Bee Buddies
Tameable bees and pride bees!
This mod allows you to befriend bees in Minecraft. Simply offer a bee some sugar water, and it will become your friend! Your new winged companions will follow you around (though they can return to their hive upon your request) or simply wander nearby. They will fight alongside you and won't lose their stinger in the process! If the bees find flowers, they will share honey with you. Sometimes you might even find them taking naps on your head.
If you want to befriend a bee but don't want it to constantly follow you, simply ask it to sit - then it will help its hive instead of staying in place.
Offer bees more sugar water to heal them, or a special drop of nectar to turn them into pride bees! Currently available pride bee variants include: asexual, agender, aromantic, bisexual, demiboy, demigirl, gay, genderfluid, genderqueer, lesbian, nonbinary, omni, pan, poly, trans, vincian, and xenogender.
Compatibility
Minecraft 1.21: Supports Fabric, Quilt, and Neoforge! Requires:
- Fabric API or equivalent
- Sinytra Connector (Forge/Neoforge only)
Has built-in compatibility with Item Descriptions!
Incompatible with Brainier Bees, as it completely rewrites bee AI.
Minecraft 1.20: Same as 1.21, but also supports Forge.
Minecraft 1.18+: No dependencies, but Fabric API is recommended.
Minecraft 1.16 and 1.17: Incompatible with the Lithium tweak mixin.ai.nearby_entity_tracking. Disable it in the lithium.properties configuration file by adding the line mixin.ai.nearby_entity_tracking=false at the end.
Acknowledgments
Special thanks to LemmaEOF and reverie for the pride bee and nectar textures, models, and recipes! Thanks to reverie for additional pride bee and nectar textures! And thank you to byquanton for the 1.18.2 update!
