Killer bee - Revision history

Umbire the Phantom: pothole, etc.

2026-07-20T06:44:30Z

pothole, etc.

Umbire the Phantom: /* Variants */ word choice

2026-05-14T19:31:27Z

‎Variants: word choice

Umbire the Phantom: /* History */ never mentioned glyphs somehow

2026-05-14T19:20:05Z

‎History: never mentioned glyphs somehow

Umbire the Phantom: evil: intrinsic gain

2026-05-14T18:57:59Z

evil: intrinsic gain

Umbire the Phantom: /* dNetHack */ forgot neutral quest too!

2026-05-14T16:16:58Z

‎dNetHack: forgot neutral quest too!

Umbire the Phantom: /* Variants */ un

2026-05-14T16:13:03Z

‎Variants: un

Umbire the Phantom: /* Variants */ forgot jelly

2026-05-14T16:11:37Z

‎Variants: forgot jelly

Umbire the Phantom: word choice

2026-05-14T16:09:37Z

word choice

Umbire the Phantom: /* History */ word choice

2026-05-14T15:59:27Z

‎History: word choice

Umbire the Phantom: /* EvilHack */ pothole

2026-05-14T15:54:17Z

‎EvilHack: pothole

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 Randomly generated killer bees are always created hostile, and are often generated in large [[group]]s. Killer bees can hatch from killer bee and queen bee [[eggs]], including ones laid by a hero polymorphed into either type of bee, and {{frac|76|77}} of eggs laid by queen bees this way will be killer bee eggs.{{refsrc|src/mon.c|5559-L5563|nethack=5.0.0}}{{refsrc|src/mon.c|5573-L5575|nethack=5.0.0}}
-[[Kicking]] a [[tree]] has an effective {{frac|3|200}} chance of generating 2+[[rnl]](4) killer bees near the hero, and will only occur once per tree.{{refsrc|src/dokick.c|1171-L1190|nethack=5.0.0}}
+[[Kick (command)|Kicking]] a [[tree]] has an effective {{frac|3|200}} chance of generating 2+[[rnl]](4) killer bees near the hero, and will only occur once per tree.{{refsrc|src/dokick.c|1171-L1190|nethack=5.0.0}}
 Hostile killer bees can be generated by the [[summon insects]] [[monster spell]].{{refsrc|src/mcastu.c|649-L651|nethack=5.0.0}}
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 ==Variants==
-''NetHack'' [[variant]]s based on NetHack 3.6.7 and previous versions may or may not retain the ability of a killer bee's sting to cause instant death, as well as the ability to cure attribute damage from being stung or eating one's corpse with a unicorn horn. They may or may not also include the ability to turn killer bees into queen bees with royal jelly.
+''NetHack'' [[variant]]s based on NetHack 3.6.7 and previous versions may or may not retain the ability of a killer bee's sting to cause instant death, as well as the ability to cure attribute damage from being stung or eating one's corpse with a unicorn horn. They may or may not also include the ability to turn killer bees into queen bees with royal jelly introduced in NetHack 5.0.0.
 ===SLASH'EM===

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 ==Variants==
-''NetHack'' [[variant]]s based on NetHack 3.6.7 and previous versions may or may not retain the ability of a killer bee's sting to cause instant death, as well as the ability to restore attribute damage from being stung or eating one's corpse with a unicorn horn. They may or may not also include the ability to turn killer bees into queen bees with royal jelly.
+''NetHack'' [[variant]]s based on NetHack 3.6.7 and previous versions may or may not retain the ability of a killer bee's sting to cause instant death, as well as the ability to cure attribute damage from being stung or eating one's corpse with a unicorn horn. They may or may not also include the ability to turn killer bees into queen bees with royal jelly.
 ===SLASH'EM===

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 ==History==
-The killer bee first appears in Hack 1.21 and Hack for PDP-11, which are based on [[Jay Fenlason's Hack]], and is included in the initial bestiary for [[Hack 1.0]]. Beehives first appear in [[NetHack 3.0.0]].
+The killer bee first appears in Hack 1.21 and Hack for PDP-11, which are based on [[Jay Fenlason's Hack]], and is included in the initial bestiary for [[Hack 1.0]]. From this version to [[NetHack 2.3e]], the killer bee uses the {{white|k}} glyph. [[NetHack 3.0.0]] adds beehives, introduces the ant or other insect monster class and moves the killer bee to its current glyph at {{white|a}}.
 In [[NetHack 3.6.7]] and previous versions, including some variants based on those versions, the killer bee has a [[Monster difficulty|difficulty]] of 5 and its poison stings can cause [[instant death]]&mdash;applying a [[unicorn horn]] can cure strength drain from the killer bee's stings or their poisonous corpses. [[NetHack 5.0.0]] increases their difficulty to its current value via {{commit|47724f01374300151a4900939407259c79b14c62}}, removes the ability of poison attacks to cause instant death via {{commit|d0b11fd2c05dae5ebc7a3ff6425257e6ed372894}}, and additionally removes the unicorn horn's ability to restore attributes via {{commit|43d331c4ebe7bcd30a7cab7d4228957e283584c2}}. Furthermore, homemade [[tin]]s of killer bee meat grant 40 nutrition rather than the standard 5&mdash;this is changed in NetHack 5.0.0 via {{commit|39bd259bd3ce35662dfc6b9996aa268a28289056}}.

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 ===EvilHack===
-In [[EvilHack]], killer bees can cause instant death with their sting as in NetHack 3.6.7, and strength drain cannot be cured with a unicorn horn. Poison resistance is also a [[partial intrinsic]], and a hero needs 35% intrinsic poison resistance to prevent instant deaths from killer bee stings unless they obtain the intrinsic by gaining experience levels. Conversely, a hero with extrinsic poison resistance can eat several killer bees to increase their intrinsic levels of poison resistance.
+In [[EvilHack]], killer bees can cause instant death with their sting as in NetHack 3.6.7, and strength drain cannot be cured with a unicorn horn. Poison resistance is also a [[partial intrinsic]], and a hero needs 35% intrinsic poison resistance to prevent instant deaths from killer bee stings unless they obtain the intrinsic by gaining experience levels. Conversely, a hero with extrinsic poison resistance can eat several killer bees to increase their intrinsic levels of poison resistance (with a gain of +5% per bee).
 [[Honey badger]]s have a mutual [[grudge]] against killer bees: they can generate on levels with beehives during level creation, and will move towards the royal jelly within the hive if they are closer to it than they are to the hero&mdash;this makes it possible that the badgers will awaken the hive before a hero is prepared to deal with either them or the bees.

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 In [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]] and [[notnotdNetHack]], killer bees are a lawful species that can follow [[Scent (vision)|scents]] as well as using normal vision, and can cause instant death with their sting as in NetHack 3.4.3. Strength drain cannot be cured with a unicorn horn.
-Killer bees make up {{frac|5}} of the monsters randomly generated on the Arcadian Roads of [[Law Quest (dNetHack)|the Law Quest]], and may appear among the random insects that are placed during level creation for those floors. Killer bees generated in the Law Quest can be [[generated with]] armor made to fit their body shape: they have a {{frac|4}} chance of generating with [[leather armor]], and otherwise have an effective {{frac|4}} chance of generating with a [[plain dress]].
+Killer bees make up {{frac|5}} of the monsters randomly generated on the Arcadian Roads of [[Law Quest (dNetHack)|the Law Quest]], and may appear among the random insects that are placed during level creation for those floors.
 ===EvilHack===

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 ===GruntHack===
 In [[GruntHack]], killer bees can cause instant death with their sting as in NetHack 3.4.3, and strength drain can be cured with a unicorn horn.
 ===dNetHack===

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 The killer bee first appears in Hack 1.21 and Hack for PDP-11, which are based on [[Jay Fenlason's Hack]], and is included in the initial bestiary for [[Hack 1.0]]. Beehives first appear in [[NetHack 3.0.0]].
-In [[NetHack 3.6.7]] and previous versions, including some variants based on those versions, the killer bee has a [[Monster difficulty|difficulty]] of 5 and its poisonous stings can cause [[instant death]]&mdash;applying a [[unicorn horn]] can cure strength drain from the killer bee's stings or their poisonous corpses. [[NetHack 5.0.0]] increases their difficulty to its current value via {{commit|47724f01374300151a4900939407259c79b14c62}}, removes the ability of poison attacks to cause instant death via {{commit|d0b11fd2c05dae5ebc7a3ff6425257e6ed372894}}, and additionally removes the unicorn horn's ability to restore attributes via {{commit|43d331c4ebe7bcd30a7cab7d4228957e283584c2}}. Furthermore, homemade [[tin]]s of killer bee meat grant 40 nutrition rather than the standard 5&mdash;this is changed in NetHack 5.0.0 via {{commit|39bd259bd3ce35662dfc6b9996aa268a28289056}}.
+In [[NetHack 3.6.7]] and previous versions, including some variants based on those versions, the killer bee has a [[Monster difficulty|difficulty]] of 5 and its poison stings can cause [[instant death]]&mdash;applying a [[unicorn horn]] can cure strength drain from the killer bee's stings or their poisonous corpses. [[NetHack 5.0.0]] increases their difficulty to its current value via {{commit|47724f01374300151a4900939407259c79b14c62}}, removes the ability of poison attacks to cause instant death via {{commit|d0b11fd2c05dae5ebc7a3ff6425257e6ed372894}}, and additionally removes the unicorn horn's ability to restore attributes via {{commit|43d331c4ebe7bcd30a7cab7d4228957e283584c2}}. Furthermore, homemade [[tin]]s of killer bee meat grant 40 nutrition rather than the standard 5&mdash;this is changed in NetHack 5.0.0 via {{commit|39bd259bd3ce35662dfc6b9996aa268a28289056}}.
 The ability of killer bees to eat royal jelly is added in NetHack 5.0.0 via {{commit|4159dd985aa94e55c07ddb7e5280b83237a2a085}} and refined via {{commit|5e26589fa7882984e8347e041cb75dcd3e8ce25f}} to apply to a polymorphed hero, while the ability to transform killer bee eggs with jelly is added via {{commit|d44c83d45ff65ad4cb4391276571e9d0ed06c22f}}.