Apiary
Apiary is a Fabric utility that changes how honeycombs are gathered from bee nests and beehives, sending them straight into the inventory.
What it does
A short magnetic particle effect marks the harvest, and a spiral golden trail of double helix particles connects the block to the player.
Several bonuses apply on top of the normal yield. Harvesting at night gives one extra honeycomb, and on a full moon the bonus doubles. Rain adds one honeycomb, though the bees must be calmed with a campfire, and desert biomes are excluded. Snowfall in snowy biomes adds one more with snowflake particles. Keeping three or more flowers within five blocks of a hive adds one honeycomb with heart particles. A 1% chance also yields a honey bottle with a small firework. During thunderstorms, electric spark particles appear.
Apiary is published for Fabric only, with builds for 1.21.8, 1.21.9, 1.21.10, 1.21.11, 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2, 26.2 and 26.3. It is a client and server mod, so the server and every player need it. The code is under the MIT License and is not open source.
Key features
Magnetic honeycomb collection
Honeycombs are pulled into the inventory when a full bee nest or beehive is harvested with shears.
Night and moon bonuses
Harvesting at night adds one honeycomb, and a full moon doubles that bonus.
Weather and snow bonuses
Rain adds a honeycomb when the bees are calmed, and snowfall in snowy biomes adds one more.
Flower and lucky drops
Three or more flowers within five blocks of a hive add a honeycomb, and a 1% chance yields a honey bottle.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.21.x4 of 4 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Beekeeping farms
Farms that harvest many nests benefit from items going directly into the inventory rather than onto the ground.
Who it’s for: Players who keep bee farms on Fabric servers or single-player worlds, where collecting honeycombs from many nests is repetitive.
How it compares
Uncraftable Honeycomb is a server-side option that is open source under the MIT License and runs on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt for 1.21.2 – 26.3, with the server required and the client optional. Fortune Shears is also server-side and MIT licensed, but it is not open source and targets the same loaders and range. Apiary runs on client and server and is limited to Fabric.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apiary | Fabric | 1.21.8 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-10-07 |
| Uncraftable Honeycomb | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.2 – 26.3 | Server required, client optional | 2026-09-16 |
| Fortune Shears | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.2 – 26.3 | Server required, client optional | 2026-09-30 |
Questions
Does Apiary need to be installed on the server?
Which Minecraft versions does Apiary support?
Does Apiary work with Forge or NeoForge?
In the catalog
Apiary is one of 29,952 Game mechanics mods on ModsFinder, and one of 19,630 Game mechanics mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
Apiary is a small quality-of-life mod that makes harvesting honeycombs from bee nests and beehives less of a hassle. Right-click a full bee nest or beehive with shears and the honeycombs get pulled straight into your inventory, with a little magnetic particle effect as they go. No more chasing dropped items around on…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/apiary
- Owner
- dark979spider
- Published
- 2026-01-08
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-10-07
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15