Career Bees Mod (1.12.2)— Variety of New Bees

Natural life bees have a complex system, and this mod tries to add that colony system to the game! Career Bees mod is an add-on for the popular Forestry mod that adds a dozen new bees to the game with professions!

What is the Mod About?

The mod adds a variety of new bees loosely based on real-world professions. The mod adds Student Bees, Collecting Bees, Graduate Bees, Artistic Bees, Armorer Bees, PhD Bees, Police Bees, Sharpening Bees, Lumber Bees, Husbandry Bees, Smelter Bees, Repair Bees, Business Bess, Butcher Bees, and a whole lot of more.

Should You Install it?

If you are not satisfied with the current number of bees in the Forestry mod, we recommend installing this mod to create a whole class of bees with various jobs and effects in Minecraft.

Features

Student Bees

• Common + Cultivated (Requires a bookshelf as a foundation).
• A student bees drone can be shift-right-clicked onto an apiary and will alert when the queen is gone.

Collecting Bees

• Student + Common.
• Wombling: Picks up items in their territory.

Graduate Bees

• Student + Common.
• Retraining: Restores the effect chromosomes of any purebred career bee if it has lost them. Place the bee you wish to retrain on a nearby flower pedastal.

PHD Bees

• Student + Graduate.
• Retraining: (see Graduate Bees).

Artistic Bees

• Graduate + Cultivated.
• Painting: Creates works of art and hangs them up nearby.

Armorer Bees

• Graduate + Graduate (Requires an anvil as a foundation).
• Armorer: Buffs armors placed on nearby flower pedastals.

Police Bees

• Graduate + Valiant.
• Policing: Attacks nearby mobs and picks up items when they die (at a very high luck rating).

Sharpening Bees

• Graduate + Armorer.
• Sharpening: Sharpens weapons placed on nearby flower pedastals.

Lumber Bees

• Graduate + Forest.
• Bark Biter: Bites small pieces of bark off of nearby trees. The trees are not permanently harmed by this, and the pieces of bark can be crafted into full logs.

Husbandry Bees

• Graduate + Meadows.
• Husbandry: Breeds animals together within its territory.

Smelter Bees

• Graduate + Modest (Requires a furnace as a foundation).
• Smelting: Smelts items placed on nearby flower pedastals.

Repair Bees

• Armorer + Sharpening.
• Repair: Repairs items placed on nearby flower pedastals.

Buisness Bees

• PHD + Imperial.

Butcher Bees

• Graduate + Lumber.
• Butcher: Humanely slaughters any grown animals in its territory. Will keep one pair of each animal alive to breed.

Yente Bees

• Student + Husbandry.
• Yente will make matches for your bees. Shift-right-click a Yente princess onto an apiary and it’s breeding will be automated. Yente will always choose the drone that she judges to have the best traits for the princess.

Rainbow Bees

• Artistic + PHD.
• Will produce every color of dye.

Mason Bees

• Graduate + Smelter.
• Masonry: Chisels nearby cobblestone into stone bricks.

Science Bees

• PHD + Industrious.

Doctor Bees

• PHD + Majestic.
• Healing: Heals any entity within its territory and gives a regen effect.

Engineer Bees

• PHD + Noble.

Thief Bees

• Police + Sinister.
• Yoink: Steals items from nearby players.

Chef Bees

• Smelter + Artistic.
• Honey Glazing: Gives a special honey glazing to any food item placed on a nearby flower pedastal. When eaten, honey-glazed food gives absorbtion hearts.

Miner Bees

• Graduate + Engineer (Requires a block of iron as a foundation).
• Mining: Mines ores within their territory (ignoring y restrictions).

Silky Miner Bees

• Engineer + Miner (Requires a block of gold as a foundation).
• Silky Mining: Mines ores (with Silk-touch).

Fortunate Miner Bees

• Miner + Silky Miner (Requires a block of the diamond as a foundation).
• Fortune Mining: Mines ores (with Fortune 3).

Taxcollector Bees

• Police + Thief.
• Taxation: Extract drops from nearby mobs without hurting or killing them.

Plague Bees

• Doctor + Sinister.
• Curative: Cures any negative potion effects on entities within its territory and provides slight healing.

Ore Crusher Bees

• Mason + Sharpening.
• Crusher: Grinds up any metal ores placed on flower pedastals, to give 2x-3x dust.

Clockwork Bees

• Smelter + Engineer.
• Clockwinding: Winds up Clockwork Engines in their territory, giving free power.

Mad Scientist Bees

• Science + Engineer (Must have been a nearby explosion in the last 10 seconds).
• Advances scientific progress and only occasionally causes a random explosion. These explosions only break non-’tile entity’ blocks.

Quantum Charming Bees

• Quantum Strange + Quantum Strange.
• Mad Scientist + Phantasmal.
• Teleposition: Randomly swaps nearby blocks of similar material.

Quantum Strange Bees

• Quantum Charming + Quantum Charming.
• Mad Scientist + Phantasmal.
• Teleposition: Randomly swaps nearby blocks of similar material.

Temporal Bees

• Quantum Strange + Quantum Charming.
• Accelerate: Increases the flow of time within their territory.

Energy Bees

• Repair + Clockwork.
• RF Inducing: Induces an RF charge in blocks placed next to their housing.