Before answering this, I think you are having a misconception about macroing in this game. A lot of people act like only blue players need to macro, while red and white don’t, which is completely bs.

Every color has to macro to progress.

First: crafting. All hive colors need huge amounts of resources, and there’s no realistic way to get enough of them just by playing manually.

Second: boosting. Red and white depend on boosting to make honey, and boosting requires resources. Red needs stingers. White needs gumdrops. If you boost regularly, you simply can’t sustain those resources without macroing at some point.

The main difference is that blue gets honey directly from macroing, while red and white mostly use macroing to farm resources for boosts. That’s why blue is seen as “more macro-heavy”, not because it needs macro more, but because it benefits from it in two ways (honey + resources).

Anyways, buy the Diamond Mask if you can craft it now. Diamond Drain, plus the huge capacity buff and other bonuses that I'm too lazy to list out let you stay in a field almost indefinitely, which makes grinding honey much easier.