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.

Take it home, make it make a nest at your base, get ghille armour, get your honey plus it produces bees that fight for the queen but the mand nest will hurt you when your close without ghille armour

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!!

After a while trying to get the queen in order to avoid wasting time, I just shoot an arrow on the hive, if nothing happens it means there's no Queen. Move to the next hive. Hope it helps :)

Can't find them on Lost Island, anyone else?

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

Keep in mind that as soon as you destroy the nest the queen giant bee will start flying away instantly, so be close to the hive the moment it is destroyed. The queen flys at a slow speed, but fast enough for it to have severe consequences as if you lose sight of it for even a second you might lose it completely. After you destroy the hive you can use honey that is definitely dropped from the destroyed beehive to lure it as queen giant bees don't wander like a normal creature and instead fly in a straight line at like a 150 degree angle when they are initially spawned from a destroyed beehive, so use honey to fix its ai and actually make it start descending to the ground then wander like a normal creature.

If you don't have honey, you can also damage it by using something like a tranq arrow which won't kill it and that will also fix its ai. (obviously this will also aggro the regular giant bees)

If instead the queen bee is too far away to lure with honey, then read the first sentence of the tip again, specifically the second clause.

Bears are not immune to bees. RIP Yogi

Put Rare Flowers in the hive so it can produce Honey which is used for a lot of things

How cool would it be if you had the option for these to be a hive or a shoulder pet I think it would be amazing

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

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.

How to tame a giant queen bee on the island

Items needed: rhynio, simple kibble/several raw prime meat, ghillie suit, bug repellant

1. Find a giant bee hive that has one or just a wild giant queen bee (skip to step 3 if you found one without a hive)

-You will know if a giant queen bee is nearby if you suddenly hear a screeching sound mixed with a squishing sound nearby that repeats every second or so

-Giant bee hives are found high up on redwood trees, they can also spawn on rock faces that are found below cliffs in certain areas. Some examples are the terrain near green ob and the footpaw plateau but there are some other areas

-If you go up to a giant bee hive and don't hear a buzzing sound then there is nothing inside it so you can just destroy it and get nothing

-They have 5000 health and take 65% less damage from firearms, but it counts as a thatch structure so certain creatures have damage multipliers on them

2. Destroy the hive with the giant queen bee

-Easiest way is to use a rhynio cuz they deal 10x damage to thatch structures, they can 1 shot regular giant bees, and they can fly so you don't have to build some weird stuff for your direbear to reach it

-If you are too close to the giant bee hive when you damage it, giant bees will chase you but if you are far away they wont chase you and you can freely damage the hive until its destroyed

3. Prevent the giant queen bee from flying to the stars

-They fly fairly slow but fast enough that if you lose sight of it for a few seconds you might have to spend a few minutes finding it again, they also hover in the sky infinitely like onycs

-Queen giant bees will begin spawning regular giant bees once a player or tame goes within a certain radius of it, they can do this infinitely but can only spawn a max of 10 regular giant bees, it also produces that same weird sound described above so use that to locate the queen giant bee if you lost it.

-They spawn at minimum level so they will most likely spawn at level 1, if your difficulty allows a max level of 150 they spawn at level 5.

-When a giant queen bee initially spawns it will fly in a straight line infinitely until it is aggroed in which it will actually get a brain and start descending to the ground then wander normally.

-You can aggro giant queen bees by eating a rare flower and waiting for the duration to end (this causes them to fly towards you but they can't physically harm you in any way as their only attack is spawning regular giant bees) or hitting them with a tranq arrow shot from a crossbow or using anything that doesnt kill them in one shot (This causes them to flee, also they usually have 80 health at level 1)

4. Sneak up to the queen giant bee and tame it

-If you are playing on singleplayer & mobile put raw prime meat in your last slot as singleplayer has 2.5x taming speed so it will tame instantly for levels 1-5 and even better you can spam it and it wont be as wasteful

-Otherwise put simple kibble in your last slot, as it will still tame instantly for levels 1-5

-If this is your first time then get ghillie armor and use bug repellant

-Run up to the giant queen bee really quickly, (pretty much hug it) wait for half of a second for the "feed [item] to tame" text to pop up, then press the food in your last slot and hope it tames instantly

-As with any other tip this is not 100% foolproof, you might have to try several times for it to work

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-You have to be really quick as you have less than 2 seconds before the regular giant bees get mad which then results in the queen giant bee refusing to be fed

-Regular giant bees have a really distinct aggro sound which sounds like 2 consecutive "angry" buzzes, if you hear that run away, then get on your rhynio and start spamming the right side of your screen until every bee that's chasing you is dead, if you get dismounted continue to spam the right side of your screen, as you will still mount the rhynio and attack. This is because the bees effect only checks every 2 seconds to see if you are on a mount then dismounts you if you are instead of preventing you from mounting.

-If you see the cyan text flash on the screen for a frame then it disappears due to the queen bee moving away from the center of your screen, then hug the giant queen bee again then press the food in your last slot anyway, this works if its within the 2 seconds described previously because ark will allow you to feed a passive tame creature if you are in a close radius of it even if you don't see the cyan text

Place your hive next to water sit in the water and you can open the hive without your bees attacking you

I found using a shadowmane that deals 2200 damage can one hit the hive then let it get out of agro range get off tame and run to it with rare flowers in hot bar spamming Y I'm on xbox still recomend using gilly armor and bug repellant tho but I tamed 12 in less than an hour only hard part was finding hives but thank the ark gods for YouTube lol

Don’t go to red woods, go to green ob, they spawn right at the entrance in the little corridor. Usually not in a hive either, just flying or floating. still use ghillie and repellent if you have it. But what’s nice is that they don’t fly away due to the path being so narrow, they may fly directly towards you or near you, just line yourself up with their path and you should be able to feed the rare flower. Even if they start spawning drones try and feed it, I have consistently have found them there. It truly beats the headache of finding one in the red woods especially since you don’t always get one to spawn after breaking. This tactic really makes this tricky tame a 5 minute task!

The anti meshing keeps kill8ng my queen tame. I don't know how to stop this

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.

Beehives can also be found on cliff faces outside the redwood biome, if your not looking to be mauled by a thylacoleo.