How do you use the queen bee?

[CrazyJoe]

and just what is it that the queen bee does?

[Adun]

Queen bees can be placed on leaves in order to spawn wax. I usually just plunk them on a handy tree, others have built artificial trees with a few blocks of wood an a few blocks of leaves. I think it's also important not to place queen bees too close to each other. It will take a few ingame days to spawn wax.

[J's]

You can put queenbees on a single (or more) block of leaves anywhere, but beware too hot or too cold conditions (the queenbee will show "fallow" in red).

Once enough time has elapsed, it will spawn a cross shaped beeswax with a single extra block up top in the middle for a total of 6 blocks. Each blocks will then yield 1-2 beeswax once harvested and have a chance for more queenbees. Cross shown below (a picture is worth a thousand words) : O = air, W = Beeswax, middle is underlined

OBO
BBB
OBO

Knowing the form of this cross, you can place queenbees at very short distances from one another in diagonal without loosing any spawn. Further example below :

OBOO   or   OBOOO
BBBO        BBBBO
OBBO        OBBBB
OBBB        OOOBO
OOBO

[CrazyJoe]

Thanks that helps alot.

[Tactical_Zombeh]

You can also treat queen bee blocks the same way you do when using a block phaser with seeds. For the full wax harvest only put three queens in the phaser's 'beam' because of the cross design the wax spawns in. Something like this (side view):

PwQwwQwwQw
L...L......L.....L

The 'L' is a log or leaves block the Queen has to be sitting on. The 'w' is the wax spawn along the phaser's beam.

You can find tutorials on YouTube for using the phasers with farming.

I'm pretty sure I got that right. I just jumped back into Creativers a few days ago so I'm still learning and experimenting. I was pretty happy with the Queen working the same as seeds.