Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended 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.
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.
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.
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 👍
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.
I really struggled taming these things so here is my tip for low performance pc players:
Preparation: 10 Bug repellants, ghilli armor, 5 dimorphodons (sinomacrops are great too), taming food
1. Go to the redwoods. Once you find a hive, whistle the pack to "attack this target".
2. While your Dinos do their thing, go stand out of the drone's reach. They die after getting too far away from the nest. Observe the hive's HP with spyglass. Once it's just about to break whistle your Dinos to return and go passive.
3. Destroy the hive with a ranged weapon. The queen will fall out.
4. Quickly whistle "Stop" (the queen is afraid of tames), put on bug repellant, and follow her.
5. This is the tricky part. While she bumbles around, you have to quickly approach and feed her without aggroing the drones. I did that by walking by her quickly and spamming E. Don't let her out of your sight because she will dissappear once she's more than 40m away!! (it's not directly despawn but she will only be visible as long as you're in a close proximity) (yea this may be a low performance pc thing)
This is a VERY annoying tame but don't let that stop you! Eventually, you'll make it.
Use simple kibble to tame I found it a lot easier than using rare flowers
After 23 bee hives what finally worked for me was
I used a snow owl to find the nests
I harvested the nest with a dire bear while wearing ghillie and used bug repellent
Broke the nest with the dire bear
Put honey in my hotbar to keep her right where i wanted her
While she ate it i fed her rare flowers
Boom TAMED
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.
For me on Fjordur, I have tried every hive in videos and that I’ve found and none have any bees or a queen. It’s so frustrating and does anyone know what’s going on or have similar experiences?
You can use a Rhyniognatha to destroy the nest with no issues.
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.
Bolas do not actually work on the queen bee I threw 8 before I realized
They swarm around a hive that if you break open you'll find the queen that can be tamed
Couldn't tame until I used bug repellent