Legacy talk:Bee Hive
Perhaps we should add the following; Bee hives work on maturing plants. Every time a plant goes to the next stage, the beehive has a chance to produce something. I haven't checked this, but better-versed people on IRC told me. It seems to hold true; abandoned farms which have fully matured crops do not generate any new honey/wax. I've also seen reports of pumpkins giving not much honey/wax. (pumpkins grow very slow) Apart from that, it was said that you should leave the honey/wax in the hive, and it will accumulate its quality up to its limit. If you take it out too fast, it will be of low quality.
Should this info be added? Mqrius 00:07, September 7, 2010 (UTC)
Added because there was no objection Mqrius 19:41, September 19, 2010 (UTC)
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Multiple Beehives: There seems to be a limit to how many crops a beehive will pollinate in a given time. This is in relation to some (old, world3) observed results when using only a single beehive on a full field with fast growing crops. --MvGulik 07:58, 10 February 2011 (CST)
- I think that disproproportionate grow is associated with random "grow" hit rather than some limit on pollination since i experienced it on a field without a beehive as well --Rook 04:19, 25 March 2012 (EDT)
hive quality information
I moved this here from the main page as Loftar has stated on IRC that hive quality doesn't matter in quality of honey and wax production, only the quality of crops the bees feed on.
"The quality of the products is related to the crop quality, and capped by the hive quality. It's also worth noting that honey/wax quality starts off below the crop/hive cap and slowly increases to it over time.
Best current estimate of Bee Hive Q formula = (2*Straw Q + Block Q + Board Q)/4."
As far as I'm concerned, it can be completely deleted.
Some things I currently think. --MvGulik 01:47, 25 March 2012 (EDT)
(raw ideas based on general in-game observations, but not directly tested in any way, shape of form.)
- 1 Initial Beehive built quality may be uses in some way in relation to the initial quality start point. (old idea that I need to re-test.)
- 2 Wax productions seems to degrade the beehive quality level.
- 3 Honey production (or collection) upgrades the beehive quality level. Provided the plant-q input is higher than the beehive of course.)
- 4) Honey production might use-up honey stored in the beehive.
- 5) Beehive products (inside beehive) also seem to drains away over time. (when Beehive are not actively used.)
- Can't agree with some point on the beehive main page. As I have not seen any data in support of them, but have also no data to disproof them. (need to play around with them some more, but lacking proper focus (aka: might take a wile, if ever).)