Včelárstvo

Včely vo Vintage Story sú zdrojom dôležitých surovín. Pomocou jednoduchých metód možno včely chovať a zbierať ich produkty. Včelárstvo produkuje užitočné produkty ako med a včelí vosk.

Štyri úle na stole. Hnedý objekt na strome je divoký včelí úľ.

Hľadanie divokých včiel

Nájsť voľne žijúce včely môže byť ťažké. Divoké včely sa objavujú len vzácne v teplom podnebí, ale neobjavujú sa v podnebí, ktoré je príliš suché alebo príliš vlhké. Najlepší spôsob, ako ich nájsť, je nastaviť si zvuk hry na maximum a potulovať sa po zalesnených oblastiach. Včely je často počuť skôr, ako ich je vidieť. Stále sa snažte začuť včely a kontrolujte stromy v okolí. Divoké včelie úle môžu byť vo vnútri kmeňa stromu, alebo zavesené na konári.

Úle sa objavujú v klimatických podmienkach, kde sa prelínajú všetky tri hodnoty parametrov z nasledujúcej tabuľky:

Parameter	Min. hodnota	Max. hodnota
Teplota	5	35
Dážď	0.35	0.85
Zalesnenie	0.25	1.0

Chytanie včiel

Včely je možné chytiť za pomoci slameného úľa. Hráči môžu vidieť veľkosť úľa, počet kvetov v okolí, a odhadovaný počet dní, kým sa včely vyroja, stlačením 'B' (informácie o bloku) a pozíciou myši nad úľom. Divoký úľ musí mať veľkú populáciu, kým sa rozdelí a obsadí aj slamený úľ.

Osídľovanie prázdneho úľa

Umiestnite prázdny úľ do siedmich blokov od divokého úľa. Ak v blízkosti divokého úľa nie sú kvety, populácia sa nezvýši natoľko, aby sa vyrojil. Na zvýšenie populácie potrebujú včely aspoň päť kvetov v rámci siedmich blokov divokého úľa. Včely musia preskúmať svoju oblasť, aby našli a opelili všetky novo umiestnené kvety, ale časom tieto kvety nájdu.
Čím viac kvetov umiestnite, tým rýchlejšie bude proces prebiehať - napríklad pri umiestnení 100 kvetov do okolia siedmich blokov a vyrojenie bude trvať len asi tri herné hodiny. Všimnite si, že to nezahŕňa čas, ktorý včely potrebujú na rozpoznanie kvetov! To či ich našli, si môžete skontrolovať umiestnením kurzora myši nad úľ.

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.

Rada profesionála: Breaking the skep will destroy the skep and might spawn a swarm of angry bees.

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.

Rada profesionála: Raccoons are mischievous creatures! Make sure to build a fence around your skeps so the honey is safe from naughty raccoons.

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 (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.

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 wax. 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 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.

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