Honey Beast

Honey beasts are creatures found in Appalachia in 2102.

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 and The Mire regions.

Biology
The honey beast is a mutated honey bee. It dwarfs a typical human in size, and features large, beehive-like structures on its thorax that ooze what is presumably honey.

It is unknown if the structures are an integrated part of the honey beast's physiology or actual hives that are constructed on the exterior of its body. It is known to be vulnerable to fire and cryogenic based weapons.

Its sheer size means that it can no longer fly and probably wouldn't be able to, even if it were smaller, given that its wings are stubby and severely frayed. As such, it moves around on the ground, although it can also walk on walls.

The presence of regular sized honey bees in other locations in Appalachia suggests that honey beasts have a similar mutation to bloatflies and regular flies.

Gameplay attributes
Honey beasts move in a slow manner 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.

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

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 nuke zones.

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.

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

Locations

 * Encountered during Irrational Fear.
 * Can sometimes appear at the unmarked cave northeast of Freddy Fear's House of Scares.
 * Can sometimes appear at Seneca Rocks Visitor Center.
 * A total of eight can sometimes appear at Middle Mountain Cabins.
 * Can sometimes appear on the garden area between the Whitespring Resort and the Whitespring golf club.
 * Two to three sometimes spawn in the Fasnacht Day event.
 * One can be found dead at the Freak Show.
 * Three sometimes appear at the treetops.

Appearances
Honey beasts appear only in Fallout 76.

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