User:Cavalierfool/0

The Buzz Around Town

This is my bee notes page. Anything on this page is data I have personally collected/observed, with links out to other wiki pages at the bottom.

Bee Happy

Bees live in Hives
Bees require vegetation and water within {x?} coordinates, less than 30 (more testing coming)
Bees compete with each other?
When a hive is first built, it is empty, with no queen and no bees.
Queen bees will find Simple Hives on their own, based on local conditions.

I find checking 1 every 8 hours seems best chance of getting queen (non imperical)

After a queen is found in a Simple Hive, the population of bees within the Hive will begin to grow.
With a population of bees within the Hive, Honey and Wax production will begin.

Again about 8 hours seems sufficient to maximize production, between checks, depending on population.

When a hive is checked for Honey or wax, approximately half of the bee population will escape and fly away.

An avatar's speed can reduce the chance of any bee's flying away. Simple food - Grilled Cabbage - can provide a short speed buff while checking hives to maintain populations.

Small Hives require a Queen Bee to be added to them.
When a small hive is checked for product, bees may escape, similar to simple hive.

I am still getting to know small hives, and do not have optimum timing/information

Medium hives - No experience with yet

Indonesian Beehives are very different.
Indonesian Beehives do not require any form of "Queen Maintenance" and begin functioning as soon as built.
Indonesian Beehives grow with a fruit tree, and produce Honey within the hive, as well as Citrus fruit from the tree.
To produce aromatic honey, Indonesian Beehives need to be within 12 coordinates of two DIFFERENT types of fruit tree. If there are not two fruit trees nearby, the honey produced will be normal "bland" honey.
Fruit trees can be cultivated to different types and qualities thru mulching, to achieve a variety of different honeys.

Bee Hives

Simple Beehive

Change - previously known as simple apiary

Requires: Beekeeping 0
Materials: 1 Linen, 8 Boards
Produces: Honey, Wax, Queen Bees

Build Simple Apiary: 10 xp
Check Simple Apiary For Queen Fail: 0 xp
Check Simple Apiary For Queen Found: 3 xp
Check Simple Apiary for Wax Fail: 0 xp
Check Simple Apiary for Found: 1 xp
Search Simple Beehive for Queen Found: 100 xp
Search Simple Beehive for Queen Fail: 2 xp

I build grids of 9 hives, and they fill in fine.

Indonesian Beehive

Requires: Beekeeping 1
Materials: 2 Papyrus Basket, 200 Clay, 12 Linen

Built in small construction site

Produces: Honey, Aromatic Honey, Fruit

Build Indonesian Hive: 0 xp
Gather Aromatic Honey from Indo: 2 xp
Gather Bland Honey from Indo: 0 xp
Gather Fruit from Indo: 0 xp
Mulch Tree: 1 xp

Xp Grind Notes: Gather aromatic honey gives 2 xp, no matter how much honey you collect, so collect as each one is produced to maximize XP gain. Also, mulching trees

Small Beehive

Requires: Beekeeping 2
Materials: 5 Hive Frame [30 wood 40 nails] 20 Boards 40 Nails

Built in small construction site

Queen Bee (alive) must be added after Hive is built.

Produces: Honey, Wax, Royal Jelly

Build Small Hive: 100 xp
Add A queen Bee: 0 xp
Check Small Hive, Queen Alive, no Product: ??
Check Small Hive, Queen Alive, Product: ??
Check Small Hive Queen Died or Fled: 0

Medium Beehive

Requires: Beekeeping 3
Materials: ??
Produces: ??

Build Medium Hive: ??

Condition Messages

"Probably due to nearby conditions"

A somewhat default message - Have received in pollution zones, near buildings, near roads, and on top of a papyrus drying mountain.
With small hives I have gotten this message regularly with no other detail if my queen is dead, and I have only a few hundred bees

"Vegetation seems spares"

I got this message on a candy hill, at least 100 coordinates from anything other than a large stone. No water, no buildings, no roads, no hives, no cicada . .
This message I have only seen with a bee population over 1400 in a Small Hive

"Hmm, it seems dry around here"

I got this message 30 coordinates from water, with trees and flowers around.
This message I have only seen with a bee population of 1500 in a Small Hive.

I 'feel' that because I got the sparse vegetation message, even when there was no water around, indicates the veg check is dominate over the water check?
I 'suspect' that a certain minimum population is required within the hive to get more details.
As my queens died, but I still had 1500 bees, I also 'suspect' that our bee population is throttled by eco/traffic effects? but that queen survival is based off vegetation/water factors, and that the population grows until checked for queen existence.
'maybe'

Beekeeper Links

This is for links to other players personal beekeeping notes:
Imaginary Friend To start the list
And an imaginary friend so he doesn't get lonely
(Please feel free to add the link to your bees notes here!)

Wiki Link

Simple_Apiary >< Indonesian_Bee_Hive >< Small_Beehive >< Medium_Beehive

Honey >< Beeswax >< Aromatic_Honey >< Citrus >< Royal Jelly

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