diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 544c9ff3e..2773c55d5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -184,14 +184,16 @@ Command **create** creates Bee infrastructure. It has two subcommands:
 
     ```
     --cluster-name string   cluster name (default "default")
+    --geth-url string       Endpoint to chain node. Required.
     --help                  help for bee-cluster
     --timeout duration      timeout (default 30m0s)
-    --with-funding          fund nodes (default true)
+    --wallet-key string     Hex-encoded private key for the Bee node wallet. Required.
     ```
+    It is required to specify *geth-url* and *wallet-key* flags for funding Bee nodes with usage of flags or config file.
 
     example:
     ```
-    beekeeper create bee-cluster default
+    beekeeper create bee-cluster --cluster-name=default
     ```
 
 * k8s-namespace - creates Kubernetes namespace
diff --git a/cmd/beekeeper/cmd/cluster.go b/cmd/beekeeper/cmd/cluster.go
index ae4cf0341..1934836b9 100644
--- a/cmd/beekeeper/cmd/cluster.go
+++ b/cmd/beekeeper/cmd/cluster.go
@@ -109,28 +109,22 @@ func (c *command) deleteCluster(ctx context.Context, clusterName string, cfg *co
 }
 
 func (c *command) setupCluster(ctx context.Context, clusterName string, cfg *config.Config, startCluster bool) (cluster orchestration.Cluster, err error) {
-	const (
-		optionNameChainNodeEndpoint = "geth-url"
-		optionNameWalletKey         = "wallet-key"
-	)
-
 	clusterConfig, ok := cfg.Clusters[clusterName]
 	if !ok {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("cluster %s not defined", clusterName)
 	}
 
 	var chainNodeEndpoint string
-	if chainNodeEndpoint = c.globalConfig.GetString(optionNameChainNodeEndpoint); chainNodeEndpoint == "" {
-		return nil, errors.New("chain node endpoint (geth-url) not provided")
-	}
-
 	var walletKey string
-	if walletKey = c.globalConfig.GetString(optionNameWalletKey); walletKey == "" {
-		return nil, errors.New("wallet key not provided")
-	}
-
 	var fundOpts orchestration.FundingOptions
+
 	if startCluster {
+		if chainNodeEndpoint = c.globalConfig.GetString(optionNameChainNodeEndpoint); chainNodeEndpoint == "" {
+			return nil, errors.New("chain node endpoint (geth-url) not provided")
+		}
+		if walletKey = c.globalConfig.GetString(optionNameWalletKey); walletKey == "" {
+			return nil, errors.New("wallet key not provided")
+		}
 		fundOpts = ensureFundingDefaults(clusterConfig.Funding.Export(), c.log)
 	}
 
diff --git a/cmd/beekeeper/cmd/create_bee_cluster.go b/cmd/beekeeper/cmd/create_bee_cluster.go
index 39c24252b..abe9566db 100644
--- a/cmd/beekeeper/cmd/create_bee_cluster.go
+++ b/cmd/beekeeper/cmd/create_bee_cluster.go
@@ -7,12 +7,14 @@ import (
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
 )
 
-func (c *command) initCreateBeeCluster() *cobra.Command {
-	const (
-		optionNameClusterName = "cluster-name"
-		optionNameTimeout     = "timeout"
-	)
+const (
+	optionNameClusterName       = "cluster-name"
+	optionNameChainNodeEndpoint = "geth-url"
+	optionNameWalletKey         = "wallet-key"
+	optionNameTimeout           = "timeout"
+)
 
+func (c *command) initCreateBeeCluster() *cobra.Command {
 	cmd := &cobra.Command{
 		Use:   "bee-cluster",
 		Short: "creates Bee cluster",
@@ -29,6 +31,8 @@ func (c *command) initCreateBeeCluster() *cobra.Command {
 	}
 
 	cmd.Flags().String(optionNameClusterName, "default", "cluster name")
+	cmd.Flags().String(optionNameChainNodeEndpoint, "", "Endpoint to chain node. Required.")
+	cmd.Flags().String(optionNameWalletKey, "", "Hex-encoded private key for the Bee node wallet. Required.")
 	cmd.Flags().Duration(optionNameTimeout, 30*time.Minute, "timeout")
 
 	return cmd
diff --git a/version.go b/version.go
index 34dbb7278..8609288a2 100644
--- a/version.go
+++ b/version.go
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 package beekeeper
 
 var (
-	version = "0.13.4" // manually set semantic version number
-	commit  string     // automatically set git commit hash
+	version = "0.13.11" // manually set semantic version number
+	commit  string      // automatically set git commit hash
 
 	// Version TODO
 	Version = func() string {