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Last updated: JUNE 2025
Table of Contents
Amulets
Supreme Star Amulet:
- Critical Chance
- Instant Conversion
- Pollen
- Bee Ability Rate/Bee Gather pollen
- Red Pollen
- Scorching Star AND Star Saw
Stick Bug Amulet:
- Bee Attack+
- Red Bee Attack+
- Red pollen% > Pollen%
- Bee attack%
Ant Amulet:
- Bee Attack+/Pollen%/Player Movespeed+
- Critical Chance%
- Critical Power%
- Red Pollen%
Cog Amulet:
- Bee attack%
- Red Pollen%
- Event Bee Ability Pollen > Bee gather pollen >> Flame pollen
- Super Crit Power%
- Red Instant Conversion%
Moon Amulet:
- Bond from Treats
- Honey Per Pollen
Snail Amulet:
- Goo Conversion%
- Pollen%
King Beetle Amulet:
- Bee attack+ > Red bee attack+
- Strawberry pollen%
- Mushroom pollen%
Try to get the max stats on each amulet. HIGH CONVERT RATE IS ALSO NICE TO HAVE BUT OTHER STATS HIGHER IS FAVOURED.
You can use pollen on Ant amulet if you have good attack, avoid White pollen as it increases fill, PMS can also be used. BGP > BAR if you have a good Digital bee.
Hive Composition
- 11 Precise Bees
- 10 Spicy Bees
- 8 Vector Bees
- 5 Tadpoles + Buoyant bee
- 2 Carpenters + Music Bee
- Riley + Commander Bee
- Hasty + Brave + Rad Bee
- Basic Bee
- Tabby + Crimson + Digital + Bear + Photon + Festive Bee
*DO*
*NOT*
*COPY*
*1:1*
*ADJUST*
*TO*
*YOUR*
*CONDITIONS*
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**Note that the minimum requirements for Red Hive are level 20+ hive and good beequips, if you’re looking to switch saving around 1.5 qd is ideal**
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The reason why music is used instead of lion w/ horn is by using music you get a token link producer and another beequip slot free which can be used for a paper angel for token link + balance the BAP hive bonus given by horn. (Has been tested and music has had better results)
If you can not afford HM smileys drop a tadpole for a carpenter. Festive should be dropped for a vector if you have 3 active alts with festive whilst boosting.
Another Riley can be used instead Brave if you have sufficient attack for you precises (90 attack is the maximum, this includes all buffs)
Nectar priority:
Invigorating > Refreshing > Satisfying > Motivating > Comforting
The First Four are a must to have.
Mutations
- +5 Movespeed > Attack% on Precise bees.
- +5 Movespeed > BAR > Convert Amount % > Attack% on Spicy bees.
- +5 Movespeed > BAR for Vector bees.
- +5 Movespeed > BAR >> Energy on Tadpole and Buoyant bees.
- +5 Movespeed on All Common, Rare, Epic and Legendary bees.
- +5 Movespeed > BAR on Rest Event Bees.
- Gather amount % on Digital bee.
Beequips
- 2 Toy drums, on Riley and Brave;
for Haste (ability) and BAP (hive bonus). - 2 Smiley stickers, on Hasty and Tabby;
you really need Honey mark (ability) on them, and good Mark duration (base stat & hive bonus). - Paper angel, on Photon;
for Token link (ability), and BAP (hive bonus). - Toy horn, on Crimson;
for Melody (ability), and BAP (hive Bonus), getting good BAR (base Stat) is also helpful. - Kazoo, on Buoyant;
for Melody (ability), and CP and SCP (hive bonuses). - Whistle, on Commander;
for Haste (ability), and SCP (hive Bonus), you can also get Melody (extremely rare and costly) on them. - Pink shades, on Rad;
for SCP and SCC (hive bonuses) on them, you can also get Focus (ability) on them which is useful. - Rose headband, on Basic;
for Rose field pollen and Red field capacity (hive bonuses). - Poinsettia, on Tadpole;
for Red pollen (hive bonus). - Sweatband, on Digital;
for Red Gather Amount % (base stat) and Red pollen/Pollen% (hive bonuses).
If 15 beequip slots use another Poinsettia, Charm Bracelet (with melody ability) and Single Mitten (Red pollen hive bonus).
Boosting
Required Buffs
2 Fuzzy/Guiding Alts are a must, check the composition out Here.
Materials/Buffs needed for boost (40 min):
- Atleast Invigorating, Satisfying, Refreshing and Motivating should be 80%+.
- Sticker Stack.
- 2 Super Smoothies.
- 160+ Stingers.
- 1 Purple Potion.
- 10 Cloud Vails (both main and alt accounts).
- 30 Jelly Beans (main and 2 alt accounts, should set up an optimal sync to keep their respective buffs) (if you want to absolutely get maximum honey like in festive bean you should have a higher reserve and them firing from all 3 accounts with delay of 10s from each to have the maximum buffs).
- 80 Honey Suckles (Enabled).
- 1200 Gumdrops (both main and alt)(if used with a 4-5s interval from each other because thats ho much it lasts for per drop) (if going all out you need around 2400).
- 15 Micro-Converters.
- 100x Puffshroom Blessing.
- 9x+ Mondo Blessing.
- 10x Precision.
Should get all Beesmas Blessings of available, these include:
- 100x Robo Party Blessing.
- 250x Stick Nymph Blessing.
- 100% Snowflake Blessing.
How to Boost
Pre-Boost
- Disable Cub Buddy.
- Get Mondo Blessing.
- Run to Sticker Stack.
- Activate it.
- Refresh Precision.
- Run to Pepper.
- Refresh Precision.
- Get Scorch to 15.
- Donate to get Winds (do NOT pick up any other winds, only pick the one you are gonna be boosting in).
- Get to the Boosting field and move your Alts there.
Main-Boost
- Have Boosting macro and Alt’s macro active.
- Always keep Precision 10x, do not let it go below 20s (10s if you trust yourself and the bees).
- Always keep 3x Precise Marks, get 3 at the start of the scorch so they last the entire star.
- Align X-Flame and Scorch, Get Scorch to 20, get X-Flame to 15, Activate Scorch and X-Flame, wait a bit, use Dark Scythe on the flames and collect smiley and hit Precise Targets with the Dark Heat bonus.
- To align the abilities, Hit the targets fully or just the last one and keep an eye on the ability icons, practice and learn how to align them.
- Save Smiley Token till you get good Dark Heat.
- Grow scorch as much as possible, ~5,000 score is good but the more the better, DO NOT sacrifice good lined up Precise Targets with Dark Heat just to grow Scorch.
Rose Field is the best field to Boost in because Digital bee’s Corrupted Tokens have more area to spawn. On Strawberry or Pepper only 12 can spawn, but on Rose 15 of them can spawn.
Why do you need brave bee?
Why no vic bee?
Brave Bee provides good buffs to your hive, including extra Bee Attack and thus improving Star Saw conversion and the Beequips it can have make it really nice to run (eg. Toy Drum or Toy Horn).
You can run Vicious Bee for casual playing and doing RBC, but during boosting and for Red in general it’s pretty bad as it doesn’t give you anything beneficial.
hey why isnt there rage bee tho
Not worth running and commando is better
Hey acid,
I am a F2P player and would like to know a good replacement for Bear Bee!
Probably an extra spicy bee
There is none, if bear bee is a must for Red. You may use other other bees but none can do what bear bee does
you could also just trade for a bear bee egg, 3 signs isnt that much if you can afford most of these beequips lol (bb egg is similar value to festive wreath)
You should go trade for it
Question, is this guide for just honey making or also attack and other things like rbc? I wanna know because im tweaking it to get more attack bc im under the assumption this is just honey making.
this is just for honeymaking, i will see to upload an rbc hive/tweaks guide
because red had already good damage by presice, brave beacause its giveted hive bonus in +1 bee atack
Why don’t you need any fuzzy bees?
Having fuzzy bees in your hive while endgame will decrease your honeymaking substantially so a fuzzy alt or helper is NEEDED for red endgame. If you are not endgame yet or your alt isnt ready then you can add 1 fuzzy (only lvl x<19)
Hey!
Are Pink Shades okay for red hive or only white? I got them last beesmas and have been holding onto them as I only just went red.
Cheers
Hey Nathan! Pink Shades with a hive bonus of Super Crit power are really good and definitely could be run as white!
why the absence of windy bee tryna get preped for beesmas
Windy bee really has no benefits for red hives and has no reason to be run. It isn’t fantastic for RBC nor does Red lack token collecting (Precise Bees targets) you can replace a cheap bee for windy for quests or if you can’t be convinced
Gifted Baby Bees aren’t really needed due to Gifted Tadpoles giving Baby Love, so I would remove the Baby Bees and replace them with either a Gifted Tadpole or something else.
The frogs and bubbles they spawn only cause lag. Having frogs is pointless and the only point is to have Constant Baby love. Also the main reason is that it’s incredibly easy to get BAR on Baby Bees whereas it is expensive to get it on Tadpole Bees.
Okey dokie
I just wanted to say thanks for creating this guide, it has to be the most reasonable solution to all situations of boosting/attack. I hope i learn well of what you posted.
Thanks for your comment! If you need any help dont be shy to ask!
What if the person wants attack? Frogs can do hefty damage.
Bubble lights on vectors? Why not smiley stickers?
Bubble lights on vectors or precise bees. Smileys on Precise Bees. Remember these are only suggestions and you can run whatever you have.
Why no gifted fire bee for the 50% flame pollen?
Simply not worth a slot, flames is not a primary source of pollen in current red hives
what is the primary source of red pollen then?
precise bees
I am a level 17 full gifted red hive with 12 precise bees, 10 spicy bees, and 8 vector bees, however, I have to run a gifted fuzzy as I don’t have a fuzzy alt. Currently I am stuck in a conflict of whether or not I should run a hasty bee, as I currently use brave, rage, riley, 3 carp, 2 tad + 2 baby, shy, and a buoyant. I was thinking to remove riley since my buoyant already gives me a lot of extra capacity buffs, or potentially removing a baby/carp, or just not running a hasty bee in general. I would really appreciate getting your opinion on this acid.
Honestly you could boost without a hasty bee if you run some haste beequips. Also I dont recommend staying red for too long if you aren’t working towards a fuzzy alt.
What can I add/remove to help me with rbc (I am lvl 16 red hive no star saw) like how many precise bees and so on
Dont really recommend being red at such an early stage due to it takes a lot more skill than blue and is way more expensive in terms of stingers.Also at level 16 you may struggle with RBC, you could try going Robo hive but honestly I just recommend learning which upgrades are good and levelling up your bees ALSO GET SAW ASAP!
Why don’t you need rad or fire?
not worth a slot and flame pollen isn’t the source of honey for red
Wouldn’t Bubble Lights on Vectors not work because they need an energy mutation first?
just get energy mutation then lol
im currently a blue hive but is it recommended to switch to red after a while or should i just stay blue?
also could i replace a music bee with a cobalt bee with a toyhorn?
You could switch to a red hive once further developed, check out the other red guide made. I recommend lvl 19+
Personally i dont believe a cobalt bee is worth the slot. Music bee is kinda op
I need a 45 red hive
why pollen from bees on ssa? does bee ability pollen count as pollen from bees?
No but pollen from bees (now bee gather pollen) counts for smiley token collection
You can’t do Bubble lights on precise bees. Maybe you meant vectors?
is this up to date after the new update?
yes
why isn’t there a rage bee? It got buffed
Not worth running as the attack will not benefit precise gather and running a commander bee is more worth it for beequip compatibility
Whats a good bee to add in replacement of bear bee?? i might do fuzzy bee but lmk
update:
I got bear bee and gifted him quickly which is help me run my hive pretty well. as an early red lvl 12 i got 700b in a boost, which is decent for the fact i messed up the glitter and had to gamble smooth dice to get back to 3x pepper field. quick question tho, do you think camphor lip balm is good. one of the bonuses is 1.04x pepper field pollen which i think is lowkey fire
rbc hive?
why not include lion bee w/5% gifted pollen over riley bee? What is the benefit of riley for boosting w/red and star saw?
For the 20% Red field capacity (If you have alot of buffs on like double or triple bear morph while boosting your bag will explode and u wont be able to make tokens if u dont have enough capacity) and because it can run tdrum which red doesnt have many good options for (only riley and brave since you wont be using bucko or demo in red)
why the brave bee but no rage bee?
Shy bee gives 5% bee ability pollen, while lion gives 5% gifted bee pollen. If “bee pollen” includes both gather and ability pollen, it seems like lion is now better than shy.However both are still useless to run sadly. Onett needs to buff bap
why is brave ran over rage
Rage bee is better than a brave bee because 10% attack is better than 1attack.
Attack is not needed a lot right now as precise bee gather is maxed at 90 which is easily achieved and commander/brave have better beequip compatibility
Wouldnt you want thumb tack for 6% red bee attack?
Is Windy any useful in red hives now after the change to clouds?
No because haste is more important
On what bees do I put beequips that aren’t specified what bees they have to be on?
Put wherever you can fit
Surely you dont need festive bee anymore since the hive bonus gives convert rate at hive
Still useful – HM FESTIVE MRK FESTIVE GIFTS
Am i able to use this hive w/o dark scythe
not recommended work towards scythe ASAP
What would a good bear bee replacement be?
Next update you can trade for bear bee voucher so add a normal bee and stock up on signs to trade for a voucher
Hello! I have a question, I’m midgame and I’m planning on going blue, as it’s the cheapest,yet pours in the most, and then I want to switch to red as I want attack, and collect good pollen, and so my question is, should I make a new account and make that account a fuzzy alt?
Yes but I don’t recommend going red early
would it be okay to switch at level 18, I dont have digital yet and can nearly afford the dark scythe
Get dark scythe first
what is core beequips should we have with stats (have 12 slot only)
Red hive is so hard to grind when you are a f2p player tho.
I was wondering what bee equips on what bees do I run? Also, do i run rage cuz what do i put the 2 toy horns, Whistle, and Toy drum bee equips on?
it says whistle for commander and toy drum for riley, i think the other two are mainly for the hive bonus so it’s up to you overall
Cheers!
I chose to go early red, I got star saw (not a good amulet atm) and I’m about to get Dark Scythe in a few days. My hive is level 15-16 right now. I’m working on my alt account (its currently at porcelain gear) to turn it into a fuzzy alt later on.
Do I remove my gummy and fuzzy at this stage?
Fuzzy I will once my alt is ready.
But I’m unsure about gummy as 5% honey is quite a big deal at this point.
Hi acid, I haven’t played in beesmas so I don’t have digital bee and i’m f2p so I don’t have bear bee either, I have 10 spicy bees right now in my red hive, is it ok to replace those two for the two spicy bees? Also how much honey would it cost to get those mythics without it being gifted?
probably 100b
Why gifted tadpoles and not gifted babies?
blue boost activates scorch
I was wondering whether to get either 500 red drives first, then 500 white drives, or vice versa OR build them both up gradually ?
I am currently a level 16 blue hive, the problem is that I don’t macro. I think going red would benefit me alot considering I am building up to a fuzzy alt and to dark scythe. Could anyone tell me if it is worth it or not?
maybe get level 18 first
Where is Gummy Bee tho
Just like lion bee, simply not worth it 🙂
Couldn’t I drop a carp for a fuzzy instead of a vector, when using honeymark smiley.
def not go build up a fuzzy alt asap
But like do I need the extra vector, I feel like I could use a gifted lion or Riley instead
Why is there no Gifted lion bee? Is the 5% Gifted bee pollen not worth having?
5% gbp is virtually nothing
It’s for extra toy horn though
Hey I wanted to ask, Are pink shades good for red? Or should I not equip it
No lion bee 😮
why fire bee should not be used?
fire bee gives flame pollen, most of your honey comes from precise marks and not flames
can you add like the passive to the supreme star amulet and wich one to have on a singele passive?
scorch saw, scorch
if I have BAR instead of bee gather on my digital is that better or should I replace it?
If bar was better they would’ve said smth like bar>gather meaning you’d rather have gather
Hi!
Can you send a ss of a really good RBC hive that you/top lb players use(basically just a proven good RBC hive)? I saw the RBC hive in the metabee guide, but it was called a “not full RBC hive”, and I’m looking for a proper full RBC hive. Im currently a LVL 21 blue macro hive, and am planning to switch to rbc hive to get 500:500:500 drives on Digi. Hive doesnt need to be cheap, would greatly appreciate it, thanks!
dm a_cid, also you dont necessarily need rbc hive for maxed colours only for glitched drives and supreme ammy
Could u send it here please? I can’t use discord rn and for a while ðŸ˜. Just a link to a ss would be fine, also what stats on SSA? Would it be the same as the ones in this guide? Also I’m trying to get liek 100 glitched or smth as well as 500 of the other 3. Thanks!
also cant use yt I’m on vaca rny where I can’t use either of those and I’ll be back in a few days so if u could J’s send a ss
also need good blue supreme ammy so that’s also why I’m switching
Or if you could just list the bees and how many out, thad be fine too. Also are their any differences between this red hive guide and RBC hive?(Specifically amulets, beequips, etc?) Thanks!
No melody producers? 1 or even 2 toy horns wouldn’t be enough for constant melody
through beequips we get 3 melody producers which are the most we can do
Thank bro!
Hey, quick question. I noticed there aren’t any music bees so no melody? How many toy horns should I have then? Cuz I am NOT getting a melody charm bracelet or anything ðŸ˜. If I have 3+ toy horns it takes too much space in my beequips case. Would appreciate any feedback/tips/guidance.
kazoo / charm bracelet / toy horns
Hey, I don’t have digital bee and I want to know a good replacement, I kept a gifted fuzzy because I had it and didn’t need a gifted gummy. Is there a bee i can replace it with? because gifted fuzzy is not in this hive.
Hey Acid, what should I add for a extra toy drum since I’m using 2 toy horns already
you need to run 2 toy drums, the guide has been updated!
Have mutations been removed from this guide?
what order should i level my bees up
Is 12/8 or 11/9 better.
Also, why not drop a vector for a gummy.
not worth
should I use fuzzy if I have no fuzzy alt?
nah, beg people / pay em for fuzzy help
why 11 precise bees instead of 12?
because we have a limited amount of slots lol and this hive comp works best
Why are tadpoles better than baby bees? They’re just worse baby love producers, and you already get enough flower regrowth with a helper account and boost tokens from precise bees.
Hello, Tadpole bees make boost tokens which also make scorch activate faster since the new rework changes the socrch star needs any boost token not just red ones.
Can anyone tell me if this is a good beginner red hive build (just bees), I have 1 gifted basic, brave, hasty, looker, rad, stubborn, commander, fire, rage, baby, demon, music, shy, fuzzy, precise, spicy, tadpole, vector, bear, digital, photon, puppy, tabby, and vicious, 3 gifted carps, 4 normal demons, 7 rileys, 3 normal vectors, and 1 normal tad, buoyant, festive, crimson. (I just made this monstrosity of a red hive 2.5 hours ago as of typing this).
please do NOT go ealry red. go blue
It’s my only option as I don’t have discord and can’t macro due to that, and sense most of blue’s honey comes from macroing nothing I can really do.
you dont need discord, you can download natro from github
whats the macro called?
and link if possible
Can you please tell me what is the main farming of red hive? from fire? or from something else – I would like specifics on what to pay attention to when create a hive and proper gameplay on red hive?
precise bees make most of the pollen and digital bee. spicy bee buf precise by a LOT and marks from vectors too
A question, if I don’t have the Dark Scythe and I have the Fire Bee, should I remove it?
fire bee doesnt even help remove immediately
if you’re a budget hive use demon for higher flame chance when gathering, if you save enough honey replace demon with spicy.
Can I use the demon talisman? Is it worth it?
While it is good, it isn’t worth wasting a slot that could have spicy or precise, which give more pollen.
What order should i gift my hive in (mythics)
spicy > precise > vecs
At what level hive should I start going for a good double passive? Im running a 5/5 solo scorch right now but I feel like it will be too expensive to go for a good double passive
pls no early red but lvl 15 or 16
Is it ok to run a ninja instead of a hasty? I don’t need the Player Movespeed buff from hasty but i do need the 5th haste source (and 5% BMS would be nice).
can i drop 1 carpenter for precise bee??
No since you need the honeymarks, which mainly buff convert rate. Very important for red.
can i drop lion for precise bee?
i can drop?
can I get by with a single fuzzy alt when boosting, or are multple alts (for sprinklers) needed to maximize honey making as a red hive?
can I get by with a single fuzzy alt when boosting, or are multiple alts (for sprinklers) needed to maximize honey making as a red hive?