Caustic Wax¶
Caustic Wax
"A glowing hunk of beeswax. Has a 25% chance to GREATLY improve a Beequip - but a 75% chance to DESTROY it!"
Caustic Wax is an inventory item and a type of wax added in the 2021-12-26 update that can be used on a Beequip to boost its stats. Upon usage, it has a 25% chance of greatly improving the Beequip's stats; however, it has a 75% chance of permanently destroying the Beequip instead, destroying the Beequip and also wasting the Caustic Wax. Caustic Wax has Upgrade Value of 4.
It also can be used to craft a variety of different items, such as planters and tools.
When successfully applying Caustic Wax to a bee's Beequip, a message pops up saying:
The Wax improved the Beequip!
If the wax fails to upgrade the Beequip, a message will pop up saying:
The Wax destroyed the Beequip...
Prior to the removal of Permanent Beequips, using a Caustic Wax on a Festive Wreath or Reindeer Antlers resulted in the following message:
Cannot use this wax on a Permanent Beequip
Ways to Obtain¶
- Crafting it via Blender for:
- 5 Hard Waxes
- 5 Enzymes
- 25 Neonberries
- 5,252 Royal Jellies
- As a stack reward for adding certain stickers to the Sticker Stack:
- Black Diamond Sticker rewards 1 caustic wax.
- Prismatic Mushroom Sticker rewards 1 caustic wax.
- Buying the Radioactive Bundle in Bee Bear's Catalog for 150 Gingerbread Bears and 150 Snowflakes rewards 10 caustic wax.
- Buying the Purple-Turple Mega Pack in Bee Bear's Catalog for 250 Gingerbread Bears and 25,000 Snowflakes rewards 10 caustic wax.
- As a reward from Gifted Riley Bee's Honeyday Candles. (0.81%)
Drops¶
- As a rare drop from Legendary and Mythic Puffshrooms.
- As a very rare drop from sticker Sprouts.
- As a drop from a lvl 17 Snowbear.
- As a drop from certain Planters.
- A Plastic Planter placed in the Rose Field guarantees one every month.
- A Candy Planter placed in the Mountain Top Field guarantees one every month.
- A Blue Clay Planter placed in the Clover Field guarantees one every month.
- A Red Clay Planter placed in the Clover Field guarantees one every month.
- A Tacky Planter placed in the Bamboo Field guarantees one every month.
- A Pesticide Planter placed in any field has a rare chance of dropping one. Fields in the 5 Bee Zone has a higher chance of dropping one.
- A Ticket Planter has a rare chance of dropping one.
- A Heat-Treated Planter placed in the Coconut Field guarantees one every month.
- A Hydroponic Planter placed in the Coconut Field guarantees one every month.
- A Petal Planter placed in the Dandelion Field guarantees one every month.
- The Planter Of Plenty has a high chance of dropping one.
Quests¶
- Gummy Bear's Goo Years Beacon quest during Beesmas 2025 rewards 5 Caustic Waxes and other items.
- Robo Bear's Party Cake quest during Beesmas 2025 rewards 4 caustic waxes and other items.
- Dapper Bear gives a total of 3 Caustic Wax on the following quests:
- Dapper Bear's "The Long Haul" (#10) rewards one Caustic Wax and other items.
- Dapper Bear's "Ongoing Maintenance" (#13) rewards one Caustic Wax and other items.
- Dapper Bear's "More Than Myth" (#15) rewards one Caustic Wax and other items.
Crafting Uses¶
Total required for all single-purchase items: 228 Caustic Waxes
| Caustic Waxes
|
Other ingredients | Result |
|---|---|---|
3
|
 750,000,000 Honey
|
|
10
|
 10 Super Smoothies
|
|
25
|
750B Honey
|
|
50
|
2.5T Honey
|
|
50
|
10T Honey
|
|
100
|
100T Honey
|
25 
25 
15 
10 
100 
1,000 
750 
500 
1 
1,500 
150 
3 
2,000 
3 
100 Trivia¶
- Caustic Wax's raw ingredients cost:
- 75 Honeysuckles
- 750 Sunflower Seeds
- 1,750 Pineapples
- 165 Bitterberries
- 25 Neonberries
- 6,067 Royal Jellies or 6.06B Honey
- The probability of caustic wax improving a beequip 5 times in a row is 1/1024 or ~0.098%. Because of its low chances and its ability to destroy the beequip, it is not recommended to try and use 5 caustic waxes on a beequip when you are not prepared yet, instead people usually use Swirled Wax right after getting 1 successful caustic, to get upgrade rolls in desired stats.
- For some time, this wax could not be used on permanent beequips.
- This is the only wax that can destroy beequips.
- Bubble Bee Man's Beesmas 2022 quest required players to destroy 31 beequips with caustic wax.
- Prior to the 2024-12-25 update, the Debug Wax used the caustic wax's icon.
- Although the Debug Wax texture has been changed, both waxes have the same function, only Debug Waxes have a 100% chance of working.
