Beekeeping, What am I doing wrong?

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Sherio88

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Here is a video of my issue. I'm fairly new to bee breeding, and have been reading up when I have problems or questions, but I can't figure out why my queens aren't producing anything.

I have mushrooms nearby the marshy queen, and redstone torches near the other one, but I dunno if there's anything else that might be keeping them from decaying into the next generation? I run them thru the beealyzer for ya in the video so you can get the specs.

Thanks in advance for any help :)

 
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whizzball1

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The speed is slowest. This means that your bees have an extremely low chance to create items every bee tick. Bee Ticks are approximately 27.5 seconds. You are just extremely unlucky.
 
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Sherio88

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But if I just keep em in there every 30 seconds they MAY go down? that's cool. I thought it had SOMETHING to do with speed but I wasn't clear with any one answer I looked up! Thanks!
 
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whizzball1

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Welcome!
What do you mean they may go down?
Every bee tick they go down an amount, no matter how much you try.
The longer the life, the less it goes down per tick.
Considering that this is a chance, luck does not bide over through generations.
Say the chance for a Slowest Heroic was 10%. Then you have a 1/10 chance to get a product every bee tick. If we were dealing with Mathematics, we would say that you would get it every 10 bee ticks. Of course, in real life out of mathematics, you could get nothing for a thousand bee ticks and than get something every bee tick for the next 100 bee ticks.
 
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I thought you were supposed to be good at bees whizz?
whizzball1 said:
The speed is slowest. This means that your bees have an extremely low chance to create items every bee tick. Bee Ticks are approximately 27.5 seconds. You are just extremely unlucky.
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Bee production has fuck all to do with chance, slowest means every (x) seconds, a product is made. x seconds later, BOOM! Another product. EVERY SINGLE TIME! It's like an RP2 timer, if you set it at 7 seconds (disregarding lag) there's no dice roll to see if a redstone pulse is created every 7 seconds.
Slow would be (y) seconds
etc
etc
etc
And no, I don't know the exact amount of seconds as I've never got so far into bees, but I'm sure anyone who gives a shit can google just fine.

Edit: Disregard the above.
 
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I once waited around an hour before I got a product, and then I got a product every Bee Tick for the next 10.
This is one thing I can say without remorse:
Your post was completely wrong.
If you have looked at anything about bees in the last century, you would see base chance and time calculated. In the NEI Bees Plugin, you see x% chance for a product to come up.
I never thought that I would be saying that you are confused.
MilConDoin or someone, come over and tell Lambert, please.
 
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Bomb Bloke

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See up in the top right of the hive interface? That red icon with the crossed out flower means the bees can't find the flower they need to operate within their range. Don't spread things out so much, move the hives in towards your "flowers" somewhat. That icon can be clicked to reveal a little more information about the hive's environment, by the way.

Regarding bee production, it's indeed random. Bees do not produce resources according to a preset timer no matter what the beealyser tells you. Consider that figure an average, not a rule.
 
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ThemsAllTook

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Your flowers appear to be too far away from your apiaries. As I recall, bees look for flowers in a 9x9 area centered on the apiary (not sure on the vertical range, but it's at least 2 blocks), so you can go up to 4 blocks in any direction from it. If you move your mushrooms and redstone torches closer to the apiaries or vice versa they should start seeing them.
 
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whizzball1

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Certain bees do have a larger "Territory," which is the term for how far the bees will search. The flowers must be another problem.
 
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whizzball1

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Oh yes we will.
EDIT: Tomorrow. It's been 4 hours since the last tweet by Sengir, and 8 since Flora's.
 
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Mash

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I'm not really vouching for anyone, really. I'm just trying to clear up a dispute with any data that I have available. Anecdotal evidence isn't all that great, so the wiki was the next best thing.
 
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Sherio88

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Bomb Bloke said:
See up in the top right of the hive interface? That red icon with the crossed out flower means the bees can't find the flower they need to operate within their range. Don't spread things out so much, move the hives in towards your "flowers" somewhat. That icon can be clicked to reveal a little more information about the hive's environment, by the way.

Regarding bee production, it's indeed random. Bees do not produce resources according to a preset timer no matter what the beealyser tells you. Consider that figure an average, not a rule.
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That was it! I knew I was missing somethign simple! Thanks so much!
 
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