Decreasing wax quality?

[Procne]

Strange thing - quality of honey and wax that I get from my hives is constantly decreasing. First I build quality 20 hive and after some time it was only giving quality 10 honey/wax.

Then I built 2 quality 48 hives and at first they were giving quality 48 and 80 wax/honey (second one was near field with ql 100 carrots). But after few days quality started decreasing, and now it's 25.

Both hives are surrounded with quality 50+ crops, around 300 tiles. True, I'm not harvesting them regularly, but when I replant Each hive gets 1-3 wax instantly, but it's still of this low quality.

Do I have to regularly replace hives?

[cobaltjones]

I have noticed this phenomena as well.

[MagicManICT]

I believe the commonly accepted theory is this--if hives don't have actively growing crops, they quickly lose quality.

[MercyLeigh]

I have tried to do a little experimenting with beehives after noticing the same phenomena. Hive quality (and I believe Loftar confirmed this) does not seem to affect honey/wax quality. The quality of crops in the area of affect does affect honey/wax quality. Honey from hives collected infrequently seems to result in lower quality than hives under the same conditions and drained frequently. Another player I discussed this with suggested it could be a result of the quality equation always rounding down.

[Fratari]

tl;dr

Beehives are bugged as shit.

[lordu]

the q will begin to grow again after some time, their quality depends very much on q crops planted

[AAlex]

I thought hives don't have quality?

EDIT:
quoted by novaalpha on Lazy guys trading

May 03 04:29:03 <alpha> I got a question about game mechanic loftar Does beehive materials quality matter in any way?
May 03 04:29:57 <loftar> I think so.
May 03 04:30:04 <alpha> thanks
May 03 04:30:33 <loftar> Ah, disregard that, I suck cocks.
May 03 04:30:44 <loftar> It seems it doesn't.

[Procne]

the q will begin to grow again after some time, their quality depends very much on q crops planted

For almost 2 weeks it was only dropping. It's easier and faster to just build new hives ^^

I thought hives don't have quality?

EDIT:
quoted by novaalpha on Lazy guys trading

May 03 04:29:03 <alpha> I got a question about game mechanic loftar Does beehive materials quality matter in any way?
May 03 04:29:57 <loftar> I think so.
May 03 04:30:04 <alpha> thanks
May 03 04:30:33 <loftar> Ah, disregard that, I suck cocks.
May 03 04:30:44 <loftar> It seems it doesn't.

I will make little experiment. I will build low quality hive and a high quality one, then I will replant replant 100 hemp of quality 55+ near each of them, and see what quality products will I get from hives

[gradouble]

I noticed :
The more often u harvest, the more quality's increasing. If u dont harvest when crops are ready for too long, quality will reduce. Try harvesting carots every 12h and you should see quality rise.
Also, crops q matters.
And it seems beehive q really doesn't matter.

[Sarge]

Also noticed to try not have hive radius' overlap, or as little as possible. My honey and wax q started increasing again after I killed one hive to have as little overlap as possible.

^^ Add to that quality of crops in area of affect as well as frequently harvesting crops.