Portable Hive

The recipe shown here is the Basic hive. It works at 25% of the bees' own speed, the pace of the Bee House it is made of, and has one module slot. How to put bees in and wear it is on Wearing a hive.

Tiers

• Basic: 25% speed, 1 module slot
• Reinforced: 35% speed, 2 slots
• Draconic: 50% speed, 3 slots
• Legendary: 75% speed, 4 slots

An upgrade is a crafting recipe: the hive in the centre, the propolis of the next metal above it, seven ingots of that metal in the other cells. The tiers go in order, so the Legendary upgrade takes only a Draconic hive. Everything inside stays: bees, frame, flower, modules, built-in chestplate.

In the game it is one item. The tier is stored on the stack, and the name changes to Reinforced, Draconic or Legendary Portable Hive.

Built-in chestplate

The hive has 0 armour and takes up the chestplate slot. Put a hive and any chestplate into the crafting grid, and the hive takes over the chestplate's armour, toughness, enchantments and durability and is drawn with its texture on you. In the inventory an armoured hive shows the chestplate as a small icon in the corner of its slot.

To take the chestplate out, put the armoured hive into the crafting grid alone. The result is the plain hive, and the chestplate stays in the grid with its current wear and enchantments. If the chestplate inside breaks, only the chestplate is gone. The hive and the bees stay.