Why does honey spoil in-game?

[Something]

Honey is the one thing that definitely shouldn't have a spoilage timer. Honey generally lasts forever due to its nature of dessicating any bacterial organisms that come in contact with it. You can safely eat honey that's millenia old.

Just makes no sense, is all.

[Techn1kal]

i heard honey is edible even after 3000 years

[A Jolly Walrus]

Because its a game, and honey in-game in association with PVP is a valuable resource for making vegetable cakes for raiding. If it never spoiled people would have millions stocked up and be able to make millions of cakes easily

[Paroxyde]

Originally posted by 123:

Because its a game, and honey in-game in association with PVP is a valuable resource for making vegetable cakes for raiding. If it never spoiled people would have millions stocked up and be able to make millions of cakes easily

You obviously has never mass produced cake or got a hive... You can get as much honey as you want from a bunch of hives you tamed and they last days in the hives.
The problem is that cakes are heavy and doesn't stack much. But that's it. Honey spoil time was never a problem.

[🦊 Hermit]

Perhaps tree sap should be the ingredient with the spoil timer instead of honey, since sap could concievably dry up and become hard, therefore unusable...?

[Grok 3]

while your at it food and water drain is way to high no matter how hard i work or run i never need to eat 5 cows worth of meat and drink 3 swimming pools worth of water in a day

[Something]

Originally posted by Jonny2blazed:

while your at it food and water drain is way to high no matter how hard i work or run i never need to eat 5 cows worth of meat and drink 3 swimming pools worth of water in a day

What? You mean you don't eat at least five-dozen eggs a day?

[LittleBlueDuneBuggy]

Originally posted by Jonny2blazed:

while your at it food and water drain is way to high no matter how hard i work or run i never need to eat 5 cows worth of meat and drink 3 swimming pools worth of water in a day

Found the office worker.

[Grok 3]

Originally posted by LittleBlueDuneBuggy:

Originally posted by Jonny2blazed:

while your at it food and water drain is way to high no matter how hard i work or run i never need to eat 5 cows worth of meat and drink 3 swimming pools worth of water in a day

Found the office worker.

;)

[=Sarsante=]

Balance I guess

[🦊 Hermit]

In all fairness, a full 24hr day doesn't tend to go by in a matter of an hour or two either...

[Elliebird]

It's for gameplay reasons. There's this nifty thing called Gameplay/Story segregation, not everything will make sense from a story or immersive perspective because it serves to make the game more enjoyable/balanced from a gameplay perspective.

Honey is a precious resource. Getting your own hives or stealing from them is one of the more challenging ways to acquire a resource in the game. Once you do have access to your own hives, it's no longer an issue, but that holds true for a lot of resources in the game. It's meant to be hard to hold onto until you can generate it for yourself.

Tldr: It doesn't need to make sense because it's for gameplay balancing. If you really need an explanation though, everything on the Arks is placed there deliberately and genetically altered. Spoiling honey is plausible in that setting.

[Frostbringer]

Originally posted by GH:

Honey is the one thing that definitely shouldn't have a spoilage timer. Honey generally lasts forever due to its nature of dessicating any bacterial organisms that come in contact with it. You can safely eat honey that's millenia old.

Just makes no sense, is all.

You assume to much in thinking it is honey that we have on earth. It took millenniums for honey bees to evolve/devolve into what we have nowadays.

Have you seen the size of the bees that make Ark Honey? For all we know these are nothing like the honeybees we have now, yet here we are gobbling up whatever is coming out of their butts.

[LittleBlueDuneBuggy]

Originally posted by Hermit:

In all fairness, a full 24hr day doesn't tend to go by in a matter of an hour or two either...

To add to this, raptors never had feathers either.

[Something]

Originally posted by Frostbringer:

Originally posted by GH:

Honey is the one thing that definitely shouldn't have a spoilage timer. Honey generally lasts forever due to its nature of dessicating any bacterial organisms that come in contact with it. You can safely eat honey that's millenia old.

Just makes no sense, is all.

You assume to much in thinking it is honey that we have on earth. It took millenniums for honey bees to evolve/devolve into what we have nowadays.

Have you seen the size of the bees that make Ark Honey? For all we know these are nothing like the honeybees we have now, yet here we are gobbling up whatever is coming out of their butts.

First off, honey is bee vomit. Not bee poop. Secondly, while bees took a long time to evolve, they've been around a long time. The oldest fossilized bee is dated to have lived ~74-96 million years ago, yet it's apparently indistinguishable from the modern descendents.
Thirdly, bees are cool. The more I read, the more I appreciate them. They are awesome. Bees are awesome.

[LittleBlueDuneBuggy]

Originally posted by GH:

Originally posted by Frostbringer:

You assume to much in thinking it is honey that we have on earth. It took millenniums for honey bees to evolve/devolve into what we have nowadays.

Have you seen the size of the bees that make Ark Honey? For all we know these are nothing like the honeybees we have now, yet here we are gobbling up whatever is coming out of their butts.

First off, honey is bee vomit. Not bee poop. Secondly, while bees took a long time to evolve, they've been around a long time. The oldest fossilized bee is dated to have lived ~74-96 million years ago, yet it's apparently indistinguishable from the modern descendents.
Thirdly, bees are cool. The more I read, the more I appreciate them. They are awesome. Bees are awesome.

And we can agree they never had feathers. Just like all their dino bretheren.