Bee Boxes

[Scarecrow0_0]

Recently me and a friend have been able to produce 6 bee boxes with loads of flowers all around them. This was only accomplished day 35 ish right after winter and they've been producing 40 honey every other day for a while now. Just wondering if this seems op just to me or if there's some drawback because without doing any work we've been able to feed 2 people full with no crockpot recipes at all. The 2 or 3 health per honey also doesn't hurt in addition to how long it takes to spoil. So in the end, are bee boxes really so OP or am I just making this up?

[ShadowDuelist]

Nope, you got it right.

During winter the bees will not work or produce honey, thats the main drawback, so  unless you are Wigfrid, having 10+ bee boxes will cover you in most food needs, even allowing you to save some honey to pass the winter shortage (During spring all bees will become killer bees so you should be slightly more careful when collecting, and make sure to not have placed your apiary too close to the base or to other mobs they can fight with, but thats more of a nuisance than a drawback)

Any spare honey can also be easily used to restore sanity (3 honeys and one stick in crock pot makes taffy) and to restore a big bunch of health with some papyrus (honey poultice in survival tab), so the more you produce, the better.

I wouldn't say its OP, I think its convenient, one of many tools you have so you can dedicate to progress in other aspects of the game, like exploring the ruins, killing bosses, building, etc. If the game stayed in the "don't starve" part forever it would get boring easily. 

[Rellimarual]

It’s a good amount of work to set up 6 boxes, so it doesn’t seem OP. You might still want certain crockpot recipes for the side benefits like health, sanity and (occasionally, though more often in Shipwrecked) cooling. Pierogis, for example, give a lot of health and keep for a while. Eating one of those is a lot faster than chowing down on a stack of honey or using poultices—which also consume a lot of reeds. This comes in handy during boss fights where time is of the essence.

[kertinker]

Bee boxes don't make honey in Winter, bees attack when you harvest the honey, bug nets are expensive and wear out quickly, bees attack unprovoked in Spring, and most people die in the first Winter, so don't have time to make 6 bee boxes. So bee boxes aren't as great as all that. They will solve your food problems er... forever, though. As will pig farms, bunnymen farms, bunny farms, dragon pie farms, large enough berry farms, tallbird cages, spider farms... really it depends how you want to survive at that point, not whether or not you shall.

[Bluckles]

They actually do work in Winter. If they are offscreen they produce 1 honey. If they are near your base, though, you probably won't see it happen. Works in both DST and DS

[Szczuku]

On ‎2018‎-‎04‎-‎20 at 10:39 PM, kertinker said:

really it depends how you want to survive at that point, not whether or not you shall.

Yeah after learning how to survive/ watching 2-3 tutorials dst turns from survival to base building simulator

"Ok this is where I'll farm bunnyman, this will be my pig farm, here will be my spider farm. Oh look a nice place for bee boxes. Oh man I'm so lucky, this cave entrance is close to my base and it's the closest one to the ruins. I'll go there at summer but first i need to get glommer it's day 11 after all"

[kertinker]

24 minutes ago, Szczuku said:

Yeah after learning how to survive/ watching 2-3 tutorials dst turns from survival to base building simulator

You can still fail to survive, but once you know how to kite, dying is mostly based on luck and/or stupid mistakes. The thing is, DST is a multi-player game. You can be the greatest player in the world, and still get totally wrecked when your friend sets your pig farm on fire while trying to get charcoal because they didn't know how to stop fire from spreading, and ran around in a panic until everything was reduces to cinders.

That's one of the great things about the game IMO, because you don't have to be bored with it that way. You get some really crazy conundrums you have to fight your way out of, with more people playing besides yourself. And just... strange things in general. (But why are you building a whirly fan?) Get a bunch of people together, start up a new world, and just see how well, or poorly, you work together. Not that "just pretending to be retarded" is ever a good idea, but it just really makes for some interesting situations when there's more than just yourself in this.

Or at least... that's what I've seen. Haven't actually managed to find anyone to play with myself, yet.

[Maslak]

On 20.04.2018 at 10:39 PM, kertinker said:

Most people die in the first Winter, so don't have time to make 6 bee boxes. 

I don't like this way of thinking. People are too bad at this game to reach X thus X is irrelevant/bad.
That's just silly.

[kertinker]

1 minute ago, Maslak said:

I don't like this way of thinking. People are too bad at this game to reach X thus X is irrelevant/bad.
That's just silly.

I said that X is relevant/good though. My point was that it's okay to thrive on bee boxes, because they're still a challenge to set up. Because OP was worried that they broke the game or something, since they had enough honey to feed 2 people from 6 bee boxes.