@Stellar Harbour

In real life, beehives can live in places like northern Canada and Siberia, through Russian winters (the famous Volga beekeepers dominated medieval honey trades), because beehives are insulated and so densely populated that bees' bodies generate enough warmth to keep a hive toasty and comfortable for the bees. That is why, before the glitch, even the plain, normal beehive kept bees from dying in the winter. This is extremely realistic.

Ever wondered why bees make so much honey that even if a beekeeper takes most of it, the bees still thrive?

That's why. Bees die in cold, so they need to have enough honey to feed every single one of them for the entire winter. There is a surplus so great that humans can harvest it too.

Thank you so much for the bug fix! This was MURDERING my entire colony's production lines.

The crazy part is that, in RL, bees naturally keep hives about ninety degrees at all times because wax actually SEALS and INSULATES.

@Stellar Harbour - in the real world, you can move hives without protection too if you know what you are doing.

Your pawns can move hives without any protection and nothing happens to them, and you're surprised that bees die in winter? You could’ve figured out they’re weak-ass

v8.02:

All beehouses should now protect bees against temperature extremes.

I have Drones dying of cold too. Then the queens in one of my pawns inventory died too ( I was trying to haul them to a warm room) - and now my bees in storage cause a "bees exposed to the elements" message, but the message disappears immediately - and then message again, and so on. Not dead yet, but I don't doubt they will.
As if you did not have enough to do.

kinda reminds me of the old minecraft forestry mod

I had the drones - and only the drones - dying in cold weather as well. Real life beekeeper in Maine - I can vouch that the bees stay alive even when it's well below zero - just like they did in 1.5 before whatever happened in the 1.6 update.

I hope this won't be too hard for you to fix.

They probably added ticking to thingContainers, but only the last one is ticking, or some such nonsense

For some reason, it only happens to drone bees. It also does not cause errors at all.

Ah, that makes sense. Have you been able to reproduce this bug, though?

No changes here, blame Ludeon

I have accidentally discovered a catastrophic error in the Mod's V1.6 update. When bees dying to temperature is enabled, bees IN THE BEEHOUSE will also die. I installed Vampire Bees in my outdoor Spacer Beehives and they, despite being safe in the beehive, kept dying, causing me to lose all my progress. This is NOT supposed to happen, both because it doesn't happen in RL and because it never happened until the most recent update.

In V1.5, even the normal Beehouses, which went inactive during cold weather, didn't cause the bees to die. In real life, beehives are really warm and bees don't die over the winter because it's so warm inside a beehive.

This is a critical and angering mistake that completely leveled my most recent saved game, with all the bees dying at once.

Super sadge

sadge to see bee mod from someone what want to "burn it ALL DOWN!"

haha, burn it ALL DOWN!

I'm not sure that it's safe to move hives, maybe extracting the bees and combs directly from them would be more sustainable, so we don't destroy ecosystem?

@Obeliske
It doesn't have to crash to generate a log, infact, it generates a log CONSTANTLY. You can see it if you activate debug mode, press the button at the top of the screen that opens the log, unpause your game, and let it run. You'll see it generate in real time.

No, you HAVE a log. Go to the game's logging folder. It's there

There's no log because it's not crashing, it's not doing anything out of the ordinary beside not moving on in the menu. I can hit the button, it depresses but nothing happens. Literally nothing. AFAIK a log is only created when an event happens, it doesn't create a log for no event happening :P

Don't know what to tell you my duder. Only running Alpha mods and Vanilla Expanded mods. I'll see if I can grab a video for you later :)

if run together with Alpha Mythology - produces red error (error in config BeeResearchTier4)

You DO have a log. The log generates even if the game crashes. Can't tell you anything without it except that it works for me

Took me all day to find the mod causing it and I love your work but this ones the one that's doing it. It stops me from hitting next after hitting "New Colony" on the start splash screen. The button depresses but doesn't proceed. I don't get an error report and it's not crashing, just literal nothing happens. Just a heads up.

Also on a separate note, thanks for the link to the patreon, I subbed for a bit. I've been enjoying yours and Oskar's mods for a long time and my game would be much worse if not for you guys. Keep up the great work, lots of love from Canada.

Or lava, ice, or flood bees?

so...any bees for space?

Eh

Config error in RB_Bee_Glacial_Queen: description has leading whitespace。a bug

@UnicornMan
A pet?

@UnicornMan
Actually, that's a different mod.

Good news Mark. We can finally be bees.

Hello friend, can you add a code to Keyed that reads language translations? There are so many types of bees that it's hard to put in a bee without a local language.

Is this the same honey/mead as in Medieval 2?

You just put them together in the same beehouse

How do I apply things like the Nocturnal Bee's ability to work at night, or the Adaptive Bee's temperature tolerance to a bee I want?
For example, I'd like to have some electronic bees able to work year round, not just in the warm seasons.

Do I just hybridize them with the Adaptive Bees, and that will give me Electronics Bees with a higher temp tolerance?

Actually that's VE Genetics' patch

https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/1130b5011f8e1705e4291219841e2eff

Seems like I'm getting issues on 1.6

Not sure what the incompat is, but guessing VEF

Hello alpha mythology is having a error with alpha bees!
Config error in RB_ResearchPapersPsyLightMagical: has duplicate thingCategory RB_BeeResearchTier4

@O N E T O Z A U R
"Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?"

this is good news. we can finally be bees. this isn't your world, but we can be bees. this is good news. you can be a bee. you'll live like a bee. a pet. a pet? a pet, mark. this is good news. you'll live for 30 years. this is insane!

I love this mod, thank you for all the work you put into it! Someday, I'm gonna manage a base run by bees, but until then, they really spice up my play from colony to colony. It's interaction with other mods must have been a challenge (I know nothing about modding, myself) but it kinda gives me reason to try ones I wouldn't have otherwise. like the jewelry one!

@GrimoireODS: No

Glad I'm taking a break from rimworld, waiting on getting a new PC that can handle all the new stuff(and old stuff, my current pc can't handle too many mods). It also gives time for the mods to update.

New update broke worldgen

Sarg, if you don't mind, I would appreciate if you added my sub-mod of yours to your Favorites and, perhaps, even download it and see it for yourself! I was so much fun to make!

Something broken

So the bees no longer produce the resources they specialize in or is something broken on me?

v8.0:

Updated to RimWorld 1.6

If you don't have a list of Mods exceeding one thousand, your Mod pack is NOT super massive.

LOG! https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/6886f224ed9e4b42780c739c27131233

So, while rooting around looking for a much bigger problem with my supermassive modpack, I discovered this red error. For this log specifically, I ran ONLY Alpha Bees, Biomes! Islands, and all of both mods' dependencies and still got this error.

Sorry about moving this to the main comment thread. I have since solved the mentioned problem with my supermassive (data for a Star Wars mod got corrupted), and I'll also put this comment in the Biomes! Islands mod's comments.