Bee Mine

Bee Mine
"Weaponized bees. What could go wrong?"
Crafting
Recipe	×1 ×4 ×1
Tab
Tier
Properties
Stacks up to	Does not stack
Code
"beemine"

“It buzzes when I shake it.”

–Wilson

“Bees inside. Should've put some fire in there for good measure.”

–Willow

“Is ball full of angry bees.”

–Wolfgang

“They're still alive in there. Poor things.”

–Wendy

“IMPROVISED STINGING DEVICE”

–WX-78

“A dangerous mine filled with Antophila.”

–Wickerbottom

“I don't know if the bees like this.”

–Woodie

“They wait so patiently.”

–Maxwell

“An absolute revelation agrarian warfare.”

–Wagstaff

“It söunds suspiciöus.”

–Wigfrid

“Would you bee mine?”

–Webber

“It's like a confetti bomb. But bees.”

–Walani

“Weaponized bees.”

–Warly

“Step 'n get stung.”

–Woodlegs

“'TIS EXPLOD'TH WITH BEES”

–Wilba

“Buzz Ka-bloey!”

–Wormwood

“If those bees were nicer to me, I might feel sorry for them.”

–Wheeler

“Sounds like the hum of an engine.”

–Winona

“This will be a funny prank.”

–Wortox

“Careful, florp!”

–Wurt

Dropped Bee Mine and armed Bee Mine.

A Bee Mine is a Fight Tab Item that releases Bees on a mob that steps on it. It requires 1 Board, 4 Bees, and 1 Flint to craft and a Science Machine to prototype.

To lay a Bee Mine, the player must place it on the ground with the right mouse button (the left mouse button will simply drop the mine). Once placed, the mine will arm in about a second with an animation showing bee stingers jutting out of the device's holes. If spawned via Console, the Bee Mine will be armed. If a player has mines in a Cave and dies, the mines will disarm themselves and must be set again.

When a creature comes near enough to the Bee Mine, it explodes, spawning four regular Bees who are aggressive to whatever triggered the mine. Bees from a triggered mine will not target the player, since they conform to regular Bee behavior. That being the case, they will fall asleep if released at night or in Caves once they aren't aggressive anymore.

Placed Bee Mines can be hammered, but smashing a Bee Mine with a Hammer serves no real purpose other than unleashing a swarm of angry bees on the player.

If the Bees from the Mine are attacked by their target, other Bees from either Bee Boxes or Bee Hives will come to help. Once the target is dead, the Bees will remain and can be caught with a Bug Net to make another mine. Catching them counts as aggression, and if there were others nearby assisting against the bomb target, those will attack the player, too. 

Bees, Killer Bees, Butterflies, Batilisks, Mosquitoes, and Shadow Creatures cannot activate Bee Mines.

Trivia

• The Bee Mine was added in the The Birds and the Bees & Dogs That Want to Kill You update.
• In the old research system, its research cost was 100.
• Sometimes two Bee Mines will spawn next to a Skeleton as a Set Piece. These can be safely picked up.

Bugs

• Multiple Bee Mines can cause render lag as they are constantly pulsating.
• Sometimes, the mine can trigger while in a Chest, a Backpack, or even the inventory without being placed.

Gallery

Bee Mine as seen in the poster for the The Birds and the Bees & Dogs That Want to Kill You update.

• DS
• RoG
• SW
• Ham
• DST