Queen Bee

Queen Bee

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 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Statistics

Type	Boss
Environment	Bee Hive Jungle Underground Jungle
AI Type	Queen Bee AI
Damage	30/54/81 (melee) 224466 (stinger)
Max Life	3400/4760/6069
Defense	88-28 (depending on health)[1]
KB Resist	100%
Immune to

Inflicts debuff

Inflicts debuff

Inflicts debuff

Debuff	Poisoned
Debuff tooltip	Slowly losing life
Chance	33.33%100%

Drops

Coins	51250

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Only one of the following 3 items can drop at a time
• Bee Gun
  33%
• Bee Keeper
  33%
• The Bee's Knees
  33%
• Only one of the following 4 items can drop at a time
• Hive Wand
  33%
• Bee Hat
  11%
• Bee Shirt
  11%
• Bee Pants
  11%
• Honey Comb
  33%
• Nectar
  6.7%
• Honeyed Goggles
  5%
• Beenade (10-30)
  75%
• Bee Wax (16-26)
  100%
• Bottled Honey (5-15)
  100%
• Queen Bee Mask
  14.29%
• Queen Bee Trophy
  10%
• Treasure Bag(Queen Bee)
  100%
• Hive Pack
  100%
• Queen Bee Mask
  14.29%
• One of the following three items will be dropped
• Bee Gun
  33%
• Bee Keeper
  33%
• The Bee's Knees
  33%
• Honey Comb
  33%
• Nectar
  11%
• Honeyed Goggles
  11%
• Hive Wand
  100%
• One of the following three items will be dropped
• Bee Hat
  33%
• Bee Shirt
  33%
• Bee Pants
  33%
• Beenade (10–29)
  100%
• Bee Wax (17–29)
  100%
• Gold Coin (10)
  100%
• Sparkling Honey
  25%
• Queen Bee Relic
  100%

Sounds

Hurt
Killed	File:NPC Killed 66.wav
Charge

• Internal NPC ID: 222

 "The matriarch of the jungle hives..." 

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 can inflict the Poisoned debuff.

While Queen Bee is alive, the music Boss 5 will play. When Otherworldly music is enabled, the track Boss 1 (Otherworldly) will play instead.

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. During this time the variables for how many bees she summons could be 6, 12 or 18.
• Similar to Hornets, 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 Expert Mode, the speed of these attacks increases as Queen Bee takes damage.

When fought outside of the Underground Jungle, Queen Bee enrages, causing her movements to be more aggressive and firing stingers at a much faster rate.

Notes

• In Expert Mode, Queen Bee's charges increase both in speed and number.
  • At low HP, Queen Bee can do up to six charges in a row before changing her attack.
• The Larva can be broken by any damaging weapon, similar to a Pot, so many actions such as the Orichalcum armor's set bonus or a Star Cloak can break the Larva, causing Queen Bee to be unintentionally spawned.
  • This is especially common if there are remaining larva within the Jungle late into the game, when it is possible to hit things anywhere on the screen, even behind solid blocks. It is also possible early in the game if using a whip, which can break things behind solid blocks.
• Once Queen Bee is defeated, the Witch Doctor NPC will spawn if there is a vacant house.
• Bees do NOT drop Souls of Light, Souls of Night, Biome Keys, or Biome Key Molds.
• In Multiplayer, Queen Bee appears not to despawn upon the death of players, and will follow them all the way back to the spawn.
• Occasionally, a Bee Hive will be large enough to possess 2 Larvae. If a player is using a bouncing weapon such as the Water Bolt, they need to be wary of the second Larva, lest they be targeted by the newly summoned, second Queen Bee.
• The amount of bees Queen Bee can summon is not infinite, 173 bees is the max amount of bees that can be active at once.
• As of 1.4.0.5, Queen Bee doesn't despawn when she's far away from the player.

Achievement

Sting Operation • “Defeat the Queen Bee, the matriarch of the jungle hives.”

Defeat the Queen Bee for the first time.

Category: Slayer

Tips

For more elaborate strategies on defeating Queen Bee, including weapon and arena recommendations, see Guide:Queen Bee strategies.

• 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.
• Queen Bee can be a viable source of money, dropping 5 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.
• Queen Bee should be farmed by summoner class players to craft a set of Bee armor, which is the only pre-Hardmode summoner armor set.
  • On desktop it's not necessary, as the Obsidian armor has been made into a summoner armor set.

Trivia

Early concept art

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

• Queen Bee has the largest number of drops of any pre-Hardmode boss in the game at 15. 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 16.
• 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 Yelets from Queen Bee if she is defeated after one of the Mechanical Bosses has been killed.
• The 1.2 concept art of Queen Bee looked vastly different than the actual sprite that was implemented, and more resembled a Hornet compared to the final sprite.
• 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.
  • This does not apply in Journey Mode, as Hive Blocks can be infinitely duplicated once 100 of them are mined and researched, and on average a Beehive can provide more than enough to meet this requirement.
• Queen Bee is one of the 6 bosses with exclusive music, the others being Queen Slime, Empress of Light, Moon Lord, Plantera, and Duke Fishron. However, the  Old-gen console version / Nintendo 3DS version- exclusive boss Ocram reuses her music. On older updates of the  Mobile version, as well as on the old-gen console version, the Eye of Cthulhu also reuses her music.
• Her design may be based on an Asian giant hornet.

History

 PC version

• Desktop 1.4.1.2:
  • Now immune to the Poisoned debuff.

• Desktop 1.4.0.1:
  • Sprites updated.
  • Now enrages when out of the Underground Jungle.
  • Added Master Mode-exclusive drops Sparkling Honey and Queen Bee Relic.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Now has a chance of dropping The Bee's Knees.

• Desktop 1.2.4: New drops added.

• Desktop 1.2.3: Fixed exploit where Queen Bee could get stuck in tiles and not move.

• Desktop 1.2: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.02: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.2.6508: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.