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# Use Pollen

A rare commodity

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This page is a machine translation. The French version is the official reference: [read this page in French](https://the-life-bomb.gitbook.io/whitepaper/fr/move-to-earn/pollen/utiliser-le-pollen).
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There are many ways to use your Pollen, whether for comfort or performance, and you will find a use for it across all of our game mechanics.

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<summary>Forager Level Up</summary>

Essential in the collection of $CATKN and Pollen, forager bees play a crucial role in the evolution of your progression.\
These precious workers need Pollen, while they are workers, to level up and increase their efficiency at collecting resources.

For specific details on the link between your forager bees' level and the amount of Pollen required, please refer to the Level-up/Pollen table available.\
That table gives you detailed information on the progression and the Pollen requirements associated with each level of your forager bees.

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**Level-up/Pollen Table**

*learn more* [Level Up](/whitepaper/move-to-earn/worker-bees/level-up.md)

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<summary>Age a Bee</summary>

Using Pollen allows you to accelerate a bee's aging by 5% to 25%, depending on the amount applied.

This gives users the option of reaching the age-effect bonus tiers faster, or even reaching the maximum age (100%) sooner to try to obtain an endemic bee.

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The cumulative "artificial" aging of all your bees cannot exceed 25% per day.
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**Aging/Pollen Table**

| % Aging | Pollen Cost |
| ------- | ----------- |
| 5%      | 100 Pollen  |
| 10%     | 150 Pollen  |
| 25%     | 250 Pollen  |

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The Pollen cost required to age a bee will dynamically evolve once the total CATKN supply exceeds 50,000,000
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<summary>Speed Up Your Bees' Level-up <mark style="color:$danger;">(currently unavailable)</mark></summary>

Pollen provides users with greater convenience when interacting with the game's various mechanics.

A modest amount of Pollen can speed up the level-up process of your bees, thereby reducing the amount of $CATKN required to accelerate those levels.

Table coming soon

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**Level-up Acceleration/Pollen Table**

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<summary>Increase Your Honey Pot Upgrade Chances <mark style="color:$danger;">(currently unavailable)</mark></summary>

The user can gain additional success rate percentages when upgrading their Honey Pots in exchange for a certain amount of Pollen.

Table coming soon

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**%Upgrade/Pollen Table**

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<summary>Increase Your Chances of Obtaining a Longer Incubation Period <mark style="color:$danger;">(currently unavailable)</mark></summary>

Pollen is a key element in the development of bee larvae.

During a mint, the user may choose to add Pollen in order to increase the chances of obtaining a longer incubation period.

This decision is made **before** knowing the type of larva generated.

The larva resulting from the mint receives the **"Mint+"** distinction, which grants it, when placed into incubation, an enhanced probability of accessing extended incubation periods.

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Larvae benefiting from the **Mint+** distinction cannot be listed for sale while still in the larval stage.

However, this restriction does not affect the ability to sell the bee once incubation is complete.
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**Incubation/Pollen Table**

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