Beehive Coverage Borkified

[jorb]

Does the beehive refill it's ticks WHILE it's still got extra ticks in storage?

Yes.

[WitchKiller]

Can jorb or loftar clarify how the wax/honey process works?

Is it to by charges used total, per hour, per growth stage? If you just spam beehives everywhere will crops eventually still generate the same total amount of wax/honey, albeit spread over several hives?

[jorb]

Yes, although they do have some (though not much) passive production, so you do get more if you build more.

[LaserSaysPew]

We've got one beehive and it doesn't work at all in terms of speeding things up. There are clearly not enough crops to deplete it. Built a beehive, planted barley, it's been 32 hours already and barley is in 2nd stage only. We did lift the beehive up once before planting barley, mb it stops working at all if you do that?

[VDZ]

Yes, although they do have some (though not much) passive production, so you do get more if you build more.

Wait, does this mean that if you build a beehive and leave it be without doing anything farming-related near it, you still get wax?

[Sevenless]

We've got one beehive and it doesn't work at all in terms of speeding things up. There are clearly not enough crops to deplete it. Built a beehive, planted barley, it's been 32 hours already and barley is in 2nd stage only. We did lift the beehive up once before planting barley, mb it stops working at all if you do that?

Mmm, I have a niggling suspicion that barley is the one crop that doesn't get sped up. I seem to think wheat didn't in legacy either.

Both of those crops are wind pollinating IRL, bees don't influence them.

[MagicManICT]

We've got one beehive and it doesn't work at all in terms of speeding things up. There are clearly not enough crops to deplete it. Built a beehive, planted barley, it's been 32 hours already and barley is in 2nd stage only. We did lift the beehive up once before planting barley, mb it stops working at all if you do that?

Mmm, I have a niggling suspicion that barley is the one crop that doesn't get sped up. I seem to think wheat didn't in legacy either.

Both of those crops are wind pollinating IRL, bees don't influence them.

Thought pumpkins were the only thing that didn't, maybe hops... it's been a while. (Wheat definitely was, though.)

@LaserSayPew: Are you aware of the new hive mechanics? Hives can only pollinate so many crops an hour (6) and can storage up to 50 charges if charges aren't used up. Maybe you need more hives in the area?

Another thought:
@jorb: why such a large radius if there's such a limit on how many crops can be pollinated at a time? It looks like the same size as the old one.

Maybe proper crop planting and rotation of times can offer maximum usage at the current coverage size?

[LaserSaysPew]

@LaserSayPew: Are you aware of the new hive mechanics? Hives can only pollinate so many crops an hour (6) and can storage up to 50 charges if charges aren't used up. Maybe you need more hives in the area?

Yeah, I know. There are clearly not enough crops to deplete the hive. Also planting Flax, Peapod and Barley didn't produce honey.

[Sevenless]

I'm getting honey off just flax.

[Orcling]

From what I can tell, if beehives are inside the radius of the FIRST ONE. They do not work. At all.
That little corner of this Flax field was covered by THE FIRST beehive, the rest of the flax field was covered by two others, who were also within the radius of THE FIRST.

If this was the old system, everything would be fine and I'd just make circlefarms. But now a single beehive can't even handle the load of even a single moderately sized field anymore.
Beehives work just fine as long as they are not within eachothers radius. But that counterproductive, since you need a LOT of beehives in a small space especially for carrot and beetroot fields.

tl;dr - Hive no werk if other hives within personal space of hive 1, hive 1 big bully no letting others werk


Edit: Same thing for my carrot field. You can clearly see which area the radius of the FIRST ONE covers. This one is also covered by at least 2 other hives.