Great Bee Wrangle of 2020

The Great Bee Wrangle of 2020 was an event that took place on July 5th, 2020 southwest of Sneed. The event was carried out by Griffin2448 and Umiko, and its objective was to bring bees to the various player settlements in Ung Svane. This would allow for easy honeycomb and honey farming from the bees.

The event was originally planned for December 2019 after the release of Minecraft 1.15 which included the bees. The plan at the time included creating a long nether tunnel which would allow players to more easily reach unexplored terrain in hopes of finding bees. However, with the announcement of the Minecraft 1.16 update, which included large changes to the nether, it was decided that this idea would be put on hold as to not generate any more new nether chunks until after the update.

In July 2020, a month after the Minecraft 1.16 update, the plan to acquire bees was once again put in motion. As it turned out, there was a large amount of unexplored terrain just southwest of Sneed, which meant that a new nether tunnel did not have to be created. Griffin2448 and Umiko explored this area for a while before they found a bee nest in a birch forest biome. Here, they bred the bees and collected some initial honeycomb before attaching leads to the bees and leading them back to Sneed.As it turned out later, bees were found to spawn in already-generated terrain in Ung Svane. This was discovered by Orcus_Maritimus when several bees appeared in Port Threemast without his doing. This fact would have made the Great Bee Wrangle pointless, but it was a good experience nonetheless.