Besswax Question

[Trav84]

I searched the forums and found a lot of contrary explanations of beeswax from hives. It seems like there is basically a random chance when a crop matures for a hive to generate honey or wax, with wax being a lower chance. However I've had my beehive going for weeks and never gotten a wax. I got so paranoid I built a new one to replace the old one (because I thought maybe its quality was too low?) but I've still never gotten a single wax.

I harvest my crops daily (or twice a day with carrots) and have gotten most of them up to the 40-60 quality range and still no wax. Do the bees hate me or am I doing something terribly wrong?

I tend to harvest honey when it becomes available, should I let it sit? Am I not growing enough crops ? (I have about a 3x3 or 4x4 area of each crop growing, I try to keep them smaller because I'm focusing on getting their quality up).

Thanks

[cobaltjones]

Pretty sure that honey fills up first, and then once your hive is full of honey it'll start making wax.

I've never seen a hive that had wax but didn't have the visual cue of honey trickling out.

EDIT: Just read your whole post. Yeah your problem is that you're harvesting the honey too soon. Let it sit for a day or two with full honey and you'll start getting wax.

[MercyLeigh]

I harvest wax from hives without honey all the time. There is no visual cue for wax so you have to right-click the hives periodically to check for wax. Hives do not need to be full of honey before they start producing wax.

Do not over-lap hives for best honey/wax production. Do try to fill as much of each hive's coverage-area with as many crops as possible. In my experience, hives that cover more than one crop type produce more wax than those that cover only a single crop type but that could be coincidence.

[cobaltjones]

I harvest wax from hives without honey all the time. There is no visual cue for wax so you have to right-click the hives periodically to check for wax. Hives do not need to be full of honey before they start producing wax.

Do not over-lap hives for best honey/wax production. Do try to fill as much of each hive's coverage-area with as many crops as possible. In my experience, hives that cover more than one crop type produce more wax than those that cover only a single crop type but that could be coincidence.

I am 98% sure that hives have to have honey before they can produce wax. You can harvest the honey from a hive with wax in it and the wax will still be available for harvest obviously, but I have never in my year of playing this game (and farming constantly) seen a hive without honey that contained wax.

[Sevenless]

I harvest wax from hives without honey all the time. There is no visual cue for wax so you have to right-click the hives periodically to check for wax. Hives do not need to be full of honey before they start producing wax.

Do not over-lap hives for best honey/wax production. Do try to fill as much of each hive's coverage-area with as many crops as possible. In my experience, hives that cover more than one crop type produce more wax than those that cover only a single crop type but that could be coincidence.

I am 98% sure that hives have to have honey before they can produce wax. You can harvest the honey from a hive with wax in it and the wax will still be available for harvest obviously, but I have never in my year of playing this game (and farming constantly) seen a hive without honey that contained wax.

Mercy is right. However I've never seen a fresh hive without honey being made before wax. I think it just produces the honey first, but having honey in the hive isn't a requirement for the wax to be made.

[bmjclark]

I harvest wax from hives without honey all the time. There is no visual cue for wax so you have to right-click the hives periodically to check for wax. Hives do not need to be full of honey before they start producing wax.

Do not over-lap hives for best honey/wax production. Do try to fill as much of each hive's coverage-area with as many crops as possible. In my experience, hives that cover more than one crop type produce more wax than those that cover only a single crop type but that could be coincidence.

I am 98% sure that hives have to have honey before they can produce wax. You can harvest the honey from a hive with wax in it and the wax will still be available for harvest obviously, but I have never in my year of playing this game (and farming constantly) seen a hive without honey that contained wax.

Everytime a hive produces honey, it has a chance to produce wax from what i understand

[SuchANerd]

Beehives can definitly produce wax without honey. It happened to me several time.

Once the beehive even had two units of wax and no honey. Only happended once though.

[chibikid]

will not make wax/honey no crops growing so make lot wax of you need farm all day pack up crops and grow new crops all time
2nd Q level honey/wax sucks you need make time work on make new Bee Hive will help you Q formula = (2*Straw Q + Block Q + Board Q)/4
q level speed up the growing of crops will speed up the wax/honey make to q100+ bee hive good time look for 2nd guy for farming of carrots make carrots 4 to 6 time a day q40 to q60 wax/honey