Wild bee hive
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Description
A structure, built into a tree, in which some honey bee species of the subgenus Apis live and raise their young.
A wild bee hive is a randomly spawned item that appears on the side of trees. They appear in the spring, and vanish at the end of the Wurm year, in autumn and winter.
When a player is in the vicinity of a hive, a message in the event window will indicate so.
- You hear bees, maybe you are getting close to a hive.
- The bees noise is getting louder, maybe you are getting closer to their hive.
There is also a message when the player leaves the vicinity.
- The sounds of bees decreases as you move further away from the hive.
- The sounds of bees disappears in the distance.
Locations
Wild bee hives are spawned in different locations each year.
- They are found on the side of trees (except on fruit, chestnut, or walnut trees)
Wild bee hives will not spawn...
- Next to structures
- Close to existing hives
Products
- A wild bee hive produces honey and beeswax over time.
- The amount produced is dependent on nearby flowers, fields, and trees.
- Flowers are the best in helping the production increase.
- If surrounding tiles don't produce enough nectar to feed the bees, nothing is produced.
- Higher quality hives look at a larger area of tiles.
- The amount produced is dependent on nearby flowers, fields, and trees.
- The quality of honey and bees wax is the same as the hive quality.
Queens
A wild bee hive is spawned containing one queen bee.
- A second queen bee can appear in the hive once every Wurm month.
- There must be a minimum amount of 1 kg of honey in the hive for a new queen to arrive.
A wild hive with two queen bees has a chance to migrate to a domestic hive.
The wild hive may have an attached descriptor to their name when you hover over it, which gives a clue to the status:
- Dormant (domestic bee hive only) - this shows in the winter only. This means the hive has one queen, and will reactivate in the spring.
- Empty - there is no queen in the hive.
- Noisy - the hive has two queens.
- Active - the hive has one queen, and is active.
Migration
Bees can migrate do a domestic bee hive if certain conditions are met. There are also some things a player can do to increase the chances.
If a wild hive has one queen bee, the domestic hive must be of a higher quality than the wild hive.
- The higher the quality of the domestic hive, the higher the chance of migration.
- The closer the domestic hive is to the wild hive, the higher the chance of migration.
- The distance and quality of the domestic hive from the wild hive both combine to effect the odds that a migration will occur.
- The migration will bring the queen and the swarm to the domestic hive.
If a wild hive has two queen bees, the hive quality will not affect the chances of migration.
- A domestic bee hive will have a higher chance of migration the closer it is to the wild hive.
- The migration will bring the second queen to the domestic hive.
If a wild hive's queen(s) have all migrated, the wild hive will be removed.
Opening a Hive
When opening a hive, the bees can sting you, dealing poison damage, unless you have a lit bee smoker.
- Note: When opening a hive with a lit bee smoker in the inventory, all produced honey and bees wax within the hive has a chance to be removed.
- Bees will not sting passers by.
- Bees will sting players attempting to cut down the tree containing their wild hive (unless they carry a lit bee smoker in their inventory).
- Note: the hive will be destroyed if their tree is cut down.
