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.
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.
It say simple kibble but it preferred basic kibble. what is correct?
I tamed one pretty quickly. Have a partner on a mount and they kill the hive and you follow the queen. I take a sword with me so when I feed the queen and she summons drones I use the sword on the drones and it makes easy kills of them. Then I continue to follow the queen. Be careful not to lose her though because I have lost many, especially when trying to tame by myself. I also use ghillie and bug repellant. Good luck.
Easiest way to destroy the hive is two Chacoloriums (I definitely spelt that wrong) and using their rock throw, destroying the hive in ~5 hits. You can either run at it and spam "Y" (Xbox) or used a ghillie suit with bug repellent to get close to tame it calmly.
For me I found it easier taming it with another person. Have your friend be on a mount preferably rex or something of that nature. Have them break the hive. The other person in full ghillie and uses bug repellent. The drones should attack the person on the mount. While the drones are distracted. Walk up to the queen bee and use flowers or kibble. (Passive Tame put food in last slot) the drones will start to attack you if and when they see you. Have the person on the mount follow behind you. If you aggro drones your friend kills them, and you continue to tame the queen bee. Helps to have a lot of health. A lot of health I had 600 and they almost killed me
Always use a sword or a pike to kill the drones and don't bother with guns
If you see one run just run!!!
Easiest way to break her hive is to use C4 ir rockets. If you dont have that you can melee it while croaching. Sword does well but a simple pick will do
If you're trying to tame this a dire bear is very useful as it gives you protection against the bee while rideing it
All bees on official are lvl 5 and when tamed lvl 7. They don't gain any more lvls
Use dire bear as bee's don't damage them and use bear to destroy nest with ease be careful not to kill Queen and i suggest to use rare flowers as easy to find to tame Queen and you have your own bee hive
Make the bees come out of the hive, then jump on the back of a griffin and do the dash attack thing to the hive. It instantly destroys it, making the queen bee come out very quickly.
By far (for me), the easiest way to destroy the hive was to use a tapejara and just circle around the hive damaging and dodging the drones at the same time.
Fire wyverns do the trick, burn the hive, eat the bees, then Ghille armour to passive tame.
I suggest using a chalicotherium to break the hive, every time I have done it, only the queen comes from the hive.
Even easier than using a dire bire. To tame one use a dimorphodon and have it attack the hive. It will break the nest and kill all and the bees that come out. Just whistle it passive before the queen pops out or it will kill her too.
Not the best way to tame but midgame (when all you have is a half decent argie cause you're Tring to build a base) an argue will work. Try to fing a low beehive on the edge of the redwoods. Clear the area of hostiles but not the passive or neutral Dino as these can naturally kill aggressive dinos and block spawn spots. Sprint to the beehive then hit it. When the cloud of bees emerges lure it away from the bee hive land facing them and kill them. Rince and repeat. You will get hit a few times so be careful. Once it breaks put a rare flower in the last inv slot crouch up to it and and press the button that comes up. This might take a while. Happy taming.
If you want to transfer the bee off server, Once tamed, before you do anything, activate a cryopod. Walk up to your newly tamed queen, and cryo it. Do not “obtain hive” if you want to cryo it. Once inside a cryopod, it functions like any other tame. Once you get it where you want to go, and want to place your hive, throw the bee out of the cryopod and THEN walk up to it and “obtain hive”. If you cryo your queen bee, she loses her “drones”, but those drones have nothing to do with honey production, they only act as her primary source of “attack” when whistling her to attack an enemy (there are better Dino’s to use for this purpose).
Just use a dire bear. The tlc means it won’t be hit and deals heaps of damage:)
Either use a wyvern to quickly destroy nest or use spyglass and argent to whistle attack while sat out of drone range. Once nest is destroyed make sure your ghillie is on and your bug repellent is active, whistle tame passive then crouch down and stalk your queen while feeding it rare flowers. Crouching works well for staying out of drone attack range, the drones die after so long and that is your window to ram flowers down the queen's throat. Happy hunting.