Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Tips for taming a giant bee (Easily in 2022)
Quick and short method below;
• Tame a dire bear
• Create a walkway to the bee hive so you and your dire bear can reach the hive easily
• Use dire bear to break the bee hive so the queen bee can be out for the taming process
• Once the queen bee is out and ready to be tamed, make sure you have it’s preferred food to tame. (Queen bee is a passive tame which accepts Simple Kibble [Quantity of 1]
Rare Flowers [Quantity of 4-6] But keep in mind the queen bee won’t accept food if you’re visible to her. She must not know you’re around so you can feed her passively)
Long and detailed method below ;
> Depending on your map, you want to find a bee hive and make a trap around your hive you may want.
( Making a 2x2 trap that’s 1 wall high seems to be very effective, and don’t forget to add a roof to stop the swarming bees from entering and don’t forget to put a door inside the trap for you to go in and out of it.)
> Once your trap is built you want to make sure you have ghillie armor crafted and worn. Using bug repellant while in the ghillie suit seems to be very effective.
> When you have gotten this far, you want to try and destroy the bee hive with anything you got. Whether it be your own fist, a melee weapon or a ranged weapon. Dino’s work as well. (Preferably though, ranged weapons would be best, especially if you have flame arrows.)
> Once the bee hive is broken you’ll notice there is a giant bee now inside your trap, here you want to use 2 things preferably. Either Simple Kibble or 4-6 rare flowers.
( Keep in mind this is a passive tame, and if you’re not able to feed the bee, it’s because the bee has noticed you.You want to make sure the bee you’re taming hasn’t noticed you so you can get the option to feed your food. Also make sure your taming food is in last slot of your hotbar)
> Once your bee is tamed, you’re now allowed to make giant bee honey freely !!!
••• Once your bee is tamed, you can use your queen bee to produce honey every 45 minutes with rare flowers. •••
~ Go to the queen bee’s options and hover over the nesting option. Should be the very top option. From here you want to place the bee hive on the floor of the game.
~ Pro tip; The Dire bear can stack honey in its inventory, and when collecting by hand from your bee hive, bees will still attack you every time you come to collect honey. To prevent this, it’s recommended to wear a ghillie suit.
There you go, hopefully you all enjoyed and benefitted this in some way or another, Take care :’)
~ Kaxpiez
More Giant Bee Taming & KO Tips
If you want to tame one, the easiest way is to get a dire bear and break the nest, because they are immune to bees. Use it to break the nest, then when the nest beaks, make sure you have full ghille armor and bug repellent, and tame it with simple kibble. You can then go to the bee and press the 'aquire nest' button, and it will give you a bees nest. You can place this on any natural ground, but no human made floors. Put rare flowers into it, and it will produce giant bee honey over time. Rare flowers can be harvested from plants in the swamps across the island, but beware of the creatures that dwell there. When you go into your bees nest to gather honey, you will get the bee effect and start taking damadge, even though it is your own bees nest.
Giant bees are a staple of cooking kibble or foods in ark because they produce honey, so here’s a guide to help you tame one, so you can efficiently produce it
1. Giant queen bees are found in beehives, which are most common in redwood forests. Look for them on the trunks of the trees, some will have a beehive a short way up. To get a queen be to spawn you need to break the nest (NOTE: not all nests spawn a queen when broken) which is best done with a rocket launcher, or a creature. The nest will release bees when attacked which can dismount you so be careful about killing them and killing aggressive creatures beforehand.
2. Once the queen bee spawns it will wander around the forest. I recommend running away to let it deaggro (do not go out of render or it could despawn) to tame it you must feed it rare flowers or simple kibble, whichever you can get easier works, from the last slot on your hotbar. 3. You can either run in full speed and feed it before it notices you, or use ghille and bug repellant to sneak up and feed it. The second way is easier but uses more resources.
Happy taming!
On the north east section of the island map, right near where the snow zone and tropic zones meet, there is a small natural bay. If you go inland from there you should see a small pathway that stays lower than the rest of the area. Inside that area are two spawns for giant bees that never seem to make a hive so you can easily tame them without the struggle of the hive.
Passive tame. Use rare flowers. Take about 4-5. Use full ghille and bug spray. Even then the bees she summon may attack. She has a very bad view distance compared to other Dino's so stay close.
Apparently, you can tame free-roaming queens on the Switch! Simply don a ghillie suit and bug repellent, run up to her, and quickly give her a kibble. Just don’t aggro the drones!
To avoid wasting your time, if no bees come out when you attack or take honey, it means that there is no queen in that hive.
ALWAYS break the hive with ranged attacks. If you choose to melee it,drones will continuously spawn from it infinitely, and they will repair the hive, so best to shoot it down and kill all the drones before attempting a tame. Oh, and the queen will spawn more drones periodically, so bee careful.
Use Bug Repellent AFTER you break the hive with the Bear. No one ever said this and I’ve been taking aggro for years lol. It doesn’t work if it’s already applied before you break hive.
The best way I’ve found to tame the. Was with a flying shoulder pet - Sinomacrops or Dimorph are best just don’t forget to turn off auto scream on sino.
Whistle your pet to attack the hive and run a ways away so you’re just out of render range. You’ll have to figure out the right range, but if you get far enough away the bees won’t spawn, and when the hive breaks the queen won’t run or spawn bees.
Desmodus actually is good for taming these just hit their nest and fly side to side and kill the workers then keep watch of the health once it’s low shoot it with a arrow and she should come out then just feed her 3 rare flowers.