Queen Bee: Guide to Find and Kill

Basic Info and Stats

Queen Bee in Terraria is one of the first bosses available before Hardmode. She has several attacks, inflicts you with poison, and summons small bees to help in the battle. I highly recommend you be well-prepared before the fight, as the Queen Bee has serious basic stats:

Game Difficulty Mode	Max Life	Damage	Defense
Classic Mode	3400	30 (melee) / 22 (ranged)	30 (melee)
Expert Mode	4760	54 (melee) / 44 (ranged)	8-28 (depending on health)
Master Mode	6069	81 (melee) / 66 (ranged)	8-28 (depending on health)

Defeating the Queen Bee will allow the new NPC to appear in your world: Witch Doctor.

Since the boss may be hard to defeat without proper gear, I advise you to fight the Queen Bee after the King Slime, Eye of Cthulhu, and Brain of Cthulhu / Eater of Worlds. Moreover, items found after killing Queen Bee can be very helpful in the battle with Skeletron.

Attacks and Behavior

Queen Bee in Terraria has a variety of melee and range attacks that make her a challenging boss if you encounter her for the first time. Here’s a list of her attacks:

• Charging Attack: Queen Bee will charge at you multiple times in a row dealing melee damage. This is one of her most basic attacks and can be easily avoided with a hook or a common jump with Cloud in a Bottle.
• Stinger Shots: This is the ranged attack when she fires poison stingers at you, which can also deal big damage.
• Summon Bees: During the fight, the Queen Bee will periodically summon smaller bees that attack you (the number of bees can vary, depending on the game mode). 

The Queen Bee has different phases based on her remaining health. As her health decreases, she becomes more aggressive and charges more frequently. Her movements and attack speed also increase as her health drops below a certain point. Queen Bee is especially dangerous when at a very low health level.

If you summon the Queen Bee by breaking the Larva, you need to fight her in the Hive or near it. Trying to go outside of the Underground Jungle, to the surface, will make Queen Bee stronger, causing her movements to be faster, and dealing more damage.

However, if you want to summon the Queen Bee with an Abeemination and farm the boss, you can do it anywhere in the jungle biome. The boss will be with her general stats.

How to Find the Bee Hive

To find the Queen Bee in Terraria involves exploring the Underground Jungle biome, which is located under the Jungle biome. Here are the steps to find the Bee Hive:

1. Find the Jungle biome, which is generally located in the left part of the map (or maybe it’s just my luck).
2. Find one of the cave entrances beneath the surface of the Jungle, better in the middle of the biome.
3. Bee Hives are typically located in the cavern layers of the Underground Jungle. Reach the proper depth and look for yellow honey blocks or small parts of the bee hive, which may be located randomly in the Underground Jungle. Spotting these can confirm that you are near or in a Bee Hive.
4. Keep an eye out for the distinctive yellow hive blocks that make up the hive structure. That will be a part of the Bee Hive.
5. Once you locate it, start breaking the honey blocks to get inside.
6. There you will find the Larva and can build the battle arena.

Additional Tip: Consuming a Spelunker Potion can make it easier to spot Bee Hives, as this potion highlights valuable resources and treasures, including the Larva in the Bee Hive.

When you find a hive, it is not a very good idea not to go into it from the bottom, as you can drain all the honey. Instead, it’s better to go from above. Also, you must be prepared for the attack of the bees during the destruction of the hive blocks.

Important! Breaking the Larva inside the hive will summon the Queen Bee. You can break it with an arrow, shot, pickaxe, or sword strike. So be attentive and careful not to break the Larva ahead of time.

Battle Arena

I highly recommend setting up a proper battle arena before the battle with Queen Bee. In general, this arena is quite similar to others. Here are some tips to prepare an effective area in the Bee Hive.

1. Clear the area. First, clear a large space in the Bee Hive or near it. This space should be large enough to allow you free movement in all directions to avoid the boss attacks. A recommended size is at least 120 blocks wide and 50 blocks high.
2. Put some wooden platforms. Create several layers of platforms across the cleared area. These platforms will help you easily move and dodge other attacks. Wooden platforms work well because they are easy to jump through from below and land on from above. Space the platforms about 15-25 blocks apart vertically.
3. Add some healing items. Honey gives you a regeneration buff, so place a small pool of honey on the ground or in a container you can quickly step into during the fight. Moreover, place heart lanterns and campfires to increase health regeneration.
4. Place torches. Make sure the arena is well-lit to avoid dealing with common Jungle enemies during the battle and to see the Bee Queen properly.
5. Make easy access to the arena. If you build the arena outside the Bee Hive, dig a tunnel to access your arena easily and fast.

Required Equipment and Accessories

Queen Bee may be hard to defeat, so it’s better to prepare for the fight. First of all, you can find several Heath Crystals and get 400 health before the fight. 

Best Armor for the Queen Bee

For melee, I recommend wearing the Gold or Platinum armor. It allows you to boost your armor up to 40 armor, which may be enough for the fight. If you play in expert mode, it’s better to craft a Shadow or Crimson gear for the melee speed, damage bonuses, and additional defense. 

For magic, you can use Jungle or Meteor, as they provide increased mana and reduce mana usage. However, you should manage how to avoid Queen Bee attacks.

For range, you can use the Necro Armor, Shadow, or Crimson gear. 

Best Weapons for the Fight

The easiest way to deal damage to the Queen Bee is to use a Blade of Grass sword. It can easily reach the boss and deal good damage. Moreover, you can use a good yoyo like the Amazon or even the Valor.

As for the Magic damage, you can use a Space Gun with a Meteor armor or Book of Skulls.

If you play a ranged hero, I recommend using the Minishark with Meteor Shot or the Undertake with Silver Bullets.

Accessories

At this stage of the game, you can already have some good Accessories. 

• First of all, I recommend getting the Lightning Boots or at least Spectre Boots for quick movements to dodge attacks. 
• Another strong accessory is Shield of Cthulhu (from Expert mode), which provides a dash ability for dodging.
• One more very strong item to reduce damage is the Worm Scarf.
• You can obtain a Bezoar to have the immunity to poison.
• You can also use Cloud in a Bottle, Blizzard in a Bottle, or Sandstorm in a Bottle for extra mobility and dodging capabilities.

All other accessories are optional, but I recommend enhancing all of them for +3/4 defense and increasing your defense to 40+. In general, I think it’s the most important stat in the Pre-Hardmode game.

Useful Potions

Everything is simple here bring a stack of Healing Potion, and that will be enough. However, you can also take several additional potions to buff your character:

1. Ironskin Potion: Increases defense.
2. Regeneration Potion: Enhances health regeneration.
3. Swiftness Potion: Boosts movement speed.
4. Hunter Potion: Helps see the Queen Bee even if she goes off-screen.

Best Queen Bee Strategies

As for me, there aren’t lots of tactics to defeat the boss. Instead, you can use one Terraria Queen Bee strategy to easily kill the boss. The boss has only 3 available attacks, so you just need to know how to act during each of them.

The Queen Bee will start the fight, attacking you with three dashes from left to right, dealing melee damage. With a cloud in a bottle or on a hook, you can easily maneuver her attacks by jumping up and then dropping down. However, you can use a Shield of Cthulhu to dash at Queen Bee and deal damage to her, instead of just avoiding the attack.

Immediately after that, the Queen Bee starts hovering in the air above you and launching bees at you. Here are two options for how you can act:

• If you have enough HP, you can stand near the Queen Bee and start dealing damage with your sword. This way you can deal lots of damage and kill most of her summoned bees.
• Or you can stand in the honey during this attack to increase your health regeneration. At this point, you can also attack her with ranged weapons. However, most of your attacks will just kill the small bees, and you will not deal a huge damage to the Queen.

After that, the Queen Bee again begins to attack you with her stingers. At this point, the best way is to move around the arena, avoiding stingers, and trying to deal some ranged damage to the Queen Bee. 

And so on in a circle, until the boss will be dead. 

Quin Bee Drops and Loot

Here is the table with all the Queen Bee drops you can get from the boss after the battle, depending on the mode of the game.

Sprite	Item	Drop Chance
	Bee Keeper	33%
	Bee Gun	33%
	The Bee's Knees	33%
	Queen Bee Trophy	10%
	Treasure Bag	100% (Only Expert or Master Mode)
	Hive Pack	100% (Only Expert or Master Mode)
	Honey Comb	33%
	Nectar	11%
	Honeyed Goggles	11%
	Hive Wand	100%
	Queen Bee Mask	14.29%
	Bee Hat	33%
	Bee Shirt	33%
	Bee Pants	33%
	Beenade (10–29)	100%
	Bee Wax (17–29)	100%
	Gold Coins (Up To 12.50)	100%

Achievements

There are 3 achievements that are related to Queen Bee, or which you can’t get without defeating this boss.

Sprite	Achievement Name	Description
	Sting Operation	Defeat the Queen Bee, the matriarch of the jungle hives.
	Not the Bees!	Fire a Bee Gun while wearing a full set of Bee Armor.
	Slayer of Worlds	Defeat every boss in Terraria.