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The **Killer Bee Queen** is the boss of [The Nest](/wiki/the-nest).

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Stats
Combat
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Tips

Stats

HP: 300,000 DEF: 50 EXP: 5,500 Location: The Nest Immune to Stasis Immune to Paralyze Levitates off of ground Level 1 Quest

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Combat

Attacks

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Damage	Condition effects	Speed (tiles/sec)	Range (tiles)	Comments
100		8.5	9.5	Armor Piercing Pierces through targets
130	Confused for 3s	7.5	9.75	Armor Piercing
100	Paralyzed for 1.4s	7.5	9.75	Pierces through targets
140	Dazed for 3s	5.5	7.15	Armor Piercing
100	Quiet for 3s	8.5	11.05
120	Pet Stasis for 4s	8	10.4
0	Armor Broken for 7s	14	9.8	Pierces through targets
0	Pet Stasis for 3s	3	10.5
90	Pet Stasis for 4s	6	10.5	Pierces through targets
90	Paralyzed for 0.8s	4.5	9	Pierces through targets
70	Paralyzed for 0.8s Dazed for 3s	2.5	10.63	Pierces through targets
90	Armor Broken for 6s	4	9	Armor Piercing Pierces through targets
80	Quiet for 2s Pet Stasis for 6s	6	9.54	Pierces through targets
80	Confused for 4s	5.5	11	Pierces through targets
240		8	9.6	Armor Piercing Pierces through targets
120	Pet Stasis for 5s Weak for 3s	4	10	Pierces through targets
150	Dazed for 3s	8	9.6	Pierces through targets
100	Quiet for 3s	7	9.1	Pierces through targets
90	Paralyzed for 0.6s	5	10	Pierces through targets
90	Pet Stasis for 4s Weak for 2s	4	6	Armor Piercing Pierces through targets
130	Confused for 3s	3.5	10.5	Armor Piercing
100	Paralyzed for 1.4s	4.5	9	Pierces through targets

100	Dazed for 2s			Radius: 2
80	Quiet for 1s			Radius: 2

Behavior

The Killer Bee Queen is found in a circular room with a pool of Killer Honey in the middle at the end of the Nest. Once approached, it will begin attacking. She has short periods of invincibility between phases. ####Awakening Phase The Queen circles the area, firing radial spreads of Quieting Blue Bombs around it while firing targeted Dazing White Bombs at players. In addition, it fires directed spreads of Large Blue/Red Stingers and Small Yellow Stingers at nearby players. Watch out, it may look like the Queen is firing only 3 stingers, but in fact that is 9 shots with each color stinger stacked ontop of each other. After taking enough damage, she switches into her first phase. ####Phase 1 At this point, the bridge to the boss room becomes flooded with [Killer Honey](/wiki/killer-honey) which also floods the outer areas of the room, limiting the ground to a small ring around the Queen. The Queen then alternates between the following attacks: - After flashing red, she chases players quickly while firing multi-directional spreads of Small Red Stingers and single directed Large Red Stingers. All the while, she tosses radial bursts of Red Bombs. - After flashing blue, she chases players while firing directed spreads of Large Blue Stingers and spirals of Small Blue Stingers. She also fires a messy omnidirectional spray of Blue Balls along with radial bursts of Blue Bombs that Quiet. - After flashing yellow, she fires 3-way spreads of Large Yellow Stingers and a messy spiral of Yelow Balls, all while tossing a large number of White Bombs that Daze around her. For each color, she also spawns in a number of the respective Killer Bees, which despawn when she switches attacks. Also, in between attacks she is invulnerable. ####Phase 2 The Queen despawns all Killer Bees and moves to the center of the room. She then begins firing a messy omnidirectional barrage of Red, Blue, and Yellow Balls while lobbing White Bombs along the cardinal/intermediate directions. Every 7 seconds, she fires an unavoidable wave of Red Glaives that do no damage but Armor Break for 7 seconds: essentially meaning that you're permanently Armor Broken for this phase. ####Phase 3 The Queen begins to fire 4-directional spreads of Yellow, Red, and Blue Glaives at a rapid pace. Each one is aimed at a different angle so that it cannot be dodged just by standing still. It is imperitive to dodge the yellow shots as they will paralyze you and make you tank half of the next wave. ####Phase 4 The Queen spawns in a number of Killer Bees of all colors and begins using colored attacks again. Like before, every time she uses a colored attack she spawns in a group of the respective color Killer Bee. - For Red, she rapidly circles the pool of Killer Honey in the middle of the room, firing streams of Red Balls in various directions while also firing radial bursts of Red Glaives and 3-directional shotguns of red Hive Spiral Shots. She also fires aimed pairs of Large Red Stingers. - For Blue, she rapidly chases players, firing a messy bombardment of Blue Balls in all directions while using radial bursts of Blue Glaives and 4-directional Small Blue Stingers. She also fires wide, directed shotguns of blue Hive Range Shots. - For Yellow, she stays in the center of the room, firing short spiralling bursts of Yellow Balls and 4-directional spreads of Yellow Glaives. She also uses radial bursts of Large Yellow Stingers and 4-directional yellow Hive Shots. ####Phase 5 The Queen despawns all Killer Bees and spawns 3 Killer Bee Nests along the edges of the room which attack with different colored bullets that inflict different status effects. The Queen herself will be invulnerable and will be firing a 2-way shot-machinegun of Small Red Stingers that rotates clockwise for 29 seconds. This attack is **extremely dangerous and most likely instant death** if not avoided. The 3 Nests will spawn [Small Worker Bees](/wiki/small-worker-bee) and gradually swell in size until they break open to reveal [three](/wiki/adolescent-yellow-beehemoth) [Adolescent](/wiki/adolescent-red-beehemoth) [Beehemoths](/wiki/adolescent-blue-beehemoth), which then join the Queen for her last phases. A few things to note: - Destroying a Nest such as the Red Nest will prevent the Adolescent Red Beehemoth from spawning but one of the other Nests will now spawn 2 Adolescent Beehemoths. - Destroying 2 Nests will quickly stop this phase but will also affect which Adolescent Beehemoths will appear. An example is that destroying the Red and Blue Nests will cause the yellow Nest to spawn 3 Adolescent Yellow Beehemoths. - With this in mind it is important to focus the Killer Bee Nests that you **do not want to face**. Despite the Adolescent Beehemoths having relatively identical stats, keep in mind what each one does: the Red one inflicts Confused and Armor Break, the Blue one inflicts Quiet, Weak, and Pet Stasis, and the Yellow one inflicts Paralyze and Daze. ####Phase 6 The Queen swells in size and reverts to colored attacks by flying to the respectively colored Nest and charging a bit before firing, although now the Adolescent Beehemoths protect her while firing back at players. The dead Nests spawn in groups of respectively-colored Killer Bees when she is using attacks. - For Yellow, she stays in the middle of the room, firing a rotating spiral of Yellow Glaives while firing another spiral of Yellow Balls rotating the other way. She also fires radial bursts of Large Yellow Stingers and directed White Bombs that Daze. The Adolescent Beehemoths circle along the edges of the room taking shots at nearby players. - For Red, she circles area slowly while firing a messy spray of Red Balls and radial bursts of Large Red Stingers and red Hive Spiral Shots. The Adolescent Beehemoths orbit her closely during this phase. - For Blue, she fires sprials of Blue Glaives, radial bombardments of Blue Balls, targeted spreads of Small/Large Blue Stingers, and enormous directed shotguns of blue Hive Range Shots while quickly chasing the nearest player. The Adolescent Beehemoths follow her loosely. During this phase, the dead Nests will fire radial attacks constantly. Also, both the Beehemoths and the Queen will have periods of invulnerability, and the Beehemoths in particular will heal at a very fast rate during this phase, about 7500 ever few seconds (they can still be killed though). The Beehemoths also heal the Queen for about 200HP each every now and then. ####Phase 7 Returrning to the center of the room, the Queen begins to fire slow, radial bursts of Large Red Stingers, Small Yellow Stingers, Blue Balls, Hive Range Shots, and all her Glaives. The Adolescent Beehemoths orbit her closely, firing radial stingers and spreads of Glaives at players, but they cannot heal anymore. This phase lasts until her death, upon which the Killer Honey turns into solid ground and the Beehemoths self-destruct.

Reproduction

Spawns:

Red Killer Bee

Blue Killer Bee

Yellow Killer Bee

Killer Bee Nest (Queen)
From Killer Bee Nests:

Adolescent Red Beehemoth

Adolescent Blue Beehemoth

Adolescent Yellow Beehemoth
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Tips and Strategies

One nightmare of an adversary, the Killer Bee Queen is among one of the most difficult bosses in the game as of now, with a huge number of deadly attacks, high HP, and complex behavior. Don't count on your ability to tank the shots: you must dodge everything to the best of your ability or you **will** die. A very dangerous phase is when the Queen begins firing her 2-way shotmachinegun. Staying in the attack for more than a few seconds at a time is almost always lethal, and the shots rotate deceptively quickly. Make sure you stay in the opening the spreads provide while avoiding hits from the Killer Bee Nests around her. For her nest phase, the 3 Nests can be broken, but that will cause one of the remaining nests to spawn an additional Adolescent Beehemoth to make up for it. If 2 nests are broken, the phase prematurely ends and the last one spawns 3 Adolescent Beehemoths of that color. With this, it is possible to control what types of Beehemoth show up, so target the ones that you **do not want to face,** and leave the one that is the least dangerous. Generally, leaving the **blue** Nest is the best option, because even though the Adolescent Blue Beehemoths can greatly limit your damage with Weak and Quiet while nullifying pets, the Confuse, Armor Break, and Paralyze from the Red/Yellow ones are arguably much more dangerous. Also bee extremely careful on the armor broken + confused phase, if you don´t have a priest and you step in the Killer Honey, NEXUS IMMEDIATELY.

Trivia

Currently this boss inflicts the highest amount of status effects in the game. (8 in total) It also has the most projectiles assigned to a single object with 22 shot types, not counting its bombs or minions. Back to top

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