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[Kazzie]

Hey there, just wondering if any of you guys are experienced in bee breeding.

I have been trying to breed the rocky-stone-hardy strains in the hopes to get more metallic/gem style bees, but I am having problems with offspring numbers. The rocky bees tend to only have 1 drone offspring and therefore makes cross breeding rather difficult.

Is there an easy way to increase the number of offspring? I had read on a forum somewhere that you can use the soul frames in the apiary to increase offspring, but that doesn't seem to work for me that I have noticed - still only getting the 1 drone offspring each time.

Cheers,
Kaz

[Obsi]

I don't know much about bees sorry, but hopefully someone like Penthrox, Duck, T0ur0k or Admiral... or others who know about bees will know...

[Akira Doe]

Is there a good beginners guide anyone is aware of?

I haven't looked yet but if someone knows of one please let me know

[DarkDuck]

want a cheat sheet?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...WbENBMlE#gid=0

[Kazzie]

That google docs spreadsheet is awesome! I had been using Bee Species - FTB Wiki and Bee Site to work out which bees to breed to get what I wanted. There is so much to choose from though, much like the rest of the ftb-modpack.

[Aveege]

Originally Posted by Akira Doe

Is there a good beginners guide anyone is aware of?

I haven't looked yet but if someone knows of one please let me know

A guy named Benitos Lair on youtube has some good videos on the subject.
FTB - Forestry Bee Keeping Guide : Part 1 Getting Started - YouTube

[Akira Doe]

Thanks for the heads up Aveege. I'll check it out later tonight

[Aveege]

Was checkin out reddit and found this wonderful list that tells what each of the biomes is as far as temperature/humidity/habitat.

[Sorontar]

Are these extreme biomes?

[Aveege]

Unfortunatly i cant say, dont know enough bout that lol. Just seen this pic and as i have started to dabble with bees i know this info will help me out.