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Bees provide important resources in Vintage Story. Using simple methods, bees can be tended, and their products harvested. Beekeeping produces useful products such as [[honey]] and [[beeswax]].

Finding wild [[bees]] can be difficult. Wild bees are a rare spawn in warm climates, but they don't spawn in climates that are too arid or too wet. The best way to find them is to turn the game sound all the way up and wander around in forested areas. Bees are often heard before they are seen. Keep listening for bees, and checking the trees in the area. Wild hives can be inside or suspended from a log.

Bees are captured using a [[Cattails_(Reeds)|skep]]. Players can view the size of the hive, number of flowers in range, and an estimate for the number of days until the hive swarms by pressing 'B' (block info) and mousing over the hive. The wild hive must reach a large population before it will divide and populate the skep.

!Amount of Flowers

!Quote

|None

|Will swarm in aprox. 10 days

|Will swarm in aprox. 9 days

|Will swarm in aprox. 8 days

|Will swarm in aprox. 7 days

|Will swarm in aprox. 6 days

|Will swarm in aprox. 5 days

|Will swarm in aprox. 4 days

|Will swarm in aprox. 3 days

|Will swarm in aprox. 2 days

|Will swarm in aprox. one day

|Will swarm in less than a day

(Between 15 hours to 1 hour)

(Flowers: 22 - 224 or more)

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| 2=<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Breaking the skep will destroy the skep and might spawn a swarm of angry bees.</span>}}

| 2=<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Raccoons are mischievous creatures! Make sure to build a fence around your skeps so the honey is safe from naughty raccoons.</span>

As the bee population increases, they produce honeycomb. Over time, the entrance of the skep will change from a dull yellow to a bright yellow as the skep fills. When a player examines the populated skep, the block information will show that the skep has become "harvestable". At this point, breaking the skep (left mouse button) will provide honeycomb and some of the cattails used to make the skep. Pick up the harvested items and move out of the area.

Though bees can be collected from the wild, they cannot be ''domesticated''. There is always a chance that breaking the skep will spawn an [[Bees|angry bee swarm]]. One technique to avoid attacks from the angry swarm is to place [[Dry grass|straw dummies]] near the hives so the bees attack the decoys instead of players. If a player remains in the area of an angry swarm, bees may still attack even if a straw dummy is present. Also, make sure the skeps are not placed near animal pens, as angry bees will attack any nearby living thing, including the animals players are currently domesticating.

Honeycomb can be processed into [[honey]] and [[beeswax]]. First, place an empty fired bowl or [[Wooden_Bucket|bucket]] on the ground. Next, while holding the honeycomb, aim the cursor at the empty container and right click to "squeeze" the honey from the comb. This action will fill it with honey and the remaining wax will appear in the player's inventory. Each honeycomb yields 0.25 liters of honey and one wax. A bowl holds honey from one honeycomb portion, while a bucket holds honey from 40 honeycombs (10 liters), and a barrel holds 5 buckets (50 liters) of honey.

When eaten, Honey restores 0.5 health points. Honey can also be used to make [[jam]], added to [[meal]]s like [[porridge]], or to craft healing [[poultice]]s. Wax (stacks to 32) can be used to seal food crocks for long term [[food preservation]], and crafted into a [[Light sources|candles]] by placing three wax in a column in the crafting grid. Candles never burn out and can be placed on top of solid blocks or in chandeliers. Up to 9 candles can be placed on the same block and each candle added to the block increases the light level.  Candles are also used to craft [[Crafting_Recipes#Light_Sources|lanterns]].