Legacy:Bee Hive

Bee Hive
Vital statistics
Size	1 x 1
Skill(s) RequiredSpecific needed skills.<br>The default skills every hearthling starts off with, Oral Tradition, Primitive Tools & Wilderness Survival), are ignored.	Bee Keeping
Object(s) Required	Block of Wood x2, Board x2, Straw x10
Repaired With	Straw
Can be Lifted	Yes
Soak Value	None
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Bee hives provide beeswax and honey, and also help crops grow faster in a radius of 13 tiles. A beehive can hold a maximum of 1.0 L honey and 5 wax. To collect beeswax, just right click the hive and harvest it. To collect honey, left click a bucket and right click on the hive.

Pollination

Each bee hive will pollinate "one field tile per however many ticks"; the pollination range is shown when you build the hive. A tile is either pollinated, or it is not; multiple bee hives do not increase the pollination bonus.

To put it another way:

• If you have 1 crop tile and no hives, your grow speed is SLOW;
• if you have 1 crop tile and 1 hive, your grow speed is FAST;
• if you have 1 crop tile and 2 hives, your grow speed is FAST, same as 1 and 1 (but only one of the hives gains honey from the pollination);

How to Acquire

Build > Bee Hive

General Notes

The bee hive production is affected by maturing plants in its vicinity. Therefore, if you want a lot of wax or honey, you have to actively farm around the bee hive. However, hives cannot "share" this resource. Two hives sitting side by side will produce half the honey/wax as a single hive in that location would. [Verify]

• Beehives produce wax when crops change stage.
• When planting a new crop in the ground it behaves like a stage change.
• Last stage change in a crop (growing to the last stage) doesn't produce wax or honey.
• Beehives can produce wax, honey or both at the same time.
• Beehives produce wax or honey every 20 real life minutes. The crops on the ground can change stage at any time and this is not related to the timer of when the beehive gets it's update.

Quantity

The beehive will produce different amounts of materials depending on how many crop stage changes it has gotten between the updates.

• 0-25: updates will not produce anything.
• 25-40: produces 0.1 L of honey.
• 40-60: 1 wax or 0.1L honey.
• 60-90: both 1 wax and 0.1 L honey
• 90+: 0.2 L honey and 1 wax.

Quality

• Beehive has a "stored" quality and it's this that determines the quality of the products coming out.
• Crop stage changes directly affect the quality of the beehive. The quality levels out at the same exact quality as the average surrounding crops that have changed stage.
• Beehives with QL over 100 are subject to zone reset and in that case revert back to 100. Such reset will occur if you either leave the area and have that area unload or if the beehive is placed inside a boat and then taken out.
• The initial seed planting reduces the quality of the beehive. If one's trying to farm high quality products he should lift the beehive up and move it away far enough from the crops when replanting as to not receive updates on the beehive at that stage, then after planting is complete move it back.