Disclaimer: I'm not certain this is not intended behaviour ^^'

Describe the bug
If you change a beehive (to a different tier or type) while a bee that currently lives their still has pollen, then the bee won't accept the new hive. They have to go back to the same type/tier hive and make a honeycomb before they can accept the new hives as their new home. In short: the bee needs to have no pollen to accept a new type of beehive.

Edit: Just found out that the bees need to have no accessible flowers too when they come out of their current hives before you put them in a jar and do the hive swap

To Reproduce
(I hope you can extract reproduction steps from the description)

Expected behavior
For the bee to accept it's new home.

Screenshots or Crash Logs
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please complete the following information:

• Forge Version 1.16.4-35.1.29
• ResourcefulBees1.16.3-1.16.4-0.5.7b

Additional context
Original issue/reporter: EnigmaticaModpacks/Enigmatica6#763

I wasn't exactly sure what the problem was initially. After much testing I figured out what the bug was:

Bees won't accept any other hive besides tier 1s initially.

So if you spawned a bee (by jar/egg) and you only have tier 2+ hives in place, it will never enter it because it will try to find a tier 1 hive (this is the bug). As soon as a tier 1 hive is placed, the bee will choose it as its home rather than the available higher tier hives.

Video: https://streamable.com/126qgt

A work around I found:

1. Let a bee get pollen and provide it with a tier 1 hive.
2. Remove all accessible flowers before the bee comes out of the tier 1 hive.
3. Place the bee in a jar after it comes out of the hive so that it won't go aggro when doing the hive swap.
4. Swap the tier 1 hive with another hive and place back some flowers.
5. Spawn the bee back. It will now accept any hive besides tier 1s.

Video: https://streamable.com/11td93

Expected behavior
For the bee to accept any hive.

I just tested this and couldn't reproduce it in my dev environment.
Ill explain what I did just because I didnt fully understand what you described.

1. I put down a normal t1 hive
2. let a bee go inside
3. let it get pollen again
4. replaced it with a t3
   and the bee went back in without a hitch.
   If I didnt do what you said just tell me and ill check again.

I'm having the same issue with an apiary. They just fly around in the apiary after collecting pollen.

I put down a normal t1 hive
let a bee go inside
let it get pollen again
replaced it with a t3

That is also how I understood it - @stupex could you please confirm whether that is how to reproduce the bug with new hives?

All Bees use the same backend code and All Tiered hives use the same backend code. I also cannot reproduce this bug. There's no logic that forces a bee to only select a T1 hive before any other hive.

fixed in d0e4f1d

Mod version: 1.16.4-0.5.8b

Apparently i got the same issue, is anyone using a modpack like ATM-6 ? I reproduced the issue in ATM, but bees works fine with just JEI + ResourcefulBees installed.

How to reproduce:

1. Place some flowers
2. Place any Beehive greather than Tier 1
3. Spawn some Bees

The bees will fly around when full and never go inside the Beehive

I'll create a separate issue in ATM-6 repo.

EDIT: Apparently after some time like 5-10m bees entered the beehive all all is working fine now.