Beehives Should just make Honey passively without Sugar or Water needed

193 votes

Beehives naturally function by having worker bees go out and pollinate flowers and then come back to the hive which is where They make honey. Sugar and Water shouldn't be something You have to supply a Beehive as the Bees naturally take care of Themselves.

Open suggestion Feature improvement Suggested by: VaRiDeX (01 Feb, '24) • Upvoted: 2 days ago • Comments: 13

Comments: 13

31 Jan, '24
Crannberriez Merged
The beehives requiring water and other items (sugar and plant fibers) makes them almost not useful to us. Other materials like Yucca provide better benefits.

I am proposing the beehives are a passive source of honey, slowly generating it and wax with only one requirement. That the hive is near by flowers. Potentially the more flowers the better, or just plants in general. With the potential to increase the flower growing rate.

That's all.
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13 Feb, '24
Cali6an
Bees do, in fact, need both a source for nutrition and hydration and can be quite picky about both.
But the mechanic could be changed like this:
A beehive needs the following in a certain radius around it to produce:
1) a well
2) flowers
The variety of different(!) flowers in the beehives area of concern determines its "comfort level" which in turn determines the production rate and storage capacity of the hive (up to maybe 10?)
37
13 Feb, '24
DragonsDusk
I agree, needing sugar and water for honey seems odd, if anything we should be providing flowers or at least they'd need to be planted near the hives.
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17 Feb, '24
aianki
I would also think it would be great if the beehives only worked with flowers nearby. The water and sugar could be booster, to make the process faster.
12
22 Feb, '24
Kavaniia
I would like to see this. A simplified version of Cali6an's suggestion: 'flower soil' is a thing we can get and use. Perhaps we should need that (and a well) placed near a hive for functionality.

While it would be cool to see growing flowers or crops nearby increase hive productivity, it's definitely not a deal breaker if we don't get that level of detail.
6
25 Mar, '24
leftcoastfunk
I like Cali6an's thought process, but agree with Kavaniia that a minimum amount of placed flower soil should be included as an option in place of planted flowers since there are, at least visually, a good number and variety of flowers growing. A well makes sense too. I also think the area requiring some kind of flowers should be smaller than your flame altar area, but that one well within your altar's area should maybe suffice. It might feel a little weird to potentially have multiple wells? I guess maybe that depends on whether you have a little house, or built an entire village

As for the bees requiring their own "comfort level" using different varieties of flowers seems like an unnecessary and out of place complexity, at least compared to the rest of the game at this stage of development
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03 Apr, '24
Goblin0311
Plants could have increased growth times, and increased harvest yield if they are within a certain radius.
09 Apr, '24
LifeisReal Admin
"Passive Honey/Wax Generation with Beehive" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-01-31), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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21 May, '24
Runa
I think it would be great if the hive was triggered when there were flowers or flower soil nearby. But if it is difficult to implement, then the automatic creation of honey is also good
But in order to make honey, bees do not need sugar and water...
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11 Aug, '24
YES
This is how bees work in Valhiem. It is assumed the bees go out and forage for what they need to produce honey, as they would IRL.
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21 Sep, '24
iBunny52
Totally Agree with the OP AND all the comments about flower above.
Bee Hives should be a thing we craft in a middle of flowers/flower soil with Water Well also nearby, with more flowers, more the work capacity of the bees to produce honey. Its also give us a cool mechanic for the next Farming System that is coming!!

ps: Perhaps they are already planing this for the farming update????
05 Oct, '24
Nunya
Another idea: having a beehive near a farm causes flowers to grow quicker.
06 Dec, '24
Hallucinogenus
Of course bees produce honey on their own. but the sugar is important as a trade. if you take the honey away from the bees, they simply die. so the sugar is already justified in a ‘realistic sense’. does it have to be like that in the game? That's not for me to decide here :D