Wylde Flowers: A Guide to Beehives And Honey
Wylde Flowers is a witchy take on the farming RPG genre, and as well as the typical crops and animals, it also features bees!
Here’s everything you need to know about beehives and how to get daily honey!
You might also find my other Wylde Flower guides useful:
A Guide to the Gloaming in Wylde Flowers
How to get Magical Animals in Wylde Flowers
How to Create Beehives
To make your beehives, head over to your garden construction table. You’ll find the table to the left of Tara’s house – the same spot where you craft garden beds.
Crafting a beehive costs ten pieces of wood, and the best part is that they are crafted immediately, so you don’t have to wait!
Once crafted, you can place the beehive on one of the garden patches. They only take up one square, which is pretty handy since space on the farm is limited.
Beehives can be placed on the plot beside the garden construction table or on the larger plot in front of Tara’s house. I like to use the smaller plot for my beehive and flowers and the larger plot for fruit trees and crops.
How do Wylde Flower’s Beehives Work?
The beehives in Wylde Flowers produce honey and beeswax. These items are important for two reasons – spells and making money!
Bees do not need to be purchased; they will appear automatically when you place your hive and get busy making honey and beeswax.
To speed up the process, you will need flowers – a lot of flowers!
Beehive Tip: Bees will visit your flowers no matter where they are placed on your farm. You don’t have to put flowers next to the beehives if it doesn’t suit your ideal farm layout.
How to Grow Flowers
Bees need flowers! Well, they don’t need them, but it speeds up the process!
Flowers are grown the same way as crop seeds, meaning you must give up some of your precious crop space to plant them.
Flowers are planted in the same garden beds as other crops. These garden beds are crafted for ten pieces of wood and one piece of soil at your garden workbench.
You will also need flower seeds to grow flowers. Our favorite florist, Violet, sells two types of flower seeds per season.
Remember: Only plant flowers that are in season in your outdoor plots, or they will wither.
The important thing to remember here is that bees will only visit your flowers when they are fully grown. Therefore, seeds need to be watered daily before you see any benefit to your beehives.
Once the flowers have bloomed, they no longer need to be watered. However, it is important that you do not harvest the flowers. Flowers must stay fully grown to have any effect on your beehives.
How to Get One Honey A Day
You will need one beehive and twelve flower beds to get daily honey.
Yes, that’s twelve beds for each beehive to get daily honey from each hive.
Adding more beehives won’t make more honey if you don’t add more flowers.
Example: One beehive with twelve flower beds will produce one honey pot daily. Two beehives with twelve flower beds will produce one honey pot every two days. You end up with the same amount of honey despite having two hives.
What are Honey and Beeswax Used For?
Honey, honey, honey – it’s a rich man’s world!
Honey and beeswax are used in crafting and can be used to make money, spells, or request items.
If you want to earn some cash, I’ve compiled a list of what you can craft and earn from beehive produce.
Important: Some of these recipes will be available only after they are unlocked, so don’t worry if you can’t find one yet!
Crafting and Selling Honey
| Item | Requirements | Crafting Station | Sale Price | Buyer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honey | 1 Honey | None | 70 Coins | Violet (Florist) |
| Anzac Biscuit | 1 Honey 1 Wheat 1 Oats 1 Sugar | Kitchen | 80 Coins | Angus (Bakery) |
| Baklava | 1 Honey 1 Butter 1 Flour 1 Pistachio | Kitchen | 160 Coins | Angus (Bakery) |
| Precipizi | 1 Honey 1 Egg 1 Flour 1 Rum 1 Sugar | Kitchen | 80 Coins | Angus (Bakery) |
| Nougat | 1 Honey Blueberry/Blackberry/ Apple/Mulberry 1 Egg 1 Sugar 1 Pistachio | Kitchen | 80 Coins | Angus (Bakery) |
| Honey Lemon Tea | 1 Honey 1 Lemon 1 Black Tea | Kitchen | 20 Coins | Sophia (Cafe) |
| Honey Mint Cooler | 1 Honey 2 Mint | Kitchen | 20 Coins | Sophia (Cafe) |
| Charming Potion | 1 Honey 1 Poppy Flower 1 Mandrake | Cauldron | 100 Coins | Peri (Ravenwood Hollow apothecary) |
As you can see, crafting items to sell doesn’t always make sense. Violet will give you 70 coins for honey, but Sophia will only give you 20 for drinks!
Crafting With Beeswax
| Item | Requirements | Crafting Station | Sale Price | Buyer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beeswax Candle | 2 Beeswax 3 Wood | Candlemaker | 100 Coins | Kai (Kai’s Treasures) |
| Freeze Time Spell | 1 Beeswax 1 Paper 1 Black Ink | Writing Desk (Basement) | 50 Coins | Westly (Arcane Texts) |
| Fall Ritual Incantation | 1 Beeswax 1 Marigold 1 Ruby 1 Paper 1 Black Ink | Writing Desk (Basement) | Can’t Be Sold | Can’t Be Sold |
Note: Beeswax cannot be sold on its own.
Wylde Flowers Beehive Setup
The most efficient beehive setup is one beehive and twelve flower beds. This will provide one honey per day.
If you don’t need daily honey and prefer to use your garden beds to grow more crops, the following best options are nine or six flower beds.
The Math Behind the Perfect Beehive Setup
I used the beehive mechanics to calculate the math behind honey production so you can find the perfect setup for your gameplay style.
Your perfect beehive setup will depend on how much honey you want to produce and how many garden beds you want to give up to flowers.
I made the chart below so you can see the most efficient setups. By efficient, I mean where no “pollen” is wasted. Let me explain!
Imagine that one flower bed provides one pollen per day. Each beehive needs to collect twelve pollen to produce honey and beeswax. This is why twelve flower beds will fill one beehive each day.
However, sometimes pollen can get wasted if you don’t have the correct flower-to-beehive ratio.
You can see this with nine flower beds and one hive. On day one, your hive will be filled with nine pollen. As your hive can only hold twelve, it needs a further three pollen to produce honey. However, the next day, the flowers will create nine more, and so the extra six pollen will be wasted.
A much more efficient setup for nine flower beds requires three beehives. Three beehives require thirty-six pollen (twelve each). Nine pollen over four days will fill each beehive exactly with zero waste.
If this doesn’t make sense to you, don’t worry!
Several calculations and one spreadsheet later, I worked out the best beehive-to-flower ratios, which ensure that you get the most from your flower beds and that no pollen is wasted.
| Requirements | Produce | Honey Per Day |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Hives + 24 Flower Beds | 2 Honey + Beeswax Every Day | 2 |
| 1 Hive + 12 Flower Beds | 1 Honey + Beeswax Every Day | 1 |
| 3 Hives + 9 Flower Beds | 3 Honey + Beeswax Every 4 Days | 0.75 |
| 1 Hive + 6 Flower Beds | 1 Honey + Beeswax Every 2 Days | 0.5 |
| 1 Hive + 3 Flower Beds | 1 Honey + Beeswax Every 4 Days | 0.25 |
As you can see, if you want daily honey, you need a minimum of twelve flower beds.
If you want to save some extra garden beds for crops and trees and still produce a good amount of honey, the best option is to have three hives and nine flower beds.
Beehive & Honey FAQ
Did you find this guide helpful? Do you have any more questions about beehives and honey? Let me know in the comments!
You can also check out flower prices in our guide to Wylde Flower crops!
