Beehive

The **Beehive** is an unlockable location in Poppy Seed Pets. It can generate items over time and offers potential interactions with the Greenhouse. An existing **Beehive** is one of the prerequisites for unlocking Hat Style: For the Bees.

## How to Unlock

The **Beehive** can be unlocked by reading Stolen Beehive Plans with a magnifying glass.

## Producing Items

Bees can produce several different kinds of items. Whenever the progress for a type of item reaches 100%, the player can Harvest the item from the **Beehive**. Multiple categories of items can be harvested at once (i.e. Royal Jelly, Honeycomb, *and* Normal Bee Stuff could be harvested at the same time if progress for all of them is complete).

 Honeycomb
* Crooked Stick
* Fluff
* Glue
* Jar of Fireflies (rare)
* Sugar
* Talon
* Yellow Dye
Crooked Stick and Sugar can receive Spice: Anthophilan or Spice: of Queens

## Bolstering Production

Players can give the Queen Bee requested items that help the workers to increase their production rates. Although **Royal Jelly** production requires a consistent supply of requested items, **Honeycomb** and **Normal Bee Stuff** can still be produced without any additional input (at a slower rate).

After giving a requested item to the Queen Bee, it will be boost production for a certain amount of time. Some items boost production for longer amounts of time than others.

Certain items can set the current boosted time when used:

 Worker Bee | 36 hours

## Beehive Helpers

Once the required conditions are met, it will possible to assign a pet to the **Beehive**, where they can help to gather or hunt different items. Pets that are adept at Hunting or Gathering will perform better at helping the bees.

When the number of bees in the hive first reaches 2000, the Queen Bee will say, "Also, the colony has grown, thanks to your help. We've been thinking about branching out. Do you have any ideas?" The player can then click the option for "Branching out? Maybe one of my pets can help you...", at which point they can choose a pet to assign.

When a pet is first assigned, the Queen Bee will be pleased and say "Many thanks bzzbzz. Your pets are very industrious creatures. They possess the spirit of the bee. Perhaps they can assist you in other ways, as well bzzbzz." This will unlock the pet helper feature in other locations where it is relevant, such as the Fireplace and Greenhouse.

If a pet helper is assigned, the pet will bring home random items whenever the player harvests Normal Bee Stuff.

Different groups of items are available depending on how well a pet performs on a particular trip. Some items may also become available due to other factors such as rain or the presence of certain types of plots in the Greenhouse \*.

(\* Special conditions for some items were hinted at by {{Ben]], but as it's very difficult to confirm a negative, we won't have a full list of the requirements unless it's given to us. Some things like Grandparoot or Toadstool may require a Greenhouse Dark Plot, but that's just speculation.)

## Beehive Spices

The **Beehive** may sometimes cause Spice: Anthophilan or Spice: of Queens to be applied to some items harvested as Normal Bee Stuff. Items found by pet helpers during the harvest also have a chance to receive the bee spices.

If the bees are allowed to pollinate the Greenhouse, the spices may also spread to crop harvests.

The chance of applying a unique **Beehive** spice increases logarithmically according to the amount of active bees. (The number of bees naturally increases over time.)

Because only one spice can be applied to an item at a time, the automatic pollination in the Greenhouse may not always be desirable. If players prefer to apply their own spices to harvested foods, they can deploy Bee Netting to prevent pollination. This option is unlocked as an add-on in the Greenhouse after a player has harvested any item with Spice: Anthophilan or Spice: of Queens from a Greenhouse crop.

## Queen Bee names

* Queen Argentaela
* Queen Charito
* Queen Eishō
* Queen Esuentha
* Queen Huyan
* Queen Ingeborg
* Queen Liutperga
* Queen Lotitia
* Queen Marguerite
* Queen Minkhaung
* Queen Ryksa
* Queen Sallustia
* Queen Shin Saw
* Queen Wisutkasat
* Queen Yixian

## Trivia

In the past, it used to be possible to diversify the **Beehive** in farming, fishing, or mining, which sometimes gave different items based on the chose theme. This system was replaced when the pet location helper system was introduced.