Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
I'll be honest with you, taming these on scorched earth, Ragnarok and modded maps with scorched engrams and recourses is best, "why?" Because there you have flame arrows and flame throwers, simply shoot the hive with your gun of choice, I recommend anything but a rocket launcher or tek rifle since whenever I try it with those nothing comes out, then burn the drones with a flamethrower, it's most effective, once you've gotten rid of them run up to the Queen, jump, and feed her, that's how it's done, all the drones will tame to you and you should be good, then just obtain bee hive and once you get back to base place the bee hive and demolish it, your bee will come out just fine, if you want honey just place the hive and give it rare flowers, I recommend having camouflage on so they don't attack you, you'll soon get some honey for taming bears and liopluerodons, and making veggie cakes, I believe it's in megalania kibble as well.
More Giant Bee Encountering Tips
You can find them in mobile but for some reason they are without nest.
I found two with no nest.
Why is it that I find wild queen bees without the nest and they are smaller than normal.
Flame.
Thrower.
Will not transfer over servers once you tame it.
Everyone writing tips saying they got fooled by empty beehives when there is one easy way to tell if its empty or not:
If it buzzes or not.
If you are not close enough to the beehive to tell if it buzzes or not, then you have no reason to be raiding that beehive as you are probably unprepared:
1. Obviously you aren't able to damage the hive with melee attacks since you are on the ground, you should use a different tame or find a new beehive
2. Beehives have a 65% damage reduction against firearms, so if you are aware that you are about to use a lot of resources then go ahead
3.If the beehive you want to raid is too far away for you to tell if it buzzes or not, then at that range you can't even lure queens with honey. The reason why I mention this is because as soon as giant queen bees spawn upon the destruction of their hive they have a bug that makes them fly in a straight line infinitely until they are aggroed/startled/lured with honey, so unless you want to see a queen giant bee slowly fly away into the sky never to be seen again, then do your thing.
They were bugged so you couldnt find the nests. Turns out they were invisible. The recent patch should have fixed it.
I had found about 30 beehive on The Island map. They were all empty. NO QUEEN BEE WTH.
Can't find them on Lost Island, anyone else?
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
Bears are not immune to bees. RIP Yogi