The Ultimate Red Hive Guide (2024)

I’m going to make this simple and leave the information you need to know. This is the best red hive you could run and everyone should work towards this. Last updated: RETRO 2024

This guide is approved by leaderboard players and used by top boosters.

Message Acid for any questions.

Amulets
Hive Build

Amulets

Supreme Star Amulet:

Critical Chance
Pollen From Bees
Pollen
Bee Ability Rate
Red Pollen

Stick Bug Amulet:

2 Red Bee Attack
Red pollen/Pollen
10% bee attack
1 Bee Attack

Ant Amulet:

Bee Attack
Critical Chance
Crit power
Red Pollen

Cog Amulet:

Red Pollen
Mark Pollen /Event Bee Ability Pollen
Super Crit Power%
Red Instant Conversion
Bee attack

Moon Amulet:

8% Honey Per Pollen
10% Bond from Treats
(Ticket Chance%)

Snail Amulet:

Goo Conversion
Goo
Pollen

King Beetle Amulet:

1 bee attack
Strawberry pollen

Try to get the max stats on each amulet.

Hive Build

GET 500 RED AND WHITE DRIVES AND TRY TO BUILD UP GLITCHED SLOWLY.

This image displays an endgame hive build:

12 Precise Bees
8 Spicy Bees
8 Vectors
4 Carpenter Bees
4 Tadpole bees
Digital + Festive + Bear + Tabby + Crimson + Photon
Rad Bee + Riley Bee + Commander Bee + Brave Bee + Shy Bee + Hasty Bee + Basic Bee
Buoyant Bee

if you have a honeymark smiley drop a carp for a vector bee

MUTATIONS

Precise bee:

CC >= IC = BAR >= Movespeed = Attack

Digital Bee:

Gather %

Spicy Bees:

BAR/Movespeed/Attack

Everything else:

BAR/Attack

RETRO SWARM BEEQUIP GUIDE COMING SOON:

-CAMPHOT LIP BALM -> Pepper Pollen

-ROSE HEADBAND -> Rose Pollen

MORE COMING SOON

VALID BEEQUIPS TO USE

Toy Horn FOR BAP
Poinsettia (2) FOR BGP
Festive Wreath
Sweatband (1) -> Digital Bee FOR GATHER
Beesmas Tops (3) FOR CP
Toy Drum (x) -> Riley Bee FOR BAP
Paper Angel (1) -> Photon Bee FOR BAP
Peppermint Antenna (1) -> Bear Bee FOR ABILITY RATE
Whistle (1) -> Commander Bee FOR SCP/ MELODY
Paperclips (x) -> FOR BAP / Token Link

Before you donate to the wind shrine, make sure you have max precision, stack, and haste.Alwaysrefresh precision when below 25 sec (15 sec if you trust yourself) . If you run out of it, get it back to x10 ASAP. Have x10 red boost all the time by allowing some of the precision abilities to miss. If you don’t have scorching you can stack precise marks, you get red boost tokens for scorching + precise marks. The most important thing is, if you have scorching active, get it to 6K+ ASAP, collect all precise targets and stay in marks. SPAM PRECISE MARKS. Try to not move around too much too fast because your bees will stop spawning tokens. Do not turn flames into dark flames instantly so they last longer.

COCO BELT MECHANICS COMING SOON
If you are doing Festive Bean boost plant festive bean on the second scorching. When you have Festive Bean effects activated, stack precise marks, collect all precise targets, and stay in marks.

Are you a visual learner? watch some banana videos for help OR study some of this

Rose >= Strawberry >= Pepper

Rose can have 15 duped tokens on the field whereas strawberry and pepper are limited to 12
Strawberry pollen on king beetle amulet

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Why do you need brave bee?
Why no vic bee?
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1. Brave Bee provides good buffs to your hive, including extra Bee Attack and thus improving Star Saw conversion and the Beequips it can have make it really nice to run (eg. Toy Drum or Toy Horn).
  You can run Vicious Bee for casual playing and doing RBC, but during boosting and for Red in general it’s pretty bad as it doesn’t give you anything beneficial.
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  1. hey why isnt there rage bee tho
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    1. Not worth running and commando is better
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  2. Hey acid,
    I am a F2P player and would like to know a good replacement for Bear Bee!
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    1. Probably an extra spicy bee
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      See Also
      Bee Swarm Simulator: Bees Tier List
    2. There is none, if bear bee is a must for Red. You may use other other bees but none can do what bear bee does
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Why don’t you need any fuzzy bees?
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1. Having fuzzy bees in your hive while endgame will decrease your honeymaking substantially so a fuzzy alt or helper is NEEDED for red endgame. If you are not endgame yet or your alt isnt ready then you can add 1 fuzzy (only lvl x<19)
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  1. Hey!
    Are Pink Shades okay for red hive or only white? I got them last beesmas and have been holding onto them as I only just went red.
    Cheers
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    1. Hey Nathan! Pink Shades with a hive bonus of Super Crit power are really good and definitely could be run as white!
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why the absence of windy bee tryna get preped for beesmas
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1. Windy bee really has no benefits for red hives and has no reason to be run. It isn’t fantastic for RBC nor does Red lack token collecting (Precise Bees targets) you can replace a cheap bee for windy for quests or if you can’t be convinced
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Gifted Baby Bees aren’t really needed due to Gifted Tadpoles giving Baby Love, so I would remove the Baby Bees and replace them with either a Gifted Tadpole or something else.
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1. The frogs and bubbles they spawn only cause lag. Having frogs is pointless and the only point is to have Constant Baby love. Also the main reason is that it’s incredibly easy to get BAR on Baby Bees whereas it is expensive to get it on Tadpole Bees.
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  1. Okey dokie
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  2. I just wanted to say thanks for creating this guide, it has to be the most reasonable solution to all situations of boosting/attack. I hope i learn well of what you posted.
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    1. Thanks for your comment! If you need any help dont be shy to ask!
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  3. What if the person wants attack? Frogs can do hefty damage.
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Bubble lights on vectors? Why not smiley stickers?
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1. Bubble lights on vectors or precise bees. Smileys on Precise Bees. Remember these are only suggestions and you can run whatever you have.
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Why no gifted fire bee for the 50% flame pollen?
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1. Simply not worth a slot, flames is not a primary source of pollen in current red hives
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I am a level 17 full gifted red hive with 12 precise bees, 10 spicy bees, and 8 vector bees, however, I have to run a gifted fuzzy as I don’t have a fuzzy alt. Currently I am stuck in a conflict of whether or not I should run a hasty bee, as I currently use brave, rage, riley, 3 carp, 2 tad + 2 baby, shy, and a buoyant. I was thinking to remove riley since my buoyant already gives me a lot of extra capacity buffs, or potentially removing a baby/carp, or just not running a hasty bee in general. I would really appreciate getting your opinion on this acid.
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1. Honestly you could boost without a hasty bee if you run some haste beequips. Also I dont recommend staying red for too long if you aren’t working towards a fuzzy alt.
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What can I add/remove to help me with rbc (I am lvl 16 red hive no star saw) like how many precise bees and so on
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1. Dont really recommend being red at such an early stage due to it takes a lot more skill than blue and is way more expensive in terms of stingers.Also at level 16 you may struggle with RBC, you could try going Robo hive but honestly I just recommend learning which upgrades are good and levelling up your bees ALSO GET SAW ASAP!
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Why don’t you need rad or fire?
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1. not worth a slot and flame pollen isn’t the source of honey for red
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Wouldn’t Bubble Lights on Vectors not work because they need an energy mutation first?
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1. just get energy mutation then lol
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im currently a blue hive but is it recommended to switch to red after a while or should i just stay blue?
also could i replace a music bee with a cobalt bee with a toyhorn?
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1. You could switch to a red hive once further developed, check out the other red guide made. I recommend lvl 19+
  Personally i dont believe a cobalt bee is worth the slot. Music bee is kinda op
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I need a 45 red hive
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why pollen from bees on ssa? does bee ability pollen count as pollen from bees?
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1. No but pollen from bees (now bee gather pollen) counts for smiley token collection
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You can’t do Bubble lights on precise bees. Maybe you meant vectors?
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is this up to date after the new update?
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1. yes
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why isn’t there a rage bee? It got buffed
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1. Not worth running as the attack will not benefit precise gather and running a commander bee is more worth it for beequip compatibility
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Whats a good bee to add in replacement of bear bee?? i might do fuzzy bee but lmk
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1. update:
  I got bear bee and gifted him quickly which is help me run my hive pretty well. as an early red lvl 12 i got 700b in a boost, which is decent for the fact i messed up the glitter and had to gamble smooth dice to get back to 3x pepper field. quick question tho, do you think camphor lip balm is good. one of the bonuses is 1.04x pepper field pollen which i think is lowkey fire
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rbc hive?
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why not include lion bee w/5% gifted pollen over riley bee? What is the benefit of riley for boosting w/red and star saw?
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1. For the 20% Red field capacity (If you have alot of buffs on like double or triple bear morph while boosting your bag will explode and u wont be able to make tokens if u dont have enough capacity) and because it can run tdrum which red doesnt have many good options for (only riley and brave since you wont be using bucko or demo in red)
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why the brave bee but no rage bee?
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Shy bee gives 5% bee ability pollen, while lion gives 5% gifted bee pollen. If “bee pollen” includes both gather and ability pollen, it seems like lion is now better than shy.However both are still useless to run sadly. Onett needs to buff bap
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why is brave ran over rage
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Rage bee is better than a brave bee because 10% attack is better than 1attack.
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1. Attack is not needed a lot right now as precise bee gather is maxed at 90 which is easily achieved and commander/brave have better beequip compatibility
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Wouldnt you want thumb tack for 6% red bee attack?
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Is Windy any useful in red hives now after the change to clouds?
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1. No because haste is more important
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On what bees do I put beequips that aren’t specified what bees they have to be on?
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1. Put wherever you can fit
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Surely you dont need festive bee anymore since the hive bonus gives convert rate at hive
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1. Still useful – HM FESTIVE MRK FESTIVE GIFTS
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Am i able to use this hive w/o dark scythe
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1. not recommended work towards scythe ASAP
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What would a good bear bee replacement be?
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1. Next update you can trade for bear bee voucher so add a normal bee and stock up on signs to trade for a voucher
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  1. Hello! I have a question, I’m midgame and I’m planning on going blue, as it’s the cheapest,yet pours in the most, and then I want to switch to red as I want attack, and collect good pollen, and so my question is, should I make a new account and make that account a fuzzy alt?
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    1. Yes but I don’t recommend going red early
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would it be okay to switch at level 18, I dont have digital yet and can nearly afford the dark scythe
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1. Get dark scythe first
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what is core beequips should we have with stats (have 12 slot only)
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Red hive is so hard to grind when you are a f2p player tho.
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I was wondering what bee equips on what bees do I run? Also, do i run rage cuz what do i put the 2 toy horns, Whistle, and Toy drum bee equips on?
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1. it says whistle for commander and toy drum for riley, i think the other two are mainly for the hive bonus so it’s up to you overall
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  1. Cheers!
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Hi acid, I haven’t played in beesmas so I don’t have digital bee and i’m f2p so I don’t have bear bee either, I have 10 spicy bees right now in my red hive, is it ok to replace those two for the two spicy bees? Also how much honey would it cost to get those mythics without it being gifted?
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1. probably 100b
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Why gifted tadpoles and not gifted babies?
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1. blue boost activates scorch
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I was wondering whether to get either 500 red drives first, then 500 white drives, or vice versa OR build them both up gradually ?
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I am currently a level 16 blue hive, the problem is that I don’t macro. I think going red would benefit me alot considering I am building up to a fuzzy alt and to dark scythe. Could anyone tell me if it is worth it or not?
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1. maybe get level 18 first
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The Ultimate Red Hive Guide (2024)

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Amulets

Hive Build

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