Bee's wax

[Gsmith99]

So I am able to harvest honey but i can not figure out how to harvest wax. I also have candle making. If you harvest the honey does the wax become unavailable?

[Morrighan]

http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Bee_Hive

This article in the Wiki pretty much explains it all. Have fun

[vatas]

I think you need to plant carrots, flax or beetroot in order to generate beeswax. Carrots would seem to be fastest and easiest.

[Holya]

Any crop produces wax/honey, except trees if we're counting them under crop.
I'm unsure of the way beehives work exactly, but it's something along the line of every ~20minutes either wax or honey is produced, with some caps on how much they can produce over a certain amount of time. Wax cannot be made before honey, but after 0.1L of honey is in the hive, there's a 50/50 of the beehive to produce wax or honey.
Simply right-click on the beehive on a character with the beekeeping skill in order to collect honey.

Note that the thing that causes a beehive to produce wax or honey, is a plant's growth stage changing, this includes them being initially planted.
So, if you desperately need a large quantity of wax, and you've enough seeds you can simply make more beehives and plant more around them.
Downside is, in their earlier growth stages a plant's quality is lower, and the honey/wax quality is based on the plant quality.
Lastly, honey/wax quality averages out with the honey/wax already in your beehive, so if you harvest it at every growth stage, you'll get higher honey.

Don't quote me on any of this, half is probably wrong, if you want a detailed guide on wax quality farming, I'd recommend looking up Xcom's thread about it.

Good luck

[czaper2]

The thread Hoyla mentioned is here: Advanced beehive experiment

All of it was right, except the part about having to have honey to get wax. In a hive without wax or honey, you can get both on an update. Once wax is in the hive it's there, so you can take the honey first without worry, and having honey already in the hive doesn't help produce more wax. If any of that made sense anyways.

[Holya]

The thread Hoyla mentioned is here: Advanced beehive experiment

All of it was right, except the part about having to have honey to get wax. In a hive without wax or honey, you can get both on an update. Once wax is in the hive it's there, so you can take the honey first without worry, and having honey already in the hive doesn't help produce more wax. If any of that made sense anyways.

Thanks for the correction.

[vatas]

Still carrots are best if you want wax, they grow fastest giving most crop updates that give progress towards generating honey/wax.

[Gsmith99]

I have honey being produced i just cant collect the wax. I have a huge garden. Does anybody wanna make a quick character and come to my house to look and see if im doing something wrong?

[Arcanist]

note that you need lots of plants to change stage at the same time for a beehive to produce wax...

These are some of my hypotheses and might not be overly accurate.
The beehive will produce different amounts of materials depending on how many crop stage changes it has gotten between the updates.
0-25: updates seams to not produce anything.
25-40: produces 0.1 L of honey.
40-60: 1 wax or 0.1L honey.
60-90: both 1 wax and 0.1 L honey
90+: 0.2 L honey and 1 wax.

So you need atleast 40-60 plants to change stage within a 20 minute window

[vatas]

I have honey being produced i just cant collect the wax. I have a huge garden. Does anybody wanna make a quick character and come to my house to look and see if im doing something wrong?

If you have carrots and enders client, plant carrots to every tile covered by beehives green radius area.