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Giant Bee
Giant Bee
Dossier Giant Bee.pngDossier EmptyDossier Giant Bee
Dossier EmptyDossier Giant Bee

Group
Invertebrates
Diet
Herbivore
Temperament
Territorial
Release Versions
Steam 257.0
May 5, 2017
Xbox One 754.0
May 17, 2017
PS 507.0
May 17, 2017
Nintendo Switch 599.0
Nov 30, 2018
Epic Games 311.74
Jun 11, 2020
Stadia 678.15
Sep 1, 2021
Variants
Spawn Command
cheat summon Bee_Character_BP_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Bee/Bee_Character_BP.Bee_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35
Variant Giant Queen Bee
cheat summon Bee_Queen_Character_BP_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Bee/Bee_Queen_Character_BP.Bee_Queen_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35
Variant Giant Queen Bee (Gauntlet)
cheat summon Bee_Queen_Character_BP_Gauntlet_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis/Dinos/MissionVariants/Gauntlet/Bog/Bee_Queen_Character_BP_Gauntlet.Bee_Queen_Character_BP_Gauntlet'" 500 0 0 35
Variant Giant Worker Bee
cheat summon HoneyBee_Character_BP_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Mods/CrystalIsles/Assets/Dinos/HoneyBee/HoneyBee_Character_BP.HoneyBee_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35
Variant Giant Bee (Gauntlet2)
cheat summon Bee_Character_BP_STA_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis2/Missions/ModularMission/Gauntlet2/STA/Dinos/Bee_Character_BP_STA.Bee_Character_BP_STA'" 500 0 0 35
Variant Giant Queen Bee (Gauntlet2)
cheat summon Bee_Queen_Character_BP_STA_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis2/Missions/ModularMission/Gauntlet2/STA/Dinos/Bee_Queen_Character_BP_STA.Bee_Queen_Character_BP_STA'" 500 0 0 35
Domestication
Tameable
Rideable
Breedable
Check mark Yes
X mark No
X mark No
Torpor Immune
Check mark Yes
Taming Method
Rare Flower Passive
Preferred Kibble
Simple Kibble Simple Kibble
Preferred Food
Rare Flower Rare Flower
Data
XP for kill
4 XP
Feces
X mark None
Drag Weight
30
Radiation Immune
X mark No
Carryable By
Immobilized By
Net Projectile (Genesis Part 2) Net Projectile (Genesis: Part 2)
Habitat

The Island Topographic Map
Spawning Giant Bee The Island

The Center Topographic Map
Spawning Giant Bee The Center

Scorched Earth Topographic Map
Spawning Giant Bee Scorched Earth

Ragnarok Ocean Topographic Map
Spawning Giant Bee Ragnarok

Aberration Topographic Map
Spawning Giant Bee Aberration

Extinction Topographic Map
Spawning Giant Bee Extinction

Valguero Topographic Map
Spawning Giant Bee Valguero

Genesis Part 1 Topographic Map
Spawning Giant Bee Genesis Part 1

Crystal Isles Topographic Map
Spawning Giant Bee Crystal Isles

Genesis Part 2 Map
Spawning Giant Bee Genesis Part 2

Lost Island map
Spawning Giant Bee Lost Island

Crystal Isles Topographic Map
Spawning Giant Worker Bee Crystal Isles

Common             Rare
  Untameable   Cave

The Giant Bee is one of the Creatures in ARK: Survival Evolved.

Basic Info[]

Dossier[]

This section is intended to be an exact copy of what the survivor Helena Walker, the author of the dossiers, has written. There may be some discrepancies between this text and the in-game creature.

NoteHelena
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Species

Apis lithohermaea

Time

Middle Miocene

Diet

Herbivore

Temperament

Territorial

Wild

In the wild, Apis lithohermaea Drones never stray far from their nests, which they build high in the Island’s Redwood trees or on rocky cliffsides. Apis Drones can be seen swarming around the nest in groups, but to get a look at the Queen Apis, one would need to crack open the nest itself. Speaking from experience, this is not a pleasant task, as the untameable Apis Drones are quite territorial. I probably should have seen that one coming, in hindsight. Take caution: Apis stings will significantly weaken any creature which suffers them, and because its stinger is not barbed, Apis can sting multiple times without its stinger being ripped away.

Domesticated

A tamed Apis Queen will lay new drone eggs, and construct a nest that survivors can farm for honey, so long as they remember to wear specialized bee-keeping gear. Said honey is not only sweet and delicious, but laced with scents that land mammals find irresistible. Many hunters use it to bait their traps. Apis Drones will also follow their Queen into battle, so they can be used for self-defense in a pinch.

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Behavior[]

General: The entity that is the Giant Bee consists of the Queen Bee and the drone (called Giant Bee in game). Queen Bees and Drones appear when a wild beehive is damaged or destroyed.

Queen: The Queen Bee is the center of the Giant Bee entity. She is the larger of the two that players will encounter. When she spawns into the world, she automatically becomes a hive. Note that the Queen may despawn shortly after spawning in and turning into a hive, even when she is spawned in by a player. Wild Queens will spawn drones to protect her while she flees from the recently destroyed hive, and will keep spawning them after tamed. Once tamed, she can be interacted with like other pets but she does not gain XP and cannot level up past the post tame additional levels. (+2 max on a private game) She tends to spawn at level 5. She has an inventory that can have items placed in it, and a food bar but it does not drain very fast. From tests, she can eat both raw meat and Rare Flowers, but seems to require hand feeding. The Queen will continuously spawn drones that seemingly do not count towards the player's tame count, as they do not show up as red in the kill feed if killed by the owning player or fellow tribe members.

Drones: Drones are smaller of the two Giant Bees. They will spawn from inside a wild hive and will swarm any attackers. Once the Queen is tamed, they can be interacted with the exception of having an inventory or a progression system. They can and will protect the player if their aggression is not set to Passive. They can also follow the player, but only a certain distance before returning to the Queen. Giant Bee drones can be uploaded to a Beacon or Obelisks, and can be redownloaded. If they are downloaded, they will be severed from the Queen and can be used as guard dogs. However, like Forcetamed Titanoboa Titanoboa, they cannot be fed or leveled up, and will despawn when the player reloads the same world. Drones cannot be acquired from a tamed hive, and are only produced by a tamed Queen. She will only produce a certain amount, and the Drones seem to have lifespans. Sometimes they will live for 30 minutes or so and sometimes they will die en masse within a few seconds of spawning.

Appearance[]

Color Scheme and Regions[]

Displayed are the Queen Bee's natural colors. The drone bees it spawns have different colorization.

 

This section displays the Giant Bee's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Giant Bee. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Giant Bee will randomly spawn with to provide an overall range of its natural color scheme. Hover your cursor over a color to display its name and ID.

This information can be used to alter the Giant Bee's regions by entering cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID> in the cheat console. For instance, cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6 would color the Giant Bee's "body highlights" magenta.

Giant Bee PaintRegion0
Region 0:
Body Highlights
19
20
21
22
23
24
28
30
43
44
X mark

Region 1 is not used
for this Creature.

Giant Bee PaintRegion2
Region 2:
Legs Highlight
14
19
20
21
22
23
24
28
30
35
36
43
44
X mark

Region 3 is not used
for this Creature.

X mark

Region 4 is not used
for this Creature.

Giant Bee PaintRegion5
Region 5:
Body Dark
14
29
31
34
35
41
52
56

No image available
Region 0:
Dark All
20
22
33
34
41
42
43
X mark

Region 1 is not used
for this Creature.

No image available
Region 2:
Dark All
20
22
33
34
41
42
43
X mark

Region 3 is not used
for this Creature.

No image available
Region 4:
Dark All
20
22
33
34
41
42
43
No image available
Region 5:
Dark All
20
22
33
34
41
42
43

Drops[]

Base Stats and Growth[]

Attribute Base Value Level Increase Taming Bonus
Wild Tamed Additive Multiplicative
Health Health 80 +16 +5.4% 0.07
Stamina Stamina 200 +20 +10%
Oxygen Oxygen 150 +15 +10%
Food Food 450 +45 +10%
Weight Weight 150 +3 +4%
Melee Damage Melee Damage 8 +0.4 +1.7% 7% 17.6%
Movement Speed Movement Speed 100% N/A +1%
Torpidity Torpidity 400 +24 N/A 0.5
Movement
[u/s] 		Base Speed Sprinting Speed Stamina
Wild Tamed1 Tamed2 Wild Tamed1 Tamed2
Walking 600 ? ? 600 600 600 5
Swimming 200 ? ? ? ? ? ?
Flying 600 ? ? 600 600 600 ?
  • 1These are the base speeds of the creature at 100% Movement Speed.
  • 2These are the speeds of the creature tamed and non-imprinted.
  • For a comparison of the speeds of all creatures, see Base Creature Speeds.
Attack Values
Bite (Drone Bee) Stamina Cost Attack Range Description
Base Minimum Activation The bee drones (not the Queen) bite the target.
0 65 0 100
Attack Type Damage Projectile Values Torpor Values Status Effect: Stamina Status Effect: Torpidity
Life Impulse Radius Base Mult Duration Damage Mult Amount Duration Damage Mult Amount
Melee 8
Sting (Drone Bee) Stamina Cost Attack Range Description
Base Minimum Activation The bee drones (not the Queen) sting the target. This attack will remove players from their mounts.
0 65 0 100
Attack Type Damage Projectile Values Torpor Values Status Effect: Stamina Status Effect: Torpidity
Life Impulse Radius Base Mult Duration Damage Mult Amount Duration Damage Mult Amount
Melee 8

Attribute Base Value Level Increase
Wild
Health Health 200 +40
Stamina Stamina 200 +20
Oxygen Oxygen 150 +15
Food Food 450 +45
Weight Weight 150 +3
Melee Damage Melee Damage 12 +0.6
Movement Speed Movement Speed 100% N/A
Torpidity Torpidity 400 +24
Movement
[u/s] 		Base Speed Sprinting Speed
Wild Wild
Walking 130


195
Swimming 600


N/A
Flying 600


900
  • 1These are the base speeds of the creature at 100% Movement Speed.
  • 2These are the speeds of the creature tamed and non-imprinted.
  • For a comparison of the speeds of all creatures, see Base Creature Speeds.
Attack Values
Bite (Drone Bee) Stamina Cost Attack Range Description
Base Minimum Activation The bee drones (not the Queen) bite the target.
0 65 0 100
Attack Type Damage Projectile Values Torpor Values Status Effect: Stamina Status Effect: Torpidity
Life Impulse Radius Base Mult Duration Damage Mult Amount Duration Damage Mult Amount
Melee 8
Sting (Drone Bee) Stamina Cost Attack Range Description
Base Minimum Activation The bee drones (not the Queen) sting the target. This attack will remove players from their mounts.
0 65 0 100
Attack Type Damage Projectile Values Torpor Values Status Effect: Stamina Status Effect: Torpidity
Life Impulse Radius Base Mult Duration Damage Mult Amount Duration Damage Mult Amount
Melee 8

Wild Stats Level-up

Type in values of a wild creature to see on which stats it's emphasized. Green values on a high-level creature are very good for breeding. If you have already tamed your creature you can try to recover the breeding stats with an external tool.[1]

Giant Bee

The stat-calculator does not work in the mobile-view, see here for alternatives: Apps

Note that after the creature is tamed it gets bonuses on some stats depending on the taming effectiveness. This makes it hard to retrieve the levels on a tamed creature, so this tool is only for wild ones, but gives a first impression, how well the stats are distributed.

Combat[]

This section describes how to fight against the Giant Bee.

General[]

These things are pure annoyances. You choose when to engage (by destroying a wild beehive), so you can prepare with ample time to do so. Just don't be stupid, and don't walk into other creatures and you're fine.

Strategy[]

Performing a barrel roll with a Pteranodon Pteranodon is a relatively safe way to destroy the hive without wasting too many resources such as bullets. If the barrel roll is aimed correctly, the Pteranodon can damage the hive with more damage than its regular attack, and the barrel roll also allows the rider to move past the hive fast enough in order to not get stung by the Drones. Just repeat a “hit and run” strategy with you Pteranodons’s roll. Rocket Launchers are also great against wild hives. Another great way to destroy a hive is by using a Dire Bear Dire Bear as Dire Bears have a passive buff that makes you and the Dire Bear immune to bees.

Weaponry[]

Ranged weapons and pikes or spears are effective against the drones.

Dangers[]

Stings will dismount riders and slow players, making them easy targets for the swarm. Their small size makes them difficult to hit at times, and they move at a fair pace, allowing them to chase any assailant attempting to raid the hive.

Weakness[]

The drones are fairly slow and have low health, making them easy targets for ranged weapons. in addition they have limited time before dying off meaning as long as the survivor runs off a fair distance from the queen they'll be safe!

Taming[]

Giant Queen Bee Level 1 Feeding Interval Time
Simple Kibble Simple Kibble 1 00:00 0:00:28
Raw Mutton Raw Mutton 2 05:09 0:05:09
Cooked Lamb Chop Cooked Lamb Chop 4 03:25 0:10:17
Raw Prime Meat Raw Prime Meat 3 03:51 0:07:43
Rare Flower Rare Flower 3 05:47 0:11:35
Cooked Prime Meat Cooked Prime Meat 5 03:12 0:12:51
Raw Prime Fish Meat Raw Prime Fish Meat 6 01:32 0:07:43
Raw Meat Raw Meat 7 03:00 0:18:01
Cooked Prime Fish Meat Cooked Prime Fish Meat 11 01:27 0:14:32
Cooked Meat Cooked Meat 13 01:23 0:16:43
Raw Fish Meat Raw Fish Meat 16 01:22 0:20:35
Cooked Fish Meat Cooked Fish Meat 32 00:39 0:20:35
Giant Queen Bee Level 30 Feeding Interval Time
Simple Kibble Simple Kibble 2 00:55 0:00:55
Raw Mutton Raw Mutton 3 03:51 0:07:43
Cooked Lamb Chop Cooked Lamb Chop 5 03:12 0:12:51
Raw Prime Meat Raw Prime Meat 3 03:51 0:07:43
Rare Flower Rare Flower 3 05:47 0:11:35
Cooked Prime Meat Cooked Prime Meat 6 03:05 0:15:25
Raw Prime Fish Meat Raw Prime Fish Meat 7 01:30 0:09:01
Raw Meat Raw Meat 9 02:53 0:23:09
Cooked Prime Fish Meat Cooked Prime Fish Meat 14 01:25 0:18:30
Cooked Meat Cooked Meat 17 01:22 0:21:52
Raw Fish Meat Raw Fish Meat 21 01:21 0:27:01
Cooked Fish Meat Cooked Fish Meat 42 00:39 0:27:01
Giant Queen Bee Level 60 Feeding Interval Time
Simple Kibble Simple Kibble 2 00:55 0:00:55
Raw Mutton Raw Mutton 3 03:51 0:07:43
Cooked Lamb Chop Cooked Lamb Chop 6 03:05 0:15:25
Raw Prime Meat Raw Prime Meat 4 03:26 0:10:18
Rare Flower Rare Flower 4 05:08 0:15:26
Cooked Prime Meat Cooked Prime Meat 7 02:59 0:17:59
Raw Prime Fish Meat Raw Prime Fish Meat 9 01:26 0:11:35
Raw Meat Raw Meat 11 02:49 0:28:18
Cooked Prime Fish Meat Cooked Prime Fish Meat 18 01:23 0:23:47
Cooked Meat Cooked Meat 21 01:21 0:27:01
Raw Fish Meat Raw Fish Meat 27 01:20 0:34:43
Cooked Fish Meat Cooked Fish Meat 53 00:39 0:34:05
Giant Queen Bee Level 90 Feeding Interval Time
Simple Kibble Simple Kibble 2 00:55 0:00:55
Raw Mutton Raw Mutton 4 03:26 0:10:18
Cooked Lamb Chop Cooked Lamb Chop 7 02:59 0:17:59
Raw Prime Meat Raw Prime Meat 5 03:13 0:12:52
Rare Flower Rare Flower 5 04:49 0:19:18
Cooked Prime Meat Cooked Prime Meat 9 02:53 0:23:08
Raw Prime Fish Meat Raw Prime Fish Meat 11 01:24 0:14:09
Raw Meat Raw Meat 13 02:47 0:33:26
Cooked Prime Fish Meat Cooked Prime Fish Meat 21 01:23 0:27:45
Cooked Meat Cooked Meat 26 01:20 0:33:26
Raw Fish Meat Raw Fish Meat 32 01:19 0:41:09
Cooked Fish Meat Cooked Fish Meat 63 00:39 0:40:31
Giant Queen Bee Level 120 Feeding Interval Time
Simple Kibble Simple Kibble 2 00:55 0:00:55
Raw Mutton Raw Mutton 4 03:26 0:10:18
Cooked Lamb Chop Cooked Lamb Chop 8 02:56 0:20:33
Raw Prime Meat Raw Prime Meat 5 03:13 0:12:52
Rare Flower Rare Flower 5 04:49 0:19:18
Cooked Prime Meat Cooked Prime Meat 10 02:51 0:25:42
Raw Prime Fish Meat Raw Prime Fish Meat 13 01:23 0:16:43
Raw Meat Raw Meat 15 02:45 0:38:35
Cooked Prime Fish Meat Cooked Prime Fish Meat 25 01:22 0:33:02
Cooked Meat Cooked Meat 30 01:19 0:38:35
Raw Fish Meat Raw Fish Meat 37 01:19 0:47:35
Cooked Fish Meat Cooked Fish Meat 74 00:39 0:47:35
Giant Queen Bee Level 150 Feeding Interval Time
Simple Kibble Simple Kibble 3 00:41 0:01:23
Raw Mutton Raw Mutton 5 03:13 0:12:52
Cooked Lamb Chop Cooked Lamb Chop 9 02:53 0:23:08
Raw Prime Meat Raw Prime Meat 6 03:05 0:15:26
Rare Flower Rare Flower 6 04:37 0:23:09
Cooked Prime Meat Cooked Prime Meat 12 02:48 0:30:50
Raw Prime Fish Meat Raw Prime Fish Meat 14 01:23 0:18:01
Raw Meat Raw Meat 17 02:43 0:43:43
Cooked Prime Fish Meat Cooked Prime Fish Meat 28 01:22 0:37:00
Cooked Meat Cooked Meat 34 01:19 0:43:43
Raw Fish Meat Raw Fish Meat 42 01:19 0:54:01
Cooked Fish Meat Cooked Fish Meat 84 00:39 0:54:01

Note that the values are for optimal cases, always bring extra supplies!
For a level-dependent count of resources needed, try an external taming calculator.


Taming Strategy[]

Taming an Apis Queen is perhaps one of the most difficult and annoying tasks any survivor can experience, but with the proper knowledge, equipment, and animals to aid you in the endeavor; the difficulty and annoyance make way for what can be a relatively simple and easy effort.

The general taming process happens like this; first, make the Queen appear by destroying wild beehives. The Queen is passively tamed by getting near to her and feeding her a selection of her favored foods (a list of which is provided above, place the food item in your last slot on your action bar, and press E, Y, Triangle when the option is available), and this can only be done when the Drones surrounding her are calm and unaggressive towards you and any of your current tames nearby, but this is easier said than done. To get close enough without provoking the Drones, more often than not you require the aid of a Ghillie Armor Ghillie Suit and Bug Repellant Bug Repellant, although it is not necessary if one decides to be swift about it. Once you have those, equip the Ghillie armor and spray on your repellent, then hold the crouch button to go prone. From there, you can crawl right up to her without angering the Drones, and proceed to feed her (Or just run up and Click E with kibble in your last slot, this will not require ghillie nor bug repellent.) However, these are not the only hurdles you have to jump before you can tame her, as things get much more complicated than that. In order to reach the Queen in the first place: the hive in which she lives must first be broken open. As a side note, some wild hives do not contain Queens, which can be identified with the complete absence of Drones defending them if you attack the hive. Secondly, you will occasionally encounter a hive that contains two to three Queens, or find multiple hives with their own separate Queen clipped into each other, but this is a rare occurrence.

Breaking open the hive can be done in any number of ways, from your own weaponry such as melee or firearms, or explosives, but by far the most effective strategy is to make use of tames to assist you. The tame required for this process varies per map and where the hive is located, but generally the best options are Tapejara Tapejara and Dimorphodon for hives located up on high cliffs or redwood trees (Tapejara: due to their flight and maneuverability, aids in spotting hives, positioning yourself properly to damage the hive, and killing the drones before they sting you. Dimorphodon, if they are available on the map, can be used to take the Tapejara's place for damaging the hive so that you don't have to risk getting stung and knocked off your flying mount, and because they are flyers; they can reach a hive no matter where it's at), and a Dire Bear for hives that are on the ground or near enough to it that ramps can be built to access the hive (because Dire Bears themselves are entirely immune to the dismounting and snaring status effect caused by the drone's stings, while their presence also largely prevents you yourself from getting stung). When the hive is attacked, one of two things will happen, depending on your tame's melee damage effectiveness: the hive will immediately break open and release the Queen who will start spawning drones to protect herself, or Drones will emerge from the damaged hive to sting and chase you off. If the hive was not broken open on the first hit and you aren't riding a Dire Bear or using Dimorphodon; retreat and put enough distance between you and the hive until the Drones despawn, then return and repeat this process until the hive is broken.

Once the hive has been busted and the Queen is released, then begins the true challenge, and the primary reason why taming her is so difficult; she permanently flies, and wanders around aimlessly flying downwards: allowing her to reach locations and heights where she is virtually impossible to be fed and tamed from, or be attacked by dangerous predators that can kill her. This challenge, however, can be entirely negated, and where the equipment you bring comes into play. To force her to stay still, you require a trap that can be opened for her to fly into, then closed to box her in. The trap you will build Depends on whether the hive is located high up on a tree or cliff, or on or near to the ground. For tree or cliff-based hives; build a 2x2 of wood/adobe or better trap consisting of 4 foundations, 8 door frames, 8 doors, and 1 giant hatchframe and giant trap door sitting at the top to act as a lid. For ground-based or near-ground hives; the same design can be repeated, only with taller walls and a dinosaur gateway and gate facing towards the hive. Alternatively, multiple Wooden Cages can be placed on the ground in various places, partially distanced from and surrounding the hive, to act as traps (though the Queen can be trapped in Wooden Cages, the Wooden Cage often makes it difficult to get your crosshair on her to feed her the taming food). Once your trap is built, however, she's not simply going to fly into it. The trap needs to be baited, and ironically, the best and only bait that will grab her attention and force her to move into your trap is the very thing you are taming her for: Giant Bee Honey Giant Bee Honey. (Needs confirmation, sources claim bee queens will not be tamed when considering themselves trapped, regardless this is quite a bit too much effort for a tame that's as simple as grabbing the kibble, running up, and clicking e.)

Before you begin the process of breaking open her hive; you should first collect some honey from it (if the hive is out of your reach a Grappling Hook will be required), which will yield you up to 5 free jars. Once you have the honey, place all five jars into slots on your action bar so that you can use them as bait, and position yourself within your trap (if it is a Wooden Cage instead of a box trap built out of structures, stand just outside it). Proceed to break the hive open, whistling to your tames to attack it (on Scorched Earth, there are no Dire Bears or Dimorphodon unless you transfer them, without transfers, you will be forced to use your Tapejara to reach the hive and break it open yourself), and once the Queen is exposed; immediately whistle for your tames to back off by either whistling them to passive, or directing them to flee to another spot, then drop a Giant Bee Honey Giant Bee Honey in the trap by using the slot on the action bar the honey is placed in (if the honey is dropped into the trap before her hive is broken open, she will ignore it). She will begin to fly towards the honey, but more often than not, her Drones tend to beat her to it. Following this, she will either pause for a few seconds, or continue flying towards the spot the honey was at before her Drones snatched it. If she pauses before entering the trap, drop another jar into the trap and repeat this until she either enters the trap, or you run out of honey. Once she enters the trap, she will pause for a few seconds after she reaches the honey; this is the moment where you need to close the dinosaur gate or giant trapdoor to shut her in. While you close the trap, if you still have some honey left over, drop another jar inside the trap to keep her in while door is still closing, for good measure. For the most effective results, make sure you have cleared the area surrounding the hive of other wild animals that can interfere and steal the bait before the Queen has a chance to get to it. Once she's shut in, the process of feeding her can begin; in the relative peace, ease, and safety of the trap.

Utility[]

Giant Bee Hives

Giant Bee Hives

Having a tamed Apis Queen in your menagerie of tames is without a doubt one of the best advantages you can have as, much like Farming, your newly acquired Bee Hive Bee Hive provides you with extremely beneficial, long-term results; a replenishing and easily accessed supply of Giant Bee Honey Giant Bee Honey, which can be used in a wide variety of purposes. Unlike a wild hive, which will always be aggressive to you, and will only yield up to 5 jars of honey per harvest that only starts to replenish every 15 minutes; your tamed hive can hold up to 45 jars of honey, producing about two jars roughly every hour. However, there is a catch; your tamed hive requires a supply of Rare Flower Rare Flower to produce honey, and will slowly begin to degrade in structure health and break without flowers in its inventory. Thankfully, the production cost is very low, as the flowers are consumed at an extremely slow rate, about one per hour, and if the hive does break, your Queen will emerge from it; healthy and unharmed, able to be grabbed again to make a new hive that can be placed again when you are ready.

When tamed, there is a prompt displayed over the Queen Bee: "press E, Y, Triangle to obtain hive". When doing so, a Bee Hive Bee Hive is placed in your inventory and the Queen disappears. The hive can then be placed like on the ground like a structure, but requires Rare Flower Rare Flower to 'stay healthy', or it will break. When destroyed, the Queen that was used to build the Bee Hive Bee Hive will respawn, and can then be used to create a new hive, which can be placed again when you have the flowers to fuel it. Once placed and loaded up with flowers, your hive will provide a consistent source of Giant Bee Honey Giant Bee Honey, at a rate of roughly two jars an hour. Withdrawing honey from your hive, however, can be a bit tricky, but nowhere near the effort that was required in order to tame your Queen in the first place. If you don't use the proper equipment when you access your hive's inventory, you will lose a small chunk of your health immediately, and receive the BEES! status effect, which slows your movement speed by 1/3rd and drains 10% of your total health over a few seconds. To avoid these hazards, you have a few options. A Ghillie Armor Ghillie Suit will allow you to access the hive without getting the BEES! status effect, but you will still lose a chunk of your health from accessing the hive's inventory. To avoid both the immediate health penalty and the status effect, you can equip either Bug Repellant Bug Repellant or a full suit of Hazard Gear.

  • Honey Farm: The clear and most obvious purpose, the very reason you tamed a Bee Queen in the first place, is the honey. However, you'd be surprised by how many uses the honey has, some rather simple and obvious, and others more creative.
    • Sweet Vegetable Cake: One of the greatest benefits to having access to your own personal hive is the fact that Sweet Vegetable Cake requires honey as one of its main ingredients. The cake, while inedible to humans, is an extremely nutritious food item for herbivores that both heavily sates their hunger, and functions as a powerful healing aid that can be used every 30 seconds. That's not the only use the cake has, however; both the extremely useful Ovis and Achatina only accept Sweet Vegetable Cake as their taming food, and the cake is the only thing Achatina will eat after being tamed.
    • Extraordinary Kibble: The best kibble in the game, Extraordinary Kibble, can only be made with the use of Giant Bee Honey, and is the finest taming food for the vast majority of creatures.
    • Taming Aid: Besides being used for Sweet Vegetable Cake and Extraordinary Kibble, the honey on its own is a very effective food of choice for taming several creatures, primarily Omnivores such as the Dire Bear and Megatherium, and is the only food Liopleurodon will accept while being tamed. Aside from being taming food, the honey, when put into a slot on your action bar, can be used and dropped to function as bait for a carnivore trap; leading either into a Wooden Cage, Large or Small bear traps, a trap built out of structures, or any combination thereof. It's also useful for getting various wild flyers that have flown too high, where they're stuck flying, back towards the ground again where they can land.
    • Distraction: The age-old question of "Have you ever wanted something so badly you would die for it?" finds no finer example than the lengths some wild creatures will go to chase after a chunk of honey you drop. While it can be used to create a temporary distraction while you walk around whatever dangerous creatures are after it, you can take your dirty tactic one step further; wild animals that can't fly will literally throw themselves off cliffs to chase after the sticky gold, and into many an environmental hazard. This can be used to great effect in places like the Tek Cave and Aberration, where lethal pools of magma and element wait at the bottom.

Spotlight[]

Video Tutorial[]

A quick tutorial on how to make a bee trap to get honey easier in the Redwoods.

Notes/Trivia[]

  • Dino Dossier revealed on 09/20/2016.[2]
  • The Giant Bee's scientific name Apis lithohermaea is that of an actual species of giant bee that dwelled in Miocene Japan. Of course, the real animal was much smaller at only 18 millimeters.[3]
  • The giant bee is the 3rd creature to have a queen, with the 1st being Araneo (Broodmother Lysrix), the 2nd being Titanomyrma, although the Titanomyrma queen is not currently in-game, the 4th one being Iceworm Male (Iceworm Queen), 5th one is Nameless (Reaper Queen) and 6th is Crystal Wyvern (Crystal Wyvern Queen).
  • The dossier referenced a possible apiarist armor however it was instead replaced with the ghillie armor
  • When a player-made hive is destroyed, the bee will be facing to the right of the original orientation of the hive.
    • Player-made hives in Aberration destroyed will not 'refund' Giant Bee. Be advised if you intend to transfer the bee to another map as Bee Hives cannot be transferred anywhere.
    • Additionally, Cryopod cryopodding a Queen Bee will result in the bee being permanently stuck in the pod, as bees are not allowed into Aberration on default settings.
  • As of Patch 291.102 (PC) and 781.16, player created Beehives may be picked back up after ~5 seconds, giving the player their Beehive back as well as another Queen Bee being created.
  • Real Bees lay eggs, however Ark's Giant Bees do not.
  • ARK's Giant Bees can't land just like the Onyc Onyc and the Phoenix Phoenix despite having legs.
  • The Giant Bee is the only non-Tek Creature in Aberration to not have a Aberrant variant.
  • Despite being enormous, the Giant Bee makes very little noise. Its buzzing sounds more like a helicopter than an actual bee.
  • In the real world, if there is a bee that is born different from the rest of the colony, that bee is fed a special type of food known as royal jelly. Royal jelly is only given to queens and is what turns a female bee into a queen.
  • In real life, bee drones are all male, and their sole purpose is to breed with the virgin queens born from several different hives. Drones also cannot sting. Only the female worker bees can.
  • At one point before being patched, the Giant Bee had an unintended attribute of being a light raiding weapon. Weighed down Queens could be used to spawn swarms of drones to attack creatures or bases without harming the Queen or risking the player's life. This was eventually changed so that the Queen cannot spawn drones if encumbered, and spawning drones drains her HP. She will not spawn anymore if her HP drops to 10%.
  • Tamed Queen Bee can be spawned with command: cheat summontamed Bee_Queen_Character_BP_C

Changelog[]

Patch Changes
257.0 Giant Bee Giant Bee and Giant Queen Bee Giant Queen Bee is added to the game.
257.4
  • Destroying a Wild Bee Hive Bee Hive no longer reports into the tribe log.
  • Can no longer upload the Bee Hive Bee Hive.
  • Can now upload the Queen bee.
257.42
  • Queen bees no longer die if too much damage is done to smashing their hive.
  • Queen bees no longer lose taming affinity from taking damage.
259.0 Fixed issue where bee hives were stacking on top of each other.
261.0 Drone bees no longer give XP.
262.0 Acsessing a Bee Hive no logner provides the player with Health Health.
278.0 Dire Bear Dire Bears are now immune to Stung Stung and Swarmed Swarmed debuffs.
305.12 Fixed a bug in which the Bee Hive Bee Hive would not return the queen bee back properly.
310.67
  • Queen bee will no longer spawn bees when Encumbered Encumbered.
  • Queen bee now loses 3% of its Health Health every time a drone bee of her's is killed.
  • Queen bee wil stop spawning bee minions when health goes down to 10%.
311.74 Crystal Isles Expansion Release Added Giant Worker Bee Giant Worker Bee.
312.65 Having Mini-HLNA Skin HLN-A or a Chibi-Pets Chibi-Pet equipped no longer disables protection against Stung Stung and Swarmed Swarmed debuffs.
324.16 Fixed invisible bees.
326.3 Fixed a bug where wild bees would not spawn.
329.27 Added bees to Genesis: Part 2.

Gallery[]

  • Giant Bee Promo Image.jpg
  • Beehives obtained by taming Giant Bees

    Beehives obtained by taming Giant Bees

References[]

  1. ↑ ARK Smart Breeding
  2. ↑ Introducing the Giant Bee!
  3. ↑ Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations on The giant honey bee
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  1. Achatina
  2. Allosaurus
  3. Alpha Basilisk
  4. Alpha Blood Crystal Wyvern
  5. Alpha Carnotaurus
  6. Alpha Deathworm
  7. Alpha Fire Wyvern
  8. Alpha Karkinos
  9. Alpha King Titan
  10. Alpha Leedsichthys
  11. Alpha Megalodon
  12. Alpha Mosasaur
  13. Alpha Raptor
  14. Alpha Surface Reaper King
  15. Alpha T-Rex
  16. Alpha Tusoteuthis
  17. Alpha X-Triceratops
  18. Ammonite
  19. Anglerfish
  20. Ankylosaurus
  21. Araneo
  22. Archaeopteryx
  23. Argentavis
  24. Arthropluera
  25. Astrocetus
  26. Astrodelphis
  27. Attack Drone
  28. Baryonyx
  29. Basilisk
  30. Basilisk Ghost
  31. Basilosaurus
  32. Beelzebufo
  33. Blood Crystal Wyvern
  34. Bloodstalker
  35. Bone Fire Wyvern
  36. Brontosaurus
  37. Broodmother Lysrix
  38. Bulbdog
  39. Bulbdog Ghost
  40. Bunny Dodo
  41. Bunny Oviraptor
  42. Carbonemys
  43. Carnotaurus
  44. Castoroides
  45. Chalicotherium
  46. Chalk Golem
  47. Cnidaria
  48. Coelacanth
  49. Compy
  50. Corrupted Master Controller
  51. Crystal Wyvern
  52. Crystal Wyvern Queen
  53. Daeodon
  54. Deathworm
  55. Defense Unit
  56. Deinonychus
  57. Desert Titan
  58. Desert Titan Flock
  59. Dilophosaur
  60. Dimetrodon
  61. Dimorphodon
  62. Diplocaulus
  63. Diplodocus
  64. Dire Bear
  65. Dire Polar Bear
  66. Direwolf
  67. Direwolf Ghost
  68. Diseased Leech
  69. Dodo
  70. Dodo Wyvern
  71. DodoRex
  72. Doedicurus
  73. Dragon
  74. Dung Beetle
  75. Dunkleosteus
  76. Electrophorus
  77. Elemental Reaper King
  78. Ember Crystal Wyvern
  79. Enforcer
  80. Enraged Corrupted Rex
  81. Enraged Triceratops
  82. Equus
  83. Eurypterid
  84. Featherlight
  85. Ferox
  86. Ferox (Large)
  87. Fire Wyvern
  88. Forest Titan
  89. Forest Wyvern
  90. Gacha
  91. GachaClaus
  92. Gallimimus
  93. Gasbags
  94. Giant Bee
  95. Giant Queen Bee
  96. Giant Worker Bee
  97. Giganotosaurus
  98. Gigantopithecus
  99. Glowbug
  100. Glowtail
  101. Golden Striped Megalodon
  102. Griffin
  103. Hesperornis
  104. Human
  105. Hyaenodon
  106. Ice Golem
  107. Ice Titan
  108. Ice Wyvern
  109. Iceworm Male
  110. Iceworm Queen
  111. Ichthyornis
  112. Ichthyosaurus
  113. Iguanodon
  114. Insect Swarm
  115. Jerboa
  116. Jug Bug
  117. Kairuku
  118. Kaprosuchus
  119. Karkinos
  120. Kentrosaurus
  121. King Titan
  122. Lamprey
  123. Lava Elemental
  124. Leech
  125. Leedsichthys
  126. Lightning Wyvern
  127. Liopleurodon
  128. Lymantria
  129. Lystrosaurus
  130. Maewing
  131. Magmasaur
  132. Mammoth
  133. Managarmr
  134. Manta
  135. Manticore
  136. Mantis
  137. Mantis Ghost
  138. Mega Mek
  139. Megachelon
  140. Megalania
  141. Megaloceros
  142. Megalodon
  143. Megalosaurus
  144. Meganeura
  145. Megapithecus
  146. Megatherium
  147. Mek
  148. Mesopithecus
  149. Microraptor
  150. Moeder, Master of the Ocean
  151. Morellatops
  152. Mosasaurus
  153. Moschops
  154. Nameless
  155. Noglin
  156. Oil Jug Bug
  157. Onyc
  158. Otter
  159. Overseer
  160. Oviraptor
  161. Ovis
  162. Pachy
  163. Pachyrhinosaurus
  164. Paraceratherium
  165. Parakeet Fish School
  166. Parasaur
  167. Party Dodo
  168. Pegomastax
  169. Pelagornis
  170. Phiomia
  171. Phoenix
  172. Piranha
  173. Plesiosaur
  174. Polar Bear
  175. Polar Purlovia
  176. Poison Wyvern
  177. Procoptodon
  178. Pteranodon
  179. Pulmonoscorpius
  180. Purlovia
  181. Quetzal
  182. Raptor
  183. Ravager
  184. Reaper
  185. Reaper King
  186. Reaper Prince
  187. Reaper Queen
  188. Rex
  189. Rex Ghost
  190. Rock Drake
  191. Rock Elemental
  192. Rockwell
  193. Roll Rat
  194. Rubble Golem
  195. Sabertooth
  196. Sabertooth Salmon
  197. Sarco
  198. Scout
  199. Seeker
  200. Shadowmane
  201. Shinehorn
  202. Skeletal Bronto
  203. Skeletal Carnotaurus
  204. Skeletal Giganotosaurus
  205. Skeletal Jerboa
  206. Skeletal Quetzal
  207. Skeletal Raptor
  208. Skeletal Rex
  209. Skeletal Stego
  210. Skeletal Trike
  211. Snow Owl
  212. Snow Owl Ghost
  213. Spino
  214. Spirit Dire Bear
  215. Spirit Direwolf
  216. Stegosaurus
  217. Subterranean Reaper King
  218. Summoner
  219. Super Turkey
  220. Surface Reaper King
  221. Surface Reaper King Ghost
  222. Tapejara
  223. Tek Parasaur
  224. Tek Quetzal
  225. Tek Raptor
  226. Tek Rex
  227. Tek Stegosaurus
  228. Tek Stryder
  229. Tek Triceratops
  230. Terror Bird
  231. Therizinosaur
  232. Thorny Dragon
  233. Thylacoleo
  234. Titanoboa
  235. Titanomyrma
  236. Titanomyrma Drone
  237. Titanomyrma Soldier
  238. Titanosaur
  239. Triceratops
  240. Trilobite
  241. Troodon
  242. Tropeognathus
  243. Tropical Crystal Wyvern
  244. Tusoteuthis
  245. Unicorn
  246. Velonasaur
  247. Voidwyrm
  248. Vulture
  249. Water Jug Bug
  250. Woolly Rhino
  251. Wyvern
  252. Yeti
  253. Yutyrannus
  254. Zombie Fire Wyvern
  255. Zombie Lightning Wyvern
  256. Zombie Poison Wyvern
  257. Zombie Wyvern
  258. Zomdodo

Italics denote creatures that have not yet been released! See also Gallery of Dossiers.
Dinosaurs
Allosaurus  •  Amargasaurus  •  Ankylosaurus  •  Baryonyx  •  Brontosaurus  •  Carnotaurus  •  Compy  •  Deinonychus  •  Dilophosaur  •  Diplodocus  •  Gallimimus  •  Giganotosaurus  •  Iguanodon  •  Kentrosaurus  •  Megalosaurus  •  Microraptor  •  Oviraptor  •  Pachycephalosaurus  •  Pachyrhinosaurus  •  Parasaur  •  Raptor  •  Rex  •  Spino  •  Stegosaurus  •  Therizinosaur  •  Titanosaur  •  Triceratops  •  Troodon  •  Yutyrannus
Mammals and Synapsids
Andrewsarchus  •  Basilosaurus  •  Castoroides  •  Chalicotherium  •  Daeodon  •  Dimetrodon  •  Dinopithecus  •  Dire Bear (Polar, Dire Polar, Spirit)  •  Direwolf (Spirit)  •  Doedicurus  •  Equus  •  Gigantopithecus  •  Hyaenodon  •  Human  •  Jerboa  •  Lystrosaurus  •  Mammoth  •  Megaloceros  •  Megatherium  •  Mesopithecus  •  Moschops  •  Onyc  •  Otter  •  Ovis  •  Paraceratherium  •  Phiomia  •  Procoptodon  •  Purlovia (Polar)  •  Roll Rat  •  Sabertooth  •  Thylacoleo  •  Woolly Rhino
Reptiles and Amphibians
Beelzebufo  •  Carbonemys  •  Dimorphodon  •  Diplocaulus  •  Ichthyosaurus  •  Kaprosuchus  •  Liopleurodon  •  Megalania  •  Mosasaurus  •  Plesiosaur  •  Pteranodon  •  Quetzal  •  Sarco  •  Sinomacrops  •  Tapejara  •  Thorny Dragon  •  Titanoboa  •  Tropeognathus
Birds
Archaeopteryx  •  Argentavis  •  Dodo  •  Hesperornis  •  Ichthyornis  •  Kairuku  •  Pelagornis  •  Snow Owl  •  Terror Bird  •  Vulture
Fish
Anglerfish  •  Coelacanth  •  Dunkleosteus  •  Electrophorus  •  Lamprey  •  Leedsichthys  •  Manta  •  Megalodon (Golden Striped)  •  Piranha  •  Sabertooth Salmon
Invertebrates
Achatina  •  Ammonite  •  Araneo  •  Arthropluera  •  Cnidaria  •  Dung Beetle  •  Eurypterid  •  Gasbags  •  Giant Bee (Queen, Worker)  •  Glowbug  •  Jug Bug (Oil, Water)  •  Leech (Diseased)  •  Lymantria  •  Mantis  •  Meganeura  •  Pulmonoscorpius  •  Titanomyrma (Drone, Soldier)  •  Trilobite  •  Tusoteuthis
Fantasy Creatures
Astrocetus  •  Astrodelphis  •  Basilisk  •  Bloodstalker  •  Bulbdog  •  Chalk Golem  •  Crystal Wyvern (Blood, Ember, Tropical)  •  Deathworm  •  Desert Titan Flock  •  Eel Minion  •  Featherlight  •  Ferox (Large)  •  Gacha  •  Glowtail  •  Griffin  •  Ice Golem  •  Iceworm Male  •  Insect Swarm  •  Karkinos  •  Lava Elemental  •  Macrophage  •  Maewing  •  Magmasaur  •  Managarmr  •  Megachelon  •  Morellatops  •  Nameless  •  Noglin  •  Parakeet Fish School  •  Phoenix  •  Ravager  •  Reaper (Elemental, King, Prince, Queen, Subterranean, Surface)  •  Rock Drake  •  Rock Elemental  •  Rubble Golem  •  Seeker  •  Shadowmane  •  Shinehorn  •  Summoner  •  Unicorn  •  Velonasaur  •  Voidwyrm  •  Wyvern (Fire, Forest, Ice, Lightning, Poison)
Mechanical Creatures
Attack Drone  •  Defense Unit  •  Enforcer  •  Exo-mek  •  Mek (Mega)  •  Scout  •  Tek Stryder
Aberrant Creatures
Abberant Coelacanth  •  Aberrant Achatina  •  Aberrant Anglerfish  •  Aberrant Ankylosaurus  •  Aberrant Araneo  •  Aberrant Arthropluera  •  Aberrant Baryonyx  •  Aberrant Beelzebufo  •  Aberrant Carbonemys  •  Aberrant Carnotaurus  •  Aberrant Cnidaria  •  Aberrant Dimetrodon  •  Aberrant Dimorphodon  •  Aberrant Diplocaulus  •  Aberrant Diplodocus  •  Aberrant Dire Bear  •  Aberrant Dodo  •  Aberrant Doedicurus  •  Aberrant Dung Beetle  •  Aberrant Electrophorus  •  Aberrant Equus  •  Aberrant Gigantopithecus  •  Aberrant Iguanodon  •  Aberrant Lystrosaurus  •  Aberrant Manta  •  Aberrant Megalania  •  Aberrant Megalosaurus  •  Aberrant Meganeura  •  Aberrant Moschops  •  Aberrant Otter  •  Aberrant Ovis  •  Aberrant Paraceratherium  •  Aberrant Parasaur  •  Aberrant Piranha  •  Aberrant Pulmonoscorpius  •  Aberrant Purlovia  •  Aberrant Raptor  •  Aberrant Salmon  •  Aberrant Sarco  •  Aberrant Spino  •  Aberrant Stegosaurus  •  Aberrant Titanoboa  •  Aberrant Triceratops  •  Aberrant Trilobite
Tek Creatures
Corrupted and Enraged Creatures
R-Creatures
R-Allosaurus  •  R-Brontosaurus  •  R-Carbonemys  •  R-Carnotaurus  •  R-Daeodon  •  R-Dilophosaur  •  R-Dire Bear  •  R-Direwolf  •  R-Equus  •  R-Gasbags  •  R-Giganotosaurus  •  R-Megatherium  •  R-Parasaur  •  R-Procoptodon  •  R-Quetzal  •  R-Reaper King  •  R-Reaper Queen  •  R-Snow Owl  •  R-Thylacoleo  •  R-Velonasaur
VR Creatures
VR Allosaurus  •  VR Araneo  •  VR Argentavis  •  VR Astrodelphis  •  VR Bloodstalker  •  VR Carnotaurus  •  VR Chalicotherium  •  VR Dilophosaur  •  VR Dimorphodon  •  VR Enforcer  •  VR Ferox  •  VR Kaprosuchus  •  VR Karkinos  •  VR Lymantria  •  VR Mantis  •  VR Megalania  •  VR Megatherium  •  VR Onyc  •  VR Pachy  •  VR Pulmonoscorpius  •  VR Parasaur  •  VR Raptor  •  VR Ravager  •  VR Rex  •  VR Shadowmane  •  VR Stegosaurus  •  VR Tapejara  •  VR Terror Bird  •  VR Titanoboa  •  VR Triceratops  •  VR Velonasaur
X-Creatures
X-Allosaurus  •  X-Ankylosaurus  •  X-Argentavis  •  X-Basilosaurus  •  X-Dunkleosteus  •  X-Ichthyosaurus  •  X-Megalodon  •  X-Mosasaurus  •  X-Otter  •  X-Paraceratherium  •  X-Parasaur  •  X-Raptor  •  X-Rex  •  X-Rock Elemental  •  X-Sabertooth  •  X-Sabertooth Salmon  •  X-Spino  •  X-Tapejara  •  X-Triceratops  •  X-Woolly Rhino  •  X-Yutyrannus
Malfunctioned Tek Creatures
Alpha Creatures
Brute Creatures
Event Creatures
Bosses and Titans

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