New to bees I need some tips!

[JudgeCrane]

Just started to get into forestry and extra bees now I figured how to make some the basics and how to get bees and get them in my apiary and such. Also got a melon farm for seed oil thats used for some recipes.

Main question is how do I get the temp/humidity of bees up and down to a normal hills biome I know the machine that does it and I have it powered directly by a sterling engine but no matter what I haven't gotten their stats to go up or down I tried sand to get humidity for jungle queen and tried lava cells for ice queens. They are >consumed< but no change in the stats.
Also im a bit confused on the up 1, down 1 mechanics like am I trying to get the temp and humidity normal for my hills biome and if im trying to raise it I must use lava and sand to raise those lower levels up, right?
I seen DW20 mod spotlight but it only helped me to the point of knowing the machines but not how to use them.

 

[Abdiel]

The increase/decrease in tolerance is chance based. It takes several attempts to get +-1, many more attempts for +-2, and if you want +-3 you'll probably wait for an hour of real time or more. However it is eventually possible to make every bee tolerate any combination of temp/humidity.

The numbers are on a scale:

Temperature: Icy < Cold < Normal < Warm < Hot < Hellish.
Humidity: Arid < Normal < Damp.

So a bee with a base temperature of Warm and a Both 1 tolerance could live in Normal, Warm, and Hot biomes. A bee with a base humidity Normal and -1 tolerance can live in Arid and Normal biomes.

 

[DoctorOr]

When I used the acclimatizer, I put lava and water in to get UP_1 in both categories, then put three hoppers above the machine, filled it with sand, came back to both_5 on humidity, filled it with ice, came back to both_5 on temp

 

[Tomihe]

Also if you acclimatize the drone and princess instead of the queen its more likely that the resulting bees will stay acclimatized meaning less time waiting on the acclimatizer.

 

[Sonicyoda13]

Soul frames are very useful while trying to mutate your bees

 

[JudgeCrane]

thanks guys sorry took me while to reply i am employed now so I dont have much time in day to even play minecraft but playing my worlds on weekdays
thanks for tips and tricks

 

[Bickers]

get seed oil setup ASAP for frames/caseings try to find some jungle bees for silk wisps to make bee suit and for propolis for pipes to setup auto breeding

 

[Bickers]

Yeah, seed oil is really important. I use Steve's Carts, just need a solar panel, side chests, and a farmer. Optionally you can add fertilizer and a coal engine but I don't since they need refilled. I'm rolling in seeds, and thus seed oil.

Also cherry trees, they're manual but produce quite a bit. Look good too.

cherry +silver lime =walnut you need 4 sapling but that give a TON of seed oil