Alveary

The Alveary is a Forestry Multiblock unlocked in MV, though possible to obtain via loot earlier. Like the single block Apiary, it provides housing for one Bee colony. Princesses can be bred in Alvearies, and they largely function identically to an Apiary but with a large natural production boost. The advantage is that an Alveary can use upgrade blocks to provide a different climate, additional frame housings, extra production boosts and other features. Alvearies cannot be world accelerated however.

The Alveary is a solid 3x4x3 multiblock constructed of a 3x3x3 cube of Alveary Blocks covered by a 3x1x3 layer of wood slabs. Any of the Alveary Blocks in the bottom two layers may be replaced by upgrade blocks, except the one in the center of the cube. The wood slabs do not need to be the same type of wood, and the Alveary accepts any type of wood except those from the Twilight Forest and Extra Trees mods.

The Alveary is used to increase the efficiency of bees compared to the apiary. The Alveary is able have its internal parameters adjusted to better accommodate bees.

The following upgrade blocks may be used to provide additional effects in the Alveary:

Electrical Stimulators are perhaps the most powerful feature of the Alveary, providing a wide variety of upgrades for the alveary at the cost of a small amount of power.

The Electrical Stimulator holds a single Forestry circuit board, which can hold from one to four electron tubes depending on the tier. Tubes are attached to the board using the Forestry Soldering Iron; note that each board must hold exactly the number of tubes for its tier. Each tube has a certain effect, described in the table below. In addition to the listed effects, every tube also increases Genetic Decay by 50%, but this only affects Ignoble bees; see the corresponding Bee Breeding Guide section for how to mitigate this if needed. Note most effects have a per-board cap, but not an inter-board cap.

Each tube in an Electrical Stimulator consumes a certain amount of RF every bee tick; the amount depends on the type of tube (see table below). This RF is consumed all at once at the end of the bee tick. Note that since each bee tick is 29.5 seconds (590 Minecraft ticks), the average power consumption of electrical stimulators is very low.

* Warning: if the production modifier is over +16, Pristine bees have a chance to become Ignoble; the chance every bee tick for this to occur is 1.56% at +16+ε production, increasing to 100% at +100.5 production. For this reason, it is generally advised to not use more than +16 production.

The Mutator can be used to increase the mutation rate of bees in the alveary using various mutagenic substances. It accepts any of the following items, and consumes one at the end of each breeding cycle: