Breeding is a great way to grow your swarm. Visit the Honeymoon Suite inside the Bee Lab to Breed your Bees.

What you need:

• A Queen Bee 
• A male Bee
• Honey (HXD) - to pay the Breeding fee 
• WAX - to pay the blockchain fee
• Mood Stabilizer if you don’t want your Queen’s mood to change
• Royal Jelly if you want the offspring to be a Queen

Queen Bee:

Genesis and Generations Queens

Genesis and Generations Queens contribute 25% of her stats to the offspring, so a higher stat Queen will typically result in a higher stat offspring. 

Ancient Queens

Ancient Queens have ancestral control over their breeds - 67% of their offspring's stats come from the Queen and 33% will be random.

REMINDER: The Queen's mood will change each time she Breeds unless a Mood Stabilizer is used during the process. The mood of male Bees does not change. 

Why would I want to stabilize my Queen's mood?

When you match your Queen's mood to the moods of the Bees you send on missions, it generates significant stat boosts. To take advantage of these boosts, most players try to build their Earth hive around the mood of their active Queen by buying and/or trading for Bees that match her mood. It's important to keep that mood the same by using a Mood Stabilizer when she Breeds. You can buy Mood Stabilizers in the Shop and/or create them by gathering Mood Stabilizer shards.

Male Bee:

The male Bee used during Breeding determines the offspring’s generation.

• A Genesis Bee will produce Gen 1 Bees
• A Gen 1 Bee will produce Gen 2 Bees
• A Gen 2 Bee will produce Gen 3 Bees
• A Gen 3 Bee will also produce Gen 3 Bees

The generation of male Bee also determines the range of stat multiplier he provides to the offspring.

• Genesis - 1.6 to 1.9 multiplier
• Gen 1 - 1.5 to 1.9
• Gen 2 - 1.4 to 1.9
• Gen 3 - 1.1 to 1.8

Breeding Fee:

The Breeding fee is automatically paid in Honey (HXD) using your in-game Honey balance.

The cost for Breeding working Bees is based on the number of times the male Bee has been bred before.

Breed Tickets

The Breeding cost can be reduced by 25% by applying an Epic Breed Ticket during the Breeding process. Win Breed Ticket shards by playing Game Mall games and/or participating in Raffles. Breed tickets are often included as Season Pass rewards.

WAX:

When Breeding a new Bee or creating an Egg from shards, you are creating an asset which can be sold or traded to other players. This requires that the new collectible is written to the blockchain and there is a fee associated with that action.

This fee is charged in the Solana currency (SOL). Honeyland pays this fee in the background and charges you the fee in WAX.  The actual amount of WAX needed fluctuates along with the changes in the market price of SOL.

The current amount of WAX required will be displayed during the Breeding process.

Royal Jelly:

Breeding will result in a male Bee unless you add Royal Jelly to the process. Royal Jelly can be acquired by collecting Royal Jelly shards and/or purchasing it from the shop. 

There are three different rarities of Royal Jelly: Epic (80 shards), Legendary (150 shards), and Mythic (300 shards). It's important to note that the rarity of the Royal Jelly used influences the resulting Queen Bee's statistics, with rarer Royal Jelly resulting in higher stats for the Queen Bee.

IMPORTANT: Although you can no longer create Common and Rare Royal Jelly, they were once available and players are still holding them in their inventories. Thus, you may see them in the Item Marketplace. It's important to note that applying a Common Royal Jelly will reduce the stats of your resulting Queen's by 7.5% while applying a Rare Royal Jelly will reduce the resulting Queen's stats by 3.8%

The highest stat a Queen can have is 280. Thus a "perfect stat" Queen would be one that has all stats at 280. A Queen with stats above 260 is typically considered a strong Queen.

You can see how the different rarities of Royal Jelly affect the stats of the resulting Queen in the table below.

Breeding Limits:

• Male Bees can breed unlimited times (cost increases with each breed)
• Genesis Queen Bees can breed unlimited times
• Gen 1 Queens can breed 18 times 
• Gen 2 Queens can breed 12 times
• Gen 3 Queens can breed 6 times

Breeding Cooldown:

There is a cool down for both Queens and male Bees during which they cannot be bred again. That cooldown increases based on the number of times the Bee has bred. 

Cooldown (in hours):

• Male Bees - 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80, 88, 96, 104 (all future breeds)
• Genesis Queen Bees - 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80, 88, 96, 104 (all future breeds)
• Gen 1 Queens - 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80, 88, 96, 104 (all future breeds)
• Gen 2 Queens - 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80, 88, 96, 104
• Gen 3 Queens - 24, 32, 40, 48, 56