Most valuable thing you have is your character and his LP. There are many player who enjoy randomly murdering whoever they can.
As for the hives: Hive produces honey/wax on a % chance every time a crop grows. Crops sitting fully grown do nothing. You get 0.2L of honey for every wax the hive produces. Multiple hives can't share "food", nor do they help speed up growth of crops. It's a waste of your effort to make more hives, and realistically you only want the best hive gathering honey/wax. It doesn't cause any harm though to build extra or if you have their radius overlapping.