The Bee issue

[TheHound555]

I think we can all agree that the bees being so impossible to find is a cause for crying. I just cut down a walnut tree and didnt hear or see anything, no buzzing, no bees in the air, no attacking and no nest. Finding bees is incredibly difficult we need to have a better indicator either being a louder noise of buzzing or the bees themself being an entity that we can see and follow (from flowers back to their nest) I am sad i killed a bee nest without ever knowing.

[Vexxvididu]

I agree.  Bees need to be less rare and/or have a more obvious presence.  I've never found them.  I've found just about everything else that can exist in this game.

[Loosebearings]

I spent about 15 minutes running through the forest near me and my friend's base filling my inventory with berries as our first set of crops hadn't fully grown yet. I found 2 bee nests by hearing them without needing to touch my volume settings.

Though I will agree that having bees as an entity would bring some much needed life to the forests (and your bee farms).

[Facethief]

The trick is that you have to find them thousands of blocks from your base, then you can find them 100 blocks from your house.

[LadyWYT]

1 hour ago, Facethief said:

The trick is that you have to find them thousands of blocks from your base, then you can find them 100 blocks from your house.

This is the way.

 

1 hour ago, TheHound555 said:

I think we can all agree that the bees being so impossible to find is a cause for crying. I just cut down a walnut tree and didnt hear or see anything, no buzzing, no bees in the air, no attacking and no nest. Finding bees is incredibly difficult we need to have a better indicator either being a louder noise of buzzing or the bees themself being an entity that we can see and follow (from flowers back to their nest) I am sad i killed a bee nest without ever knowing.

Welcome to the forums! I do somewhat disagree here, as I stumble across bees quite regularly and I don't think making them even more common is the answer. However, I do agree that it would be nice to have more bee particles in a wider range around the nest so players can have a good visual indicator instead of relying mostly on sound. I don't think the range even needs to be very big--something like bee particles in a five block radius from the nest should be sufficient.

[Facethief]

8 minutes ago, LadyWYT said:

However, I do agree that it would be nice to have more bee particles in a wider range around the nest so players can have a good visual indicator instead of relying mostly on sound. I don't think the range even needs to be very big--something like bee particles in a five block radius from the nest should be sufficient.

My issue with the particles is that they get stuck in the leaves, as they are blocked by… well, blocks, and they spawn in the beehive block.

[LadyWYT]

6 minutes ago, Facethief said:

My issue with the particles is that they get stuck in the leaves, as they are blocked by… well, blocks, and they spawn in the beehive block.

In that case, maybe tweak the code so that the bee particles aren't blocked by leaves.

[Steel General]

I think the easiest solution, for both man and machine, would for the hives to spawn some of their bee particles among the flowers they identify as in their range.

[Vexxvididu]

8 minutes ago, Steel General said:

I think the easiest solution, for both man and machine, would for the hives to spawn some of their bee particles among the flowers they identify as in their range.

I like this solution a lot since real bees don't just hide in their hives all day and this would give a clue to people like me.  From what I've read, I've likely ran past bees without knowing it, so they maybe don't need to be more common, just easier to spot.

[Zane Mordien]

@TheHound555 If you haven't done it already.. Turn off the music and then walk through a forest (avoiding the bears and wolves of course). The music to me makes it nearly impossible to hear the bees. 

 

3 hours ago, Vexxvididu said:

just easier to spot.

Everything is sort of hard the first time in VS. Like people said above I found my first bees 3k blocks from my base. I came back to the exact same save file 1 year later and I found bees 100 blocks from my base in a patch of forest I ran through a 1000 times. 

[OBAMFSpike]

It's really neat to have stumbled across this post. 

Our ancestors used to beeline in order to locate feral bee colonies. 

This involves feeding bees simple syrup and marking said bees and then timing their flights. Foragers have a radius of 2 and half miles or so from the center of their colony and will fly in concentric circles within that range of their colony. So timing a bee will help designate the direction they are coming from. 

Anyways, I could go into great length and detail about beelining but id say that it would be a great tool to use to locate the bees as sometimes they can be incredibly hard to locate. Ive had spawns where I had to find translocators to move me thousands of blocks before I could locate a nest of bees. But all in all remaining vigilante and keeping your chin up will always result in that buzz and sweet sweet nectar. 

Sidenote: Do have a look at the beelining videos on YouTube. there's some really really cool information about doing such things. absolutely marvelous stuff.