Alpha Bees

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Updated 13/10/22!

Breed bees to generate all kinds of resources!


- 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 30)!
- 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 simple crossbreeding chart to help you get started, which you can find at the Ludeon post: https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=46726




- Alpha Animals
- Alpha Mythology
- RimWorld of Magic
- Vanilla Cooking Expanded
- Vanilla Fishing Expanded
- RimEffect
- Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
- Vanilla Factions Expanded - Ancients
- More Archotech Garbage
- RimWorld of Madness - Bones
- Dice of Destiny
- Jewelry
- Pawnmorpher
- Vanilla Genetics Expanded



Awesome animation by Chicken Plucker


You bet! You can check everything out on the Bestiary Wiki: https://rimworld-bestiary.fandom.com/wiki/RimBees


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: Is this compatible with the Vanilla Factions Expanded - Vikings mod?
A: Absolutely. The two systems will work in parallel. You'll have the choice to make bee-breeding beehouses from this mod, or apiaries from VFE - Vikings. The latter's mead is renamed to honey-wine via XML patching to avoid confusion.


Balance is always a work in progress!


More bees!


Fancy Food Items by KanaX: https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/fancy-food-items.44398/
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


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 Universal Fermenter mod
Patches mod: Make Honey EVEN MORE Compatible (TSP): https://www.steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2959585309


https://github.com/juanosarg/AlphaBees


v5.0: Renamed to Alpha Bees. Updated to RW 1.4
v4.6: A TON of awesome QoL changes by Ben Lubar. New Vanilla Factions Expanded - Ancients bee, plus a Bee Vault! (03/12/21)
v4.5: RimWorld 1.3 update. (05/07/21)
v4.4: Added 14 new bee species and 4 new beehouses (19/05/21)
v4.2: Added 19 new bee species that only appear with other mods: Alpha Animals, Pawnmorpher, Magical Menagerie, Vanilla Cooking Expanded and Vanilla Fishing Expanded (15/09/20)
v4.1: Updated for RimWorld 1.2 (11/08/20)
v4.0: Complete retexture of the mod from the gound up (30/07/20)