Bee Breeding Thread.
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I just use the apiarist pipes with 3 per purebred hive. The first is set with items/any bees to filter the items, next is right above the hive with any bees/anything and the last is right above a chest with any bees/ anything then it feeds into a void pipe. I have a chest of pure breed drones and no over flow. can be done with diamond pipes as well by blocking up the exits on the diamond pipe with cobble or something to force them either into a chest/apiary or down the empty exit. Redpower has made us sloppy with our pipe building, its nice to be back to basics and the good ole diamond pipe.
Is a nocturnal bee only active at night, or is it tolerant of night (meaning: produces day and night).
Same for cave dwelling bees and the need to see the sky?
And another question for the need to see the sky: Only the apiary or all flowers? Usable flowers on the whole 9x9 field will increase the production, correct?
Same for cave dwelling bees and the need to see the sky?
And another question for the need to see the sky: Only the apiary or all flowers? Usable flowers on the whole 9x9 field will increase the production, correct?
1 imperial princess, 1 austere princess, 1 industrious princess, 2 diligent princesses, 2 sinister princesses, bunch of common, bunch of cultivated, loads of drones from everything. Working on breeding all the top bees 
Produces day and night, cave dwellers same either works, only the apiary needs to see the sky (and glass doesn't count as a blocker), flowers nah one is enough the bees create flowers while working, in the area. Only actual flowers though not the other "flowers".
Thank you very much.
But about the flowers: Will the amount of flowers increase production? I mean: If the bees can only work with 20 instead of 80 flowers (maybe because rest of the space is needed for different stuff), will that affect the produce? Can multiple apiaries use the same flowers without a hit on production?
Afaik as long as there is at least one valid flower in range to allow production, more will not increase production.
Multiple apiaries can cheerfully share a flower\flowers as well.
That is correct. The number of flowers doesn't affect the production rate. The only thing that will affect it is the frames (untreated, proven, etc) and an Alveary instead of the apiaries.
Thanks, that helps me for the future.
But what are these frames you speak of? I've dug through the Forestry Wiki, but no info was there to be found.
Just type frame into nei. You can only make untreated and impregnated frames, the proven are bought from villagers.
They make a dramatic difference in production speed.
Also, theres a 3rd thing that affects production: The bees themselves. If your goal is production start breeding them towards fastest.
They make a dramatic difference in production speed.
Also, theres a 3rd thing that affects production: The bees themselves. If your goal is production start breeding them towards fastest.
I've "liberated" several apiarist Villagers... yeah... Liberate is the word
The lucky part is my reset (4th trade) on 3 of them is the wood for apiary... So I have a stack or two of apiaries with nothing to do but I get all the proven frames I desire.
And my wood.. HAHAHA i have 30K-ish wood in an exo barrel, and another 26K saplings.. lol I love my farms.
The lucky part is my reset (4th trade) on 3 of them is the wood for apiary... So I have a stack or two of apiaries with nothing to do but I get all the proven frames I desire.
And my wood.. HAHAHA i have 30K-ish wood in an exo barrel, and another 26K saplings.. lol I love my farms.
Ah, so I have to use the frames with my Apiaries/Alvearies, good to know. Maybe my honeycomb production will now exceed 0,8/queen.
They can't be used in an Alveary. The frames were added as a way to nerf apiaries on servers. Basically, apiaries had their productions reduced by 50% (someone correct me if the numbers are wrong), but with frames, they get closer to what they used to be pre-nerf. Untreated -> Impregnated -> Proven. Each level improving the production by some % more than the one before it. As mentioned, Proven are only from villagers. Alvearies on the other hand, function as if they have better than Proven Frames already integrated.
Let me ask something:
I saw an item int he NEI, that called Ice Shard, one of the components to make crushed ice. This item is from Forestry, and somewhere on minecraft.net forums i saw some comments that said this is from some of the Frozen Branch Bees, called Glacial Bees (i saw another alternative name for these bees too). Is this some myth, or are they real? And if they real, whats the combination?
(sorry for my english)
I saw an item int he NEI, that called Ice Shard, one of the components to make crushed ice. This item is from Forestry, and somewhere on minecraft.net forums i saw some comments that said this is from some of the Frozen Branch Bees, called Glacial Bees (i saw another alternative name for these bees too). Is this some myth, or are they real? And if they real, whats the combination?
(sorry for my english)
That was my first thought too, but then why is it in the NEI? (and ExBees are not in right now if im correct)