Gray Bed Wiki Guide

This Minecraft tutorial explains how to craft a gray bed with screenshots and step-by-step instructions.

In Minecraft, a gray bed is a new color of bed introduced in the game. You can sleep in a gray bed at night to avoid mobs spawning and attacking you. Also once you’ve slept in this type of bed, it resets your spawn point. There is more than one way to craft a gray bed.

Let’s explore how to make a gray bed.

Where to find a Gray Bed in Creative Mode

3 Oak Planks
3 Spruce Planks
3 Birch Planks
3 Jungle Planks
3 Acacia Planks
3 Dark Oak Planks
3 Mangrove Planks
3 Bamboo Planks
3 Crimson Planks
3 Warped Planks
3 Gray Wool
1 Gray Dye

TIP: You can use any type of wood plank! You don’t have to gather them all.

How to craft a Gray Bed in Survival Mode

1. Open the Crafting Menu

First, open your crafting table so that you have the 3×3 crafting grid that looks like this:

2. Add Items to make a Gray Bed

In the crafting menu, you should see a crafting area that is made up of a 3×3 crafting grid. To make a gray bed, you will need to place specific items in the grid. It is important that the items are placed in the exact pattern as our example images. Changing the pattern of boxes that are filled will change the item that is crafted.

There are 2 patterns you can use as a crafting recipe for a gray bed:

Pattern 1

There should be 3 gray wool in the first row and 3 wood planks in the second row.

Pattern 2

In the first row, there should be 1 white bed in the first box and 1 gray dye in the second box.

TIP: When crafting a gray bed with wood planks, you can use any kind of wood planks, such as oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark oak, crimson, or warped planks. In our example, we are using oak planks.

Now that you have filled the crafting area with the correct pattern, the gray bed will appear in the box to the right.

3. Move the Gray Bed to Inventory

Once you have crafted a gray bed, you need to move the new item to your inventory.

Congratulations, you have made a gray bed in Minecraft!

Item ID and Name

Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac)

In Minecraft, a gray bed has the following Name, ID and DataValue:

Item	Description (Minecraft ID Name)	Data Value	Stack Size	Platform	Version(s)
	Gray Bed (minecraft:bed)	7	1	Java	1.12
	Gray Bed (minecraft:gray_bed)		1	Java	1.13 – 1.19.4

• Description is what the item is called and (Minecraft ID Name) is the string value that is used in game commands.
• Data Value (or damage value) identifies the variation of the block if more than one type exists for the Minecraft ID.
• Stack Size is the maximum stack size for this item. While some items in Minecraft are stackable up to 64, other items can only be stacked up to 16 or 1. (NOTE: These stack sizes are for vanilla Minecraft only. If you are running a mod, some mods may change the stack size for an item.)
• Platform is the platform that applies.
• Version(s) is the Minecraft version numbers that the Minecraft ID and Name are valid for.

Give Command for Gray Bed

Give Command in Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac)

In Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac) 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17, 1.18, 1.19 and 1.19.4, the /give command for Gray Bed is:

/give @p gray_bed 1

In Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac) 1.12, the /give command for Gray Bed is:

/give @p bed 1 7

Things to Do with Gray Beds

Here are some activities that you can do with gray beds in Minecraft:

How to Use a Bed

Other Beds

You can make other colors of beds in Minecraft such as:

How to make a White Bed
How to make an Orange Bed
How to make a Magenta Bed
How to make a Light Blue Bed
How to make a Yellow Bed
How to make a Lime Bed
How to make a Light Gray Bed
 How to make a Cyan Bed
How to make a Purple Bed
How to make a Blue Bed
How to make a Brown Bed
How to make a Green Bed
How to make a Red Bed
How to make a Black Bed