Resource Bees

🐝 Resource Bees

Tired of endless grinding in dark mines? It's time to delegate that job to the professionals!

Resource Bees is a lightweight and balanced mod that introduces unique resource-producing bees to your Minecraft world. Say goodbye to tedious grinding, automate your material gathering, and build your very own buzzing factory!

🆕 New in 1.2.0

• Bee levels 1–5: upgrade your bees on a crafting table and make them up to 4× faster.
• Hive status: the Resource Hive shows what every bee is doing (Mining / No ore / Full) with a progress bar.
• Smarter bees: they no longer drown in water, always find their way back to the hive and never duplicate.
• Mod compatibility: bees work with ores from other mods, and the Golden Bee works with Nether Gold Ore too.
• Bee jars now remember the bee's level, name and health. Copper Bees produce Copper Ingots. Much lighter on performance.

✨ Key Features

9 Unique Bees: From basic Coal to endgame Netherite, collect bees that passively generate valuable resources over time.

The Resource Hive: A heavy-duty, iron-reinforced hive designed specifically for your hardworking bees. It safely stores all generated loot and supports full automation (connect hoppers or pipes directly to it!). Hover over a bee's status to see when the next resource arrives or what the bee is missing.

Bee Jars: Catch wild bees using Empty Bee Jars, transport them safely in your inventory, and release them wherever you need. The bee keeps its level, name and health.

Bee Levels: Every bee can be upgraded from level 1 to level 5. Higher levels produce faster, and a level 5 bee has a 10% chance to produce a double drop.

Endgame Crafting: Craft high-tier bees (like the Netherite Bee) in the late game for ultimate automation.

📖 Mini-Guide: How It Works

Catch a Bee: Craft an Empty Bee Jar, find a resource bee spawning naturally in its specific biome, and right-click it with the jar to capture it.

Set Up the Hive: Place your Resource Hive at your base and insert your filled Bee Jars into the input slots.

The Ore Requirement: For a bee to work, the matching ore block must be placed nearby! The ore block must be located within 6 blocks horizontally and between -1 to 5 blocks vertically from the hive. Normal, Deepslate and modded ores all count. Example: to produce Iron Ingots, place an Iron Ore block near the hive.

Upgrade: Surround a Bee Jar with 8 of its resource on a crafting table to raise its level (see the table below).

Automation: Collect the loot manually, or place a hopper underneath the hive for 100% automated extraction!

⬆️ Bee Levels

Netherite Bee: 8 Netherite Scrap → 4 Netherite Ingots (corners) + 4 Netherite Scrap → 8 Netherite Ingots → 8 Netherite Ingots.

🗺️ Bee Locations & Rarity Guide

Explore the world during the day to find and catch your bees. Each species has its preferred biomes and production speed (times are for level 1):

• Coal Bee: Forests, Taiga (Common | Production: 10 seconds)
• Iron Bee: Forests, Savanna, Mountains (Common | Production: 30 seconds)
• Copper Bee: Beaches, Birch Forests (Common | Production: 30 seconds → Copper Ingots)
• Golden Bee: Badlands, Savanna (Uncommon | Production: 1 minute, also works with Nether Gold Ore)
• Redstone Bee: Swamps, Mangrove Swamps, Dark Forest (Uncommon | Production: 45 seconds)
• Lapis Bee: Deserts, Snowy Plains, Ice Spikes (Rare | Production: 45 seconds)
• Emerald Bee: Mountains only (Rare | Production: 3 minutes)
• Diamond Bee: Mushroom Fields, Jungles (all variants) (Ultra-Rare | Production: 3 minutes)
• Netherite Bee: Craft-Only! (Endgame | Production: 5 minutes → produces Netherite Scrap, requires an Ancient Debris block)

🛠️ Key Crafting Recipes

• Empty Bee Jar: 5x Glass Blocks arranged in a "V" shape in a crafting table.
• Resource Hive: 1x Vanilla Beehive in the center grid, surrounded by 8x Iron Ingots.
• Netherite Bee: 1x level 1 Diamond Bee Jar in the center grid, surrounded by 8x Netherite Ingots.
• Bee upgrades: see the Bee Levels table above. All recipes are visible in JEI.