To harvest honeycomb, the player uses shears on the nest or hive, causing it to drop three honeycomb items. To harvest honey, the player uses a glass bottle on the nest or hive the bottle then becomes a honey bottle. (The dripping honey is decorative it cannot be collected in a cauldron.) These changes signal that the hive or nest is ready for harvesting. Once it's full, it changes its appearance to show honey oozing out and, if the block below it isn't a full solid block, starts dripping honey particles. When the bee exits, the hive increments its honey level by 1, to a maximum of 5. After it's done, it waits for daylight with no rain (if necessary), then exits to go collect more pollen. Once full, bee nests and beehives provide two harvestable products: honey and honeycomb.Įach time a bee enters a nest or hive covered in pollen, it starts converting it to honey and honeycomb. Igniting a nest or hive allows any bees inside to escape, possibly catching fire as they flee.īees are protected from a campfire by placing a carpet over it. They first look for one at the same coordinates as the last one they entered, but if there's no nest or hive there or it already contains 3 bees when they arrive, they search the nearby area for another one. They can enter through any unobstructed side, top, or bottom, but can exit only from the front, and only if it's unobstructed by a solid block (including a non-full solid block in Bedrock Edition).īees fly into a nest or hive at night, during rain, and after loading up with pollen from a flower.
![timberborn beehive timberborn beehive](https://boneworks.thunderstore.io/static/icon.ffafeeaa3ecf.png)
This holds true in any biome in any dimension, and for any flower including wither roses and flowering azaleas.īee nests and beehives can house up to 3 bees at a time.
![timberborn beehive timberborn beehive](https://www.aimhaven.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IL-2-Sturmovik-Desert-Wings-Tobruk-2.jpg)
Oak or birch trees grown from saplings that are within 2 blocks (including diagonally) of a flower on the same y-level have a 5% chance to grow with a bee nest containing 1–3 bees. Bee nests occur naturally and cannot be crafted. Beehives can be crafted in a crafting table.