Productive Bees in All the Mons

Productive Bees builds on vanilla bees and adds a big range of new ones, each producing its own resources. This pack ships version 1.21.1-13.13.5.^[1][2]

Where the bees come from

Solitary bees live in nests in different overworld biomes. They don't live in hives, but their genetics let you breed new types. Wild bees also live in nests, mostly in the Nether and the End, and unlike solitary bees they will happily move into a hive.^[2][3][4]

Hive bees live in hives and produce resource combs, and they need advanced hives to do it. Most are bred from solitary bees and other hive bees. Some come from giving a specific item to a bee, or from crafting spawn eggs. The in-game guide points you to JEI for every bee recipe and flower requirement.^[5]

Advanced hives don't need a campfire nearby to be harvested. You can also break and move them with the bees still inside, without Silk Touch.^[6]

How the pack teaches it

The pack has a dedicated Productive Bees quest chapter. It starts with "Capturing Bees!" quest, where you right-click a bee with a Bee Cage to capture it, then moves on to "Searching for Nests" quest with the Nest Locator.^[7]

The quests also say you don't need to fly around hunting for bees. You build nests and right-click them with Honey Treat to lure bees in. Some nests need special items instead, and the right biome matters, so check JEI.^[7]

After the advanced beehive, the chapter opens up the machines. The Centrifuge turns combs into useful items and honey, and the Breeding Chamber breeds bees automatically. You also get the Bottler, Gene Indexer, BaBee Incubator and Catcher for the genetics side.^[7]

The ATM Star path

Yes, the ATM Star path uses this mod. Quests in The ATM Star chapter come after the Productive Bees chapter. "Soul Lava Bee Spawn Egg" quest asks for the Spawn Egg Configurable Bee, and you make it by pouring a bucket of Soul Lava over a Ghostly Bee egg.^[8]

Another quest there, "Withered Comb Block" quest, asks for the Comb Block. Leave your hives empty in the dark and a Skeletal Bee may move in. Feed it a wither rose to get a Withered Bee.^[8][9][10]

Productive Bees builds on top of vanilla bees, so a little vanilla bee knowledge helps. The first steps are all about getting bees safely home, giving them a hive, and turning what they make into resources.^[2]

Step one: make Bee Cages

Start by finding a vanilla bee nest. You want honey bottles and honeycombs from it. The honey bottles are what you need for Bee Cage, which makes it much easier to carry bees back to your base.^[2]

4× Bee CageMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any plank

Honey Bottle

any plank

Recipe id: productivebees:bee_cage

The standard cage recipe in this pack.

Right-click a bee with a cage to capture it, then right-click the filled cage on the ground to release it. This is the first quest in the Productive Bees chapter, "Capturing Bees!" quest. Keep a few cages on you whenever you travel.^[7][11]

Step two: build an advanced beehive and an expansion box

Once you have enough honeycombs, build an advanced beehive and an expansion box. The advanced hive lets you look inside to see which bees are living there and what they produce. Bees need an advanced hive to produce resource combs.^[2][5][6]

Unlike the vanilla hive, an advanced hive needs no campfire to harvest, and you can break it and move it with the bees still inside without silk touch. An expansion box raises its capacity from 3 to 5 bees and allows upgrades. Each hive can have only one expansion box.^[6][12]

Unverified The recipes for the advanced beehive and the expansion box were not in the sources available for this section. Check JEI for the exact in-pack recipes. This site does hold All the Mons's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.

Step three: find nests and lure in new bees

Nests are scattered around the world, and each one is home to a single solitary bee. Breaking a nest picks it up with the bee inside, and you don't need silk touch. The Nest Locator helps you hunt them down. Per the in-game guide, shift right-click it on a nest, or on a block of that nest's type, then right-click again to locate nearby nests of that type.^[13][14]

You don't have to spend all your time flying around looking for bees. This pack's quest points out that you can place nests and right-click them with Honey Treat to lure bees in. Some nests need special items instead, and the biome matters, so check JEI first. The quests are "Searching for Nests" quest and a quest in "Productive Bees".^[7][13]

Honey treats come from the Bottler, so craft that first. It also bottles honey and other fluids.^[15][16]

BottlerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	Smooth Stone Slab	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	any glass blocks	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	any iron ingot	any iron ingot

Recipe id: productivebees:bottler

Honey TreatMod recipe

Bottler (productivebees)

• Honeycomb
• 250× Honey

Recipe id: productivebees:bottler/honey_treat

Made inside the Bottler.

Step four: process your combs

Bees in advanced hives produce resource combs. Put them in a Centrifuge to extract resources and honey. The centrifuge has two crafting recipes in this pack, and either one gives you the same machine.^[16][17][18]

CentrifugeMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	Empty slot	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	Grindstone	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	any iron ingot	any iron ingot

Recipe id: productivebees:centrifuge

CentrifugeMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Grindstone

Cauldron

Recipe id: productivebees:centrifuge_cauldron

The quest a quest in "Productive Bees" says a regular centrifuge is fine at the start, but you should get the Powered Centrifuge soon after. It runs on FE and is faster. The Heated Centrifuge is faster still and processes comb blocks.^[7][18]

Next steps

Put a Feeding Slab in front of your hive and place bee flowers on it. Each bee's flower requirements and breeding recipes are in JEI, and some bees can only be found in other dimensions or obtained by breeding.^{[2][5][7][19]}

Productive Bees builds on the vanilla bee system, so the machines here mostly revolve around housing bees, collecting what they make, and processing it. This section walks through how each piece works and how they connect.^[2]

Advanced hives and expansion boxes

The advanced hive replaces the vanilla hive for serious work. It doesn't need a campfire nearby to be harvested, and you can break it and carry it away with the bees still inside, no Silk Touch required. Its GUI shows which bees are inside and lets you take out what they produced.^[6]

Attaching an expansion box raises the bee capacity from 3 to 5 and unlocks upgrade slots. You can place it on top of or next to the hive, and each hive takes only one.^[6][12]

In this pack the wooden expansion box recipes that appear in the pack data (acacia, bamboo, birch, cherry and crimson) are changed from the mod's defaults. The canvas versions are the mod's normal recipes. Here is one example.^[16]

Acacia Expansion BoxChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Acacia Planks	Acacia Planks	Acacia Planks
Acacia Planks	any honeycomb	Acacia Planks
Acacia Planks	Acacia Planks	Acacia Planks

Recipe id: productivebees:expansion_boxes/expansion_box_acacia

Changed by the pack. The other wooden boxes listed in the pack data are changed too.

If a bee is taking forever to leave, you can whack the hive or nest with a stick to force it out. You lose all production progress, and it only works if it's safe for the bee to exit.^[6]

Hive upgrades

Upgrades go into hives and machines to change how they behave. In a hive, these are the ones that matter most for automation.^[20]

• Productivity: increases the number of combs a bee produces per trip. You can stack several.^[20]
• Speed: decreases the time a bee spends inside the hive.^[20]
• Filter: right click a bee to add it to the filter. Only the bees on the filter can enter the hive.^[20]
• Range: raises the operating range of Farmer and Collector/Hoarder bees by 1 per upgrade, up from the default of 4.^[20]
• Block upgrade: bees produce full comb blocks instead of honeycombs.^[20]
• Anti-teleport: bees that can teleport stop teleporting while they live in that hive.^[20]
• BaBee: gives a small chance for the bees in the hive to breed on their own. Bees that can't breed normally don't work with it.^[20]
• Gene sampler: extracts a small sample from pollinating bees on each visit. You can install several for a better rate.^[20]

Simulated hives and feeding slabs

The simulator upgrade stops bees from leaving the hive. Their flower trip is simulated instead, which is better for server performance. The bee's flower block, or a feeding slab holding flower blocks, has to sit at the foot of the hive, right below the front without blocking it.^[20]

A simulated hive has only one flower block position. A feeding slab holds 3 item blocks, so it lets you have up to 3 different bees working in the same hive. Lumber and Quarry bees feeding from a slab produce from a random item in it. A honeylogged slab gives bees regeneration.^[19]

Processing combs: the centrifuge

Bees in advanced hives produce resource combs, and you process those in the Centrifuge to get resources and honey. It holds 10 buckets of liquid, which you can pump out, and it automatically pushes fluid into any fluid storage block next to it. The Powered Centrifuge uses FE and processes faster.^[17][18]

A speed upgrade increases the centrifuge's operation speed. Productivity upgrades raise its stack processing rate, by 4 for the first tier and by 8 for the second. A filter upgrade makes it accept only combs produced by the bees on the filter.^[20][22]

Here are the centrifuge crafting recipes listed in the pack data.^[16]

CentrifugeMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	Empty slot	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	Grindstone	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	any iron ingot	any iron ingot

Recipe id: productivebees:centrifuge

CentrifugeMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Grindstone

Cauldron

Recipe id: productivebees:centrifuge_cauldron

For storage, combs can be compressed into comb blocks and turned back into combs. Here is the Milky Comb pair as an example.^[16][17]

Milky Comb BlockMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Milky Comb

Recipe id: productivebees:comb_block/milky_comb_to_block

4× Milky CombMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Milky Comb Block

Recipe id: productivebees:comb_block/milky_block_to_comb

Bottling honey

The Bottler fills bottles with honey and other fluids. You can pump honey into its side, or place it next to a centrifuge so it fills automatically.^[15]

BottlerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	Smooth Stone Slab	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	any glass blocks	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	any iron ingot	any iron ingot

Recipe id: productivebees:bottler

Catching and cages

A Bee Cage captures a bee when you right click it, and releasing it on the ground frees the bee again. Releasing a bee on a valid flower block sets its flower position. Releasing it on a valid hive or nest while sneaking sets its home position.^[11]

The Catcher automates this. Load it with cages and it catches any bee flying over it. A flower or feeding slab on top attracts bees. It takes the BaBee, filter and range upgrades, and you can install several range upgrades. Each one expands the area by 1 block in all directions.^[20][23]

CatcherMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	Dirt	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	Dispenser	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	any iron ingot	any iron ingot

Recipe id: productivebees:catcher

Breeding chamber

The Breeding Chamber breeds bees in a safe environment. Supply it with the two parent bees, their breeding items, power and empty cages for the offspring. Speed upgrades make it faster. To change which offspring it makes, remove a cage and put it back.^[22][24]

Breeding ChamberMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	Rose Bush	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	Upgrade Child	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	any iron ingot	any iron ingot

Recipe id: productivebees:breeding_chamber

Genes and the incubator

Genetics runs through the machines above. A bottler with a piston can bottle a bee. Place the bee in the middle, pull the lever, and make sure the bottler has empty bottles inside. Throw the bottled bee into a centrifuge to separate out the genes.^[15][18][25]

To transfer a gene, combine it with a honey treat and feed that to a bee. The chance of success depends on the gene's purity. You can raise purity by combining two of the same gene, or by putting more of the same gene onto a treat.^[26]

The Gene Indexer is a large container that combines the genes you put in it automatically. It needs a redstone signal to run.^[27]

The incubator speeds up baby bees. Put the BaBee in a cage and insert it together with honey treats. It can also infuse an egg with a bee type gene to make a spawn egg of that bee. Only the type gene is used for this, and any extra genes on the treat are lost.^[28]

Power: the honey generator

The honey generator burns honey to produce power. You can pipe honey in, or add honey bottles, blocks and buckets in its GUI. A productivity upgrade lowers its honey consumption and a speed upgrade increases its speed.^[22][29]

Special hives and bee jobs

The Dragon Egg Hive is made for Draconic bees. In the End they need no flowering, since they absorb draconic essence from the air. Anywhere else they need another pollination source. Dragon Egg Hives do not support upgrades.^[30]

Several bees work as automation tools. The Farmer Bee harvests crops within a 4 block radius of its home hive and leaves the produce on the ground. Collector and Hoarder bees pick up items on the ground and put them in their hive, so you can pair them with a Farmer Bee for an automated farm.^[31][32][33]

Centrifuge comb rendering

Comb rendering in many running centrifuges can also slow your game down. The mod's guide says you can turn it off in config/productivebees-client.toml.^[21]

Unverified The pack provides no config files for this mod in the sources, so I can't confirm the exact name of the comb rendering option or its default value.

Productive Bees in this pack is less about hunting down rare bees and more about climbing a ladder: catch a few bees, lure more with nests, breed up the chain, then convert and process the results. The quest chapter walks you through it in that order.^[7]

Tier 1: Catch your first bees

The chapter opens with "Capturing Bees!" quest. Right-click a bee with a Bee Cage to capture it. Adventuring can also net you Sturdy Bee Cages, so keep an eye out.^[7]

4× Bee CageMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any plank

Honey Bottle

any plank

Recipe id: productivebees:bee_cage

Next comes "Searching for Nests" quest. With the Nest Locator, right-clicking a nest of the type you want points you toward another one.^[7]

Tier 2: Nests and Honey Treats

You don't spend most of your time flying around looking for specific bees. You place Nests and right-click them with Honey Treat to lure bees in. Some nests need a special item instead of a treat, and the biome matters, so check JEI for details.^[7]

Honey TreatChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Honeycomb
• any pollen
• any pollen

Recipe id: productivebees:honey_treat_pollen

The pack changed this Honey Treat recipe compared to the mod default.

The nest quests in the pack tell you what each one attracts:^[7]

• "Wood Nests" quest: the wood nests, including the Oak Nest and Bamboo Nest, work in any Overworld biome and lure Carpenter Bees and the Blue Banded Bee. The Dark Oak Nest lures 3 different bees.^[7]
• Sand Nest: in a Desert biome it attracts the Chocolate or Ashy Mining Bee.^[7]
• Gravel Nest: in a River or Beach biome it lures the Ashy Mining Bee, Chocolate Mining Bee and Digger Bee.^[7]
• Snow Nest: in a snowy biome it lures a Sweat Bee.^[7]
• Nether Gold Nest: placed in the Nether, it needs Gold Ingots instead of Honey Treats and lures a Gold Bee.^[7]
• Soul Sand Nest: placed in the Nether and given Ghast Tears, it lures Ghostly Bees.^[7]
• End Stone Nest: placed in the End, it lures Ender Bees and needs Popped Chorus Fruit instead of Honey Treats.^[7]
• Obsidian Nest: placed in the End, it lures the Draconic Bee.^[7]

Hive bees only produce resource combs while living in advanced hives. Attaching an expansion box raises a hive's bee capacity from 3 to 5 and lets you install upgrades.^[5][6]

Tier 3: Breeding

The Breeding Chamber breeds two bees automatically. You supply the two parents, their breeding items, power and empty cages for the offspring. Speed upgrades make it faster. It can self-breed, or breed two types to get a third.^[7][24]

Breeding ChamberMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	Rose Bush	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	Upgrade Child	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	any iron ingot	any iron ingot

Recipe id: productivebees:breeding_chamber

These are the main breeding chains from the in-game guide, which match the quests where both cover the same bee:^{[7][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43]}

• Iron Bee: Crystalline Bee plus Ashy Mining Bee.^[38]
• Gold Bee: Crystalline Bee plus Mason Bee.^[37]
• Redstone Bee: Glowing Bee plus Chocolate Mining Bee.^[41]
• Lapis Bee: Redstone Bee plus Blue Banded Bee.^[39]
• Diamond Bee: Ender Bee plus Lapis Bee, as in "Diamond Bee" quest.^[7][34]
• Emerald Bee: Slimy Bee plus Diamond Bee.^[35]
• Experience Bee: Emerald Bee plus Lapis Bee.^[36]
• Blazing Bee: Magmatic Bee plus Nomad Bee. Obsidian Bee: Magmatic Bee plus Sweat Bee.^[40][42]

Tier 4: Feeding, converting and modded bees

Some bees come from giving a bee a specific item rather than breeding. Feed a block of TNT to a vanilla bee for a CreeBee, or a block of netherite to a Diamond Bee for an Ancient Bee. Feed a wither rose to a Skeletal Bee for a Withered Bee. The Prismarine Bee comes from fishing in an ocean biome.^{[10][44][45][46]}

The pack also changes many spawn-egg conversion recipes for bees tied to other mods. These run through Applied Energistics 2 transforms, the Ars Nouveau Enchanting Apparatus, the EnderIO Alloy Smelter and Draconic Evolution fusion crafting, among others. The matching quests, such as the Water Essence Bee and Soularium Bee, say which machine to use. Here is one example, the Sky Osmium Bee:^[7][16]

Spawn Egg Configurable BeeChanged by the pack

Transform (ae2)

• Charged Certus Quartz Crystal
• Sky Stone
• Configurable Bee
• any lava

Recipe id: productivebees:ae2/transform/sky_osmium_bee

Changed by the pack.

Processing your combs

The Centrifuge quest recommends starting with a regular Centrifuge and moving to a Powered Centrifuge soon after, since it is faster and runs on FE. The Heated Centrifuge is faster still and processes Comb Blocks instead of Combs. Speed Upgrades speed up all of them.^[7][18]

Heated CentrifugeMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	any iron ingot	any iron ingot
Upgrade Time	Inactive Dragon Egg	Upgrade Time
any copper storage block	Powered Centrifuge	any copper storage block

Recipe id: productivebees:heated_centrifuge

Tier 5: Genetics

The "Gene Samples" quest quest covers traits like productivity, weather tolerance and working hours. To get genes, place a piston above the Bottler with a block of space between them. Put the bee on the Bottler and fire the piston to squish it, then run the bottle through a Centrifuge. Keep bottles in the Bottler.^[7][18]

BottlerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	Smooth Stone Slab	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	any glass blocks	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	any iron ingot	any iron ingot

Recipe id: productivebees:bottler

Combine Gene Sample samples in a crafting table to add up their percentages, or let a Gene Indexer auto-combine them (it needs a redstone signal). Put a gene on a Honey Treat and feed it to a bee to transfer the trait. The Type trait works differently: use it in the BaBee Incubator to make that bee's spawn egg. A combined purity of 100% gives a 100% chance to convert an egg.^{[7][27][28][47]}

The Incubator also grows baby bees: place a caged baby bee in it with 20 Honey Treats to turn it into an adult.^[7]

Productive Bees is wired into a lot of other mods in this pack. Most of the links are recipes the pack changed or added, so what you see in JEI can differ from the mod's defaults. Here is where the connections are.^[16]

Bee conversions with other mods' items

Some bees are made by giving a specific item to another bee. Productive Bees handles this with bee conversion recipes, and the pack changed every one of the ones below except the Wasted Radioactive Bee, which the pack added. Exact bee requirements are in JEI.^[5][16]

• Applied Energistics 2 and Actually Additions: the Fluix Pearl gives the Fluix Bee ("Fluix Bee" quest). The Block of Black Quartz gives the Black Quartz Bee ("Black Quartz Bee" quest).^[16]
• Mekanism: the Liquid Lithium Bucket gives the Lithium Bee. The pack-added Polonium Pellet recipe gives the Wasted Radioactive Bee ("Wasted Radioactive Bee" quest).^[16]
• Just Dire Things: four goo blocks map to four bees. Primogel Goo gives Ferricore, Blazebloom Goo gives Blazegold, VoidShimmer Goo gives Celestigem and Shadowpulse Goo gives Eclipse Alloy.^[16]
• Oritech: the Sheol Fire Bucket, Strange Matter Bucket and Sulfuric Acid Bucket each have a bee, and Plutonium Dust gives the Uranite Crystal bee. The Strange Matter Bee quest ("Strange Matter Bee" quest) says to feed the bucket to a Lava Bee.^[7][16]
• Big Reactors and Industrial Foregoing: Anglesite Ore and Benitoite Ore each give a crystal bee. Ether Gas Bucket and Pink Slime each give a bee too.^[16]
• Forbidden Arcanus: the Arcane Crystal Block gives the Arcane Crystal bee and the Rune Block gives the Rune Bee.^[16]
• More one-offs: the Prosperity Block gives the Prosperity bee and the Soulium Dagger gives the Soulium bee. The ATM Star Block gives the Starry bee, and Super Enchanting Template gives the Super Experience bee. Infused Diamond gives the Dimensional Shard bee, and the Music Disc gives the Regalium bee.^[16]

Transform and apparatus recipes

Applied Energistics 2 style transform recipes, changed by the pack, create the Entro, Redstone Crystal, Sky Bronze and Sky Osmium bees. Ars Nouveau enchanting apparatus recipes, also changed by the pack, create the Arcane and Air Essence bees. In every case the result is a configurable bee and its spawn egg.^[16]

Spawn Egg Configurable BeeChanged by the pack

Transform (ae2)

• Entro Dust
• Configurable Bee
• any water

Recipe id: productivebees:ae2/transform/entro_bee

Spawn Egg Configurable BeeChanged by the pack

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• 8× Source Gem
• Configurable Bee

Recipe id: productivebees:ars_nouveau/arcane_bee

Centrifuge outputs

The pack changed a long list of centrifuge recipes so that combs give items from other mods, and every one of them also returns Wax. The outputs include alloy nuggets from All the Ores, such as Brass Nugget, Bronze Nugget, Constantan Nugget, Electrum Nugget, Enderium Nugget, Invar Nugget, Lumium Nugget, Signalum Nugget and Steel Nugget, plus Sulfur.^[16]

The ATM metals come out too: Allthemodium Nugget, Unobtainium Nugget, Vibranium Nugget and the Patrick Star. Other outputs are the Fluix Crystal with Fluix Dust, the Source Gem, the Neptunium Nugget, the Tiny Chaos Fragment and the Conductive Alloy Nugget. One recipe is the odd one out, and it is shown below.^[16]

WaxChanged by the pack

Centrifuge (productivebees)

• 20× Soul Lava

Recipe id: productivebees:centrifuge/atm/honeycomb_soul_lava

The Soul Lava recipe takes Soul Lava as an input and gives wax.

Wax, honey and the pack's own recipes

The pack ties Productive Bees wax into other mods too. The Wax Block connects to Wax Block 1x from All the Compressed, and Wax connects to Carvable Wax through a recipe the pack added. Both recipes are shown below.^[16]

Wax Block 1xChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

9 × Wax Block

Recipe id: allthecompressed:compress/wax_block_1x

Carvable WaxAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

8 × Wax

Recipe id: kubejs:kjs/the_bumblezone_carvable_wax

The pack added dyed versions of Petrified Honey from Dyenamics and Friends, such as Amber Petrified Honey and Wine Petrified Honey. They follow the same pattern, one recipe per colour.^[16]

Amber Petrified HoneyAdded by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Petrified Honey
• any amber dye

Recipe id: dyenamicsandfriends:amber_petrified_honey

One example of the dyed petrified honey recipes added by the pack.

The pack also added two recipes that use a configurable bee. The first crafts the Dragon Soul. The second is the Tera Shard altar ritual "terabeegos", which outputs a bee and its spawn egg.^[16]

Dragon SoulAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

Infused Dragon's Breath	Soul Gem	Dragon Familiar Spawn Egg
Socotra Dragon Sapling	Empty slot	Block of Piglich Hearts
Empty slot	Abyssal Sacrifice	Chain of Souls

Recipe id: allthemods:allthetweaks/dragon_soul

Configurable Bee, Spawn Egg Configurable BeeAdded by the pack

Altar (summoningrituals)

• Bug Tera Shard
• Dark Tera Shard
• Dragon Tera Shard
• Electric Tera Shard
• Fairy Tera Shard
• Fighting Tera Shard
• Fire Tera Shard
• Flying Tera Shard
• Ghost Tera Shard
• Grass Tera Shard
• Ground Tera Shard
• Ice Tera Shard
• Normal Tera Shard
• Poison Tera Shard
• Psychic Tera Shard
• Rock Tera Shard
• Steel Tera Shard
• Stellar Tera Shard
• Water Tera Shard
• Configurable Bee

Recipe id: allthemons:terabeegos

Modular Bees

Modular Bees recipes build directly on Productive Bees machines. The Modular Centrifuge is built from a Centrifuge. The Centrifuge Heater needs a Heated Centrifuge. The Modular Dragon Hive needs a Dragon Egg Hive. The Bee Extractor uses a Bottler. These are the mod's own recipes.^[16]

The pack added its own recipe for the Modular Feeder, built from the Feeding Slab.^[16]

Modular CentrifugeMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any netherite ingot	Upgrade Entity Filter	any netherite ingot
any wax storage block	Centrifuge	any wax storage block
any netherite ingot	Inactive Dragon Egg	any netherite ingot

Recipe id: modularbees:modular_centrifuge_core

Modular FeederAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

Empty slot	Beehive Structure Box	Empty slot
Beehive Structure Box	Feeding Slab	Beehive Structure Box
Empty slot	Beehive Structure Box	Empty slot

Recipe id: allthemods:modularbees/modular_beehive_feeder

The pack has a dedicated Productive Bees quest chapter. It starts with a short opening line, branches into machine and gene quests, and then moves on to nests and a long list of individual bee quests. Most bee quests are checked by handing in a Honeycomb.^[7]

Getting started

1. "Capturing Bees!" quest asks for a Bee Cage. Right-clicking a bee with it captures the bee. The quest follows an earlier quest called Productive Bees!^[7]
2. "Searching for Nests" quest comes next and asks for a Nest Locator. Right-clicking a Nest of the type you want points you toward another one.^[7]

Machines and tools after the Advanced Beehive

Several quests unlock once you finish the Advanced Beehive quest. You can do them in any order, since they all depend on that one. Each asks you to obtain one item.^[7]

• a quest in "Productive Bees" asks for a Honey Treat. In this pack you lure bees by placing Nests and right-clicking them with Honey Treats. Some Nests need special items instead, and the biome you are in matters.^[7]
• a quest in "Productive Bees" (Slapping down a Slab) asks for a Feeding Slab. You place Bee Flowers on Feeding Slabs set in front of Hives.^[7]
• a quest in "Productive Bees" (Making Babies 2: Electric Beegaloo) asks for a Breeding Chamber. It breeds two bees automatically and can also self-breed.^[7]
• a quest in "Productive Bees" (Showing Off Bees) asks for a Bee Jar to display caged bees.^[7]
• a quest in "Productive Bees" (Processing Honeycombs) accepts a Centrifuge, a Powered Centrifuge or a Heated Centrifuge. The quest recommends moving to the Powered Centrifuge soon after starting. The Heated Centrifuge is faster still and processes Comb Blocks. The quest says these can all be made faster with Speed Upgrades.^[7]
• a quest in "Productive Bees" (Baby Bee Daycare) asks for a BaBee Incubator. It speeds up baby bee growth, and a caged baby bee grows up with 20 Honey Treats. It also makes Spawn Eggs from gene samples.^[7]
• a quest in "Productive Bees" (The Gene Combiner and Chest) asks for a Gene Indexer, which auto-combines genes. You can also combine them in a crafting table.^[7]
• a quest in "Productive Bees" (Honey I Squished The Bees) asks for a Bottler. It bottles honey and squishes bees for genes, and it needs bottles inside.^[7]
• a quest in "Productive Bees" (Catches Bees) asks for a Catcher. It catches bees flying near it, and you can add a Filter Upgrade or a BaBee Upgrade.^[7]

Gene quests

"Gene Samples" quest (To make the ultimate bee) asks for a Gene Sample and follows the Bottler quest. It explains that traits are applied by combining Gene Samples with a Honey Treat in a crafting grid. Every trait except Type is applied by feeding the bee the treat. Type has to go through the Incubator to make a Spawn Egg.^[7]

• "Behavior" quest (Behavior) covers the time of day a bee works. Metaturnal bees work at any time, and the quest walks you through leashing bees to a fence at night and then by day.^[7]
• "Weather Tolerance" quest (Weather Tolerance) covers working in harsh weather. The goal is the Any level, and the quest suggests fishing for Water or Prismarine Bees, which naturally tolerate any weather.^[7]

Nest quests

The nest quests each ask for one type of nest. The Wood Nests quest is the one with a named title. Its tasks are these items: Oak Nest, Dark Oak Nest, Jungle Nest, Spruce Nest, Birch Nest, Acacia Nest, Cherry Nest, Mangrove Nest and Bamboo Nest. See "Wood Nests" quest. They can be placed in any Overworld biome.^[7]

• a quest in "Productive Bees": the Stone Nest lures a Mason Bee or Digger Bee in any Overworld biome.^[7]
• a quest in "Productive Bees": the Sand Nest attracts the Chocolate or Ashy Mining Bee in a Desert biome.^[7]
• a quest in "Productive Bees": the Gravel Nest lures the Ashy Mining Bee, Chocolate Mining Bee and Digger Bee in River or Beach biomes.^[7]
• a quest in "Productive Bees": the Snow Nest lures a Sweat Bee in a snowy biome.^[7]
• a quest in "Productive Bees": the Soul Sand Nest lures Ghostly Bees in the Nether when given Ghast Tears.^[7]
• a quest in "Productive Bees": the Nether Brick Nest lures a Magmatic Bee in the Nether when given Magma Cream.^[7]
• a quest in "Productive Bees": the Nether Gold Nest lures a Gold Bee in the Nether. It needs Gold Ingots instead of Honey Treats.^[7]
• a quest in "Productive Bees": the End Stone Nest lures Ender Bees in the End. It needs Popped Chorus Fruit instead of Honey Treats.^[7]
• a quest in "Productive Bees": the Obsidian Nest lures a Draconic Bee in the End. It uses Dragon's Breath instead of Honey Treats.^[7]

Individual bee quests

The rest of the chapter is one quest per bee, most of them checked with a Honeycomb. "Ender Bee" quest comes after the Honey Treat quest and asks you to make an End Stone Nest and capture the bee in the End. "Diamond Bee" quest then follows both the Ender Bee quest and the Lapis Bee quest, and tells you to breed those two bees together.^[7]

Most of the others share one parent quest. Their subtitles tell you how each bee is obtained, for example "Iron Bee" quest (Ashy Mining + Crystalline), "Lava Bee" quest (feed a Lava Bucket to a Magmatic Bee) and "Prismarine Bee" quest (just fish for it). "Crimson Shroombee" quest adds that its nest can also come from growing Crimson Fungi, at a 2% chance.^[7]