Bees are great! But Minecraft beekeeping leaves a bit to be desired...

Better Beekeeping adds some small enhancements to the vanilla beekeeping experience, with a focus on small farming rather than automation and industry. The mod adds new styles of crafted hives for all the vanilla woods, a Bee Smoker block that lets you avoid getting stung without the open flame, and several new flavors of honey!

It also adds a new recipe for a lead, for the more peaceful farming types out there: replace the slime ball with a block of honey to craft a single lead.

Supported Versions

1.18.2, 1.19.2, 1.19.3, 1.20.x

I am no longer supporting any 1.16 versions.

Bee Smoker

Crafted using a campfire, flint and steel, and iron ingots
Place it under your beehive and turn it on or off with a simple right-click
No more singed bees!

New Beehives!

Different hives for each of the vanilla woods!
Easier visual indicator that the hive is full, from any direction.
Hives now also show when they're almost full - you can see honey beginning to peek out the door.

Flavored Honey

Bees gathering nectar from the same type of flower, or flowers that make the same flavor of honey, will give you a flavored honey when you collect it from the hive.
Bee Nests and vanilla Beehives do not produce flavored honey.
Each flavor of honey will cure poison, like regular honey, but will also either cure a negative effect or grant a positive one!

Cool Honey comes from Blue Orchids, Dandelions Peonies and Pitcher Plants and cures Hunger.

Warm Honey comes from Tulips and Roses and cures Weakness.

Lively Honey comes from Oxeye Daisies, Lily of the Valley and Pink Petals and grants Regeneration.

Spicy Honey comes from Cornflowers, Allium and Lilacs and cures Slowness.

Bright Honey comes from Azure Bluets, Poppies, Sunflowers and Torchflowers and cures Blindness.

Strange Honey comes from Wither Roses and cures Wither.

Cross-Mod Compatibility

Do you want your own custom flowers to create flavored honey? Now you can! Add your own flowers to the Better Beekeeping flower block tags in your data and you're good to go.

Seasons Compatibility: Hibernating Bees

With Better Beekeeping, your bees can hibernate in cold weather and climates, staying in the hive until it warms up again. Since temperatures are location-specific by default, this will only really come into play if you're using a seasonal mod.

This feature is off by default - set it to true in your config file to turn it on!