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Getting started · setup · Bee Mastery

Bee Mastery needs Forestry: Community Edition and does nothing without it. It has no world generation and no mobs: every bee here is bred from a Forestry bee, and every comb goes into a Forestry centrifuge.

What to install

For Minecraft 1.21.1:

  • NeoForge 21.1.251 or newer. Older 21.1 builds crash on world creation because of Forestry.
  • Forestry: Community Edition 3.0.0-alpha6 or newer.
  • Patchouli. Forestry needs it anyway, and the guide book runs on it.

For Minecraft 1.20.1:

  • Forge 47.3.5 or newer.
  • Forestry: Community Edition 2.5.0 or newer.
  • Patchouli 1.20.1-84 or newer.

JEI is optional. With it you see the mutations, the centrifuge outputs and a page for each aura.

The mod has to be on the server and on every client. What differs between the two builds is on a separate page.

First hour

You can craft the Portable Hive right away: a Bee House, four Leather, two String and an Iron Nugget. Any Forestry bee works in it at a Bee House's pace, so it is useful before you have bred anything from this mod.

The first two species of the mod come from Forestry's Cultivated bee:

  • Potato: Cultivated and Meadows, 15%
  • Carrot: Cultivated and Forest, 15%

Pig, Cow and Sheep are bred from those two, Clayious from Meadows and Noble. None of the six needs a special climate. All pairs and chances are on Bee species.

The road to metal

Reinforced is the first metal bee: Valiant and Noble, 5%. At 5% it takes a while. A Mutation Frame would help, but it is made of Mutated Iron, and that comes one species later.

Put the Reinforced Combs through the centrifuge: 25% for a Reinforced Nugget, 75% for a Honey Drop, 10% for a Reinforced Propolis. Nine nuggets make an ingot. From there:

  1. Four Reinforced Sticks make the Reinforced Scoop. An ingot and two sticks make the grafter.
  2. Seven ingots and one propolis upgrade the Portable Hive to Reinforced: 35% speed, two module slots.
  3. Reinforced Propolis goes into four of the nine hive modules.
  4. A Book and one Reinforced Propolis make the guide book. Yes, you get the manual only after the first metal bee. In creative mode it is in the mod's tab.

After Reinforced come Mutated (Majestic and Reinforced), Witheria (Industrious and Mutated), Draconic (Witheria and Reinforced) and Legendary (Witheria and Draconic), 5% each. The last three need Hellish temperature and Arid humidity.

About the scoop

The scoops of this mod turn a vanilla bee into a Forest drone with one right-click. That sounds like a way to start, but the cheapest scoop costs four Reinforced Ingots. Your first bees still come from Forestry's wild hives and Forestry's own Scoop.