bee skep, wax?

[alioli]

How do you gain wax from bee skeps?

[tiarali]

To get honey, you have to have crops growing in its area. When it has enough honey, it will eventually get wax. You just right click and the option comes up - when it's there.

I've gotten one lot of wax and it seems to be very slow. If I'm missing anything, any hints would be great

[Myrgard]

I had the same problems in previous worlds

The mechanics should still be the same as in old haven http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Bee_Hive

You need to have the hive pollinate a LOT of crops to get a steady supply of wax.

often when a hive is just looking after a small hermit field it doesn't have enough crops to produce any wax

[alioli]

I see, so it needs to be honey-filled in order to produce wax? I just thought it was random so i've been taking honey from it every so often xD I see then.

[Myrgard]

No the amount of honey is meaningless, if it pollinates a LOT of crops in a short amount of time it will make both honey and wax - otherwise you'll get just honey.

It doesn't matter what was in the hive before.

[MagicManICT]

The mechanics should still be the same as in old haven http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Bee_Hive

Maybe. Hive mechanics have been changed. For what it's worth, I've noticed the same, so the old values may not be used, but there are some thresholds there.

edit: clarified what I was trying to say.

[lordrio]

I had the same problems in previous worlds

The mechanics should still be the same as in old haven http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Bee_Hive

You need to have the hive pollinate a LOT of crops to get a steady supply of wax.

often when a hive is just looking after a small hermit field it doesn't have enough crops to produce any wax

I dont think the stuff you see on the wiki holds true anymore.

The wiki says :

The beehive will produce different amounts of materials depending on how many crop stage changes it has gotten between the updates.

0-25: updates will 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.
*Beehives produce wax or honey every 20 real life minutes. The crops on the ground can change stage at any time and this is not related to the timer of when the beehive gets it's update.*

Jorb says:

Each time a crop increases a growth stage it checks for a beehive. If it finds one that beehive ticks up +1 (burst/use/call it what you want), and the time toward the next growth stage is reduced for the crop in question. If the beehive has been used 50 times it cannot be used again until it has regenerated. It regenerates on average 6 uses per hour.

Max usage for a bee hive is 50, and it regen 6 per hour. So if the hive check for update every 20 mins, you will never make a wax according to the wiki.

On the side note, both my hive on the big fields and my small fields seems to generate wax at the same time.

[MagicManICT]

So if the hive check for update every 20 mins, you will never make a wax according to the wiki.

If the hives are feeding the same maximum number of plants in both places, of course they'll make wax at the same time.

As I said, the old system may still apply, but the numbers will be different. Someone needs to be willing to test it, and that may mean setting up a bunch of bots to monitor it.

[lordrio]

So if the hive check for update every 20 mins, you will never make a wax according to the wiki.

If the hives are feeding the same maximum number of plants in both places, of course they'll make wax at the same time.

Yep I was referring to the post that say a small hermit field will never pollinate enough to produce wax.

[g1real]

I've had trouble in the past few days producing wax too with two 16x16 fields.

They produce HQ honey in 0.02l ticks just fine, but no wax ever.