Beehive
"Used to breed bees and produce Honeycomb. Bees in a natural hive cannot be crossbred."
Beehives are naturally occurring hives that the player can find in the world! Different colours of beehives can be found in different Biomes, but ultimately the functionality of beehives are the same regardless.
General Info
Beehives are the starting point for beekeeping in the game, and act as an introduction to the concept of making queens and getting produce from bees. Two bees can be put in the input slots to be bred into a Queen, which will then slowly produce Honeycomb based on their Productivity trait.
When the Queen's Lifespan comes to an end, offspring will be produced in the output slots. In natural beehives, these offspring will be genetically identical to the Queen.
Natural beehives are useful in the fact that you cannot Cross-Breed bees in them, meaning whatever bee is put in the first slot of a beehive will essentially be "cloned" from a genetics standpoint. This is good for producing more of a specific type of bee without risking it being changed due to Trait inheritence.
Menu Help
- 1. Queen Slot
- 2. Breeding Slot
- 3. Honeycomb Slots
- 4. Offspring Slots
- 5. Extra Storage
Crafting
This item can be crafted with the following recipe:
Money
This item cannot be bought.
This item doesn't sell for anything.
Variants
There are 13 different variations of the beehive found naturally in the world, each one has a different species that spawns inside it:
| Beehive | Species | Location |
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Common Bee | Found commonly on grass in the Forest |
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Forest Bee | Found commonly on grass in the Forest |
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Verge Bee | Found commonly on shores in the Forest |
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Murky Bee | Found commonly on grass in the Swamp |
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Frosty Bee | Found commonly on grass in the Tundra |
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Uncommon Bee | A single hive is found in the east of the Forest |
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Muggy Bee | Found commonly on shores in the Swamp |
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Glowing Bee | A single hive is found in the Swamp |
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Fiery Bee | Found commonly on grass in the Tundra |
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Jurassic Bee | A single hive is found frozen on the ice of the Tundra |
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Hallowed Bee | Found commonly in the Hallows |
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Rocky Bee | Found inside large rocks in all biomes |
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Glitched Bee | Only found in the Dev's Hideout |
Trivia
- There are 12 different beehive sprites listed in the game, but only "beehive1" can be crafted at the moment
- Ell has mentioned that he will make the Dye Station able to dye beehives in future to let people get the other natural beehive variants