About the beehive

[Tree Tree的猫]

I just built a beehive, and then ???
Should I catch more bees and put in?

[Tree Tree的猫]

Xas a écrit :

After you placed the hive, put small planter near it with seeds.

thx, i made it

[Tree Tree的猫]

Jynn a écrit :

Put flowers nearby and they'll start making honey. Not sure how many flowers are needed, i have 4 boxes just because i like symmetry and seagulls are going to eat some, so might as well have spares

CrashFR a écrit :

How did you get the bee jar?

go to a evergreen island and use the bug net to scoop up a hive. you can go back to Balboa to get bees, it's what i did

thank you ,too. my friend

[Grezko]

SparkPlug a écrit :

I should add, i have two planters (6 flowers) powering six beehives.

I have just reduced each planter to two flowers (so 4 in total) and am waiting to see if all 6 hives still produce.

Any results from your experiments ?

[SparkPlug]

Yep - they still produced.

I have heard someone claim they can get 3 combs per hive but I have not tried it.

[Tree Tree的猫]

SparkPlug a écrit :

Yep - they still produced.

I have heard someone claim they can get 3 combs per hive but I have not tried it.

Grezko a écrit :

SparkPlug a écrit :

I should add, i have two planters (6 flowers) powering six beehives.

I have just reduced each planter to two flowers (so 4 in total) and am waiting to see if all 6 hives still produce.

Any results from your experiments ?

I got 3 combs once yesterday, it worked

[Grezko]

SparkPlug a écrit :

Yep - they still produced.

I have heard someone claim they can get 3 combs per hive but I have not tried it.

Are you getting less than 3 combs with less flowers? I have lots of flowers and i always get 3 combs. Are you saying that you are getting less combs ? Maybe try waiting a longer to see if with less flowers you fill the hives slower.

[SparkPlug]

I have the absolute minimum of flowers... one planter squashed between two hives. That gives me 4 (2x2) combs per harvest, and requires minimal seagull policing.

I have 4 lots of those set up in a room (so 16 combs per harvest) with two scarecrows outside. so far I have only lost a couple of flowers.

It's already yielded a chest of honey, and about 80 good healing salves so more than happy to sacrifice efficiency for an easier life ;)

[Grezko]

SparkPlug a écrit :

I have the absolute minimum of flowers... one planter squashed between two hives. That gives me 4 (2x2) combs per harvest, and requires minimal seagull policing.

I have 4 lots of those set up in a room (so 16 combs per harvest) with two scarecrows outside. so far I have only lost a couple of flowers.

It's already yielded a chest of honey, and about 80 good healing salves so more than happy to sacrifice efficiency for an easier life ;)

So you are having 1 plot with 1 flower surrounded by 2 hives and you have 4 such groupings next to each other in a room. Did i understand you correctly ?

[SparkPlug]

Almost - i have 3 flowers in each planter... but everything else you said is correct :)

[Tree Tree的猫]

Grezko a écrit :

SparkPlug a écrit :

Yep - they still produced.

I have heard someone claim they can get 3 combs per hive but I have not tried it.

Are you getting less than 3 combs with less flowers? I have lots of flowers and i always get 3 combs. Are you saying that you are getting less combs ? Maybe try waiting a longer to see if with less flowers you fill the hives slower.

I think the key point is the flower, less flowers, less combs

[Tree Tree的猫]

SparkPlug a écrit :

I have the absolute minimum of flowers... one planter squashed between two hives. That gives me 4 (2x2) combs per harvest, and requires minimal seagull policing.

I have 4 lots of those set up in a room (so 16 combs per harvest) with two scarecrows outside. so far I have only lost a couple of flowers.

It's already yielded a chest of honey, and about 80 good healing salves so more than happy to sacrifice efficiency for an easier life ;)

How can u get so much bee jar, i can only find 15 bee jars ,it can only enough for one hives.

[SparkPlug]

Look for green dots to the 'east' or 'west' on the radar and head for those. Many of them will be bear/honey islands - each with two or three honey areas and so 5 or 6 swarms to catch.

[Grezko]

SparkPlug a écrit :

Look for green dots to the 'east' or 'west' on the radar and head for those. Many of them will be bear/honey islands - each with two or three honey areas and so 5 or 6 swarms to catch.

each "big island" from balboa type as 2 honey areas each with 2 swarms, so total 4 swarms total per island. That will give you at least 16 bees in a jar(at least 4 per swam + a posibility of bonus ones) which is enough for a bee hive(bee hive needs 15 bees in a jar).
Balboa has 5 honey areas although only 3 of them are big and are home to 2 bee swarms each for a total of 6 swarms for balboa.
For balboa honey areas see this guide.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1648718375

Based on everything written in this thread and Hysline's(the author of the guide) experiments it can be concluded that:

1 planter = 1 honeycomb. 2 planters = 2 honeycomb. 4 planters = 3 honeycomb.
* for now, hanged planters don't count

A rather interesting and time/area saving solution is to do beehives and planters in a chess pattern, that way every beehive has 4 planters around it and will produce the maximum of 3 honeycombs per 8 minute cycle.

[gulegule]

I'm using 4 hanged planters with one hive and can get 3 combs per cycle.

[SparkPlug]

I use one planter per two hives and get 2x2 combs.

I have also got more than 4 swarms on the bear islands (not Balboa)