Not the bees is a skyblock/overworld quest pack. With custom island generation or custom hexlands world options and quests you will be guided through bee breeding and learn all the finer details of mods like forestry, gendustry, binnie's and career bees. Unlike most skyblock packs there is no ex nihilo or similar mods. Even in the overworld mode you will find no ores. Instead you will have to breed bees in order to produce basic resources and your first stages of automation will also require career bees.
With many different mods there is plenty for even the experienced player to do. There is a bee store included in the quest book where you can trade honey and other bee related items to obtain special rewards and an "Easy mode" option intended for newer players who just want to learn how bee breeding works.
As of version 2.0 Not The Bees also integrates magic mods such as botania, thaumcraft, blood magic and astral sorcery. These mods round out the offerings and give you many options to progress late game. There is also quest lines to introduce you to each of these mods.
Can you breed your way to victory and unlock the power of ProjectE?
Or will you succumb and say "Not the Bees!"
Join our official server included with the pack!
This pack plays very well with the Sphax texture pack, you can find the fantastic patch for Not The Bees here on their forums. Special thanks goes to Novamanga for compiling and maintaining this.
Check out Gaming On Caffeine's great first look of the pack on youtube for some handy hints on how to start! :)
Join our Discord or if you have any questions, need a hand with bee's or just want to say hi!
For a full mod list please see the dependency page and thank you to all the fantastic mod makers that make their work available for all of us to play with.
Please report any bugs or issues with the pack on the curseforge issue page or in the issues discord channel.
Next update can we get a revision of the quest stuff? There's a lot of grammar issues, including the first quest being simply called "were are the bees?" and having the line "welcome to no the bees"
Please give us a bed in hex island starting inventory...
Question: In skyblock mode, how does one get started on Astral sorcery? Doesn't that require the Astral Crafting Table?
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Start a new hexlandes world with 2.1.0, there is no apiary or bee house in starting inventory, is it a bug?
I have done two intro quests till where you get bees and apiarist's chests for 16 cobblestones and 16 woods
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So I noticed when I create the bee island it doesn't have the glowstone blocks anymore? I tried doing another world to see if it was just a glitch but there isn't the glowstone blocks. Secondly half the time when I spawn the bee island it drops me into the void and if it doesn't I'm a half block in the ground.
I'm not a native of English.
Thank you for making such a nice modpack. I rewarded a Philosopher's Stone in this modpack and completed all the quest but the "Easy mode enabled!" quest. I enjoyed it a lot. Then now I have some suggestions.
1. Some piece of Soul Sand should be provided via easier quests. Nether Wart are provided via quests. However, these can be planted only on Soul Sand. I know they can be obtained by a lot of Scrap Box, quests, and Bees. However, all of these ways are very difficult.
2. You should suggest the way of RF generating via quest. Early RF Generating is very difficult in this modpack. ID Generator is easy to use, but it emits a very little RF. Multi-placed Forestry Machines and Genetic Imprinter consume a lot of RF, so RF generating is a difficult problem. I recommend Thermoelectric Generator or Peat-fired Engine as early RF generating.
3. Diamond and Emerald should be crafted back into Fragments. Compacting Drawer can't craft Fragments into whole gem.
4. A piece of Uranium ore should be provided via a quest. Radioactive bee requiers it as a flower.
5. Wither Skeleton Skull quest is completed immediately because the last quest rewards it.
6. Graphite Electrode Blueprint should be provided via a quest. Graphite Electrode Blueprint with full durability is required for a quest. The craftable blueprint is not usable.
7. Dark Oak Sapling can't be obtained via the sapling quest. It is required for Tree Breeding.
8. A piece of Iridium should be provided via a quest. It can be replicated, but initial one should be provided externally.
9. The way of Cobble Gen should be suggested by a quest. Automated Cobble Gen can be made by Integrated Tunnels. I noticed it after clearing all the quests.
10. ProjectE Philosopher's Stone should have EMC. It have lost EMC because its recipe was removed. This causes that most of items from ProE don't have EMC.
Thank you.
The following line really needs a bad pun...
Or will you succumb and say "Not the Bees!"
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Or will you succomb and say "Not the Bees!"
Hey i Really want to play this pack with a mate but we cant seem to make a server that runs the pack. Could you help us out and create a host server installer? if not does anyone have a server?
Got a question. As I am looking into a modpack to introduce friends into the wonders of bees. And I'm undecided between your "Not the Bees" and jtmnf's "Bee Happy". What do you offer that "Bee Happy" lacks or doesn't do well? As I tested early game of both and yours doesn't seem massively newbie friendly as it forces people to breed quiet a bit early on so new players could get bored early while "Bee Happy" just has a wall early game. I do really want opinion(s)
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I would say though that jtmnf has said they really enjoy Not The Bees and are more than happy for me to say Not The Bees is the spiritual successor of BeeHappy :)
Great pack! Now I love them bees.
(I added ExtraUtilities2 because I needed automation)
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I have an issue where the quest A few spare drones keeps prompting me that it's complete. I completed it and claimed my drones and now it continuously prompts me that it's complete.
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This issue should be fixed in the newest version
I'm trying to install, but when I search for it in the Twitch app, it isn't showing up. Do you have instructions for installing without Twitch?
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