Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
2021- tried several times with past tips/videos to tame the queen bee. Such a nightmare lol. Only thing that worked was breaking the hive with my dire bear, eating a bug repellent, then crouching below the queen bee with regular kibble in my 0 slot. Finally worked!!
You don't need bug repellent or a grilled suit.
The reason you would use these is to keep agro off. If it's not agro to you you can tame it. I quite literally just did this in flak armor and no bug repellent after blowing up a hive with C4.
It can transfer servers but not in hive form. Hold whatever hotkey allows you to demolish hive. You can then cryo queen. It will transfer as a cryo’d tame. Once you take her out of the pod access her to create the hive for placement on the new server.
Can't find them on Lost Island, anyone else?
You can also tame the wandering ones but you still have to wear guile
To tame bee's now you must lose aggro first then apply repellent and crouch slowly to queen. Simple kibble works best and haz gear can be used in place of ghillie
Not sure if this is just me or not but on console when she summons her soldiers while trying to tame it kicks you off the server
The anti meshing keeps kill8ng my queen tame. I don't know how to stop this
Ark: asc
On offcial, do not bother with any tactic other than use rockets to destroy the nest and then run out of render. After a couple secs use bug repellent and run to the tree directly under the nest and see if you can render the queen.
You may need a dino to get close enough. Queens can glitch into trees etc, if they do they are lost. When tamed they turn into drones and expire.
Once you spot the queen with repellent active either charge her spamming your action button with nothing equipped to hands and wild flowers in past hot bar spot.
OR crawle under her while your repellent is active and try to feed her. Personally I've hand sucess more with the gentler approach if lag allows. If lag is bad just run straight at her and don't stop untill ur out of render then turn and Come back doing strafing runs untill you get her.
Queens fly random directions includeing up and away. (If they fly up, give it a few secs at the edge of render and she will drift back down provided you dont antagonize her.) On 1x rates takes 2-3 flowers due to an update. It used to be just 1. For 1 flower insta tame now wait for 3x rates. During love evolved this year and 2x rates it took 2 flowers per bee.
There's a glitch in lost island when you break the hive the queen doesn't come out i could've been having bad lack but idk
Even if you are able to approach it without Ghillie Armor, you you won’t be able to tame it. You MUST be under the affect of bug repellent. And Bug repellent is all you need. I just ran up to it and tamed it with a rare flower while wearing full Chitin Armor and bug Repellent. Used a Dire bear on a Quetzal platform saddle to destroy the nest
I make about 40-50 fishing poles (they're cheap) and fly around with an argy or wyv stealing honey from hives. Honey never goes bad in fishing poles and I take it out as needed. Then just fly away from the worker bees. Gilly is best if you have it.
When following the Giant Queen Bee its good to have a full set of ghillie armor, bug repellant and for some reason crouching seems to put you slightly below the drones hit range, as long as you keep moving that is. I used this tactic earlier today to tame my first queen and it worked very well
Beehives can also be found on cliff faces outside the redwood biome, if your not looking to be mauled by a thylacoleo.