About Apiary

[ALEXZANDER]

Imho, apiary should produce beeswax by default, not the honey jar! After 2.6 Apiary will basicly become 2.5 dew collector
Considering it has extractor tool, maybe it could change the Apiary outcome from beeswax to honey jar (with unlocking jar slot instead of speeding production)?

 

[Suxar]

What do we need wax for? To build another apiary? So we're building apiaries just to build more apiaries?

 

[Vaeliorin]

What do we need wax for? To build another apiary? So we're building apiaries just to build more apiaries?

Yes? I was kinda hoping apiaries would have a chance of producing wax, because if you want to build more than 1 or 2 over the course of a playthrough, you have to be extremely lucky, or spend hours and hours harvesting stumps for a chance to get any.

It could also be added to other/new recipes (like candles.)

 

[ALEXZANDER]

Yes? I was kinda hoping apiaries would have a chance of producing wax, because if you want to build more than 1 or 2 over the course of a playthrough, you have to be extremely lucky, or spend hours and hours harvesting stumps for a chance to get any.

It could also be added to other/new recipes (like candles.)

yea, beeswax shouldnt be rare game resource to begin with

 

[Riamus]

I don't see any reason why you'd really need to get wax from an apiary. But I also don't see why we need wax to begin with. Treat honey as being beeswax with with honey on it the way you can buy raw honey with beeswax at some places. Then just have honey be the requirement to craft an apiary. Requiring another item that you really only need a few of in an entire game and is useless for anything else is kind of dumb.

As far as the rarity, I think it's fine as it is now. It takes time to buy multiple apiaries, but you don't really need a ton of them. One is enough to handle all your infections for 2-3 people or so. You might struggle for a little while after first making one since you might need to use everything that is made initially before you start being able to set some aside in storage. But once an infection is cured, you now get an hour (I think it's an hour) of protection from being infected again, so you don't need to use honey often. If you make 2-3, you should have enough to handle even 8 players. And by the time you can make the honey food (if you even want to bother with that -- I don't), you should already be stockpiling honey if you are grabbing it out regularly and not letting it just sit in the apiaries or forgetting to refill them with flowers.

If they make wax more common, you'll just end up with stacks and stacks of it that can't be used.

 

[Suxar]

Yes? I was kinda hoping apiaries would have a chance of producing wax, because if you want to build more than 1 or 2 over the course of a playthrough, you have to be extremely lucky, or spend hours and hours harvesting stumps for a chance to get any.

It could also be added to other/new recipes (like candles.)

They're not really necessary at all. I built three apiaries, but I didn't collect any honey from them. There were at least nine stacks of it in the box anyway, even though I cooked honey-based meals in batches of six stacks. The honey from the trees was enough for me.

 

[Vaeliorin]

I don't see any reason why you'd really need to get wax from an apiary. But I also don't see why we need wax to begin with. Treat honey as being beeswax with with honey on it the way you can buy raw honey with beeswax at some places. Then just have honey be the requirement to craft an apiary. Requiring another item that you really only need a few of in an entire game and is useless for anything else is kind of dumb.

As far as the rarity, I think it's fine as it is now. It takes time to buy multiple apiaries, but you don't really need a ton of them. One is enough to handle all your infections for 2-3 people or so. You might struggle for a little while after first making one since you might need to use everything that is made initially before you start being able to set some aside in storage. But once an infection is cured, you now get an hour (I think it's an hour) of protection from being infected again, so you don't need to use honey often. If you make 2-3, you should have enough to handle even 8 players. And by the time you can make the honey food (if you even want to bother with that -- I don't), you should already be stockpiling honey if you are grabbing it out regularly and not letting it just sit in the apiaries or forgetting to refill them with flowers.

If they make wax more common, you'll just end up with stacks and stacks of it that can't be used.

Mostly so I could build more apiaries. But I'm also the person who builds and maintains 400 farm plots despite the fact that I play solo. I just like to be able to setup lots of things and gather stacks and stacks of resources.

It annoys me that I can only build one or two apiaries in a playthrough. Do I need any? No, not at all. But I'd still like to be able to build them.

They're not really necessary at all. I built three apiaries, but I didn't collect any honey from them. There were at least nine stacks of it in the box anyway, even though I cooked honey-based meals in batches of six stacks. The honey from the trees was enough for me.

I never said they were? Just that I'd like to be able to build more.

But we clearly play very differently. Even with having the honey from trees book from Day 3 or 4, I still only end up with 30-40 honey usually in a playthrough, and I haven't used the honey food.

 

[Suxar]

But we clearly play very differently. Even with having the honey from trees book from Day 3 or 4, I still only end up with 30-40 honey usually in a playthrough, and I haven't used the honey food.

I'm using honey-infused food right now and I don't know what to do with all this honey. So much of it falls from the trees that I don't even want to look into the apiaries.

 

[Vaeliorin]

Yes, but you apparently cut down way more trees than I do. I've only cut down my tree farm twice (120 trees each time) and I'm on Day 28 (2 hour days.)