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Place an {{ll|skep|empty skep}} '''within seven blocks''' of the wild beehive.  If there are no flowers near the wild hive, the population will not increase enough to swarm. To increase the population, bees require at least five {{ll|Flowers|flowers}} within seven blocks of the wild hive. Bees must explore their area to locate and feed on any newly placed flowers, but they will find these flowers over time.

The more flowers you place, the faster the process will go - for example, playing 100 flowers into the seven blocks vicinity, and the swarming will only take about three ingame hours. Note that this does not include the time the bees need to recognize the flowers! You can check by hovering over the hive to see if they found them.

Bees search for flowers in a seven block range, in all directions. To reach a large population, bees need [5+3X] flowers, where X is the number of other skeps within their search range. Well fed populations of bees will split to fill additional empty skeps.

Additional skeps can be filled from the original, allowing players to increase the number of skeps available for harvesting. As the population of the original skep grows, the bees will divide to populate nearby empty skeps placed within 7 blocks of a filled skep by the same process that bees are captured from a wild hive.

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The simplest layout for ensuring each skep has enough flowers is to place skeps 2 tiles apart and surround them with flowers. This pattern can be repeated indefinitely and each skep will have enough flowers to reach a large population.

[[File:SimpleOptimalSkepLayout.png|300px|thumb|floatright|A simple optimized tileable skep & flower layout]]

[[Honeycomb]] can be processed into {{ll|honey|honey}} and {{ll|beeswax|beeswax}}. First, place an empty fired bowl or {{ll|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 0.2 liters of honey and one wax. A bowl holds honey from 5 honeycomb portion, while a bucket holds honey from 50 honeycombs (10 liters), and a barrel holds 5 buckets (50 liters) of honey.