Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Certain hives can be found on cliffs around the island and these may well be easier to interact with when compared to the redwood hives.
The honey is a must for fishing. It can be used for salmon, just like leech blood. I used it as bait for an hour and noticed that fish bite more frequently. In a pool with coel and salmon, I noticed that the salmon bit more frequently than the coels while using honey as bait.
You can also tame them with meat, I personally did it with prime meat and it works perfectly fine.
C4 the hive. Then you only need to deal with one swarm of easily killable drones, and then taming the queen is simple. Just watch out for the drones she spawns.
My advice for farming up some honey, or taming one of these guys is as follows:
1. Tame a Bronto and equip it with platform saddle
2. Tame a dire bear
3. Go to the redwoods and look for hives
4. Position Bronto to where you can hit the hive with your bear
5. Hit the hive and get the 15 honey with the bear
6. Destroy the hive and get a queen bee to come out
7. Tame with kibble whilst wearing ghillie and bug repelant
8. Turn your bee into a hive and put rare flowers in it to passively gain honey
Don't waste any anno. Simple whistle attack target for your argi and let the bird do the Job. Stay away until the hive is broken the follow the queen with flowers, ghillie and bug repl.
Need bug repellent to tame and rare flowers
Just use a blood-stalker walk up to the nest and destroy it but be careful and don’t spam take your time because you might kill the queen bee. Then get some extraordinary kibble and it should tame form one.
You can use a tent after the bee hive breaks put the tent over top of the queen bee then wait for it to not be agressive then remove the tent and instantly tame it
Wear a ghillie suit and use bug spray on your mount and yourself and just crack the hive open with an rpg. Proceed to feed the Queen. Easy tame 👍
On aberration, their nests can be found at the base of the big brown trees that you cannot harvest
For finding an "active" bee hive it seems to just be a case of chance encountering. Flying up to it you will hear buzzing this will indicate an active hive. From there you just break it to get access to the Queen... I am pretty certain this is the case. Note if you don't hear a distinct buzzing it will be unoccupied.
the level of the smaller bees is the same level as the queen bee. so you can just attack it then check the level of the small bees so you know what level the queen bee is and you don’t have to break the hive/nest thing
I looked all over the redwood forest on the island and can't find one bee hive. Please help