How to play BedWars in Minecraft

Minecraft 26.3

Mode rules, such as TNT, fireball, bridge, pearl, and edge combat — game mechanics for BedWars and servers where it is played.

  • Any explosion holds Obsidian
  • Verified by the server 26.3
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At a glance

Obsidian withstands any explosion; end stone is fireball; bridge speed is 1.3 blocks per second

  • The End Stone defends the bed.
    /give @s minecraft:end_stone 64
  • TNT
    /give @s minecraft:tnt 16
  • Ender Pearl
    /give @s minecraft:ender_pearl 16

BedWars — a server mode, not a game: rules vary by server. The core mechanics remain unchanged: Obsidian does not break TNT or fireball, end stone holds fireballs, fur withstands any explosion, and the bridge moves at a speed of 1.3 blocks per second

Mode Rules

In standard BedWars, there is none — it is added by a plugin or data pack, so prices, resources, upgrades, and even team sizes vary by server. The core setup is the same: teams start on empty islands, each with a bed. As long as the bed is intact, a player who dies is revived; if the bed is broken, the next death is final. Resources from generators are spent at the vendor for blocks, weapons, and armor. The last team with living players wins.

What's on the server you're playing on—check the server rules or mode description. Below is what's independent of the server: the game's mechanics and rules of our data pack.

BedWars data pack

You can play with friends without plugins in your world — BedWars generator collects data pack. It contains 2 or 4 teams on their islands, each with a bed, iron and gold generator, and a player shop; in the center is an emerald island. A round starts when any player from the lobby begins it, when there are at least 2 players present — after a 10-second countdown. After each respawn, players receive team-colored leather armor and a wooden sword, neither of which breaks. A player cannot destroy their own bed — the pack restores it. If a player falls 30 blocks below the islands, they die immediately; after victory, the arena is rebuilt after 10 seconds.

ResourceWhereEvery, sSpeed 'fast', withCopies until
Iron Ingoton the team island10,548
Gold Ingoton the team island8416
Emeraldin the center30154
Item in the pack storeHow manyPrice
Fur of your team164 iron ingots
End Stone1224 iron ingots
Oak Planks164 gold ingots
Stone Sword110 iron ingots
Iron Sword17 gold ingots
Diamond Sword14 Emeralds
Iron Chestplate112 gold ingots
Iron Pickaxe16 gold ingots
Bow112 gold ingots
Arrow82 gold ingots
Golden Apple13 gold ingots
Ender Pearl14 Emeralds

How to protect a bed

The blocks around a bed determine which tools or explosives can break through its defenses. A block at the center of a TNT blast breaks if its blast resistance is below 17.03; for a fireball, the threshold is 4.03. We tested this on a 26.3 server by detonating TNT and fireballs inside a 5×5×5 cube made from one block type, repeating each test 5 times and counting how many of the 124 blocks broke.

BlockDurabilityTNT breaksBurnt fireball breaks blocks.Break by handIron tool
White Wool0,8120 of 12416 of 1241.2 sHow by hand
Oak Planks329 of 1241 of 1243s0.5 s — iron axe
Terracotta4,226 of 124no6.25 s0.35 s — iron pickaxe
End Stone918 of 124no15 seconds0.75 s — iron pickaxe
Glass0,3124 of 12422 of 1240.45 sHow by hand
Obsidian1200nono4 min 10 sec41.7 seconds — iron pickaxe

How much damage does an explosion do — average over 5 explosions: explosion is random, but 'no' never changes. Time is without enchantments or effects; with a tool and 'Efficiency' it is calculated Resource calculator.

From here, layers of protection: fur breaks quickly but is destroyed by any explosion; End Stone resists fireballs and is broken slowly with a pickaxe; obsidian withstands both TNT and fireballs—only a pickaxe can break it, and even that takes time. Glass is the weakest: TNT completely destroyed it in a single blast. What else resists explosions — mechanics "Explosions and TNT".

TNT and fireball

Ignited TNT explodes after 4 seconds with strength 4 and affects all within 8 blocks: 46.9 damage to armor in the block below the feet, 22 damage in the four blocks around. Ghast fireball explodes with strength 1. A player cannot throw a fireball in normal gameplay — on servers, it is given by a plugin and has its own strength; the table above is for Ghast fireballs.

Bridge to the center

In the data pack, between the team island and the center, there is a void of width 21 blocks consisting of bridges: 2 wool purchases at 16, 8 iron ingots, equivalent to 8 from a generator operating at normal speed.

Crouching (Crouch) player does not step off a block and moves at 1.3 blocks per second — 21 blocks in 16.2 seconds. Walking speed is 4.32 blocks per second, but will fall off the edge. Running, jumping, and sliding speed — mechanics Movement Speed.

Ender Pearl

An ender pearl teleports you to where it lands and deals 5 damage (2.5 hearts). Armor does not reduce this fall damage, but Feather Falling IV lowers it to 2.6. Pearls have a 1 s throwing cooldown and stack to 16. Each landing has a 5% chance to spawn an endermite, except on Peaceful.

In BedWars, pearl returns from the void if it was thrown onto an island, and jumps to a stranger's bed across a bridge.

Edge battle

On the bridge, the decision to strike is made: a running attack knocks a zombie back by 3.62 blocks, a step attack by 1.99. A one-block-wide bridge is a reason to attack while running and not approach the opponent with your back to empty space. How running attacks, W-tap, crit, and shield work — How to learn PvP.

BedWars servers

In monitoring currently 91 The server with меткой Minecraft BedWars data pack. Top entries by catalog rating:

  1. MigosMC
  2. Hypixel
  3. The Hive
  4. Lifeboat
  5. MineLegacy

Server owner sets the marker. What other modes mean — «Server Modes», all servers — in the catalog.

Frequently asked questions

How to play BedWars?

Teams start on their islands with beds. As long as a bed is intact, a player who dies is revived; resources from generators are spent in the shop for blocks, weapons, and armor. Break other beds, protect your own — the last team standing wins. Rules vary by server.

How to best protect a bed in BedWars?

From explosions — obsidian: it is not broken by TNT or fireball. End Stone fireballs do not affect it, and TNT in a burst breaks 18 out of 124 blocks; TNT's blast destroys nearly all — 120 out of 124.

Where to play BedWars?

In monitoring currently 91 The server with меткой Minecraft BedWars data pack. And at home BedWars is installed with a datapack from the generator: islands 2 or 4 commands, resource generators and resident-shop.

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