How to make candles in Minecraft

Modified Oct 12, 2024 11:34 GMT

Candles are unique light emitting blocks in Minecraft (Image via Mojang Studios)

The candle is a light-emitting semi-block in Minecraft that was released in 2021 with the 1.17 Caves and Cliffs update. These were considered a great addition as players can place them in various builds as a decorative light block. Candles are fairly simple to craft and use, with a unique light-level feature and different variants based on color.

Here is everything to know about how to make candles in Minecraft.

Crafting materials for candles in Minecraft

The materials needed to make candles are honeycomb and string. These two crafting ingredients are slightly trickier to get compared to more traditional torches that only use sticks and coal.

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You can obtain strings by killing spiders or from tripwires in various structures in the Overworld, and honeycomb from beehives. However, the bees will get enraged and be hostile toward you as a result. The best way to avoid any attack is to place a campfire beneath a beehive and then shear them to get honeycomb.

How to make candles in Minecraft

Candles crafting and dyeing recipe (Image via Mojang Studios)

In order to make candles, you will have to build a crafting table and place one string on top of one honeycomb. This crafting configuration will yield one candle. The color of this regular candle will be slightly yellowish since a honeycomb was used to craft it.

However, you can dye these regular candles to any color by simply placing them on the crafting table again with one of the 16 dyes present in Minecraft. This will create a dyed candle where the wax stick will be completely colored. These are great for players who are going for a certain theme and want a particular color for a candle.

How to use candles in Minecraft

Candles can be lit by various items and can also be placed on a cake (Image via Mojang Studios)

After crafting, the candle can be used by placing it on any flat block. This will result in a single candle in the middle of the block. Furthermore, you can place up to four candles on the same block to create a cluster of four candles. As players add more and more candles, the item's placements will automatically adjust.

A single stick of candle has a light level of three. Hence, when all four candles are placed on one block, they will emit a light level of twelve. You can even just set one candle on a cake to celebrate any occasion in the game itself.

Using fire charges, flaming arrows, flint and steel, and other tools, you can light candles in Minecraft. If you are in Bedrock Edition, you can even use the fire aspect enchanted sword to light it. Finally, water can be used to put them out.

Conclusion

In conclusion, candles are great decorative light blocks that you can place in almost any building to light up the area a little and enhance the ambiance. Though it is slightly trickier to make compared to more common light blocks, it's appearance is worth it.

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Edited by Ripunjay Gaba