Bee Box

Bee Box is used to breed Bees and accumulate Honey that can be harvested. A Bee Box will spawn a new Bee every 30 seconds (1 day segment) up to the max population of 4 Bees per Box. All Bees will return to their Box at dusk, but they will leave it during daytime one Bee at a time every 1 minute. Bee Box will accumulate a "level" of Honey through 4 phases – from empty to full. The amount of Honey gathered depends on the number of Bees and how dense the flowers grow in the surrounding area.

The Bees will attack the player when harvesting their Honey. A good time to get honey without being attacked is 2-3 minutes after the end of the night, or around the middle of the day. 1-6 honey can be harvested in a single attempt. The Beekeeper Hat will help prevent damage from the bees but the bees will still attack after harvesting from the box.



Tips
An easy way to harvest honey is to wait until all the bees have exited the hive, approach the box and harvest it. This will aggro all the bees that live in that hive. If the bees that belong to that hive are far enough away from the player, they will give up their attack before they are even in range. If not, all the player must do is run to lose the bees before they attack. This task should be easy as bees are a lot slower than the player; their attacks will often miss even if they catch up. When the bees have given up their attack, they will return to their docile state and the player can proceed to harvest other bee boxes using the same strategy.

A good way to get honey faster is to capture some Butterflies and plant them (as Flowers) near the box, increasing efficiency.

Bugs

 * If the box bees are killed, it has been known for them not to respawn, although in most cases they respawn daily. If the bees do not respawn, then the cause of this has been blamed on a unknown bug.