Talk:Bee Queen/@comment-39421695-20190510171518

Pro-tips:

Her initial 'wake up' and 'scream' animations take long enough that you can drop a stack of gunpowder by her hive, hammer the hive, immediately switch to a torch (and repeat the hammer/switch if you need) and light the stack of powder with the torch when the hive starts rumbling. You then have enough time to circle around to the other side of the hive/Queen who will be too busy screaming to run from the lit gunpowder. (Plus even if you take a bit longer, she should aggro you and immediately take a swing at you which will buy you another couple seconds.) This will probably save you a single Pan Pipe use.

The flames from a lit stack of gunpowder can wake up a Pan-Pipe'd Queen, who will then proceed to fly away from your pile. It's annoying to get the spacing right but you want to drop it just far enough to not wake her, but close enough that she's still hit by it.

Freezing her with an Ice Staff is not reliable because the Grumbles can stunlock you from lighting the gunpowder; I might employ a Pan + Freeze Combo in the future.

She CAN take more than 100 damage from Fire; I wouldn't recommend 112 Gunpowder as you may end up with ashes. She has in fact taken 300 damage from Fire at some point (may have been due to her igniting nearby things that damaged her) as during one attempt 111 gunpowder still fried her loot. I personally stick with 110 and bring a tentacle spike to finish the job.