Bee Hive

The beYou Beehive is a farming tool used to create honey, beeswax, and pollen.

The speed by which the bees and honey will accumulate will depend on how many crops you plant and for how long. This guide should help you get the maximum product of honey, pollen, and beeswax from your hive while saving you some time and energy.

## Requirements

* LEP REQUIREMENT: Level 15
* Owner Only
* No perms (no copy/no modify/no transfer)
* beYou Hud must be worn while using this device.

## How the Beehive Works

Beehives only recognize the soils owned by the owner of the beehive. They do not recognize other users soils or plants. Beehives do not recognize trees.

**IMPORTANT**: Each person who wishes to produce honey using their soils must own their own beehive.

**WARNING**: To keep bees from following you, there must be at least 5 plants actively growing at all times.

### Optimizing Beehive Setup

* Multiple beehives owned by the same person must be 14 meters apart or they will not work. Once they're the proper distance apart, they will both work.
* 30 plants within a radius of 5-7 meters from a Beehive for optimal bee population growth.
* With 30 plants around, your bee population will reach a maximum of 5000 in 4 days.
* The rate of honey production is dependent on the bee population and with 5000 bees, honey can be harvested in 5 days.
* Once a crop is ready to be harvested, the beehive will no longer count that plot as part of the crops to use for honey production.
* Beehives must be at least 14 meters apart from each other. If not the beehive will disable and wait for you to move it.

### Menu Options

* Range - Temporarily rezzes a range prim. Demonstrates the beehive range for your plants.
* Swarm - Scan for people nearby to attack with the bees. (Can call them off using the Calm Down option or they will have to leave the sim)
* Calm Bees - Calm the bees down after an attack. Calm bees will rez back out.
* Sound - Turns the sounds of the bees on and off. Any existing bees rezzed out will be replaced.
* Load Bees - Add in the starter bees to get the beehive going again when the beehive is empty (Will happen if no plants for long enough or using the Empty option)
* Harvest - When the honey is at 100% you can harvest the honey. A single beehive yields (30) beYou Honey assets per harvest.
* Empty - Empty the beehive and store it away. (Use this if you don't plan on having any plants around for a while)
* Update - When there is an update ready you can use this option to update your beehive.
* Adjust - Adjust the positions on the beehive

### Updating Your Beehive

When there is an update you will lose your current bee count. To update your beehive:

1. Sit on your old hive and click it, then choose 'update.' After selecting the update option a storage honeycomb cell will rez. This will save your bees and you can use this to load bees unto the updated beehive.
2. Rez the new hive near the storage honeycomb shell.
3. Sit on the new beehive.
4. Click the honeycomb from the old hive.
5. Click the new beehive and choose 'load bees.'
6. Your bees will transfer from the honeycomb to the new hive and the counts should start increasing and the storage honeycomb will automatically delete itself.

Once transferred, delete the old beehive and position your new beehive.

## What the Beehive Produces

Honey will come straight from the beehive at harvest time. In addition, any random drops of pollen, beeswax, or other rarities will also be delivered through your profile page using the gift button. These will be rolled out slowly after the beehives begin to produce and as the bee visits begin to record in the beYou system.

* beYou Honey - cooking
* bY Beeswax - crafting
* bY Pollen - crafting & medicine

## Harvesting Your Beehive

When your beehive reaches 100% you will be able to harvest your beehive for honey (and other produced items if available).

To harvest:

1. Sit on beehive.
2. Click beehive.
3. Click harvest.

Do not stand from the beehive until it is done harvesting. Once finished, the collected honey (and other items) will appear in your assets.

## Maintenance & Storage

### Storage

In the event you need to pack up and move, you will need to first shut down your hive. Beehives are a living object. While it is in your inventory, the bees can’t visit any growing crops and the bee population will die. In the event of having to store your hive, simply choose ‘empty’ from the menu and your bees will go back into the hive until you rez it back out and load them.

### Maintenance

After a certain number of uses, this device will need to be cleaned. To repair this piece of equipment, you will need the beYou Beehive Repair Kit, which can be made using the Maintenance Repair Toolbox or bought from local markets.

When it's time to clean/repair the device, you will sit on it and it will automatically check for the toolkit and if you have it, it will start to repair. If not, you will receive a message letting you know what you need in order to clean and repair it.

## Reminders

* To keep your bees from attacking you (or anyone else), have 2-5 crops growing in soils within the range of the beehive. You don't have to keep the bees out if you don't want to. You can always empty the hive and start over when ready to take a break from beekeeping.
* If you own more than one hive and they are too close together, then they will stop working until they are far enough apart.Your bee population will die if you store the hive in your inventory for too long.
* If you do not provide plants for the bees the beehive will eventually go empty and will require you to place starter bees back in.
* If you attack someone with your bees you might lose friends.
* Calming the bees will cause any rezzed bees to disappear and calm bees will replace them.

Good luck and happy harvesting!