The Bumblezone (NeoForge/Forge)

Overview

The Bumblezone is a dimension mod that transports you inside what feels like a giant Bee Nest. The dimension is structured with massive honeycomb walls arranged in rows, separated by canals of Sugar Water. You will find Porous Honeycomb blocks, Filled Porous Honeycomb oozing with honey, Honeycomb Brood blocks incubating larvae, crystalline Honey Crystals growing on surfaces, and even pollen-covered regions and honey crystal canyons.

The dimension contains three biomes: Hive Wall (the main honeycomb terrain), Hive Pillar (towering columns of honeycomb), and Sugar Water Floor (the watery canals between the walls). Throughout these biomes you will encounter Bee Dungeons and Spider Infested Bee Dungeons as natural structures, along with Sugar Water waterfalls and Honeycomb Caves.

The mod introduces a unique aggression system. Bees in this dimension are extremely protective of their honey, and certain actions will trigger the Wrath of the Hive effect, turning every bee within 64 blocks into a buffed, enraged pursuer. However, you can earn their trust through feeding, gaining the Protection of the Hive effect instead. Browse the Recipes and Items tabs on this page for a complete list of everything the mod adds.

Blocks and Materials

Porous Honeycomb and Filled Porous Honeycomb

These two blocks make up the bulk of the dimension's terrain. Porous Honeycomb is the empty variant, while Filled Porous Honeycomb is saturated with honey and drips honey particles. Both have a hardness and blast resistance of 0.5, making them easy to mine. Filled Porous Honeycomb emits a redstone signal of 1 and slows entities walking on top of it by 15%. Using a Glass Bottle on a Filled Porous Honeycomb extracts honey (giving you a Honey Bottle) and converts it to regular Porous Honeycomb, but this triggers Wrath of the Hive.

Honeycomb Brood Block

Honeycomb Brood blocks contain developing bee larvae and have 4 growth stages (0-3). They emit a redstone signal equal to their stage + 1 and produce buzzing sounds and honey drip particles. When a Brood block reaches stage 3, it spawns a Bee, with a 10% chance to also spawn a Honey Slime. Growth happens naturally through random ticks (faster inside The Bumblezone at 1/10 chance, slower in the Overworld at 1/22 chance). You can accelerate growth by feeding the block with a Honey Bottle (guaranteed growth) or a Sugar Water Bottle (30% chance). Feeding a Brood block has a 30% chance to grant Protection of the Hive.

Taking honey from a Brood block with a Glass Bottle converts it to an Empty Honeycomb Brood block, spawns whatever mob was incubating, and triggers Wrath of the Hive. Breaking a stage 3 Brood block without Silk Touch also releases its mob and angers nearby bees.

Honey Crystal

Honey Crystals are directional blocks that attach to surfaces like coral. They have very low durability (0.3 hardness and blast resistance), emit a light level of 1, and can be waterlogged with Sugar Water. When broken, they drop Honey Crystal Shards instead of the block itself. You can use a Glass Bottle on a Honey Crystal to collect a Sugar Water Bottle, or use a Water Bucket on an unwaterlogged crystal to fill it with Sugar Water (returning an empty bucket that can then pick up the Sugar Water with a right-click).

Sticky Honey Residue

Sticky Honey Residue works similarly to Vines but can attach to all six faces of a block, including the bottom. It has a hardness of 6.0 (surprisingly tough for a sticky substance) and drastically slows any entity that touches it, reducing movement speed by 65% horizontally and 80% vertically. It also emits a redstone signal based on how many faces it covers. You can wash it away with any water-containing item: a Water Bucket, Water Bottle, Wet Sponge, or Sugar Water Bottle.

Sticky Honey Redstone

Combining Sticky Honey Residue with Redstone Dust in a crafting grid creates Sticky Honey Redstone, which functions as a redstone-transmitting version of the residue. This block is useful for building compact redstone contraptions within The Bumblezone.

Sugar Infused Stone and Cobblestone

These are sweetened variants of regular Stone and Cobblestone found naturally in the dimension. They can be smelted in a Furnace to recover normal Stone and Cobblestone respectively, making them a useful source of building materials while you are trapped in the dimension.

Beeswax Planks

Beeswax Planks are a wood-like building block unique to The Bumblezone. They can be used as a crafting material for Bee Nests: surround a single Honeycomb with 8 Beeswax Planks on a Crafting Table to create a Bee Nest. This is the only way to craft Bee Nests in vanilla-style Minecraft, making Beeswax Planks a valuable export from the dimension.

Sugar Water

Sugar Water is a custom fluid that forms the canals and waterfalls throughout The Bumblezone. It has a viscosity of 1500 (thicker than regular water at 1000), making movement through it noticeably slower. You can collect it with a bucket by crafting a Sugar Water Bucket from a Water Bucket and Sugar in a shapeless recipe. Sugar Water can also be collected as a Sugar Water Bottle by right-clicking a Honey Crystal with a Glass Bottle.

Drinking a Sugar Water Bottle restores 1 hunger and 0.05 saturation, and grants Haste for 30 seconds. While it is not a great food source, the Haste effect is valuable for mining through the dimension faster. Sugar Water Bottles can also be used to feed Honeycomb Brood blocks (30% growth chance) and bees (7% chance to calm angry bees, compared to Honey Bottles' 30% chance).

The Honey Slime

The Honey Slime is The Bumblezone's unique mob. It spawns naturally in the dimension and can also be spawned from stage 3 Honeycomb Brood blocks (10% chance alongside a Bee). Adult Honey Slimes have 4.0 max health (2 hearts), 2.0 movement speed, and 1.0 attack damage. When spawned naturally, they are set to size 2, which multiplies their base stats: at size 2, they have 16 HP and deal 2.0 damage.

Honey Slimes are classified as animals and can be bred with Sugar. They bounce around like regular Slimes, producing Honey Block particles when they land. Their most interesting mechanic involves honey production: over time, a Honey Slime that walks over Honey Blocks, Filled Porous Honeycomb, Honeycomb Brood, Sticky Honey Redstone, or Sticky Honey Residue will become "honey-coated." Walking over these blocks while not coated has a rare 0.1% chance per tick to reset their honey timer. When a Honey Slime is coated in honey, you can use a Glass Bottle on it to collect a Honey Bottle, which removes the honey coating and starts a long cooldown (14,400 ticks, or 12 minutes) before it can produce honey again.

Honey Slimes are passive by default but implement the IAngerable interface, meaning they can become hostile if provoked. They have an anger duration of 10-22 seconds when attacked.

Status Effects

Wrath of the Hive

Wrath of the Hive is a harmful effect that marks you as an enemy of the bees. It is triggered by mining Honey Blocks, extracting honey from Filled Porous Honeycomb or Honeycomb Brood blocks, drinking Honey Bottles, or attacking Bees while inside The Bumblezone (or anywhere if the config option is enabled). The effect lasts 350 ticks (17.5 seconds) by default.

At maximum aggression (amplifier 2, applied to players), bees within the aggression radius gain Speed, Absorption, and Strength at their full configured levels and can see through walls. At medium aggression (amplifier 1, applied to naturally hated mobs), bees get half-strength versions of these buffs and must have line of sight. By default, Wrath of the Hive only activates inside The Bumblezone. When you leave the dimension, the effect is removed and all bees are calmed.

Protection of the Hive

Protection of the Hive is a beneficial effect earned by feeding bees or Honeycomb Brood blocks. While active, any entity that damages you receives Wrath of the Hive, causing all nearby bees to attack your attacker instead. The effect duration is 350 ticks by default (configurable), and gaining Protection while you already have Wrath removes Wrath and calms all nearby bees. This effect is your key to surviving in The Bumblezone long-term.

Dungeons and Structures

Bee Dungeons

Bee Dungeons are naturally generating structures found throughout The Bumblezone. Their rarity is controlled by config (default: 1, with 1001 disabling them entirely). These structures contain honeycomb variants and are where you will find valuable loot. If you have Productive Bees installed, ore-based honeycomb variants can spawn within Bee Dungeons at a configurable rate (default 30% of blocks).

Spider Infested Bee Dungeons

A more dangerous variant of the Bee Dungeon that includes Spider and Cave Spider Spawners. These are rarer than normal Bee Dungeons (default rarity: 8) and have a configurable spawner density (default 20% of possible spawner locations). They offer better ore honeycomb rates when paired with Productive Bees (10% base rate vs. normal dungeons' 30%), but the Spider threat makes them significantly more dangerous to clear.

Teleportation System

The Bumblezone has a detailed teleportation system with three configurable modes. Mode 1 (default) converts your Bumblezone coordinates to the destination dimension's scale and looks for a nearby Bee Nest or Beehive to place you at; if none is found, it can optionally generate a new Bee Nest. Mode 2 always returns you to the exact spot where you originally threw the Ender Pearl to enter. Mode 3 tries Mode 1 first, and falls back to Mode 2 if no beehive is found nearby.

You can optionally require a specific block to be placed under the Beehive for teleportation to work, configured via the requiredBlockUnderHive setting. For example, setting this to "minecraft:emerald_block" means you must place an Emerald Block under a Bee Nest before the Ender Pearl teleportation activates. The seaLevelOrHigherExitTeleporting option (enabled by default) ensures you always exit above sea level, preventing dangerous underground teleportation in Modes 1 and 3.

Smelting Recipes

Several items and blocks from The Bumblezone can be smelted in a Furnace. Sugar Infused Stone smelts into regular Stone, and Sugar Infused Cobblestone smelts into Cobblestone. Honey-based items smelt into Sticky Honey Residue at varying rates: a Honey Block yields 6, a Honey Crystal block yields 4, a Honey Crystal Shield yields 5, and individual Honey Crystal Shards yield 1. This makes smelting a useful way to produce Sticky Honey Residue for crafting Sticky Honey Redstone.

Mod Compatibility

The Bumblezone includes built-in compatibility with several mods. With Productive Bees installed, Productive Bees mobs can spawn alongside regular bees at a 1/15 chance, and ore-based honeycomb variants from Productive Bees will generate naturally throughout the dimension and in dungeons. The Potion of Bees mod allows its potions and splash potions to revive Empty Honeycomb Brood blocks back into active Brood blocks, which also works with Dispensers. All mod compatibility features can be individually toggled in the config files.

Configuration

The Bumblezone is highly configurable through five separate config files located in the config folder. The bee aggression config controls whether Wrath of the Hive works outside the dimension, the aggression trigger radius (default 64 blocks), the duration of both Wrath and Protection effects (default 350 ticks each), and the individual buff levels for angry bees: Speed (default 1), Absorption (default 1), and Strength (default 3).

The dimension config controls fog brightness (0-100000%, default 100%), teleportation mode (1-3), whether to force exits to the Overworld, required blocks under beehives, and whether modded beehives work for teleportation. The dungeon config lets you adjust Bee Dungeon rarity, Spider Infested Bee Dungeon rarity, and spawner density. Setting any dungeon rarity to 1001 disables that structure entirely.

Additionally, The Bumblezone includes an anti-trypophobia resource pack that can be activated from the resource pack screen for players who find the default honeycomb textures uncomfortable. Simply move the pack to the top of the active list to enable it.