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

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]]

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.

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 wax. 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 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 [[Cooking|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 [[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]].

In this video tutorial you can see once again exactly how to raise a successful beekeeping.  

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