This page will include an comparison of the frame types added by various Forestry addons and the various housing types available for bees.
Bee Housings
| Bee Housing | Added by | Dimension | Production | Mutation | Lifespan | Territory | Flowering | Genetic Decay | Frame Slots | Specialty |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bee House | Forestry | 1*1*1 | 25% | 0% | 300% | 100% | 300% | 0% | 0 | Can't be automated |
| Apiary | Forestry | 1*1*1 | 10% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 3 | |
| Alveary | Forestry | 3*3*4 | 100% | 100% | 100% | 200% | 100% | 100% | 0 | Can utilize alveary blocks for purposes such as modifying climate or spawning princesses. |
| Magic Apiary | Magic Bees | 1*1*1 | 90%[1] | 100%[2] | 100%[3] | 100% | 100% | 80% | 3 |
Alveary Blocks
Frames
With Forestry, frames can only be used in Apiaries to improve the production rate of the bees.
Extra Bees added a block for the Alveary, so that frames are also usable there. It also added several frames with additional modifiers.
Magic Bees also added new frames, which don't tax the local aura anymore (as they did before 2.0.0).
Frames modify one or more of:
- Production Chance
- Mutation Chance
- Lifetime
- Territory
All these values are multiplicative.
Some frames have a maximum effect achievable with stacking that type of frame.
| Frame Name | Added by | Durability | Production Chance |
(max) | Mutation Chance |
(max) | Lifetime | (max) | Territory | (max) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Untreated Frame | Forestry | 80 | 200% | 1000% | ||||||
| Impregnated Frame | Forestry | 240 | 200% | 1000% | ||||||
| Proven Frame | Forestry | 720 | 200% | 1000% | ||||||
| Chocolate Frame | Extra Bees | 240 | 150% | 1000% | 75% | 50% | ||||
| Restraint Frame | Extra Bees | 240 | 75% | 50% | 75% | 50% | 50% | 10% | ||
| Soul Frame | Extra Bees | 80 | 25% | 10% | 150% | 500% | 75% | 50% | ||
| Healing Frame | Extra Bees | 240 | 75% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 150% | 500% | ||
| Nova Frame | Extra Bees | 240 | 0.01% | 0.01% | ||||||
| Magic Frame | Magic Bees | 240 | 200% | |||||||
| Resilient Frame | Magic Bees | 800 | 200% | |||||||
| Gentle Frame | Magic Bees | 200 | 140% | 70% | 150% | |||||
| Metabolic Frame | Magic Bees | 120 | 120% | 180% | ||||||
| Necrotic Frame | Magic Bees | 290 | 75% | 30% | ||||||
| Temporal Frame | Magic Bees | 300 | 250% | |||||||
| Oblivion Frame | Magic Bees | 60 | 0% | 0.01% | ||||||
| Lifecycle Acceleration Frame | ChromatiCraft | 240 | 0% | 10% | ||||||
| Coal Frame | Forestry Extras | 80 | 110% | |||||||
| Iron Frame | Forestry Extras | 200 | 110% | |||||||
| Gold Frame | Forestry Extras | 200 | 120% | |||||||
| Diamond Frame | Forestry Extras | 900 | 125% | |||||||
| Emerald Frame | Forestry Extras | 1100 | 175% | 112% | 217% | 115% | ||||
| Obsidian Frame | Forestry Extras | 1000 | 110% | |||||||
| Reinforced Frame | Forestry Extras | 1750 | 115% | |||||||
| Mutation Frame | Forestry Extras | 50 | 0% | 1000% | ||||||
| Nature Frame | Forestry Extras | 400 | 0% | 150% | ||||||
| Draconic Frame | Forestry Extras | 2000 | 400% | |||||||
| Bronze Frame | Forestry Extras | 300 | 130% | |||||||
| Copper Frame | Forestry Extras | 80 | 110% | |||||||
| Tin Frame | Forestry Extras | 90 | 110% | |||||||
| Silver Frame | Forestry Extras | 320 | 130% | |||||||
| Lead Frame | Forestry Extras | 350 | 130% | |||||||
| Steel Frame | Forestry Extras | 450 | 140% | |||||||
| Aluminium Frame | Forestry Extras | 200 | 110% | |||||||
| Ardite Frame | Forestry Extras | 400 | 115% | |||||||
| Cobalt Frame | Forestry Extras | 450 | 115% | |||||||
| Alumite Frame | Forestry Extras | 625 | 135% | |||||||
| Manyullyn Frame | Forestry Extras | 800 | 150% |
If your frames change the mutation rate to more than 1000%, the princess/queen may degenerate to a swarmer bee. The same is true if you overwork her by boosting production rate to more than 1600%. Swarmer bees are marked with a [-] behind their name and will die off at some random time in the future.