Beealyzer vs Analyzer

[Torigoma]

What is better? does the Analyzer use less Honey?

 

[WayofTime]

Analyzer is used purely for setups where automated identification is required. This is only really useful for making liquid DNA. It costs the same amount of honey.

 

[Heliomance]

This is only really useful for making liquid DNA.

Lies. If that's all you can think of doing with automated bee identification I'm sorry for you. I'm planning on building an automated bee inoculation station, which will give any bee I put in it all the best traits I've discovered so far.

 

[Bomb Bloke]

Sounds good on paper, but... why not just breed your princesses with drones that already have all your best traits, then inoculate just the race you want over them?

 

[Heliomance]

Three main reasons: one, because I'm being silly and my bee breeding room is underground (so every bee needs cave and nocturnal in order to work at all). Two, because it's a lot easier to automate with newly mutated bees than breeding the traits on the old fashioned way. Three, because I can.

 

[slay_mithos]

The main downside of the analyser is that you still need a beealyser to see the different traits.
All you can see otherwise is if the species is pure or not, as well as some active traits, but not the inactives, and certainly not all.

But yeah, for people liking to automate some steps, the machine is really good, and if combined with the ComputerCraft block (bee analyser), you could even have a breeding automation, or a system that automatically extract new traits when discovered.

 

[Jess887cp]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the analyzer also work on trees? That's one of the main reasons I'd use it personally.

*checks wiki* Yep, it works on trees too.