Bee species

Bee species · mechanic · Bee Mastery

The mod adds 11 species, and none of them lives in a wild hive: each is a mutation of two parents. With JEI installed, the pairs are also in Forestry's Bee Mutations category.

JEI page Bee Mutations: Witheria plus Draconic gives Legendary at 5% — The last step of the chain as JEI shows it

Farm bees

Six species that give food, wool and clay. All of them live at Normal temperature and Normal humidity.

Potato: Cultivated and Meadows, 15%
Carrot: Cultivated and Forest, 15%
Pig: Steadfast and Carrot, 30%
Cow: Steadfast and Potato, 30%
Sheep: Carrot and Potato, 30%
Clayious: Meadows and Noble, 15%

Pig, Cow and Sheep bees have a 50% base chance of a comb per cycle. Potato, Carrot and Clayious have 12%. What a comb gives in the centrifuge is on the comb's own page. A Cow Comb, for example, gives Raw Beef at 15% and Leather at 10%.

Carrot is the only farm bee with an aura: Harvest, which makes crops around the hive grow.

Metal bees

Five species with nuggets in their combs. Every step is a mutation at 5%.

Reinforced: Valiant and Noble
Mutated: Majestic and Reinforced
Witheria: Industrious and Mutated
Draconic: Witheria and Reinforced
Legendary: Witheria and Draconic

Reinforced and Mutated give a comb at 25% and a nugget straight from the hive at 10%. For Witheria, Draconic and Legendary the numbers are 12% and 5%. The rest of the metal comes out of the centrifuge, see Metals and tools.

Four of the five carry an aura: Mutated has Mutagenic, Witheria has Withering, Draconic has Draconic Fury, Legendary has Legendary Blessing. Reinforced has none.

Climate

Reinforced needs Normal temperature and Normal humidity. Mutated needs Normal temperature and Damp humidity. Witheria, Draconic and Legendary need Hellish temperature and Arid humidity, and in Forestry that is the Nether.

A player on a netherrack pillar above lava in a crimson forest, with a Legendary hive and a lantern on the back — A Portable Hive in the Nether: it takes the climate from where you stand

Details

Every species also gives a vanilla Honeycomb at 10%.

All 11 species are recessive. In a hybrid with a dominant Forestry species, the Forestry species is the active one.

The chances above are base numbers from the species files. The hive's speed and the Production number of a frame multiply them. A Mutation Frame multiplies the mutation chance by 10, the Mutagen Module of a Portable Hive by 2.

Up to version 1.1.0 Potato and Carrot both came from Forest and Meadows and got in each other's way. A guide that still says so is out of date.