Types of flowers that bees need?

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Temporalus said:
Thanks, that seems obvious, why didn't I think of that. But the Beealyzer only tells you redstone, or rock, not what that means. Like when it tells me pollin. speed, that doesn't really mean anything to me.
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Yeah it can be a pain but I like that, it gives a little bit of a mystery. I typically just use things that are either found in the wild by the hives like mushrooms for marshy or rock for rocky bees and see if it works. If not I try everything else that has to do with rock. If you didn't know before I'll tell you, Bees take a long time to breed things like finding their flowers just make it longer lmao.
 
Humorously, you can also use the bees to replicate other things - lilypads, or vines, say. Heavens knows I need those lilypads to set up my reed farm properly.

And there is one notable exception to the flowers thing: the bees don't seem to recognize indigo flowers from RP2, which is a shame. You can set up config/forestry/apiculture.conf to allow that, though.
 
Morvelaira said:
As long as the hive has direct access to the sky and the mushrooms have shade, it's fine. Just plant the apiary at the edge of tree cover and put the mushrooms under the leaves.
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Shade is optional. Mushrooms planted on mycelium will tolerate maximum brightness. Mycelium can be gotten from the moistener.
 
While its appearance may be disconcerting, mycelium is noninvasive. It does not spread to grass.
 
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Icarus White said:
Humorously, you can also use the bees to replicate other things - lilypads, or vines, say. Heavens knows I need those lilypads to set up my reed farm properly.

And there is one notable exception to the flowers thing: the bees don't seem to recognize indigo flowers from RP2, which is a shame. You can set up config/forestry/apiculture.conf to allow that, though.
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Do tell. How? I have a legion of purple flowers in my area but be damned if I can find a daffodil or rose. I can't get the ID:meta syntax correct, I dun get it D:
 
On the topic of mushrooms, I believe you can place them under the ground beneath the apiaries, and it should still pick it up. Course, that was a couple of versions back.
 
TikoXi said:
Do tell. How? I have a legion of purple flowers in my area but be damned if I can find a daffodil or rose. I can't get the ID:meta syntax correct, I dun get it D:
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This is all you need for indigo flowers: beekeeping.flowers.custom=214

Dunno if you can change the ratio by adding more entries, but it'd be worth a shot if you're looking to increase yellow and red flower production.

wotmania505 said:
On the topic of mushrooms, I believe you can place them under the ground beneath the apiaries, and it should still pick it up. Course, that was a couple of versions back.
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Yep, bees don't need line of sight to their flowers (whether flowers are flowers or cacti, mushrooms, dragon eggs, etc.) They'll even spread flowers through solid ground to dirt underneath if there's air space above it. I have my cactus buried because I died and lost items to it one time too many when I was around unstable bees...
 
Did this thread really have to be resurrected? There is something for this in the Bee Wiki.
Don't have a link.
 
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