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, which you can wishlist here:

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.

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