Productive Bees guide for All the Mods 10 4.5

Productive Bees turns vanilla bees into a full resource-production system. All the Mods 10 4.5 ships Productive Bees 1.21.1-13.8.0, and the mod has been in the pack since All the Mods 10 2.25 or earlier.^[1]

The mod builds on vanilla bees, so it helps to know how those work. On top of them, you'll find a whole range of new bees living in well-hidden nests in different biomes across the overworld. These solitary bees won't live in a hive, but their genetics are what let you breed new bee types.^[2][3]

Wild bees live in nests too, but they will happily move into a hive. They mostly live in the Nether and the End. For example, Crystalline Bees live in nether quartz nests, Ghostly Bees in soul sand nests and Ender Bees in end stone nests on the End islands.^[4][5][6][7]

Hive bees and resource combs

Resource production comes from hive bees. Like the vanilla bee, they live in hives and make honey and resources, but they need an advanced hive to produce resource combs. Most hive bees are bred from solitary bees and other hive bees. Some come from giving a specific item to a bee or from crafting spawn eggs. JEI lists every bee recipe and flower requirement.^[2][8]

Breeding chains get deep quickly. For example, a Lapis Bee comes from a Redstone Bee and a Blue Banded Bee, and a Diamond Bee comes from an Ender Bee and a Lapis Bee. A Diamond Bee can even be converted into an Ancient Bee by feeding it a block of netherite.^[9][10][11]

You turn combs into resources and honey with the Centrifuge. The Powered Centrifuge uses FE to process faster.^[12]

More than resources

• Professional bees do jobs for you. Farmer Bees harvest nearby crops, Lumber Bees collect wood, Quarry Bees collect stone chips and Rancher Bees make milky combs from nearby cows, sheep or llamas.^{[13][14][15][16][17]}
• Genetics let you improve your bees. You bottle bees with the Bottler and a piston, then separate out genes in a centrifuge. After that you put genes on a Honey Treat to transfer attributes like productivity, weather tolerance and temper.^[18][19][20]
• Utility blocks such as the Catcher, BaBee Incubator and Gene Indexer automate catching, growing up BaBees and combining genes.^[21][22][23]

Where it fits in the pack

Productive Bees has its own quest chapter in All the Mods 10. It starts with getting a Bee Cage in a quest in "?", followed by the Nest Locator in a quest in "?". From there, quests branch out to machines like the centrifuge in a quest in "?", the bottler in a quest in "?" and the gene indexer in a quest in "?", plus a long list of honeycomb quests.^[1][25]

To get started, find a vanilla bee nest for honey bottles and honeycombs. You need the honey bottles to craft Bee Cages, which make moving bees home much easier. Once you have enough honeycombs, build an advanced beehive and an expansion box.^[2]

4× Bee CageMod recipe

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any plank

Honey Bottle

any plank

Recipe id: productivebees:bee_cage

Your first Productive Bees quest item.

Productive Bees builds on top of vanilla bees, so it helps to know how normal bees work. On top of those, you'll find a whole range of new bees living in well hidden nests in different biomes around the overworld. These solitary bees won't live in a hive, but their genetics let you breed new types of bees.^[2]

Step 1: Raid a vanilla bee nest

Your first job is to find a vanilla bee nest and collect honey bottles and honeycombs. The honey bottles are what you need for Bee Cages, which make it much easier to bring bees back to your base.^[2]

4× Bee CageMod recipe

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any plank

Honey Bottle

any plank

Recipe id: productivebees:bee_cage

16× Bee CageMod recipe

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any log that burn

Honey Block

any log that burn

Recipe id: productivebees:bee_cage_block

Alternative Bee Cage recipe

To catch a bee, right click it with a Bee Cage. Right click the filled cage on the ground to release it again. If you sneak while releasing a bee on a valid hive or nest, that becomes the bee's home. Releasing it on a valid flower block sets its flower position.^[26]

In the pack's Productive Bees quest chapter, crafting a Bee Cage completes a quest in "?".^[25]

Step 2: Track down nests

The next quest after the Bee Cage is a quest in "?", which asks for a Nest Locator. All the Mods 10 has changed this recipe from the mod's default, so use the one shown below.^[25][27]

Nest LocatorChanged by the pack

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any gold nugget	Iron Bars	any gold nugget
any gold nugget	Note Block	any gold nugget
any gold nugget	any gold nugget	any gold nugget

Recipe id: productivebees:nest_locator

Recipe changed by the pack

To set the locator, shift right click it on a nest or on a block of the nest type you want. For example, you can use a sand nest or a plain sand block to search for sand nests. Right click again to locate nearby nests of that type.^[28]

Each nest is home to 1 solitary bee. You can break a nest and pick it up with the bee still inside, no silk touch needed.^[29]

Step 3: Advanced beehive and expansion box

Once you've collected enough honeycombs, build an advanced beehive and an expansion box. The advanced hive has a GUI that shows which bees are inside and lets you take out what they produce. Hive bees have to live in advanced hives to produce resource combs. Adding an expansion box raises the hive's bee capacity from 3 to 5 and lets you install upgrades.^[2][8][30]

Unverified The exact advanced beehive and expansion box recipes for this pack weren't in the data used to write this guide, so check them in JEI in-game. This site does hold All the Mods 10's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.

Step 4: Honey treats and a centrifuge

A Honey Treat calms angry bees and makes baby bees grow up faster. You can also right click an empty nest with a treat to start its repopulation cooldown, so it attracts a new bee. In the quest book, the honey treat quest a quest in "?" unlocks a large set of honeycomb quests.^[25][29][31]

Honey TreatMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Honeycomb
• Honey Bottle

Recipe id: productivebees:honey_treat

When your advanced hives start producing resource combs, put them in a Centrifuge to turn them into resources and honey. Crafting one counts toward a quest in "?".^[12][25][32]

CentrifugeMod recipe

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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

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Grindstone

Cauldron

Recipe id: productivebees:centrifuge_cauldron

Alternative Centrifuge recipe

Productive Bees builds on vanilla bees, and almost everything runs on one loop. Bees live in advanced hives and bring back resource combs, and you process those combs in machines. Upgrades, genetics and professional bees all plug into that loop, so once you understand it the rest falls into place.^[2][8][32]

Advanced hives and expansion boxes

The advanced hive is your main building block. Unlike a vanilla hive, it doesn't need a campfire nearby to be harvested. You can also break it and move it with the bees still inside, no silk touch needed. Its GUI shows which bees are inside and lets you take out whatever they've produced.^[30]

Put empty Bee Cages into the hive to pull bees out, or put filled cages in to add bees. That makes it easy to reshuffle your apiary without chasing bees around.^[33]

4× Bee CageMod recipe

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any plank

Honey Bottle

any plank

Recipe id: productivebees:bee_cage

Attach an expansion box to raise the hive's bee capacity from 3 to 5 and unlock upgrade slots. The box goes on top of the hive or next to it, and each hive can only have one. Wood types get their own boxes, like the Birch Expansion Box, and there are canvas versions too, such as the Canvas Expansion Box.^[27][30][34]

Birch Expansion BoxMod recipe

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Birch Planks	Birch Planks	Birch Planks
Birch Planks	any honeycomb	Birch Planks
Birch Planks	Birch Planks	Birch Planks

Recipe id: productivebees:expansion_boxes/expansion_box_birch

Other wood types have matching expansion boxes.

Combs and the Centrifuge

The Centrifuge turns resource combs into resources and honey. It holds 10 buckets of liquid, which you can pump out, and it automatically pushes fluid into any fluid storage block placed next to it. The Powered Centrifuge runs on FE for faster processing, and a Speed upgrade also makes a centrifuge work faster.^[12][32][35]

CentrifugeMod recipe

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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

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Grindstone

Cauldron

Recipe id: productivebees:centrifuge_cauldron

This pack has a second recipe for the same Centrifuge.

For easier storage, you can compress combs into comb blocks and craft them back later. For example, Milky Comb compresses into Milky Comb Block. A hive upgrade can also make bees produce comb blocks directly instead of single honeycombs.^{[27][32][33][35]}

Milky Comb BlockMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Milky Comb

Recipe id: productivebees:comb_block/milky_comb_to_block

Fluids: Bottler and Honey Generator

The Bottler bottles honey and other fluids. You can pump honey into its side, or place it next to a centrifuge so it fills automatically.^[36]

BottlerMod recipe

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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

The Honey Generator burns honey to make power. You can pipe honey in, or add honey bottles, blocks and buckets through its GUI. It accepts two upgrades: Productivity lowers its honey use and Speed makes it run faster.^[37]

Upgrades

Upgrades go into machines and hives to add features or boost performance. A hive needs an expansion box before it can take upgrades. To install an upgrade, sneak and right-click the block with it.^[30][33][35]

• Productivity: bees make more combs per trip. You can stack several in one hive.^[35]
• Speed: bees spend less time inside the hive. In a centrifuge or incubator, it speeds up the machine instead.^[35]
• BaBee: bees in the hive get a small chance to produce offspring every time honey is delivered, based on which bees are present. It doesn't work with bees that can't breed among themselves. In a Catcher, it makes the Catcher catch only BaBees.^[33][35]
• Filter: right-click bees to add them to the filter, and put it in a crafting grid to clear it. In a hive, only filtered bees may enter. In a Catcher, only filtered bees get picked up.^[33][35]
• Range: raises the operating range of Farmer and Collector or Hoarder bees by 1 per upgrade, from the default of 4. In a Catcher, it expands the area by 1 block in all directions. You can install several.^[35]
• Anti-teleport: bees that can teleport stop doing so while they live in that hive.^[33][35]
• Gene sampler: slowly extracts genes from visiting bees without hurting them. More upgrades in the same hive improve the rate.^[33][35]
• Comb block: bees produce full comb blocks instead of honeycombs.^[33][35]
• Simulator: bees no longer leave the hive. Their flower trip is simulated for better server performance.^[35]

Feeding slabs

A Feeding Slab is a central feeding spot that holds 3 item blocks. When Lumber or Quarry bees feed from it, they produce from a random item in the feeder. A simulated hive only has 1 flower block position, so a feeding slab lets you have up to 3 different bees working in that hive. You can also honeylog the slab, which gives your bees regeneration.^[33][38]

Catching and breeding bees

The Catcher catches any bee flying over it, as long as you load it with cages. Put a flower or feeding slab on top to attract bees. It takes the BaBee, Filter and Range upgrades.^[21]

CatcherMod recipe

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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

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 you get, remove a cage and put it back.^[33][39]

Breeding ChamberMod recipe

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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

The Incubator speeds up growing baby bees. Put the BaBee in a cage and insert it with some 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, so any other genes on the honey treat are lost.^[22]

Genetics

Bees carry attributes you can move between them: productivity, weather tolerance, day or night behaviour, endurance and temper. Some bees also apply effects to nearby players.^[20]

1. Set up the Bottler with a piston, place a bee in the middle and pull the lever. Make sure the Bottler has empty bottles inside.^[18][36]
2. Put the bottled bee into a Centrifuge to separate the genes from the junk. A gene sampler upgrade in a hive is another way to collect genes.^[12][18][35]
3. Combine a gene with a honey treat and feed the treat to a bee. The bee has a chance to gain the attribute, based on the gene's purity.^[19][20]
4. Raise purity by combining two of the same gene, or by putting more of the same gene onto a treat.^[19]

If you have piles of genes, the Gene Indexer combines them automatically. Fill it up and give it a redstone signal. The guide admits it might not be the most efficient way to do it, but it's hands-off.^[23][33]

Professional bees and farm automation

Some bees do jobs instead of making combs. The Farmer Bee harvests crops within a 4 block radius of its hive and leaves the produce on the ground. Range upgrades increase that radius. Collector and Hoarder Bees pick up items from the ground and store them in their hive, so pairing them with a Farmer Bee gives you an automated farm.^{[13][14][35][40][41]}

Lumber Bees nibble nearby wood and Quarry Bees nibble stone, sand or gravel, both storing the results in their hive. Quarry Bees produce stone chips that craft into the matching block. Rancher Bees milk nearby cows, sheep or llamas into milky combs and also shear sheep.^[15][16][17]

Keeping it lag-friendly

Bees are entities, and their pathing and AI can be heavy. Give every bee a home and its required flower block, and keep enclosures from getting too big, or the bees will wander off. A simulator upgrade removes the bee entities from the world entirely. If you run lots of centrifuges, consider turning off comb rendering in the mod's client config.^[42]

The Productive Bees quest chapter in this pack starts simple. Your very first goal is a Bee Cage in a quest in "?", and that unlocks a quest in "?" for the Nest Locator. Cages are how you move bees around, and the locator helps you track down the nests your first bees come from.^[25]

4× Bee CageMod recipe

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any plank

Honey Bottle

any plank

Recipe id: productivebees:bee_cage

There is also an alternative recipe, productivebees:bee_cage_block.

Nest LocatorChanged by the pack

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any gold nugget	Iron Bars	any gold nugget
any gold nugget	Note Block	any gold nugget
any gold nugget	any gold nugget	any gold nugget

Recipe id: productivebees:nest_locator

Core equipment

After those first steps, the chapter branches into a set of equipment quests. You can do them in any order, so grab whichever piece fits where you are right now.^[25]

• Honey Treat in a quest in "?": the treat quest is the gateway to most of the comb quests in the chapter.^[25]
• Feeding Slab in a quest in "?": it holds 3 item blocks as a feeding point, and it pairs well with simulated hives because it lets up to 3 different bees work in one hive.^[25][38]
• Catcher in a quest in "?": load it with cages and it catches bees flying over it.^[21][25]
• BaBee Incubator in a quest in "?": it speeds up BaBees growing into adults, and it can turn a bee type gene into a spawn egg.^[22][25]
• Bottler in a quest in "?": it bottles honey and other fluids, and together with a piston it can bottle bees for genetics.^[25][36]
• Gene Indexer in a quest in "?": it combines stored genes automatically when it gets a redstone signal.^[23][25]
• Bee Jar in a quest in "?" and a Honeycomb in a quest in "?" round out this branch.^[25]

Centrifuge tiers

The centrifuge quest, a quest in "?", accepts any one of the three tiers: the Centrifuge, the Powered Centrifuge or the Heated Centrifuge. A basic centrifuge is enough to finish it.^[25]

The centrifuge turns resource combs into resources and honey, and it holds 10 buckets of liquid. The powered version runs on FE and processes faster.^[12]

CentrifugeMod recipe

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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

There is also an alternative recipe, productivebees:centrifuge_cauldron.

The Heated Centrifuge is the top tier. Its recipe builds on the Powered Centrifuge and also needs an Inactive Dragon Egg, so plan for it later in the game.^[27]

Heated CentrifugeMod recipe

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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

Unverified The sources don't show the Powered Centrifuge recipe or what the Heated Centrifuge does better than the Powered Centrifuge.

Nest tiers

The chapter has a separate group of nest quests. One asks for all nine wood nests at once: Oak Nest, Dark Oak Nest, Jungle Nest, Spruce Nest, Birch Nest, Acacia Nest, Cherry Nest, Mangrove Nest and Bamboo Nest. That is a quest in "?".^[25]

• Overworld nests: Sand Nest in a quest in "?", Gravel Nest in a quest in "?", Snow Nest in a quest in "?" and Stone Nest in a quest in "?".^[25]
• Nether nests: Soul Sand Nest in a quest in "?", Glowstone Nest in a quest in "?", Nether Brick Nest in a quest in "?" and Nether Gold Nest in a quest in "?".^[25]
• End and late nests: End Stone Nest in a quest in "?" and Obsidian Nest in a quest in "?".^[25]

The nest recipes get more expensive as you go. Most overworld nests and the soul sand and glowstone nests use a cheap recipe. The End Stone Nest, Nether Brick Nest, Quartz Nest and Slimy Nest cost more. The Obsidian Nest and Nether Gold Nest are the priciest.^[27]

Nether Gold NestChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Diamond Sword
• any gold ore

Recipe id: productivebees:nests/nether_gold_nest

Obsidian NestMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Diamond Sword
• Obsidian

Recipe id: productivebees:nests/obsidian_nest

Hives and upgrades

Resource bees need advanced hives to produce resource combs. You can break and move an advanced hive with the bees still inside, and you don't need silk touch to do it. Attaching an expansion box raises the bee capacity from 3 to 5 and lets you install upgrades.^[8][30]

Upgrades are the next tier of your bee setup. Productivity upgrades raise the combs made per trip. Speed upgrades shorten the time bees spend inside the hive. Range upgrades extend Farmer and Collector bees past their default of 4. There is also an upgrade that simulates flower trips for better server performance.^[35]

Bee tiers

Your bees move up in tiers too. Solitary bees spawn from nests in the overworld. Wild bees live mostly in the nether and the end. Most hive bees are bred from solitary bees and other hive bees, and JEI shows every bee recipe and flower requirement.^[3][4][8]

1. Crystalline Bees live in nether quartz nests. Breed one with an Ashy Mining Bee to get an Iron Bee, or with a Mason Bee to get a Gold Bee.^[5][43][44]
2. A Glowing Bee and a Chocolate Mining Bee make a Redstone Bee. A Redstone Bee and a Blue Banded Bee then make a Lapis Bee.^[9][45]
3. An Ender Bee and a Lapis Bee make a Diamond Bee.^[10]
4. A Slimy Bee and a Diamond Bee make an Emerald Bee. An Emerald Bee and a Lapis Bee then make an Experience Bee.^[46][47]
5. Feed a Diamond Bee a block of netherite to convert it into an Ancient Bee.^[11]

Comb quests

Once you finish the honey treat quest, a large set of comb quests opens up. These include Sugarbag Honeycomb in a quest in "?", Ghostly Comb in a quest in "?", and a Treat on a Stick plus a saddle in a quest in "?". Separate quests ask for Powdery Comb in a quest in "?" and Milky Comb in a quest in "?".^[25]

For the milky comb, you need a Rancher Bee. It milks nearby cows, sheep or llamas to make Milky Comb in its hive.^[17][27]

Productive Bees ties into a lot of other mods in this pack. Items from other mods can turn your bees into new species, other mods' machines and rituals can create bees, your combs spin out other mods' materials in the centrifuge, and bee products show up in some big pack-added crafts.^[27]

Converting bees with other mods' items

Some hive bees aren't bred at all. You get them by giving a specific item to a bee, and many of those conversion items come from other mods. You can check every bee recipe in JEI.^[8][27]

• Applied Energistics 2: a Fluix Pearl gives you the fluix bee.^[27]
• Just Dire Things: each goo tier gives a different bee. Primogel Goo gives ferricore, Blazebloom Goo gives blazegold, VoidShimmer Goo gives celestigem and Shadowpulse Goo gives eclipsealloy.^[27]
• Oritech: the Sheol Fire Bucket, Strange Matter Bucket and Sulfuric Acid Bucket each convert a bee, and Plutonium Dust gives the uranite crystal bee.^[27]
• Mystical Agriculture: a Prosperity Block gives the prosperity bee and a Soulium Dagger gives the soulium bee.^[27]
• Industrial Foregoing: an Ether Gas Bucket gives the ether gas bee and Pink Slime gives the pink slimy bee.^[27]
• Mekanism: a Liquid Lithium Bucket gives the lithium bee. The pack also added its own conversion that turns a bee into the wasted radioactive bee with a Polonium Pellet.^[27]
• There are more conversions using items from Actually Additions, Forbidden & Arcanus, EvilCraft, Extreme Reactors, RFTools Base, Modern Industrialization, Create Enchantment Industry, Undergarden and All the Tweaks. One example is the ATM Star Block, which gives the starry bee.^[27]

Bees made with other mods' machines

Some bees come from other mods' crafting systems. With Applied Energistics 2 transformation recipes, you combine a bee with items like Charged Certus Quartz Crystal and Sky Stone in lava, or with Entro Dust in water. Ars Nouveau's Enchanting Apparatus uses a Source Gem or a Wilden Wing. The Ice and Fire dragonforge makes dragonsteel bees from Fire Dragon Blood, Ice Dragon Blood or Lightning Dragon Blood.^[27]

Spawn Egg Configurable BeeMod recipe

Transform (ae2)

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

Recipe id: productivebees:ae2/transform/sky_bronze_bee

Combs full of other mods' materials

The centrifuge is where your bees pay off across the whole pack. Combs give Allthemodium, Vibranium and Unobtainium nuggets, all the Ender IO alloy nuggets plus Grains of Infinity, Flux Dust, Neptunium Nugget, Source Gem, EvilCraft dark gems, and even Patrick Star. Every one of them also gives you Wax.^[27]

The pack changed several centrifuge recipes. In this pack, the brass, bronze, constantan, electrum, enderium, invar, lumium, signalum and steel combs give All the Ores nuggets, the sulfur comb gives Sulfur, and the latex comb gives Plastic.^[27]

Wax, honey and endgame crafts

Your bee by-products have uses outside the mod too. You can compress a Wax Block into a Wax Block 1x and decompress it back. The pack added a recipe that turns Wax into Bumblezone Carvable Wax. It also added recipes that dye Petrified Honey into the Dyenamics colours, such as Amber Petrified Honey.^[27]

Carvable WaxAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

8 × Wax

Recipe id: minecraft:kjs/the_bumblezone_carvable_wax

Bees are also part of the pack's progression. The pack-added recipes for the Dragon Soul and the Modular Machinery modular_machinery_reborn:time_counter both need a Productive Bees bee, so keep your apiary running into the late game.^[27]

Dragon SoulAdded by the pack

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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

Time CounterAdded by the pack

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Modularium Plate	Upgrade Time 2	Modularium Plate
Empty slot	Casing Plain	Time Traveller Sapling
Modularium Plate	Hand of Time	Modularium Plate

Recipe id: minecraft:kjs/modular_machinery_reborn_time_counter

This mod shows up in three quest chapters in the pack. Almost all of its quests are in its own productive_bees chapter, with a few more in the rust_free_and_oiled and chapter_2_the_star chapters. The quests are untitled in the quest files, so this guide groups them by what they ask you to hand in.^[25][48][49]

Getting started

Your first bee quest is a quest in "?", which asks for a Bee Cage. Once that's done, a quest in "?" unlocks and asks for a Nest Locator, so you can go hunting for wild nests.^[25]

Gear and machines

The next group of quests all share the same prerequisite, so you can do them in any order once they unlock.^[25]

• a quest in "?" asks for a Honey Treat. Do this one early, because it unlocks most of the honeycomb quests in the chapter.^[25]
• a quest in "?" asks for a Feeding Slab.^[25]
• a quest in "?" asks for a Bee Jar.^[25]
• a quest in "?" accepts any one of the Centrifuge, Powered Centrifuge or Heated Centrifuge.^[25]
• a quest in "?" asks for a BaBee Incubator.^[25]
• a quest in "?" asks for a Gene Indexer.^[25]
• a quest in "?" asks for a Bottler.^[25]
• a quest in "?" asks for a Catcher.^[25]
• a quest in "?" asks for a Honeycomb.^[25]

Unverified The sources don't identify which quest unlocks this machine group or the nest group below.

Nest collecting

A separate branch is all about gathering nests, and all of its quests share one prerequisite. The big one is a quest in "?", which asks for the full set of wood nests: Oak Nest, Dark Oak Nest, Jungle Nest, Spruce Nest, Birch Nest, Acacia Nest, Cherry Nest, Mangrove Nest and Bamboo Nest.^[25]

• Overworld nests: a quest in "?" for a Stone Nest, a quest in "?" for a Dirt Nest, a quest in "?" for a Sand Nest, a quest in "?" for a Gravel Nest, a quest in "?" for a Snow Nest, a quest in "?" for a Reed Nest, a quest in "?" for a Slimy Nest and a quest in "?" for an Obsidian Nest.^[25]
• Nether nests: a quest in "?" for a Glowstone Nest, a quest in "?" for a Soul Sand Nest, a quest in "?" for a Nether Brick Nest, a quest in "?" for a Nether Gold Nest and a quest in "?" for a Quartz Nest.^[25]
• End nest: a quest in "?" for an End Stone Nest.^[25]

Honeycomb collection

Most of the chapter is a big wall of quests that each ask for a Honeycomb. Most of them unlock after the Honey Treat quest a quest in "?", and a second large group unlocks from a different prerequisite. The quest data only lists the generic Honeycomb item, so open each quest in-game to see which comb it actually wants.^[25]

A few quests ask for special combs instead. After the Honey Treat quest, you'll find a quest in "?" for a Sugarbag Honeycomb and a quest in "?" for a Ghostly Comb. The other group has a quest in "?" for a Powdery Comb and a quest in "?" for a Milky Comb. The Honey Treat quest also unlocks a quest in "?", which wants a Treat on a Stick plus a Saddle.^[25]

The final chain

Near the end, several honeycomb quests link together, and some need more than one earlier quest done before they open.^[25]

1. a quest in "?" leads to a quest in "?", which leads to a quest in "?".^[25]
2. a quest in "?" and a quest in "?" together unlock a quest in "?".^[25]
3. From there, a quest in "?" also needs a quest in "?", and a quest in "?" opens up next.^[25]
4. a quest in "?" feeds into two quests. a quest in "?" also needs a quest in "?", and a quest in "?" also needs a quest in "?", which unlocks from a quest in "?".^[25]
5. Finish both of those to unlock a quest in "?", the last link in the chain.^[25]

Other chapters

In the rust_free_and_oiled chapter, a quest in "?", a quest in "?" and a quest in "?" each ask for a Honeycomb, and each has its own separate prerequisite.^[48]

In the chapter_2_the_star chapter, a quest in "?" asks for a Spawn Egg Configurable Bee.^[49]

Unverified The chapter_2_the_star chapter also contains quest 750B6316267CF574, but its tasks couldn't be confirmed.

Productive Bees has been part of All the Mods 10 since version 2.2 or earlier. The current pack, 4.5, ships version 1.21.1-13.8.0.^[1]

Version bumps by pack release

The pack changelogs only record which version of the mod was updated. They don't say what changed inside each update. Here is every bump on record, newest first:^{[50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60]}

• 4.5: updated from 1.21.1-13.7.5 to 1.21.1-13.8.0.^[50]
• 4.3: updated from 1.21.1-13.7.1 to 1.21.1-13.7.5.^[51]
• 4.2: updated from 1.21.1-13.7.0 to 1.21.1-13.7.1.^[52]
• 4.1: updated from 1.21.1-13.6.18 to 1.21.1-13.7.0.^[53]
• 4.0: updated from 1.21.1-13.6.17 to 1.21.1-13.6.18.^[54]
• 3.2: updated from 1.21.1-13.6.16 to 1.21.1-13.6.17.^[55]
• 2.47: updated from 1.21.1-13.6.15 to 1.21.1-13.6.16.^[56]
• 2.43: updated from 1.21.1-13.6.13 to 1.21.1-13.6.15.^[57]
• 2.42: updated from 1.21.1-13.6.11 to 1.21.1-13.6.13.^[58]
• 2.33: updated from 1.21.1-13.6.10 to 1.21.1-13.6.11.^[59]
• 2.31: updated from 1.21.1-13.6.9 to 1.21.1-13.6.10.^[60]

The two bigger steps in that list are pack 4.1, which moved the mod from 1.21.1-13.6.18 to 1.21.1-13.7.0, and pack 4.5, which moved it to 1.21.1-13.8.0.^[50][53]

Unverified What actually changed in each Productive Bees release, such as new bees, recipe tweaks or fixes, is unverified. No changelogs for the shipped jars were available, so check the mod's own release notes before relying on any specific change.