Bee Buddies
With Bee Buddies, a player can make friends with a Minecraft bee by offering it sugar water and then have it follow along, fight alongside and return to its hive.
What it does
Bee Buddies lets players tame ordinary bees. A bee becomes a friend after it is offered sugar water, and a friendly bee will follow its player around, try to fight hostile threats without losing its stinger, lead the player to flowers and share honey. A friend that should stay put can be told to sit and help out at the hive instead. Friendly bees also sometimes nap near their player, and the mod is built on Fabric API's equivalent, with Sinytra Connector covering Forge and NeoForge.
Each bee can be given more sugar water to heal it, and a special nectar drop turns a bee into a pride bee. The mod is licensed under a custom license and is not open source, with source code and an issue tracker linked from the project page. It is published for Fabric, Quilt, Forge and NeoForge across 8 release versions 1.16.5 – 1.21.1, and runs on client and server, so the server and every player need it.
Key features
Tameable bees
Sugar water turns a wild bee into a friend that follows its player and can be told to sit at the hive.
Combat and foraging
Friendly bees try to fight enemies, keep their stingers and lead their player to flowers, then feed some honey.
Pride bees
A special nectar drop turns a friendly bee into a pride bee, with a set of identity flags to choose from.
Item Descriptions support
Built-in compatibility with Item Descriptions is included, so item tooltips work alongside the bees.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 3
Embedded 1
How it compares
Realistic Bees is a Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt mod for 1.16.5 – 26.3 with a client and server environment, under All rights reserved and not open source. Brainier Bees is open source under the MIT License, runs server-side only on Fabric and Quilt for 1.19 – 26.3, and completely rewrites bee AI, so it is incompatible with Bee Buddies. Beehave is server-side only on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge for 1.16 – 26.3 and is under All rights reserved.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bee Buddies | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.16.5 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-08-16 |
| Realistic Bees | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.16.5 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-10-02 |
| Brainier Bees | Fabric and Quilt | 1.19 – 26.3 | Server-side only | 2026-09-28 |
| Beehave | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.16 – 26.3 | Server-side only | 2026-09-22 |
Questions
Does Bee Buddies need Fabric API?
Does Bee Buddies have to be installed on the server?
Can Bee Buddies run with Brainier Bees?
In the catalog
Bee Buddies is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Bee Buddies =========== Tameable bees and pride bees! This mod adds the ability to make friends with the Minecraft Bee. Simply offer one some sugar water to get it to become friends with you! They'll follow you around (though will head back to their hive at request) or just wander in your vicinity. They'll try to…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/beebuddy
- Owner
- queenofthebees
- Published
- 2021-06-13
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-08-16
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15