Bees

[Colensocon1]

Right so i have a void age with a mushroom biome everywhere now i was wondering if there is a add-on to the alveary which can make bees work in a damp biome like the hydroregulator a block like that because bees wont work here because its to damp for them thanks if not i guess i will just have to inject every bee so they can work here thanks

 

[MigukNamja]

Lava in the hygroregulator:

http://ftbwiki.org/Alveary_Hygroregulator

...and you may need more than 1, depending upon the species you're trying to breed in there.

You may then need to balance the temperature change from the lava with a cooling fan:

http://ftbwiki.org/Alveary_Fan

Note the cooling fans are adjustable with the power they receive. I highly recommend putting a REC on the front-end of the fan so you can regulate exactly how much cooling it does.

 

[Colensocon1]

Thanks

 

[MigukNamja]

...and by the time you do all that, yeah, it's just easier to inject those few species prior to breeding them ;-)

It may also be easier to setup an alveary or two in the more friendly biome. I'll do that when I'm breeding a line of bees that like the desert or the Nether, for example. Building a Nether base for bees was pretty fun my last playthrough ;-)

 

[twisto51]

If you're capable of making a void age you're capable of making a great bee age too. I either move production to a better biome or I apply +5/-5 humidity/temp to my bees. The alveary blocks are horrible because they're not a one time cost and you have to add them to every alveary. My limit is rain shield and lighting and those only go in my mutation alvearies.

It is trivial to get +5/-5 temp/humidity serums by automating the acclimatizer.

 

[Colensocon1]

What would they need to be injected with then like so they can take the damp of a mushroom biome I can't make another age owners says there's to many already

 

[MigukNamja]

Acclimitizer

 

[Bomb Bloke]

You inject those serums twisto mentioned.

To get them, get a stack of drones (rocky's good 'cause they start with +/-2 tolerances for both temperature and humidity), and note that I mean stack - you want as many in the single pile as you can get. Eject fertility if it's a problem.

Once you have that, put them in the acclimatiser and load it with sand (unless you live near a desert you're willing to butcher, use a macerator or pulveriser on cobble, which you can generate with a igneous extruder - you're gonna need a lot).

When one tolerance is maxed out, start loading in ice instead. Silk touch it from a snowy area (eg with a rock cutter), smash a bit of what's left to regenerate the source blocks.

Once the stack's acclimatised you can ditch that machine for good and grab your serums.

 

[Tabu]

Extra bee machines are your friends...

The use of serums makes biome requirements less important.

Anytime you discover a new species, take a pair and automate them, then use the drones to make serums.

You can get serums for every trait any bee has.