🍯 The Complete Guide to Modular Bees in Minecraft

If you’ve ever wanted to take your beekeeping to the next level, Modular Bees is the mod for you. It turns simple apiaries into fully customizable, high-tech bee habitats that can be automated, powered, and optimized for production.

Whether you’re after honeycombs, draconic combs, or even bottled dragon breath — this guide will walk you through every block, upgrade, and mechanic of Modular Bees.

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🐝 Chapter 1: Building Your First Modular Beehive

To get started, you’ll need Beehive Structure Boxes — the foundation of your modular hive.

🧱 Constructing the Hive

Arrange your structure boxes in a 3×3 cube, just like this: (obviously, fill in the missing blocks! 😀

This creates a Modular Beehive, but initially, it’s just a shell. You can’t insert bees or collect resources yet — you’ll need to replace specific blocks with functional modules to bring it to life.

🔲 Chapter 2: The Alveary — Housing Your Bees

At the core of your modular hive is the Modular Alveary Block, where your bees live and work.

How to Use the Alveary

1. Replace one of the structure blocks with a Modular Alviary Block.
2. Capture a bee using a Bee Cage or Sturdy Bee Cage (from the Productive Bees mod).
3. Right-click your captured bee into the Alviary.

You can insert and remove bees freely:

• Click the input slot (left) to add bees.
• Click the output slot (right) on the right to retrieve them.

Each bee will start producing combs, honey, or other special items based on its type.

🍯 Chapter 3: The Beehive — Gathering Your Rewards

The Modular Beehive Block acts as the main processing unit.

• It collects your bees’ honeycombs, special combs (like Draconic Combs), and liquid honey.
• You can extract honey with glass bottles or automate it with pipes and tanks.

If you want a truly hands-free setup, connect a Beehive Export Hatch to automatically pull items and fluids.

📤 Chapter 4: Automating Output with Export Hatches

🪜 Beehive Export Hatch

The Export Hatch is your automation interface.

Connect it to any modded logistics or fluid system — for example:

• Mekanism Logistical Transporters for items.
• Mekanism Mechanical Pipes for fluids.

Once connected, the system will automatically pull:

• Honeycombs into a chest.
• Honey into a tank or bottler.

Automation doesn’t get much easier than this!

🐉 Chapter 5: The Dragon Hive — Collecting Dragon’s Breath

Working with Draconic Bees? You’ll need a Modular Dragon Hive.

This special variant automatically collects Dragon’s Breath, which can be stored or bottled.

It’s perfect for high-end bees like Draconic Bees that thrive on end-game resources.

⚡ Chapter 6: Beehive Overclockers — Speeding Things Up

Impatient beekeepers, rejoice! The Beehive Overclocker block increases your hive’s productivity speed — but it requires external power (it doesn’t generate its own).

Hook it up to an energy system like Mekanism, in the above example.

Overclocker Tiers

You can stack multiple overclockers around your hive:

• Each adds additively (not multiplicatively).
• Three Netherite Overclockers = 15× total speed (5 + 5 + 5).

You can replace as many structure blocks as you like with overclockers to maximize your production speed. The same goes with other modular blocks, you can have more than 1 of each depending on your needs.

🍬 Chapter 7: The Beehive Treater — Feeding for Productivity

Every hardworking bee deserves a treat!

The Beehive Treater feeds your bees special foods to boost their efficiency.

Feeding the Treater

Right-click the Treater Block and add bee-friendly foods like:

• 🍯 Honey Treats (+10% productivity)
• 🧴 Honey Buckets (+350% productivity)
• 🍬 Other Treats listed in JEI (press U for usage info)

Each food boosts productivity additively if multiple treaters are used.

Important: Each bee needs its own food portion per nectar cycle — if food runs out, the bonus weakens. (Make sure there’s enough to feed ALL your bees).

Any leftovers are sent to your hive’s output inventory, like the export hatch.

🌸 Chapter 8: The Feeder — Flowers for Every Bee

Your bees need more than just treats — they need flowers and special blocks to pollinate from.

That’s where the Feeder Block comes in.

• Place flowers, dragon eggs, or any other relevant block for your bee species inside.
• One item is enough (no need for full stacks).

For example:

• Normal Bees → Flowers
• Draconic Bees → Dragon Egg

Mix and match depending on which bees are active in your hive.

🧰 Chapter 9: Summary of All Modular Bee Blocks

Here’s a quick reference list of every block in the mod and what it does:

Together, these create a fully modular, customizable beekeeping system that integrates seamlessly with other tech mods.

🏗️ Chapter 10: Combining Modules for Maximum Efficiency

Since your hive is modular, you can build for your playstyle:

• Want automation? Use multiple Export Hatches.
• Need speed? Stack Overclockers.
• Want high output? Combine Treaters and Feeders.

Your 3×3 hive can include any mix of modules — the only limit is space and creativity.