Your Not The Bees server, with the useful bits included.
Host your Not The Bees server
Host Not The Bees as a multiplayer server with CreeperHost and give your group an always-on skyblock where quests, bee breeding, technology, and magic can develop without relying on one player’s computer.
- Hybrid VPS hosting keeps modded Minecraft responsive as your island grows.
- Premium is recommended for groups building extensive automation.
- Self-hosting ties everyone’s progress to one PC and home connection.
- Casual hosting can stumble once machines, storage, and item movement multiply.
- Your world stays protected by DDoS mitigation and our game-focused network.
What Is Not The Bees?
Not The Bees is a quest-led Forge 1.12.2 skyblock pack designed to introduce players to bee-focused modded gameplay. Its 115 mods give groups a guided route into breeding and production while leaving room to build increasingly elaborate systems.
Forestry, Binnie’s Mods, Magic Bees, and Career Bees form the recognisable core. Applied Energistics 2 helps with storage, while IndustrialCraft 2, Botania, ProjectE, XNet, and Flux Networks broaden the options for technology and magic.
That mix works particularly well on a shared server: players can divide research, production, building, and quest progress instead of squeezing every job onto one island owner.
Hosting Considerations for Not The Bees
Performance as the island develops
This is a relatively compact pack, but mod count alone does not decide server performance. New worlds are commonly light; established islands can become busier as players add apiaries, machines, storage networks, item transport, and loaded chunks.
Minecraft 1.12.2 also tends to value strong single-core CPU performance. Memory matters, but simply assigning more and more is rarely the best fix. Excessive memory can produce longer garbage-collection pauses, while too little leaves Forge struggling during startup or busy play sessions.
For a small group following the quests at a relaxed pace, requirements are usually modest. Premium becomes the better choice when several players are active together or the island is expected to run substantial automation around the clock.
Keeping an older Forge pack healthy
Keep every player and the server on Not The Bees 2.3.0 with the matching Forge build. Updating individual mods independently can break recipes, quests, or dependencies in curated 1.12.2 packs.
Back up before changing configs, adding mods, or updating the pack. It also helps to limit unnecessary chunk loading and inspect any system that constantly moves items or runs without a player nearby. When tick time rises, the largest automated build is often a better place to investigate than the memory slider.
Why Run Not The Bees with CreeperHost?
One-click installation gets the correct pack files in place, while later pack updates preserve your configuration changes rather than flattening them.
CreeperPanel includes tools for finding lag sources, so you can investigate a troublesome machine network or loaded chunk without guessing blindly.
And when an older Forge server gets peculiar, you can talk to people with more than 13 years of experience hosting modded communities. You build the bee empire; we help keep its server from buzzing itself into trouble.
Got questions? 
Yes. Order from a modpack page and the selected pack is ready to install. You can also change versions or choose another supported pack later from CreeperPanel.
Our pack tooling first turned a CurseForge client pack into a server on 31 March 2017, long before generative AI entered the picture. Built by experienced members of the modded Minecraft community, it works out which files a dedicated server needs, automatically detects known client-only mods before they get in the way, and prepares the right Minecraft, modloader, and launch setup. It also watches pack starts: if one crashes, the failure is automatically reported to our team so we can see what actually happened and improve the handling. Automation is only the first line. When a pack needs its own fix or setup step, our team can build one rather than forcing everything through the same rigid template.
Yep. CreeperPanel lets you search for and install extra mods, then update, enable, or disable them alongside the rest of the pack. It checks the Minecraft version and modloader and warns you about known client-only mods. Mods can still disagree with each other, because modded Minecraft, but you get proper tools and real people to help rather than a folder full of mystery files.
CreeperPanel is built around real modded servers, including update paths that aim to preserve user configuration changes where supported instead of treating every update like a fresh install.
Yes. SaveGuard keeps automatic world backups on separate backup storage, away from the machine running your server, without using your allocated server disk. It stores only what changed between saves, so even losing the whole game node would not take the protected worlds with it.
If your world still exists when the service ends, Save Your World keeps a copy for up to a year. Come back later and you can restore it to a new service in one click, picking up where you left off.
Eco can work for lighter packs, but Premium is the recommended CreeperHost range for modded Minecraft. Premium gives stronger hardware, Turbo Start, Bonus Memory, and Ask Theo where enabled.
CreeperHost's generative AI tools drafted this description from information freely available to the public and facts about our own hosting. Our pack automation has been built and improved by experienced members of the modded Minecraft community since 2017; AI helps us describe that enormous catalogue, it does not make the server packs. We review and replace these drafts as time allows or when somebody flags one for the human touch. Spotted an inaccuracy? Please let us know.