
Origins: Hivenest
Origin addon that adds the Hivenest, a living nest with a symbiotic relationship with bees. Free Minecraft Java mod for 1.20.2.
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This addon adds an origin, power/action/condition types and various changes to bees.
🐝 Bee changes 🐝
- Bees now render equipped helmets.
- Bees now render their mainhand item in their stinger.
- Beehives now store the bee's armor, held items, and drop chances.
- Bees don't lose their stingers when holding an item in their mainhand.
🍯 Hivenest 🍯
A beehive that grew legs. It cooperates with bees to maintain itself and protects them.
✨Powerlist✨
Bee NestYou can pick up and store up to 6 bees. You start with two. Picking up bees restores their health at the cost of honey if below half health.
Right click a bee to store it, press Primary to release the last bee that was stored.
DetailsMainhand needs to be empty to pick up a bee.
Two bees will be given on origin chosen, but not on respawn.
If sneaking when a bee is released, it won't be teleported to you when doing Swarm Recall.
If a bee can't enter the storage, it will instead get added to the Recall set. If it was already in the Recall set, it will stop being in the set.
It costs 60 honey to restore a bee's health.
Picking up bees with nectar will store it inside you. Overtime, nectar will be transformed into honey.
DetailsEach bee gives 30 nectar when stored, which is then transformed over time to honey at a 1 to 1 ratio.
You can store up to 1200 of nectar and 1200 of honey.
Eating honey foods will increase you honey meter directly by 150.
Food doesn't give any nutrients. You passively eat the honey you produce.
DetailsYou can still eat the food, but it won't fill any hunger or saturation.
Every second, 10 honey will be spent to give 1 food and 0.2 saturation.
Bees won't get angry at you and will protect you.
DetailsWhen hit by a mob or when hitting a mob with a melee attack, all nearby bees will retaliate against said mob.
Bees and other Hivenests are unnafected.
You can equip bees with weapons and armor. A bee with a weapon won't lose their stinger when attacking. Use shears to take your equipment back.
Slippery HoldYou deal really low damage with any melee weapon.
DetailsMelee damage is decreased by 80%.
Swarm RecallCall your bees towards your location. Recalling while sneaking will also store the bees, as many as you can fit. Bees released while sneaking will be instructed to not answer your calls.
Use by pressing Secondary.
DetailsWhen releasing a bee from the storage, it will be added to the Recall set (unless sneaking).
A bee will leave the set if it enters a beehive or if the player leaves the world.
Whether a bee belongs to the set can also be toggled by failing to store it due to alredy having 6 bees.
You can tell when bees have found a flower and when they are low on health.
DetailsBees will glow yellow when in a flower and red when on <20% health.
BeelocationInteract with a beehive while sneaking to force the bees out.
Sticky SituationYou can phase through and climb honey blocks.
Expert PollinatorPicking up a bee that has grown a crop will duplicate the flower in your offhand.
DetailsThe amount of flowers duplicated will depend on the amount of crops grown.
Sweet NectarGiving a bee flowers while sneaking will make them hold them. When the bee gets hit, they will consume the flower to gain potion effects.
DetailsThe potion effect given to the bee will depend on the effect said flower would give when crafted into a suspicious stew.
Modpack Development
Tagsblocksflowers: Blocks that make bees glow yellow.honey: Blocks that can be climbed and phased through.campfires: Blocks that give blindness when on top of.
itemsflowers: Items that can be held and consumed to gain effects by bees.honey: Items that fill the honey bar when drunk/eaten.
- Ships as Hivenest_1.20.2-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 2.6 MB
- Download link checked 19 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.