About:
Productive Bees adds resource bees and advanced beehives allowing you to put your bees to work creating resources fully automated. Productive bees are just as derpy as it's vanilla cousin, but makes up for it in usefulness.
This mod adds 50 new bees and 32 new advanced beehives capable of producing your favorite resources. Some of the bees are solitary and will only live in solitary nests around the world.
If you have questions hop on over to the discord server
Blocks:
Advanced Beehive
- Bees inhabiting the advanced beehive will produce resources for you
- Resources can be extracted automatically
- Honey will be harvested automatically
- Advanced hives are comfortable and bees living in here will not mind the hive being harvested
- Can be expanded using an expansion box
- Comes in your favorite wood flavour if combined with Buzzier Bees
Expansion Box
- Make room for more bees in your advanced hives
- Adds room for 2 more bees for a total of 5
- Looks good
Centrifuge
- Extract resources from combs produced by your bees.
- Get beeswax if added by another mod
Slimy Nest
- Home for slimy bees, found in swamps
Solitary Nests
- Homes for solitary bees can be found dotted around the world. They will live almost anywhere.
- Sand, Stone, Dirt, Gravel, Wood, Glowstone, Quartz ore, Obsidian and End Store
Dragon Egg Hive
- Hollow dragon eggs make great homes for Draconic Bees
Items:
Bee Cage
- Capture and keep your bees safe during transport
- Ugly texture, super useful
Honey Treat
- Calms down angry bees
- Heals bees
- Baby bees who eat this will grow strong
Honey Bucket
- Makes a mess
Bees:
Iron Bee:
- Produces iron
- Must be bred
Gold Bee:
- Produces Gold
- Must be bred
Lapis Bee:
- Produces Lapis Lazuli
- Must be bred
Redstone Bee:
- Produces redstone
- Must be bred
Emerald Bee:
- Produces emeralds
- Must be bred
Diamond Bee:
- Produces diamonds
- Must be bred
Crystalline Bee:
- Produces nether quartz
- Found in the nether
Glowing Bee:
- Produces glowstone
- Found in the nether
Magmatic Bee:
- Produces magma cream
- Found in the nether
Blazing Bee:
- Produces blaze powder
- Must be bred
Ender Bee:
- Produces ender pearls
- Found in the end
- Only likes the sweet taste of chorus flowers
- Lazy, prefers to teleport instead of flying
Skeletal Bee:
- Produces bonemeal
- Moves into unlit and available hives during nighttime
ZomBee:
- Produces rotten flesh
- Moves into unlit and available hives during nighttime
Wither Bee:
- Only likes withered roses
Draconic Bee:
- Found in the end (rare)
- Resources gathered from this bee can be crafted into dragon eggs
Dye Bee:
- Produces dyes based on which flowers it has pollinated
Lumber Bee
- Collects wood chips from nearby trees
- Wood chips can be crafted into logs
Rancher Bee
- Milk is this bees sustenance of choice. Make sure a willing cow is nearby.
Farmer Bee
- Harvests nearby farm plants.
Hoarder Bee
- Collects items from the ground and puts them in it's hive.
Solitary Bees:
- Different packaging
- Lives in solitary nests all around the world
- Doesn't want to live in hives with other bees
- Used for breeding new species
Modded resource bees
- Bees for Copper, Tin, Brass, Bronze, Titanium, Lead, Silver, Electrum, Osmium, Refined Osmium, Refined Glowstone, Steel, Platinum, Uranium, Invar, Nickel, Zinc, Tungsten, Amber, Aluminium, Plastic, Silicon, Ender Biotite, Allthemodium, Vibranium and Unobtainium.
- Available if the resource is added by another mod.
Fluids:
Honey
- Sticky
- Heals bees
Wiki
It's a work in progress https://github.com/JDKDigital/productive-bees/wiki
Mod integrations:
Buzzier Bees: Different wood variants of the advanced beehive and expansion box are available if Buzzier Bees is installed along with the mods providing wood types for BB beehives.
The Bumblezone: Productive bees has a chance to spawn in The Bumblezone.
Special thanks to Bagel, author of Buzzier Bees, for permission to reuse beehive textures for advanced versions of the beehives introduced in BB.
Hello, the discord server invite says it has expired. Also, I wanted to report that the Dye Bee is missing it's texture in JEI for 1.15.
In reply to WenXin2:
Hello, apparently I am an idiot at making discord invite links. A new one has bee posted.
The Dye bee texture is fixed for the next version.
In reply to LobsterJonn:
Thanks!
Can i ask whether Bees will lose their health after produce comb? Since some my bees often lode their health time to time after get out of the beehive....
In reply to rucasu_kun:
They do not, in the nest bigger update I am even going to have the regain a little health after every trip to the hive. There's a few things that could damage the bees though, they do not avoid campfire, which is why the advanced hives do not require them, they do not avoid water and they often get stuck inside blocks when exiting the hive or nest.
can you add a bee in for powah?
The book has the error purple and black model/icon on my end. Enigmatica 6. Is this a problem with the mod or the pack?
In reply to RockTB:
Can you open a ticket in the issue tracker and include your debug.log file?
In reply to LobsterJonn:
Just saw this in my email, I apologize. I will do so immediately.
In reply to RockTB:
Seems like the issue is with Patchouli https://github.com/Vazkii/Patchouli/issues/299
In reply to LobsterJonn:
Just tsaw this too. Still want a ticket?
In reply to RockTB:
Nah, the log wont show anything, Just waiting for Patchouli to work things out.
With your current update now (1.16.1-0.3.4) according to the changelogs, information has been added to Patchouli. Does this mean we need Patchouli now to use this Mod?
In reply to modeeves:
It's not required, it just enables the book guide. You will just a see an error in the log about the recipe, but everything works without it.
In reply to LobsterJonn:
Alright, thanks!
I've been having a lot of problems with trying to get bees to work. I'd love to ask you some questions, but the link to your Discord doesn't work. Could you make a new invite or send it to me?
The pack I'm playing on has both your mod and Buzzier Bees. For example, I'm having a lot of trouble trying to get bees to produce their resource: I put Crystalline Bees in the hives a while ago, and now, no matter what kind of bees they are, the bees only produce more Quartz Combs. And this is just one issue! I'm really interested in this, because it seems like such a strange problem to be having.
My end goal is Blazing Bees. I saw that someone else mentioned you have to place items near them of their type, but I don't know what would qualify for them.
In reply to fisheverlasting:
Which version are you on?
So glad to see how far this mod has grown Lobster! Keep it up bro! :D
In reply to mrg_wolf:
Thanks! :)
Am I missing how to view this new in-game Patchoulli based guidebook?