Realistic Bees

If you guys want to use Minecraft to educate then perhaps the bees should be more akin to real bees. Particularly in how the breed; this is very similar to the cow breeding, where there are only female cows and no bulls, yet they can breed.

I understand that its more consistent if all the animals can simply be bred with two of the same mob, but I am simply suggesting. Bees don't reproduce with a male and female. The queen produces larvae that are fed food until fully grown into regular bees. I'm no melittologist, but I believe that's generally how it works; with a queen bee occasionally reproduced in that bunch. So, in Minecraft, it would be more realistic if every nest generated has a queen bee and a worker or two, and that is how they are bred.

I don't know about the details, but it seems more educational if that's what you want, especially since I believe you added the bees because of their dying population and worsening condition as an animal.

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July 18, 2020 06:23
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I fully support this idea, because beekeeping in reality is laborious, interesting and exciting work, at the end of which you can get honey. But in Minecraft it is implemented very poorly, as if everything was done very quickly, without thinking about the real breeding of bees. Of course, I'm very glad that at least some bees appeared in Minecraft, but this is not what I expected (

December 17, 2020 09:00
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I believe there should be one queen per nest, and if you manage to capture it, the rest of the bees follow you. You shouldn't be able to move a hive without a queen. Also, the queen never leaves the nest naturally, only if it's broken, or picked up with the campfire method.

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Realistic Bees

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