What is apiculture/bee keeping

Apiculture (Bee Keeping)
This system can enable players to own and take care of their own beehives. you'll be able to collect honey and wax from your hive. The beeswax is utilized in our wax crafting system to create varied wax things. this can be the sole thanks to get beeswax because the beekeepers don't sell it. you'll have to be compelled to gather your own wax from your hive so as to sculpt with it. you'll purchase your beehive, wax pot addon, tiny wax pot, dipping sticks and hive tools from the beekeeper.
Apiculture Guide

Like the plant system, players use potions to worry for the hive and should give flowers and water. Raw wax should be rendered to be used. Apiculture is that the science (and some say art) of raising honey bees, conjointly referred to as beekeeping. Bees live along in teams referred to as colonies and create their homes in beehives. Tending a hive isn't as simple because it might sound, though it is a really rewarding expertise. to begin on the trail of the apiculturist, all one desires could be a beehive deed and a district with many flowers and water.

There are three distinct stages in a very beehive's development:

1. Colonizing - the hive sends out scouts to survey the realm and realize sources of flowers and water.
2. Brooding - egg laying begins in full force because the hive gets able to begin full scale production.
3. manufacturing - when a hive reaches maturity, it begins manufacturing excess amounts of honey and wax.
The health of a hive is measured in 2 ways: over all health and bee population.

Over all health offers a sign of the typical bee's well being:

    Thriving - the bees are very healthy. A thriving colony produces honey and wax at an increased rate.
    Healthy - the bees are healthy and manufacturing excess honey and wax.
    Sickly - the bees are sickly and aren't any longer manufacturing excess resources.
    Dying - if one thing is not done quickly, bee population can begin to drop.

Bee population could be a rough estimate of the quantity of bees in a very hive. additional bees doesn't continuously mean higher for an outsized hive is harder to keep up. additional water and flowers are required within the space to support an outsized hive (the vary a hive will check for flowers and water is increased because the hive gets larger). If the conditions get unhealthy enough, a colony of bees can abscond, leaving an empty hive behind.

Like any living issue, bees are vulnerable to attacks from outside forces. Be it parasites or disease, the apiculturist incorporates a plethora of tools at their disposal.

 bigger Cure potions is used to combat diseases like foulbrood and dysentery. These potions also can be used to neutralize excess poison.
 bigger Poison potions is used to combat insects (such because the wax moth) or parasites (such because the bee louse) that infest a hive. Care should be used! Too several poison potions will hurt the bees.
 bigger Strength potions is used to make up a hive's immunity to infestation and disease.
 bigger Heal potions is used to assist heal the bees.
 bigger Agility potions offer the bees additional energy permitting them to figure more durable. {this will|this may|this will} boost honey and wax output also as increase the vary the bees can rummage around for flowers and water.

Managing and caring for the hive is completed using the Apiculture gump. virtually each side of the hive is monitored from here. Down the left aspect of the gump are the standing icons:

Production - this button brings up the assembly gump where the beekeeper will     harvest the products the hive must provide.

Infestation - a red or yellow hyphen here means that the hive is infested by parasites or alternative insects. Use poisons to kill the pests.
 
Disease - a red or yellow hyphen here means that the hive is currently diseased. Using cure potions can facilitate the bees fight off the illness.

Water - this icon displays the provision of water within the space. Be warned, water breeds disease carrying bacteria, thus an excessive amount of water will create a hive additional vulnerable to disease.

Flowers - this icon provides a sign of the number of flowers accessible to the hive. Bees use flowers and their by-products for nearly each perform of the hive as well as building and food. Too several flowers within the space, however, will bring the bees into contact with additional parasites and insects.

Notes: one beehive will support up to one hundred,000 bees. A healthy hive will last indefinitely, however, an older hive is additional vulnerable to infestation and disease.

A hive's growth check is performed once each day throughout a world save. The higher right hand corner of the Apiculture gump displays the results of the last growth check:

    !Not Healthy
    !Low Resources
    -Population Decrease
    +Population Growth
    +Stage increase/Resource production

Most of the higher than data is offered via an in-game facilitate gump.

3 Honey + one bottle = one Jar of Honey

Make sure there are some water (items with "water" within the title) and flowers (items with "flower", "snowdrop", or "poppie" within the title) round the hive for the bees to create use of. These is statics or actual things.

KWK's Shard added their own wax crafting system to couple with the Apiculture System.

REMEMBER:
In order to own a healthy hive you'll want a water supply (pitchers of water, water trough etc) close to your hive and conjointly flowers ( you will wish to grow your flowers before trying a hive) the larger your hive gets, the more durable it'll be to keep up and therefore the additional water/flowers it'll want among the realm of your hive.

It looks that the sole potential drawback that this method might have is: If you are trying to gather wax from your hive and there's none to gather the hive can spend your hive tool, making an attempt to gather. It looks to figure fine if you've got wax to gather. thus in brief, if you're not careful after you collect it looks the "worst" {that can|which can|that may} happen is that your hive tool will get dried-up and you'll have to be compelled to purchase a brand new one from the beekeeper for 5gp.