Complicated Bees Unofficial

Unofficial port of Complicated Bees by ACCBDD to 26.1.2 and 26.2 on NeoForge. Needs nothing else. Not made or supported by ACCBDD.

Forestry-style bee breeding. Catch a princess from a wild nest with a Scoop, pair her with a drone in an Apiary, and the queen carries both parents' genes. Breed the right pairs and new species turn up. 59 species, 23 combs. Genes for lifespan, speed, fertility, temperature, humidity, flowers, territory and more.

Hot, dry bees sulk in a jungle. Night bees sleep through the day. Some mutations only happen over a certain block, in one biome or in the rain.

Same ids, recipes and bees as the original, so old packs and scripts still work. New bee and comb art.

Bees

Wild nests spawn in the world. Break one with a Scoop to get the princess. The Analyzer shows genes, dominant in red and recessive in blue, and runs on honey drops. The Meter reads the climate. The Apiary tells you why a bee isn't working: wrong temperature, no flowers, no sky, bad weather or asleep.

The Apid Library shows what a species can turn into. The Microscope's sequencing minigame makes a mutation more likely.

Combs

A Centrifuge spins combs into honey, beeswax, pollen, propolis, royal jelly, silk, and ores and gems from coal and copper up to diamond, quartz and netherite. Runs on FE from the Furnace Generator or Honey Generator.

Machines

Bee Sorter splits bees by filter. Autolyzer analyzes them for you. Frames change how an Apiary works: plain, waxed, hot, cold, wet, dry, deadly, restrictive.

The Mellarium and the Gyrofuge

Two 3x3x3 machines built from parts. The Mellarium is a big bee house: frame housings, temperature unit, hydroregulator, rain shield, mutator, skybox, temporal simulator. The Gyrofuge is a big centrifuge with processing, speed, efficiency and extraction units. Swap parts to change what they do.

Building blocks

Wax blocks, bricks, smooth and chiseled wax, with slabs, stairs and walls. Honeyed wood with a full wood set.

Works with other mods

JEI for mutation and centrifuge recipes, Jade for housing state. Both optional. EMI support is in the source but not this build, EMI has no 26.1.2 or 26.2 release yet.

Add-ons for this port: Genetic Industry Unofficial pulls single genes out of your bees and writes a genome you pick onto any princess or drone. Complicated Trees lets your bees cross-pollinate trees and breed new tree species.

For pack makers

Species, combs and flowers are datapack files under data/<namespace>/complicated_bees/species, comb and flower. Mutations and centrifuge outputs are recipes. Same formats as the original, documented on its GitHub wiki (ACCBDD/complicated_bees). Biomes O' Plenty nest spawns for BoP biomes that no longer exist were removed.

Credits and licence

Complicated Bees is by ACCBDD and contributors, EMI plugin by Abbie5. MIT licensed. The licence doesn't cover the original bee and comb textures, so this port has its own. The port's changes are MIT too.

Port by Oculifelis.