We all love bees here, right? Little buzzy guys who fly around? Bumblebees are especially great; they're such sweethearts.
Well, as they say, bigger is always better. So more bigger is even more better!
This mod adds Megabees; flightless bees the size of... Well, an elephant is size 4, and Megabees are size 5.25. These huge boys and girls are living production machines; they can grow wool, lay HUGE eggs (I'm talking 1.2 nutrition each, here), and can produce "tallow': A special kind of honey that's quite similar to insect jelly, but is even more fun to eat, and doesn't carry germs! Hell, it's so clean that you can make an alternative to Herbal Medicine with it!
FEATURES AND ITEMS:
Megabees - An enormous, flightless relative of the bumblebee. Extremely docile, and a bit sassy. Has a tendency to wander off; but not very quickly. These big, fluffy, friendly fellows can be found in forests; they like temperate ones the most, but will sometimes wander towards the tropics or boreal climates to find food.
Megabee Tallow - A healthier alternative to insect jelly, obtained from a friendly source.
Megabee Wool - Though not especially warm or cool, this wool resists rips and tears even in rough conditions. Has a huge HP modifier, but poor insulation and moderate armor stats.
Megabee Eggs - These can be fertilized or unfertilized; at 1.2 nutrition a pop, they can sustain a small colony or tribe just by themselves.
Megabee Tallow Salve - Crafted from the Wool and Tallow of a Megabee, this salve isn't quite as potent as a package of herbal medicine; however, a skilled doctor will find more use in the sturdy fibers of the Megabee Wool than the leaves of Herbal Medicine.
UPDATE II:
Vastly reduced the value of Megabee Tallow (from 7.2 to 1.2), since they used to produce over 10k value a year from Tallow alone.
Overall buffed Megabee wool to put it more on par with other medium-high-end animal skins/leathers.
Reduced their food rate by 10%. For most animals this wouldn't be a lot, but this brings Megabees down from 6.03/day to 5.427/day!
Also added new x256 textures, so they look a nice bit tidier.
UPDATE:
Some small adjustments to make the mod better.
Megabees now only mate on average once every two days, so hopefully you'll get some unfertilized eggs every so often.
Megabees now lay bigger clutches of eggs (2~3 up from 1~2; average eggs increased by 1).
Textures have been slightly updated; mostly cleanup on the side textures, but some anti-aliasing has been done on all of the textures to make them a bit less sharp.
