Queen bee - Revision history

Umbire the Phantom: /* EvilHack */ mention intrinsic gain

2026-05-14T18:55:54Z

‎EvilHack: mention intrinsic gain

Umbire the Phantom: /* Variants */ and we finish all of this off

2026-05-14T18:53:14Z

‎Variants: and we finish all of this off

Umbire the Phantom: part 1.5 - snip the upcoming template now it's no longer needed

2026-05-14T18:05:09Z

part 1.5 - snip the upcoming template now it's no longer needed

Umbire the Phantom: nh5 updates part 1 - same treatment given to killer bees, but all at once up to the variant section

2026-05-14T18:04:37Z

nh5 updates part 1 - same treatment given to killer bees, but all at once up to the variant section

Umbire the Phantom: copyedit

2025-12-13T08:02:22Z

copyedit

Umbire the Phantom: same as before, only the giant beetle left

2025-05-21T17:56:10Z

same as before, only the giant beetle left

Umbire the Phantom: /* dNetHack */ pothole

2024-08-04T14:32:43Z

‎dNetHack: pothole

Umbire the Phantom: /* dNetHack / dnh

2024-08-04T14:32:28Z

‎dNetHack: *dnh

Umbire the Phantom: /* Variants */ copyedit

2024-06-12T02:31:34Z

‎Variants: copyedit

Ion frigate: Quite rare due to this particular bug

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Quite rare due to this particular bug

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 ===EvilHack===
-In [[EvilHack]], queen 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 queen bee stings unless they obtain the intrinsic by gaining experience levels. Conversely, a hero with extrinsic poison resistance can eat queen bees to increase their intrinsic levels of poison resistance.
+In [[EvilHack]], queen 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 queen bee stings unless they obtain the intrinsic by gaining experience levels. Conversely, a hero with extrinsic poison resistance can eat queen bees to increase their intrinsic levels of poison resistance (with a gain of +5% per bee).
 [[Honey badger]]s have a mutual [[grudge]] against queen bees and can generate on levels with beehives, and will move towards the royal jelly within the hive if they are closer to it than they are to you&mdash;this makes it possible that the badgers will awaken the hive before you are prepared to deal with either them or the hive's bees.

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 ==Variants==
 ===SLASH'EM===
-In [[SLASH'EM]], a [[bug]] causes beehives to only generate on [[special level]]s&mdash;as a result, in most games the only queen bee encountered will be the one in the Wizard's Tower.
+In [[SLASH'EM]], queen bees can cause instant death with their sting as in [[NetHack 3.4.3]]&mdash;strength drain from the sting or from eating a queen bee corpse can be cured with a unicorn horn, though unicorn horns in SLASH'EM require a higher [[enchantment]] to more reliably cure troubles.
 ===dNetHack===
-In [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]] and [[notnotdNetHack]], queen bees are a lawful species.
+In [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]] and [[notnotdNetHack]], queen bees are a lawful species and can cause instant death with their sting as in NetHack 3.4.3, and strength drain cannot be cured with a unicorn horn.
-Some queen bees are encountered on [[Law quest (dNetHack)|the Lawful Quest]], and have a {{frac|3|5}} chance of generating with armor made to fit their body shape: a {{frac|10}} chance of generating with [[plate mail]], a {{frac|2|9}} chance of generating with [[scale mail]] if plate is not given, and a {{frac|3|7}} chance of generating with a [[gentlewoman's dress]] if scale mail is not given. Queen bees that receive a suit of mail this way will also generate with a [[helmet]].
+Queen bees that are generated in [[Law quest (dNetHack)|the Lawful Quest]] have a {{frac|3|5}} chance of being [[generated with]] [[armor]] made to fit their body shape: a {{frac|10}} chance of generating with [[plate mail]], a {{frac|2|9}} chance of generating with [[scale mail]] if plate is not given, and a {{frac|3|7}} chance of generating with a [[gentlewoman's dress]] if scale mail is not given. Queen bees that receive a suit of mail this way will also generate with a [[helmet]].
 ===EvilHack===
-In [[EvilHack]], poison resistance is a [[partial intrinsic]], meaning that queen bees can be more dangerous for a hero since they need 35% poison resistance to prevent instant deaths from their stings, unless they can obtain the intrinsic by gaining [[experience level]]s. Conversely, a hero with extrinsic poison resistance that finds a beehive can eat the corpses of the killer bees and queen bee there to increase their intrinsic levels of poison resistance.
+In [[EvilHack]], queen 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 queen bee stings unless they obtain the intrinsic by gaining experience levels. Conversely, a hero with extrinsic poison resistance can eat queen bees to increase their intrinsic levels of poison resistance.
-[[Honey badger]]s have a mutual [[grudge]] against queen bees and can generate on levels with beehives, and will move towards the royal jelly within the hive if they are closer to it than they are to you&mdash;this makes it possible that the badgers will awaken the hive before you are prepared to deal with either them or the bees.
+[[Honey badger]]s have a mutual [[grudge]] against queen bees and can generate on levels with beehives, and will move towards the royal jelly within the hive if they are closer to it than they are to you&mdash;this makes it possible that the badgers will awaken the hive before you are prepared to deal with either them or the hive's bees.
 ===SlashTHEM===
-In [[SlashTHEM]], the Gnome King's Apiary is a variant of [[Mines' End]] that contains a beehive with a queen bee and several killer bees, as well as a statue of a queen bee.<!--verify that SLASH'EM bug is no longer present-->
+In [[SlashTHEM]], in addition to SLASH'EM details, the Gnome King's Apiary is a variant of [[Mines' End]] that contains a beehive with a queen bee and several killer bees, as well as a statue of a queen bee.<!--verify that SLASH'EM bug is no longer present-->
 ===Hack'EM===
-In [[Hack'EM]], partial intrinsics function as in EvilHack, with the exception that only 25% partial poison resistance is required to avoid instant death from queen bee stings and other poison attacks. The mutual grudge between bees and honey badgers also applies.
+In [[Hack'EM]], queen bees can cause instant death with their sting as in NetHack 3.6.7, and strength drain cannot be cured with a unicorn horn. Partial intrinsics function as in EvilHack, although a hero only requires 25% intrinsic poison resistance to avoid instant death from queen bee stings and other poison attacks. The mutual grudge between bees and honey badgers from EvilHack also applies.
 ==Encyclopedia entry==

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	The queen bee is quite vicious on her own, but has 0 [[Magic resistance (monster)\|MR score]] and remains as vulnerable to [[wand]]s and [[spell]]s as normal killer bees, though she also possesses a solid base [[AC]] of 4. More often than not a queen is accompanied by her hive, and improperly handling a swarm can result in damage piling up quickly—even with poison resistance, you should be solidly armored with a weapon that can reliably land hits against their low AC. [[Stealth]] is a useful [[property]] for clearing beehives, allowing a hero to employ selective noise-making and draw away the killer bees from their queen a few at a time. Crowd-control tactics like [[scaring]] bees via [[bugle]] or [[tooled horn]] and funneling them through hallways can keep the queen off your back until you have dealt with the weaker bees, and is especially ideal to prevent the royal jelly in the hive from being eaten if you want an easier fight and/or want to eat the jelly yourself.		The queen bee is quite vicious on her own, but has 0 [[Magic resistance (monster)\|MR score]] and remains as vulnerable to [[wand]]s and [[spell]]s as normal killer bees, though she also possesses a solid base [[AC]] of 4. More often than not a queen is accompanied by her hive, and improperly handling a swarm can result in damage piling up quickly—even with poison resistance, you should be solidly armored with a weapon that can reliably land hits against their low AC. [[Stealth]] is a useful [[property]] for clearing beehives, allowing a hero to employ selective noise-making and draw away the killer bees from their queen a few at a time. Crowd-control tactics like [[scaring]] bees via [[bugle]] or [[tooled horn]] and funneling them through hallways can keep the queen off your back until you have dealt with the weaker bees, and is especially ideal to prevent the royal jelly in the hive from being eaten if you want an easier fight and/or want to eat the jelly yourself.
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−	{{upcoming\|NetHack 3.7.0\|Per {{commit\|d0b11fd2c05dae5ebc7a3ff6425257e6ed372894}}, poison no longer causes instadeath, but still results in significant damage to maximum HP and attributes. Per {{commit\|43d331c4ebe7bcd30a7cab7d4228957e283584c2}}, unicorn horns no longer restore lost attributes.
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−	Since killer bees will eat lumps of royal jelly to become queen bees, it is prudent to save the original queen for last when clearing out a hive if you want an easier fight and/or want their jelly for yourself. Per {{commit\|677b32c2a7a016ba9708f2bcc63582cb5100d3a7}}, an attack on a monster that is generated asleep which does not kill the monster will cause it to wake up noisily, which in turn will awaken nearby monsters—this means that stealth is trickier to clear beehives with, though it is still possible.}}

	==History==		==History==

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   |resistances conveyed=[[Poison resistance]] (60%)
   |attributes={{attributes|A queen bee|animal=1|fly=1|nohands=1|oviparous=1|pois=1|hostile=1|female=1|prince=1}}
-  |reference=[https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/blob/NetHack-3.6.7_Released/src/monst.c#L138 NetHack 3.6.7 - src/monst.c, line 138]
+  |reference=[https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/blob/NetHack-5.0.0_Released/include/monsters.h#L126 NetHack 5.0.0 - include/monsters.h, line 126]
 }}
-A '''queen bee''', {{monsym|queen bee}}, is a type of [[monster]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]''. The queen bee is an [[insect]] that is a much stronger form of [[killer bee]], and is an [[overlord]] to her kind.
+A '''queen bee''', {{monsym|queen bee}}, is a type of [[monster]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]''. The queen bee is an [[insect]] that is a stronger form of [[killer bee]], and is an [[overlord]] to her kind.
-A queen bee has a single [[poisonous]] [[sting]] that can drain [[strength]], and possesses [[poison resistance]].
+A queen bee has a [[sting attack]] that can inflict [[strength]]-draining [[poison]], and possesses [[poison resistance]].
 A queen bee [[corpse]] is poisonous to [[eat]], and eating a queen bee corpse or [[tin]] has a {{frac|3|5}} chance of granting poison resistance.
-[[Chatting]] to a queen bee causes it to buzz angrily if it is hostile, and otherwise it will "drone".{{refsrc|src/sounds.c|690|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
+[[Chatting]] to a queen bee causes it to buzz angrily if it is hostile, and otherwise it will "drone".{{refsrc|src/sounds.c|903-L906|nethack=5.0.0}}
 ==Generation==
 Queen bees are not randomly generated, and normally-created ones are always hostile.
-Each [[beehive]] contains a single queen bee, including the guaranteed one within the [[Wizard's Tower]].
+Each [[beehive]] contains a single queen bee, including the guaranteed one within the [[Wizard's Tower]].{{refsrc|src/mkroom.c|352|nethack=5.0.0}}
-Queen bees can hatch from [[eggs]], including ones laid by a [[hero]] [[polymorph]]ed into a queen bee, but only {{frac|77}} of eggs laid by queen bees will be queen bee eggs, and the rest will be killer bee eggs.{{refsrc|src/mon.c|3914|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
+Queen bees can hatch from [[egg]]s, including ones laid by a [[hero]] [[polymorph]]ed into a queen bee, but only {{frac|77}} of eggs laid by queen bees will be queen bee eggs, and the rest will be killer bee eggs. [[Applying]] a non-cursed lump of royal jelly to a killer bee egg will transform it into a queen bee egg (and revive the egg if it was stale), and using blessed royal jelly will also guarantee that it hatches tame.{{refsrc|src/apply.c|3615-L3683|nethack=5.0.0|comment=<tt>use_royal_jelly()</tt> function}}
-{{upcoming|NetHack 3.7.0|Per {{commit|4159dd985aa94e55c07ddb7e5280b83237a2a085}}, killer bees can eat [[royal jelly]] to [[grow up]] into queen bees if no queen already exists on the level, and pet killer bees will actively seek out nearby royal jelly to do this. If queen bees are genocided, killer bees will die upon eating royal jelly. Per {{commit|5e26589fa7882984e8347e041cb75dcd3e8ce25f}}, this also applies to a hero polymorphed into a killer bee that eats royal jelly.
+A killer bee can eat a [[lump of royal jelly]] to [[grow up]] into a queen bee (which includes a hero polymorphed into a killer bee{{refsrc|src/eat.c|2529-L2532|nethack=5.0.0}}), and cannot grow up into queen bees by standard means:{{refsrc|src/monmove.c|390-L420|nethack=5.0.0|comment=<tt>bee_eat_jelly()</tt> function}} killer bees will only eat royal jelly to grow up if there are no queen bees on the current [[dungeon level]]{{refsrc|src/makemon.c|2066|nethack=5.0.0}}{{refsrc|src/monmove.c|866-L874|nethack=5.0.0}}&mdash;pet killer bees will seek out lumps of royal jelly for this purpose.{{refsrc|src/dog.c|1023-L1029|nethack=5.0.0}}{{refsrc|src/dogmove.c|255-L259|nethack=5.0.0}} If queen bees are [[genocided]], killer bees that eat royal jelly will die instead.
-Per {{commit|d44c83d45ff65ad4cb4391276571e9d0ed06c22f}}, [[applying]] non-cursed royal jelly to a killer bee egg will turn it into a queen bee egg; cursed royal jelly will kill the egg ('The egg quivers feebly'), while non-cursed jelly will revive it if it is stale ('The egg quivers briefly'), and blessed jelly will make the newborn creature consider the hero its parent, so it is guaranteed to hatch tame.}}
+==Strategy==
-==Strategy==
+For a hero without poison resistance, an extrinsic source such as an [[alchemy smock]] or [[amulet versus poison]], will prevent the worst of the damage from the stings, and high [[magic cancellation]] from armor can offer some protection as a last resort. Successful [[prayer]] and [[potions of restore ability]] can counteract attribute damage from the queen bee's stings, and a [[ring of sustain ability]] can prevent attribute damage (but ''not'' the HP damage) inflicted from any particularly toxic stings.
-The queen bee is quite vicious on her own, but has 0 [[Magic resistance (monster)|MR score]] and remains as vulnerable to [[wand]]s and [[spell]]s as normal killer bees, though she also possesses a solid base [[AC]] of 4. More often than not a queen is accompanied by her hive, and improperly handling a swarm can result in damage piling up quickly&mdash;even with poison resistance, you should be solidly armored with a weapon that can reliably land hits against their low AC. [[Stealth]] is an excellent [[property]] to use in clearing beehives, and crowd-control tactics like [[scaring]] via [[bugle]] or [[tooled horn]] and funneling them through long hallways can keep the queen off your back until you have dealt with the weaker bees.
+The queen bee is quite vicious on her own, but has 0 [[Magic resistance (monster)|MR score]] and remains as vulnerable to [[wand]]s and [[spell]]s as normal killer bees, though she also possesses a solid base [[AC]] of 4. More often than not a queen is accompanied by her hive, and improperly handling a swarm can result in damage piling up quickly&mdash;even with poison resistance, you should be solidly armored with a weapon that can reliably land hits against their low AC. [[Stealth]] is a useful [[property]] for clearing beehives, allowing a hero to employ selective noise-making and draw away the killer bees from their queen a few at a time. Crowd-control tactics like [[scaring]] bees via [[bugle]] or [[tooled horn]] and funneling them through hallways can keep the queen off your back until you have dealt with the weaker bees, and is especially ideal to prevent the royal jelly in the hive from being eaten if you want an easier fight and/or want to eat the jelly yourself.
 {{upcoming|NetHack 3.7.0|Per {{commit|d0b11fd2c05dae5ebc7a3ff6425257e6ed372894}}, poison no longer causes instadeath, but still results in significant damage to maximum HP and attributes. Per {{commit|43d331c4ebe7bcd30a7cab7d4228957e283584c2}}, unicorn horns no longer restore lost attributes.
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 ==History==
 The queen bee is introduced in [[NetHack 3.0.0]], which also introduces beehives.
 ==Origin==
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 A queen bee is typically an adult, mated female of a honey bee species that lives in a colony or hive&mdash;the term "queen bee" can be more generally applied to any dominant, reproductive female in a eusocial bee species colony.
-The queen is usually the primary bee with fully developed reproductive organs, and thus the mother of most (if not all) of the bees in the beehive. Queens are developed from larvae selected by worker bees and specially fed with [[royal jelly]] in order to become sexually mature; the bees usually follow and fiercely protect the solitary queen. In some species such as the [[wikipedia:Schwarziana quadripunctata|Brazilian stingless bee]], a single nest may have multiple queens or even dwarf queens, ready to replace a dominant queen in a case of sudden death.
+The queen is usually the primary bee with fully developed reproductive organs, and thus the mother of most (if not all) of the bees in the beehive. Queens are developed from larvae selected by worker bees and specially fed with royal jelly in order to become sexually mature; the bees usually follow and fiercely protect the solitary queen. In some species such as the [[wikipedia:Schwarziana quadripunctata|Brazilian stingless bee]], a single nest may have multiple queens or even dwarf queens, ready to replace a dominant queen in a case of sudden death.
 ==Messages==
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 {{message|The <queen bee> drones.|You chatted to a queen bee that was not hostile.}}
-{{message|You feel very comfortable here.|You sat on a [[throne]] as a queen bee, and no effect occurred.}}
+{{message|You feel very comfortable here.|You sat on a [[throne]] while polymorphed into a queen bee, and no effect occurred.}}
 ==Variants==
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 ==References==
 <references/>
-{{nethack-367}}
+{{nethack-500}}
 [[Category:Monsters]]

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   |frequency=0
   |genocidable=Yes
-  |attacks=[[Sting]] 1d8 [[poison]]
+  |attacks=[[Sting attack|sting]] 1d8 [[poison]] ([[strength]])
   |weight=1
   |nutr=5
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   |reference=[https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/blob/NetHack-3.6.7_Released/src/monst.c#L138 NetHack 3.6.7 - src/monst.c, line 138]
 }}
-A '''queen bee''', {{monsym|queen bee}}, is a type of [[monster]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]''. The queen bee is an [[insect]] that is a much stronger version of the [[killer bee]], and is an [[overlord]] to her kind.
+A '''queen bee''', {{monsym|queen bee}}, is a type of [[monster]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]''. The queen bee is an [[insect]] that is a much stronger form of [[killer bee]], and is an [[overlord]] to her kind.
 A queen bee has a single [[poisonous]] [[sting]] that can drain [[strength]], and possesses [[poison resistance]].
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 A queen bee [[corpse]] is poisonous to [[eat]], and eating a queen bee corpse or [[tin]] has a {{frac|3|5}} chance of granting poison resistance.
-[[Chatting]] to a queen bee causes it to drone, or buzz angrily if hostile.
+[[Chatting]] to a queen bee causes it to buzz angrily if it is hostile, and otherwise it will "drone".{{refsrc|src/sounds.c|690|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
 {{upcoming|NetHack 3.7.0|Per {{commit|dbd39f2cd5c4648228860c4090a6b9742f208c81}}, [[statue]]s of queen bees and other [[tiny]] monsters have a minimum [[weight]] of 100.}}
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 The queen bee is quite vicious on her own, but has 0 [[Magic resistance (monster)|MR score]] and remains as vulnerable to [[wand]]s and [[spell]]s as normal killer bees, though she also possesses a solid base [[AC]] of 4. More often than not a queen is accompanied by her hive, and improperly handling a swarm can result in damage piling up quickly&mdash;even with poison resistance, you should be solidly armored with a weapon that can reliably land hits against their low AC. [[Stealth]] is an excellent [[property]] to use in clearing beehives, and crowd-control tactics like [[scaring]] via [[bugle]] or [[tooled horn]] and funneling them through long hallways can keep the queen off your back until you have dealt with the weaker bees.
-{{upcoming|3.7.0|Per {{commit|d0b11fd2c05dae5ebc7a3ff6425257e6ed372894}}, poison no longer causes instadeath, but still results in significant damage to maximum HP and attributes. Per {{commit|43d331c4ebe7bcd30a7cab7d4228957e283584c2}}, unicorn horns no longer restore lost attributes.
+{{upcoming|NetHack 3.7.0|Per {{commit|d0b11fd2c05dae5ebc7a3ff6425257e6ed372894}}, poison no longer causes instadeath, but still results in significant damage to maximum HP and attributes. Per {{commit|43d331c4ebe7bcd30a7cab7d4228957e283584c2}}, unicorn horns no longer restore lost attributes.
 Since killer bees will eat lumps of royal jelly to become queen bees, it is prudent to save the original queen for last when clearing out a hive if you want an easier fight and/or want their jelly for yourself. Per {{commit|677b32c2a7a016ba9708f2bcc63582cb5100d3a7}}, an attack on a monster that is generated asleep which does not kill the monster will cause it to wake up noisily, which in turn will awaken nearby monsters&mdash;this means that stealth is trickier to clear beehives with, though it is still possible.}}
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 ==Origin==
 {{wikipedia|Queen bee}}
-A queen bee is typically an adult, mated female of a honey bee species that lives in a colony or hive - the term "queen bee" can be more generally applied to any dominant, reproductive female in a eusocial bee species colony. The queen is usually the primary bee with fully developed reproductive organs, and thus the mother of most (if not all) of the bees in the beehive. Queens are developed from larvae selected by worker bees and specially fed with [[royal jelly]] in order to become sexually mature; the bees usually follow and fiercely protect the solitary queen.
+A queen bee is typically an adult, mated female of a honey bee species that lives in a colony or hive&mdash;the term "queen bee" can be more generally applied to any dominant, reproductive female in a eusocial bee species colony.
-In some species such as the [[wikipedia:Schwarziana quadripunctata|Brazilian stingless bee]], a single nest may have multiple queens or even dwarf queens, ready to replace a dominant queen in a case of sudden death.
+The queen is usually the primary bee with fully developed reproductive organs, and thus the mother of most (if not all) of the bees in the beehive. Queens are developed from larvae selected by worker bees and specially fed with [[royal jelly]] in order to become sexually mature; the bees usually follow and fiercely protect the solitary queen. In some species such as the [[wikipedia:Schwarziana quadripunctata|Brazilian stingless bee]], a single nest may have multiple queens or even dwarf queens, ready to replace a dominant queen in a case of sudden death.
 ==Messages==
 {{message|You feel very comfortable here.|You sat on a [[throne]] as a queen bee, and no effect occurred.}}
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 In [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]] and [[notnotdNetHack]], queen bees are a lawful species.
-Some queen bees are encountered on [[Law quest (dNetHack)|the Lawful Quest]], and can be [[generated with]] armor made to fit their body shape. generated on the Lawful Quest has a {{frac|3|5}} chance of generating with armor: a {{frac|10}} chance of generating with [[plate mail]], a {{frac|2|9}} chance of generating with [[scale mail]] if plate is not given, and a {{frac|3|7}} chance of generating with a [[gentlewoman's dress]] if scale mail is not given. Queen bees that receive a suit of mail this way will also generate with a [[helmet]].
+Some queen bees are encountered on [[Law quest (dNetHack)|the Lawful Quest]], and have a {{frac|3|5}} chance of generating with armor made to fit their body shape: a {{frac|10}} chance of generating with [[plate mail]], a {{frac|2|9}} chance of generating with [[scale mail]] if plate is not given, and a {{frac|3|7}} chance of generating with a [[gentlewoman's dress]] if scale mail is not given. Queen bees that receive a suit of mail this way will also generate with a [[helmet]].
 ===EvilHack===

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 ===dNetHack===
-In [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]] and [[notnotdNetHack]], queen bees are lawful. Some queen bees are encountered on [[Law quest (dNethack)|the Lawful Quest]], and [[Monster starting inventory|can generate with]] armor made to fit their body shape.
+In [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]] and [[notnotdNetHack]], queen bees are lawful. Some queen bees are encountered on [[Law quest (dNetHack)|the Lawful Quest]], and [[Monster starting inventory|can generate with]] armor made to fit their body shape.
 A queen bee generated on the Lawful Quest has a {{frac|3|5}} chance of generating with armor: a {{frac|10}} chance of generating with [[plate mail]], a {{frac|5}} chance of generating with [[chain mail]], and a {{frac|3|10}} chance of generating with a [[gentlewoman's dress]]. Queen bees that receive non-dress armor will also generate with a [[helmet]].