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Questions about Bee Skeps

Postby LoLa » Sat Mar 12, 2016 5:17 pm

Do Bee Skeps produce wax inside buildings? Do they produce wax when not next to any crops at all?
If so how long does it take for them to produce wax with those conditions?
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Re: Questions about Bee Skeps

Postby evilboy666 » Sat Mar 12, 2016 5:31 pm

i dont think they will produce wax inside a house, the amount of crops they pollinate must be the key factor.
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Re: Questions about Bee Skeps

Postby LoLa » Sat Mar 12, 2016 5:33 pm

evilboy666 wrote:i dont think they will produce wax inside a house, the amount of crops they pollinate must be the key factor.

What is the least amount of crops they need to produce a piece of wax? one?
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Re: Questions about Bee Skeps

Postby Amanda44 » Sat Mar 12, 2016 5:36 pm

I can't answer all the questions, I've never tried to build one in a house, but I did build one in a cave, lol, and it did still produce honey and wax without any crops, I'm afraid I can't remember timing but I don't think it was any different than the outside one. Only key difference that I remember is no quality increase, which stands to reason.
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Re: Questions about Bee Skeps

Postby shubla » Sat Mar 12, 2016 5:37 pm

If I remember right.
They produce atleast honey without any crops nearby. But with very very slow rate.
Im not sure about wax.
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Re: Questions about Bee Skeps

Postby Koyu » Sat Mar 12, 2016 5:49 pm

"Without any pollation by crops (ie inside houses or caves), Bee Skeps take less than 4 hours to produce some honey, and about 13 days to produce a piece of wax."
The quotation is from Ring of Brodgar, am pretty sure Jorb or Loftar said it.


The product quality of such beehives is 10.
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Re: Questions about Bee Skeps

Postby NeoBasilisk » Sat Mar 12, 2016 11:18 pm

There are a lot of factors that go into wax production. As others said, there is an extremely low passive wax production rate. It is much faster to have crops growing around a beehive. But here is where it gets complex. Every time a crop grows to a new stage, it contributes towards the next piece of wax being produced in a bee skep. You might think that having a single hive with 400 crops around will produce twice as much wax as a hive with 200 crops around it, but this is not the case, because there is seemingly a cap on the amount of work a single hive can put towards a piece of wax in a given amount of time. There are figures for these details in guides and on the wiki, but I don't know how accurate they are. To further complicate things, crops like carrots and beetroots grow much faster than other crops, so they should help create wax more quickly than other crops because they mature faster, assuming that a single maturation tic is the same for all types of crops. Then there are some crops, like barley, that do not affect bee skeps at all.
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