Frames

A frame goes into a frame slot of Forestry's Apiary or of the Portable Hive and changes how the queen works. The mod has 19 of them. Frames do not stack. A frame loses durability while the bees work and breaks at zero.

The four numbers

The tooltip of every frame shows four multipliers and the durability.

• Production multiplies the speed at which the hive makes products.
• Genetic Decay is about the queen's lifespan. Her ageing is divided by this number: at 0.5 she lives half as long, at 1.3 she lives 1.3 times longer.
• Mutation multiplies the chance of a mutation.
• Territory multiplies the bees' territory. The area of a hive aura is taken from the territory, so it grows too.

The tooltip rounds to one decimal place. The Tin Frame shows +1.0x although it gives ×1.05, and the Invar Frame shows +1.4x although it gives ×1.35.

Plain frames

Eight sticks of the material around one Beeswax. Only Production changes.

• Coal: ×1.1, durability 100
• Copper: ×1.1, durability 120
• Iron: ×1.2, durability 200
• Gold: ×1.3, durability 150
• Diamond: ×1.4, durability 250
• Emerald: ×1.5, durability 300

A stick is two pieces of the material, one above the other, and the craft gives two sticks. So a plain frame costs eight ingots, gems or pieces of coal and one Beeswax.

The mod's metals

• Reinforced: ×1.4, durability 500
• Witheria: ×2, durability 750
• Draconic: ×2.5, durability 1000
• Legendary: ×5, durability 10,000
• Mutation: Production ×1, Mutation ×10, Genetic Decay 0.5, durability 40

The Witheria Frame and the Mutation Frame (it is made of Mutated Iron Sticks) use the plain recipe. The other three need a finished frame in the grid:

• Reinforced Frame: seven Reinforced Sticks, Beeswax and a Diamond Frame.
• Draconic Frame: six Draconic Sticks, Beeswax, a Witheria Frame and a Reinforced Frame.
• Legendary Frame: five Legendary Sticks, Beeswax, a Nether Star, a Witheria Frame and a Draconic Frame.

Counted with everything inside, one Legendary Frame eats two Witheria Frames, a Reinforced Frame, a Diamond Frame and a Nether Star. For that it gives ×5 Production and has the durability of ten Draconic Frames.

The Mutation Frame is for breeding: 40 durability, a queen that lives half as long, ten times the mutation chance.

Other mods' metals

• Tin: ×1.05, durability 80
• Silver: ×1.15, Territory ×1.2, durability 180
• Lead: ×1.1, Genetic Decay 1.3, durability 220
• Bronze: ×1.2, durability 160
• Steel: ×1.4, durability 300
• Invar: ×1.35, durability 350
• Electrum: ×1.3, durability 200

Bee Mastery has no tin or steel of its own. On 1.21.1 the recipes of these seven frames and of their sticks appear when some mod in the pack adds the ingot, Mekanism for example. On 1.20.1 they appear only together with Thermal Series. Without such a mod the items sit in the creative tab and cannot be crafted.

Tin, Silver, Lead, Invar and Electrum sticks come out four per craft, so such a frame costs four ingots. Bronze and Steel sticks come out two per craft, like the rest.

Ranch Frame

Production ×1.15, Territory ×1.15, durability 150. There is no metal in it: Leather, White Wool, a Clay Ball, a Carrot, four vanilla Sticks and Beeswax. It was made for the farm bees and works with any bee.