Queen Bee

Queen Bee

Map icon

Statistics

Type	Boss
Environment	Jungle
Damage	30 / 54 / 81 / 99 / 135 (Contact) 22 / 44 / 64 / 72 / 96 (Stinger)
Max Life	3400 / 4760 / 5172 / 6069 / 7281
Defense	14
DR	5%
KB Resist	100%
Inflicts debuff	Poisoned 33.3% / 100% chance
Debuff duration	10 seconds (stinger) / 2-20 seconds (stinger) 2-8 seconds (contact)
Debuff tooltip	Slowly losing life
Immune to

Resistances

Cold	Vulnerable
Water	-
Sickness	Resistant
Electricity	-
Heat	Vulnerable

Drops

Coins	15

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Bee Wax (16-26)
  100%
• Stinger (5-10 / 8-12 )
  100%
• One of the following 3 items will always be dropped
• Bee Keeper
  33.33%
• Bee's Knees
  33.33%
• Bee Gun
  33.33%
• Hive Pack
  100%
• Beenade (10-30)
  75% / 100%
• Hardened Honeycomb (30-50 / 50-75 )
  100%
• Honey Comb
  33%
• The Bee
  10%
• Only one of the following 4 items can drop at a time.
  2 will drop from the Expert Mode Treasure Bag.
• Hive Wand
  33% / 100%
• Bee Hat
  11%
• Bee Shirt
  11%
• Bee Pants
  11%
• Nectar
  6.7%
• Honeyed Goggles
  5%
• Bottled Honey (5-15)
  100%
• Queen Bee Mask
  14.29%
• Queen Bee Trophy
  10%
• Thank You
  1%
• Queen Bee (Lore)(Always on first kill)
  100%
• Treasure Bag(Queen Bee)
  100%
• Sparkling Honey(In Master or Revengeance Mode only)
  25% / 25%
• Queen Bee Relic(In Master or Revengeance Mode only)
  100% / 100%

Sounds

Hurt

Killed

Summon bees

Stinger

Charge

If you were looking for Queen Bee on the vanilla wiki, click here.

"...Fate was cruel to many of their kind."

Queen Bee is a Pre-Hardmode boss that is fought in the Jungle typically after The Hive Mind or The Perforators. Fighting her is not required for game progression, but her defeat will reward the player with money and useful items for the next stage of progression.

While in Revengeance Mode and Death Mode, Queen Bee gains several changes to her AI which make the battle much more difficult.

Spawn

Queen Bee can be spawned by:

• Breaking a Larva in a Bee Hive in the Underground Jungle.
• Using an Abeemination in the Jungle.

Behavior

In Revengeance Mode

Queen Bee has two main attacks: charges and stinger attacks. Her minions, Bees and Hornets, can also be problematic to deal with. Queen Bee will attack the player faster the lower her health is. She will enrage when fought on the surface.

When starting the fight, Queen Bee will immediately charge at the player horizontally three times, while becoming level with the player's current elevation. She will then fly above the player, keeping a certain height above them even if they go up towards her. While above the player, the Queen Bee will fire stingers at them, periodically stopping to summon Bees. After a certain interval, she will begin the cycle again by charging the player. Her attacks will increase in speed as she loses more health.

When reaching 33% health, she will charge at the player four times instead of three and at a higher speed.

In Death Mode

• Charges have increased speed.
• Fires stingers extremely rapidly.
• While enraged, her top speed is increased, and she shoots bees and stingers at an even faster rate.

During the Boss Rush

• Max health increased to 3,150,000 / 4,410,000 / 5,071,500

Summons

Bee

Statistics

Type	Flying Enemy
Damage	20 / 24 / 30 / 36 / 54
Max Life	20 / 24 / 32 / 36 / 48
Defense	5 / 4
KB Resist	50% / 55% / 60%

Resistances

Cold	Vulnerable
Water	-
Sickness	Resistant
Electricity	-
Heat	Vulnerable

Sounds

Hurt

Killed

BeeSmall

Statistics

Type	Flying Enemy
Damage	15 / 18 / 24 / 30 / 45
Max Life	10 / 12 / 16 / 18 / 24
Defense	2 / 1
KB Resist	50% / 55% / 60%

Resistances

Cold	Vulnerable
Water	-
Sickness	Resistant
Electricity	-
Heat	Vulnerable

Sounds

Hurt

Killed

Aftermath

• The Arms Dealer now sells the Boomstick.

Tips

For more elaborate strategies on defeating the Queen Bee, including weapon and arena recommendations, see Guide:Queen Bee strategies.

• The ideal movement for this fight is to run back and forth and jump over Queen Bee when she charges, and then run straight while she shoots stingers. As her charges get faster, it would be advisable to switch to a different elevation, as this slows her down by forcing her to take more time getting to the player.
• If you have any Hornet Banners, place them around your arena so that you will have an easier time dealing with Queen Bee's hornet spawns.

History

edit

These history sections are still a work-in-progress, and may not yet contain changes relevant to the current version of the Calamity Mod.

• 2.0.4.002: Buffed contact damage in Master Mode from 135 to 162 , small Bee's damage from 72 to 81 , and normal Bee's damage from 90 to 108 . Buffed stinger damage from 120 to 126 .

• 2.0.4.001:
  • Buffed health from 3400 / 4760 / 5172 / 6069 / 7281 to 3400 / 4760 / 8568 / 6069 / 10,924 .
  • Buffed contact damage from 30 / 54 / 81 / 99 / 135 to 36 / 54 / 81 / 108 / 135 , and stinger damage from 22 / 44 / 64 / 72 / 96 to 22 / 44 / 64 / 84 / 120 .
  • Buffed small Bee health from 10 / 12 / 16 / 18 / 24 to 10 / 12 / 18 / 18 / 27 , and damage from 15 / 18 / 24 / 30 / 45 to 15 / 18 / 36 / 54 / 72 . It now gets 2000 health in Boss Rush.
  • Buffed normal Bee health from 20 / 24 / 32 / 36 / 48 to 20 / 24 / 36 / 36 / 54 , and damage from 20 / 24 / 30 / 36 / 54 to 20 / 24 / 48 / 72 / 90 . It now gets 3000 health in Boss Rush.
  • Can now turn the Calamity Boss Health Bar red when enraged outside of Revengeance Mode.
  • No longer uses a global scaling contact damage formula based on boss velocity.
  • No longer deals contact damage while not charging in all difficulties.
  • No longer enrages when in front of unsafe Hive Walls in all difficulties.
  • Reduced stinger attack spread outside of Revengeance Mode.
  • Stingers are no longer affected by gravity. Stingers are now guaranteed to inflict Poisoned for 1 second, with a 66% chance to inflict it for 3 seconds instead.
  • Now only charges if at a minimum distance away from the player horizontally in all difficulties.
  • Revengeance Mode changes:
    • Decreased base charge distance, but increased charge distance in later phases.
    • Now has a maximum limit of 15 Bees alive at once during the fight. Bees now gain increased velocity and acceleration while enraged, push away from each other, and no longer move away briefly when spawned.
    • Increased diagonal height on charges from the enrage scale, and attack speed boosts from enrage scale now increase as health lowers instead of being constant. Decreased how much enrage scale affects charge speed and distance.
    • Increased base charge speed, and changed charge speed health thresholds from 75%, 50%, 25%, and 10% to 85%, 70%, 30%, and 10%.
    • Increased acceleration during the stinger attack, changed stinger firing speed health thresholds from 75%, 50%, and 25% to 85% and 10%, and stinger firing speed now gets slower as the fight progresses.
    • Now fires an extra stinger during the stinger attack when below 85% health.
    • Now shoots beehives instead of spawning bees when below 70% health.
    • Now stops shooting beehives, gains a new attack where she flies above the player while firing a large spread of stingers with differing speeds, gains an extra charge, can perform charges slightly diagonally, and spawns bees while charging when below 50% health.
    • Now gains an extra charge, performs slower but much closer charges that accelerate faster, and shoots 2 spreads of stingers when below 30% health.
    • Now accelerates faster during the stinger attack, shoots larger bursts of stingers, only does 3 charges but with a larger diagonal offset, and shoots 3 spreads of stingers when below 10% health.
  • Increased enrage scale boost, charges one less time in all phases, moves, accelerates, and decelerates faster during the bee attack, spawns bees faster while charging when below 50% health, shoots more stingers when below 85% and 10% health, moves faster and shoots more stingers during the stinger spread attack, and shoots an extra stinger spread in all phases in Death Mode.
  • Now charges at a smaller distance in all phases, has a larger diagonal offset on charges, moves faster during the bee attack, spawns bees faster but spawns less bees, moves faster during the stinger attack, and shoots half as many stingers but stingers are faster in Master Mode.
  • Now has her bee limit reduced to 9, can spawn up to 3 Hornets during the bee spawn attack that can fly through tiles, has faster charge velocity and acceleration, and fires more stingers in a larger spread during the stinger spread attack in Revengeance Master Mode.
  • Fixed color drawing in the Get fixed boi seed not functioning properly.

• 2.0.3.004: Fixed her not using her updated charge sound in Revengeance Mode and higher.

• 2.0.3.001: No longer enrages if her target is behind unsafe Hive Walls in Revengeance Mode or higher.

• 2.0.2.001: Fixed an issue where her Bees could not spawn during Boss Rush.

• 2.0.1.001:
  • Now uses her vanilla Stinger projectiles in Revengeance and Death Mode.
  • Increased visibility of Stinger projectiles in all modes.

• 1.5.1.003: Now drops 15 .

• 1.5.1.001:
  • Changed defense from 8 / 8-28 / 8-18 to 8 / 8-28 / 14 .
  • Now vulnerable to cold and heat debuffs but resistant to sickness debuffs.
  • Now drops Hive Pack regardless of world difficulty.

• 1.5.0.003: Fixed an oversight that lowered its Normal Mode item drop rates from 33% to 25%.

• 1.5.0.001:
  • Buffed Revengeance Mode health from 5472 to 5712 .
  • Nerfed Boss Rush health from 3,150,000 / 4,410,000 / 5,071,500 to 315,000 / 441,000 / 507,150 .
  • Now only gains 10 defense as her health decreases in Revengeance Mode instead of 20.

• 1.4.5.004: Reduced enrage scale from 0.5 to 0.25.

• 1.4.5.003:
  • Now has a buffed enrage scale in Death Mode, causing it to have increased velocity, boss servant spawning rate, and stinger fire rate.
  • No longer spawns Hornets in Revengeance Mode, and will instead spawn large Bees with 40% more health.

• 1.4.5.002: Can no longer naturally spawn in Death Mode.

• 1.4.4.001: Fixed a bug where it did not perform the charge attack.

• 1.4.3.002: Charges are now sped up while enraged.

• 1.4.3.001:
  • Changed contact damage from 30 / 54 / 67-87 / 77-100 to 30 / 54 / 64-88 / 97 .
  • Death Mode changes:
    • No longer causes the boss to partially enrage.
    • Decreased stinger projectile speed.
    • Now behaves in the final phase immediately instead of below 10% health.
    • Has the highest damage and defense immediately, instead of gradually gaining damage and defense as health lowers.

• 1.4.2.109: Fixed multiplayer desyncing issues.

• 1.4.2.106:
  • Buffed Boss Rush health from 420,000 to 3,150,000.
  • Now always charges three times in Revengeance Mode.
  • Now significantly more aggressive while enraged in Revengeance Mode.

• 1.4.2.104:
  • Reworked Revengeance Mode AI:
    • Charges less times in a row.
    • Fires more stingers, but they no longer have a random spread.
    • Can now spawn Hornets in addition to regular bees.

• 1.4.2.001:
  • Nerfed Boss Rush health from 840,000 to 420,000.
  • Now has a minimum coin drop count of 5 .

• 1.4.1.001:
  • Buffed Boss Rush health from 420,000 to 840,000.
  • Buffed Boss Rush damage modifier from 3x to 5x.

• 1.4.0.001:
  • Buffed health modifier from 1.05x / 1.55x to 1.15x / 1.65x .
  • Nerfed damage reduction from 10% to 5%.

• 1.3.4.101:
  • Buffed health modifier from 1.5x to 1.05x / 1.55x .
  • Nerfed damage reduction from 15% to 10%.

• 1.3.4.001: Nerfed health modifier from 1.7x / 3.1x to 1.5x .

• 1.2.4.101: Buffed Death Mode health modifier from 1.9x to 3.1x .

• 1.2.4.002: Buffed health modifier from 1.25x / 1.5x to 1.7x / 1.9x .

• 1.2.3.002:
  • Now gains a 1.5x health modifier in Death Mode.
  • Now charges more often and fires more stingers in Death Mode.

• 1.2.0.002:
  • Now inflicts Marked for Death for 3 seconds in Revengeance Mode.
  • No longer becomes more aggressive if the player has high Stress.

• 1.2.0.001:
  • Now gains a 1.25x health modifier in Revengeance Mode.
  • Increased extra damage boost.
  • Increased speed.
  • Now has a 2% chance to drop Laudanum or Stress Pills in Revengeance Mode.