Question about trees/forestry!

[Bigpak]

Hi, I had a question about tree pollination and bee breeding! There's a trait called polin/flowering and the bee that has the best of those is Jaded with gui.maximum. Does that decrease the time it takes for two trees to crossbreed or no? Does it matter what Polin/flowering a bee has? What does flowering/polin do?

Then there is also a trait called flowers, if you look up flower in NEI and there's a bunch of serums for like rock and netherack and odd things, I thought that there was only lilipads, wheat, netherwart,water,and cacti and flowers and dragon egg. What are these new additions such as the netherack and rock etc? Thank you for your time.

 

[Flipz]

I'm not completely sure on tree breeding; I think that the bee's Pollination trait has some effect, but I'm not certain.

As far as flowers, there are certain more exotic species of bee that require ordinary stone (Rocky bees) or Netherrack (for some Nether bees) to produce their products/go through the life cycle. The Flowers trait does indeed affect what flower the bee needs.

 

[Bigpak]

Alright, thank you very very much! I really appreciate the answer! Not trying to be needy but does anyone know what the pollen trait does?

 

[KhrFreak]

I'm pretty sure that pollination is speed that the bee spreads flowers and the faster the pollinaiton the better the chance of leaf mutations nearby

 

[Tristam Izumi]

Oh, and just a side note. You may find it rather difficult to breed a Jaded bee. Last I checked, as a requirement for breeding it, it needs to be bred in an apiary/alveary placed by JadedCat.

 

[Bigpak]

If that is true it is probably a admin/cheat/debug tool for breeding trees.

EDIT: Actually I am a idiot. I was wrong, it is a tribute to JadedCat who streamed minecraft and is now retiring/retired sadly. She will be missed.

 

[Riuga]

Aura Bees have Fastest Pollination and Speed. Should get those instead.

 

[Hydra]

Aura Bees have Fastest Pollination and Speed. Should get those instead.

There's a faster pollination, 'Maximum", but it doesn't have a localized name (shows up as "gui.pollination.maximum" or something) so I have no idea if it actually works.

It hardly matters though; for tree breeding you really just want a bunch of apiaries nearbij with bees that are automatically cycled back into the apiary. Just one makes tree breeding VERY slow.