Anyone else having issues with bees not stacking? I have at least two sets of drones for each species of forestry (not sure about binnie's or magical bees) and they seem to behave like they have different traits ie with some princesses they make 2/whatever unstacking drones.
These are freshly harvested bees strait from the field being shoved into bee houses
That is due to the bees traits. There are 13 traits, ranging from breed, speed, lifespan, effect, and so on, and with each of those you could have simple traits, like species, forest, jungle, etc. Or more complex ones like lifespan, that can have six stages to it, or effect with any number of stages.
For drones to stack, everything has to be exactly the same. One trait being different and the bee wont stack.
If you are mixing bees, they will have a mix of each others traits plus whatever traits they started with. One may be nocturnal and one not, so some may have it and some may not, then one of them may also have a high lifespan, and the other not, so now you may have bees that are nocturnal and long lifespan, or just nocturnal, or just short lifespam, thus none would stack.
It gets complicated but also a bit easy to 'purify' a species so they always produse the exact same bee traits, and thats by constantly breeding the same trait bees (the ones that stack) to the same princess and now allowing any of the drones to re-breed unless they start stacking with the main stack. Once you get that perfect bee, and get a good stack of drones, you can in effect turn any bee into that exact same kind just by breeding in the drones.
