Honey

"Sweet and delicious!"

- Willow

Honey is a Food item created by Bees. Honey may be obtained by killing a Bee or Killer Bee, by destroying a Bee Hive or Killer Bee Hive, or by harvesting a Bee Box. Honey provides 3 health points and 9 hunger points.

Harvesting
Typical harvesting is a well protected, slow process with low risk and easy repeatability. The Beekeeper Hat is a speciality item designed to reduce damage from bees. The best source for honey is Bee Boxes; however, early in the game when these are not available yet, Bees and Beehives are a good alternative.

Ideally, honey should be collected when all bees are working outside - in this case they will ignore the player entirely. Bee Boxes contain 4 bees. The first leaves immediately in the morning and, one leaves every 37.5 seconds after. The best times to harvest then becomes about 4 hours into the day, or right before dusk. Harvesting is perfectly safe any time during Winter, since the bees won't come out of their boxes.

Destroying Beehives is trickier because it is harder to find an opportune time when all bees are out. With 6 bees and one leaving every 50 seconds, the last worker will exit the hive 8.3 game hours (250 seconds) into the day, but usually dusk comes before this can happen. Still, with protective gear, one or two bees can be safely ignored for the short time it takes to smash the hive.

Since Killer Bees don't leave their nest to collect pollen, there is no ideal time to attack a Killer Bee Hive. Getting close to one will cause all the bees to leave the hive and chase the player a short distance before retreating.

Wendy can use Abigail to easily destroy nests: once Abigail is summoned, click to attack a beehive and then cancel the attack by walking away. Abigail will still be offensive and will attack and destroy the beehive. She can keep the bees stun-locked, easily taking them out and letting you collect the hive.

Trivia

 * Honey will rot in game, although it does not in real life. However, honey needs to be processed in real life to prevent spoilage once it has been removed from the hive, and can spoil after about a year if not preserved properly. Perhaps the character does not have access to the knowledge or proper equipment to properly preserve collected honey.

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