pickaxe is fastest.

Chest loot[]

Trading[]

In Java Edition, apprentice-level armorer villagers have a 50% chance to sell a bell for 36 emeralds. Apprentice-level toolsmith and weaponsmith villagers always offer to sell a bell for 36 emeralds.

In Bedrock Edition, apprentice-level armorer villagers have a ¹⁄₃ chance to sell a bell for 36 emeralds. Apprentice-level toolsmith villagers sell bells for 36 emeralds. Journeyman-level weaponsmith villagers sell bells for 36 emeralds.

Usage[]

When a bell is placed near a claimed bed, the bell is claimed, which is displayed by green particles appearing above the bell. A claimed bell defines a gathering site of a village. If the bell is broken, angry particles will appear above the village leader's head.

When the side of a bell is used, it produces a sound as well as a "swaying" animation. A bell can be rung using a redstone signal, by any projectile, by right clicking, or by dropping an item on it. Bells can be anchored to the side of blocks, ceilings, and floors. Also, if the player uses the bell while villagers are sleeping, all of the villagers wake up. Bells can be rung only from certain angles; trying from an incorrect angle does not cause the bell to ring.

If a player rings a bell, the villagers run to their houses even if there is no raid.

Raid[]

When the bell is rung, villagers within a distance of 32 blocks run into their houses immediately.

When a raid's first wave appears, in Java Edition, at least one villager rushes to ring the bell in the center of the village (if they are close enough) to warn the other villagers of an incoming raid before going into their house. In Bedrock Edition, bells in the corresponding village ring automatically at the start of a raid, warning villagers to return to their houses.

Glowing effect[]

Additionally, in Java Edition, if a bell is rung and there is a raid mob within a 32 block spherical range, the Glowing effect is applied to all raid mobs within 48 blocks, and particles appear. It produces a resonating sound once this process is complete. The raid mobs don't have to be actively participating in a raid to receive the Glowing effect: the effect applies to illagers in woodland mansions, or witches that naturally spawns in the Overworld.

Piglins[]

Piglins admire bells as golden items. However, breaking a bell does not aggravate them.^[1]

Sounds[]

Generic[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition: ^{[sound 1]}

Unique[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Block states[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Block data[]

A bell has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

Achievements[]

Advancements[]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	Oh Shiny	Distract Piglins with gold	Nether	While aggravated, give a piglin one of these 25 gold-related items in the #piglin_loved item tag: Bell Block of Gold Block of Raw Gold Clock Enchanted Golden Apple Gilded Blackstone Glistering Melon Slice Gold Ingot Gold Ore Golden Apple Golden Axe Golden Boots Golden Carrot Golden Chestplate Golden Helmet Golden Hoe Golden Horse Armor Golden Leggings Golden Pickaxe Golden Shovel Golden Sword Light Weighted Pressure Plate Nether Gold Ore Deepslate Gold Ore Raw Gold Other gold-related items do not distract the piglin and do not trigger this advancement.	nether/distract_piglin

History[]

For a history of changes to textures and models for each block state, see /Asset history

Java Edition
1.14		18w44a			Added bells, with "floor", "wall" and "ceiling" attachments. The "wall" attachment is inaccessible, and has no model.
		18w47a			Planks textures have been updated, changing the appearance of bells.
		18w48a			Bells now generate in the updated plains villages.
		18w49a			Bells now generate in the updated savanna villages and the new snowy tundra villages.
		18w50a			The models for floor and ceiling bells have chaged, likely to match Bedrock Edition in the former case.
					Bells with wall attachments are now properly implemented, no longer not having models. An oddity regarding their states is that their facing state corresponds to the direction they attach to, as opposed to the block face they attach to (an oddity shared with cocoa).
					Bells with two wall attachments have also been added.
					Bells now generate in the updated desert and taiga villages.
					Added sounds for bells.
					Bells now have a shaking animation when hit.
					The block states face=ceiling|floor|wall of bells have been changed to attachment=ceiling|double_wall|floor|single_wall.
		19w03a			More cullface arguments have been added to bell model.
		19w11a			Bells are now sold by armorer, toolsmith and weaponsmith villagers, making them renewable.
					Bells now ring when hit by a projectile.[more information needed]
		19w13b			Hitting a bell now gives the glowing effect to raiders within a 32-block-radius of the bell.
		Pre-Release 3			The models of bells has been changed.
1.15		19w36a			Bells now ring if powered with a redstone signal.
1.16		20w11a			Bells now ring when hit by any projectile.
		20w16a			Bells now generate in ruined portal chests.
		20w22a			Bells now do not need a completely full face to hang from, and as such can be attached to the bottom face of many more blocks.[2]
Bedrock Edition
1.9.0		beta 1.9.0.2			Added bells.
					Unlike in Java Edition, the side texture of bells is currently made of stone rather than planks.
					There are unused bells with the side textures of granite, polished granite and diorite that can be obtained via commands. It is likely that these corresponded to different rotation states, which were not correctly implemented at the time, and that it was deriving the textures from said data values corresponding to the stone variants from which it pulled textures.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Various bells, including the bell with unused side textures, can now generate in the new villages.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Functionality has been added to bells. The player can now interact with the bell by shooting it with projectiles such as arrows, tridents, splash potions, firework rockets, snowballs and throwing dropped items, or activating it when wired to redstone.
		beta 1.11.0.4			Bells can now be obtained from trading with armorer, toolsmith, and weaponsmith villagers.
					Villagers now run into their houses when a bell is rung.
					The bells with granite, polished granite and diorite textures have been removed.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.57			Bells now generate in ruined portal chests.
1.19.20		beta 1.19.20.22			Bells can no longer catch on fire or be destroyed by fire.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.91					Added bells.

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Bell" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia[]

• In Bedrock Edition, bells deflect any projectile that does not disappear when hitting a surface (arrows or tridents).
• In Bedrock Edition, when holding down right-click while looking at a bell and holding an item with a right-click action, the bell rings once and then the player uses the item.^[3]
• If a villager tries to give another villager food near a bell, there is a chance it might hit the bell with the food and cause all the villagers to run, thrower included.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Gallery[]

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  LadyAgnes tweets a screenshot of an updated savanna village, which features a bell.^[4]

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  A close up of the bell in the previous image. Also uses the old bell texture.

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  A bell between two market stalls in a superflat village.

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  An animation of a bell gong.

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  Villagers ringing a bell during a raid.

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  A bell placed on the underside of a block.

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  Bells placed on a cozy cabin.

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