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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.
For late game Bee taming, use simple kibble on increased tame rate weekends or events. Use a Quetzal to fly up and peck the hives to break them and then follow on the Quetzal once the bee is free. You can jump up off the saddle and not fall and die, so even if you get stung, it’s not a death sentence. Follow the queen with the kibble in the far right hotbar slot and feed it. Then go up to her and she has a “obtain hive” button that turns her into a hive and she adds to your inventory as a structure. Now you can place the hive like a structure, but only on bare ground. I’ve tried every method out there, traps, cages, building around it, chasing it on foot, and all have failed, but using a Quetzal made the difference first time out with it.
If taming, do NOT take your eyes off it!!! I lost mine because I couldn't see where it went.
Wyvern bites are the easiest way to break the hive, just crawl below it, take off and bite.
On Astraeos these can be found in a cave at 46, 11. They are easier to tame on Astraeos than any other map, as they just stay in one spot and let you tame them!
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?
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
Build around nest so it doesn’t fly away done
In ragnarok,in the north castle swamp,you can find these guys wandering around without having to destroy a bee hive.you can just sneak up to it and feed it a flower easily
After transforming the queen into the hive and demolishing it I didn’t get the queen back.
If it buzzes at you just back up watch it from a distance for a minute. get behind it and just run spamming feed. Pretty effective without ghille or repellent
Pro Tip: Eat Cactus Broth, put rare flowers in last item slot, use flamethrower to destroy bee hive and kill worker bees.
Notice it is effected by bola. Fruitful thought. If it drops and is still out of range just bola it lol
On stacked hives you only destroy one hive from a distance IE hive that let's bees out then approach stacked hive after one is destroyed and look to see if queen. Is trapped under other stacked hives .
If queen fly away and come back quickly look at queen and smash E button with flowers in last slot boom 💥 tamed queen .
If more than one stuck queen fly back away and come back and smash that e button.
Clear the area first of harmful creatures as you need time to do this .
Use a wyvern to bite the bee hive, then lure the other bees away and bite them with the wyvern. Use Chile armer and bug repellent to get up close and feed it rare flower, repeat this process
Sometimes when the hive is destroyed the queen will just fly in place. If you have a quetzal or a Tapejara you can fly up to it and passive tame it right there. I recommend bringing medical brew just so you don't have to worry about the drones. Make sure to feed your tame bug repellant as well.
The Island, Redwood forest.
Not every hive spawns a queen bee!
Just keep destroying them until one will spawn (I’m using a wyvern).
Then tame with rare flower while wearing ghillie and bug repellent.
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.
Step 1:kill the bee hive (every hit or honey take makes giant bees come out and kill bee hive correctly or you will kill the bee you want to tame)
Step 2:feed rare flowers
Step 3:you have tamed the bee (when tamed all workers will be tamed)
Extra tip:if you want more then copy steps
Extra tip 2:you can make the bee into a big bee hive and makes honey
Extra tip 3:Dino’s like honey for some reason so you can lure the Dino’s into a trap
If it's agroo
You can't feed it it must de aggro so you can feed it
So… I saw one near south zone 1 at that cliff, but it was a queen, is normal? Up=yes down=no