Beehive

Getting Started

To build a beehive, you'll need wood planks, iron ingots, and cotton thread, crafted at a workbench. The beehive takes up a 2x2 space on your tile.

When you first place a beehive, it starts empty. No bees, no production. Don't worry, that's normal. Bees need time and the right environment before they move in.

Environment Quality

Bees are attracted by blooming flowers on the same tile as the beehive. You can plant flowers in soil or place them in plant pots. Flowers planted in soil must be fully grown before they count, seeds and sprouts won't attract bees. Plant pots count right away.

The environment quality is a score from 0 to 100 that updates every night. Two things matter:

Quantity

The more flowers you have, the higher the score. Fill up your tile! Variety: Planting different types of flowers gives a diversity bonus. Don't just plant one kind, mix it up. Not all flowers are equal. Standard flowers (red, blue, yellow) contribute a small amount, while roses are worth much more. The rarer the rose, the bigger the boost. Dragon flowers are the most valuable of all. Reaching 100% environment quality is very hard and requires a tile full of diverse rare flowers.

Bees will settle in once your environment quality reaches at least 10. This is checked each night, so after placing your beehive and planting flowers, give it a night and check back.

Production

Once bees are active, they produce honey and beeswax overnight. The higher your environment quality, the more they produce, up to 5 honey and 2 beeswax per day at peak quality.

Important: you must collect your honey and beeswax before the next night. If the previous day's production is still sitting in the hive, the bees will pause and won't produce anything new. Click on your beehive to open it and hit Collect.

Trading

Honey can be sold to Gus and beeswax can be sold to Sarah for gold. They will have more utility in the future.

Tips

Plant different flower varieties for the diversity bonus, don't fill a tile with just one type. Rare flowers make a huge difference. If you can get your hands on them, your bees will love it. You don't need multiple beehives on one tile. Each beehive on the same tile gets the same production, but they take up space that could be used for more flowers. Remember that flowers in soil need to finish growing before they count. Plan ahead! Check your beehive every day and collect, or your bees will stop working.