Hive modules

Hive modules · mechanic · Bee Mastery

Modules go into the side panel of the Portable Hive window. The hive's tier decides how many slots are open: one on Basic, two on Reinforced, three on Draconic, four on Legendary. There are nine modules, so even the best hive carries fewer than half of them.

A hive takes one module of each kind. Mutagen and Gene Stabilizer do not go into the same hive. Modules stack to 16.

Where the bees work

Lantern Module: the bees ignore day and night, and a light follows you.
Canopy Module: the bees work in the rain.
Artificial Sun Module: the bees work without open sky, underground and indoors.
Climate Stabilizer Module: the bees ignore the biome's temperature and humidity.

Night at a lake shore: a player with a Legendary hive, the lantern on it lights the grass, a cow and a pumpkin — The lantern on the hive is the Lantern Module, and the light around the player comes from it

The Lantern Module puts an invisible light block of level 14 at your head, or at your feet if the head is inside a block. The block appears only in air or in a water source, follows you and is removed when you take the hive off, log out or the server stops.

How they work

Booster Module: +25% production.
Longevity Module: the queen lives twice as long.
Mutagen Module: mutation chance ×2.
Gene Stabilizer Module: no mutations at all, the offspring stays pure.
Collector Module: once a second the products move from the hive into your inventory. What does not fit stays in the hive.

The Booster multiplies the hive's speed by 1.25. On a Legendary hive that is 75% × 1.25 = 93.75%, still under the bees' own speed.

A player seen from behind in a mossy cave, with a Draconic hive with red fittings and a lantern on the back — The lantern only lifts the day-and-night limit; to work without open sky the hive needs the Artificial Sun Module

Recipes

Every module is four propolis in the corners, four Beeswax on the sides and one key item in the centre.

Reinforced Propolis: Lantern (Glowstone), Canopy (Phantom Membrane), Artificial Sun (Daylight Detector), Collector (Hopper)
Witheria Propolis: Booster (Block of Redstone), Longevity (Golden Apple), Gene Stabilizer (Obsidian)
Mutated Propolis: Mutagen (Fermented Spider Eye)
Draconic Propolis: Climate Stabilizer (Heart of the Sea)

Propolis comes out of the centrifuge at 10% per comb, so one module is on average 40 combs of its metal.

Server settings

The numbers above are the defaults of serverconfig/beemastery-server.toml, section portable_hive.modules. The server sends its values to the clients, and the module tooltips show the configured numbers.

booster_multiplier: 1.25, allowed from 1.0 to 10.0
longevity_aging: 0.5, from 0.05 to 1.0. This is the queen's ageing speed, so 0.5 means twice the life.
mutagen_multiplier: 2.0, from 1.0 to 10.0
collector_interval: 20 ticks, from 1 to 1200
lantern_light: true. With false the lantern gives no light and only keeps the bees working day and night.
lantern_light_level: 14, from 1 to 15