Need Savant Bee Advice

[Eadra]

I recently bred Savant bees in the hopes that I could get lore fragments easily, and finish the golem accessory research. However, after breeding this bee, I have hit a brick wall. The lore fragment (used to make knowledge fragment) is a specialty - not a normally produced item. Just to be perfectly clear to people that don't know bees so well, in order to get a specialty you need to be in the biome that the bee prefers (EX. the austere bees need to be in Hot/arid biome to get powdery combs, and any other climate that they can tolerate living in will only produce Parched combs.)

The Savant bee requires a Normal/arid biome to produce it's specialty - I have been unable to find a biome with this climate.
I haven't had a need for the alverary hygroregulator before, will that work? Is it my only option or does anyone know of a biome that has normal/arid climate?

 

[Exadi]

According to the 2 lists I looked at there isn't one in FTB, so you will need to use heater(s), fan(s), and/or hygroregulator(s) depending on your biome.

 

[Eadra]

Thank you, I guess I'll just figure out how those items work.

 

[Maldroth]

I was in a Meadow biome which is Normal/Normal and they are producing Lore Fragments for me right now. I have adjusted their climate tolerances up and down to work with them more easily. I also have them still using Books as their flowering type. So far so good.

 

[ThemsAllTook]

I'm pretty sure I've observed bees producing their specialty outside their preferred climate, given enough tolerance. Early on, it's helpful to acclimatize a whole stack of drones to Both_5/Both_5, then isolate that trait so you can inoculate all future bees with it. I'll have to do some testing to be sure, but my impression is that Both_5 allows bees to produce their specialty in any climate (with the possible exception of extremes like icy bees in the nether or nether bees in an icy biome).

 

[Chesham]

The only bee that I know of that is biome restricted for specialty items is the Austere, which requires a desert. Every other bee produces fine in any climate, provided it's not a hostile environment for the bee. (which you can easily get around with the extra bee machines).

 

[slay_mithos]

Bees that need a certain temperature/humidity to produce their specialty:
Only Forestry, since Extra Bees and Thaumic Bees don't care
BeeTempHumid
Austere Bee Hot Arid
Valiant Bee Normal Normal

source: http://mc.nessirojgaming.eu/bees/index.php?title=Biome

That means that only 2 bees need specific biomes to produce their speciality products.