Beehives

[HaleyRocks]

What is the maximum distance a beehive can have, from a fully bloomed flower?

 

[Lew Zealand]

It's 2-5 tiles depending on the direction, kinda weirdly different than the Scarecrow. I always need the Wiki for this one:

I love it because…

It's still a SQUARE. But on it's side. Why not a Square but the other regularly square Square? The game is already very Squarey with it's Squarish buildings and Squaroid Fishing distances but then we get this curveball of a diamondish shape that's really just a slightly confused and tarted up

square.

 

[Brave Little Sapling]

Any flowers within 5 tiles will be used to produce honey of that flower variety.
Here's the range as shown on the wiki

 

[nicodeux]

Note that if there are several flowers within the beehive's range, the closest ones will be used to determine what kind of flower honey. In case, there are different kind of flowers at the same distance, the flower that gives the most profitable honey will be used.

 

[WillyLover420]

C'est interesant

 

[AlexandriaHelle]

It's 2-5 tiles depending on the direction, kinda weirdly different than the Scarecrow. I always need the Wiki for this one:

I love it because…

It's still a SQUARE. But on it's side. Why not a Square but the other regularly square Square? The game is already very Squarey with it's Squarish buildings and Squaroid Fishing distances but then we get this curveball of a diamondish shape that's really just a slightly confused and tarted up

square.

Thanks. I will keep it in my mind.

 

[VampireCake]

Fun fact: If your beehives produce honey before your flowers have grown but you don't want wild honey, you can just not collect it and leave it bobbing away until the flowers bloom, and it'll be the flower honey instead of wild. It saves waiting through another beehive production cycle to start obtaining your petal-infused nectar of choice.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

Fun fact: If your beehives produce honey before your flowers have grown but you don't want wild honey, you can just not collect it and leave it bobbing away until the flowers bloom, and it'll be the flower honey instead of wild. It saves waiting through another beehive production cycle to start obtaining your petal-infused nectar of choice.

This is what I do, allows for an extra sneaky harvest of expansive honey if I placed my beehives first

 

[Ferris Bueller]

What is the maximum distance a beehive can have, from a fully bloomed flower?

that's my solution (without deluxe retainig soil)

 

[Fwufikins]

that's my solution (without deluxe retainig soil)

What a coincidence. I was actually just thinking of some layout ideas involving retaining soil.
Currently at work so I obviously don't have access to the game itself, but I threw something together on a grid.

(Pink= Flower, Yellow=Bee House, Black= Path. Everything else is just aesthetic stuff like walls, trees, dirt etc.)
Might not necessarily be 100% optimal, but still a pretty good Honey-Per-Flower output ratio.

 

[Ferris Bueller]

What a coincidence. I was actually just thinking of some layout ideas involving retaining soil.
Currently at work so I obviously don't have access to the game itself, but I threw something together on a grid.
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(Pink= Flower, Yellow=Bee House, Black= Path. Everything else is just aesthetic stuff like walls, trees, dirt etc.)
Might not necessarily be 100% optimal, but still a pretty good Honey-Per-Flower output ratio.

that's on ginger island

 

[HaleyRocks]

Before proceeding to build one of the larger designs, i thought of trying this pattern first:

Three of those formations, one upon another with just 1 empty space inbetween them, barely fit in the Ginger Island Farm field, on its eastern side! Leaving enough space for excessive farming of crops, in the remaining field! Counting the total boxes and the place they are at, it seems way more effective and profitable to have three of those and on Ginger Island, as opposed to one of the bigger formations and at normal Farmstead (since you can also have Fairy Rose, all year round, too)!

What's your opinion?

 

[MoltenCheryJuice]

I also always need the wiki for that. It's all weird compared to everything elsethat's SQUARE. So stupid imo, but I'm sure there was a reason for it.