The Hive is where the player's bees go to rest when they run out of energy, to convert pollen to 
Honey, or when the player dies. Upon joining a server, the player must first claim a hive by following a red arrow and pressing "E" (on laptop, PC, etc.), "X" (On Xbox), "Square" (on Playstation) or tapping the "claim hive" button (Tablet, iOS, Android, etc.) to claim it. The player may hatch eggs and use 
Royal Jellies on hive slots to use them.
There are 6 hives in a server. A basic hive contains 25 slots for bees. The player can expand their hive by buying additional hive slots at the Mountain Top Shop. The maximum number of bees a hive can contain is 50, but the price of that many hive slots is quite high.
On top of the 6th hive, there is a statue of Onett, the game's creator. This statue can very rarely fall off and land in the rightmost hive.
Each bee's hive slot has the face of the bee icon in the bee's color. The background color of the hive slot is based on the bee's rarity; bronze for Common, white for Rare, bright yellow for Epic, aqua blue for Legendary, light purple for Mythic, and green for Event. If a bee is gifted, then a thin yellow glowing line will trace the hive slot border. If a bee is mutated, then the bee's level will turn a different color depending on the mutation.
The player can also customize their hive putting stickers on it, aswell as changing the color of the hive using hive Skin Stickers, they may also change the appearence of their 
Cub Buddy by placing Cub Buddy Skin Stickers in their hive.
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- Once a player dies, all of their bees return to the hive to rest, but do not recover energy. This is to prevent abusing resetting to get all bees to max energy.
- There was once a bug that could bypass this by resetting twice in a row, of which all the player's bees returned to the hive and recovered energy, and the energy would go back up to maximum. This could be abused if the player's best bee was out of energy. This bug has been patched; however, and attempting to do this won't recover their energy anymore.
- The statue of Onett on the top of the 6th hive has 38217 pollen in his Port-O-Hive, which is a reference to a code with the reward of
5 Tickets. - The 2018-07-11 update introduced a glitch that when looking on another hive, it shows the wrong rarity. This is mostly patched, but still occasionally happens.
- Prior to the 2018-11-25 update, there were only 5 hives in the game.
- In the earlier days of Bee Swarm Simulator, bee faces on hive slots were bigger and they also used to sparkle depending on what rarity the bee was. The rarer the bee, the more sparkles they would've emitted (excluding the Basic Bee hive slot).
- The blue wall next to the leftmost hive wasn't solid after the 2019-04-05 update. Because of this, it was possible to bypass most of the gates without having the required number of bees. This was fixed in the following update.
- According to Onett, this was for a test when he was developing the game. However, he forgot to make the wall solid after testing.
- You can click on your bee's hive slot from any distance, as long as you click the face of the bee.
- A username will appear in a different font on a hive if that user has the Wavy Festive Hive Skin, Wavy Doodle Hive Skin, or Icy Crowned Hive Skin equipped.
