Getting Started (Forestry - Alveary)

Welcome, this guide will instruct you on how to use and make an alveary, plus some extra's like other special blocks. First, the normal alveary.

First you will need an Impregnated Casing. The recipe is as follows:

Then you'll need scented paneling. The recipe is as follows:

And then, the alveary blocks themself are crafted like so:

You will need 27 of these blocks. Then you Build them in this formation:

XXX XXX Bottom Layer XXX

XXX XXX Next Layer XXX

XXX XXX Next Layer XXX

And then cover the top in wooden halfslabs.

It should like this:

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There are two main bonuses to alvearies.

1. No need for frames, 100% production boost. 2. There are several special upgrade blocks you can make to make you alveary better.

And now, the special alveary blocks. To insert these, just replace any alveary block with one of them.

First, there's the Alveary Heater, crafted like so:

The Alveary Heater needs 1 MJ/t (will use more if given) and adds 20% points to the internal temperature rating, with a maximum at 250%.

Then, there's the Alveary Fan:

The Alveary Fan needs 1 MJ/t (will use more if given) and removes 20% points from the internal temperature rating with a minimum at 5%.

And then there's the Swarmer:

The Swarmer requires no power. To use it, right click it to open up its inventory, and put some royal jelly inside. There's a 1% chance per jelly that within 25 blocks of the alveary, a swarm hive will appear, which contains a princess exactly the same as the queen currently in the alveary. These queens are marked with a line [-], and will die after a few generations.

Finally for Forestry, there's the Hygroregulator:

This block will change both the humidity and the temperature rating, depending on the liquid used.


 * Water will raise the humidity by 20% points (up to 100%) and reduce the temperature by 10% points (up to 0%). It can be piped in or added via buckets/cans/etc. and lasts 50 seconds.
 * Lava will reduce the humidity by 20% points (up to 0%) and raise the temperature by 10% points (up to 200%). It can be piped in or added via buckets/cans/etc. and lasts 500 seconds.
 * Liquid Ice (from squeezed Ice Shards) will raise the humidity by 40% points (up to 100%) and reduce the temperature by 20% points (up to 0%). It can be piped in and lasts 500 seconds.