My first playthough on Better Together v 1.2.3. I passed into the Nether and quickly build a ghast-proof base using cobblestone, iron bars and an iron door. A ghast was floating in the distance, but I was concealed and it never shot at me (that I saw). I had just placed my bed to save my game when an explosion tore apart half my base, leaving me on the other half with the Portal intact. The bed was destroyed.
There were no openings in the building, so I have no idea how this could have happened, even if a ghast somehow spotted me.
After re-grouping at my base in the overworld, I went back to the Nether a second time, doubled the thickness of the walls and shored up the flooring and ceiling. This time I never even saw a ghast anywhere, although I did hear that weird high-pitched sound I assumed was a ghast in the distance somewhere. Still, I had not been spotted or fired at.
So ... feeling secure, I placed a new bed on the cobblestone, and as soon as I pulled the left trigger button to sleep, the building EXPLODED in fire again, blowing out the ceiling, two walls and half the floor. Somehow I didn't plunge to my death. I grabbed what was left from my ruined chest and fled through the portal a second time.
Since I never saw a ghast fire at me either time, and I was safely enclosed entirely in cobblestone and iron, I can only conclude that "sleeping" caused my bed to explode - twice.
Has this happened to anyone else? Because it's not at all funny, and now I can't progress my game.
Yours Truly,
Sleepless in the Nether
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Beds placed in the Nether and the End will explode when the player presses use while looking at the bed, and set fire to surrounding blocks. The explosion has power 5, which is stronger than TNT (4), but not as strong as a charged creeper or ender crystal (6).
The reason for this is that setting your spawn in the nether would require an additional property saying in which dimension your spawn is in, otherwise you would just appear at those coordinates in the overworld. Also it's not really great to die somewhere and then wake up in hell. That's why beds don't set your spawn in other dimensions and as an additional gag, they were made to explode.
"My first playthough" This is in the game practically and they messed it up. Not trying to be mean, this is just kind of funny.
"This is what we players since Alpha have to do. Tell newbies that beds explode in the Nether!"
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I am not exactly from alpha but it is enough to read the 2013 handbooks (idk if the line about exploding beds are in the newest ones).. I joined in 2015 (just kidding, I joined in around 2013 but I was playing cracked.. i bought premium in 2015)
Hahaha! It's been like this since the beginning! Don't despair, though. We where all tried this at one point and got blown up.
Psst. Don't try to do this in The End either, unless you plan to trick the Ender Dragon into taking a nap. 😉
Beds blow up in the nether and end so it was the bed.. 🙂