Advice from anyone who breeds bees!

[NateSci]

So following this amazing guide (WARNING ITS A PURE SPOILER LINK!!!!)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgYOUdPlRXN-dHpUbUlQaVVEdW8yN2RWbnZWbENBMlE#gid=0

I am mass producing pure pred imperials and tropical and such and want to start expanding out from the norm.

What I am trying to breed is a Stone bee which is the beginning of the mineral line of bees. The docs say breed a common and rocky. So ive been taking pure common drops and breeding them with Rocky princesses that I get from my quarry. I ALWAYS get either hybrids of the two (which I also try to breed) or most of the time, cultivated.

I use 3 Soul Frames for highest mutation possible.

Ive gone through about 50+ or more bees and not one Stone drone or princess....im going nuts here, any tips?

 

[MilConDoin]

Use

Spoiler

diligent + rocky

 

[NateSci]

I will try, thanks for the advice sir.

Was the list wrong that I posts above or is this another way to do it?

 

[MilConDoin]

It may be, that the common+rocky combination was valid at some point. It definetly isn't valid at the present time.

 

[NateSci]

Oi! Thank you, do you have a more up-to-date spreadsheet?

Also sleep well 40 Rocky princesses D:

 

[MilConDoin]

I'm doing a wiki together with a few other boardies, (plan to do that started at http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/beekeeping-guide-yay-or-nay.7173/). Hopefully it will be ready to be released soon.

 

[NateSci]

TY

 

[Dark0_0firE]

You also dont need to discard all those princesses... just breed them into something useful... Or save them for later and use serums to just change them into what something you might need later. I always find princesses to rare to just throw away.

 

[Quesenek]

Really its changed? That sucks.

 

[MilConDoin]

Also: They are from the rocky branch, just find them a bunch of diligent drones and let them duke it out, who will be the fastest to resilient