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ARK: Survival Evolved Companion

Taming & KO Tips

How do I tame a giant bee? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a giant bee.
You can transfer to other servers if you cryopod it BEFORE you "obtain" it as a Bee Hive, you can cryopod it and transfer it, just obtain the hive once you throw out the Queen Bee.
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
I love how it says it's a herbivore but it eats meat????
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.
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.
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
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.
The drones die once they go a certain distance from the hive or queen. To safely break the hive without a bear just go slightly out of the range they can travel and shoot with a crossbow.
Use simple kibble to tame I found it a lot easier than using rare flowers
Used 13 dimorph, an Argy, ghillie armoor, bug repellant snd some simple kibble. Cake walk. The dimorphs destroyed the hive in secondsand took care of all the drones with minimal damage. Thinking of getting a second hive.
They will sting you and you will dismount and the hert
Lost island queen bees are roaming around, so just put rare flower in the last slot to tame.
You can destroy a hive with a wyvern bite. Minting a wyvern protects you from begin attacked by drones. You can also kill drones released during destroying after queen is out and you can still tame it unless drones which are following her are untouched.
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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Bolas do not actually work on the queen bee I threw 8 before I realized
If it's agroo
You can't feed it it must de aggro so you can feed it
If you have a snow owl, use the thermal vision ability to see where the bee hives are.
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.
If you are playing on console non-dedicated server. Their is a bug where you’ll see loads of wild Queen bees just floating around. As well as invincible nest. (Or no nests found) I took advantage and tamed every queen bee I saw flying around.
Couldn't tame until I used bug repellent