With the comprehensive update of the Chinese version of "Minecraft" to 1.15, bees have once again become the target of players' attention. So today let’s talk about 13 secrets about beekeeping that you may not know!
1. Find bees; Bees in "Minecraft" will only be generated with the hive, but a hive can only house up to three bees. The places with the highest probability of producing hives are on oak and birch trunks in the plains.
2. "Grow" a bee; if bees cannot be found, planting can be used. The principle is that when there is any kind of flower within 2 blocks of an oak sapling or birch tree, the sapling will have a 5% probability of generating a beehive when it grows up! By using bone meal to ripen, you can quickly "grow" bees!
3. Cute little butt; Although the mc version of the bee is huge in size, it is very cute, especially its cute little butt. However, please note that the sting on its butt is also its only means of attack. Once the attack is launched, the sting disappears and the bee dies within the next 50-60 seconds.
4. Bees can be pulled with a leash; don’t panic if you want to take the bees home, you just need to pull the bees with a leash to their destination. It seems like this is the only flying creature in MC that can be tethered.
5. Use Accurate Collection to move; in addition to tying the rope to take the bees home, use any tool of Accurate Collection to dig the hive, please pay attention. At this time, the hive will become a drop, and the bees will still live in the hive that is in the dropped state. Until you take the hive home and place it again, the bees can go out!
6. Use flowers to lure bees home; in addition to tying ropes and precise collection tools, the third method is to use flowers to lure bees to the shelter. This is the same as using seeds to "seduce" chicks. Flowers can actually be used for reproduction!
7. Smoked hive; when the player uses glass bottles and scissors to collect honey and honeycomb from the hive, the bees will come out of the hive to attack the player. One exception, however, is the use of a campfire, placed under the hive, to smoke the hive. This way the bees will not attack the player.
8. Enchanted Amputee Killer; Normally, players do not need to be hostile to bees, but it is enough to cause 10 points of damage (3 points of attack damage, 7 points of poisoning damage) in a single time and should not be underestimated. Bees, like spiders, are arthropods, so the Arthropod Killer enchantment can get twice the result with half the effort.
9. Wither roses: Any creature will be hurt by wither roses, but bees will not. Even bees can collect nectar from wither roses normally and will not be harmed by the wither effect.
10. Honey block volume (water elevator); honey blocks are smaller than the visual size, which means that when two bee blocks are placed next to each other, there will be a gap between them. So a new version of the water elevator came into being!
11. Swarm expert; Bees are by far the most exploitable "group fight expert" by players. When a bee is attacked, all surrounding bees will swarm to attack! Therefore, using hundreds of bees to deal with the wither BOSS will have unexpected effects! (ps: If you breed a lot of bees and accidentally anger one of them, you will be in despair!)
12. Beehive Scarecrow: The bee family is also very practical in the construction industry. Using a honeycomb to make a scarecrow will look more natural. And bees are collecting honey around them. When passing through the farmland, the honey dripping will accelerate the growth of crops!
13. Bee farm; when the bees finish collecting honey, they will fly back to the hive. During this process, some honey particles will fall from the bees. When these particles come into contact with the crops in the field, the "pollination" process is completed. At this time, the crop will have the same effect as applying bone meal and quickly enter the next growth stage. Therefore, raising bees around farmland is equivalent to natural and fully automatic bone meal ripening!
ps: Since bees have recently been added to the Chinese version of the JAVA platform of "Minecraft", let's take a look at the features of bees that were added as early as 2019 that you may not know.