Bees!

[Buffalo_Wings_Master]

I'm starting bees for the first time, I've done a bit of YouTube research, but there is still something I'm confused about. How do I know what the environment requirements of each bee are, with the information given from the beealyzer?

 

[YX33A]

Ah, a new budding Apiarist!
Here's your welcome package!

With that out of the way, yeah, you've hit that right on the head, info from your bees is gleaned via the Beealyzer. But if you're just getting started, then you don't need to know that just yet, not until you start serious breeding. That is, once you aim to get a purebred common set, you are gonna need that thing.

 

[Buffalo_Wings_Master]

Ah, a new budding Apiarist!
Here's your welcome package!

With that out of the way, yeah, you've hit that right on the head, info from your bees is gleaned via the Beealyzer. But if you're just getting started, then you don't need to know that just yet, not until you start serious breeding. That is, once you aim to get a purebred common set, you are gonna need that thing.

OK.... Wtf is up with that video?

Second, yeah I know that much, but I can't do much when the bees I do have "hostile environment" and I'm not sure what they need...

 

[YX33A]

OK.... Wtf is up with that video?

Second, yeah I know that much, but I can't do much when the bees I do have "hostile environment" and I'm not sure what they need...

That's likely the flower trait not being obvious. Aside from Jungle, Desert, Marshy, and Wintery, all basic bees need flowers near them. I exclude End bees from this because they are basic, yes, but require access to the end to obtain, so not all that basic after all, are they?

Anyway, Jungle Bees, a wise first choice for any budding apiarist, need vines or ferns, you know, those things that grow like grass but look a bit like a spruce tree? Desert Bees need cacti. Marshy need mushrooms, wintery IIRC want snow.

Next, a slightly less obvious thing, is Apiarist Villager bees; rather, that they are horrible mutants that have vastly fucked up traits. Keep those far away from any bees you care about if you aren't a MLG Pro level Apiarist.(GET ON MY LEVEL!)

 

[Buffalo_Wings_Master]

That's likely the flower trait not being obvious. Aside from Jungle, Desert, Marshy, and Wintery, all basic bees need flowers near them. I exclude End bees from this because they are basic, yes, but require access to the end to obtain, so not all that basic after all, are they?

Anyway, Jungle Bees, a wise first choice for any budding apiarist, need vines or ferns, you know, those things that grow like grass but look a bit like a spruce tree? Desert Bees need cacti. Marshy need mushrooms, wintery IIRC want snow.

Next, a slightly less obvious thing, is Apiarist Villager bees; rather, that they are horrible mutants that have vastly fucked up traits. Keep those far away from any bees you care about if you aren't a MLG Pro level Apiarist.(GET ON MY LEVEL!)

I'm in a woodland biome, have 4 roses & 4 flowers next to the apiary, but both meadows and forest queen's have "hostile environment"
According to the apiary, temperature is warm 170% and humidity is are 20%
What am I doing wrong?

 

[YX33A]

I'm in a woodland biome, have 4 roses & 4 flowers next to the apiary, but both meadows and forest queen's have "hostile environment"
According to the apiary, temperature is warm 170% and humidity is are 20%
What am I doing wrong?

Quick question: Where did you find those bees, hm? ...Also 170% is high AFAIK. Do they work in a plains biome? A actual plains biome, from vanilla MC. Woodland IIRC is BoP(or others).

EDIT: I should clarify, high as in higher then either a forest or meadows bee can handle since they both have T: Normal/None, making your homes for them bad ones.

 

[namiasdf]

They add a new dimension to the game. You can successfully sustain certain resources from them, such that you can create scalable systems.

This means you can continue to build, bigger, better things. Thus, things don't get boring as quickly.

 

[YX33A]

They add a new dimension to the game. You can successfully sustain certain resources from them, such that you can create scalable systems.

This means you can continue to build, bigger, better things. Thus, things don't get boring as quickly.

I was confused by your use of the word "Dimension". I stumbled for a moment trying to recall some sort of "Bee Dimension" before I realized you meant they added a dimension as in a new layer, but then I realized that didn't work either because Minecraft has layers as well.
So here I am, not sure how to explain my thoughts on why I love bees in MC, holding myself rocking gently.
>Pic Unrelated

 

[malicious_bloke]

I love bees. So much so that i've had to start a new world without them so I can lose the baby blanky one gets from having whatever resource you can imagine right at your fingertips.

Alvearies, advanced bee machines and whatever species you can breed are just *SO* powerful.

 

[Zenthon_127]

Honestly, it depends where you're playing IMO. Bees greatly benefit from a server environment due to 24/7 chunkloading, but in SSP they're quite the timesink from my experience.

 

[malicious_bloke]

Yeah that is an issue.

Generally if my resource production is bee-heavy, i'll sit myself in a well lit room and enter the inventory screen, leaving the game minimised-ish while I go AFK

 

[ThatOneSlowking]

That's likely the flower trait not being obvious. Aside from Jungle, Desert, Marshy, and Wintery, all basic bees need flowers near them. I exclude End bees from this because they are basic, yes, but require access to the end to obtain, so not all that basic after all, are they?

Anyway, Jungle Bees, a wise first choice for any budding apiarist, need vines or ferns, you know, those things that grow like grass but look a bit like a spruce tree? Desert Bees need cacti. Marshy need mushrooms, wintery IIRC want snow.

Next, a slightly less obvious thing, is Apiarist Villager bees; rather, that they are horrible mutants that have vastly fucked up traits. Keep those far away from any bees you care about if you aren't a MLG Pro level Apiarist.(GET ON MY LEVEL!)

wait
villager bees are screwed up?
crap...

 

[malicious_bloke]

I, too, am curious about this.

In 1.5, villager bees were just monastic, which are fairly innocuous but useful for further breeding paths...

 

[namiasdf]

I was confused by your use of the word "Dimension". I stumbled for a moment trying to recall some sort of "Bee Dimension" before I realized you meant they added a dimension as in a new layer, but then I realized that didn't work either because Minecraft has layers as well.
So here I am, not sure how to explain my thoughts on why I love bees in MC, holding myself rocking gently.
>Pic Unrelated

Heh, my bad. I'm so used to speaking in engineering lingo that I forget to turn it off sometimes. The life of a university student in a professional program. You get so absorbed into your studies that you really do become what you're learning.

 

[YX33A]

Heh, my bad. I'm so used to speaking in engineering lingo that I forget to turn it off sometimes. The life of a university student in a professional program. You get so absorbed into your studies that you really do become what you're learning.

It's fine, it's accurate to call it a dimension. It's just that I sometimes take a moment to switch from one lingo to another, and the difference and similarities between the two now drives me a bit insane.

 

[namiasdf]

It's fine, it's accurate to call it a dimension. It's just that I sometimes take a moment to switch from one lingo to another, and the difference and similarities between the two now drives me a bit insane.

Adaptability skills... Confirmed. =)