Biggest... bees...ever.

[Gunther Ultrabolt Novacrunch]

5 queen bees weigh 1 pound. Could you imagine how big they would have to be to weigh that much in real life?

[Lonewolf]

I think it's a queen bee with her hive. If you look, a raspberry weighs 0.1, or (if the unit is actually in kilograms) 100 grams. It's not going to be just one berry, it's just shown with one berry for simplicity.

[Gunther Ultrabolt Novacrunch]

Originally posted by Lonewolf:

I think it's a queen bee with her hive. If you look, a raspberry weighs 0.1, or (if the unit is actually in kilograms) 100 grams. It's not going to be just one berry, it's just shown with one berry for simplicity.

Don't muddy the waters with facts and such.

[Qbertos]

Originally posted by Gunther Ultrabolt Novacrunch:

Originally posted by Lonewolf:

I think it's a queen bee with her hive. If you look, a raspberry weighs 0.1, or (if the unit is actually in kilograms) 100 grams. It's not going to be just one berry, it's just shown with one berry for simplicity.

Don't muddy the waters with facts and such.

Bees like muddy waters. Also...

Megachile pluto, also known as Wallace's giant bee is a black resin bee with well-developed, large jaws. The females may reach a length of 38 mm (1.5 in), with a wingspan of 63.5 mm (2.5 in).

2.5 inch bees! Check stamina, time to run.

[magilla666]

Originally posted by Complaintdesk:

They are no doubt related to Wallace's Giant Bees, which have a wingspan of 2.5 inches and are as large as your thumb. https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/wallaces-giant-bee-1.4673474

Ha. Those are pikers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meganeura

[Cooperal]

Originally posted by Mharr:

That might work as head canon if the recipe wasn't one ore per ingot. Not that I want to give IG any ideas about 'improving' that ratio!

Yeah this was pretty much what I was getting at. I already had the headcanon ready though. Vikings are ridiculously good at the specific task of extracting copper. So good that they can get more copper out of the ore than what was actually in the ore.
But the main reason they are so practiced in this art is because it is because they are simpletons who prefer to stick to extremely simple things. They find bronze-making is not fun and are too stubborn and drunk to improve, and that is why they keep screwing up, losing about two thirds of their yield every time with no exceptions.

The same works when you think about the upgrade cost of most gear, like where does all that iron vanish to if my upgraded iron gear is no heavier than before? Is the upgrade just a placebo?

The bees are just really fat bees.

[Not Known]

I work with some queen bees, and them beeches are phat.

[Trip]

I imagine they have some protective swaddling around them for transportation that adds to their weight.

[>< V ><]

You see, the universe conspires to keep mass from moving at the speed of light. So when you continually put energy into a system, but the system cannot move at the speed of light, then that energy has to go somewhere when it can't go into the motion. So it goes into increasing the rest mass of the system. It's not that the system gets bigger, but it gets heavier.

So when the bees fly around near the speed of light, its not that they look bigger, but they will weigh heavier. The bees will actually look smaller from length contraction and appear to live ungodly long as they experience time dilation.

So not only does traveling near the speed of light explain their weight, but it also explains how they seem to live so long in my pocket.

Kudos to you devs for going beyond Newtonian mechanics in a video game!

[Polonius Ulf]

Originally posted by Polonius Ulf:

Originally posted by Mharr:

That might work as head canon if the recipe wasn't one ore per ingot. Not that I want to give IG any ideas about 'improving' that ratio!

You are right. If the ratio is one unit of ore to one unit of copper, then the fact that the copper weighs more means smelting on site is worse than useless. And it was so much fun.

Where did you obtain this information? Maybe I can impeach the source. :)

Nope. Mhar is right, as verified by experiment. One unit of copper smelts to one ingot, but the latter is about 10% heavier. So much for smelting at the mine.

[Gunther Ultrabolt Novacrunch]

"So much for smelting at the mine."

I find and locate as many copper deposits and/or sunken crypts as I can. Then I build my base in the necter of it all.

[`MoNK]

Originally posted by Gunther Ultrabolt Novacrunch:

I wonder how much the death skeeters weight. I'll have to check the weight of the needles.

dont forget to add the weight of the trophy