Bales
Description: Bales are a block that SWEM Horses can eat and can also be used to consolidate Bushels.
Details:
| Renewable: | Yes |
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Stackable: |
Yes (64) |
| Tool: | Any |
| Blast Resistance: | N/A |
| Hardness: | N/A |
| Luminant: | No |
| Transparent: | No |
| Flammable: | No |
| Flammable (Lava): | No |
Obtaining
Crafting
Quality Bales
Crafting
Quality Bales are crafted by combining 4 Alfalfa Bushels, 4 Timothy Bushels and 1 String.
A Quality Bale can be crafted by combining 1 Alfalfa and 1 Timothy bale into a more nutritious bale.
A Quality Bale can be crafted by combining 2 Quality Bale slabs.
A Quality Bale can be split into 2 Quality Bale slabs.
Alfalfa Bales
Crafting
Alfalfa Bales are crafted by combining 4 Alfalfa Bushels and 1 String.
An Alfalfa Bale can be crafted by combining 2 Alfalfa Bale slabs.
An Alfalfa Bale can be split into 2 Alfalfa Bale slabs.
An Alfalfa Bale Slab can be broken down into 2 Alfalfa Bushels. 
Timothy Bales
Crafting
Timothy Bales are crafted by combining 4 Timothy Bushels and 1 String.
A Timothy Bale can be crafted by combining 2 Timothy Bale slabs.
A Timothy Bale can be split into 2 Timothy Bale slabs.
A Timothy Bale Slab can be broken down into 2 Timothy Bushels. 
Oat Bales
Crafting
Oat bales are crafted by combining 4 Oat Bushels and 1 String.
An Oat Bale can be split into 2 Oat Bale slabs.
An Oat Bale Slab can be broken back down into 2 Oat Bushels.
Usage
Quality, Alfalfa & Timothy Bales
SWEM Horses can eat Quality, Alfalfa and Timothy bales or slabs to satisfy their hunger need. These can be consumed by horses when:
- Right-click placed in Slow Feeders and Paddock Feeders
- Right-click placed on the ground
- Right-clicked with a Bale / Slab in hand on a hungry SWEM Horse
Quality Bales are the most nutritious bale type - combining the values of Timothy and Alfalfa in to one hearty bale. Timothy and Alfalfa are less nutritious.
| Food | Points (per item) | Minimum Required | Maximum (Happy) | Other Buffs/Debuffs |
| Quality Bale | 224 | 1/day | 2/day | None |
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Quality Slab |
112 | 2/day | 3/day | None |
| Alfalfa Bale | 56 | 2/day | 3/day | None |
| Alfalfa Slab | 27 | None | ||
| Timothy Bale | 56 | 2/day | 3/day | None |
| Timothy Slab | 27 | None |
Oat Bales
Oat bales and slabs cannot be fed to horses. They are a way to condense your bushels for storage, or used in crafting sweet feed.
Storage
At the small cost of 1 string per bale, converting bushels into bales is a space efficient (inventory) way of storing dried forage. Alternately, the bales can be placed down as a physical stockpile of food for immersion of requiring space to store food for animal consumption and restocking when supply runs low.
Bales have gravity like gravel and sand. This feature makes it possible to:
- Store a lot of bales vertically in silos or large piles of hay which drop when items are removed from the base
- Avoid 'floating' hay piles when bales are eaten from the base of a stack
- Drop bales from haylofts into the barn, or directly into horse stalls
Placement
Bales can be placed in all three spatial dimensions, like vanilla logs, bone blocks, and hay bales.
Known Issues
If you find an issue, please report it to our bugs channel on Discord. We ask that you look to see if your issue was reported first!
- Bales will float when stacked if those below it are partially eaten (half slab).
Changelog
View Changes
This is not a complete list of version changes / fixes. It is a changelog of relevant wiki-related version information.
| MC Version | Release | Notes |
1.18.2 |
1.2.1 |
Feature: Added gravity to bales to enable better bales stacks and silos. |
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Bug Fix: Bale slabs cannot be used in paddock feeders. |
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Bug Fix: Cannot hand feed bale slabs to horses. |
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Bug Fix: Cannot hand feed Alfalfa and Timothy bales to horses. |
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Bug Fix: Missing recipe to convert slabs to bales. |
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Bug Fix: Missing recipe to convert bale slabs into bushels. |
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1.18.2 |
1.18.2-1.0.0 |
Deprecated Recipe
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1.16.5 |
Active Bug Feed system is not function in 1.16.5. |
Data values
swem:quality_bale
swem:quality_bale_slab
swem:alfalfa_bale
swem:alfalfa_bale_slab
swem:timothy_bale
swem:timothy_bale_slab
swem:oat_bale
swem:oat_bale_slab