Ambitious Bees

Ambitious Bees

Bees with a job. This is an addon for Forestry: Community Edition that adds 44 new bees, and every one of them has a career. Some mine ores, some smelt your stuff, some heal you, some sell your junk for emeralds, and a few are just plain annoying (more on that below).

The idea comes from the old "career bees" addons for Forestry, but everything here (code and textures) is written from scratch.

What you get

44 bees with their own mutation tree and a hand-drawn overlay on each one. A few examples:

• Miner, Silky Miner, Fortunate Miner: break ores in their territory and drop the loot into the housing
• Doctor, Plague: heal you, cure bad effects
• Police: hurts hostile mobs around the hive
• Smelter, Honey-Smelter, Mason, Ore Crusher: work on items you leave on a Flower Pedestal
• Business, Junk Seller: sell items for emeralds, turn emeralds into random loot
• Priest: enchants items on a pedestal (slow on purpose, it was way too strong at first)
• Clockwork, Energy: play nice with Forestry engines and power
• Quantum Charming / Strange, Temporal, N.C.A.: swap blocks, speed up time, stop creepers from blowing up your base
• Mad Scientist, Electrician, Devil, Thief, Assassin: the troublemakers

Flower Pedestal: holds one item so pedestal bees can work on it. Three sticks and any flower.

Bee-Bee Gun: load a queen and some honey, aim, and it fires that bee's effect in front of you. Yes, the Assassin can kill queens with it. Sneak + right click to load it.

Frames: Mutation Frame (x5 mutation chance), Eternal Frame (the queen basically never ages, but produces nothing) and Poison Frame (poisons everything near the hive).

Everything, bees included, is in the Ambitious Bees creative tab.

Configs

Some of these bees can really ruin someone's day, so there's a config ('ambitious_bees-common.toml') where you can:

• turn off any single effect
• stop the bad ones from hitting players, or villagers and pets
• make block-changing bees ask claim mods first
• stop the Mad Scientist from breaking blocks
• cap how much the Temporal bee can hurt your TPS

Requirements

• Forestry: Community Edition 3.0.0-alpha6 or newer (tested on alpha9)

Forestry CE is still in alpha, so if it updates and something breaks, it's probably on me to fix it. Let me know.

Early version

This is the first release. I tested a lot but not everything, so expect some rough edges. If you find a bug, open an issue on GitHub.

About AI

Part of the code was written with the help of AI. The design, the testing and the hand drawn textures are mine.

Modpacks

Go ahead and put it in your pack, no need to ask. The license is MIT.