The Working Bees update in Grow a Garden brings a whole new set of features and items to the game that all players can interact with and acquire.
In a similar way to the previous Friendship update, Working Bees in Grow a Garden expands on elements first introduced previously by adding whole new features such as Crafting that are integrated into past systems.
To cover all of what’s new to play and earn, we’ll run through the Working Bees update in Grow a Garden, covering the brand new Crafting Station, listing all Crafting Recipes, on top of all the new seeds, events, mutations, and more.
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Bizzy Bear’s Crafting Station and Recipes in Grow a Garden
The main headline attraction of the Working Bees update is the addition of crafting.
Set up by Bizzy Bear in the centre of the level, you’ll be able to build and collect a variety of items by combining a plethora of other things you find, including Honey you can earn as part of the Bee and Friendship updates.
To begin crafting items, you’ll want to interact with one of the two crafting stations you can find nearby Bizzy Bear – you can even ask them for more information too.
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In each of these stations, you’ll be able to craft a variety of items using different plants, currencies, and more. Each one will take a certain amount of time to craft, going by real-time, but much like your garden, will craft even when you’re not on the game.
Here is a full list of all items you can craft as part of the Working Bees update in Grow a Garden:
Item
Time to Craft
Effects
Required Materials
Tropical Mist Sprinkler
1-hour
Increases growth speed and size bonus for select plants
Coconut, Dragon Fruit, Mango, Godly Sprinkler
Berry Blusher Sprinkler
1-hour
Increases size bonus for select plants
Grape, Blueberry, Strawberry, Godly Sprinkler
Spice Spritzer Sprinkler
1-hour
Increases variant chance bonus for select plants
Pepper, Ember Lily, Cacao, Master Sprinkler
Sweet Soaker Sprinkler
1-hour
Increases size bonus for select plants
Watermelon x3 and Master Sprinkler
Flower Froster Sprinkler
1-hour
Freezes Flower type plants
Orange Tulip, Daffodil, Advanced Sprinkler, Basic Sprinkler
Stalk Sprout Sprinkler
1-hour
Increses growth speed and wets select plants
Bamboo, Beanstalk, Mushroom, Advanced Sprinkler
Mutation Spray Choc
12 minutes
Covers a fruit in Chocolate
Cleaning Spray, Cacao, Honey
Mutation Spray Pollinated
5 minutes
Pollinates a fruit
Cleaning Spray, Bee Balm, Honey x25
Mutation Spray Shocked
30 minutes
Shocks a fruit
Cleaning Spray, Lightning Rod, Honey x250
Honey Crafters Crate
30 minutes
Contains one of several Bee-themed rewards
Bee Crate, Honey x12
Anti Bee Egg
2 hours
Contains one of several Bee-themed rewards, or a random pet (including the Disco Bee)
Bee Egg, Honey x25
Pack Bee
4 hours
Increases backpack size by 25
Anti Bee Egg, Sunflower, Purple Dahlia, Honey x250
Crafters Seed Pack
20 minutes
Contains one of six new plants
Flower Seed Pack, Honey x10
Manuka Flower
20 minutes
N/A
Daffodil, Orange Tulip, Honey x6
Dandelion
16 minutes
N/A
Bamboo x2, Manuka Flower, Honey x20
Lumira
20 minutes
N/A
Pumpkin x2, Dandelion, Flower Seed Pack, Honey x40
Honeysuckle
24 minutes
N/A
Pink Lily, Purple Dahlia, Honey x80
Bee Balm
15 minutes
N/A
Crocus, Lavendar, Honey x10
Nectar Thorn
30 minutes
N/A
Cactus x3, Nectarshade, Honey x20
Suncoil
45 minutes
N/A
Crocus, Daffodil, Dandelion, Pink Lily, Honey x40
New Working Bees weather events and mutations in Grow a Garden
As with many of the events in Grow a Garden, there are a variety of new items to earn or adjustments that can radically change the game. One of the most extreme types of these are weather events along with mutations that allow you to sell your plants for higher values at the shop – or simply show them off with a plathora of unique effects.
Here are all the new weather events that can occur in Grow a Garden, added with the Working Bees update:
Working Bee Swarm: Provides x10 crafting speed and increases chance of Pollinated fruits
Volcano: Applies Molten mutation to crops
Meteor Strike: Applies Meteoric mutation to crops
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Alongside these, here are the new mutations added in the Working Bees update:
Burnt: Obtained from the Cooked Owl, applies 4x multiplier
Molten: Obtained from the Volcano event, applies 25x multiplier
Meteoric: Obtained from the Meteor Strike event, 125x multiplier
As with all weather events, they are often random with some only spawning on the command of an admin – the Volcano event appears to be an example of this and occured in the moments leading up to the release of the Working Bees update.
New Plants and Pet odds in the Working Bees update of Grow a Garden
On top of the new weather events and mutations, there are also several new plants and pets to acquire.
There are two new pets you can unlock as part of the update, one being the Pack Bee – which expands fruit storage by 25 slots – and the other being the Cooked Owl, a pet who many players will have received for free prior to the launch of the event.
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As for the new plants, there are many which can be acquired via several sources – below you can read the full list of new plants, followed by a table showcasing the odds of receiving some of these from the new crafting system.
Here are all the new plants added in the Working Bees update as a part of Grow a Garden:
Sugar Apple
Dragon Pepper
Cocovine
Bendboo
Nectar Thorn
Suncoil
Violetcorn
Bee Balm
Succulent
Crocus
A select few of these plants can be acquired via the ‘Crafters Seed Pack’ which has specific odds for the drop chances of these – below are the odds for this new pack:
Item
Odds
Crocus
40%
Succlent
25%
Violet Corn
20%
Bendboo
10%
Cocovine
4.5%
Dragon Pepper
0.5%
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New items to earn in Grow a Garden’s Working Bees update
Alongside all of the seeds, weather events, and crafting system, there are a few extra items you’re able to acquire through various means in this update.
All of these new items we have listed in prior sections, including all the new Sprays, Sprinklers, and the Crafters Seed Pack – which when opened, will reward one of six possible new seeds added in this update.
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Below is the full list of new items you can acquire as part of the Working Bees event, as well as how to earn them:
Crafters Seed Pack
Cleaning Spray (to remove mutations)
Shocked Mutation Spray
Chocolate Mutation Spray
Pollinated Mutation Spray
Tropical Mist Sprinkler
Berry Blusher Sprinkler
Spice Spritzer Sprinkler
Sweet Soaker Sprinkler
Flower Froster Sprinkler
Stalk Sprout Sprinkler
For more on Grow a Garden, be sure to check out our full pages covering the full list of pets, gear, and seeds that you can obtain,