IMHO the rarity of bees is quite off putting of the entire game experience. All of the good lighting requires bee products and quite a bit of them. I have fat coming out the ears, mainly from the incessant war of the wolves I seem to be waging. The processing @redram mentioned would be awesome right now. I can't run around with my volume all the way up; one, I shouldn't have to, two, it's inconsiderate of the rest of my family to do so... three, I don't need hearing loss caused by the other sounds in the game when I have my earbuds in and the sound turned up (see #2 and Tinnitus sucks kids, take care of your ears). I've gotten frustrated enough to play with the bees in creative mode, just so I could understand what I might be looking for (and to see how they work, I like the processes btw). I dunno, may be my seeds sucks, I have only found one crop of soy, that was early on and I didn't know of the significance. Again, it shouldn't be so rare that a poor seed destroys a world you're already invested in. Don't get me wrong, I love TFC, so taking the long route to get somewhere isn't the issue, but there should be mechanics to use/progress to in order to overcome the obstacles. The RNG gods are merciless and there is a difference between rare and extinct. Bees might as well be extinct. If it wasn't for the graveyard mod I would have given up on the first of the week worth of nights I've been walking. @Tyron, frustration is not enjoyable, please fix this. How about making some flower an indicator... as in the flower doesn't spawn unless a beehive has spawned first. Make the general noise louder? They do make a racket if they are buzzing you for an attack. Expand the spawning conditions a bit. There seems to be a very specific spawn condition that is all to easily sacrificed to RNG. RNG sucks as a game mechanic, don't depend on it to do the right thing, because it won't (it's a trap!). If I didn't like the game so much, I wouldn't have posted this, I would've just deleted it. But this game has potential, so I'll stick with it, I want to see where it goes. But tonight... I'm cheating in a skep.. I'll even toss out the 12 beenades I have found in my adventures... hey, there's another option, a recipe to turn those into skeps? Fix the bees, don't let them be the downfall of something with this much potential.