#Apiaries to farm honey

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random marsh
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So I was thinking that the current way to farm honey is inconsistent and a bit annoying after you get past the early days. You constantly have to chop down trees and this makes it that you have to constantly shift your "honey farm" further away from base. What about apiaries?

The way I see it we could build apiaries and have them surrounded with flowers. Apiary in the centre and farm plots all around on a block level lower. If it's surrounded with goldenrod it produces regular honey.
Chrysanthemums, on the other hand, make it so that it produces manuka honey.

You could also be required to find queens or drones, possibly both, for the apiary to start working.

I think this way makes it so there's some consistency with the honey, just like having raincatchers to produce clean water.

magic osprey
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Would be great if you could make a tree trunk into a bee hive if you planted flowers nearby

foggy ocean
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When farming is implemented herbal antibiotics would probably be an easier way to maintain infection.

magic osprey
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Honey's great for clearing sweet treat wants

verbal kelp
magic osprey
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Im you, redbeard (except im not ginger thank god)

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Sorry (for you)

verbal kelp
magic osprey
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Lol im jk

verbal kelp
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but look how cool my DRG guy looks

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ginger af

magic osprey
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Yeah true

verbal kelp
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slightly irrelevant i just have it running rn

magic osprey
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Y'all got one good thing going at least, making great miners

verbal kelp
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but yea I get that choppin trees to get honey is a bit funny because realistically you would jsut set up an apiary yes

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although manuka is simply more valuable so if you could just plant chrysanthemums to get manuka then everyone would just do that

magic osprey
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Find a rarer queen bee for manuka?

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But yeah that's a predicament

errant sonnet