Bee Swarm Simulator Beginner Guide: Your First Week

How the main loop works

Nearly everything in the game comes back to one loop. Go to a field and collect pollen until your bag is full. Return to your hive and turn the pollen into honey. Spend the honey on more bees and better gear.

While you collect, your bees drop ability tokens on the field. Collect them, because they give bonuses such as Haste and Focus. Some bugs in the fields will fight you, so walk away from any you cannot beat yet.

What to do first

Your first few sessions can follow a simple order.

• Claim an empty hive and hatch your first bee from a Basic Egg.
• Farm a starter field such as Sunflower or Dandelion in short trips, returning to the hive each time your bag fills.
• Talk to the bears near the start and read which fields they name. Their quests are the clearest path for a new player.
• Claim each quest reward before you start the next task, since some rewards give items that speed up your farming.
• Consider joining the game's official Roblox group. Guides say it gives access to free rewards, including a dispenser.
• Use your honey to get up to at least 5 bees with Basic Eggs.

How progress works

Quests are the backbone of the early game. Guides agree on starting with Black Bear and Mother Bear, who pay out honey, tickets and items. Science Bear and Panda Bear can come after those.

For gear, one simple test helps. If your bag fills in seconds, save for a bigger bag. If collecting feels slow while your bag stays empty, a better tool may help more. Guides disagree on which to buy first, so go by what is slowing you down. Compare the numbers in the shop before you buy, and keep saving if something more useful is close.

Some parts of the map are behind gates that count your bees. One wiki guide lists about 10 bees for the Pro Shop and 25 bees for the Mountain Top area. Check the gate itself in game, as these numbers may change.

Common mistakes

• Buying every small upgrade you can afford, then having nothing left for a big one.
• Spending rare items too early. Tickets, glue, glitter, rare eggs and stingers are slow to replace, so read what each one does and save it until it unlocks a clear upgrade.
• Spending all your honey on Royal Jelly hoping for one rare bee.
• Skipping the Black Bear and Mother Bear quests.
• Letting a full bag sit in the field. A full bag collects nothing, so head back.
• Turning your whole hive into one colour early. Guides warn this makes quests in other colour fields much harder, and a mix also helps you learn what each bee does.
• Relying on an advanced friend's bees instead of building up your own hive through quests.

What to do next

After your first few days, keep doing bear quests and work towards the bee gates. Try to farm one field for a while rather than switching often. Field boosts can make one area much better for a short time, so farm that field while a boost is running.

Save your tickets. Guides often name the Tabby Bee as a good long-term target for them. Start learning which bees give which tokens, because that is what later hive planning is based on. Rare bees and expensive masks can wait until your basic setup is steady.