Bee Buddies

This mod adds the ability to make friends with the Minecraft Bee. Simply offer one some sugar water to get it to become friends with you! They'll follow you around (though will head back to their hive at request) or just wander in your vicinity. They'll try to fight with you, and won't lose their stinger! If they find any flowers, they'll feed you some honey too! Sometimes, you can even find them taking naps on your head. If you want to be friends with a bee, but don't want them to follow you, telling them to sit will simply have them help out their hive instead of sitting still.
Offer them more sugar water to heal them, or a special drop of nectar to make them a pride bee! Currently, the available pride bees are: asexual, agender, aromantic, bisexual, demiboy, demigirl, gay, genderfluid, genderqueer, lesbian, nonbinary, omni, pan, poly, trans, vincian, and xenogender.
If you have a pride bee texture you'd like included in the mod, feel free to send it or contribute it!
Compatability
Minecraft 1.21: Supports Fabric, Quilt, and Neoforge! Depends on:
- Fabric API or equivalent
- Sinytra Connector (Forge/Neoforge only)
Has builtin compatability 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: Incompatable with the Lithium tweak mixin.ai.nearby_entity_tracking. Disable it in the lithium.properties config file by adding the line mixin.ai.nearby_entity_tracking=false to the end.
Contact
Found a bug? Have a code contribution or a suggestion? Please email me!
Special Thanks
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 thanks to byquanton for the 1.18.2 update!
How to Install Bee Buddies (Mod)
Bee Buddies by queenofthebees is verified for Fabric, Forge, Neoforge, Quilt across Minecraft versions 1.16.5, 1.17, 1.17.1, 1.18.2, 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.21, 1.21.1 (latest release: 2.3.1+1.21.1, file size: 255 KB). Follow the steps below to install it safely from ModCraft.tv:
- Click the Download button above and select your Minecraft version (1.16.5, 1.17, 1.17.1, 1.18.2, 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.21, 1.21.1) and platform (Fabric, Forge, Neoforge, Quilt).
- Make sure you have the compatible loader or environment installed for Fabric, Forge, Neoforge, Quilt.
- Move the downloaded Bee Buddies file into your Minecraft
.minecraft/modsfolder and launch the game.
All Versions
+ Add Version- bees are calmed when told to follow or stay
- fixed neoforge through sinytra
- migrate away from fabricasm
- bundle cardinal components
- make sure bees don't wander if they're set to follow and their player's offline
- make bees run from environmental danger hopefully
- tweak ai task priorities
- add tag for nectars
- add item descriptions compat
- fix mojang letting bees just get fucking lost???
- fix mojang letting bees just get fucking lost???
- Add items to creative tabs.
- Improve Sinytra compat.
- Add items to creative tabs.
- Improve Sinytra compat.
- Bees must now be tamed or healed using the new Sugar Water item
- Fixed bumblezone compat
- Bees must now be tamed or healed using the new Sugar Water item
- Fixed bumblezone compat
- Updated to 1.18.2. Thanks to byquanton!!!
- Added recipe for the honeyed nonbinary nectar. I forgot earlier :p
- Made sure bees won't attack their friends by accident.
- Return empty glass bottles when making friends with a bee.
- Added recipe for the honeyed nonbinary nectar. I forgot earlier :p
- Made sure bees won't attack their friends by accident.
- Return empty glass bottles when making friends with a bee.
- Added the honeyed nonbinary flag.
- Updated to Minecraft 1.17.