Giant Queen Bee
Creature Guide
InvertebratesOverview
The Giant Queen Bee is the central figure of the Giant Bee species in ARK: Survival Evolved. As the heart of the hive, she spawns drone bees to defend her and produces honey for harvest. Taming a Queen Bee is essential for setting up a sustainable honey farm. She is larger than regular drone bees and forms the core of your beekeeping operation.
Dossier
Wild
In the wild, Apis lithohermaea Drones never stray far from their nests, which they build high in the Island
Domesticated
A tamed Apis Queen will lay new drone eggs, and construct a nest that survivors can farm for honey, so long as they remember to wear specialized bee-keeping gear. Said honey is not only sweet and delicious, but laced with scents that land mammals find irresistible. Many hunters use it to bait their traps. Apis Drones will also follow their Queen into battle, so they can be used for self-defense in a pinch.
Behavior
- The center of the Giant Bee colony - all drones spawn from her
- Queen Bees spawn automatically when a wild hive is destroyed
- She automatically becomes a hive when spawned in the world
- Can be hand-fed but food does not drain automatically
- Continuously spawns drone bees to defend herself and her owner
- Drones will return to the Queen if they wander too far
- Queen does not gain XP and cannot level beyond post-tame bonus
- May despawn if left alone for too long
Taming
Habitat
Base Stats
Notes
- The Queen Bee is the only tameable Giant Bee variant
- Higher health than drone bees (200 vs 80)
- Torpor immune - must be tamed passively, not knocked out
- Not breedable - produces drones automatically
- Cannot gain XP or level up normally
- Honey is used in Sweet Vegetable Cake recipe - essential for many tames
- Queen requires hand-feeding - food does not deplete automatically
- Drone bees can be uploaded to beacons/obelisks and re-downloaded as separate creatures
- Downloaded drones are severed from Queen and can serve as guard pets
- Drones despawn when the world is reloaded