Tunnel Bear

Stats

Bond

1,000 per bee

Damage

1,000

Health

10,000

Honey

5,000,000

Hp

10,000

Level required

9

Location

White Tunnel

Points

200

Timer

48 hours (2 days), 40 hours 48 minutes (1.7 days) if Gifted Vicious Bee is in the player's hive.

The White Tunnel

To enter the White Tunnel, go to the Instant Converter near the Pineapple Patch. Players can either jump through the chimney on the top or go in the right end of the Instant Converter and then drop down into the chute. Alternatively, players can climb up the hill to the Yellow Cannon/Science Bear and jump down from there. Upon entering the White Tunnel, players will land in a small entryway with two green walls and two white walls. One of the white walls looks semi-transparent. Go through the semi-transparent white wall to find the tunnel. You have to move a little bit after going through the white wall as Tunnel Bear will quickly drop down through the roof near the entrance. The walls will also gradually get narrower, making it harder to turn back as players head deeper into the White Tunnel. If Tunnel Bear does not appear and instead a countdown timer floats in mid-air, then that means the player will need to wait for the countdown on the respawn timer to finish before battling Tunnel Bear again. To exit the White Tunnel, stand on top of the Teleport Pad and use it. The Teleport Pad will teleport the player on top of the Instant Converter near the Sunflower Field. The Teleport Pad looks like a flat gray circle that sits in the middle of the White Tunnel.

Basic Strategies

Tunnel Bear possesses 10,000 health and can instantly kill players if they touch/get too close to Tunnel Bear ("Too close" is not the same as "touching," as the hitbox is bigger than its body). However, Tunnel Bear moves very slowly at a constant speed without ever speeding up, and on a very predictable path as it heads straight towards the player's location. Because of this, players could follow the recommended strategy of walking in front of Tunnel Bear and staying just close enough for their bees to keep attacking while leading it down the tunnel. When entering the tunnel, keep Tunnel Bear near the beginning of the White Tunnel and keep close to one of the walls on the sides (this will only slow the bear a little bit because now he has no collisions), and occasionally jump around Tunnel Bear. This alternative will only work at the beginning (before the exit) because the White Tunnel narrows down the further players go down it, trapping them if they travel too far in. However, this should be the chosen strategy for the first defeat as to ensure getting the gifted egg. If the player's bees are mostly level 9, they will not have to jump around it, as their bees will most likely kill it first. When Tunnel Bear spawns, players will only get 2 minutes and 30 seconds to defeat it. The timer is directly above its head, showing how much time remains for players to defeat it until it despawns. Note that it takes Tunnel Bear less than two and a half minutes to traverse the entire length of the White Tunnel.

Drops

Note that unlike the other mobs, Tunnel Bear drops its tokens in a straight line when it is defeated. Tabber |Guaranteed (first defeat) class"article-table" - 200 Battle Points, 1000 Bond, 5,000,000x Honey, or or or, } |Guaranteed (subsequent defeats) class"article-table" - 200 Battle Points, 1000 Bond, 5,000,000x Honey, 5x Royal Jelly, 10x Ticket, 20x Moon Charm, (Beesmas only) } |Possible (subsequent defeats)|Note: Players can possibly get more than one of a single type of drop (for example, 50 treats and 500 treats from the same defeat). Likelihood of all of these drops increases based on Loot Luck. { class"article-table" - (Increments of 5, 10, 20, or 50), (Increments of 10, 15, 20, 25, 50, or 100), (Increments of 25-250), (Increments of 15-50, 100, 500, 5000, or 50,000), (Increments of 50-500), (Increments of 50-500), (Increments of 1, 5, or 10), (Increments of 1, 3, 5, or 10), (Increments of 1, 3, 5, or 10), (Increments of 1, 3, 5, or 10), (Increments of 5, 20, 40, or 100), (Common), (Common), (Common, Increments of 1, 5, 10, or 25), (Rare), (Rare), (Very Rare), (Very Rare), (Very Rare), (Exceptionally Rare), (Extremely Rare), (Extremely Rare), (Extremely Rare), (Extremely Rare), (Extremely Rare), (Nearly Impossible), (Nearly Impossible), (Beesmas Only, increments of 1 or 5), (Beesmas only), (Unbelievably Rare), (Unbelievably Rare), (Nearly Impossible) }

Strategy

Own bees with a high attack stat. Bees such as Cobalt Bee, Brave Bee, Crimson Bee, Demon Bee, Vicious Bee, Lion Bee, Riley Bee, Bucko Bee, Precise Bee, Spicy Bee, and Rage Bee deal higher amounts of damage than other bees, making them more useful when fighting Tunnel Bear (or any other mob). Own bees that boost fighting stats. Some specific bees will raise the effectiveness of the entire hive, either by boosting Attack (Gifted Rage Bee or Gifted Brave Bee), by boosting Critical Chance (Looker Bee, Music Bee or Gifted Commander Bee), by boosting Critical Power (Gifted Looker Bee, Gifted Tabby Bee, or Music Bee) or by boosting Super-Crit Chance and Power (Gifted Precise Bee). Own bees that create Token Link tokens. Music Bee, Rage Bee, Exhausted Bee, and Shocked Bee possess the Token Link ability. Equipping the Paper Angel beequip on a valid bee teaches it Token Link as well. If a token appears too close to Tunnel Bear, use the Token Link instead of going back to get said token. That way, the player will not risk dying to Tunnel Bear. Have high energy bees. Bees such as Photon Bee and Exhausted Bee have endless energy, and bees like Bumble Bee, Shy Bee, Lion Bee, Buoyant Bee, Fuzzy Bee, Precise Bee, Vector Bee, Gummy Bee, and Vicious Bee have at least double the energy of a typical bee. If the player's bees have low energy, then their bees will most likely go to sleep after just a few attacks. One method to refill essential bees' energy levels is to fight mobs until they go to sleep and recharge, as this will increase the player's odds of defeating Tunnel Bear faster.

Patch history

Tunnel Bear uses the Cartoony Animation Pack. When Tunnel Bear despawns, it will do the wave emote and disappear. This occurs when the player dies, when the timer runs out, when the player goes back to the entrance or leave. Tunnel Bear will also do the wave emote when stunned by Digital Bee's Mind Hack. Tunnel Bear possesses a hitbox a bit wider than its body, so players may not touch Tunnel Bear and still die (this acts similarly to King Beetle's yellow "aura"). Since the 2019-04-05 update, the despawn timer was added. This makes it much more difficult to defeat since players now cannot defeat the boss by circulating the tunnel numerous times with a low attack rate. Tunnel Bear despawns at the end of the White Tunnel. Sometimes, a glitch can happen where Tunnel Bear can spawn on top of the tunnel. Tunnel Bear is occasionally able to be seen leaping into the tunnel from outside of the map. Tunnel Bear is 1 of the 5 bosses in the game, the others being King Beetle, Stick Bug, Coconut Crab, and the Mondo Chick. Tunnel Bear got added as the first of three bears in the game that acts hostile to players, with Gummy Bear as the second and Snowbear as the third. Shadow Bear does not count because it does not kill players, the floor does. Tunnel Bear serves as the second boss added to the game. Tunnel Bear (1,000 damage) and cave monsters (10,000 damage) are the most powerful mobs in the game in terms of damage, as they can instantly kill players upon contact, the only exception being if the Emergency Coconut Shield is active.