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I mostly played through this mod in was most likely the All of Fabric modpack (The 6th one ? I'm not sure myself), most of what I recall about the mod might be a bit old, so I replayed it for a bit recently just to be sure
What is it ?
The Bumblezone is a beautiful and cozy dimension mod featuring a secret realm which can only be accessed by teleporting into a bee's nest
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It looks like an infinite hive with the endless sound of flying bees with a couple of different biomes and places to find.
What does it offer ?
A whole new secret place where bees are everywhere, with good amounts of pretty blocks to build with, small structures and larger dungeons scattered across canyons of yellow hexagons and fields of pollen;
If you start wreaking the place, the whole hive will get alerted and bees will become hostile for some time which is a really neat mechanic.
There is some amount of stuff to do like exploring said dungeons for rewards, fly through hoops on the back of a big bee or maybe even find the queen
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This is a really nice place to build a house, fool around with the new banner patterns and listen to new tunes while eating new food, and it manages to feel distinct enough from the nether despite being an underground space too.
The main con ? it doesn't stand alone as of now :
This dimension mod while great can almost only work as a secret realm inside a larger pack filled with external content, as this mod's dimension and related features aren't enough to keep someone satisfied forever. It works well, but its not perfect and could use some features to make living inside the dimension and staying there more interesting outside of pure exploration and house building (agriculture ? fishing ? there are probably many answers to this question that I am not even considering and I am just waiting to see what comes next for this mod).
In conclusion
When discovering throwing a pearl into a nest gets you to a whole new place to explore the feeling of wonder is amazing, it kind of reminds me of discovering the Hive in Hollow Knight for the first time, a whole new area you can entirely miss if you aren't purposely doing a 112% playthrough of the game; Perhaps this dimension is directly referencing this area of this game ? Maybe this makes my review more biased than I thought.
I usually tend to think cozy dimension mods feel too empty with not enough things to do, but this one is still solid, not too important not too unimportant for what is supposed to be hidden to begin with.
There's a wiki at https://github.com/TelepathicGrunt/Bumblezone for anyone interested (spoilers), and while I did play mostly the Fabric version of the mod I would like to point out a Forge/Neoforge one exists.
I would recommend it despite its flaws, it's a great mod to hide inside a larger pack.
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