Talk:Bee

How long do bees stay aggro?
I attempted to add a TODO to the article, but it was removed.

Could anybody with access to the decompiled "data values" add that info at some point? It would be very helpful.

Thanks, --73.26.38.97 20:24, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Behavior: "passive" when a campfire is under a bee nest?
"Neutral" mobs will attack you if you attack them.

The page says that bees are "Passive" when a campfire is under their nest.

However, I have gotten stung by bees when accidentally punching one, even when a campfire is under their nest.

A campfire only makes honey theft non-provoking; it does not make the mobs non-Neutral. Should the page be updated to reflect this?

73.26.38.97 21:14, 18 January 2021 (UTC)


 * You are correct. I have removed that from the infobox. Putting a campfire under the bee nest simply eliminates one way of provoking a bee, but a bee can still be provoked in other ways. Amatulic (talk) 21:20, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Flower pots
Do flower pots have the same effect as flowers do for pollinating? The article does not mentions.--177.72.23.36 21:11, 27 January 2021 (UTC)


 * You'd probably have to run a test. In creative mode, find an open flower-free field in a plains biome, grow a birch or oak in it, set several flower pots with flowers around it, put a beehive on the tree trunk 1 block from the ground, hatch a couple of bee eggs, and see what happens. Amatulic (talk) 21:19, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I just did this test. The bees ignore flowers in flower pots, and instead travel long distances to find flowers. If I plant flowers near the flower pots, they go for the planted flowers and ignore the flowers in the pots. I'll add something about that to the article. Amatulic (talk) 21:33, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

Pollination specifics
Is there a way to make bees spread more pollen? Specifically is there a way to make bees spread pollen more before immediately returning to their beehive?

The Pollination page makes it seem like they cycle from becoming pollinated, then spreading pollen intentionally, then return to the hive.

76.120.27.240 23:14, 15 March 2021 (UTC)


 * I'd say a good way would be to put the crops to be pollinated between the bee nest and the flowers. Last time I experimented with bees in creative mode, I found they would find flowers 20 blocks away if there were no flowers nearby (you might need to leave one flower 2 blocks from the nest though). Your crop farm could extend from the bee nest and have a bunch of flowers on the other end of it. Amatulic (talk) 06:53, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

The Transgender Bee Issue
Compared to using edit summaries, this page is a better place to discuss whether or not to have the Trivia point about bees being transgender. Also, if it does get added, then the Tweets should be linked to like this: The second Tweet might need to have a proper quote added, but otherwise, that's what should be done (as opposed to directly linking to them).

Right now, I don't have much of an opinion on whether or not the trivia point should be included. SLScool 16:47, 4 June 2021 (UTC)


 * So I've looked at some of the points made on the edit history page. The argument about "whether or not a real life bee can be trans" is irrelevant to bees inside the game, and personal opinions on the subject should be avoided. This discussion is about whether or not the trivia point should be added to the wiki or not.


 * The argument for adding it is that since the comment was made by a developer currently working on the game, that makes it viable to be added, just like with any other comment. One of the arguments against adding it is that the comment "was a joke", but this didn't stop other potentially jokey comments (for example, "Jean?") being added as trivia. Another argument against adding it is that this comment contradict previous comments made by other developers in the past ("the mobs are genderless"), but new comments don't necessarily need to be consistent with older comments, especially within the fiction of the game. The only somewhat good point I can see against adding this is that any comment from the developers could be added just for the sake of it, but I don't see that happening since most comments aren't so specific.


 * Since I can't think of any other good point on the negative side, I think this trivia point should be added to trivia. Cat201 (talk) 18:01, 4 June 2021 (UTC)