The Ultimate Blue Hive Guide (2024)

Welcome to the Ultimate Blue Hive Meta Guide. This article is written by Acid. We will be talking about basic hive composition, beequips, amulets, and other things. So let’s get started. LAST UPDATED: APRIL 2024

Table of Contents:

  • Getting Started
  • Hive Composition
    • Fillers
    • Overfilling
    • Under-filling
  • Beequips
  • Amulets
    • Supreme Star Amulet
      • Pop Shower
      • Pop Guiding
      • Solo Pop
  • Nectar
  • Boosting
    • Cost-Efficient Boost materials
    • Casual Boost materials
    • Intense Boost materials
  • End of the Article

Getting Started

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After the Beesmas last year nerf Blue Hive meta changed slightly.

We are going to get you updated on what hives make the most right now.

Keep in mind that this is a BASE HIVE, everyone can change to their liking and game progression. This means that hives under level 19 hive shouldn’t use this hive, since it won’t make as much as they will need to run Bubble Bee and other bees.

Hive Composition

The Ultimate Blue Hive Guide (1)
  • 1 Tabby Bee
  • 1 Gummy Bee
  • 1 Bear Bee
  • 1 Digital bee
  • 1 Windy Bee
  • 7 Tadpole Bees
  • 21 Buoyant Bees
  • 1 Fuzzy Bee
  • 3 Music Bees
  • 1 Diamond Bee
  • 1 Ninja Bee
  • 1 Shocked Bee
  • 1 Commander Bee
  • 1 Frosty Bee
  • 1 Bubble Bee
  • 1 Bucko bee
  • 1 Bomber Bee
  • 1 Stubborn Bee
  • 1 Cool Bee
  • 1 Bumble Bee
  • 1 Looker Bee
  • 1 Basic Bee

This is the BASE hive, which means it changes for different players.

IGNORE BEEQUIP PLACEMENTS ON IMAGE

If you have no friends or alts you may add more tads but it is very easy to find people to macro with

THIS IS AN ENDGAME HIVE THAT YOU OPTIMIZE FOR YOURSELF

As you progress to collect more and more honey you remove fillers and pollen boost bees for more buoyants

Ifyou macro with other blue hives or have an alt:

If you have a fuzzy alt remove fuzzy bee for music bee

You can remove Tads and Add Buoyants/Fillers

(KEEP MORE THAN 6 TADS FOR BABY LOVE AND BLUE BOOST TOKENS) (*cough* *cough*)

Do this slowly while testing what works best for you.

Fillers

The main ones are the Vicious Bee, Shy Bee, Ninja Bee, and Frosty Bee.

The benefits of having a Vicious Bee are the extremely useful hive bonus that many use to get materials faster, and it’s Blue Bomb+.

A Vicious Bee isn’t needed in a blue hive, but it’s not a crime to run it as it also gives an extra 15% bubble pollen.

Shy Bee has a great passive for nectar and a pretty good BAP hive bonus which is good. Ninja Bees have recently gotten a built-in critical chance buff which is powerfully combined with its Blue Bomb+. Also haste from Ninja Bees in moderation makes Windy Bee more viable as you can restore haste fast after tornadoes and you can summon many powerful and useful tornadoes. Frosty Bee is amazing due to it giving Blue Bomb+ and Blue boost tokens. Frosty Bee contributes to Pop Shower greatly, as Pop Shower needs 30 Blue Bomb tokens and 40 “Boost” tokens. Gifted Baby Bees could be run if the player does not have 6+ gifted tadpole bees as you need constant Baby Love.

Overfilling

Overfilling is when your pollen gain outpaces the balloon spawn rate or fills the balloons faster than you can produce them, causing your capacity to get filled instead. It’s a bad thing if you’re going back to the hive early because the pollen is going to your main capacity. This will lose possible opportunities to fill more balloons and get a bigger balloon at your hive which is the main source of honey.

If you areoverfillingyou decreasefillerbees or reduce tads and add more buoyants. If you’re still overfilling, then you can add a photon bee or remove pollen boost bees or even remove a tabby bee. You could also add exhausted bee as it boosts white field capacity and the Pine field is 15% white so it could help (not recommended).

On honeydays you will be overfilling so you will need to remove most bees and run more buoyants.

Under-filling

Under-filing is when your balloons go back to the hive and are under 70% full thus resulting in hurting your income…

If youunder-fillyou decrease buoyant bees for morefillerbees or tadpoles. Bigger pops will hopefully fix this issue as a higher pop aura buff is quite powerful.

Beequips

Be sure to check out our guide on Waxing the Beequips.

The best way to use Waxes to enhance your Beequips

Beequips are extremely powerful with their great hive bonuses and bee buffs. Blue hives could run many different beequip mixes however this is the easiest one to get hold of and to use with this hive.

  • Snow Tiara
  • Paper Angel
  • (3) Beesmas Tree Hats
  • (2) Pinecones
  • (3) Beesmas Tops
  • (3) Elf Caps
  • (3) Icicles
  • Charm Bracelet
  • Kazoo
  • Sweatband
  • Beret
  • Peppermint Antennas ON BEAR BEE
  • Toy Horn

Some people run Coal but it’s quite hard to find a good one and not many have it. Running a Sweatband depends on how good the stats are. Peppermint Antennas can be run depending on how good the stats are. The Toy Horn is to be run if constant Melody isn’t achieved.

Example Beequip Placements:

Beesmas Tree Hats:

BAR Buoyant Bees

Frosty/Ninja Bees

Pinecones:

Bear Bee

Bucko Bee

Beesmas Tops:

Looker Bee

Cool Bee

Bumble Bee

Elf Caps:(mixed with Convert Mutations)

Tabby Bee

Gummy Bee

Buoyant Bees

Icicles:

Ninja Bees

Frosty Bees

BAR buoyant bees

Amulets

Here is a list of some key stats on amulets that you need for the current Blue Meta:

Ant Amulet:

Blue pollen % (Max 30%)

Pollen % (Max 5%)

Convert Rate % (Max 110%)

Critical Chance % (Max 3%)

Critical Power % (Max 50%)

Any off-color pollen stat % (Max 30%)

Snail Amulet:

Convert amount (+21 – +25)

Goo (+11% – 15%)

Pollen (+4% – +5%)

Stump Field (+56% – +65%)

Stick bug Amulet:

Capacity (+200,000 – +300,000)

Convert Rate (x1.20 – x1.25)

Blue Pollen (+25% – +30%)

Blue Bomb Pollen (+25% – +30%)

Moon Amulet:

Honey per pollen (+2% – +8%)

Bond from treats (+3% – +10%)

King Beetle Amulet:

Convert rate (+1% – +100%)

Bee attack (+1)

Supreme Star Amulet

  • Capacity (x2.5)
  • Blue pollen (+15% – +70%)
  • Convert Rate (x1.05 – x1.25)
  • Bee Ability Rate (+1% – +7%)
  • Critical Chance ( +1% – +7%)
  • Pollen (+5% – +20%)

Supreme Cog Amulet

  • +200,000 to +250,000Capacity(increments of 5000)
  • +25% to +30% Blue Pollen
  • +15% to +20% Bubble Pollen
  • +5% to +10% Ability Token Lifespan

Supreme Star Amulet should be Pop Shower,Pop Guiding,or a good Solo Pop

Pop Shower > Pop Guiding > Solo Pop ; Assuming all are 5/5 and similar stat ranges

Pop Shower

Blue relies on Pop Star to fill balloons and the capacity buff from Star Shower will be needed if you are over-filling with your current solo Pop Star. Also, the chance to catch a star from Star Shower makes it easy to get inspire stacks which are overpowered

Pop Guiding

Guiding Star also grants a permanent 1.25x capacity multiplier as well as a 2.5x pollen and capacity bonus for summoning a star

Solo Pop

You can settle with a 5/5 solo pop and be fine. You don’t need a 5/5 double passive for blue unless you overfill.

Nectar

Nectar Priority

  1. Motivating (BP, CR, BAR)
  2. Comforting (BP, CRH, CCR)
  3. Satisfying (HH, RCR, WP)
  4. Refreshing (BCR, RP, BAR)
  5. Invigorating (RP, CR, BA)

Depending on how good your planters are, you can set priority to 70%-80%.

Boosting

Cost-Efficient Boost materials

  • Blue extract
  • Field dice
  • Glitter
  • Free field boosters

Casual Boost materials

  • Purple potion
  • Smooth dice
  • Glitter
  • Free field boosters
  • Optional pine tree winds (lower-end winds 1x – 7x)

Intense Boost materials

  • Super smoothie
  • Loaded dice
  • Glitter
  • Free field booster
  • Pine tree winds (8x+)

Most people will do casual boosts over intensive boosts for balloon blessing to save materials for Tide Popper + other endgame items.

End of the Article

Contact Acid for any questions regarding this article or general BSS advice for blue hives.

The Ultimate Blue Hive Guide (2024)

FAQs

What is the ideal blue hive in BSS? ›

Hive Composition. As a Blue Hive, most of your Hive should be Blue Mythics. The ratio of Buoyants to Tadpoles should be at least 18 to 10, but if you have friends/alts as macro partners, you can go up to as low as 6 Tadpoles, and around 23 Buoyants. You need a few Tadpoles gifted for the Baby Love bonus.

What is the best mask for a blue hive? ›

Which mask is best for a mostly colorless/blue hive? If you are leaning more towards Blue, Diamond. More towards colorless, Gummy. You should use both though depending on the boost.

What is the best color hive in BSS? ›

Yes, that does mean that White Hive is in first place. and we can use the leaderboard as an example.

Should I switch to blue hive? ›

You should transition to a blue hive when you get the Supreme Star Amulet (SSA). If you don't have this, you won't make a lot of honey.

Is cobalt bee good for blue hives? ›

Cobalt Bee is a Blue Event bee. It can be obtained by purchasing a Cobalt Bee egg in the Ticket Tent for 250 tickets. This bee is better with a Hive with more blue bees than Red/Colorless bees. Its abilities are enhanced when Crimson Bee is also in the hive.

Is gummy bee good for blue hives? ›

Of course. All hives keep Gummy Bee. Free honey and Riley Bee and Bucko Bee give goo quests. Gummy bee is one of those bees that needed in all hives.

Is red hive better than blue hive? ›

This post is locked. Blue is cheap, works fine with only a single passive. Red is expensive, requires double passive to make more than blue, with a single red passive you will make less with red then you would with blue. Also blue doesn't NEED gifted tadpoles/buoyant, red needs gifted spicys.

Are blue light masks worth it? ›

LED light mask therapy may be beneficial for collagen production and killing the bacteria that cause acne breakouts, but they don't replace your regular skin-care routine. As at-home devices, they may be less effective than in-office procedures at your dermatologist's office.

What is the strongest face mask? ›

Respirator masks, or “respirators,” like the N95 give the highest level of protection against the coronavirus, according to the CDC. Cloth masks are washable and reusable. They're not the best option, but they do give you protection and are better than wearing no mask.

How rare is a mythic bee in bss? ›

Diamond egg has a 1 in 20 (5%) to hatch into a mythic, which is 1250 times more likely than a royal jelly, 50 times more likely than a silver egg, and 5 times more likely than a gold egg. Hope this can help you. Mythic bees can hatch from basic eggs but unconfirmed chance. Very rare.

Why is hive so popular? ›

Hive gained huge popularity after Trump's account was unbanned on Twitter. People are attracted to an app like Twitter – Hive, by zero tolerance for hate and bigotry. The application continues to develop and is now managed by three teammates CEO Raluca Pop, marketer Pablo, and developer Josh.

Is red hive good in BSS? ›

Red Hives are the second most costly Hive Color, but the Hive Color with the highest overall Attack. Red Hives are also said to be the best hive color.

Which is better blue hive or red hive? ›

This post is locked. Blue is cheap, works fine with only a single passive. Red is expensive, requires double passive to make more than blue, with a single red passive you will make less with red then you would with blue. Also blue doesn't NEED gifted tadpoles/buoyant, red needs gifted spicys.

When should I choose a hive Colour BSS? ›

When should you choose a hive color? Blue if you macro, red if you boost. I wouldn't choose a specific hive color until you get supreme star amulet. 1) supreme star amulet (for red: scorch-saw, scorch-guiding, scorch-shower.)

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