Empty bee hives

[Orso Moretti]

Hello to all!
I had a problem for a long time on the map Center, and now in the Lost Island. The bee hives are empty. There are no bees and queens in them.
And this happened before I killed all the wild dinos. There was not a single live hive at the Center. On the lost island there were two or three, and connected, where there were 3 queens at once. And that's all.
After killing the dino, nests appear, but now they are all empty.
Can i fix this somehow?
Thank you.

[MackMack]

Hello,

Could you elaborate a bit more?

i.e.
How did you wiped wild dinos?
What mode are you playing?
Any mods?
Have you validated your files?

**Make sure to add a detailed "how to reproduce". Otherwise you may end up with the non-helpful "works for me" answer at best or no answer at all (it does work fine on my end).

[**Asa**]

I think it is broke. I too have played The Center, Lost Island,Island and now Ragnarok. Same issue, no bees in the hive. I use S+ and just spawned in a domestic hive..sucks but I need that honey!

[MackMack]

Well, I was able to get my usual event colored bees...

Mostly playing on Rag

[Orso Moretti]

Originally posted by MackMack:

Hello,

Could you elaborate a bit more?

i.e.
How did you wiped wild dinos?
What mode are you playing?
Any mods?
Have you validated your files?

**Make sure to add a detailed "how to reproduce". Otherwise you may end up with the non-helpful "works for me" answer at best or no answer at all (it does work fine on my end).

I removed the wild dinos with the Cheat DestroyWildDinos command. But there were no bees at the Center until I first used the command.
I play single player
No modifications
I have not checked the files.

[**Asa**]

@MackMack
Are you using mods?

There are bees in the hive, just no queen.

[MackMack]

I avoid mods at all cost since WC dev team have a hard time keeping in sync with workshop devs.

[AIDSkillz]

Originally posted by **Asa**:

I think it is broke. I too have played The Center, Lost Island,Island and now Ragnarok. Same issue, no bees in the hive. I use S+ and just spawned in a domestic hive..sucks but I need that honey!

Put Rare Flower in it, it need it to make that sweet sweet honey.

[MackMack]

Originally posted by AIDSkillz:

Put Rare Flower in it, it need it to make that sweet sweet honey.

Actually flowers are only required to keep the hive healthy...

Still, the OP issue is having empty wild bee hives. Somewhere that you don't have/can't put flowers in it.

[zerassar]

Empty hives is a long term issue from the early days of the game.

On populated servers, or those that don't use dino wipe commands... It's not much of an issue.

What is occurring is the when bees spawn they construct a hive. When they despawn the hive remains.

There are instances where so many empty abandoned hives start to lag the game.

If you're in SP, I would research the console commands wiki page for the destroy command. Use it to wipe all hives on the map. This will affect both wild and tamed hives though... So if you have some hives already deconstruct them before hand.

Following the destruction all empty hives will disappear. All occupied hives I think releases the queen. If it doesn't it'll open up spawn slots for new ones to occupy. Following up with a dino wipe would help balance things.

Naturally if you're in SP stuff only spawns near the player. So go on a scenic journey in known bee spawns after doing this.

[skyguard]

This should clean the hives: "cheat DestroyAll BeeHive_C"

[MackMack]

zerassar is right - I totally forgot about that problem...

"cheat DestroyWildDinos" is probably killing the queen and leaving the hive there.

[Orso Moretti]

Originally posted by skyguard:

This should clean the hives: cheat DestroyAll BeeHive_C

after that need to kill the wild dino, or will the hives spawn on their own?

[**Asa**]

Originally posted by skyguard:

This should clean the hives: "cheat DestroyAll BeeHive_C"

THANK YOU !! This worked. All is back to normal !!

[zerassar]

Originally posted by Orso Moretti:

Originally posted by skyguard:

This should clean the hives: cheat DestroyAll BeeHive_C

after that need to kill the wild dino, or will the hives spawn on their own?

I just told you what to do after this ;-)

[Orso Moretti]

I used the command to destroy the hives. They disappeared, I flew for a very long time to places where they should be. Again they did not appear. I destroyed all the dinos again, checked the files. The check always reveals 2 damaged files, each time after entering the game. This time it needed a 45GB update and I had to uninstall and reinstall the game. I don't have that much extra disk space.
In the end, I found one live hive, but the game crashed. When I entered the game again, the hive was in its place, but empty, although I did not destroy it the last time ...