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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.
On primitive plus use the battle axe. Works wonders. When feeding the bee, don't touch her. That will cause the drones to attack. And as always, ghillie up and use bug spray.
Use their preferred kibble you only need three for a max level!
Ive tamed about 100 bees now very easy if you gave a wyvern, you need to be well prepared though. Total of 3 bites and then walk backwards, as long as you have backed up quickly enough you should be far enough away from the queen to bite any attacking workers, wait till they finished attacking then dismount, keep a sword in your inventory just in case you get dismounted.
Tame the Queen with a Sinomicrops on your shoulders. Make sure it’s on neutral. It will kill all the giant bees stinging you and give you a path to tame the Queen with Kibble
iirc they only spawn at lv5 and with flowers they are great for raft living
Honestly the easiest way to break the hive is to chatge at it with a high melee damage rhino. Just make sure not to attack again and kill the queen on accident
Only certain hives carry a queen walk up to it if you attack and bees swarm you know theres a queen. Destroyed 6 hives before i figured this out.
Be careful when passive feeding it if you toucu it its drones will kill you
If you plan to use the bee on Abberation, do not put it in a cryopod. It will not throw back out on Abberation
I found that a single RPG will destroy the hive, then bug repellant is enough to keep you covered while you feed it rare flowers, though having a set of ghillie on doesn't hurt. Just don't fire 2 RPGs and kill the Queen you're trying to tame, 1 should be enough to break the hive in one go.
Do you need bug repellent to take it
Where a ghillie suit and use repellent if available. Once your break the nest the bee will fly to the floor and start spawning in baby bees. Try to quickly feed the bee then back off because her spawns will attack. Watch which way the bee goes! Since they have a small radius to be seen let it go out of view and it'll reset how many baby bees she has floating around her, that's when you run in and feed, then repeat.
Direbears are immune to bee stings very useful for destroying bee hives
You can cryo the queen to transfer between servers.
Ghille suit, rare flowers, shoulder mount otter. Stay about 10 foundation lengths away from the hive and shoot until hive explodes. Giant bees will explode themselves before they get to you & otter will kill those that dont die first. When hive explodes, queen will be hovering...give her ichthyornis kibble or rare flowers to tame. Take to your camp and the hive will make honey, but DO NOT check for the honey without wearing a ghillie suit...still, you will start to lose health slowly if you stay too close to it for too long.
The easiest way for me to tame the bee is to get ghille armor on, simple kibble, big repellant and some flame arrows with oil jar. Put the bug repellant on. Throw the oil jar on the hive and shoot it with the flame arrow. It will break the hive. Be sure to get to a distance that they can’t attack you though since some bees will fly toward you. Then put the kibble in your last slot on your inventory bar. Walk up to the queen bee and hit E. I have used other methods and by far this was the easiest. You don’t need high powered weapons or any mounts to kill the hive. Super fast and efficient. Hardest thing was to find a hive. (I did this in Scorched Earth on PC)
Easiest way I've found was sit on a bear and send 2 argy or a powerful flyer to attack nest, if they're overwhelmed by the bees whistle passive and clear out the bees. After the hive breaks put on ghillie and disable follow and usually one rare flower gets you a bee
Bring a Dino that does a lot of damage or c4
If your trying to tame the bees
Wear ghillie suit, use bug repellent, bring rare flowers (6 to be safe), destroy the hive, and finally, get close enough to tame with rare flowers. (When destroying the hive, make sure to wear flak or better armor before you destroy the hive and kill the drones, then switch your gear to ghillie or you’ll be wasting your armor before you can even tame)
Pteranodon barrel roll attack is good for breaking the nest as for taming it's best to have a full set of ghillie then throw honey lay and lay down next to it and spam the interact key when it flies to it's honey.