Suggestions for Bee hive

[tiba666]

Could be nice if you could make bee hives so the bees could pollination and give a grow boost or better outcome of the crops.
And honey for mead and\or fighting infection.
^^

[LouisTBR]

+1

[Draegon]

Nice idea +1

[MeowRailroad]

+1 and you could release the bees on raiders too.

[thedee05]

Here are my ideas for the mod as a beekeeper IRL.

• Honey Bees have a chance of starting out naturally on the map in subtropical to tropical areas. Maybe a new tree graphic with a hole in it.
• Bees look like a shifting ball or mass at the hive and look like seeds particles elsewhere on the map.
• Colonist can build hive boxes
• Colonist can make Vail and coat for handling bees.
• Colonist can capture bees and place them in hive boxes. This would be like taming
• Colonist can harvest honey
• Bees Produce Honey, this is a percentage like milk animals. It can be in the hive boxes or in the tree.
• Harvesting from tree takes a chance of attack.
• Honey can be similar to buckets of milk ,gluttonous food, can can be use in meals and to brew mead.
• Above 50°F they forge and do normal bee things
• 45°F to 0°F they stay in their hive boxes but the honey percentage in the hive starts to decline. When it hits zero hive health starts to decline.
• -1°F and below hive health declines and fails when health is a zero
• Flowers and vegetables increase speed of honey production.
• Hives on fire drives the bees out of hive and they become "wild" again.
• Like all animals bees have chance of becoming manhunters.
• Bees swarm(positive term meaning splitting to make another hive not attacking) in the spring. They will go to a tree if there is no empty hive nearby.
• Bees can be purchased from traders.
• Bees can be stored inside if there is food.

Ideas that would be neat but make it more complicated

• Bees have a defined distance they will fly.
• Bees increase the speed of vegetable growth.(Doesn't work that way IRL)
• Colonist can have an Allergy to bees.
• Wax amount is tracked in %.
• Wax can be harvested when manually right clicked, otherwise they will only harvest honey.
• Remaining Honey is harvested when wax is harvested with 10% buff in honey harvested.
• Harvesting wax stops honey production until wax is back at 100%.
• Harvesting wax allows for candles to be crafted or mixed with healroot to make a slightly better medicine.

_{edited to add list format}

[Wex]

I tremble at the idea of manhunter bees.
Go ahead, shoot a swarm; see the result.

[thedee05]

It would be a 1 for 1. One shot, one kill. Only 30K to 80K to go. Fire and gas, that is the key.

[Simon_The_Space_Engineer]

Here are my ideas for the mod as a beekeeper IRL.

• Honey Bees have a chance of starting out naturally on the map in subtropical to tropical areas. Maybe a new tree graphic with a hole in it.
• Bees look like a shifting ball or mass at the hive and look like seeds particles elsewhere on the map.
• Colonist can build hive boxes
• Colonist can make Vail and coat for handling bees.
• Colonist can capture bees and place them in hive boxes. This would be like taming
• Colonist can harvest honey
• Bees Produce Honey, this is a percentage like milk animals. It can be in the hive boxes or in the tree.
• Harvesting from tree takes a chance of attack.
• Honey can be similar to buckets of milk ,gluttonous food, can can be use in meals and to brew mead.
• Above 50°F they forge and do normal bee things
• 45°F to 0°F they stay in their hive boxes but the honey percentage in the hive starts to decline. When it hits zero hive health starts to decline.
• -1°F and below hive health declines and fails when health is a zero
• Flowers and vegetables increase speed of honey production.
• Hives on fire drives the bees out of hive and they become "wild" again.
• Like all animals bees have chance of becoming manhunters.
• Bees swarm(positive term meaning splitting to make another hive not attacking) in the spring. They will go to a tree if there is no empty hive nearby.
• Bees can be purchased from traders.
• Bees can be stored inside if there is food.

Ideas that would be neat but make it more complicated

• Bees have a defined distance they will fly.
• Bees increase the speed of vegetable growth.(Doesn't work that way IRL)
• Colonist can have an Allergy to bees.
• Wax amount is tracked in %.
• Wax can be harvested when manually right clicked, otherwise they will only harvest honey.
• Remaining Honey is harvested when wax is harvested with 10% buff in honey harvested.
• Harvesting wax stops honey production until wax is back at 100%.
• Harvesting wax allows for candles to be crafted or mixed with healroot to make a slightly better medicine.

_{edited to add list format}

+1 this is great!