Alpha Bees

Breed bees to generate all kinds of resources!

Features

• Beekeeping: find wild bees in all biomes, build beehouses to put them to work! A single beehouse won't do much, so prepare to build a few. Are you in an extreme biome? There are low-efficiency climatized beehouses available for you until you can get bees that modify allowed temperatures!
• Bee breeding: Mix two breeds of bees in a beehouse, and use a brood chamber to multiply them, and an hybridization chamber to get new species (more than 100)!
• Honey making: Centrifuge the combs produced by the bees to get honey and wax.
• Cooking and building: honey can be used as an ingredient in cooking, and wax can be used as a building material.
• Mead brewing: turn honey into mead to make your colonists happy (and drunk).
• Wax lighting: candles are a quaint and cheap way to light your base
• Resource gathering: many of the bees produce combs with more things than honey and wax. Will you find the Luciferium-producing bees?
• Research: discover new exciting bee combinations
• Pollination: plan your growing zones around your beehives and increase your crop production

Most of the mod is pretty well explained in the item and research project descriptions. I have also created a complex crossbreeding chart to help you get started, which you can find here:

(WARNING, contains spoilers. All those combinations can be discovered in-game through bee research)

https://www.canva.com/design/DAGQLgtCzS8/2aR4_1BEumFiT2v2tgajwA/view?utm_content=DAGQLgtCzS8&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=editor

Wiki

We have a wiki at: https://rimworldbestiary.wiki.gg/

Mods adding new bees

• Alpha Animals
• Alpha Random
• Alpha Genes
• RimWorld of Magic
• Vanilla Cooking Expanded
• Vanilla Fishing Expanded
• Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids 2
• More Archotech Garbage
• RimWorld of Madness - Bones
• Jewelry
• Pawnmorpher
• Vanilla Genetics Expanded

Add-on mods

I CANNOT BEE-LIEVE IT! (TSP): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3507100313

Awesome animation by Chicken Plucker

Frequently asked questions

Q: Can I...... ? A: Check mod options first

Q: I have my beehouses in an air conditioned room but it isn't working! A: Bees need the appropiate average temperature in the whole map to work. Even if you have them inside to protect the beehouses, they need to get outside to eat flower nectar! There is an option (greenhouse bees) to disable this.

Q: Compatible with CE? A: The new bees that damage enemies might need a compat patch on their end, if someone knowledgeable with CE tests it, let me know.

Issues

Balance is always a work in progress!

Plans for the future

More bees!

Credit

Wax floor textures from the Apini Mod: https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=31076.0 Thanks to TheSevenSins for helping on the 2.0 update Thanks to Night Shade for the changes to the Honeys code Thanks to Skippy for the growing zones idea

Compatibility

Right now, the mod shouldn't give problems. In the future, I'll add patches to make new bee species that give modded materials Compatible with (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2073225100) mod Patches mod: Make Honey EVEN MORE Compatible (TSP): https://www.steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2959585309

License, or something

I don't like retextures. If you retexture my mods I reserve the right to change the file paths of the image at random intervals, messing up your mod-

On GitHub

https://github.com/juanosarg/AlphaBees

Changelog

See full changelog on GutHub (account is juanosarg)