Productive Bees

Welcome to Productive Bees! To get started with the mod, you'll first need to find some Honeycombs and Honey Bottles! Find yourself a Beehive, and let the bees do their work for a little. Shearing it when it is full will give you honeycombs, and glass bottles will give you Honey Bottles! Important Note: With the bee quests requiring combs, the recipes will not be shown. Make sure to look them up in JEI if you need them!

Asks for: Honey Bottle, Honeycomb

To get our own bee farm going, we'll have to find us some bees... and capture them. Right-clicking a bee with this will capture it! Adventuring can also net you some Sturdy Bee Cages, so keep an eye out!

Asks for: Bee Cage

Using the vanilla method, go ahead and make yourself a Beehive to have your own little setup! These can hold 3 Bees each, but we won't be using it for long... Bees will only create Honey and Honeycombs if they have the right flowers. Vanilla bees can use any flower, but most bees in the mod will require a specific block! Make sure to check JEI for more info.

Asks for: Beehive

Right-clicking on a Nest of the type you are looking for will point you in the direction of another!

Asks for: Nest Locator

With the vanilla Beehive, we'll use this to craft an Advanced Beehive. It can be Oak or any kind of wood. Bees will fly in and out of these, and drop off Honeycombs in the inventory. You can also insert glass bottles to get Honey Bottles. We'll need a lot of Honeycomb for treats!

In Productive Bees, you don't spend most of your time flying around trying to find certain bees. Instead, you spawn them using Nests with Honey Treats. With these, you'll create yourself some Nests and right click them with the treats to lure Bees in. Some Nests require special items instead of Honey Treats, so make sure to check JEI for more info! Make sure to check out which biome you need to be in to lure in the right Bees!

Asks for: Honey Treat

If you want to turn your Bee Farm into a factory for resources, you'll need to start by spawning in Bees with Nests. The nests must be placed in specific biomes, which you can find in the JEI for it (look for the I icon at the top). To lure in a Bee to the Nest, right click on it with a Honey Treat. Nests will not work without the treats!! Important Note: Certain Bees will only live in Nests and will not go into Advanced Hives. If they don't produce Honeycomb, they need to live in a Nest instead.

Wood Nests are used to lure Carpenter Bees and the Blue Banded Bee. Dark Oak Nests lures 3 different bees. These can be placed in any Overworld Biome.

Asks for: Acacia Nest, Bamboo Nest, Birch Nest, Cherry Nest, Dark Oak Nest, Jungle Nest

When placed in a Desert biome, the Sand Nest will attract either the Chocolate or Ashy Mining Bee.

Asks for: Sand Nest

The Gravel Nest will lure bees in either a River biome or Beach biome. It lures in the Ashy Mining Bee, Chocolate Mining Bee, and the Digger Bee.

Asks for: Gravel Nest

Instead of using Honey Treats, this hive requires Gold Ingots to attract Bees.

Asks for: Nether Gold Nest

Aside from luring bees in with nests, most bees require either Breeding or Conversion to bee created. (No, that isn't a typo.) Bee Breeding requires 2 bees and specific items fed to them to cause them to mate. Bee Conversion requires you to feed a bee a specific item to convert it into a new Bee.

Place an Obsidian Nest in the End to lure this bee.

Asks for: Honeycomb

A BlazBee pollinating an Obsidian Bee Spawn Egg will convert it into a Infinity Bee Spawn Egg.

Asks for: Honeycomb

Will pick up items and bring them back to its hive. Not as good as a Hoarder Bee.

Asks for: Hopper

Yes, it's called an Aluminium Bee.

Asks for: Honeycomb

You can find these bees at Crimson Forests. Its nest can also be obtained from growing Crimson Fungi, at a 2% chance.

Asks for: Honeycomb

Do Hives annoy you when they drip? If so, you're in luck because there's an easy solution. You can place a Sponge in the Bottle slot of an Advanced Hive to stop it from dripping.

Asks for: Sponge

You can place Bee Flowers on Feeding Slabs that are placed in front of Hives, as shown in the image below.

Asks for: Feeding Slab

The Breeding Chamber can be used to breed two bees with each other, automatically. It is capable of self breeding, as well as breeding 2 types of bees to make a third type (Example: Ashy Mining + Crystalline -> Iron). If this would result in a conflict (Continuing off of the earlier example, Ashy Mining + Crystalline -> Aluminium), take out one of the bees, then put it back in. Provide breeding items in each slot (usually flowers, hold SHIFT on a bee cage holding a certain bee type to see what breeding item it uses (Draconic Bees use 2 Draconic Dust for example)) and some bee cages. Just...don't do...whatever it takes to get the F.Bee.I. to go after you. I will ensure you get added to the Hall of Shame if they DO come after you.

Asks for: Breeding Chamber

To attract Bees to this nest, you'll need Popped Chorus Fruit instead of Honey Treats.

Asks for: End Stone Nest

Placing a Snow Nest in a snowy biome will lure in a Sweat Bee.

Asks for: Snow Nest

If you throw an Osmium Bee Spawn Egg, Charged Certus Quartz and Sky Stone into Lava, you will create a Sky Osmium Bee Spawn Egg

Asks for: Honeycomb

You can find these bees roaming around Warped Forests. Its nest can also be obtained from growing Warped Fungi, at a 2% chance.

Asks for: Honeycomb

If you throw a Spatial Bee Spawn Egg and a Sky Steel Block into Lava, you will create a Sky Steel Bee Spawn Egg.

Asks for: Honeycomb

Not to be confused with a Draconic Bee.

Asks for: Honeycomb

This is the Breeder Bee.

Collects items on the ground and brings it back to it's nest.

Asks for: Shulker Shell

The Obsidian Nest will lure in Draconic Bees when placed in the End. These do not accept Honey Treats, but instead use Dragon's Breath.

Asks for: Obsidian Nest

Proud of the Bees you have? Wanna put them into a jar to show it off? Place a Bee Jar down and use a Pipe or Hopper to insert the caged Bee into the jar.

Asks for: Bee Jar

The Centrifuge is used to process Combs from Bees into useful items and honey! While you can definitely just use a regular Centrifuge in the beginning, getting a Powered Centrifuge soon after is a must. This is a faster Centrifuge that runs off of power! If you're looking for the best way to process your Combs, the Heated Centrifuge is even faster and processes Comb Blocks instead of Combs! These can all be made faster by using Speed Upgrades.

Asks for: Centrifuge, Heated Centrifuge, Powered Centrifuge

Placing the Nether Brick Nest in the Nether will lure in a Magmatic Bee when given Magma Cream.

Asks for: Nether Brick Nest

The Stone Nest can be placed in any overworld biome to lure in a Mason Bee or Digger Bee.

Asks for: Stone Nest

At Night!

Asks for: Honeycomb

The Ashy Mining Bee is spawned from a Dirt, Gravel, or Sand Nest.

This can be used to speed up the growth rate of baby Bees, or to create new Spawn Eggs. Place a caged baby Bee with 20 Honey Treats to turn it into an adult. To create Spawn Eggs, you'll need to combine the gene of the bee you want with a honey treat, then use that honey treat in this machine with an egg to create the new spawn egg. Genes can be combined for a maximum of 100% purity, which will give you a 100% chance to convert an Egg to a Bee Spawn Egg. You can even apply genes to a bee without taking it out of its cage with this. Put a Honey Treat with the gene samples of your choice into the incubator along with a bee cage holding the bee you want to apply genes to.

Asks for: BaBee Incubator

When collecting genes, you'll get a percentage of a trait. You can combine them in a crafting table to add them together, or place them in a Gene Indexer to auto-combine.

Asks for: Gene Indexer

When placed in the Nether and given Glowstone, the Glowstone Nest will lure in a Glowing Bee.

Asks for: Glowstone Nest

You can throw a Fluix Bee Spawn Egg and Entro Dust into Water to create an Entro Bee Spawn Egg.

Asks for: Honeycomb

Expansion boxes are placed on top of your Advanced Beehives to increase the amount of bees that can be in the hive to a total of 5 slots. These are also necessary for your Advanced Beehives to support upgrades.

If you want the ATM bees, it takes a lot of capturing and breeding and feeding. The following part of the questline outlines which bees you'll need to move forward. Make sure to check JEI and the Big Book of Bees for more info!

You can lure these bees in using a Slimy Nest in a swamp biome.

Asks for: Honeycomb

You'll need to grab yourself a Glowstone Nest and head to the Nether to capture this bee!

Asks for: Honeycomb

With the Glowing Bee, breed it with the Chocolate Mining Bee to get a Redstone Bee!

Asks for: Honeycomb

Breed a Redstone Bee with a Blue Banded Bee to get a Lapis Bee!

Asks for: Honeycomb

Tin Bees are made by breeding a Crystalline Bee with an Ashy Mining Bee.

Asks for: Honeycomb

You can throw a Redstone Bee Spawn Egg, a Fluix Crystal and Glowstone Dust into Water to create a Redstone Crystal Bee Spawn Egg.

Asks for: Honeycomb

A Reed Nest will work in any overworld biome, and will lure in a Mason Bee or a Reed Bee.

Asks for: Reed Nest

Create yourself an End Stone Nest and head to the End to capture one of these bees!

Asks for: Honeycomb

Breed the Ender Bee with a Lapis Bee to create a Diamond Bee!

Asks for: Honeycomb

Once you have a Diamond Bee, breed it with the Slimy Bee to create an Emerald Bee!

Asks for: Honeycomb

The Upgrade Base is used to craft the various Upgrades in Productive Bees.

Asks for: Upgrade Base

Mostly for the Catcher.

Asks for: Upgrade Range

You'll need these for Ender Bees.

Asks for: Upgrade Anti Teleport

When installed into an Advanced Beehive, bees no longer physically exit the hive. A trip to their flower block will be simulated. Make sure to put its required flower block or a Feeding Slab in front of the hive containing the required flower blocks or items for the bee in the hive. To see how to set it up correctly, check the Feeding Slab quest. I highly recommend getting this so your bees don't disappear and to be able to more easily put in/take out bees from the hive.

Asks for: Upgrade Simulator

When installed in a Hive, it gives a 5% chance for a new baby Bee to be spawned every time honey is delivered. When placed in a Catcher, it only allows the catcher to catch baby Bees. You can stack these for a greater chance.

Asks for: Upgrade Child

All Bees will give Comb Blocks instead of Combs, effectively quadrupling outputs!

Asks for: Upgrade Block

Can be placed in a hive or centrifuge. When in a hive, it decreases the amount of time bees spend in the hive by 20%. When placed in a Centrifuge, it increases the processing speed. These do stack.

Asks for: Upgrade Time

Think of the previous Upgrade: Speed, now think of it making things even faster! These Upgrades can be used in the Machines to make them work 40% faster! Yes, their effects stack. No, they can not be used in Hives, that's what Productivity is for!

Asks for: Upgrade Time 2

If you want one of these, you'll need an Ashy Mining Bee first. Once the Ashy Mining Bee is cozy in its nest, there is a chance for a Nomad Bee to take it over.

This nest attracts Crystalline Bees. You'll need Nether Quartz instead of using Honey Treats to attract the Bee. The easiest way to get a quartz block is by mining it with a Silk Touch pick. Tip: Brass has the Silk Touch trait when making a Silent Gear tool.

Asks for: Quartz Nest

Using a Foundry, pour Molten Allthemodium over an Ancient Bee Spawn Egg.

Asks for: Honeycomb

Using a Foundry, pour Molten Vibranium over an Allthemodium Bee Spawn Egg.

Asks for: Honeycomb

Using a Foundry, pour Molten Unobtainium over an Vibranium Bee Spawn Egg.

Asks for: Honeycomb

The Bottler has two uses: Bottling honey and squshing bees for genes. To get genes from bees, place a piston above the Bottler with a block of space between them. Place the bee on top of the Bottler, and activate the piston to squish the bee into genes. The resulting squished bottle can be then placed in a Centrifuge. Note: Make sure to have bottles in the Bottler.

Asks for: Bottler

Bees have varying traits that can affect how they work, when they work, their aggression, and their likelihood to lose their stinger when they attack you. In these quests I will be going over the way to get the best traits possible, as well as how to use them. To get these Gene Samples, check out the Bottler quest, which is a dependency of this one. To actually apply these Gene Samples to your bees, you will need to combine them with a Honey Treat in a crafting grid. All traits, except for Type, you can apply to your bees by feeding them the Honey Treat. Type works differently, and must instead be used with the Incubator to make a Spawn Egg of the respective bee.

Asks for: Gene Sample

Affects the time of day a bee can work. There are 3 levels of this: Diurnal, Nocturnal, Metaturnal. Diurnal bees can only work during daytime, Nocturnal bees can only work during nighttime, Metaturnal bees can work at any time of the day. Metaturnal is what we're after. BeeBee naturally has the Metaturnal trait, but, as mentioned in the Productivity quest, is on vacation, so we'll need to look into some alternative measures. We will need to leash some bees to a fence during nighttime to make them Nocturnal, then leaving those bees out on a fence during daytime to make them Metaturnal. We can skip one of these steps with a Ghostly Bee or Shroombees, which are naturally Nocturnal.

Asks for: Gene Sample

Affects the ability of a bee to work under harsh weather conditions. There are 3 levels of this: None, Rain, Any. Any is what we are after. You could leash the bee to a fence during a thunderstorm if you wanted to, but come on, that's just cruel. I offer you an easier solution. Fishing. That's right, you can fish for bees. Water or Prismarine Bees naturally come with the ability to tolerate any weather conditions. We can make use of this!

Asks for: Gene Sample

Affects the bee's likelihood of losing its stinger whenever it attacks something. This trait is less important compared to the first 3 I mentioned, but I will talk about it anyway. There are 4 levels of this: Weak, Normal, Medium, Strong. Strong is the one I will focus on. Certain Bees, like Draconic, Obsidian, and some other bees I may not have mentioned naturally have strong Endurance, allowing them to keep their stinger.

Asks for: Gene Sample

Affects the amount of combs you receive whenever a bee produces honeycombs. There are 4 levels of this: Normal, Medium, High, Very High. Very High is what we are after. It is found on KamikazBee and BeeBee. BeeBee is currently on vacation down below, though, so KamikazBee is our only option. To get a KamikazBee, you need a Bee Nest Helmet. Get attacked by mobs (or shoot yourself with an arrow) while wearing the helmet for a 30% chance of having a KamikazBee emerge. It is quite fast, and will sting the aggressor (unless it's you), so better catch it quickly or use the Catcher.

Asks for: Gene Sample

Affects the bee's aggression and likeliness to sting you. This is one of the less important traits, though it is worth not having an Aggressive bee when you want to work with one in world. There are 4 levels of this: Passive, Normal, Hostile, Aggressive. I'll be honest I don't really know what each level of Temper does. All I know is that Aggressive bees WILL sting you, even if otherwise unprovoked. Bees will become less aggressive if you feed them Honey Treats.

Asks for: Gene Sample

The Dirt Nest can be placed in any overworld biome to lure in bees. It can lure the Ashy Mining Bee, Chocolate Mining Bee, and the Leafcutter Bee.

Asks for: Dirt Nest

Place some empty Advanced Beehives in an unlit area. The bees will move in over time at night.

Asks for: Honeycomb

Have you ever wanted to fly on a bee? Bumble Bees naturally spawn in the world, and they can be used as mounts! Make yourself a Treat on a Stick, slap a saddle on a Bumble Bee, and take to the skies!

Asks for: Saddle, Treat on a Stick

When placed in a swamp biome, the Slimy Nest will lure in Slimy Bees.

Asks for: Slimy Nest

Used to catch bees that are flying around it. You can use a Filter Upgrade to filter out which bees you want to catch, as well as a BaBee Upgrade to only catch baby bees.

Asks for: Catcher

An Obsidian Bee pollinating a Redstone Bee Spawn Egg will convert it into a Flux Dust Bee Spawn Egg.

Asks for: Honeycomb

Not to be confused with the Awakened Supremium Bee.

Asks for: Honeycomb