Honey Beast

Honey beasts are creatures found in Appalachia.

Background
Honey beasts are ordinary honey bees that have undergone severe mutations due to radiation. Normal-sized bees construct hives upon their backs and help defend the honey beast. They can typically be found in the Forest, the Mire and the Toxic Valley.

Biology
The honey beast is a mutated honey bee. It dwarfs a typical human in size, and features large beehives on its thorax that ooze honey. Due to its sheer size and stubby, severely frayed wings, it can no longer fly. As such, it moves around on the ground, although it can also walk on walls.

Gameplay attributes
Honey beasts move slowly, and when engaging with hostiles, they will release bee swarms from the hives on their backs causing an easy distraction for the beast to make its attack. They attack slowly but powerfully and can cause immense damage if they manage to lock the player character into a stagger. Fire and cryogenic weapons do not inflict additional damage to the honey beast.

Honey beast
This is the base variant of the honey beast.

Putrified honey beast
A slightly stronger honey beast variant.

Raging honey beast
An even stronger honey beast variant.

Glowing honey beast
A more powerful variant, the glowing honey beast is a honey beast that glows green. Like other glowing creatures it has been affected by high radiation levels and can spawn in blast zones.

Rabid honey beast
A high-level variant found in the Vault raids.

Frenzied honey beast
A high-level variant found in the Vault raids.

Poisonous honey beast
The most powerful honey beast variant. They are encountered during Vault Mission: Meltdown and Vault Mission: Washout. They are identical in appearance to raging honey beasts.

Giant honey beast
A high-level variant found in the Vault raids.

Deadly honey beast
A high-level variant found in the Vault raids.

Scorched honey beast
A honey beast that has been infected with the Scorched Plague.

Prime honey beast
A high-level variant found in the Savage Divide Primal Cuts event.

Locations

 * Encountered during Irrational Fear, Project Paradise and A Real Blast at the Seneca Rocks Visitor Center.
 * Two to three sometimes spawn in the Fasnacht Day event.
 * Scorched variants can sometimes spawn during the Scorched Earth event.
 * Six or more can spawn during the Meat Week and Primal Cuts events.
 * Can be reliably found on an unmarked cave northeast of Freddy Fear's House of Scares.
 * Can sometimes appear at Seneca Rocks Visitor Center.
 * Three can sometimes appear at Middle Mountain Cabins.
 * Can sometimes appear on the garden area between the Whitespring Resort and the Whitespring Golf Club.
 * Three sometimes appear at the Treetops.
 * One can be found dead at the Freak Show.

Appearances
Honey beasts appear only in Fallout 76.