Explorable Beehive

[mdf25]

Would love to be able to go inside the beehive to have a look around!

What would you find in there? Plenty!  

- Honey Globs - needs the T2 shovel to dig them out. Makes a great food source but needs to be melted down in an oven first to make it into its goopy, edible form. It doesn't go bad, and restores about 4x as much as a mushroom.

- Bee larvae - an easy prey for the curious explorer, as long as you don't enrage the worker bees nearby. The larva, however, will attempt to defend itself by attacking or trying to hide within the hexagonal walls of the hive, and may get a hit or two in on you before you can kill it. Drops raw bee larva meat and a new type of goop that is used for a smoothie base. The new smoothie base doubles the power and effects of any smoothie you make with it. Attacking a larva in the presence of a worker bee will enrage the worker bee and it may even call for backup.

- Queen Bee: A new boss that you can find in the middle of the hive. Similar in stats to the broodmother, but a bit easier to kill. You find her laying eggs in her chamber high up in an area you can't really reach or shoot to as she will be behind a wax wall until you summon her. She is triggered by placing a Mac & Bees inside her chamber, which enrages her, seeing how her workers are becoming food, triggering her to chew through the wax wall and start her attack.

She would have a supersonic wing flap attack that propels you backwards and makes you drop your weapons if you are too close, a swift series of bite attacks a bit faster than a wolf spider's, a body slam attack where she flies up and attemps to buster dive you into the ground with her sheer weight, a ground pound attack that stuns you if you're too close, a pollen puff attack that slows you down and additionally halves your attack power for about 30 seconds, and summons larvae and worker bees to help her in the fight at various stages, first four larvae that attack by popping out of the groud as you try and walk about, then two larvae and two worker bees, then four worker bees when she's almost dying.

After defeating her, you unlock a new mutation that makes your glider last a ton longer and additionally you can use it to glide faster and for much longer distances (the drop rate decreaes significantly) giving you a semi-flight ability if you go to high places and jump. You also get the Stinger of the Queen Bee, which is a T3 dagger you can craft from queen bee fuzz and a queen bee stinger that deals spicy damage on hit and is about twice as powerful as a spider fang dagger. You can also get a new armor piece, Her Majesty's Gown, which is a body piece of T3 medium armor that releases pollen spores if you get hit, slowing enemies, made from queen bee fuzz and regular bee fuzz.

- Bee eggs: Used to make a T2 bomb, the Buzzburst. It deals significantly more damage than a Bratburst, and can be upgraded with pollen and honey globs to a Bluffburst, which will release pollen spores on explosion, slowing down enemies and cutting their attack power in half for a short time. Just be prepared to have an entire hive after you if you try stealing bee eggs. The buzzburst would need to be used to bust up certain rocks that a bratburst/splatburst is too weak to do (maybe an endgame area in the future)

- Bee wax - can be harvested from the walls of the hive, and is used as a sturdy building material to make a hexagonal-like building of your own. Can also make a Waxy Glob for weapon upgrades.

[Boneless pizza]

this is a very well thought out idea.

 

[Reina]

The bee wax could also be used to make candles and probably small containers too I am thinking.

[mdf25]

Yup. having some candles would be a good idea as a new light source. I'd like to see some more hanging lights too so maybe a bee lantern could be made too.

[ScritchOwl]

I like this but from what you describe wouldn't be bees.  Honey is honey they don't store crystalized sugar.

Bee grubs don't fight back. Until they go through their final Ishtar they are soft and helpless essentially a booger with a mouth

Queen bees would only fight other queens. They raise multiple baby queens and they go high lander. After that they don't sting.

 

While it sounds fun it needs to be reworked as your bees are pretty much not found in nature but then again stinkbugs don't make acid clouds and orb weavers don't live like jumping spiders so it fits in the world

[Boneless pizza]

bee wax windows would be cool.

[mdf25]

True, not everything I have listed is true to nature or realistic. But yeah we see not so much realism in some other bugs. Maybe Wendell was experimenting on bees and they are slightly mutated, so that the larva are stronger. He could have been trying to increase the survivability of them for some other experiments he wanted to do on them  Lots of cool story elements you could add to the hive.

[Reina]

I agree, there are several insects doing things in here in real life they would not. Like the mosquitoes coming after you, at that size realistically they would not be interested in you, so queen bee fighting is not so much more strange. XD