Queen Bee

Queen Bee is a pre-Hardmode boss. She is summoned by breaking the Larva inside Bee Hives of the Underground Jungle, or by using an Abeemination anywhere within the Jungle. She is immune to the Confused debuff, and can inflict the Poisoned debuff.

Its Bestiary entry states: "This highly aggressive monstrosity responds violently when her larva is disturbed; the honey-laden hives are her home turf."

Attacks
Queen Bee has three distinct attack patterns:


 * She will level herself horizontally with the player and fly back and forth three times in an attempt to ram the player.
 * She will spawn Bees while hovering (which will include larger ones in Expert mode), which attack the player.
 * Similar to Hornets, the Queen Bee will rapidly fire poisonous stingers at the player. During this pattern, she will alternate between hovering above the player, and positioning herself to swoop in at the player from above.

In, the speed of these attacks increases as the Queen Bee takes damage.

Tips

 * The Honey naturally found in Bee Hives can be used to craft Bottled Honey or provide passive health regeneration mid-fight. However, standing in Honey will slow down the player.
 * The Bees do little damage, but can easily become an annoyance as they can push the player around. If the player does not have a Cobalt Shield or Obsidian Shield to avoid knockback, any grappling hook can be used to anchor the player to blocks.
 * On desktop, in Classic difficulty, a spinning Flail is sufficient to kill any incoming Bees before they can reach the player.
 * On desktop, Bees will target other enemies if they are closer than the player and can thus be distracted with statue spawned mobs or other trapped monsters.
 * In Expert and Master mode, Bees are much tougher and can easily kill the player if ignored.
 * The Queen Bee can be a viable source of money, dropping upon death and being comparably simple to summon.
 * On desktop, Queen Bee is part of the same enemy group as the Bees spawned from Beehives and mining Hive blocks, and will damage and take damage from most other enemies.
 * Queen bee will only actively target players, however.

Trivia

 * The Queen Bee has the largest number of drops of any pre-Hardmode boss in the game at 18. Furthermore, she has the second-most drops of any boss, surpassed only by Plantera (a boss that is also spawned in the Underground Jungle), who has 19.
 * Strangely, although being able to inflict the Poisoned debuff, Queen Bee is not immune to it herself.
 * Although rare, it is possible to obtain the from the Queen Bee if she is defeated after one of the Mechanical Bosses has been killed.
 * The 1.2 concept art of the Queen Bee looked vastly different than the actual sprite that was implemented, and more resembled a Hornet compared to the final sprite.
 * The Queen Bee is the only boss that cannot be fought an infinite number of times per world, due to her summons being non-renewable. There is a limited number of both larvae to directly summon the boss and Hive blocks to craft the Abeemination.
 * Queen Bee's dash is quick enough that if the player is to dash with the Shield of Cthulhu in the same direction as her when she is near she will make contact with the player near the end of their dash and they will bounce through Queen Bee without taking damage.
 * The Queen Bee is the only boss, and by default the only enemy, in the game that can drop 2 pet summoning items, namely the Nectar and Sparkling Honey. However, the latter is only obtainable in Master Mode.

History
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