Ender Bees

[GreenZombie]

So, Ender Bees [Forestry] and Oblivion Bees [MagicBees] usually spawn in hives in the End.

The End is a limited landmass. Which means that, on servers, after the first week (the length of time it seems to take for someone to get to the End and kill the End Dragon), the bees are probably all gone.

So, I seem stuck with regards to the most interesting bee lines...

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So, in the direwolf20 pack for MC 1.7.10 - is there any other way to get these bees? Can they ever be chest loot?

 

[InfinityRaider]

What about Hyvacinths?

 

[lenscas]

So, Ender Bees [Forestry] and Oblivion Bees [MagicBees] usually spawn in hives in the End.

The End is a limited landmass. Which means that, on servers, after the first week (the length of time it seems to take for someone to get to the End and kill the End Dragon), the bees are probably all gone.

So, I seem stuck with regards to the most interesting bee lines...

If the hives are made in the second phase of generating you can use pistons to manipulate the chunks before the hives will spawn and thus give them a place to spawn.
Same concept as this:

and this:

Of course its a lot of work to pull of but on the other hand, this is modded minecraft so there are probably easier ways to manipulate chunks without being there yourself.

 

[GreenZombie]

If the hives are made in the second phase of generating you can use pistons to manipulate the chunks before the hives will spawn and thus give them a place to spawn.
Same concept as this:

and this:

Of course its a lot of work to pull of but on the other hand, this is modded minecraft so there are probably easier ways to manipulate chunks without being there yourself.

This, if do-able - is actually an epic project. Build a machine to push endstone into unexplored chunks in the expectation/hope that beehives will spawn on it.

 

[Celestialphoenix]

Ex Nihlo has a way to capture 'wild' bees using an artificial hive. (general advice for other users)

Or if theres a mod that generates more landmass in the end, beehives could spawn on extra islands.​

Unless the end gets reset, your best shot would be asking the server admins to place a few more hives in the end.

If all else fails, abuse a few mechanics and cause some chunk resets/world corruption in the end.

 

[lenscas]

Ex Nihlo has a way to capture 'wild' bees using an artificial hive. (general advice for other users)

Or if theres a mod that generates more landmass in the end, beehives could spawn on extra islands.​

Unless the end gets reset, your best shot would be asking the server admins to place a few more hives in the end.

or depending on how they get generated you can go for an epic build and make something from my post.

I mean, what is more epic then screwing with world generation

 

[GreenZombie]

In a test game:

I build a 32 wide, 12 deep platform of endstone. Pushed by a row of pistons mounted on a Funky locomotion frame. A 32long line of redstone blocks is pushed below the pistons by another funky locomotion frame. The frames carry wireless redstone receivers - and chunkloaders to keep working at range so I have a Computer Craft terminal driving wireless redstone transmitters to advance the frames.

I sent it off in an eastwards direction and it collected ... nothing. I don't know if I was unlucky and it could work if I sent it further, or if I have misunderstood some vital aspect of the 2 phase generation algorithm and I am sending it in the wrong direction / not setting the criteria to trigger the 2nd phase generation after the arrival of the endstone platform properly. Or if my chunkloaders are not working properly / in the way I expect because it didn't seem to advance as far as I thought it should have. But that mostly seems to be the fault of Natura putting in the occasional cloud in its path which stops it advancing.

Of course just the act of visiting the thing to monitor its progress loads and generates chunks in an 11 chunk radius around it so theres that difficutly.