Help me with Austere bees please

[Crustybob]

I have bred a pure austere bee and have had it for 47 life cycles so far but it has yet to make powdery comb, it says that it is a possible specialty for this type of bee. My question is do they require special circumstances to make powdery comb?

 

[PieExplosion]

Did you remember to put frames in your apiary?

 

[Crustybob]

I'm using an Alveary with heaters so i can keep them in a meadows biome
Edit: I should mention that i am getting plain Parched comb just not the Powdery comb

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

I have bred a pure austere bee and have had it for 47 life cycles so far but it has yet to make powdery comb, it says that it is a possible specialty for this type of bee. My question is do they require special circumstances to make powdery comb?

Throw it in a beealyzer to make sure that it does, indeed, have that property. Sometimes it can be bred out of a line.

 

[PieExplosion]

Huh. Looks like they moved it from the default comb to the specialty. What speed do you have on them? Their default is Slowest and that could be why.

 

[Crustybob]

They do still have the ability to make the combs, and you are right they are slow, so i will try to breed them into fast bees and ill let you know

 

[Crustybob]

I have bred a Fast worker long life Austere and still no luck

 

[SirChrisB]

This topic is rather old, but as I had the same problem just today did a few tests, I thought I might share my findings with you in here.
As above, my Austere Bee didn´t produce any Powdery Comb but Parched Combs in bulk using an Alveary with Frame Housings in a Plains Biome.
After some trial and error testing I mived the exact same Alveary into a nearby Desert Biome and suddenly it made Powdery Combs.

TL: DR Austere Bees seem to only produce Powdery Combs when they are actually located in a Desert Biome.

 

[Exadi]

Bees have to be in their preferred temperature/humidity to produce their specialty. To get powdery combs in a normal/normal biome use Creepy bees.

If you had a Hygroregulator to adjust humidity to Arid in addition to your heater that should also work.

 

[SirChrisB]

I just setup an Alveary in the Desert, complete with an Item Tesseract for Frames to come in and an Enderchest for the Combs to go out, as I don´t want to clutter my Basement under the Alvearys with any more piping to supply the Heaters and Hydroregulators. But thanks, maybe I do it that way the next time I expand my production line.