Apicultura

Las abejas proporcionan importantes recursos en Vintage Story. Con métodos sencillos, las abejas pueden ser cuidadas y sus productos cosechados. La apicultura produce productos útiles como miel y cera de abejas .

Cuatro colmenas sobre una mesa. El objeto marrón bajo el árbol es una colmena silvestre.

Buscando Abejas silvestres

Encontrar abejas silvestres puede ser difícil. Las abejas silvestres aparecen raramente en climas cálidos, pero no en climas demasiado áridos o húmedos. La mejor forma de encontrarlas es subir al máximo el sonido del juego y vagar por zonas boscosas. Las abejas suelen oírse antes de verse. Siga escuchando si hay abejas y compruebe los árboles de la zona. Las colmenas silvestres pueden estar dentro o suspendidas de un tronco.

Las colmenas aparecen en climas en los que se cruzan los tres valores de la siguiente tabla:

Parameter	Min. value	Max. value
Temperature	5	35
Rainfall	0.35	0.85
Forest	0.25	1.0

Capturando de abejas silvestres

Las abejas se capturan con una colmena artificial . Los jugadores pueden ver el tamaño de la colmena, el número de flores que hay y una estimación del número de días que faltan para que la colmena enjambre pulsando B (bloque de información) y pasando el ratón por encima de la colmena. La colmena salvaje debe alcanzar una gran población antes de dividirse y poblar la colmena.

Bloque de información

Cantidad de Flores	Estimación
0-2	Ninguna
3	Enjambrará en aprox. 10 días
4-5	Enjambrará en aprox. 9 días
6-7	Enjambrará en aprox. 8 días
8-9	Enjambrará en aprox. 7 días
10-11	Enjambrará en aprox. 6 días
12-13	Enjambrará en aprox. 5 días
14-15	Enjambrará en aprox. 4 días
16-17	Enjambrará en aprox. 3 días
18-19	Enjambrará en aprox. 2 días
20-21	Enjambrará en aprox. un día
22+	Enjambrará en menos de un día (Entre 15 horas y 1 hora) (Flores: 22 - 224 o más)

Rellenar una colmena artificial vacía

Coloca una colmena artificial vacía a menos de siete bloques de la colmena silvestre. Si no hay flores cerca de la colmena silvestre, la población no aumentará lo suficiente como para enjambrar. Para aumentar la población, las abejas necesitan al menos cinco flores en un radio de siete bloques de la colmena silvestre. Las abejas deben explorar su zona para localizar y alimentarse de las flores recién colocadas, pero las encontrarán con el tiempo.

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.

Transporting a filled skep

Filled skeps take up a backpack slot.

Filled skeps can be transported in one of the four bag slots, instead of a backpack or basket. Once populated, pick up the skep. Carrying a skep will cause its population to drop. It will be placed into the empty bag slot and can be carried home.

Protip:

Placing a filled skep

Place the populated skep in a prepared apiary. First, select the skep in the backpack slot. This can be done by either holding the sprint and scrolling or holding it and pressing 1 through 4 (to select the empty backpack slot). Then place the skep on to a solid block.

Protip:

Apiary

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.

Propagating bee populations

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.

Optimized Skep Layout

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.

A simple optimized tileable skep & flower layout

Harvesting skeps

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 will provide honeycomb and some of the cattails used to make the skep. Pick up the harvested items and move out of the area.

Temperature

Populations of bees will hibernate (stop swarming or producing honeycombs) at 0°C. Once the temperature reaches -10°C, all bee-related timers (swarm and production) will reset, and will only resume until the temperature rises above 0°C at the end of winter.

Angry Bees

Though bees can be collected from the wild, they cannot be domesticated. There is always a chance that breaking the skep will spawn an angry bee swarm . One technique to avoid attacks from the angry swarm is to place 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.

Honey & Wax

Honeycomb can be processed into honey and beeswax . First, place an empty fired bowl or 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 meals like porridge , or to craft healing poultices . Wax (stacks to 32) can be used to seal food crocks for long term food preservation , and crafted into a 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 lanterns .

Video Tutorials

How to raise a successful beekeeping.