Hovdavic Posted January 7, 2021 Report Posted January 7, 2021 I have a little bee setup with 4 skeps surrounded by flowers. All four skeps had a large population and were indicating that they were ready to be harvested. I broke the first skep, and instead of dropping honeycomb and reeds, it just dropped a mini skep that I could not pick up. I tried it with a second skep, this time the bees swarmed and stung the dummy, but again no honeycomb or reeds, only the small skep that I could not pickup. I have broken skeps successfully in other worlds, and even once I broke two skeps in this world and they dropped the stuff they are supposed to. I think that was in version 1.14.3. I have since updated to 1.14.4, then 1.14.5. The problem happened to me today playing 1.14.5. I am playing single player. Thanks!
Hovdavic Posted January 14, 2021 Author Report Posted January 14, 2021 This was a one-time random thing. I've broken plenty more without ever seeing this issue again.
l33tmaan Posted January 14, 2021 Report Posted January 14, 2021 This happened to me recently as well. Removing one of your backpack slots lets you pick up and replace the skep, which should still be populated. Still don't know why it does that in the first place, though.
Mihoshika Posted October 2, 2025 Report Posted October 2, 2025 This is a really late necro, but for anyone coming to this later (Like I did from a quick google search), this is because you need them to be *harvestable* skeps, not *populated* skeps. Any populated skep will drop as a skep, and eject all the bees. Harvestable skeps will break and give you cattails/honeycomb. 2
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