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Jonny Panic 21 Sep, 2024 @ 12:01pm
Drones dying off when I change the Queen?
Whenever I put a new Queen in my Large Apiary, the Drones already in there start dying off and I don't understand why. I already checked the Apiary for mites, so that's not the issue, but this makes every stack of Drones I get from a Queen useless; I have to start over with a new Drone that gets bred from the old Drones before they die off. What am I missing?
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Sayter  [developer] 21 Sep, 2024 @ 6:52pm 
She will not like to mate with foreign drones, and will actively kill them. This is explained in the tutorials for the bees.

She has very particular tastes. They must be the same species she is.

https://frackinuniverse.miraheze.org/wiki/Bees
Last edited by Sayter; 21 Sep, 2024 @ 6:54pm
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Jonny Panic 21 Sep, 2024 @ 10:20pm 
I get that it'll happen with foreign drones, but I'm just breeding Crystalwings with Crystalwings, of the same subtype. Is the new queen just always going to kill the old drones as she generates a new generation of them? I don't understand why I should save the lives of the old drones if they're just always going to be killed off anyways while generating a new generation. How does one generate a stack of thousands of drones if they're just going to be killed off every time?

I'm not trying to be dense, I'm just trying to figure out how this works. I'm just seeing a cycle where every new queen generates a new stack of drones from the old drones and gets to around 250 before she dies.
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