User:Dalllyn/Sandbox/Beehive

Nectar Bush
Nectar bushes have 2 growth cycles, each cycle yielding 250 nectar. After the first growth cycle, the nectar bush withers; at this stage the bush can be removed or it can be revived by another player for an additional harvest. After this harvest, the plant permanently dies, leaving a brown plant that can be removed with an axe.

Nectar
Nectar can never be directly collected or stored by the player, it is collected by honey bees and is stored in a beehive. Once 100 nectars have been collected it is changed into honeycomb. The further the nectar bush is from the beehive tree the longer it takes the bees to bring it to the beehive.

Honey Bee
Honey bees are farm animals which collect nectar from nectar bushes and bring it to beehives in the beehive tree to produce honeycomb. They are unlocked at level 39.

Unlike other animals, the number of bees one can have is not completely dependent on one's experience level. A first group of three honey bees is unlocked in the shop for 1,500 coins each at Level 39. Once they have collected 4,000 drops of nectar, a second beehive is added to the beehive tree and three more bees can be purchased for 2,000 coins each. When 40,000 drops of nectar have been collected, a third beehive is added and three more bees can be purchased for 2,500 coins each. Lastly, when 400,000 drops of nectar have been collected, a fourth beehive is added and three more bees can be purchased for 3,000 coins each.

Honey bees are purchased via the animal tab of the shop.

Feeding
Unlike other animals, honey bees do not require feed made in the Feed Mill to produce honeycombs. All they need are live nectar bushes. Bees continue collecting nectar even when the player is offline but will stop doing it when the beehive is full. They will resume gathering it as soon as the player harvests the piece of honeycomb from the beehive.

The further the bush is from the beehive tree, the longer it takes the bees to bring nectar to the beehive and therefore to produce honeycomb.

Uses
The honeycomb honey bees produce can be used in the Honey Extractor to make honey and beeswax.

Category:Farm animalsThe Beehive Tree
The Beehive Tree shelters   honey bees  in beehives. The beehive tree is unlocked at  Level  39 and costs 4,000 coins. The tree itself does not produce anything: bees produce honeycomb within the beehives. Up to three bees can be housed in a beehive.

Unlike other animal shelters additional beehive trees cannot be bought in the shop. Players must collect 4,000 drops of nectar to get a second beehive, 40,000 drops to get a third one and 400,000 drops to get the last one.

All the beehives are on the same unique tree and honeycomb must be collected from each beehive.

In addition to beehive(s) the beehive tree also has a bee smoker tied around its trunk and a honey jar on the ground next to it. As the player gets more beehives the appearance of the tree changes:

Honeycomb
Honeycomb (sometimes incorrectly spelled honey comb) is produced by honey bees in beehives located in beehive trees. Once 100 drops of nectar have been collected one piece of honeycomb can be produced instantly. It requires three bees approximately 35 minutes to gather that much nectar and bring it to a beehive (providing nectar bushes are close to the beehive tree so bees can fly the nectar as quickly as possible).

When bees have flown 100 drops of nectar from nectar bushes into a beehive, the latter is 'full' and players can harvest a piece of honeycomb using a skep (i.e. a woven straw basket). The skep is automatically provided with the beehive tree and never has to be replaced. If the player has several beehives each must be filled and harvested individually.

Table of product
Honeycomb can be used to make the following  products :

Honey Extractor
The Honey Extractor is a Production Building unlocked at Level 39. It costs 35,000 coins and takes 24 hours (or 47 diamonds) to built it. It gives players 24 experience points when completed and can produce:
 * Honey
 * Beeswax

Trivia

 * Honey bees were added with the September 2014 update.
 * Unlike other farm animals, bees do not change appearance during seasonal or holiday themes.