Welcome to the Ultimate Blue Hive Meta Guide. This article is written by Acid. We will be talking about basic hive composition, beequips, amulets, and other things. So let’s get started. LAST UPDATED: BEESMAS 2024

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Getting Started

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After the Retro Meta Changes Blue Hive meta changed slightly.

This meta change has caused the bombs to no longer be the main source of pollen for blue. Bubbles are now the main source that fills up balloons. The ratio of Honey-made/Balloon-size has increased significantly, if you think your balloons are not as large as usual, don’t worry as the honey at hive multipliers have increased and the amount in field / rate of pop star has increased

Keep in mind that this is a BASE HIVE, everyone can change to their liking and game progression.

Hive Composition

  • 1 Tabby Bee
  • 1 Festive Bee
  • 1 Bear Bee
  • 1 Gummy bee
  • 1 Windy Bee
  • 11 Tadpole Bees
  • 16 Buoyant Bees
  • 1 Fuzzy Bee
  • 4 Music Bees
  • 1 Diamond Bee
  • 1 Ninja Bee
  • 1 Shocked Bee
  • 1 Commander Bee
  • 1 Frosty Bee
  • 1 Bubble Bee
  • 1 Bucko bee
  • 1 Bomber Bee
  • 1 Stubborn Bee
  • 1 Cool Bee
  • 1 Bumble Bee
  • 1 Looker Bee
  • 1 Basic Bee

This is the BASE hive, which means it changes for different players.

Recommended to drop bomber / fuzzy pretty much instantly

Can drop frosty

IF YOU HAVE FOCUS ABILITY ON YOUR PINK SHADES YOU CAN RUN 3 MUSIC BEES INSTEAD

IF YOU HAVE NO DIGITAL DRIVES YOU SHOULD NOT RUN DIGITAL BEE

THIS IS AN ENDGAME HIVE THAT YOU OPTIMIZE FOR YOURSELF

Do this slowly while testing what works best for you. 

Buoyant:Tad Ratio

Begin with 18:11, if you are lvl 20/21 you will see that you will fill way too easily you could drop a tad for a buoyant.

If you macro with alts you can always drop a few tads for buoyants however dont drop too many as you still need them to initiate pop star

run puppy before l18

BAR on Tadpoles

BAR on Bear/Windy

X mutation for X beequip

Beequips

Be sure to check out our guide on Waxing the Beequips.

https://meta-bee.com/beequips-waxing-mutations/

Beequips are extremely powerful with their great hive bonuses and bee buffs. Blue hives could run many different beequip mixes , these are some example good blue beequips:

  • Camphot lip balm OPPPPPPP
  • Candy Ring OP
  • Snow Tiara
  • Paper Angel
  • Beesmas Tree Hats
  • Toy Drum
  • Reindeer antlers NOT recommended
  • Toy horn
  • Pinecones
  • Beesmas Tops
  • Elf Caps
  • Charm Bracelet
  • Kazoo
  • Beret
  • Peppermint Antennas ON BEAR BEE
  • Toy Horn
  • Paperclips
  • WHISTLE FOR MELODY

Some people run Coal but itā€™s quite hard to find a good one and not many have it. Running a Sweatband depends on how good the stats are and how developed your digital bee is. Peppermint Antennas can be run depending on how good the stats are. The Toy Horn is to be run if constant Melody isnā€™t achieved.

Example Beequip Placements:

Whistle

Commander bee

Pinecones:

Stubborn

Bumble

Beesmas Tops:

Looker Bee

Cool Bee

Basic Bee

Elf Caps: (mixed with Convert Mutations)

Tabby

Diamond

Buoyant

Beesmas tree hats:

buoyant bees

Amulets

Here is a list of some key stats on amulets that you need for the current Blue Meta:

Ant Amulet:

Blue pollen % (Max 30%)

Pollen % (Max 5%)

Convert Rate % (Max 110%)

Critical Chance % (Max 3%)

Critical Power % (Max 50%) 

Any off-color pollen stat % (Max 30%) 

Snail Amulet:

Convert amount (+21 ā€“ +25)

Goo (+11% ā€“ 15%)

Pollen (+4% ā€“ +5%)

Stump Field (+56% ā€“ +65%) 

Stick bug Amulet:

Capacity (+200,000 ā€“  +300,000)

Convert Rate (x1.20 ā€“ x1.25)

Blue Pollen (+25% ā€“ +30%)

Blue Bomb Pollen (+25% ā€“ +30%) 

Moon Amulet:

Honey per pollen (+2% ā€“ +8%)

Bond from treats (+3% ā€“ +10%)

King Beetle Amulet:

Convert rate (+1% ā€“ +100%)

BAMBOOOOOO

Bee attack (+1)

Supreme Star Amulet

  • Capacity (x2.5)
  • Blue pollen (+15% ā€“ +70%)
  • Convert Rate (x1.05 ā€“ x1.25)
  • Bee Ability Rate (+1% ā€“ +7%)
  • Critical Chance ( +1% ā€“ +7%)
  • Pollen (+5% ā€“ +20%)

Supreme Cog Amulet very important

  • +200,000 to +250,000 Capacity (increments of 5000)
  • +25% to +30% Blue Pollen
  • +15% to +20% Bubble Pollen
  • +5% to +10% Ability Token Lifespan

Supreme Star Amulet should be Pop ShowerPop Guiding, or a good Solo Pop

Pop Shower > Pop Guiding > Solo Pop ; Assuming all are 5/5 and similar stat ranges

5/5 Solo Pop >= 4/5 Pop Shower/Guiding

Pop Shower

Blue relies on Pop Star to fill balloons and the capacity buff from Star Shower will be needed if you are over-filling with your current solo Pop Star. Also, the chance to catch a star from Star Shower makes it easy to get inspire stacks which are overpowered 

Pop Guiding

Guiding Star also grants a permanent 1.25x capacity multiplier as well as a 2.5x pollen and capacity bonus for summoning a star

Solo Pop

You can settle with a 5/5 solo pop and be fine. You donā€™t need a 5/5 double passive for blue unless you overfill.

Nectar

Nectar Priority

  1. Motivating (BP, CR, BAR)
  2. Comforting (BP, CRH, CCR)
  3. Satisfying (HH, RCR, WP)
  4. Refreshing (BCR, RP, BAR)
  5. Invigorating (RP, CR, BA)

Depending on how good your planters are, you can set priority to 70%-80%.

Boosting

RBC BOOST GUIDE COMING SOON

Most people will do RBC boosts over actual boosts for balloon blessing then macro honey

End of the Article

Contact Acid for any questions regarding this article or general BSS advice for blue hives.

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37 Comments

    1. As I said you can optimise this hive to what you see on your graphs. Also it is very easy to find macro servers for blue online.

  1. What about a shy bee? its practically 5% free pollen, also holds a paper angel so maybe run it over bomber especialy since bombs got nerfed bc cactus badge changes

    1. The cactus field change did not nerf blue bombs. bombs at max bomb combo already destroy entire patches, higher than that doesnt make a difference

  2. Right now ive got 48 bees and a level 14 hive. should i think about going towards a certain hive colour yet or nah?

    1. The older guide will not be in use anymore as it is not needed, instead if you are switching to blue hive after SSA, use bubble bees till you can replace them for tadpoles and make sure you build all the other rarity bees needed first

  3. why bumble bee when you can have a extra gifted buyonant for the 1.2x capacity bonus? and buyonant bees have blue bombs too

    1. Blue simply just doesnt need it, only 1 of the tokens is useful (blue bomb+), its hive bonus doesnt benefit honeymaking at all. You are much better off using a buoyant/tadpole bee in its place.

  4. Is running g cobalt for 15% insta convt not worth it compared to another g tadpole or buoyant? Cause why dosent it use cobalt

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