Bees are one of the main features of Bee Swarm Simulator. They follow the player around, collect pollen from fields, and defend their beekeeper from mobs and bosses. Bees are one of the primary sources for collecting pollen, as they do it automatically, and most bees produce Ability Tokens. Upon returning to the hive, they will convert pollen into Honey, the main currency used in shops to buy items. The hive is also where bees sleep when they run out of energy, or where they rest if their beekeeper dies or resets, doing so for about 15 seconds before returning to work. When a bee runs out of energy, a message in the player’s notifications or chat will pop out: 😴 [Bee’s name] is out of energy! It’s going to sleep.
Bees are hatched from eggs, with the probability of hatching a bee of a particular rarity or type depending on the rarity of the egg (i.e., a Gold Egg can hatch into an Epic, Legendary, or Mythic). The player can change the type of an already-hatched bee by applying a Royal Jelly or another egg. Once the 25 default Hive Slots are filled up with bees, the player can expand their hive by buying extra hive slots from the Mountain Top Shop. While hive slots increase in price exponentially, this allows the player to have 25 different hive slots for a maximum of 50 bees. However, it is now possible to exceed the limit of 50 bees using mechanics that allow the player to have temporary bees, such as Onett's Lid Art, Honeyday Candles, and Gummy Siege. It is also possible through Spicy Bee's Inferno.
The eight types of eggs are Basic Eggs, Silver Eggs, Gold Eggs, Diamond Eggs, Star Eggs, Mythic Eggs, specific bee eggs, and event bee eggs, along with gifted variants of silver/gold/diamond/mythic eggs and the Choose-A-Mythic Egg.
A gifted bee is a type of bee that has improved stats and gives the entire hive or the player a bonus which varies from bee to bee and cannot stack. Some gifted bees have their gifted abilities, and most Gifted Event bees have enhanced abilities, such as Photon Bee's beamstorm. There is a 1/8000 (0.0125%) chance that feeding a Rare bee its favorite treat will make it gifted, a 1/10000 (0.01%) chance for Epic bees, a 1/12000 (0.0083%) chance for both Legendary bees and Common bees, and a 1/24000 (0.004%) chance for Mythic bees. In addition, there is a 1/287 chance of getting a gifted bee by using royal jelly or by hatching it from a Basic Egg. There is also a guaranteed chance of getting a gifted bee from a Star Jelly, feeding them a Star Treat, or hatching one from a star egg. There is also a 1% chance of getting a gifted bee from Gingerbread Bears, which is available in the Beesmas 2020+ event for a limited time. and a 1.1% chance from Aged Gingerbread Bears is also available when they have not used the gingerbread bears in previous Beesmas events.
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