Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a giant bee? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a giant bee.
Build around nest so it doesn’t fly away done
Step 1:kill the bee hive (every hit or honey take makes giant bees come out and kill bee hive correctly or you will kill the bee you want to tame)
Step 2:feed rare flowers
Step 3:you have tamed the bee (when tamed all workers will be tamed)
Extra tip:if you want more then copy steps
Extra tip 2:you can make the bee into a big bee hive and makes honey
Extra tip 3:Dino’s like honey for some reason so you can lure the Dino’s into a trap
In ragnarok,in the north castle swamp,you can find these guys wandering around without having to destroy a bee hive.you can just sneak up to it and feed it a flower easily
If you are on Abberation taming these could be a bit easier because you can easily get rare flowers from the biome with ALOT of metal. Aka the blue biome.
Pro Tip: Eat Cactus Broth, put rare flowers in last item slot, use flamethrower to destroy bee hive and kill worker bees.
If it's agroo
You can't feed it it must de aggro so you can feed it
Wyvern bites are the easiest way to break the hive, just crawl below it, take off and bite.
Cover it with a tent after you crack it open then feed it. Easy peasy. No chasing required. Tents work for knocking out lymantria too.
On stacked hives you only destroy one hive from a distance IE hive that let's bees out then approach stacked hive after one is destroyed and look to see if queen. Is trapped under other stacked hives .
If queen fly away and come back quickly look at queen and smash E button with flowers in last slot boom 💥 tamed queen .
If more than one stuck queen fly back away and come back and smash that e button.
Clear the area first of harmful creatures as you need time to do this .
If taming, do NOT take your eyes off it!!! I lost mine because I couldn't see where it went.
After you tamed a Bee Queen with kibble or flowers, you can take it with „E“ and get a Bee Hive.
Pro Tip:
You can also Cryo the Tamed Bee Queen and put it in your Base as Decoration :D
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Use a wyvern to bite the bee hive, then lure the other bees away and bite them with the wyvern. Use Chile armer and bug repellent to get up close and feed it rare flower, repeat this process
The Island, Redwood forest.
Not every hive spawns a queen bee!
Just keep destroying them until one will spawn (I’m using a wyvern).
Then tame with rare flower while wearing ghillie and bug repellent.
Notice it is effected by bola. Fruitful thought. If it drops and is still out of range just bola it lol
They will sting you and you will dismount and the hert
Sometimes when the hive is destroyed the queen will just fly in place. If you have a quetzal or a Tapejara you can fly up to it and passive tame it right there. I recommend bringing medical brew just so you don't have to worry about the drones. Make sure to feed your tame bug repellant as well.
If you hit the hive with a club the worker bees wont come out
If you have a snow owl, use the thermal vision ability to see where the bee hives are.
If you're pkaying mobile version,on the island map(I'm still at it so idk abt other maps),u can the engram "Giant Bee Hive",made with Chitin,Tatch and Sap.U can't place it on the natural ground or atificial ground though.So make a giant tree platform,go to Redwoods,place ur platform and then place ur hive on it and give it rare flowers to get honey.
Upsides are that there are no thylas in mobile that could harm it(or not since some dinos won't give a sh!t abt ur structures)and u don't get attacked by bees on collecting ur honey
Downside(or no) is that it's a midgame engram and could be a pain in the @ss at times u need it in the early game
They spawn on Redwood trees, always lvl 5, break the hive with a flyer, the queen should drop on the ground, bring ghillie + bug repellant, you need 2 ichty kibbles or 5 flowers, the queen seems passive but the bees will attack you. Once tamed you can convert the queen into a hive (structure) it produce 1 honey pot per hour (not sure)