Queen Bee

A Primitive Plus bee that left the game

The Queen Bee is a resource from Primitive Plus, the Primitive+ content for ARK: Survival Evolved. Its description reads: "The queen bee lives to produce worker bees for the apiary". The ARK Wiki marks it as removed: it went out in v258.0, the update that brought the Giant Bee into the core game. The wiki keeps its page for historical reasons, and what follows describes how it worked back then.

Finding a queen

Queens turned up only rarely when harvesting berry bushes. A Bronto, a Trike or another large herbivore that strips many bushes quickly made the search easier.

Queens in the Apiary

When an Apiary held one or more Drone Bees alongside at least 1 Queen Bee, it put out 14 Drone Bees and 20 worker bees every 2 minutes. The workers in turn produced Honey and Beeswax. Adding more queens or drones did not raise the output, as long as one of each was present. Inside the Apiary a queen's spoil time doubled.

A change dated the 18th of March made the queen get used up in the process, which left players with plenty of spare Drone Bees. The 258.0 patch of May 30, 2017 then removed the Apiary itself; from that point Beeswax had to be taken from giant beehives, found mostly in the redwood, badlands and fertile biomes.

Weight and recipe use

Each bee weighs 0.1 and they stack to 200, so a full stack weighs 20. The wiki lists a spoil time of 172800 seconds. In our records it goes into one recipe: the Worker Bee, which takes 1 Queen Bee.