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Bees

Hi there! Just a heads-up — I'm no longer maintaining this mod. I've decided to focus my time on developing my hospitality mods and my own game, Sunberry Island.

If you're into modding and would like to continue this project, feel free to pick it up! If you let me know (via Discord), I’ll be happy to add a link to your version here.

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The purpose of this mod is to have a semi-realistic beekeeping experience.

After researching beekeeping and having found or bought bees you can build a starter hive. If there are enough mature plants (growth>50%) around it and the weather is fine the hive will grow.
You will eventually notice a boost in the growth of the plants around it. And the hive will gather honey. The speed of both depend on the hive's size.
A full size hive can double plants growth and with 100% mature plants yields 1 honey every 2 in-game hours!

Beware that if the weather gets worse (low temperature, long periods of rain or a toxic fallout) the hive will first consume their honey and then will shrink again.
Also a hive can get sick once in a while and needs tending in such a case to be able to be fully functional again.
You can place a hive indoors where it will not be affected by rain or toxic fallout.

Honey is a nice food product, just raw it is fun and safe to eat while also extremely long-lasting.

After researching mead brewing, you can build a mead fermenting barrel to ferment your honey into mead as an alternative to beer with very similar properties.

After researching propolis extraction, with each honey harvest there is a chance to get some propolis.
Propolis has antibacterial, antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties, both preventive and curative. So a very powerful medicine you can almost get for free.

Wild beehives and splitting hives are a source of bees. Wild beehives spawn yearly after winter when it gets warmer, they need to be attacked to be destroyed and harvested from bees and a bit of honey. Another way to get more bees is to split an existing hive. The hive needs to be at 100% growth. After splitting the hive falls back to 50% growth.
You can also just buy bees from certain traders.

Idea: JustNotEnough (Rimworld discord)
Because I tend to overlook comments/discussions on steam suggestions and bug reports are welcome on my discord: https://discord.gg/eTvrVBaGNy
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