Natural beehives, also bears

[Machenoid]

Natural bee hives, growing on trees.

Bears possibly being attracted to said hives and human-made ones. Human made hives should also lack bees until they're taken from natural hives. Just because.

[kaka]

Human made hives should also lack bees until they're taken from natural hives.

I like.

Hives attracting bears has obviously already been considered,
as my idea to rub honey on oneself to attract bears apparently has.

[Chakravanti]

Me too.

[Raephire]

Natural bee hives, growing on trees.

Bears possibly being attracted to said hives and human-made ones. Human made hives should also lack bees until they're taken from natural hives. Just because.

Bees would migrate to manmade beehives regardess.

[Peter]

If that was the case, beehives would become the most common construction ever.

[Potjeh]

You can also make more hives out of existing ones. RL bee-keepers don't go around woods hunting for bees, you know,

[Peter]

They might if they're doing it to get higher Q bees. Maybe something like, a hive will have a quality that's -5 to +5 of the original bee quality, and needs a fresh queen every so often or something.

[kaka]

Still, building a hive and getting bees instantly is too easy.
I think having to find a hive in tree somewhere and getting that to your own would be fun.

[Potjeh]

Bee "seeds" could work, I guess.

Also, you do kinda have to catch bees, but it's not all that hard. When bees decide to form a new colony (a good beekeper can predict when this'll happen), they fly out of the hive in a large swarm. About half of the hive leaves and tries to find a place to build a new hive. While the scouts are searching, the queen chills at a nearby tree (usually within 100m of the old hive), surrounded by the other bees. There's at least a couple of hours in which the beekeeper can shake this swarm down from the tree into an empty hive, and the bees tend to stay there.

So, in-game, beehives could have a "bee number" bar. When it fills up, half the bees leave and make a swarm in the closest tree. This always happens in the morning, and they stay there until evening. If a whole day passes and they're not collected, the bees fly off into the forest and make a feral beehive.

[XkrikX]

if this happens, make beehive hats, for true bear hunting