This fusion event gives you the chance to awaken Ancient Bees! There's an exciting time element, bonus prizes, and a chance to win SOL!

Tap the Ancient Event icon on the right side of your Hive to participate.

Event duration

• Start Date/Time: December 26, 7am PST (3pm UTC)
• End Condition: When no new mint occurs, and the timer hits 0
• See details about the timer below

Special conditions:

• Creating Gen 2 and Gen 3 Eggs is suspended during this event
• Gen 1 Eggs can be created during the event
• Gen 1, Gen 2, Gen 3 Eggs, non-Genesis Bees, and non-Genesis Queens that you already hold in your inventory can be converted into Essence using the Alchemy Lab
• You can purchase assets from the marketplace to convert into Essence

Rewards structure:

There are three different Ancient Bees, Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3. There's also a chance of receiving a normal Bee (Tier 4).

NOTE: Each Bee will come with additional rewards! (see below)

Tier 4 - (79% chance):

A Gen 1 Normal Bee with:

• Level Cap of 20
• Floor stat of 180
• Player chooses the Universe
• Player chooses the Mood
• Bee art will be random based on the Universe selected

Tier 3 - (12% chance):

A Gen1 Ancient Bee with:

• Level Cap of 20
• Floor stat of 200
• Player chooses the universe
• Player chooses the mood
• Unique Mythic Ancient Bee skin (shown below)

NOTE: You can add cosmetics to these Bees but doing so will remove the current cosmetic

Tier 2 - (6% chance):

A Gen1 Ancient Bee with:

• Level Cap of 20
• Floor stat of 200
• Player chooses the universe
• Player chooses the mood
• Unique Mythic Ancient Bee skin (shown below)

NOTE: You can add cosmetics to these Bees but doing so will remove the current cosmetic

Tier 1 - (3% chance):

A Gen1 Ancient Bee with:

• Level cap of 25
• Floor stat of 220
• Player chooses the universe
• Player chooses the mood
• Unique Mythic Ancient Bee skin (shown below)

NOTE: You can add cosmetics to these Bees but doing so will remove the current cosmetic

Additional rewards for each mint:

• Chance to win a randomly Crafted piece of Gear:
  • 30% of not receiving Gear
  • 60% chance of receiving a Common Gear
  • 9% chance of receiving Legendary Gear
  • 1% chance of receiving a Mythic Gear
• Guaranteed random upgrade item:
  • 90% chance it will be Common
  • 9% chance it will be Legendary
  • 1% chance it will be Divine*
• Chance to win a Sunburst item:
  • 30% of not receiving a Sunburst item
  • 60% chance of receiving Legendary Sunburst item
  • 10% chance of receiving Divine Sunburst item**

*  Divine Upgrades allow you to upgrade the chosen stat by 6%

** Divine Sunburst allows you to increase the Level Cap of a level 20-24 Bee by 1 - Level Cap cannot exceed 25

Guarantee

Your 25th, 50th, 75th, etc. awakening will be a Tier 1 Ancient Bee.

Meet your new Bees

To see your new Bees, visit the Bee Lab, scroll over to the Bee Lab Archives, and then use the drop down to select Ancient Event.

SOL Rewards

• When the timer hits 0 and no new Bee is minted, the last 3 minters will share a pool of SOL rewards -  The SOL amount depends on the total number of mints (see table below)

Bonus SOL - If the event reaches 10,000 mints:

• 1 SOL will be distributed to 5 random participants - 1 SOL each
• 5 SOL will be awarded to the Mint King - the participant with the most mints
• NOTE: If two or more players have the highest mint count, the player that reached that mint count first will be the Mint King

Mint Cost, SOL Rewards and Timer overview

• First 10,000 mints: 4 Essence, 5 WAX, and 50 HXD
• Mints 10,001–20,000: 5 Essence, 50 HXD, and an additional 1 WAX per 1,000 mints starting from mint 15,001
• Mints 20,001–31,000: 6 Essence, 50 HXD, and 1 additional WAX per 1,000 mints
• Mints 31,001–50,000: 7 Essence, 50 HXD, and 1 additional WAX per 1,000 mints

Examples:

• Minter 283: 4 Essence, 5 WAX, and 50 HXD
• Minter 7,482: 4 Essence, 5 WAX, and 50 HXD
• Minter 18,203: 5 Essence, 8 WAX, and 50 HXD
• Minter 20,194: 5 Essence, 10 WAX, and 50 HXD
• Minter 42,392: 7 Essence, 23 WAX, and 50 HXD