Gifted Bees in Bee Swarm: Jelly, Eggs and Star Treats

A gifted bee improves its own stats and gives your hive a bonus tied to its bee type. The choice that matters is which slot you are willing to replace. Royal Jelly and Star Jelly reroll the bee; a Star Treat keeps the bee you chose. Check your current hive before spending any of them. The Gifted Bee reference lists the bonuses and ways to obtain gifted bees.

First, understand the gifted bonus

Each gifted bee has improved collection, conversion and attack stats, plus a Gifted Hive Bonus for its type. Two gifted copies of the same type do not give two copies of that hive bonus. The second bee still keeps its own improved stats and abilities. Different gifted types can supply different bonuses. This distinction matters when deciding whether a new gifted duplicate is useful or whether you want a missing type instead. See the wiki's Gifted Bee effects and duplicate rule.

The Basic Bee, Music Bee and Tabby Bee pages are starting points for comparing types. A bee's value also depends on the rest of your hive and what you are doing. There is no single early red, blue or mixed list that every player must commit to before using an item.

Royal Jelly: a fresh roll, not an upgrade

Royal Jelly turns the chosen bee into a random new Rare, Epic, Legendary or Mythic bee. It does not preserve rarity, species or gifted status. The Jelly page lists a 0.4% gifted chance for a Royal Jelly result, roughly one in 250 per use. That is a probability, not a guarantee after 250 jellies. A Legendary can become a Rare; a gifted bee can become ordinary. The wiki's FAQ specifically warns that gifted status resets when the bee is rerolled.

Use Royal Jelly on a slot you can afford to change. Before pressing use, note the bee's species, gifted status and contribution to your hive. If the current bee carries your only copy of a useful gifted bonus, protect it until you have a plan to replace that bonus. Do not assume the next roll will improve your weakest slot.

Star Jelly: gifted, but still random

Star Jelly guarantees that the replacement is gifted. It does not choose its species and does not promise a Legendary or Mythic result. The Jelly reference says it uses the same rarity chances as Royal Jelly. It can give you a gifted type already present in your hive, so check the duplicate-bonus rule before treating every result as a new hive-wide upgrade.

Spend it when a random gifted result is useful to your current hive and the slot is expendable. If you are aiming at one specific bee, Star Jelly is the wrong item for a guarantee. Some crafting recipes also use Star Jelly, so compare the current in-game recipe with your hive need before spending the last copy.

Star Egg versus Star Treat

A Star Egg hatches a non-Event gifted type that is not already in your current hive, if such a type remains. It checks your current hive, not every gifted type you have discovered in the past. If all eligible types are already present, the result is random among eligible types. It does not hatch Event bees. This is the rule in the community's Egg reference. Other gifted eggs have their own rarity and type rules; do not treat every gifted egg as a Star Egg.

A Star Treat makes the bee you feed it gifted without changing its species. The Star Treat reference confirms it can gift Event bees. That makes it the direct choice when preserving a specific bee matters, especially for an Event bee that cannot come from ordinary jelly or a Star Egg. Check the bee and slot before feeding it; using Royal Jelly on that gifted bee later can remove the gifted result.

A safer five-step hive decision

The safe default is to preserve a useful gifted bee until you know what replaces its bonus. Once a slot is expendable, a reroll is a calculated chance, not a guaranteed step forward.

Reviewed 11 October 2026 against the community wiki's Gifted Bee, Jelly, Egg, Star Treat and FAQ pages. Check the in-game text after an update.