This doesn't seem to have been asked before.... is it possible to spawn in bee nests using the vanilla mechanic of planting saplings next to flowers? The wiki claims this works for oak, birch and cherry trees in any biome any any dimension, and I often use this in normal survival to get bee nests. I have grown soooooo many trees next to flowers on my island and never gotten a single nest.
Alternately, should these items arrive in a particular phase? In the Plenty phase I got so many bees I stopped keeping them after not long. Throughout the phase I got honeycomb blocks, honey blocks, honey bottles, and I thought for sure this would be when I'd get some nests, hives or even just some honeycomb items to make hives but no, I passed thru the whole Plenty phase, now I have a ton of bees and no way to farm the honeycomb.