Describe the bug
all resourceful bees goes for the same pollination target block(if they can pollinate it) causing them to bump each other off the target block, vanilla bees don't do this.
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. build a 5x4x5 glass cube place a lot of pollination blocks inside.
2. put down a beehive or multiple, in a side wall. a total of 8 bees will do (has to have the same pollination type ofc.).
3. watch as they all go for the same block over and over again bumping each other off the block.
4. this behavior also makes the bees use more honeycombs than they produce

Expected behavior
bees go for "free" pollination blocks

• Forge Version '36.1.2'
• Mod Version 1.16.5-0.6.5b

Additional context
i had to make environmental changes to counter this "beehavior" but this fix only allows for 24 bees of the same pollination type because cramming kills the bees.

So vanilla bees would do the same thing. Because of how flowers are scanned for they pick the first spot that is found. The difference between ours and vanilla is that ours is faster. You can use the honey dipper to designate a flower for the bee. However there’s a 10% chance the bee will forget upon leaving the hive in the mod version you’re using. Our alpha on curse has that removed. That’s also a vanilla feature. I’m also implementing and experimental performance mode where bees will only go to flowers they’ve been designated and not scan for flowers on their own. This means more active management by the player but once a flower position is given it doesn’t change.

He's talking about the speed of the vanilla bee finding the flower we had to change it because vanilla takes so long to find a flower that it will literally kill your server due to how long it takes vanilla takes 0.5s to find a flower every tick ours takes 0.1s to find a flower which makes it so that the tps does drop, the problem is performance over QOL we take performance you can do what he told you and use a honey dipper on the bee and set its flower position.

In theory, they created the honey dripper to address this issue. But unfortunately, for example coal bees, 16 in a 9X9X5 hive enclosure will still fight for the same flower after a period of time. I find I'm spending a lot of time in the hive structure to honey drip the bees repeatedly in order to keep them from flower fighting. Just some added input concerning the problem and the fact that the honey dripper isn't really solving the issue for long. Added note, there are flowers all over the grass in the structure so they have plenty of options.

That’s because vanilla function with a hive is that bees have a 10% chance to forget their flower. We retained that functionality. However our latest alpha release sees that removed

Hi, I have the same issues as @trogarus.
I did notice that bees finding flowers was extremely fast compared to regular bees wondering about, but when comparing the amount of pollinations as compared to a regular bee nest, it seems that the apiary bees require the honey dripper to work effectively, else they would clump together (as described by this issue).

I really like the code and actually used it in a unity game I made as a pathfinding algorithm, but adding a random functionality would tremendously help bees in spreading their pollination goals.

I hope you can reopen the issue and address it :D

We’ve made changes in dev that address this issue and is not only faster than our previous code but also finds the closest flower position to the bee like vanilla.

Great! thank you this awesome mod btw :)