All puns aside, they really do.
For those of you who don't know, swarmer hives are beehives that spawn in the world when you place a swarmer in an alveary and provide it with royal jelly or aromatic lumps. They basically look like brown versions of your average beehive, and just like other beehives, they give off light.
Sorry, this picture doesn't really show off the light emitting properties of the hive, but it has a luminescence of 10.
Normally, I would consider these hives pretty useless. While the bees you get from breaking them are clones of the bees in the alveary at the time they spawned, they will have the swarmer trait meaning they will, after a few generations, stop producing princesses. However, they do look very good as building blocks, and go especially well with the orange and brown theme many bee related blocks have.
Wanting to harness this newfound building block, I decided to throw together a mockup of what I might eventually do with them in my survival world.
A basic overview of the mockup.
I think the tops of the hives look especially nifty.
The swarmer blocks themselves can also make cool highlights for bee builds using cherry wood. Almost looks like you have beehives built into your walls. They are fairly expensive though!
Now, to do all this with the swarmer hives, I had to set up lots of alvearies maxed out with swarmer blocks and hope one would spawn where I wanted it to. Just kidding, that would be miserable.
Most of you should know that beehives can be moved with the portal gun, but this can be taken one step further. When you attempt to place the hive back down, if it ends up occupying a space that already contains a block, the hive will drop as an item, similar to a falling sand entity.
For those of you who don't know, swarmer hives are beehives that spawn in the world when you place a swarmer in an alveary and provide it with royal jelly or aromatic lumps. They basically look like brown versions of your average beehive, and just like other beehives, they give off light.
Sorry, this picture doesn't really show off the light emitting properties of the hive, but it has a luminescence of 10.
Normally, I would consider these hives pretty useless. While the bees you get from breaking them are clones of the bees in the alveary at the time they spawned, they will have the swarmer trait meaning they will, after a few generations, stop producing princesses. However, they do look very good as building blocks, and go especially well with the orange and brown theme many bee related blocks have.
Wanting to harness this newfound building block, I decided to throw together a mockup of what I might eventually do with them in my survival world.
A basic overview of the mockup.
I think the tops of the hives look especially nifty.
The swarmer blocks themselves can also make cool highlights for bee builds using cherry wood. Almost looks like you have beehives built into your walls. They are fairly expensive though!
Now, to do all this with the swarmer hives, I had to set up lots of alvearies maxed out with swarmer blocks and hope one would spawn where I wanted it to. Just kidding, that would be miserable.
Most of you should know that beehives can be moved with the portal gun, but this can be taken one step further. When you attempt to place the hive back down, if it ends up occupying a space that already contains a block, the hive will drop as an item, similar to a falling sand entity.
