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Minecraft: Java Edition
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Four Hive Tiers
Basic, Reinforced, Draconic and Legendary — each upgrade adds speed and a module slot, and shows its metal on your back.
Know What Your Bees Are Doing
While you wear the hive, a small panel shows the queen, her remaining life and the hive status. It can be moved to any corner or turned off in the config.
Full JEI Support
Every mutation, frame, module and upgrade recipe shows up in JEI, plus a page for each aura with its effect, radius and pulse interval.
Everything at a Glance
Queen, drone, frame and flower on the left, products on the right, modules in the side panel. The status icon tells you why bees stopped
Bee-Yard Overview
A clustered bee-yard at night — hives running the same aura amplify each other, and the active aura shows right above your hotbar.
In-Game Guide Book
The built-in Patchouli guide walks you through the frame tandem: Draconic and Legendary frames are forged from the tiers below them (plus a Nether Star for Legendary), not just raw materials.
Guide Book in 10 Languages
A Patchouli guide covers the breeding tandem, auras, frames, tools and the Portable Hive — in English, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, German, Dutch, Polish and Chinese.
Beekeeping Underground
With the Artificial Sun module your bees don't need open sky — take them into a lush cave, or mining. The Collector module drops the combs straight into your inventory.
Even the Nether
The Climate Stabilizer makes bees ignore the biome's temperature and humidity, and a flower they like rides along in the hive's flower slot.
Your Hive Goes Where You Go
A Legendary Portable Hive on your back in a flower forest at sunset. It runs Forestry's own beekeeping logic — biome, weather, light and flowers come from wherever you're standing.
Armour Up
Craft the hive together with any chestplate to keep its protection. If the chestplate breaks, only the chestplate is lost — the hive and its bees stay.
Lantern Module
The Lantern lights up the area around you, hangs a glowing lantern on the hive's roof, and keeps the bees working through the night.