
Bee Buddies
Tameable bees and pride bees!
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About this Mod
Bee Buddies

This mod adds the ability to make friends with the Minecraft Bee. Simply offer one some sugar water to get it to become friends with you! They'll follow you around (though will head back to their hive at request) or just wander in your vicinity. They'll try to fight with you, and won't lose their stinger! If they find any flowers, they'll feed you some honey too! Sometimes, you can even find them taking naps on your head. If you want to be friends with a bee, but don't want them to follow you, telling them to sit will simply have them help out their hive instead of sitting still.
Offer them more sugar water to heal them, or a special drop of nectar to make them a pride bee! Currently, the available pride bees are: asexual, agender, aromantic, bisexual, demiboy, demigirl, gay, genderfluid, genderqueer, lesbian, nonbinary, omni, pan, poly, trans, vincian, and xenogender.
If you have a pride bee texture you'd like included in the mod, feel free to send it or contribute it!
Compatability
Minecraft 1.21: Supports Fabric, Quilt, and Neoforge! Depends on:
- Fabric API or equivalent
- Sinytra Connector (Forge/Neoforge only)
Has builtin compatability with Item Descriptions!
Incompatible with Brainier Bees, as it completely rewrites bee ai.
Minecraft 1.20: Same as 1.21, but also supports Forge.
Minecraft 1.18+: No dependencies, but Fabric API is recommended.
Minecraft 1.16 and 1.17: Incompatable with the Lithium tweak mixin.ai.nearby_entity_tracking. Disable it in the lithium.properties config file by adding the line mixin.ai.nearby_entity_tracking=false to the end.
Contact
Found a bug? Have a code contribution or a suggestion? Please email me!
Special Thanks
Thanks to LemmaEOF and reverie for the pride bee and nectar textures, models, and recipes! Thanks to reverie for additional pride bee and nectar textures! And thanks to byquanton for the 1.18.2 update!
Available Versions
How to Install Bee Buddies on Your Server
Order Server
Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).
Set fabric Loader
In the panel under "Egg", select the fabric loader and matching Minecraft version (1.21.1).
Install Mod
Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Bee Buddies". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Minecraft Versions
1.21.1, 1.21, 1.20.1 (+5 more)
Server-side
✓ RequiredRecommended RAM
4 GB(min. 3 GB)Frequently Asked Questions
Bee Buddies server crashes on startup – what to do?
Most common cause: wrong fabric version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (1.21.1). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.
Is Bee Buddies compatible with fabric and forge and neoforge and quilt?
Bee Buddies officially supports fabric, forge, neoforge, quilt for Minecraft 1.21.1, 1.21, 1.20.1. Note: Forge and Fabric mods are NOT cross-compatible – pick one loader and stick with it. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.
Server lagging with Bee Buddies – how to optimize performance?
Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Bee Buddies consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.
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