Productive Bees: Breeding Bees for Resources
Productive Bees greatly expands Minecraft's bees, adding many species that produce resources and mod materials. This guide covers how to start beekeeping.
Many new bees
Productive Bees adds a large range of bee species, each tied to a resource — bees that produce ingots, gems, and materials from vanilla and other mods. Collecting and breeding these species is the core of the mod, turning bees into a renewable source of resources.
Hives and processing
You house bees in the mod's advanced hives and boxes, then process their output: a 
Centrifuge extracts honey and the bees' special produce from combs. Better hives hold more and work faster, so upgrading your apiary increases production.
Breeding and upgrades
New species are obtained through breeding — combining bees to produce rarer offspring — and the mod adds upgrades and items to improve bee productivity and manage your colonies. Start by catching a few wild bees, build hives and a centrifuge, then breed toward the resource-producing species you need. Productive Bees rewards patient automation, turning a small apiary into a steady resource farm.
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