🐝 Beehive Inspector: Beehive Info Tooltip

Quickly see stored bees, honey level, and harvest readiness without opening menus or guessing what a hive contains.

Beehive Inspector: Beehive Info Tooltip adds compact, vanilla-style information to Bee Nest and Beehive item tooltips. It displays only values that are actually available on the item, so missing data is never presented as a fake zero.

A normal tooltip can show:

Bees: 2 / 3
Honey: 4 / 5

At honey level five, it can also display:

Ready for Harvest

✨ Features

• Shows the reliable number of bees stored in a Bee Nest or Beehive item.
• Shows honey level only when valid block-state data exists.
• Marks honey level five as ready for harvest.
• Can show nectar-carrying bees when every stored occupant contains reliable nectar data.
• Offers normal and compact tooltip layouts.
• Includes English and Brazilian Portuguese translations.
• Supports compatible modded hives that use vanilla-style hive blocks, tags, or block entities.
• Provides an optional overlay for only the placed hive currently under the crosshair.
• Never scans nearby chunks or iterates over every hive.
• Ignores absent, malformed, or oversized hive data safely.

🎯 Targeted world information

The optional world overlay follows only the hive currently under the crosshair and remains limited to normal interaction range.

Placed-hive honey level comes from the synchronized block state and does not require the mod on the server. Vanilla does not synchronize stored hive occupants to clients, so the placed-hive bee count requires the matching server build.

The server validates the target, interaction range, loaded chunk, ray hit, and block entity before returning only a bounded bee count. Full bee NBT is never transmitted.

🖥️ Client and server requirements

Server installation is optional when only item tooltips and placed-hive honey information are wanted. Without the server component, the overlay does not invent a placed-hive bee count.

🧩 Supported versions and loaders

Use the JAR matching both the exact Minecraft version and loader.

Fabric is not supported. Files are not interchangeable between Minecraft versions or loaders.

📦 Installation

1. Install the supported Forge or NeoForge loader for the exact Minecraft version.
2. Download the matching Beehive Info Tooltip JAR from the CurseForge Files tab.
3. Place it in the client instance's mods folder.
4. To enable placed-hive bee counts in multiplayer, place the matching build on the server too.
5. Start Minecraft.
6. Back up important worlds before adding or updating any mod.

No external configuration library or required content-mod dependency is needed.

⚙️ Configuration

The mod creates:

config/beehive-info-tooltip-client.properties

Available options control:

• bee count;
• honey level;
• harvest readiness;
• targeted world information;
• explicit known-empty values;
• compact tooltip layout;
• compatible modded-hive detection.

Invalid boolean values fall back safely to their defaults. The configuration checks periodically for ordinary external edits without requiring a full game restart.

🍯 Silk Touch and compatibility

Silk Touch information is shown whenever the resulting item stack actually contains the stored hive data. Missing occupant data is treated as unknown rather than as an empty hive.

Compatible modded hives may work when they use supported vanilla-style hive blocks, hive tags, or BeehiveBlockEntity mechanics. Compatibility with every custom hive implementation is not guaranteed.

🌐 Languages

• English (en_us)
• Brazilian Portuguese (pt_br)

❓ Frequently asked questions

Is the mod required on the server?

Not for item tooltips or placed-hive honey level. The matching server build is required only when the world overlay should display the number of bees inside a placed hive.

Does it display empty hives as zero?

Only when the data source proves the value and showEmptyHiveInfo is enabled. Missing data remains hidden.

Does it scan the world for hives?

No. It inspects only the relevant item while its tooltip is built and only the placed block currently targeted by the player.

Does it support Fabric?

No. This release supports only the Forge and NeoForge combinations listed above.

Suggested search terms

HivePeek, beehive tooltip, bee nest, bee information, honey level, harvest ready, Silk Touch, hive overlay, quality of life, vanilla style, Forge, NeoForge, client utility